the bank either financial survival know, made it to grow. i wanted to do the federal tax report on the problem. i know they stopped the ah breaking news. this our on our t international, celebratory gunfire, rings out across trouble. as americans, 20 year presence in afghanistan comes to an end. the pentagon confirmed the last us evacuation flight has left the country where it's now half past 3 in the morning on the 31st deadline day out janice,

and i'm not going to give us president joe biden ducks out of answering afghanistan related questions. that's as the bodies of the fallen us troops killed in last week. airport bomb attack and cobbled return home to strong veteran are looking, for instance, let him down to liter through britain mission at this point. and then the latest in our special investigation series. we continue to explore issues around transgender inmate being placed in women's prison. sometimes with dire consequences, we will be hearing of the trauma on one female convict allegedly what she went ah,

the broadcast from the report studios in moscow. this is our to international john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now we start this hour with some breaking news from afghanistan. where does now just after half past 3 in the morning. the pentagon has just confirmed that the last u. s. evacuation flight has departed from cobble, thus bringing america's 20 year presence in the country to an end of correspondent . but does it has more. well, there's, there's a lot of gunfire. these gunfire isn't, it isn't violent their value. there are no clashes and the capital italy about i celebrating it is everywhere. trace around. you may see them behind me flying into the, into the air in their thousands. the taliban is celebrating victory after 19 years. 10 months and $25.00 days of, of the afghan war of the us. boy,

and i've got to start the last us soldiers left up, got to start headed for presumably java basis in the middle east through pakistan. we heard tremendous air activity just before the announced, but we gathered that something big was going on and it quickly emerged that yes, there was all sorts of a cover at 3, said she, 17 cargo plates. one of them, apparently hiring the ambassador of the united states to have got to start taking off from capital airport. the airport is now under the control of the taliban. that is where the gunfire start, that it is spread. now, throughout the city, machine guns rifles firing into the air raid read tre, surrounds, again, streaming into the air across the cities. it is ad points difficult, difficult to hear. nevertheless, the united states leaves it in

a sad state because many american citizens never mind. you are the citizens of us allies, citizens of european states. they are still stuck enough, gotten us on people with passports. we saw them today in capital city said in the hospitals, the crowds that were packed around the airport. they were full of people with the visas, with, with passports desperate to get out of a got a thought. they haven't managed to make it. the taliban assures us, assures the international community that they will let them leave that even for translators, for american forces, who they brand as, as collaborate as even they will be able to leave one civilian floods. rescue that has been the taliban promise. we'll have to wait and see if it's true, as i say, all around may gotten far. right now, the united states did say the pentagon did say that the taliban was helpful and

useful in securing the perimeter around the airport. as over the last 2 or so weeks, the united states conducted an enormous evacuation the united states and its allies, mostly nato countries. evacuated more than a $100000.00 people, including military personnel thereon. still though thousands, as i said remaining. and i've got this done independent journalist and author nicholas j. as davies told us, why the departure of us troops may come as a relief to many afghan people have been 20 years of misery, poverty, corruption, and you know, incredible military violence against the people of afghan this time medea benjamin and i wrote an article we talked about how the us had spent 2

trillion dollars on this and yet certainly no more than 22 percent of that actually went to afghanistan in any form or, you know, even support for the government and economic assistance. and you manage harry and the rest was all about fighting a war. and that is what the united states has been doing. the 20 year war. ready over it has been a chaotic pullout and couple is still counting the cost of last thursday, suicide bombing survivors of that blast at the airport spoke exclusively to our crew. and micah, 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 that i should probably get him with him. i'm not sure if my brother

was killed by an american bullish 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 concurred deadly terrorist attack broke out near a couple airport as thousands tried to flee the country. almost 200 people were killed while another 200 were injured. the ice k, milton group has claimed responsibility for the attack. we spoke to one of the doctors who is carrying for the victims. there were 3 patients that the critical condition that we admitted to i q one was in general, notice he was short and just and dorman, and lake. and he also in the hand, he did. so he had 5 bullet wounds. he had many warms from bartow,

i couldn't say that all of them were from somewhere somewhere. but it in the wake of thursdays, bombing and cobble, we spoke to a man who was just meters away from the black site. and 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 public life for 20 years or more than that. i hadn't witnessed such thing that hurt our eyes. i was alert full of tears and also we couldn't breathe. 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 in that and that was near the explosion area. so when they tried to push me and like i really tried to reach my on and but i couldn't dave for me and i thought that my aunt and her children rushed then pete or they are maybe god forbid, they might be good by now. so when i went there and saw them, i was really thankful for that that they were like, we saw me and many dead bodies. i like maybe more, more than 30 or 40 people were laying beer dead. i mean, it was a really bad scene. i mean, when i saw them, i just didn't 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 evidence of us troops opening fire ad couple airport the u. s. defense department press secretary john kirby said

he could neither confirm nor deny the claim. there appear to be images and reports from the ground that some of the african 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. thursday suicide bombing and cobbled claimed the lives of 13 american troops. the 1st depth of us personnel in afghanistan in 18 months. it was also one of the highest daily death tolls of us troops in a decade and the bodies of those soldiers were transferred back home on sunday to dover air force base mung. those paying their respects was the us president joe biden. however, when later quizzed by the press about the crisis,

he refused to answer sparking outrage online. take any questions or go ahead and ask janice and i'm not going to give you give this man runs at the mention of being held accountable until the issues the t badge responsibility for joe. no questions biden biden has no clue what's going on. he won't answer any questions on garrison 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 were from the camp pendleton, military base in california. dozens of people have been laying flowers at the entrance to that side. dead comprised of 9 marines and a sailor, most of them in their early twenties. those paying their respects are demanding answers. government let him down the leaders and

feel this through buds through but 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. i feel right now, but i just, you know, i feel that somebody has blood on there and then it's just, so i needed to unnecessary, you know, us marine officer has been dismissed after accusing the government of botching the afghanistan withdrawal. speaking in the wake of the cobbler, airport bombing stewart sheller posted a video on social media that went viral. let's take a listen. reason. people are so upset on social media right now is not because the marine on the battlefield. let someone down. people are upset because they're

senior leaders, let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we mess this up. all of these people are supposed to advise, and i'm not saying we've got to be in the, in afghanistan forever. but i am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate barger airfield, the strategic berries before we evacuate? everyone? did anyone do that? and when you didn't think to do that one, raise their hands, then we completely messed this up. just hours after posting that clip, lieutenant colonel sheller said that he had been relieved of duty for cause based on a lack of trust and confidence. however, he received an outpouring of support online and on sunday you posted another video saying he's also resigning his commission, adding, i have forfeited my retirement all entitlements. i don't want a single dollar. we heard from former marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter. he thinks that someone needs to be held accountable. so lessons learned. first of all, the issue accountability is 100 percent, correct?

i mean, we have a failure of policy that seems to be driven by political objectives that overrode operational reality. there has to be accountability or else there, there will be no lessons learned from this in this take. so on this point, illusion occur sheller is 100 percent correct? i take umbrage it away. he got his message across. he was really relief for cause because his job was to train young marines to be prepared to fight in future conflicts. his job was not to be critical of policies passed by is senior leadership to while i sympathize with his position, he had no right to do this a while. he was uniform and he was fired. justifiably so we cannot have a situation where military officers feel that they have a duty to, to be critically outside of the chain of command about policies. they disagree with, or else we'd have chaos and energy. we wouldn't have the will discipline military

that we, that we need if we're going to actually, you know, maintain our, the national security states. meanwhile, european powers are seeking to create a so called a safe zone in cobble to allow humanitarian operations to continue. un security council has passed a resolution tabled by france, the u. k, and germany urging the taliban to allow africans and foreign nationals to safely leave the country. speaking at the weekend, emmanuel micron 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 states. it is not by force of arms that of sovereign states his creators. we discussed the situation with a political analyst at nichol mccovie, which he thinks the initiative might seem like a positive step, but the legitimacy of the countries suggesting it is questionable. so let's not forget that the us was not alone. of course they were managing this. there were nato countries,

france and germany were and again it's been as well. i think it's important to, to remote that they've got some sort of responsibility. ready as well, and in, with going down and again, today, i think honestly, building that they don't seem to take the current situation doesn't seem such a bad idea. now how the gym, it is it for france and germany to be organizing this. this is why i think i've got are the u. k. this is i think we've got some, some difficulties. of course, we've seen that the west were there after 20 years, and no big deal is insurance of the of dollars invested over there were invested, actually wasted over there. we have no result. how legitimate are they to be asking about today? i think the fact that it's been a request is going through the united nation is 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. ready state and they don't want a safe zone or organize with for military present prison 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 we should get out of immediately and they should concentrate on terrorism in their own countries. russian diplomatic mission in cobble is one of the few that decided to remain in the country despite the taliban to return to power. r t has been in regular contact with the embassy since the city fell to the milton group in bassett, or shared his view on the current situation. following the unrest of the last week, the, 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 bushes to the plains, so we needed to tell a bunch, provide security because they were the only actual authority and cobble we came to arrange them with them and they kept all their promises. ah, we proceeded from a real objective picture. we understood how the situation was developing and who we were dealing with for the many foreign embassies, i've been in contact with them, but it is 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 gone 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. we return now to a topic r t feels deserves more attention. in the latest of a series of reports, we are looking at how the prison system is being abused by some transgender convicts to allow them access to female inmates. growing number of women say that their lives have been turned into a living. hell, so we will leave you now with it. today's report in which my colleague saskia taylor spoke to one female convict from california about her traumatic experience. oh i me this time with focusing on the case of chemical john sutton. 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 pad struggled with the gun to meet you has been incarcerated. in the central california women's facility since her convictions 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 being, he was very violent. he was very vulgar. he was at high rock screaming at all times, well, he will have a stroke of anger and he will start talking like a man. there will be time this particular transgender was so evil and would take care of all the way that we would clean our crew was the way we would use the restroom. he was man by the door to make sure that you were doing

number 2 that you cleaned up behind yourself appropriately. like you can see your feet from the bottom of the door just standing there waiting for you to finish the rest. or if you didn't do it being like you want to do as far as cleanliness, the way you want to do them, been what great something he would confront. you make you go back and clean the reform the way he spoke with reference to being clean, cranking with a forward we have to for that sometimes leaky whack are for here i would have to get all my, every ne, literally what a bottle of windex and kyle. * and clean the floor to me, you know, different stand when i was at home living in the recent transgender i 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 swinging. he will be national guard against the lockers 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 recorded it. i never saw her go out to talk to the old one in our grill. and i said without wow, what was going on? oh absolutely. i was told later on by a foreign to that because of my former career that i was actually placing that sale with that me on partly like it was a joke. i used to be a police officer. so there were a certain amount of b o n mattie 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,

pemmican is incarcerated in california. one of the most old g p 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 small in comparison to the rest of the community. they have a lot of poor resources. they have a lot of money to have a lot of, or they have a lot of reach. they have a lot of political power. they may 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 the operations 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 pace or be safe. and so they'll play to the heart strings of both people to say, hey, the people we could go to another institution because they're being with that both people don't have the full spectrum of the data. the fact that sold people could go to see 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 a prison inmate who wish to remain anonymous. and that just she was sexually assaulted by a transgender cellmate who had previously been put behind, falls as a man to sex offences against women. been in prison with mail, prisoners, he always feel an edge. you know, something could happen attorney time. we know they are not women,

they are physically threatening and aggressive. i was sexually assaulted and i'm not the only woman who has been, they haven't had surgery and they expose 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 share with us. and because he now has that's right. the other males have the right to current u. k. law allows inmates to be housed in prisons which suit that declared gender regardless. sold was a, they've had gender reassignment surgery. ah,

i readily accept the proposition this sum and pops many women prisoners may stuff, a fear and acute anxiety if required to ship prison accommodation and facilitate with a transgender 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 keep prison 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 syria sexual assault. then the law needs to change . we have a law in the he k called the equality and 10 basically it's out and he discrimination law. however, we have in the law, single effects exceptions which provide the in certain situations where the 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 mailed 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 that 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,

i can't read the drugs are essential for millions of patients. or are they, they want that pill that they hope will take care of their problem thoroughly and rapidly in the short term they really work. the problem is, in the long term, they're mostly disastrous. suddenly stopping a drug can cause the drawers, symptoms more serious than the condition it was meant to treat instead of the beneficial effects of these different medicines, any up to something wonderful, very often they're harmful effects and up to something terrible can pills. so of all ills, or are we trying to mitigate life itself? i just think i was and i was just scared, scare little girl of 24. and like i didn't have to be so complicated. join me every thursday on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport business,

i'm show business. i'll see you then in the with the hello and welcome to cross talk where 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 .