interest is in the law, the sovereignty of other countries. the exceptionalism that america uses in its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nature, what is founded, shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large companies would lose millions and millions more business and businesses. good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fascist. the very strong take 3 quiz by and paint over his questionable handling of the crisis. enough going to stand and why he was relaxing on the beach when comple fell to the taliban. when did you for the holiday will be did you go and holiday coating listed in what i made? what date did you go on the phone separately? i think the own personal transparencies reports and what the actual holiday

is being barely a date that the american troops have left. and the taliban has a huge control of capital airport. that is a mess. it is all but destroyed, including the civilian part of the airport. also this, we get exclusive access to control airport. now the grip of the time, the band off the us, the extraordinary success of this mission critical skill, re helpless courage is united states military and our diplomats. president boynton defends america's hasty withdrew from us, can stand him praises the missions standing resold. despite the chaos and the bloodshed scene during the final day. ah,

oh, good evening, just gone 10 o'clock here. moscow. you watching archie international. the british foreign secretary has been facing a grilling by foreign affairs. committee em pays. dominic rob and other senior ministers have been getting a lot of hate over the government handling of the afghanistan, polite, and this describes by the opposition is the biggest failure of foreign policy in a generation. it is important for us to move what you were doing and what you were doing from when did people were holding with you? i'm not looking to brush vicky over this. i just want to know when you went things . when did you, when the facts on the surface, this looks like a family of planning on, on grunz. when was the last time a foreign minister went to a 2nd stop? went to bed. i'm not sure i'd have to check if you would like to know the busiest, very have to come back to 3rd grade, but seems particularly ready because high come us with reason is better start

ranging the evacuation of german people through tashkent and it seems to be a route the work streaming effectively from germany and terms of your own leadership in your own actions pop until this point. did you ever any point consider offer to was i know i consider getting home with the job. it comes a day after a tv interview where he indicated that military intelligence failures led to the rapid fall of the country to the taliban in effect, claiming the ministry of defense reform ahead of the army. hit back at rob over suggestions that thousands of afghans eligible to come to the u. k were left behind and said the government had been forewarned about the situation. and numbers were a key question for the can we see? did the foreign secretary know how many u. k and 4 national long vulnerable people were still in afghanistan, which apparently he couldn't answer conference numbers remaining, but we think that they would be in the low hundreds. why 100, you mean $110.00 sort of area or do you mean to under $3400.00?

they will be low, hundreds 100 sounds that it could be $400.00 or it could be 10510115 . i'm. if i could give you any more precision, cuz i would let me somewhere between 10500. so let me explain one k nationals. so let me explain why it's difficult. there are also questions about rob's role in the evacuation. he gated a key telephone call to the afghan foreign minister to a junior minister to make a call, which ultimately didn't happen. rob is off how often he telephoned ministers in other countries to help assess what was needed during the withdrawal process. but the foreign secretary believe the efforts in the u. k. much those on the ground who is take responsible helpline and the email address in your department, not even being opened. so the, the issue as you have a search for the door is that you have a search of emails including late emails and requests like that. but let me just

explain the situation for you. just purely transparency. we got 3 types of cases. they melting away to get, frankly, and countries that didn't use 3 question question. you're going back to the question from that from when i was really been fine, but i would come to use one process, how career problems other examples they don't. people and other widely anticipated question was about robs holiday. the foreign secretary was on the island of creases . the afghan situation was unfolding and he returned on the evening after cobble fell to the taliban. rob said a modern foreign secretary was capable of working from abroad, that the committee repeatedly asked him to give them the dates on which he was away and he wouldn't for the sake of conspiracy of your actions. when did you go to the holiday? what did you go and holiday interested in? what did they, or what did you go? i made what date, the holiday foreign secretary who stayed? i think the own personal transparencies important. what dates you and holiday made . also clear,

i should have the statement. i put the date material times. why, why can you just on to this question? so as to the big questions, went asked dominant rob didn't believe that he should resign or has anything to apologize for though almost all, it's after almost 2 hours of questions, it remains a case of wait and see to discover if there will be any consequences for the current foreign secretary. okay, well let's bring in our henry bolton a former leader of the u. k. independence party to talk more about this. a good evening to henry g. think mr. rob would have to resign over this? good evening. no, i don't. i don't think his position is at all insecure and if anything is approach to this has been symptomatic of the approach of most of the british cabinet up across a whole range of policy areas and across all departments. i mean, it's come under a lot of criticism. no, hasn't. i mean, it's been

a case of passing the buck in terms of, you know, blaming a failure intelligence for, for not seeing the rise in the rapid advance of the taliban is being forced to defend the time that he was away on holiday while it was happening surely that puts an awful lot of pressure on him. many people at the moment are calling for his resignation, calling for his resignation. but we've got a prime minister in johnson who has a record of standing stone tree by his cabinet ministers when they're under pressure. pretty well enough in the home office, the interior ministry is under pressure in other areas with regard to immigration and areas in that area. it's a but she's, she's whether the storm because she has those schools, the prime minister, as does dominic, rob, i think the question here by nys is one of how the government works at the moment across the government. and in fact, you mentioned just now at all,

it was mentioned just now intelligence site is dominic rob, blaming military intelligence, the ministry of defense, but not knowing that this was going to happen. well, actually i was in afghanistan and see 1012013, and we were flagging it up then. the problem is, is how government works at the moment. and indeed, dominic rob's inability to answer the question is opposed to him by the foreign fast committee in the house. gorman's that is emblematic of it. of it. it is a problem of communication ministers are not really in control departments. and then on top of that briefs and then not really managing and leading things when there were some show he revelations today not least that it did appear that was a secret government document that released showing that on at the end of july i think mr. rob was wound the dangers of a possible taliban advance and yet you know, 2 weeks later he was on holiday. it seems amazing that that can be defended in any

way. oh well, you know, there we go down to the internal workings and for a long time of the farm and come with a commonwealth and development offices a scroll down. i agree, i think it is appalling. i, i do not believe that a foreign minister or a general or chief of police all the company would ever oh, should ever be away from the desk at a time of potential crisis. that is going to need a captain. steer the ship such a dominic, rob was away, but you know this and i'm not excusing it what, what i'm going to say now the problem in the foreign office has always been one of complacency. it's always been one of, well, it'll be all right on the day. and this also reluctance to get to involved the very keen on letting other nations, other governments take the lead rather than showing any initiative themselves. so the reason for lot is because on the foreign policy stage,

if you like the quarterback stage, it's a very embarrassing thing if you make a mistake or if you upset another country. so there is a lack of courage and political will both ministerial level senior and secretary of state and junior ministerial level and throughout the, the, the entire civil service of the foreign commonwealth and development office. it is a significant problem. and i rather hope this develops and i will certainly be campaigning for it. there is a very close scrutiny of how the foreign office actually works because it needs needs a kick. do you think it needs to be more transparent? i mean, it does, they were very sensitive things, but from what you're saying, you know, we're allowing another paper to tell us what happened, not necessarily the foreign secretary himself. i mean, just the question as to whether the foreign secretary himself knows which relates to what i've just been saying. i don't believe that in the field of national security defense,

foreign affairs should be too much transparency. it's very important, for example, in the diplomatic discussions and negotiations to, to be very tight lipped about what's actually being said and done. but, but i think in this particular case, dominant rob needs to be able to answer certain questions. and i, you know, there's a question as to when he was on leave, it's not particularly serious question in my mind. it should have been it. is that correct? when he went to lee, be sure to be know that is that, and if he was on leave, he should have got straight back the latest. but i think there's a there's a systemic problem. deep seated systemic problem in the, in all foreign ministry on a corn office. it came up the question, when was the last time a secretary of state visitors back stone? well, probably never. and i know for a fact having worked across central asia for some years on a diplomatic level, on the international level. i know for a fact that the british engagement across central asia has been incredibly poor.

and for example, a few years ago, the ambassador to london, the republic of kirk stone, was complaining to me that anytime he had something serious to discuss with corn office here in london, he was unable to speak to anybody but a junior desk officer. that is simply unacceptable. u. k, for an office, prioritize a certain things according to what's happening now, not according to what might happen over the horizon. and i, but i've long been an advocate inside the foreign office outside for change in that regard. turns us to. so just the foreign affairs select committee actually have any teeth then in regard. so you have the whole african crisis was handled not a great deal. it's got no real legal foreign in that sense, it's got the authority of the house of commons, the, the assembly behind it. so the report, but it will writes at the end of this inquiry that it's, that it's engaged in a line and will be read by diplomat by, by civil service,

by politicians. my mainly across the whole of the, the, you can assembly, the house comes in the house a lot and by the media. and of course, if it's a scathing report, then it's going to look bad for the dominant, rob and for the foreign office. and indeed, i hope it is a scathing report because it needs to be because there are significant flaws. and what happens if it's, if it papers over those then, then i'm afraid we're not going to see any improvement. okay, henry let, we'll leave that. but when you get to talk to you tonight, that was henry bolton, former leader of the u. k. independence party. thanks for coming up. you're welcome . i mean, wal, mr of himself is flatly denied a claim in the u. s. media that britain may have been indirectly responsible for letting a suicide bomber into couple airport last thursday. the blasted happen one of his entrances, whereas the guns were waiting in line to be processed to fly at at least 170 people were killed. append can document lead to political magazine to 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 u. k. foreign factory says that that allegation is just not true. while another government minister has a keys, the us have 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, old 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 anyway. we asked the former british counterterrorism intelligence of the child she bridge about how such an operation should be carried out. given the high risks involved 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 tower. and that's because if you do so, of course you just had an initiative to groups such as i say, so perhaps even the taliban themselves, you could simply manufacture bomb alerts like that and therefore thereby disrupt the operation i saw at the time, even before the capture place, 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 disclose the festival, there is 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 the there was information been given that he might, he will, she might be on their way off kind of stand is in the 2nd david post us reality with couple airport now devoid of western troops and under the full control of the

taliban, u. s. arm and vehicles helicopters and ammunition can be seen abandoned inside the terminals from cabala, senior correspondent, but against the i've sent this exclusive report. it has been barely a day that the american troops have left and the taliban has assumed control of capital airport. we have been able to walk around the various agnes the various sections of the airport and it is a mess. it is a mess. it is all but destroyed, including the civilian part of the airport. the taliban and the authorities are now clearing away. all the barbed wire will, the will, the tracks will be exploded munitions which we saw plenty of mortar rounds grenades, i munition. aside from that, we also saw the military vehicles, the helicopters, the jets left behind by the united states, one of the black hawk helicopters that were left behind. also the evacuation. the united states has said that one of the girls have been sabotaged. we can see

suddenly sign that the y, as for example, of, of being caught because there are various electric blocks that are missing and a lot of electronic equipment lying around near the, the hanger and obviously a sledge hammer with something of the sort to be taken to them, other than that, we also went to the civilian terminal and what we saw, all the computers have been destroyed. the cameras knocked out the, the lights, even the screens, the departures and arrivals. they what they were knocked down and destroyed, smashed the. the airport as i say, a brad we had for now is, is non functional would be impossible to get it functional for civilian floods. in the, in the immediate future, but as i say, the, the weapons that we saw, most of them,

the heavy weapons of the vehicles such as such as such as these behind us have been sabotaged, have been destroyed. here are the, the dog crate. the of course such such a stuff online about the abandoned dogs left behind by the united states military. well, the dogs. yeah. the dogs were left behind. they weren't all evacuated, but they weren't kept. they weren't in the crates when the time about arrived. they will let go by american troops. those that believe in last 2 food crates, what cuts open to allow them to eat the taliban. when they came in these, they saw these dogs running around all over the airport. they weren't aggressive, they were seemingly confused and different to the version that's being described in british, british press and specific that the taliban had said that these dogs the death,

know they tell us they're, they've caught some of them. they're going to catch the rest and put them back into military service it and i run a twist. u. s. military dogs now serving the taliban parts. and by meanwhile has given a glaring endorsement of america's longest fall. and even said that a, that the afghan mission was an extraordinary success, despite the chaos and bloodshed seen recent days, she may find some of the footage in the next report upset 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. 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. if there's american citizens left, we're going to stay to get them all out. now we believe that about 100 or 200 americans remain afghans, then, with some intention to leave. and for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. 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 it's 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 dentist and 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 creation 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, kaleb mop and r t new york. now, despite his claims to success, biden did blame his predecessor, donald trump. the abruptness of the us been true, although some of the president's remarks were pretty similar to statements made by trump. in the past is about ending an era of major military operations to re make other countries the ear of nation building will be brought to a very well i quite 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. it's a whiten, 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 back run, 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 desk 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 me mon enough. gonna stand southeast and city. of course the taliban held a mock funeral for the ice. did foreign forces draping face coffins with us, nato, british, and also french flags. russo bon is the defeated islamic republic of africa understand spanish not being replaced with the white flag of the taliban and islamic emerett.

i find you to sir array, look at life on board, a russian nuclear icebreaker. the ship is called 50 years victory and is one of the largest of its type. usually its main job is to guide tank is 3 rushes frozen northern seas. but in the off season, it also takes people on adventures to the top of the world. roving reporter 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 it was in his suitable environment. the harsh climate. so like a lot, we're going all the way to the nord ah, we're departing from the man's god. the whole board of worlds only nuclear ice

breakers played a lot of stuff around us. is the center top secret. technically i'm not even allowed to build here. i live, throw caution to the wind and check out why the giant behind me is an ice breaker called the fears, a 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 its downtime the ship carries tours 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 been placed on a 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 the deaf in dark habit. nothing fancy. a slide, it has everything we need. we found a couple of big bags in one and 2 drawers. there were minor of how rocket can get in the ocean. the room has what look, it even has a humidifier and it also has its he, me, 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 gauge in the window enjoy using our big news.

the icebreaker uses the energy of nuclear reactors which can power, small town if need be there operated from a control center that is vital to maintain the ship. safety is 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, your walking by rooms which have only limited access in case there is an area where the radiation exceeds the level of special alarm goes off, which notifies everyone then certain measures are taken up the truth 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. 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, while we put 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 stick flip just coming up to half past 10 in the evening here in moscow. good to have the company will have more stories for you in about half an hour. but if you

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