what is your number? do you want me, john? i got, i've got that limit and i wanted them off. you're gonna be back to do the work for me about the less about me and ah, extraordinary success in this mission critical skills. gravely, sculpus courage is united states military and our diplomats and the headlines that september 1st, president biden defends america hasty withdrawal from afghanistan, stressing the understanding results of the mission,

despite the chaos and bloodshed to the us military spinal days. and we don't want to be in this situation. i'm please, please, please beg you to, to, to rescue from british national stranded in calvo, plead for help. as the foreign secretary of mid season, aware of the exact number of citizens are left in afghan. the government face to backlash for its alleged failure during the cobbled evacuation to over just how many local, because it actually managed to rescue ah, life and worldwide. this is our fee for moscow. my name is colleen bro, we will use this. our president biden has given a glowing endorsement of america's longest war. they even went so far as to say the african mission was an extraordinary success. despite the chaos,

bloodshed of recent days, just a warning that some of the upcoming content you might find upsetting. extraordinary success and this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of united states, military and our diplomat and intelligence professionals. it was designed to save american lives, the family of the 13 american soldiers who died in a terrorist attack and cobble a few days ago would definitely argue with that biden's appearance at the dignified transfer of the remains. certainly added insult to injury. 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 after this so called successful operation over a 100 americans are still stranded in afghanistan. the exact number is not known apparently, and that is despite jo biden's promise that no one would be left behind. now we

believe that about 102200 americans, we may, nap, can stand with some intention to leave. and for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. we're going to try to get it done before august 3rd. but if we don't, if are american force, if there's american citizens left, we're going to stay that we get them all out. now, while the u. s. public overwhelmingly favors withdrawal from afghanistan. poles also show that the public is unhappy with how it was done. over 80 percent of the public says that they wanted the military to stay in and make sure that americans should get out safely. now, republicans are stepping up and calling for joe biden to step down. we call upon most somberly the resignation of this president joe biden, and is the right thing to do, to preserve some modicum of honor. and to step down,

i think one of the reasons why the past couple of weeks of gaston have been such a shock to some and such a disappointing confirmation to others. is because of that disconnect between reality and how that reality is projected. i believe there should be accountability for what i, what i see is probably the biggest failure in american government on a military stage in my lifetime. but it's not just republicans. some democrats also seem rather unsatisfied by recent events. the evacuation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled. in order to move forward, we need answers and accountability regarding the cascading failures that lead us to this moment. our troops deserve nothing less than a complete and unvarnished truth. i think that timeline is less than what we have to do to get us citizen and others out of the country. and within the military, there is discontent as well. over 90 retired generals and admirals called for the highest ranking us general. and for the us secretary of defense to step down 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 an unreliable partner in any multinational agreement or operation. trust in the united states is irreparably damaged. now, after 20 years, the war in afghanistan seemed to have come to an end, at least for america, joe biden is taking credit for finally bringing the troops home. however, the manner in which he did it has many questioning his competency. we've got a situation where it looks like august is wrapping up to be the worst month yet for the biden whitehouse. caleb martin, r t new york. despite his claims of success biden blamed his predecessor donald trump for the abruptness of the us withdrawal. but the president's words appear, rebecca, be similar to the things trump previously said. is found indeed an era of

major military operations to re make other countries the ear of nation building will be brought to a very i yeah. placement was not found by anything from did, 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 strength like closing background, shrinking our footprint, you 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 the 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 on the last us troops left handed cars. i international appleton cobble of monday just before the clock struck midnight mobile time. but tuesday morning taliban fighters could be seen strolling around the facility. they now fully control the main transport hub look deserted, the medicine post for photos with captured vehicles, aircraft, and equipment. however, it is reported that much of the trophies left behind have been the commission which might display white was so readily abandoned. meanwhile, in the se, in city of host, the taliban held a mock funeral for our state foreign forces. draping faith coffins with us nato. british and french flags were also some banners of the defeated islamic republic of afghanistan, now replaced by the white flag of the taliban,

islamic amyloid there are also report from the pan she of valley north of the afghan capital cobble where at least 7 opposition fighters were reportedly killed in classes with the taliban on monday night since the fall of called on august the 15th. and she has been the only province to stand against the medicines. we spoke to a representative of the national resistance front of afghan about the recent development . oh, we are not fighting to deepen the risk to exacerbate the i think grievances we are resisting. we are defending our home, our values, our people line of communication is still open. so there is a dialogue between the natural resistance front and the taliban. however, if they continue their narrative of dominance and we will be forced to resist, to defend our home or land or values or people

number one, failure of kennesaw, state or government was the political structure. unfortunate the, the political system was highly centralized, a highly centralized unitary presidential system that gave all power that's concentrated all power in one city in one palace and in one individual. the leadership itself didn't have the expertise that they have the experience to make rational decisions. so unfortunately, and again, it's done in the past 20 years because of the political system, you've had pervasive corruption. the money that was assisted to get this on, which were very grateful for. it wasn't used properly inside afghanistan and it was because of the week leadership of the army. ah,

international terrorism is reemerging and considered a television victorious considered themselves victorious. and so this is a threat not only to get some people, but to the whole world. it's a global conflict. recognizing the islamic camera, it's will just be legitimizing international terrorism. the system is not a system that should be acceptable in the 21st century. anyone who recognizes and islam mchenry will be betraying the people of afghanistan for years. the point of view in the us that the defeat of the soviet union in afghanistan in the 980, was a precursor for the collapse of the ussr. serbian american journalists, new boy shall manage, expanded on that idea, and an opinion piece for author dot com. questioning. if it's now america's turn to crumble, and you'll find loads more interesting angles and got plenty of poll provoking things just for you as well. on our website. meanwhile, the russian foreign ministry says moscow bay jane washington and islam about

planned to hold a meeting in cobble. as soon as the situation in afghanistan stabilizes, and the airport reopened, for russia, the regions considered to be key in terms of its own security. president putin spelled out the futility at the u. s. campaign. so we go to the police. we did look at the events unfolding now near russia. i mean, i've got this done for 20 years. us soldiers have been on african soil. and for 20 years they have been trying to, so to say, civilize the local people. but in fact, to impose their own standards and values, including on the political structure of society. and what did that bring them? only tragedies in british foreign secretary dominic rob is expected to face a grilling when he goes before a foreign affairs committee. later on wednesday, ministers have been getting a lot of heat over the government's policy in afghanistan in the past few weeks. robbie himself, though, recently blamed the k defense ministry for being unprepared for the taliban. swift

victory. so it was an intelligence thing. i think there's clearly questions around this session was clearly wrong, but under some festival that was shared widely across international partners and certainly not the the, the foreign office lead responsibility, but we've course planned accordingly. okay. like the next 2 westminster studio k partridges that hi kate. so what's the biggest question about british foreign secretary is going to answer later? well certainly if you key questions calling for secretary tony rob will soon appear before the foreign affairs select committee in the house of commons facing questions. fine back bench m p 's over his actions during the withdrawal from afghanistan by the us and its allies. well, this comes a day off to the tv interview where he indicated that military intelligence failures led to the rapid fall of i got a storm to the taliban in effect blaming the ministry of defense. of course, the fundamental assessment that the taliban would not take over so quickly is

something that needs to be looked at. but that was an assumption that was a ministry sumption here in the u. k, but also shared by our nato allies. well, these comments had been strongly refuted by members of the military and the shadow foreign secretary who accused rob of throwing the ministry of defense on drove off the foreign secretary had 18 months to prepare, but was missing in action as a result on his watch, which has become weaker in the world and faces greater risks from terrorism. 45 senior officers, including myself, wrote an open letter to the government in july to say that a large proportion of british nationals and interpreters and other locally engaged civilians where at risk from the taliban. weird, great to generosity and speed because time was not on our side. the response to that was very disappointing. well,

a senior foreign office. so since this rob had been talking more broadly about the intelligence provided as denies rob was seeking to blame the m o. d. but other issues all like you to be raised by the committee. rob was on holiday is the afghan situation was unfolding and he returned only evening article fell from the taliban . rob also delegated a key telephone call to the afghan foreign minister to junior minister, a call, which didn't ultimately happen. and rob has blamed the home office to the lack of a plan in relocating african refugees. in other words, blaming to other departments and not his own foreign office. well, the daily mail has grounded the foreign secretary mister deluded. it could be an uncomfortable off today to dominate rob, under the spotlight of the select committee for any okay, i may have missed something, but i haven't had anybody in westminster or washington just put their hands up and say, sorry, we could have done this better. so i was bringing, i don't feel like a partridge thanks for that. time you k, national, still stranded in afghanistan, a pleading with the government for help with 5000 british citizens evacuated from

cobble hundreds of still believe to be left in that city. one of them shed his face with his a lot of taliban around. yeah. and a lot of people they know that i came from britain and i'm just a scared. if i come, i go out and i'm just like looking around and looking, you might be fine if someone gun man come to to to, to kill us all to took us somewhere. i'm trying to go or johnson and the for a minister. and we all, we all versus it does and we don't want this be in this situation. i'm please, please, please, i beg you to, to, to rescue from here. meantime, the foreign secretary dominic robs flatly denied a claim in the us media is that the british may have been indirectly responsible for letting a suicide bomber into cobble apple last thursday. last happened to one of its

entrances, where afghans were waiting in line to be processed to fly out of a 170 people to kill a pentagon document linked to political magazine. claims that the u. k. had off the american forces to keep a gated cobble apple open to help get british nationals out despite possible terror threat. the u. k. foreign secretary says that allegation is just not true, while other government ministers accused us of indulging in a blame game. there is an underlying current of blame which is unhelpful. 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, which suggest saw it, detailed intelligence was missing, or huge risks were chosen to be taken any way without the former british counter terrorism, intelligence office, and child shoe bridge, about how such an operation should go in a high risk situation like that. and end of the day, if you've only 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 as a time. because if you do so, of course you just had an initiative to group such as i say, so perhaps even the taliban themselves, you could since he manufacture bomb alerts like that. and therefore, by 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 got disclosures at festival, there is a source that is disclosed misconduct information. i'm 2nd, it gave warning to the attacker. if he's watching the news, which i'm sure his son, he was colleagues that he was nice. there was information had been given that he might, he or she might be on their way, but been struggling to evacuate germany linked local workers from afghanistan. but

the government having to explain why up to 40000 personnel is still stuck in the country despite previous promises. peter oliver has the story. 4587, that the exact number of people germany was able to lift out of cobble, a jump language merkle was pretty clear about who had priority for evacuation. is that the, if you will continue the creation of duration for as long as possible in order to make it possible for atkins, who worked with us for security freedom, the rule of law and development to leave the country lessons learned. however, while just under $4000.00, if that number were off gun citizens, only $138.00 of them were in fact local staff, along with around $500.00 family members. not less than one in 5 of those rescued by germany. as for who the rest of the people are still being worked out. but in

this case, we do not yet know, at least in each individual case, whether there's any direct connection with local staff. you can imagine how things were happening. there is, nobody was standing in front of a german plane counting and saying, we're only taking with us those who are coming to germany and we're leaving those who need to go to italy or belgium. because of this, of course, there are people connected with other you countries who have been brought to germany. the chaotic approach to the l. if to be blamed on a lack of preparedness from both the foreign defense ministries here in the late and when it came to the speed at which the taliban advanced and the limited capability of local forces. in mid august, the german government estimated that less than $180.00 local employees and their families would need to be flown out. ultimately who got on to german planes, was decided by the taliban as they controlled access to the airport. and as the interior ministry admitted last week,

that severely complicated the selection process. we currently have a very pragmatic procedure. we only carry out the security check upon entry to the country. we have now identified 4 cases of people who had already been deported. border now in germany. again and government estimate 40000 people were left behind when you factor in family members as well. german foreign minister, high coma, said the safe haven would be offered to more guns, but refused to be drawn on how they should get out of the country. i would not come into that publicly in any way. currently, the conditions for securing these routes have not been created at all for that there would have to be agreements with the taliban as well as with the countries where these people will go for hope is that once cobble airport is open to civilian flights, more people will be able to come here to germany, but make no mistake. the taliban hold all of the cards on the ground and indicates

is that any checks carried out on eligibility to fly. won't be able to be carried out until those people are on german soil. peter oliver, see berlin changes topic up ahead to brag, glimpse of life on a russian nuclear ice breaker on a mission for the top of the world, portable then for a cruise with a bit of a difference in barking very shortly right here. after the break the the the the the

ah, the what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk the now again, right. look at life on board, a russian nuclear icebreaker. next, the ship's cold,

50 years of victory, and it's one of the largest of its type. i usually is, my job is to guide tankers through rushes, frozen northern seas, but in the off season, it also takes people on adventures to the top of the world. are roving correspondent bought a ticket. were on board a russian nuclear icebreaker bound for the north pole. as a journalist, i've been to many dangerous places all around the world, but this trip definitely stands out. we're about to visit police explored an accessible part of our planet and get only a 1000 a visitor year because of it's in his suitable environment. the harsh climate. so back a lot, we're going all the way to the nord ah, we're departing from the media man. the whole board of world only nuclear ice breaker played a lot of stuff around us is considered. technically, i'm not even allowed to film here. i live,

throw caution to the wind and check out why the giant behind me is an icebreaker called the fear, the victory that is going to take us to the north pole. the ice breakers main job is to guide tankers through rushes, frozen northern seas. but in the summer, when it's downtime the ship carries tories to the north pole, normally trip like this would cost up to $50000.00. but this time the ice breakers booked for russian a grade. students have got tickets as a reward for their studies. and also, i guess you could say there are smartest kids in russia. the cream of the crop. we the press simply tagged along. the vessel is large and heavy. it takes to tug both to pull it out from its moorings and were sailing off into the arctic ocean. so for the next 10 days is going to be ice water, more ice, more water and yeah. humming of the ship's nuclear reactors. the 50 years of

victory was launched in 1993 and as the world's 2nd largest nuclear icebreaker. it used to be number one until recently with them the arctic again line which is even bigger and more powerful. other countries have icebreakers, but only russia hasn't powered by atomic energy. this is huge. i mean it's basically like a rebuilding apartment complex, but placing platform because of its size, i guess i keep losing sense of direction around here. so for instance, right now, try to find my cabin, but i have no idea where it is. in the, in the 50 years of victory, gym, basketball court restaurant convention,

whole flash disco bar. given a swimming pool filled with salty, sea water. technically, you can swim in the arctic ocean without leaving the icebreaker. let step in dark habit. nothing fancy. why it has everything we need. we haven't found a couple of big bags in one of the drawers. there were minor of how rocket didn't get in the ocean. the room has what look, it even has a humidifier and it also has a tv, but only 2 channels. one shows you the route and the other one gives you the view from the ship south. so given the fact that there is no internet and mobile reception whatsoever, if this is about all digital entertainment that you will get on board, but you can always gage in the window and enjoy using our big news.

the ice breaker uses the energy to nuclear reactors which can power small town if need be. there operate from a control center that is vital to maintain the ship safety. it's telling that the only books they keep on a shelf in the room are about radiation and how to detect it. as we walk around the shift, i see radiation science doesn't mean it could be exposed to radiation. you know, 1st of all, you're walking by rooms which have only limited access in case there is an area where the radiation exceeds the plate level. official alarm goes off, which notifies everyone then certain measures are taken up. should be told the reactors are, say, it is more likely you will be blown overboard by strong wind legal. there was a radiation on this ship rapidly. we have the correct coming up. next we

were lucky enough to cite our 1st arctic iceberg. it's and we're approaching the edge of the world. this is what it feels like. the ice breaker allowing for the ice. everything like that. it's a common misconception that the north pole is the cold spots on the, i don't know. let me say it again. we are on top of the well i got more with i came from tomorrow. here on are the same. going to series lined up for you and you'd like to, well, we're going to be in washington next to scottsdale. hughes and gas take on the day is big development software. i'll have your next update for monte and mos garcia. then

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