something terrible can build so of all ills. or are we trying to mitigate life itself? i just think i was like i was just scared, scared, little girl of 24. and like me didn't have to be so complicated. ah, in the story that shape the week, the us and 20 yeah. ministry campaign and i've got his son leaving the country in the hands of the same terrorist group. they to defeat a generation a guy and as a passing ad retreated, american forces destroyed key equipment. all the helicopters and there are a lot of them that were abandoned. that was have been cut various various electrical blocks removed. yeah.

using a returned to the taliban on it. supportive celebrate. b u. s. and drove would be groups one slides flown across the country. as jo biden's approval rating things to new lows, lucas b u. s. administration is trying to salvage its image of the dissolves, tried to pull out the british for his tech portrays grilled by and have his handling over. i've been twice this and why he was relaxing on a beach when cobble fell. when did you, what did you go to holiday? didn't. what did you go? i made it to date, holiday foreign secretary said, i think your own personal transparency is important. i you're watching the weekly international. thank you very much for joining us

this week. so will be u. s. military conclude 8, sam. it's the longest ever war leaving. i've got to sound to the fate of the same tara group, washington, or through 20 years ago. the remaining american troops led the country in the dead of night on august 21st the 1st which was the deadline day. the taliban, welcome to withdraw with celebrated gunshots and fireworks wind after the last us military aircraft to come from campbell airport. before they left, soldiers disabled was have a equipment they could, which you can see now in one marine video on thursday, seas murat gallons they went to see for himself what was left behind in the rush to get out. these place looks very different till what we arrive to during the evacuation that cleaning the plagues 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 there was 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 de brie. 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 or 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 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 gold crate. the cause such as the on lot, we have yet many of the dogs lives behind by americans. but they weren't locked in crates as we had be led to believe me, but they were let go. at the dentist, someone before the father, 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 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 to dogs to get out from the specific places. but our teens are officially called the in charge of those dogs. and to dave, they came to the port 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, had 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 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 states that it was left in after the evacuation was complete for 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, pipes hate. you do then the 20 year war and leave in a humiliating evacuation without feeling a little bit of life more i'd gas d a r g a couple of gotten this done over in the us. the bodies of soldiers killed the written to tag on cavil airport. return to the air force base setting service

members were among a $170.00 people killed and the suicide bombing, the oldest of the soldiers was just says one among those paying their respects towards the us president. they calle sixteens and gonna stop, have have joe biden. hard in the ratings with only 43 percent of, of, of americans approving of this performance according to a new poll. those are his worst numbers since he started the job down 6 percent off so they came to withdraw from cobble. so with a p r campaign allowed that ministration to win the hearts and minds of voters we've been finding out areas in the law us soldier to leave afghan is don major general. chris donahue, of the 2nd one seemed to be played on the screen by bradley cooper or chris or jay to thinking, you know, i don't think i know is, is definitely going to be a movie because now the battle for i got installing has been lost by the u. s. than

it's buddies. the real battle begin the battle to make it look like night. turn the u. s. actually one. well, maybe not one, not miracle workers, but make it look. they didn't lose clients i 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 globally and without question, say stuff like this, the last american soldier to leave afghanistan, you noted to me that the last american troops left can a stand. 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. more special on our ego ordered asteroids for

whenever they put on what it might be hard to believe given their general accuracy for their joints. you still need special forces on the ground, guiding them in just in case civilians game and civilians were indeed have on monday us trans trying reportedly co 10 members, one family, most of them children. the pentagon said the target was a vehicle carrying several so assigned formats from ices, k, a local plaintiff group of islamic state who are planning at a talk in cobble. the us military has confirmed it carried down the tri, saying it resulted in secondary explosions. central command said it was aware of the reports of civilian casualties and had launch an investigation. and it all adds to the boston death tow over the course of a to decade, long war that's come at a devastating cost. in the

news, the television now has more black hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world. ah, 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 american duck in afghan. it's been 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 half the population need few monetary and systems one and 3 don't know where their next meal will come from. the u. k. have the 2nd largest military presence and i've got to stand on the british. foreign secretary have been grilled over some major missteps during the withdraw shows. it was shar ashley has a story pair in the heart 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 ammunition. the dominic law office 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 conspiring, she's not she's, when did you wanna hold? you won't be, did you go on holiday? interested in what you did. what did you go? i made. what date would you hold the foreign secretary of state? i think your own personal transparencies important, what date and holiday and so you can run, but you can't hide in touch your parents who blame dorothy intelligence for the speed at which the region was seized by the taliban. although a leaks foreign office risk assessment showed that the department, the one he himself was in charge of wound up stall 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 returned to power must

displacement and significant humanitarian need as a days and weeks go by since the taliban take over, the foreign secretary falls under more and more scrutiny even from colleagues in his own party. many of whom have served in africa, nissan, and arguably never know more about the country than he does. women also in a foreign minister, went to a 2nd stop, went to pose 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 told her i could average the us from a tracy from african. it's dawn. but going a won't declining phone calls from counterparts and literally putting your head in the sound won't make the situation or problem disappear on the comments. we're let him forget that we take responses, the help line 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 together, frankly, and countries that didn't use 3 different question. i've actually 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 counterparts 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 borders to not to mention the numbers of british national. phil, how will they guess how or even will they are no 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. 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 african 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. 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 grub. so

behavioral things appointing. i'm just sure that she doesn't know what to be in this site. 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 a country's got much chances. and everyone else seems to be more more concerned with his own image, depression that he is making on the world. well, that's not what, what's going on in the world around people to come on. the weekly our team assess out on a spectacular point to the north pole, a border russian nuclear breaker, more signs and seems ahead. the break the so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have is crazy. plantation

let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful at the very critical time. time to sit down and talk with me ah ah, i use

the this is the weekly on our team to national welcome back. have a gunfire has been reported in the capital of the west african nation of guinea. military vehicles are also patrolling the city streets according to local media need can a special for the soldiers arrest of the countries president along with a number of other top ranking officials. the coolie that has reportedly does all the government and closed on board as a source hayes the claim, the presidential guard managed to find off to find all that hug guinea, which has a long history of military coups, so violent and rest following the presidential election last october with for

tess's accusing alpha counter, a visa thing, his office after he changed the constitution allowing himself to run for a 3rd time. now it's time to head to one of the most in can in has peaceable places on the planet, the frozen north where our correspondent joins some intrepid travellers were on board, a russian nuclear icebreaker bound for the north hall. the icebreakers, main job is to guide tankers through russia's frozen northern seas, but in the summer, when its downtime the ship carries tories 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 lot which is even bigger and more powerful. other countries also have icebreaker is, but only russia hasn't powered 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, given a swimming pool filled with salty water. technically, you can swim in the arctic ocean without leaving the icebreaker. let the depth and

dark habit, nothing fancy. why it has everything we need. we found a couple of big bags in one of the drawers. now reminder of how rocket can get in the ocean. the room has why look, it even has a humidifier and it also has a tv, but only 2 channels. one shows you the route and 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 down to meet the captain. a tall, handsome man who likes to smoke is pipe 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 alamos, and you can effectively cool the ships, we'll the rudder and it has automatic steering, which holds the ship's course 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 the shelf. if i turn the rudder or that was, it was just a new course. investor 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 these large pistons in motion, which turns the ship left. we're right. we were on the bridge interviewing 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 white. they have these beautiful to a 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 in our captain the well, this is what it feels like. the ice great. allowing for the trembling of doing can't mistake when the ship, the ice. you might think that an icebreaker, ramsey, i but it actually ride the pot at 1st and then crushes downward with all the might

. and that's one. the propellers come into play. they help the chopped the into small pieces, paving the way forward watching the ship, break the ards, and push drawing, trying to decide as mesmerized it's, we're really 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 spikes frequently at the north pole. it's warmer than let's say in tango or mac on or who ends 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 for years for a tech and a 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 in their time. even for you what a lot of people the ship really missed is good asleep, it's midnight. but look how bright it is. it's really hard to adjust to the polar day and a lot of passengers, including myself, are having a hard time falling asleep. to see the sun rises and that's just once per year, which makes 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 reach 90 degrees north. around noon

in this is 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. if you want to know what time it is, it's basically whatever you want. and by the way, all the way from the mainland to show you all of the strong arming together at the top or at the bottom just like chris longitude we determined time in the blood. so at the north or south pole this all the time zones and none of them the same time, no time, no other people just the down list frozen desert. it was most real experience in my

life. well, until this happened in the water in the north full after all, and only had 2 people made it here on top of the world. so i'm going in the the job with the leg. each magical in this place to me personally, is that you exist within one dimension for the world around the time, with the rhythm of all the people who are close ones friends relative to scaffolding different well, unless in this place, if you're in one dimension with nick you don't have time

one could look at how we live on the right or wrong, please. ah, raska reporting for our teeth from the north pole. ah, ah, ah, the join me every thursday on the alex simon show. when i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics,

small business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me the november the 3rd 1945, just a month after the war ended. ah, the u. s. joint chiefs of staff receive report number 3 to 9 me select 20 targets to attack in the soviet union with nuclear bombs. the time was right. as the u. s. s. was devastated by the states last about 400000 people. had the brits last less than the americans bid, and the soviet suffered 27000000, dest me

27000000. there's an incredible number. i john kennedy, american university commerce, and address 963. he said that was the soviet suffered of world war 2 was the equivalent of the entire united states, eastern chicago having been destroyed, ah, initially the plan to attack the u. s. s. was code named trojan. over time it evolved into pincher bush lanka, crankshaft, half moon, cog wheel off tackle and sharia. the december 19th, 1949, saw the adoption of the best known plan to wipe out the soviets ah, operation dropshot. date of attack. january the 1st 1957 ah the plan outlines they come.