about that only, i'm not sure somebody either stuck up in the cove if you're living like the semen of own but in the 21st century, the 2 weeks, the top stories on all the us and it's 20 minutes. you can pay enough kind of gone leaving the country in the hands of the same terrorist where they found to defeat a generation ago. and i was just talking get the american forces roberts cobble international airport, final refuge, all the helicopters. and there are a lot of them that were abandoned. the wives have been caught various various electrical blocks removed. yeah. the,

the taliban and that supporters have been celebrating the us withdrawal with the white flags flown across the country. as terrified for approval rating things to new law, we look at how the u. s. administration is trying to salvage its image off to the disasters afghans from the last. the research for that through the world by m. p. 's over his handling of the price is knocked down. it's on, on why he was relaxing on of beach when cobbled. when did you for holding? we'll be get you gordon holiday. didn't. they are what they think you go. i made what date, holiday phone 2nd place. i think the own personal trans policies and ports would be just one holiday. i . you're joining us for the weekly here on the international all run through of the

biggest for the past 7 days. welcome to have you with us. while getting us started this week, of course will bring us military conclude it's longest of a war, leaving us kind of drawn to the fate of the same people washington had promised to overthrow 20 years ago. remaining american left the country in the dead of night early on the 31st of august, which was deadline day. couple welcome to withdraw with celebratory gunshots and fireworks right. talk to the last u. s. military aircraft took off from the cities output, which is now fully under taliban control. well, let's have a look at what americans left behind. damaged cause broken glass, barbed wire, and piles of rubbish. knots will be up or look like that day b, u. s. military disabled, whatever equipment they could before, leaving, which you can see now when one marines video back on thursday. i'll senior correspondent, more i gas. you've managed to get an inside and look at the capitals. these place

looks very different to what we arrived to during the evacuation that cleaning the place up. there's set enormous amount of work to do what with all the vehicles, all the armament tool, the i'm you mission that was left behind by us and allied forces that they were treated as above while there was of it this tool as a person that is still being cleaned up, but as i say, there's a lot of work to do these evacuation that the pentagon called the largest and most complex in history left a whole lot of trash behind trash wreckage. and they, bree the taliban command, that tells us they're destroyed, 95 percent of the equipment, stuff, and systems. they destroyed everything and destroyed cars. airplanes, especially the military or for us are destroyed 100 percent. we asked to see the airport and once crammed into the back of a pickup truck,

we got our wish. it was like a movie set, a disaster, the scene. our 1st stop was the helicopter graveyard, all the helicopters and there are a lot of them that were abandoned at capital airport. they have been sabotaged quite visibly. the wires have been cut various various electrical blocks removed and smashed, apparently with a sledge hammer. anything the taliban or even afghans could use the americans destroyed and what they couldn't bring themselves to destroy. they let loose. here are the, the dog crate. the cause such as the on lot have the yet many of the dogs lives behind by americans who were locked in crates as we had be led to believe they will let you at the dentist, someone before the final us troops had taken someone,

had opened all the crates and left them with, with food on line animal activists of mobilized in the thousands. there, in the sense that the american troops could have left behind these dogs right there next to the runway. at the mercy of the taliban, the americans live the dogs to get out from the specific places. but our teams on our office called the in charge of those dogs. and to dave, they came to the port and they're trying to collect the docks and they are trying to in the facility for them and what they need to give them all we can say that they are safe. these may be just what the taliban needs. a p r, stuck collect the dogs and the move with the activities and reap the humanitarian glory. alternatively, they may have enough on their plate. the other interesting thing about the airport is the, the hundreds of armored diplomatic vehicles that have been left here abandoned

during the evacuation. they used these vehicles to block off roads while the evacuation was on the way. this is passport control at capitol international airport. this is the states that it was left in after the evacuation was complete to some reason other than destroying or the military vehicles and aircraft that the united states left behind. they also destroyed much of the airport civilian infrastructure, computers, x rays, cameras, even arrival and departure screens. here they saying it was the americans who cut the power cables knocked over the monitors, smashed windows and kicked in doors, even new to the vending machines. why? perhaps boredom, bats hate. you don't end the 20 year war and leave in a humiliating evacuation without feeling a little bit of st. it's more, i guess

d a r g couple. i've gotten this done. well over in the u. s. c bought, he's old soldiers killed in a couple. apple blast was transferred to dover full space. so a teen saw the members were among a 170 people killed in the suicide bombing. the oldest of the soldiers was just 31 among those, paying that respect was the u. s. president. well, joe biden is hitting new lows at home. i would only 43 percent of americans approving of his performance. that's according to a national poll. it is, his was rating since he started the job down 6 percent off to the chaos to withdraw from cobble. so would a p. all campaign allow the administration to win back the hearts and minds of voters once you call him, the simon right gives us his take areas in the last us soldier to leave afghanistan, major general chris donahue of the 2nd and soon to be played on the screen by

bradley cooper or chris or j to thinking tonight, only thing i do know is, is definitely going to be a movie because now the robots of rocca installing has been lost by the us. been it's buddies, the real battle we're getting the battle to make it look like in a turn. the u. s. actually one, well, maybe not one, they're not miracle workers, but make it look, they didn't lose quite so badly. exhibit one is in fact, the aforementioned major general chris donahue. there is no way that this picture here was there. and if the payoff do it and heroic green, send it out into the well, the media will govern it without question. say stuff like in the last american soldier to leave afghanistan alone and un noted to neva the last american troops left ghana san. i mean, come on. you think this is really the last us don't do enough. gunner, we will not forgive. we will not forget we

will hunt you down to make you pay that angry old uncle joe biden. they're talking about this new all this long. his case ought to be confused with k pop or special k ordered as strikes whenever they pop on what it might be hard to believe given their general accuracy for they there strikes you still need special forces on the ground, guiding them in just in case civilians game and civilians. why indeed hit on monday us train stripe reports killed 10 members of one family. most of them children the pen to confess to talk it was a bum late and very carrying several suicide bombers from ices. k, the local affiliate of islamic state was planning an attack in cobble. this came just 3 days after that devastation blast the will. of course. well the us military has confirmed that a carried out the strike saying it resulted in secondary explosions. central command says it's a wow reports that civilians were killed and is conducting an investigation. that

incident as to the vast death toll over the course of a 20 year war that's come at a devastating cost. i . i o. the taliban now has more black hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world. i and i still exist in our growing gamma stand and eventually they acquire these weapons. ah,

the majority of every member behind the veteran, we now have american stuff going to get the taliban in charge with most more weaponry than they've ever had in the past. and a border that is open ah, a humanitarian catastrophe. loons in afghanistan on the off the population, me monetary and one and 3 don't know where the next meal will come from while the u . k. how the 2nd largest military presence in afghanistan and out the british foreign secretary is being grilled with a major missteps during the withdrawal ortiz shante and with dusty hans the story

pair in the heart of rest. and that it only feels like a matter of time until the foreign secretary will be given that the incompetence of the nature of the moral is munition. but dominic law fountain, self under fire for his disappearing cobble south. he was on holiday. but what exactly did he go a detail? he dodged 11 times for the seats of transparency vehicle. not she's. when did you get a hold of you will be did you go and holiday? didn't? what did they or what date did you go? i made what date would you want holiday for me? sadly, who stayed? i think your own personal transparencies reports and what date you on hold them. so you can run, but you can't hide in this touch. your parents who blame dorothy intelligence for the speed at which the region was seized by the taliban. although a leak foreign office risk assessment showed that the department, the one he himself was in charge of wound up got a song was on the brink of collapse. piece talks

a stall on the u. s. nato withdrawal is resulting in rapid taliban advances. that could lead to fall of cities claps of security forces. taliban returned to power, must displacement and significant humanitarian need as a days and weeks go by since the taliban takeover, the foreign secretary falls under more and more scrutiny even from colleagues in his own party. many of whom have served enough counties. don, an arguably never know more about the country than he does. when a foreign minister went to a 2nd stop. went to his beck, and i'm not sure i'd have to check if you would like to know. the busiest seems particularly random because high come us was recently started arranging the evacuation of german people through tashkent and it seems to be around the work screen effectively from germany. hello, melissa could average the us from a tracy from africa. don, regarding a role declining phone calls from counterparts and literally putting your head in

the sand, won't make the situation old problem disappear and the comments were, let him forget who is take response to the 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 written requests like that. but let me just explain the situation for you. just purely transparency. we got the 3 types of cases. they melting away and frankly, and countries that didn't use 3 different question. i got your question on the surface. this looks like a friend you've planning on on grunz. ok. so he has finally decided to follow his foreign counterparts lead and head to the region. but it's a bit late now considering all western forces have left us on neighboring countries have closed that borders to not to mention the numbers of british national still

stuck there. how will they get out, or even will they? new numbers remain, but we think that they would be in the low hundreds. why 100? you mean $110.00 sort of area or do you mean 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. and the same grilling dominant rob, talk to the age old man tries a us remains our closest allies, of course. so you can follow the us and assuming the asked on government could keep the taliban up bay and didn't prepare for the west as every government should. but does this make rob a writer and john forest johnson have a leg to stand on when rob incompetent seems to encapsulate the government's loss of control as a whole. public person doesn't have to acknowledge who is supposed to to protect

the nation. it doesn't make me feel that i can trust politician, my whole opinion of the government is not very high. and as the dominant grub. so behavioral things appointing. i'm just sure that he doesn't know what we are tight actually. i paid it on the batch. i mean to, to be on a british, but someone gives you 4 days or 5 days to clear out of a country's got much chances getting everyone to be more concerned with his own in depression that he is making on the world. well, that's not what, what's going on in the world around him. so i have a team settled in the 6 tags. he'll a voice to then move, the poll on a russian new life breaker will be bring. you got injury ah,

join me every 1st a on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me. oh the, i think what your mind indeed gets up again with a great decision over the last 30 years. it, it was the 1st decision which didn't follow the course of the events and history. what was an attempt to change the course? and the biggest task or the statement is to contradict history, is to change the historical part from the national foreign policy and actually july, the, the the,

the, the, the ah, welcome back and find me for the sales person. but you're woman's clothes on for some mesmerizing friends. landscapes and sunny arctic. nice because we're heading to the north pole. were on board a russian nuclear icebreaker of bound for the north thought. 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, the vessel is large and heavy. it takes 2 tug boats to pull it out from its moorings and we're sailing off into the arctic ocean. so for the next 10 days it's 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 also have icebreaker is, but only russia has empowered by atomic energy because of its size. i guess i keep losing sense of direction around here. so for instance, right now, i'm trying to find my cabin, but i have no idea where it is. i use the 50 years of victory, both the gym, basketball court restaurant convention, whole flash disco bar. given

a swimming pool filled with salty water, technically you can swim in the arctic ocean without leaving the icebreaker. deaf and dark habit. though nothing fancy. why it has everything we need. we've found a couple of big bags in one of the drawers. are myra, our rocket can get in the ocean. the room has, why look, it even has a humidifier. and it also has the tv but only 2 channels. one shows you the route and one gives you the view from the ship bow. so given the fact that there is no internet and mobile reception whatsoever, this is about all digital entertainment that you will get on board. but you can always gaze in the window enjoy using our big news. now it's time to meet the captain. a tall, handsome man who likes to smoke his bite on the bridge while steering the mighty

vessel forward. at the other 20 miles. it's a rudder, as i understand through a move through all the more you can effectively cool the ship's wheel, the rudder above and it has automatic steering, which holds the ship's course for the sum, of course. so this is something like an auto pilot, right? nice axiom of the bill that's quite an auto pilot. auto pilot is what keeps an aircraft in 3 dimensions. whereas on a ship, it's just to show up. and then if i turn the rudder or that was, it was just a new course. the vessel will turn and adjust to a new steady cause, and this is what happens on a lower deck every time the captain adjusts the course. the helm sets the large pistons in motion, which turns the ship left or right. the we were on the bridge interview and the captain and we were lucky enough to cite our 1st arctic iceberg. shoot you this back to the day. icebergs aren't 100 percent white. they have these beautiful took

washing. they also come in handy for local birds. after 2 days of sailing, we reach friends, joseph land, and uninhibited arctic archipelago which belongs to russia are now the most dangerous part of our journey begins. if something happens, it will take days for someone to come rescue us from now on. we can count only in ourselves and our captain the, well, this is what it feels like. the ice breakers allowing for the way of doing definitely can't admit when the ship hits the ice. you might think data, icebreaker, ramsey,

i what it actually rides upon at 1st and then crushes downward with all the might. and that's one. the propellers come into play. they help chop the into small pieces, painting the way forward, watching the ship break the arts and push dry and trying to decide is mesmerized. it's weirdly both calming and intimidating at the same parts of the ship start to cover with ice as we get closer to the north. however, the temperature isn't extreme just under 0 degrees celsius. unlike me, veteran polar explorer who we interviewed on the deck even refused to put his hat on the prison. it's a common misconception that the north pole is the coldest spot on the earth. it's completely false. the north pole is the middle of an ocean. the ocean does it kind of have storage as it allows temperature spike frequently at the north pole? it's warmer than let's say in tango or mac on or beforehand remains. the pole of cold does not coincide with an actual geographical walk. on the 3rd day we saw our

1st polar bear was taking a nap on an ice floor before we woke up the beer gave a grumpy look. walk away and try to fall asleep again. well, don't be full by his adorable look. these are deadly wild animals that aren't a tory for attacking human and you see it live in the arctic is no picnic can feed is in short supply for these animals and a polar bear will go after anything that's moving. if it's there time, even for you, what a lot of people the ship really missed is good asleep midnight. but look how bright it is. ah, it's really hard to adjust to the polar day. and a lot of passengers, including myself, are having a hard time falling asleep. you see the sun rises and says just once per year, which makes the time of day and irrelevant concert here. that goes to the time itself. by the way. we'll get to that. but the north pole, on the 5th day,

all eyes were on gps coordinates, as everyone's waiting to finally reached 90 degrees north. i was in the office from here, every direction you look is south. there is nobody above us. we are literally on top of the world. i don't know. let me say it again. we are on top of the, well we're against the mind blowing. if you want to know what time it is, it's gonna work. it's basically wherever you want to play. by the way, i tried all the way from the mainland to show you all of us try for coming together at the top or at the bottom just like her as longitude as we can determine time in the blood. at the north or south pole, all the time zones,

and none of them at the same time, no time, no other people just the down las frozen desert. it was most real experience in my life. well, until this happened in the order in north pole after all, and only had 2 people made in here. when on top of the world go it in ah leg each good. what's magical in this place to me personally, is that you exist within one dimension for the world around the human case. time with the rhythm of all the people who are close friends, relative to gasoline, different ball left in this way. you're in one dimension with

some alone time one could look at how we lived on the right or wrong deal with a constant rosco reporting for our teeth from the north pole. the ah, ah.

in the news, the war on drugs noted as a way to come back a great for what's the one it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of north dakota. and it got to be something that you could get elected. this time, the fight against drugs took a check, told us that andrew was competing short form. this is way too dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in a river like that. something else had to be happening.

the in the me a lot welcome to want to part for the most for leaving in history for people is a bit like swimming in water for fish. both species are too far side has to comprehend what's immediately in front of but recently the scale and the speed of transformations have intensified so much that it's impossible not to notice the change though the question of what to do about it still remains open. what the charge johnson donovan. i'm now joined by the board. the trough program director at

the vault di discussion club and also of the recently published book europe, russia, and deliver a wealth order. it's about a chef. it's great to talk to you. thank you very much. for your time, i'm sure you would agree with my opening statement that the world is changing fast . but you wrote recently that the consequences of such transformations will be very specific, very individual for each and every country. and that in itself presents one of the hardest problems in foreign affairs today. why is that? what we often do, even though the state of the relatively similar institutionalized public organisms are, each of them represents its own unique position in terms of the geo politics. historian, experience and economic, initial economic possibilities and these 3 factors there form how the stays develop and how.