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suddenly stopping a drug can cause withdrawal symptoms more serious than the condition it was meant to treat instead of the beneficial effects of these different medicines ending up to something wonderful, very often their harmful effects and up to something terrible can pills. so of all ills are trying to mitigate life itself. i just think i was like i was just scared, scared, little girl of 24. and like me didn't have to be so complicated the law about how you always have a message to any possible invader. but anyone who looks to get this done with bad intention, they will face what the united states has face today. america's hasty departure from afghanistan leaves become 3 in the hands of the very kind of ban regime, the washington promise to overthrow 20 years ago. despite the cale and bloodshed,
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during the final days of the u. s. military president supplied with ministration, they continued to praise the outcome of americans during this war. on this form, ties rights to get the last of the people active couple hundreds of afghans they, once employed have been left with that protection. the former interpreter who works for the british embassy tells us that the u. k. to portrayed its local stuff. it is a bit, i will put them in a very good way. i haven't been more than like i said, we are cars. i good evening. you watching all the international is just gone at 9 o'clock in moscow. now i've got to stand his entering a new phase in his history, but under the same old taliban rule, the same regime that was in charge 20 years ago. the last u. s. military flight took off from cooper airport on monday night,
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bringing to an end america's longest war. uh huh. and here are members of the taliban inside the airport. some a pe well equipped to and what may well be u. s. military gay. just a small part of the trophies garnered from american troops during the hasty retreat . abandoned helicopters can also be seen inside the hangers. now the taliban have full control over the country's k transport hub is witness chaotic and deadly seeing since submitted and swept back to power across afghanistan. and now after 2 decades of the us military presence, the group has issued a very clear warning mob. how y'all was going to have a message to any possible invader. but anyone who looks to get this done with bad intention, they will face what the united states has faced today. there is something of a sense of relief here and that sense of relief isn't because the americans have
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gotten that that relief is being felt by diplomats but by civilians here. and that is the new, more incidents took place as the evacuation was wrapping up at capital airport. the taliban went into the airport proper. merely minutes, minutes after midnight, minutes off the american troops. the last american troops at campbell airport. and then i've got his thoughts had taken off and off to for hours and hours we heard the rule of gotten fly machine got and we, we, we thought we had even had a large caliber far from all directions in the city. that was the taliban. and celebrating laboratory godfather, they are now in control of the airport. they went in, they inspected the place, allegedly, they're now in possession of even more aircraft left behind by the ass, gotten military left behind by the united states and its allies. though from what
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we've heard, many of the, the jets, the aircraft at the airport, we're may dysfunctional so, so they were purposefully destroy tied to go tangled with by evacuating american troops. nevertheless, the taliban is celebrating and they held a ceremony at the airport saying that now we finally 100, but i must get by the way. thank god. first of all, i would like to say that again, son is finally in every sense, free and independent. and our forces are controlled. the military and civilian parts of the airport. normal activity of the airport will start both in the civilian unit, as well as the military unit, very soon. all of capital completely uncontested. they are in control of most of, of gotten install. there is only one province that is still holding out against the taliban. the, even that even that is surrounded as for the evacuation. what the united states has
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been saying, well, aside from them, praising almost the title by saying that they were helpful and useful and holding a firm perimeter around the airport, the united states sees these evacuation. what happened here as a success? this is been a massive military, diplomatic, and mandatory and undertaking. one of the most difficult in our nation's history. and extraordinary feet of logistics and coordination under some of the most challenging circumstances. imagine that we will continue our relentless efforts to help americans foreign nationals and atkins, leave afghanistan. if they choose. we work intensely to evacuate and relocate and work alongside us and our particular risk reprises. we've gotten many out, but many are still there from the perspective of a humanitarian point of view. it is arguable that this was the success that,
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that trumping to be. because so many people, hundreds of american citizens alone. never mind european citizens just yesterday we, we met people who had british possible to have australian passports. and that was just a small number of people that we met. and they've all been left behind. they were unable. and even if, if they were able to get to the airport, they weren't allowed inside either by the taliban or by the troops. that the nato troops there who wouldn't let them in. despite them showing papers and passports, they wouldn't let them in until they had prior approval forms and flips of paper as we heard from some people. so. so definitely many people have been left behind, desperate people who, who believe there is a real threat to their lives, to the security and safety of their families. and there is, it is absolutely clear. there is no idea among them how to get out the out of the country. what the future holds, whether the taliban will abide by the promise of amnesty. the taliban itself has
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said that yes, these people will be allowed to leave and molested the taliban of the obviously once international recognition. and that recognition will only come if they act now in a civilized manner if they allow people to leave. nevertheless, only tom will tell if these people will be able to get out of, of got his time or against their report. mera, in kabul now with the biden team still painting the outcome of to 20 emission, is a success. there are 90 retired us generals and admirals, demanding that the defense secretary and joint chiefs of staff stepped down over the chaotic withdraw. they've also called it a reputation with disaster and stressed. it would fracture trust in the us among its allies. the loss of billions of dollars in our advanced military equipment and supplies fall into the hands of our enemies is catastrophic. the damage to the reputation of the united states is indescribable. we will be seen for many years as
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an unreliable partner in any multinational agreement or operation. trust in the united states is irreparably damaged. it's not just retired till bras, who are speaking at some acting service personnel are also voicing their anger and it's paid a price for dating. so one senior us moraine has been dismissed africa using the government of butchering the afghan stam pullout speaking in the way. cuz the cabal, airport bombing stewart sheller posted a video on social media that went viral. 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, will you rank on the table and say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate bob graham airfield, the strategic berries before we evacuate? everyone? did anyone do that?
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and when you didn't think to do that, the thing when raise their hands there we completely mess this up. but just as after posting that clip, lieutenant colonel sheila said he had been relieved over lack of trust and confidence in his ability to command. however, he did get an eye pouring ob support online and on sunday he posted another video to saying he's also resigning his commission, adding, i have forfeited my retirement all entitlements, and i don't want a single dollar. and we also heard from a former us marine corps intelligence off the scott ritter, who does think that someone needs to be held accountable. so that lessons can be 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 other can
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occur sheller is 100 percent correct? i take umbrage it that way. he got his message across. he was a 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 his senior leadership. while i sympathize with his position, he had no right to do this a while. he war uniform and he was fired. justifiably so we cannot have a situation where military officers feel that they have a duty to be critically outside of the chain of command about policies. they disagree with, or else we'd have chaos, an anarchy. 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. now, the european union is bracing for a surge and refugees from afghanistan. menaces have just held an emergency meeting to with the focus on preventing a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis. let's get morning sound cross slots to
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charlotte pinsky in paris, forest. charlotte, some tell us more than about what came out of these talks, and if there is any consensus at all on how to deal with the sizes of people trying to flee afghanistan. well, what seems to be an agreement for you minutes is, is that half of feed mod done to protect music soon? award is from another migration price is happening there. role to discussions about the situation in afghanistan at the moment on the fact that they could now be a safe haven for terrorists. and also they could be more terrorism as a result of the current situation. but the main focus appeared to be from this meeting that the leaders in your ministers that will prevent illegal migrants from coming to europe. based on lessons learned, the
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e u and its members states stun determined to act jointly to prevent the reoccurrence of uncontrolled, large scale illegal migration movements faced in the past. appropriate security checks should be carried out, including for the full use of relevant e u databases. as well as resignation in your deck. well, that issue of dealing with a large migration is something that has been grappling since the us started pulling out its troops from afghanistan. it's something that you're really concerned about because what he does, we want to see is a repeat of what happened back in 2015 when around a 1000000 syrians flooded into europe, causing what many described as being my ration crisis. but since then, there has been a huge amount of work done to carry on the eastern borders of the your block to reinforce the borders that have a look now at some of the work that's been undertaken in
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people will be able to come to the view. it will not still be done on a voluntary basis, country by country that you estimate since 2015 that have been around 570000. i saw them application just for math, gotten the song and it says that since february, food applications have increased the food, of course, as that concern of the fall of the for my sons government was coming. now that you want to see, and this is discussed with the meeting today, but there is a move on to relocate. people leave off on the sun 2 countries nearby in the region . so around the sun. but we've already heard from focus on that it feels as if it's already full of the frame and it cannot take any more individuals on this idea that you really look to be closing. it will discontinue with that idea, fortress, europe is something that is provoked theory for international human rights organizations such as amnesty international love. i'm with the international is written to the
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e. you and also to you to say that it's deeply concerned about the type of language that you was using when it talks about protecting its borders that you will. so how's it? it says another solution. this is daniel cower to money in front of the taliban by saying, look, if you keep to certain conditions, if you protect the white women, if you allow girls to go to school, we will give you money and funding towards humanitarian assistance to the country. rebuilding the country, all of facebook does come with those conditions and the commission is today thing off that press conference, we will have to wait and see if those conditions are met. the money will not be forthcoming before they met. despite all of the discussions today, we know that some european countries or firms, but they also will not be taking any more migrants or refugees from us down on the steamer, the ultimate, when it comes to admission, my position is well known. i think that nothing much has changed, especially because austria has done the loss already. we have taken in
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a bigger than proportionate share of people since 2015 per capita. we have the 4th largest afghan community worldwide. and so in that respect, i think austin's is well known here. in the meantime, we're having a warning from the u. n. h. the all that says that there was an even larger, greater problem that including enough gotten the sound to the 39000000 people that live the high commissioner for refugees, almost baking european union to keep it open the you says they are open but. * as we've seen from that reinforcement defenses and sorry, is a new idea that they could be deployed drones and patrols on the borders size. know how many people feel? we've had a similar cause to keep food. food is open from the international rescue committee thing that you must not abandon people's montgomery done. unfortunately, that is now how many people feel that they have been already abandoned. so
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okay, well thanks for the update. the charlotte that michelle davinsky reporting for us in paris. i mean, while the british florence i treat dominant ralph as admitted, he doesn't know exactly how many k nation was still in afghanistan. he is facing growing anger over the handling of the british evacuation mission mission. i'm putting the number left behind in the low hundreds during a recent interview. look, of course, when we are lament the fact that anyone would be left behind. i know that the number of u. k. nationals, the particular responsibility of the foreign office is now down at a very low level specific, well, low hundreds given that we've taken in total $5000.00 out. and most of those are difficult cases where it's not clear around the eligibility of their undocumented, believe us or not dominate raw. then went on to say that no other department in the united kingdom has handled the crisis in africa on east, on any better than the foreign office. of course, the very department that he is in charge of now that has raised numerous consent
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and raised many eyebrows. among many colleagues in the hall of westminster of close dominic roles has been long embroiled over the last few weeks in many controversial issues in the handling of the crisis in africa based on because of course, when koppel fell to the taliban some 2 weeks ago, dominate rob was nowhere to be seen. in fact, finally seen sunbathing abroad on holiday with his family. but not just that. allegedly he declined many phone calls. he did not pick up the phone to his counterpart in the stone on pakistan, which is not to many people pointing. many thing is of blame dominant rob. so the foreign secretary to go a while during an international crisis of this magnitude is nothing short of a shameful. i think it was amazing, staggering that the foreign secretary was still on holiday, while the canister was collapsing to the taliban. you've got to be on duty during
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that sort of period where we're so deeply and intimately involved in it. we haven't heard from the foreign secretary and about a week despite this being the biggest single foreign policy, disastrous and sewers. so i don't know what the foreign office is thinking. while his handling of the crisis in afghanistan has really gone from bad to worse. in fact, he's now saying and advising that, anybody that still need to leave ask on a stone would probably be better off, going to a neighboring country to try and return to safety here in the united kingdom. however, of course i easier said than done considering the taliban operating board checkpoints and really it's putting a lot of trust in the taliban to uphold that side of the deal, allowing any safe passage to anybody that wishes to leave. it does come. of course, the importance that all you case that is in the u. k. nationals, and indeed, all of those assisted and the occupation assisted the british army and the occupation of the last 18 years would be able to return to the united kingdom.
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however, as the weeks and days been passed, many ministers in parliament was saying not everybody would be able to get out. and now dominic rob, as we heard, is it missing? he has no idea how many british citizens still remain in afghanistan. but it's actually maintain that the u. k has done a good job and that people should stop attacking the u. k. for its own evacuation process. anyone getting back passing briefings, either it me or the foreign commonwealth and development office is frankly not credible. and it is deeply responsible. we have absolutely been on this, and you can see we have been on this. why? because we have got 17000 people out. well, it's not just a u. k. systems that are in need of returning here to the united kingdom, but many, many africans are actually desperate to flee from the taliban takeover as well and
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have been e mailing the united kingdom, the foreign office trying to get some help. so what we're hearing now as a minister has admitted the emails from schools that people have not only not been replied to a process, but not even being read by many, many ministers here in westminster. meaning that many people are still stuck in the region and fearing for their lives without any sense that they will ever be able to get out. despite all of this, dominick rob, the foreign secretary is still maintaining that they were real, a tangible gains from the 18 year occupation when colleagues all around him over the past few weeks have even been pushed to the point of floods, of tears in the house of commons saying the absolute opposite to dominic rob. now he will indeed be stopped in a foreign affair. select committee. that's an opportunity for many m p 's to really grill the foreign secretary office handling of this crisis. no doubt it really will be a grilling. indeed. that tomorrow,
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but many people are really questioning how on the dominate, rob is in this position still in this position, a crucial role. but at a critical time, we ask people in london what they think of the foreign secretary handling of the afghan polite? i think you should be aware of how many people are left and then tried to help those people. well, i mean, they have to come up with the correct amount of how many people are there and why was they, you know, brought back. you've shown that she doesn't know what the child actually paid it on the bench, i mean to, to be on a british. but someone gives you 4 days or 5 days to clear out a country's got much chances getting everyone, however you seem to be more more concerned with his own in depression that he is making on the world. while there's not what, what's going on in the world around him. if a public doesn't, a public person doesn't have to acknowledge who is supposed to protect the nation.
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it doesn't make me feel that i can trust politicians. my whole opinion of the government is not very high. and as the dominic rob, so behavioral things appalling. i'm just now meanwhile, dominic raw has flatly denied a claim from us media that britain may have indirectly being responsible for letting a suicide bomber into copolla pool. last thursday, append to can document lead to political magazine magazine suggest american forces kept the airports main gate open despite knowing it was a prime target for terrorists in order to let british personnel evacuate the foreigner. secretary has said that the allegation is just not true. and another government minister has a keys, united states have indulging in a plain gay there is an underlying current of blame, which is on helpful. it's a distraction from the main efforts what is happening on the ground. if the scale
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of this attack was known beforehand, old gate should have been closed as a matter of protocol. and they went, which suggest i have a detailed intelligence was missing, or huge risks were chosen to be taken anyway. okay, well let's get the thought snapped shells she bridge for me, you k counter terrorism intelligence officer. thanks for coming on again. charles, what do you make of this story? g seed as an attempt to shift blame onto the u. k for the airport bombing? i don't think so, not necessarily. it does appear, you know, at 1st glance that, that might be the case and then might be out of it. but if in the day detention that was available according to the lead documents. so obviously transcript was quite detailed in terms of the timing of the not down to the news hour, but certainly they were expecting an attack imminently. and when i say they were talking about the very most senior level of the us military, including the defense tech team himself. and that also suggests that from an
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intelligence perspective, that this information was regarded as not just tiny, but also reliable. are you coming from a reliable source? because if not, i think it wouldn't have engaged the attention of such high profile figures. but what was missing was the exact location of where that attack would take place was that there was some certainty or some decreases due to an attack. at some point in some places would take place. now. the medicaid which we using was kept open, but there was no suggestion, i think, following those documents themselves. the british were actually asked to close that k can an end of the day. if you've only got one or 2 or 3 days left to carry out your accusation, it could be argued got, you constantly shut down the operation every time that as a towel or not. because if you do so, of course you just have initiatives to groups such as the iso, perhaps even the taliban themselves, you could simply manufacture farm alerts like that. and therefore i get to the
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operation. i mean, other aspects are also quite interesting industry report example the transcript seems to suggest not only that the level of intelligence or data the testers is quite considerable, but also very interesting to the degree of cooperation, of quite manifestly it was taken place and acknowledged to be taken place by senior commanders on the defense sector and south in the us. the level of compression it was taking place between the us forces and the taliban themselves in trying to keep security in trying to keep order at the airport. and even at one stage it would appear helping to organize parties and so on to get the intended. if i q a house, and so it was quite a lot to the story the still yet to imagine yet the some, the transcript. i'm sorry, some of that detail this. that seems to be missing from the story i'm more detail would emerge on shore. just from the point you said the child, she said, you know,
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despite receiving this intelligence overall, you wouldn't necessarily act on that. i mean, given what happened, surely i must think that they should have done right. and i wouldn't well, that's the power retrospect, of course, and it say it's and how much i don't want to thing, of course, as i say. but if the information to be more specific, that there would be an attack at a certain time in a certain place, or for example, who would be carrying out then perhaps into circumstances where we can delay this from operation until next week. maybe that might be something to be consider. what i'm saying is that with the incomplete picture we've got and there might be more intelligence available to suggest perhaps the challenge of scenarios. then i think given the agency of the evacuation, it wasn't unreasonable. i think to continue it at that time. if there be more 6, i'll put the chat about the time in about my whom i just carried that out. and then it may get more options. i'm having to train interesting. i thought at the time,
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even before the chapter plays, the british appear to be the people who actually went public with this. which in a way could undermine any attempts to cause badly capture or kill the attacker before he got to the airport. because of course, got disclosed the success of all there is a source that is disclosing this kind of information. i'm 2nd, it gave warning to the attacker. if he's watching the news, which i'm sure he said he was colleagues, that he was nice. there was information you've been given that he might, he or she might be on their way. that's another aspect, of course as well. if you close one gate, i'm not sure that it was only just the one gate opened. then of course, you could simply displace the attack to another location to say no, we still don't know an awful lot of details in terms of the accuracy of those details that's been released. for example, we've seen the last numerous reports and the credible reports, including from relatives off the british victims of this attack. actually, many of those victims may what have been caused by gunfire or by the actions of us
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and perhaps other forces that fire naturally. and when the actual place and so was minute cause explains what happens. i think there's still probably quite a lot of information and the how to come out about what actually happened on this occasion. and indeed on many other aspects of this, withdraw british foreign secretary dominate. rob is under a lot of pressure at the moment. tell you the handling of the withdrawal. how would you assess britton's attempts to get people out of cocoa? why it looks to me like the force is on the ground, the best, the best of about doing down hand and really comes down to again intelligence questions and such tissues. how can it be that when you're relatively amateurs, sending outside observers including myself, i would say, i have long predicted that the moment that us forces an issue i suppose you were talking about, were going to be withdrawn from africa. understand that the taliban,
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which re to victory extremely quickly, not because necessarily military superiority, but simply because it was american money in american forces that was holding like a house of cards. i'm afghanistan and the government there to get us. of course that would collapse. and yet this rapid collapse, assuming it wasn't foreseen, or if the intelligence and they did suggest that then that was acted upon. but given that such little time was available before the underground probably did the best they couldn't. i mean, americans after shutting deed with that, how about how pitching this was, the main issue here is i think it's in terms of why it actions that are political and more senior that was taken earlier. for example, in the british media and amongst british politicians, it's been our subject of discussion for many months as to what britain is doing and the same would apply to america. i'm sure to get out. understand those people who have assisted the british americans in operation that new clarity would be at risk
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