it is the work for me, one above the less about me and the, the, the headlines or whatnot. t smoke could be seen in kabul airport this morning after an american defense system intercepted 5 rockets targeting beside penalty. crew is in the country's capital and continues to follow development the janice and i'm not going to give you the joe biden thought of answering up dennis. dom related question. as the body,

the fallen us troops killed in last week's airport, a tax return, home, destroy veterans, and looking for on government. let him down the lead. feel through through the big mission at this point and tell him the latest in our special investigation series. we continue to explore issues around trans jenda inmates being placed in women's prison is sometimes with dire consequences on the program will be hearing of the trauma. one alleged female convict went through the news or i just off the 10 o'clock on monday evening. here at moscow. this is archie international, a variable to you. we do start this hour with

a clarification on one of our top stories we have been reporting live from cobble on the u. s. put out, and of course the heroic suicide bombing at the airport last thursday. and we've heard from several witnesses of that last who described a gun shots being fired by american soldiers. let's not take a listen to some of those accounts. we've had to correct them to some translation inaccuracies early in our broadcast for which we apologize. mike, with them after the explosion, i ran and many other people also ran. i didn't see who was shooting. i ran out into the street and heard both gone far and the sound of an explosion. i should probably be with him. i'm not sure if my brother was killed by an american bullet or a fragment of an explosive device. the americans opened fire to protect themselves because they feared another explosion. i was standing right next to my brother, so the right side of my neck were slightly cut, and i also have problems with my right ear. i was concurs bartlett's across. so

he's a murdad gas via standing by for us in cobble where we do have about a 10 2nd delay with our transmission. so move out is going to take him a few to hear me. but as i understand you've been meeting with several survivors of those dates are talking in kabul. what more can you tell us? well, what we have heard and bear in mind, we visited just one hospital survivors. and victims of that terrible tragedy would take into many hospitals because such was the quantity, the number of people that were injured to 100 dead, 200 will thereabouts injured. but the story we hud is the same story that is being told and will be of the hospitals in american press. in the worldwide press,

that american troops began firing in the aftermath of the explosion that the suicide bomber came with a very close proximity of us. troops were lined up shoulder, the shoulder, designated his device and pad pneumonia began. people began rushing and screaming. some had no idea of what was going on. those that further back at told us, some of them told us that they saw american troop shooting. others said they had no idea who was shooting all they wanted to do was to survive. the doctor we spoke to at the hospital also described one of the victims who was brought to the man who didn't make it a man who died who had numerous wounds to him. 5 in all, some of them shrapnel bloss shrapnel wounds from obviously the explosion. but all to bullet booz dead with t pre patience that the critical condition that we admitted to i q

one was in general. notice he was short in just an dorman and lake and he's also in the hand. he did fine. so he had 5 bullet wounds. he had many worms from, but i couldn't say that all of them are from motors from work somewhat. but it's more than that. we have now requested for a comment from the pentagon to, to address these allegations coming from all over capital. that it was us troops who fall into the crowd that the pentagon has said that it is investigating this matter. but from experience these investigations can take some dogs more than a year. as we saw, for example, in mosul and iraq, whether

a number of dead stripes, the killed doesn't sometimes more than a 100 people. nevertheless, very still a lot of tension here. and in couple very easily, expectation that there may be more attacks of threat level that is persistent, that is ongoing. according to the taliban, according to the united united states and its allies, all of them, it's said that the stage are remains just to remind everyone there are now about 24 hours left before the time bands ultimatum expires. and that is that the united states much leave of guy this done by the end of the 31st of august for that, that looks like in about 24 minutes from now, it's 11 36 pm there in kabul, will be speaking to you in the near future, thanks for that. well, in the wake of thursdays bombing uncovered, we spoke to a man who was just meters away from the blast side. he claimed to have seen us

troops firing directly on the crowd, although we should stress that his allegation has not been verified. this was something that we are living in probably like for 20 years or more than that. i hadn't witnessed. first thing that's hard, our eyes were, i was full of years and also we couldn't breathe. the oxygen was all like good. there was no oxygen at that time. after that, when that happened, the americans just shot the fire. i mean, they opened the guns at the people, there was only one exam and that was near the explosion area. so when they tried to push me and like i really tried to reach my on and then, but i couldn't dave for me and i thought that my aunt and her children's drug 10 p

or the are maybe god forbid they might be did by now. so when i went there and saw them, i was really thankful for that that they were like, we saw may and many dead bodies. i like maybe more, more than 30 or 40 people for laying beer dead. i mean, it was a really bad scene. i mean, when i saw them, i just sit in that just don't look at them. just look at it was so i mean, this is very bad for sure. when asked if there was any evidence of us troops opening fire cobble airport, the u. s. defense department press secretary joining coby said he could neither confirm nor deny the claim. there appear to be images and reports from the ground that some of the afghan civilians killed may have been shot by the marine advocate at this point in time. since we're 48 hours, do you have any, any evidence that the marines or any of the us troops may have shot injure or we

can, we can confirm that and certainly not a position to deny it either. we are investigating this and as we get more information that we can reliably communicate to you about this incident, we will, the pentagon is warning, there's still a quote, real and active threat of another terror attack on cobbled airport. as the u. s. conclude that we withdraw from the gun test on. now, earlier on monday, a huge plume of black smoke billowed into the sky near the airport as us and the missile defenses intercepted rockets fired at the facility on the eve or the august . the 31st pull out deadline. now no casualties are reported in those miss all strikes and no group has claim responsibility. so it all comes just a day after a deadly rocket strike on the capital. u. s. military says, one of his drones took out a suicide bomber truck, resulting in a secondary blast, reportedly killed 9 people including children. so 1st,

a suicide bombing in cobble declaimed the lives of 13 american troops. the 1st death, so us personnel in that country and 18 months. it was also one of the highest daily death, told us troops in a decade. the bodies of those soldiers were transferred back home on sunday to dover air force base among those paying their respects was the u. s. president joe biden. however, when later quizzed by the press about the crisis, he refused to answer the ultimate leaps, walking outrage on line. take any questions or go ahead get a chance. i'm not going to give you this man runs at the mention of being held accountable, and so the issues that he beg responsibility for, joe, no questions, biden biden has no clue what's going on. he won't answer any questions on up gadson because he can't answer any questions and get instant he's not all there mentally. time for him to resign. i'm not supposed to answer questions,

isn't he the boss who is running this show? 10 of the dead, but from the camp pendleton military base in california. dozens of people living lang, reese, the dead comprise of 9 marines under stay love. most of them in the early twenties . those paying their respects are also looking for answers. government let them down. the leaders and so she could feel it through with, through bid mission at this point and tell him to send them in like that you never want to, you never want to see something like that happen. and so that's that's it. so yeah, it's heartbreaking. there's not enough words to express, you know how i feel right now, but i just, you know, i feel that somebody has blood on there and then it's just, so i need it so unnecessary. you know,

while european powers are seeking to create a so called safe zone in cobble to allow humanitarian operations to continue, the french president has said he's working with the u. k. and germany on a certain initiative, which will be presented to the un security council that an emergency meeting later today. although speaking at the weekend manual macro and ruled out any use of military force in afghanistan. we cannot impose democracy, a government from the outside. when we intervene, we must do so alongside the sovereign state. it is not by force of arms. the sovereign state is created. we discussed the situation with a political analyst nichol markovich. he thinks the initiative might seem like a positive step, but the legitimacy of the countries suggesting it is questionable that let's not forget that the us was not alone. of course, they were managing this. there were nato countries, france and germany weren't going to send israel. i think it's important to, to remote that they've got some sort of responsibility. ready as well, and in,

with going down in again today, i think honestly, don't seem to take the current situation. doesn't seem such a bad idea. now, how legitimate is it for france and germany to be organizing this? this is why i think i've got are the u. k. this is ethical. i've got some, some difficulties. of course we've seen that the west were there after 20 years and no big. ready deal isn't trillions of dollars invested over there. invested, actually wasted over there. we have see no result. how legitimate are they to be asking about today? i think the fact that it's been requested going through the united nation is. ringback maybe on a good step. again, of course they've got to discuss that with the local authorities. now, whether you like them or not, they are the local authorities attorney for them. what they're saying. they're saying that they're a sovereign state and they don't want a safe zone or organize with for military present president on their, on their territory. especially when they see the scorecard of the way in fighting terrorism. it seems that everywhere they go,

terrorism just. busy busy busy just just keep on growing, they should stop the western approach. ringback to fighting terrorism is a failure, so definitely this is something that they should get out of immediately and they should concentrate on terrorism in their own countries. the russian diplomatic mission in cobb was one of the very few that decided to remain in the country despite the taliban returned to power has been irregular contact with the embassy since the city fell to the militant group. share his view on the current situation following the unrest of last week. ah, this when the taliban came on august, the 16th we needed, we had contact with them. we made a point by point list with them about our security. they told us they would guarantee everything and agree to all 20 security points. so far for 2 weeks. they have kept their word. then we evacuated several 100 russian citizens from cobble. we took them in buses to the plains, so we needed the taliban to provide security because they were the only actual

authority in cobble. we came to arrange with them and they kept all that promises. ah, we proceeded from a real objective picture. we understood how the situation was developing and who we were dealing with after the many foreign embassies. i have been in contact with the buses until the very last moment. i wonder why they made such incorrect conclusions and forecasts before august 15th, when president johnny fled in a helicopter with money. they had said that we in our countries proceed from the facts, the garnet with the legitimate president for 5 years. and i no longer knew what to say to them before that for a year i told them asked the africans if they support ghani 2 high ranking representatives of western countries told me that they understood that this country supported the taliban. that they understood everything, but they had their own tasks salaries, and they said, we understand that we have to leave. therefore, i was surprised at what incorrect conclusions withdrawn. and now apparently they

will have to analyze what exactly they did wrong or possibly out here in moscow. b return now to a topic that we feel deserves more attention. and the latest of a series of reports we're looking at how the prison system is being abused. by some transgender convicts to allow them access to female inmates. a growing number of women said their lives are being turned into a living. hell. so we'll leave. you know, this all with today's report in which my colleagues, saskia taylor spoke to. one female convict from california about her matic experience. oh the with me this time with focusing on the case of chemical johnson, the mother i'm former highway patrol officer is solving 15 years for killing her abusive husband. he was fatally shot while attacking her. the pair had struggled with the gun to meet you has been incarcerated in the central california women's

facility since how conviction back in 2012. but for the last few months, she claims that she's faced fresh abuse this time from her soulmate, a transgender woman. so tell me the 1st thing i want to ask you is what contact you had with trans inmates and how that affected your time in prison. it had a very adverse effect on my entire will be, he was very violent. he was very vulgar. he was at high and not screaming at all because he would have a stroke of anger and he will start talking like a man there will be crying. this particular transgender was so evil and with football, the way that we would clean our crew was the way we would use the restroom. he was made by the door to make sure that you were doing number 2 actually cleaned up behind yourself appropriately. like you can see his feet from the bottom of the

door just standing there waiting for you to think she's in the restroom. and if you didn't do it being like you want to do as far as cleanliness, the way he wanted you to do them, then he would bring something to you. he would confront you make you go back and clean that from the way he spoke for reference to clean painting was the forward we have for that sometimes leaking, whack are for here i would have to get all my hands. me literally what a bottle the windex and the kyle in clean the floor to me, you know, different stand when i was at home, living in the situation is transgender had a girlfriend. that was actually my phone to me. he would you don't miss her all. he would choker, he sure, is the locker bringing her up off of her off before her feet will be we need he will be nation already. i guess the locker and it would be sometimes over. it will be she didn't want to be romantic and he would get angry and then he would attack

her. never reporter news. i never saw her go out to talk to the old one or in our grill, and i seem to be without aware of what was going on. oh we, i was told later on by a foreign to that because of my former career, i was actually placing that sale with that me on property. like it was a joke. i used to be a police officer. so there were a certain amount of c o n managed to meet who had a problem with the fact that i was once a police officer. so that's the reason why this game was played on me in the 1st place, also live down. so hopefully also traps we've contacted the central california women's facility about the allegations for commons. not like i said to mika is incarcerated in california. one of the most g, b, t friendly states. at the start of this year, local authorities passed

a controversial bill. but let's trans inmates request to transfer to facilities that align with that gender identity. now since then, around $300.00 such requests have been submitted. as of june, not one has been rejected. why do you think some government officials are pushing for this? i think it's politics for i think the l g b t community, although they're mall in comparison to the rest of the community. they have a lot of poor resources. they have a lot of money. they have a lot of, or they have a lot of reach. they have a lot of political power. they, they go to a lot of campaigns. a lot of it is off the stripping people who want to maintain certain offices and positions or have information to move up. they are pretty confused support because they need support. i think that there are some good people

out there who want to see everybody become face or be face. and so they'll place it hard streams of both people to say, hey, do people leave to go to another institution because they're being both people don't have the full spectrum of the data. the fact that sold people could go to it's different if she's there specifically for so that's california. but over in the u. k. similar concerns all being voice to a one form of prison inmate who wished to remain anonymous. and that just she was sexually assaulted by a transgender cellmate who had previously been put behind, falls as a mun, facts, offences against women. been in prison with mailed prison. as you always feel an edge, you know, something could happen, attending time. we know they are not women, they are physically threatening and aggressive. i was sexually assaulted and i am not the only woman who has been, they haven't had surgery and they exposed themselves. one of them had been told he

couldn't shower at the same time as asked women, he made a formal complaint and said this was a breach of his human rights. so now he's allowed to shower with us and because he now has that's right. the other males have the right to curry, you pay law allows inmates to be housed in prisons which suit that declared gender . regardless of whether they've had gender reassignment surgery. who's

i readily accept the proposition this some and pops many women prisoners may stuff, a fear and acute anxiety if required to ship prison accommodation and facilitate with a comes into a woman who hasn't male genitalia. however, the subjective concerns of women prisoners are not the only concerns which the defendant had to consider in developing the policies. he also had to take into account the rights of transgender women in the prison system. by bringing this challenge, i did not stick to prevent trans women in prison from living in dignity or to exclude old trans women from women's presence. however, i feel that trumps women have a history of violence and sexual offending against women should not be in a situation where they can put our safety at risk. k. coleman from the heat prisons single sex campaign group, believes the current regulations are making a mockery of the segregated prison system. to our surprise and frankly, schalk, the judges rule that this practice is lawful. that extends to housing,

male prisoners with fully functioning male genitalia. i find that quite shocking, and if it is lawful to hold males convicted of right alongside women have been subjected in their lives to various sexual assaults. then the law needs to change. we have a law in the he k called the equality and see $1010.00 basically it's out and he discrimination law. however, we have in that law, single effects exceptions which provide the in certain situations where biological sex really masses is when we will know when that masses, it is not discriminatory to make those single sex females only on to exclude all males. and that includes males with the protected characteristics, gender reassignment, and those who have agenda recognition certificate. now,

it seems that this provision is simply not being used. we found in recent months that appears not to apply to women's prisons. it appears not to apply to female was in an h s. hospitals. it appears not to apply to changing rooms and girls toilets in schools. so when does it apply? i mean, this is an excellent question. when does they apply? and we're keeping a close eye on all the issues raised by this topic, and no doubt they'll be more to come me. ah, ah, ah,

rather driven by dreamer shaped person, those in me dares thing. we dare to ask me. ah, only one main thing is important or not as an internationally speaking, that is a nation's allowed to do anything. all the master races, and then you have the mind, nations who are the slaves. americans, rock obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as

long as it serves the american interest. if it doesn't, it doesn't exist. i turning this russian into this dangerous go. you man, that wants to take over the world. that was a culture strategy. so i'm going to a new one. i english v i v, i not leashed off in one, interpret block nato to it's our we move east. the reason us hedge emory, it's dangerous. is it the lie? the sovereignty of all the countries, the exceptionalism that america uses and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nature, what is founded, shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large companies would lose millions and millions or is business and business is good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fascist. the

families that up with the mark. sounds good. i took my new function. you got to get some more. yeah. worried miller definition me number the whole do john got i've got that limit and i wanted them to be like that. you know, the left me about the less about the love i've been up there for us. let me use

the ah ah hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . much of history is about patterns that are ebbs and flows of political passions. most of the time, these passions are negotiated through compromise. other times there is people violence and even separation. the idea of succession today is not far fetched. we are witnessing a cultural possession and separation could go even further. the cross talking succession, i'm joined by my guess, daniel is are in new york. he is a journalist and author of 3 books on the us constitution. and in toronto,

we have arthur claire. oh, he is a liberty advocate and freelance editor gentlemen close to girls and a fact that means you can jump at anytime you want. and i always appreciate, daniel, let me go to you 1st. i mean we hear new civil war, cultural, civil war culture war. it's been a while that's been with us for awhile and we have a president, the united states is constantly invoking. this is vito as bad as it was before the civil war. and you know, we had, it's almost like a battle him right now. i mean, it's this high per billy because when i hear it, it sets everybody off on all sides. go ahead, daniel. no, i don't think it's really hyperbole. i think it's really in certain ways. biden is quite accurate. what we saw in the years leading up to the civil war and 861, was a very small minority of southern large scale southern slaveholders, really only a few 1000 people in off were able to use their constitutional advantages to leverage their power over.