the join me every thursday and the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics, sport, business and show business. i'll see you then, me the, in the stories that shape the way the us ends. it's 20 year military campaign in afghanistan, leaving the country in the hands of the same terrorist group they followed to defeated generation ago. does a part of the american forces ravage capital international airport, their final refuge, all the helicopters and there are a lot of them that were abandoned the was have been various various electrical blocks removed. yeah.

but tell about their supporters have been celebrating the us withdrawal with the groups white flags flown across the country feel biden's approval rating thinks the new lows we look at how the u. s. administration is trying to salvage its image after the disastrous count on the british foreign secretary is grill by m p. 's over his humbling of the afghan crisis and why he was relaxing on the beach when capital when did you hold the, what did you call them holiday? didn't. what did they have to go? i made proof. what date would you holiday for them separately? i think your own personal transparencies reports and holiday ah,

with the tell stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. welcome to the weekend r t. i'm, you know, new. this week i saw the u. s. military conclude its longest temper war leaving afghan this down to the fates of the same people. washington had promised to over through 20 years ago. the remaining, the american troops left the country in the dead of night early on august 31st, which was deadline de campbell, welcome. the withdrawal with celebrate re gunshots and fireworks right after the last u. s. military aircraft took off from the cities report, which is not fully under till upon control. let's look at what the americans left behind damage cars, broken glass, barbed wire, and piles of rubbish. this seas was the airport looked like that day. the u. s. military disabled, whatever equipment they could before, leaving, which you can see. in fact, in one marines, video on thursday, our senior correspondent iraq gas dea visited the capitals or how up these

place looks very different to what we arrived to during the evacuation that cleaning the plagues. up there's set enormous amount of work to do what with all the vehicles, all the amendment tool, the i'm you, mission that was left behind by us and allied forces as they were treated 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 taliban command, that tells us they destroyed 95 percent of equipment, stuff, and systems. they destroyed everything and destroyed cars. airplanes, especially the military for us are destroyed 100 percent. we asked the she the

airport and once crammed into the back of a pickup truck, we got our wish. it was like a movie set, a disaster. 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 was, 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 the dog crate the cause such as the on luck. you have the get many of the dog lives behind by american boot. but they weren't locked in crates as we had be led to believe. they will let you at the dentist,

someone before the final us troops that take 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 left the dogs to get out from the specific places. but our teams and our officers called the in charge of the dogs. and to dave, they came to the port and they're 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 the lease may be just what the taliban needs. a p r. stuck collect the dogs, had the move to activist, and reap the humanitarian glory. tentatively. 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 capital international airport. this is the states that it was left in after the evacuation was complete for some reason, other than destroying while 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 vet big machines. why? that's boredom, pipes hate you don't then the 20 year war edge, even a humiliating evacuation without feeling a little bit. it's or i'd get

a couple of gotten this done. and over in the us, the bodies of soldiers killed in the car bull or a port plus where trans, where to deliver your force base in delaware, 13 service members were among $170.00 people killed in the suicide bombing. the oldest of the soldiers was just 31 among those paying the respects was the u. s. president. well, joe biden is hitting the new rating. lowes at home with only 43 percent of americans approving of his performance. according to the national poll there his worst numbers since he started the job, done 6 percent after the chaotic withdraw from car bull. so what a p r campaign, a low the administration to win back the hearts and minds of voters. our t column is simon, right? gets us his tick areas. then the last us soldier to leave afghanistan,

major general chris donahue, of the 2nd one seemed 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 for us got installing, has been lost by the u. s. then it's buddies, the real battle we're getting the battle to make it look like in a turn. the u. s. actually won. 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 there. and if the payoff do it in 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 on the lot. and you know, to me that the last american troops left jeff ghana, stan, i mean, come on, you think this is really the last us don't do enough?

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 his long voices . k ought to be confused with k pop or special k on our eagle the asteroids for whenever they pop up, where they might be hard to believe given their general accuracy for their joints, you still need special forces time on the ground, guiding them in just in case civilians and civilians were indeed hit on monday, the us drone strike reportedly killed 10 members of one family. most of them children. pentagon said that target was a bomb laden waco, carrying several of suicide bombers from isis k. the local affiliate of islamic state who are planning an attacking couple it up in 3 days after the devastating class at the airport. the us military has confirmed that

a carried out the strike saying it resulted in secondary explosions. central command said it's aware of report civilians were killed and is conducting an investigation and it's all of course to the vast debt total over the course of a to decade long war that's come. devastating cost. in the the taliban now has more black hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world. ah okada and isis k still

exist in our growing and gamma stand and eventually they acquire these weapons. oh, the majority of every member behind me is a veteran. we now have american 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 ah humanitarian catastrophe. loons in afghanistan on the top of the population, need few monetary assistance. one and 3 don't know where their next meal will come

from. the united kingdom, her the 2nd largest military present in afghanistan on the british. foreign secretary has been grilled over some major missteps during the withdrawal r t chevy at edwards dusty. have the story pair in the heart of rest, and it only feels like a matter of time until the foreign secretary will be given that the incompetence of the nature withdrawal is harmful amunition. but dominic love is found himself under fire for his disappearing acts of kabul south. he was on holiday. but what exactly did he go a detail. he dodged 11 times for the sake of transparency of your actions. when did you for holding? we'll be, did you go on holiday? interested in what they are? what they did. you go? i made. what date would you go? holiday foreign. sadly, who stayed? i think the own personal transparencies reports and what shouldn't hold them. so you can run, but you can't hide in this tell your parents who blame dorothy intelligence for the

speed at which the region was seized by the taliban. although a leak for an office risk assessment showed that the department, the one he himself was in charge of wound i saw was on the brink of collapse. peace talks, a stall, and the u. s. nato withdrawal is resulting and rapid taliban advances. this could lead to fall a city club of security forces. taliban return to power must displacement and significant humanitarian need as a days and weeks go by since the taliban takeover, the foreign secretary full of under more and more scrutiny, even from colleagues in his own party, many of whom have served enough counties on an all. kimberly never know more about the country than he does when there's a little time, 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 reading because high come us was recently it is based on ranging the evacuation of german people through tashkent and it seems to be

a rude the workspace effectively from germany. tell her to melissa could ever stop the us from a tracy from africa. he's don going, i won't declining phone calls from counterparts and literally putting you had in the sound won't make the situation. old problem disappear on the comments were let him forget that who is take response to the helpline and even if it's 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. just purely transparency. we got 3 types of cases. they melting away to get, frankly, and countries that didn't use 3 different question. i got a question on the surface. this looks like a friend you've planning on a on grunt scale. 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 us on neighboring countries of clothes that brought us to not to mention the numbers of british national. phil, how will they guess how or even will they not confident 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 under $3400.00? they will be in the low hundreds, $900.00 sounds that it could be $400.00. 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 same grilling dominant rob. talk into the age old mantra, the u. s. remains are closest ally of course, so you can follow the u. s. and assuming the african government could keep the taliban at bay and didn't prepare for the west as every government should. but does

this make robert writer and john forest johnson have a leg to stand on? when robs incompetence seems to encapsulate the government's loss of control. as a whole, public person doesn't have knowledge and who is supposed 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, rob, so behavioral things appointment. i'm just sure that she doesn't know what the site actually is, a paid, but i mean to, to be a british, but someone gives you 4 days or 5 days to clear out the countries go much chances. and everyone else seems to be more more concerned with his own in depression that he is making on the world. well, there's a lot more what's going on in the world around him still had an r t that terror behind bars. we bring us special investigation on the mounting

cases, a female prisoners who say they've been abused by trump gender inmates or story in depth after the break. the the ah, me driven by the dreamer shaped.

those in me dares thing. we dare to ask oh, let's start back with the story we are monitoring today. heavy gun fire has been reported in the capital of the west african nation of guinea. military vehicles are also patrolling the city street according to local media mutinous,

special forces. soldiers arrested. the country's president, along with a number of other top ranking officials, the crew leader, reportedly dissolved the government and closed old borders authority. so claim the presidential guard managed to fend off the attack. guinea, which has a long history of military coups, so violent on rest. following the presidential election last october with protest accusing alpha condie of usurping his office. after he changed the constitution lowing himself to run for a 3rd term. all right, we want to bring you an issue now r t feels needs more public awareness. how the prison system is being abused by some transgender convicts to allow them access to female inmates. a growing number of women say their lives have been turned into a living hell. in the extended report which runs off the bulletin. my colleague, sky taylor, spoke to a female convict from california about her traumatic experience.

oh, the with me. this time with focusing on the case of chemical johnson, the mother and former highway patrol officer is solving 15 years for killing her abusive husband. he was fatally shot while attacking her. the pair had struggled with the gun to meet, has been incarcerated in the central california women's facility since how conviction back in 2012. but for the last few months, she claims that she faced fresh abuse this time from her soulmate, a transgender woman. so tell me, the 1st thing i want to ask you is what contact you had with trans inmates and how that affected your time in prison? it had a very adverse effect on my entire well being. he was very violent. he was very vulgar. he was at times, not screaming at all times. well,

he will have a stroke of anger and he will start talking like a man. there will be crying particular transgender was so evil and meticulous of all the way that we would clean our was the way we would use the restroom. he was saying by the door to make sure that if you were doing number 2 actually cleaned up behind yourself appropriately. like you can see his feet from the bottom of the door just standing there waiting for you to finish the rest. or if you didn't do it being like you want to do as far as cleanliness, the way you want to do them been, he was great something to you. he was confront. she'll make you go back and clean the rest from the way he spoke. the reference point pricing was a forward we have for that sometimes leaking wax are for here. i would have to get all my, every ne, literally what a bottle of windex and kyle, in clean, the floor to me, you know, different stay. and when i was at home living in the recent transgender i had

a girlfriend, that was actually my phone to me. he would you don't miss her all. he would choker, he sure, is the locker bringing her up off of her off before her feet will be we need he will be nation already out against the lockers and it would be sometimes over. it will be, she didn't want to be romantic and he would get angry and then he would attack her . never recorded it. i never saw her go out to talk to the old one in our bill. and i said without wow, what was going on? oh absolutely. i was told later on via sovereignty that because of my former career, i was actually placing that sale. what that me on partly like it was a joke. i used to be a police officer. so there were a certain amount of b o n mattie to meet who had

a problem with the fact that i was once a police officer. so that's the reason why this game was played on me in the 1st place, also led down. so hopefully also traps we've contacted the central california women's facility about the allegations for commons. not like i said to mika is incarcerated in california. one of the most old g p t friendly states. at the start of this year, local authorities passed a controversial bill. but let's trans inmates request to transfer to facilities, but align with that gender identity. now since then around $300.00 such requests have been submitted. as of june, not one has been rejected. why do you think some government officials are pushing for this? i think it's politics for i think the l g b t community, although they're small in comparison to the rest of the community. they have

a lot of poor resources. they have a lot of money to have a lot of, or they have a lot of reach. they have a lot of political power. they may go to a lot of campaigns. a lot of it is off the stripping people who want to maintain certain offices and positions or have the operations to move up. they are pretty confused support because they need parents support. i think that there are some good people out there who want to see everybody become pace or be safe. and so they'll place at the heart strings of both people to say, hey, the people we could go to another institution because they're being with that both people don't have the full spectrum of the data. the fact that sold people could go to a different if she's there specifically for so that's california. but over in the u. k. similar concerns all being voice to a one form

a prison inmate who wish to remain anonymous. and that just she was sexually assaulted by a transgender cell mate who had previously been put behind paul's as a man to sex offences against women. been in prison with mail prisoners, he always feel an edge. you know, something could happen a tenant time. we know they are not women. they are physically threatening and aggressive. i was sexually assaulted and i am not the only woman who has been they haven't had surgery and they expose themselves. one of them had been told he couldn't shower at the same time as asked women. he made a formal complaint and said this was a breach of his human rights. so now he is allowed to shower with us and because he now has, that's right. the other males have the right to current u. k. law allows inmates to be housed in prisons which suit that declared gender regardless. so was a, they've had gender reassignment surgery. ah,

i readily accept the proposition this song and pops many women prisoners may stuff, a fear and acute anxiety if required to ship prison accommodation and facilitate with the transgender woman who has male genitalia. however, the subjective concerns of women prisoners are not the only concerns which the defendants had to consider in developing the policies. he also had to take into account the rights of transgender women in the prison system. by bringing this challenge, i did not stick to prevent trumps women in prison from living in dignity or to exclude old trans women from women's presence. however,

i feel that trumps women have a history of violence and sexual offending against women should not be in a situation where they can put our safety at risk. k. coleman from the keep prison, single sex campaign grew, believes the current regulations are making a mockery of the segregated prison system to our surprise and frankly, shock. the judges rule that this practice is lawful, and that extends to housing, male prisoners with fully functioning male genitalia. i find that quite shocking, and if it is lawful to hold males, convicted of right alongside women have been subjected in their lives to serious sexual assaults than the law needs to change. we have a law in the he k called the equality act and she's house and 10 basically it's out and he discrimination law. however, we have in that law,

single effects exceptions which provide the in certain situations where the biological sex really masses is when we will know when that masses, it is not discriminatory to make those single sex for females only on to exclude all males. and that includes mailed with the protected characteristics, gender reassignment, and those who have agenda recognition statistics. now it seems that this provision is simply not being used. we found in recent months that appears not to apply to women's prisons. it appears not to apply to female was in an h s. hospitals. it appears not to apply to changing rooms and girls toilets in schools. so when does it apply? i mean, this is an excellent question. when does it apply? and we're keeping a close eye on all the issues raised by this topic. and no doubt they'll be more to

come. me the why the make know, you know, borders and the blind number please. as emerge. we don't have authority. we don't actually the whole world needs to take action and be ready. not a joke. people are judge. 2 governors crisis we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel

very proud that we need together in psyche hattrick, drugs are essential for millions of patients or are they, they want that pill that they hope will take care of their problem thoroughly and rapidly in the short term. they really work. the problem is in a long term, they're mostly disastrous. suddenly stopping a drug can cause withdrawal symptoms more serious than the condition that was meant to treat instead of the beneficial effects of these different medicines. any up to something wonderful. very often they're harmful effects and up to something terrible can pills, so of all ills or are we trying to mitigate life itself? i just think i was.