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how did i put it on? because i want to burn them off. you're gonna be skills that you don't know the work for me about the less about the me and the extraordinary success. and this mission was due to the incredible skill, gravely and selfless. courage is united states military in our diplomat and intelligence professional breast president joe biden, calls the mission of afghan, a fan of success despite the chaos and bloodshed during the final days of us military presence. we also claimed that american efforts to remake other countries in its image are coming to an end as foreign powers wasted to get the last
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of their people out of the cobble hundreds of africans, they, once employed have been left without protection. the former interpreter who worked for the british embassy tell that you had betrayed it. local stuff is betrayed. they will put them in a very good. i hadn't been more than makeup of the car. i've written tom, people not admit, he doesn't know exactly the number of u. k. citizens still left the dentist and that as he faces a backlash over his handling of the evacuation mission from the country, ah, are broadcast direct from our studios in marco. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now end of an era of remaking other
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countries. that's how us president joe biden describes the withdrawal from afghanistan. while claiming that the mission there was a success or to kill them up and has the tips. while the long awaited speech from joe biden was significantly delayed, the press waited quite some time for joe biden to finally come out and deliver his remarks. and now the town of the speech was overwhelmingly a defensive 1. 1 point he shouted about how the united states was facing a choice of leaving or escalating in afghanistan and how he made the choice to leave. interestingly enough, he did go on to then blame the afghan army and donald trump for the setbacks and the problems that have recently taken place. and there was a shift in some of the numbers, rather than saying that it was 6000 us personnel who were evacuated, the number was reduced to 5500. now he talked about how he did not want to make a forever war into a forever exit. and furthermore, he talked about how the era of the united states using its military to remake
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countries, had come to an end. now he said the only us interest in afghanistan currently is making sure that afghan a stand does not become a base for terrorist attacks against the united states. and he said the united states would continue to make sure that afghan stan did not turn into that. and that was really the only interest the united states has in afghanistan. he basically said, as was said by general mackenzie, that the mission was going according to plan. it was comes at a time where we've seen that the withdrawal has at this point, cost $13.00 us service person's lives as well as the lives of $170.00 afghan civilians. believing date was august 31st, and joe biden says that america is reaching its goal. here's what he said. extraordinary success. and this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of united states, military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. now it's also important
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to note the context of the speech biden is on the defensive because very much has been viewed in a negative light. the situation where the remains of those 13 service personnel who were killed were delivered to the united states. well, family members that were not very happy with how joe biden interacted with them. i said, i swear to god if he checks his watch one more time, i couldn't look at him anymore after that, considering especially the time and why we were there. i found to be the most disrespectful thing i've ever seen. now at this point, we've got a number of republicans stepping up and calling for joe biden to resign, saying that he broke his promise to make sure that every american is brought safely home from afghanistan. but there are also a number of democratic voices that are also harshly critical of the white house and how it's handled things. the recreation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled. in order to move forward, we need answers and accountability regarding the cascade and sailors that lead us
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to this moment. our troops deserve nothing less than a complete and unvarnished truth. i think this is the timeline is less than what we have to do to get the us citizen and others out of the country. president biden withdrew from afghanistan before the deadline, abandoning american citizen, still on the ground, desperately needing evacuation. if biden refuses to resign, he must be impeached. this is an absolute disgrace. joe biden camera harris. anthony blank, and lloyd austin and general milly should all resign of face impeachment and removal from office. anger appears to be boiling within the military itself. there are 90 retired generals and admirals who have now stepped forward to demand that general milly, as well as secretary of defense austin, resign in results of in response to their actions in afghanistan. joe biden took his opportunity to day to step up and take credit for ending
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a more than 20 year long military engagement by the united states and afghanistan. many are looking on at the manner in which the united states withdrew and the human cost and saying that there, this was basically handled pretty badly and that the human losses that took place on all sides could have been avoided. a lot of voices stepping up and saying there was simply a lot of mismanagement here. joe biden took the floor today to defend himself and say that things are going to plan and things are being successful. while biden slammed withdrawal deal made by his predecessor donald trump gas we spoke with, while they aimed at biden's policy, as well as the purported goal of the worth self widen, was not found by anything from it. and the evidence of that is all the other things trump has done that biden has undone as quickly as possible. so biting doesn't care about anything. the trump did that, that he feels held to be, wasn't held to that fight and started backwards by removing our position of
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strength, like closing back run, shrinking our footprint to half the size of an airport in the city of 4000000 people. and then making it impossible to defend that by drawing down the military as he goes until there's not enough people left. it was a disaster waiting to happen, and biden did it all in the wrong order. every death is on him. their blood is on his hands, the only choice he has right now is to claim credit for doing good because that will fool that people who aren't really paying attention. but the whole world knows he did this completely wrong. and in the worst, most inept, bumbling possible way, and i don't see him saving it. there are a lot of politicians and former president should that should have been admitting that we should not have been in afghanistan for 20 years. and that we should have gotten out long, long, long ago. well, we know also historically that anytime us forces are on the ground, that increases the amount of terrorist activity in the country. and
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a lot of the terrorist activity ends up being killing civilians of that nation. as well as trying to go after us forces there. we also have historical information about nation building, being the excuse for the u. s. military to stay in many, many countries. that is the way the politicians get the u. s. public to go ahead and say ok, let's leave our military and one more year because we're helping the women we're helping this, we're hoping that it's okay to go ahead and spend $300000000.00 a day. let's keep them in there because we're helping other people, when in fact there are ways to help other people without us military forces being involved in i can't stand is entering a new phase in its history. but under the same old taliban rule, the same regime that was charged 20 years ago. the last us military flight took off from couples, mean airport on monday night, bringing america's longest war to it. uh
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huh. and here are members of the taliban inside the airport and some appear well equipped in what appears to be u. s. military here, just a small part of the trophy has gone from american troops during their hasty retreat bend and helicopters can also be seen inside hangers there. after seizing power, the telephone announced a general amnesty enough gonna stand for all citizens, including officials who worked under the previous government, but with reports growing of taliban reprisals. anyone with links to foreign forces may be in danger. we spoke to a former interpreter who worked for the british embassy in kabul during the 20 year campaign. yeah. that his name and location. we kept secret. we had a lot of government because as a powerful government, we never thought of. we will, in this situation when big for us, i don't know why did it was like why without protection, without almost one week or more than that. i don't have any shows. i
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must keep changing way my place. we had all the scheme from the bus government and i went to the airport, but we couldn't even because it was there and they were feeding people like varying. i'm thinking i'm going and some of the, the 1st visit to me by a piece of but also be like you, me, emily with this being even will not be the thing. i hope i tried. many parents called them even then they have to show another when i know what to do, but that they're not getting the response. i lost everything with the hope of the i will, i will buy from. now the telephone has deployed extra guards around
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a couple airport. the only air quarter out of the country after last week's bombing, which killed at least $170.00. that blast tore through a crowd, throwing bobbies into a nearby open sewer. people had been gathered at the airport for days, trying to flee the solid on that former interpreter. again, talk to us about the explosion and accuse the british government of the train. its local staff from one him, one can make it a way. you can smell the blood a plus i saw by my own eyes, the body. i saw there devoid is my way. i'm going to bid. and you couldn't, i couldn't even walk with a note of what is inside. there was a note of all these don't go on the wall. so i a very good in terms of the and also that it wouldn't be clued there. there was no for him to do. i did inform the can be informed you okay about before these
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things happened, but they didn't access after that the time was too late for the it is a bit res. i work for them in a very good way. i had been more than like, ever since the 1st day when the, from the clear, you know, a, we will not on those people who will be post not handing over the government options, but i don't think maybe start putting houses the thought going occupied my house and they were going to me all i can do the trying to sort of by monday bill bill, bill of the i know the only night we are cars, we bonded know if they help us believe that the other one will be most. that's boy, they're not even they're not even talking with british foreign secretary dominic
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rob has admitted that he doesn't know exactly how many u. k. nationals are still in a dentist and he's facing growing anger over the handling of the british evacuation mission and put 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. be specific, well, low hundreds given that we've taken in total $5000.00 out. and most of those difficult cases where it's not clear around the eligibility of their undocumented, believe it or not dominate ra then went on to say that no other department and the united kingdom has handled the crisis in austin 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 and raised many eyebrows among many colleagues in the hall of westminster of close
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. dominic ross has been long embroiled over the last few weeks in many controversial issues in the handling of the crisis in afghanistan. because of course when cobble fell to the taliban some 2 weeks ago, dominic 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 afghanistan on pakistan, which has led to many people pointing. many thing is of blame. dominant rob for 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 i canister was collapsing to the taliban. you've got to be on duty during that sort of period where we're so deeply and intimately involved in it. we haven't heard from the foreign secretary in about
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a week despite this being the biggest single foreign policy dissolved this in suez . so i don't know what the foreign office is thinking. while his handling of the crosses in afghanistan has really gone from bad to was 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 tale about operating border checkpoints and really is 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, as britain promised that all you k citizens, all u. k. national. i'm indeed old 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. however, as the weeks and days then passed,
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many ministers in parliament was saying, not everybody would be able to get out. 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 the u. k has done a good job and that people should stop attacking the u. k for its own as occupation process. anyone getting back passing briefings either at 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 these . why? because we have got 17000 people out. well, it's not just the u. k. citizens that are in need of returning here to the united kingdom, but many, many africans all, absolutely desperate to flee from the taliban takeover as well and have been e mailing the united kingdom, the foreign office trying to get some help. so what we're hearing now is a minister has admitted that emails from schools that people have not only not been
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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. 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 off his handling of this crisis. no doubt, it really will be a grilling, indeed that tomorrow. but many people are really questioning how on the dominic rob is in this position still in this position, a crucial role. but at a critical time,
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we asked people in london what they think of the foreign secretary handling of the can pull out. i think he should be aware of how many people are left and then tried to help the people. well, i mean, they have to come up with the correct amount of how many people are there and why will they, you know, brought back. you've shown that he doesn't know what we actually know the best i mean to, to be a british, but someone gives you 4 days or 5 days to clear out of a country's got much chances. and everyone else seems to be more more concerned with his own in depression that he is making on the world. well, there's a lot more 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. it doesn't make me feel that i can trust politicians. my whole opinion of the
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government is not very high. and as the dominic rob, i'm so behavioral things appalling. i'm just a good in while dominic rob it has flatly denied a claim from us media that britain may have been indirectly responsible for letting a suicide bomber into couple airport last thursday. a pentagon document linked to political magazine suggest american forces kept the airports main gate open despite knowing it was a prime target for terrorists in order to british personnel. in fact, wait, but the foreign secretary has said that the allegation is just not true. and another government minister has accused the us of indulging in a blame game. there is an underlying current of plame, which is on helpful. it's a distraction from the main efforts of what is happening on the ground. if the scale of this attack was known beforehand, all gate should have been closed as a matter of protocol. and they went,
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which suggest saw that detailed intelligence was missing, or huge risks were chosen to be taken anyway. we have asked to former u. k. counterterrorism intelligence officer charles should bridge about how to conduct such an operation at mid a high risk of terrorist attack. if you've already got one or 2 or 3 days left to carry out your evacuation, it could be argued that you constantly shut down the operation every time that there's a town or not. because if you do so, of course you just had an initiative to groups such as an official, perhaps even to taliban themselves. you could simply manufacture from alerts like that and therefore thereby disrupt the operation to act the time. even before the capture plays, the british appeared to be the people who actually went public with this, which in a way could undermine any attempts to capture or kill the attacker before he got to the airport. because of course, that discloses the festival. there is
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a source that is disclosing this confirmation. 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 been given that he might, he or she might be on their way as the european union braces for a search in refugees from afghanistan, ministers held an emergency meeting to plan how to prevent a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis. with more, here's our t davinsky. well, what seems to be in agreement from the minutes is, is that have to be moved on to protect the external world as from the migration price is happening. the role for discussion about the situation in afghanistan, that 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 that appeared to people with
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meeting that they leave is that your ministers that will to prevent illegal migrants from coming to europe based on lessons learned the you and it's members, states stand 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 euro duck. well, that issue of dealing with a large migration is something that you knew will be rattling since the us started pulling out its troops from afghanistan. it's something that you're really concerned about because wanting. so who will to see is a repeat of what happened back in 2015 when around a 1000000 syrians flooded in europe, causing what many described as being my ration crisis. but since then, there has been a huge amount of work done, particularly on the eastern buddhist,
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something that you decided that it still can not agree on. and as a result, back as a result of being able to give any definitive figures of how many people will be able to come to the you, it will not still be done on a voluntary basis. country by country you estimate since 2015 that have been around 570000 asylum application just for math gotten the song. and it says that since february food application has increased fine food, of course i got concerned as the fall of the pool. my sons government was coming now that you want to see and this is discussed the meeting today. but there is a move on to relocate people. we've got some countries nearby in the region. so around and gone, but we've already heard from focus on that. it feels as if it's already full to the brim. i cannot take any more individuals on this idea that your looks to be closing it, who is continuing with fortress. europe is something that is provoked. you read international
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human rights organizations such as, i'm the international law. i'm with the international is written to the you and also to you to say that he, he play concerned about the type of language that you was using when it talks about protecting its borders. but you also, how's it says another solution. this is daniel cower has money in front of the taliban by saying, look, if you cheat to certain conditions, if you protect white women, if you allow to go to school, we will give you money and funding towards humanitarian assistance in the country. rebuilding the country, all of that 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 offer that they also will not be taking any migrant refugees from amazon. was to see my, the ultimate,
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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 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 a even larger, greater problem that he's learning in afghanistan, the 39000000 people that live, that the high commissioner for refugees, almost baking european union to keep it who does open the you says they are open, but. * as we've seen from that reinforcement of fences and sorry, isn't your idea that they could be deployed drones and patrols of the borders size . know how many people feel? we've had a similar course to keep food. food is open from the international rescue committee saying that you must not abandon people's lack chemist on. unfortunately,
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that is now how many people feel that they have been already abandoned. we spoke to maximilian crime and the german member of the european parliament who believes the best option would be to get the taliban to guarantee it won't retaliate against those who helped western forces. we spend a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of life and they've got to make a more rest and place to make them got it are a gamma play problem when ever you have any tension, then our immigration, he said they had ring and urine, they make the exception to the, to the, our, it at all. we had about high have people who have a gym and full day stay home. and then we have to
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take him to the house and tell him on that. and they will know, take the land with day to collaborate with the rest of the portland. so desperate my courage, we need to take into directly to a colleague, government that routes and get guarantees that they will never prosecute those people re supported the forces that does it for me. this are i will be back in about 32 minutes with another full infrastructure. new thing with this, this is our team, traditional the ah ah, ah,
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