i me dares thing we dare to ask me. ah, in the story that shape the week, the us ended 20 year a military campaign in afghanistan, leaving the country in the hands of the same terrorist group. they vowed to the feet a generation ago. a parting american forces, rummage, capital international airport, and their final refuge, all the helicopters, and there are a lot of them that were abandoned. that was, have been various various electrical blocks, remove the

telephone on their supporters being celebrating the us withdrawal. busy with a groups wide flag flown across the country. jo biden's approval rating things to new lows. we look at how the us administration is trying to salvage its image after the disastrous. gonna some pull out another angle, 2 proceedings. the british foreign minister is grilled by empties over his handling of the gun crisis and why he was relaxing on the beach capital. when did you for the holiday beach? did you go in the whole isn't listed in what they are, what i make. what date would you define secretary state? i think you don't pass the transparency of course and what the holiday ah

with the tell stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. welcome to the weekly and archie, i'm you know, new this week saw the u. s. military conclude its longest ever war, leaving us gallus down to the fate of the same people washington had promised to overthrow 20 years ago. the remaining american troops left the country in the dead of night early on august 31st, which was the deadline day to welcome the withdrawal with celebrate re gunshots and fireworks right after the last us military aircraft took off from the cities a report which is now fully under taliban control, let's have a look at what the americans left behind, damaged cars, broken glass, barbed wire, and piles of rubbish. this is what the report looked like that day. the u. s. military disabled, whatever equipment they could before, leaving, which you can know, in fact see in one marines, video on thursday,

our senior correspondent rockdale the visited the capitals or hub these place looks very different to what we arrived to during the evacuation that cleaning the place up there's said enormous amount of work to do what with all the vehicles, all the amendment, all the ammunition that was left behind by us and allied forces as they retreated as above, while the rules of this tool as a person that is still being cleaned up. but as i said, there's a lot of work to do these evacuation that the pentagon cools the largest and most complex in history left a whole lot of trash behind trash wreckage and they, bree, the tyler button command that tells us they destroyed 95 percent of 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 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 use the, the dog crate. the cause such as the on lot we have the yes, many of the dogs lives behind by americans. but they were locked in crates, as we had be led to believe they what they were, let you at the dentist,

someone before the father, us troops had taken someone, had opened all the crates and left them with, with food, online animal activists. of mobilized in the thousands, their incense 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 teens are often called the in charge of those dogs and to dave, they came to the board and they are trying to collect the docks and they are trying to the facility for them and what they need to give them all we can say that this may be just what the taliban needs. a p r, stuck collect the dogs and the move with the activists 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 abandon during the evacuation. they used these vehicles to block off roads while the evacuation was on the way. this is passport control at kabul international airport. this is the state that it was left in after the evacuation was complete for some reason, other than destroying or the military vehicles and across 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'd gas d o r g couple. i've gotten this done over in the us, the bodies of soldiers killed in the capital or port bloss were transferred to dover force base, familiar scene in delaware, done the years. 13 service members were among 170 people killed in the suicide bombing. the old list of the soldiers was just 31 among those paying the respects of the u. s. president. well, joe biden is heading new, racing. those at home with only 43 percent of americans approving of his performance. according to a national poll, there his worst numbers since he started the job down 6 percent after the chaotic withdrawal from couple. so what a p r campaign, a low, the administration to win back the hearts and minds of voters. art economists,

simon writes, gives us history areas in the last us soldier to leave afghanistan, major general chris donahue of the 82nd soon to be played on the screen by bradley cooper or chris or jay to bring. the nice thing i know is, is definitely going to be a movie because now the robot to, for us got installing has been lost by the u. s. then it's buddies. the real battle begin the battle to make light. and i turn the u. s. actually one, well, maybe not one, 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 serendipity, his payoff to it, and heroic green. send it out into the well, the media will without question say stuff like in the last american photo to leave afghanistan and un note it to me that the last american troops left jeff ghana,

stan, i'm a, come on. you think this is really bizarre. us don't do enough guns. 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. says kate ought to be confused with k pop or special k. ordered as strikes for whenever they pop on what it might be hard to believe given their general accuracy for those and strikes, you still need special forces time on the ground, guiding them in just in case civilians can civilians were indeed hit on monday us drone strike reportedly killed. busy 10 members of one family, most of them children. the pendulum said that target was a bomb laden vehicle carrying several suicide bombers from ice as k, the local affiliate of israel mac states who are planning and checking cabal. it

happened 3 days after the devastating blast at the airport. the us military has confirmed on a carried out the strike saying it resulted in secondary explosions. central command said it's the word of report civilians were killed and is conducting an investigation. and all that, of course, adds to the vast death total over the course of a to decade long or that's come at a devastating cost. the the the taliban now has more black hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in

the world. canada and isis k still exist in our growing and afghan stand, and eventually they acquire these weapons. the majority of every member behind me is a veteran. we now have americans stuck in afghanistan. the taliban in charge with mo, more weaponry than they've ever had in the past. and a border that is open. the humanitarian catastrophe. loons. in afghanistan,

almost half the population need humanitarian assistance. one and 3. don't know where the next meal will come from. will the united kingdom, the 2nd largest military presence in afghanistan on the british, foreign secretary has been grilled. were some major missteps during the patrol? r t. chevy edwards dusty. how's the story pair in the house of rest? and it only feels like a matter of time until the foreign secretary will be given. the incompetence of the nature withdrawal is harmful amunition, the dominant cloth found himself 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 conspiracy vehicle nations. when did you will hold the will be, did you go and holiday interested in what they are? what they did you go? i made. what date would you want? holiday foreign secretary who stayed? i think the own personal transparencies reports of what the actual holiday and 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 stone was on the brink of collapse. piece talks a stall, and the u. s. nato withdrawal is resulting in rapid taliban advances. this could lead to fall of cities claps of security forces. telephone return to power must displacement and significant humanitarian need as a days and weeks go by the taliban takeover, the foreign secretary falls under more and more scrutiny even from colleagues in his own talking. many of whom have served in africa, nissan, and arguably never know more about the country than he does. women's. it'll tell him a foreign minister way to a 2nd. went to becca. i'm not sure i'd have to check if you would like to know. the busiest seems particularly ready because high commerce was recently started

arranging evacuation of german people through tashkent. and it seems to be a route the work screen. the effectively from germany told me to stop the us from a tree through from dawn, going a roll, declining phone calls from counterparts, and literally putting you had in the sound won't make the situation or 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 email, completing 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. if not a question, i got a 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 counterpart, lead and head to the region, but it's a bit late now, considering all western forces have left on neighboring countries, have closed that borders to not to mention the numbers of british national still stock. that how will they get out, or even will they know constant 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, 900 sounds that it could be 400. or it could be 10510115. i'm if i could give you any more precision because i would let me somewhere between 10500. so let me explain. 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 ally, of course,

so you can follow the us and assuming the asked on government could keep the taliban at bay. and didn't prepare for the west as every government should. but does this make rob a writer and does for 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 knowledge. and 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 a dominic rob, so behavioral thing is appalling. i'm just sure that she doesn't know what to be in the site. actually, i paid the batch, i mean to, to be a british, but someone gives you 4 days or 5 days to clear out the countries got much chances . and everyone else seems to be more more concerned with his own and depression that he is making on the world. well, there's not what, what's going on in the world around him?

well, from britain to germany, we're migrating crime is under of scrutiny made fears of a new influx of refugees from afghanistan in the latest case, an african man stop 2 people in berlin on saturday, leaving them with severe injuries. the motive is unclear, but police are looking into an islamist motivation. according to berlin police, they attacker entered germany as an asylum seeker in 2016. now the incident comes a week after german officials admitted to mistakenly evacuating 20 people from ghana, standing tooting, suspected terrorists on a convicted rapist among the genuine refugees. you're sure europe correspondent peter oliver and he was able to airlift around 4 and a half 1000 people out of the country before cobble international airport was closed. that going through the process of identifying exactly who has arrived here in the country right now. while they've been doing that, while they've uncovered that, amongst those people that came here on the evacuation flight to germany was one saw

out mohammed. and the reason he is being named like that is because he was very well known to german authorities. the reason he was very well known was because he previously being deported from germany that was off the in 2012. he was convicted of having raped his daughter over multiple years by a court in munich. now he was sentenced to 8 years in 3 months for the crime. he was then deported to afghanistan back in 2019. we have heard from the interior ministry previously saying that there was no way to carry out checks on the ground in cobble for exactly who was getting on german evacuation flights. some of them totally falsified their papers from a to said. there was an emergency and cocoa and such situations that always exploited by criminals. when you look at about 4 and a half 1000 people that have already been evacuated though, well,

when it comes to the people that angular merkle said would have priority. that people who work directly with german military, german diplomats such that the 200 of those were on those flights that have already left when you included in the family, members of those people. well, you still looking at less than one in 5 of the people that are already being brought to germany. having fits into that category that anglo miracle said were the priority mules long, and we will continue their vacation operation for as long as possible in order to make it possible for after school worked with us for security to freedom. the rule of law and development to leave the country, you're seeing germany having missed its target for people. it wanted to evacuate from afghanistan by 90 percent. and also having issues with those who have been able to come here on the evacuation flights that have already arrived

still to come on the weekly art team. so i filled spectacular voyage to the north hold on a russian nuclear icebreaker. more sites on the scenes from the head enrollment. ah, join me every thursday. alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests in the world . the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me. oh the i think was 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 curse over 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 relied indeed the the, the me ah alright, i promised it is time to go north way up north and look at some mesmerizing frozen landscapes and sunny arctic nights as our correspond got on board with some intrepid travellers to the top of the globe 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 it's 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 law, 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. in i use the 50 years of victory, both the gym, basketball court restaurant convention, whole flash disco bar. even a swimming pool filled with salt water. 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 minor of how rough it can get in the ocean. the room has what 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 the digital entertainment that you will get on board. but you can always gauge in the window enjoy using our quick 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 the rudder. as i understand through a move through all the more you can effectively cool the ship's wheel, the rudder. 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 course. and this is what happens on a lower deck. every time the captain adjusts the course, the helm sets these large pistons in motion, which turns the ship left. we're right there we were on the bridge interview and the captain and we were lucky enough to side our 1st arctic iceberg. shoot you this back to the day. icebergs aren't 100 percent. why 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 can't miss it when the ship hits the white thing data, icebreaker, ramsey, i what it actually rides upon it 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 yards and push dry and trying to decide is mesmerized. it's weirdly both calming and intimidating and 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 spots on the earth. it's completely poles. 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 it means the pole of coal does not coincide with an actual geographical one. on the 3rd day we saw our 1st polar bear was taken 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 for years for a tech and human and you see it live in the arctic is no picnic and feed is in short supply for these animals and a polar bear will go after anything that's moving. if it's there a 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 that's just once per year, which makes the time of day and irrelevant concept 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. mm hm. mm hm. okay, so from here, every direction you look at 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 getting the mind blowing. if you want to know what time it is, it's gonna work. it's basically whatever you want to try it out from the mainland to show you all of us try coming together and to top 4 at the bottom just like longitude as we determine time in the bladder. so at the north or south pole, it's all the time zones and none of them are the same. no time, no other people just the down las frozen desert. it was most real experience in my life. well, until this happened to women in the order on the north pole after all, and only had 2 people made in here. when on top of the world go it in the

the 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 different less weight. because if you're in one dimension with nick, you know, time one could look at how we lived on the right or wrong on deal with .