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competence, short form. this is the 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 or something else. to be happening. the series of linked unconfirmed messages from u. s. military revealed the panic of the withdrawal from gun stand with troops unable to rescue fellow citizens, spoken to the full of special forces soldier who shared the encrypt attack. our biggest problem of getting people out actually is the us government is actually not the taliban. i know that sounds crazy, but the biggest problem is not valid. and the valley men actually it's in some cases of actually helped us in the u. k. angry parliamentarians, radiance, providence bars, johnson sansa various handling of the events that rattled and county stump
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destination fuel the long awaited frequently undermined no string to gas pipeline project will finally be completed in a matter of days to the last part of the pipe welded into place ah, good evening you watching off the international white house is acknowledged around the 100 americans still afghan stanos the week after the evacuation ended. and while the administration grapples with the full out a series of live messages of shed light on the military's failed efforts to get every us citizen out of the country and the american citizens. yes, all of them. we are asking abandoned american citizens as tex, which hadn't been verified, were disclosed by michael young or correspondent form of special forces soldier. he
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spoke to sharing details of his conversation with the high ranking us army officer . that colonel was not physically present, but he was in contact major general chris donahue who, who was the combatant commander on the ground. and so that colonel was physically there. in fact, he was very frustrated. and you can see from that tax there was more tax. those while he was really demonstrating a lot of frustration at one point you said 10, you ran the gate and other intended with the car and get in. i mean, he wanted to rescue those people and you know, he, i hope that his tags don't cause him any problems. he's the kind of general we need . no, he didn't want to follow those orders. he wanted to get them out. we had 3 jets on the ground that were private jets that were paid for by a friend of mine's team. his name is rick clay, and his team had paid for 3 jets. they were on the ground civilian jets waiting. and the us military was not letting even civilian americans with passports, american passports,
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our biggest problem on getting people out actually is the u. s. government. it's actually not the todd man. i know that sounds crazy, but the biggest problem is not valid in italy. man, i'm actually it's in some cases of actually helped us. you can't even make up the stuff. this is like something weird movies. so taliban is saying that us forces, happy to come and get them, or call us to let them through. nobody can make up the stuff. i don't care who's fault it is the department of state or the military. it's all of your fault. you didn't let them in period they were at the beginning. then of course, the next day we have a pentagon in the white house. they're going know, you know, all american citizens who wanted to get in could have gotten in. but they couldn't actually make it to the airport and were saying, excuse my language, i don't know if i can say this on russian tv. they definitely were at the gate period. little young also released conversations with contractors who were in cobble. one of them wrote $45.00 americans, including women and children, were unable to enter the airport. this was claim some were beaten and assaulted in
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the efforts to get in and added. he was asking senior officers for clarification on how they could be helped as they say, stay terrifying. wait. but his command is apparently refused to step in another contract to road us. generals knew that citizens were stuck outside the airport was still wouldn't grant access, even proposed paying other governments such as the k to help lift americans and confirm general mark millie, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, had made the call to not open the gate. can you confirm general milly was mentioned by name as the leader that is condemning them to death. yes, i can confirm that mentioned by name. the picture emerging from those conversations is in stark contrast, the narrative coming from the bio ministration. they continually stressed situation was under control and no american citizens would be left behind. what we're doing every single minute of every single hour of every single day is working to create safe passage for all civilians,
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including the afghans who work for us to the airport to get them on planes and get them out. i think they're responsible, say americans are stranded, they are not. we are committed to bringing americans who want to come home homes completed one of the biggest err list in history. extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of united states, military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. on the evacuation, michael young wrote a scathing latitude on the high command, highlighting some missteps. similarly, the fact to us nations were abandoned the gates one quote, 3 empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them with the pentagon for clarity, but they declined to comment your beliefs, the lack of transparencies made matters worse. that's what americans always say. we leave no one behind, right. and right now we've seen the military leave people behind the gate. but it's,
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it's a thin to say, well, i'm just going to live because it's humiliating. so we just have to leave behind and lie about it. no, we're going to try to get them out and we're getting a lot of them out right now. the military in the department of state are in our way, at this point. so in addition to leaving people behind, they are stopping us from getting them out. now, department state isn't our way. we want the military and the government to get out of our way. we don't need their help anymore. i mean, now that we're getting success as civilians, because you know, we can do it. we don't need them, we're faster or more efficient. and we don't have the bureaucracy and we're just smarter than they are. in the rush to leave of canister us for his plenty of loot. behind these pictures were taken mark horrible and rank as dead and an abandoned bass and cobble, as you see, there are military metals. backpacks saw true, also found american tools, knives, even electronics. we spoke to bruce marx, attorney form the pennsylvania state republican senator. he shared his thoughts on
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the us withdraw. i don't mean to be unnecessarily critical of president my but i thought it was a historic tobacco. the information that he provided at the beginning they'd kimball wasn't going to you know, fall and then it fell within a week or so. the apparent lack of preparation to have the americans ready to go and closing the military airport, which i still don't understand why you would close the military airport there until everybody was evacuated. no, i don't think it was an extraordinary success at all. and we of course lost, i think, at least 13 american soldiers who were killed us as part of this hurry up and get out process. so unfortunately, it wasn't a very high point in american history. i think it, at some point we realized that the mission in afghanistan was not going to be successful. and it wasn't worth american lives to stay there. but it didn't mean that we couldn't have an orderly plan to get the americans. and of course,
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the afghans have ghana stanza supported us. they always say the interpreters, but there are many more. these are people who put their lives at risk for america, and also, you know, for other countries that were there. so it shouldn't, it shouldn't, it should have been done much differently. and let's not forget, joe biden was vice president for 8 years when obama was the president and we lost a lot of lives during that time. president trump had a plan. and in the last, i think over a year, i think was a year and a half that week americans were in afghanistan, one president, trump was president, we didn't lose a single life. so i don't think he deserved particular credit for for the withdrawal. so now my anti war activist and executive director of will to beyond war must david swanson welcome david. the bong administration held the withdrawal of an extra ordinary success. how would you explain it to
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describe it? well, i wouldn't call it an extraordinary success. i would note the comments of that last gentleman that that lives were not being lost, the lives that matter of us lives during the last months of the trump administration. that's of course, largely because trump had promised to get out. and i haven't heard any complaints from any of these guests about biden's failure to meet trump's deadline. violence. failure to surrender, and negotiate and plan an orderly f accusation. months ago, you know, i haven't heard any objections to blowing up families with missiles during the evacuation process. what could be more damaging? what could be more endangering of those lives that matter? that us lives? closing a military airport, that's a 60 mile drive down the road is not as relevant as these people seem to think me.
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this is the ending of 20 years of atrocities and wise, and i'm glad everybody's all of a sudden upset about the atrocities and the horrors and the tragedies and the lies . but it's a tiny fraction of it. and i'm just stick up to my eyeballs with this idea that us lives matter. and maybe there's a 2nd class status or afghans who was just didn't who collaborated this is. this is the basis on which african refugees here in the united states in many cases are being given food and shelter because they help the war. and then 3rd class, no value whatsoever for anybody else. i mean, you have wars that have probably killed $7000000.00 people and $7000.00 us troops and 98 percent of the us media coverage is of those $7000.00 troops in each one is
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a horrific, unnecessary tragedy. but my god, where, where is the perspective here? us troops died in that terrorist attack at the airport. reportedly, african civilians died in the joint strike thoughts. this joe barton deserves some credit for actually just putting an end to all of this occupation this conflict. maybe it will save some lives in the long term. he did what previous presidents didn't do we put an end to this? well, no question. but not only were afghans 100 percent of the victims in that most recent drug strike. but they were also the majority of the victims in those terrorist attacks at the airport net. we hear almost entirely about the us victims because they matter more. absolutely in the war is not an act of violence or, or the commission of a crime. or, you know, no matter how badly it's done, no matter how many wives are wasted unnecessarily through the incompetence or
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cruelty or ignorance of indian war, it's ending a war. and here we are, after 20 years of killing millions of people, devastating a country it's, it's the infrastructure, it's natural and vironment of eroding the rule of law of reading terrorism across half the globe ending it is a good thing no matter how it's done. and so, credit to joe biden. not for all the lies. he said about it not for how he handled it, not for talking about moving on to new wars, not for increasing military spending while ending a war, but for ending the war. yes. give him credit and give donald trump credit for having signed the agreement that led to it. so you get credit for that. what about the fact that us citizens have been left behind your body? said that the would be no us citizens left hand enough kind of stuff, but i think not clearly isn't the case. my objection is to human beings left behind no matter what their nationality and many of these people that these commentators
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are interested in happened to actually have citizenship in both the united states and afghan stand, which must just you know, blow some socket in their brains because these are creatures who matter and don't matter simultaneously, but i'm for evacuating every single person who wants to be evacuated. i'm for letting every single person who wants to come to the united states come to the united states, and i'm for setting up the education centers around the united states where people from afghanistan, dan can teach people on the united states where afghanistan is on a map and what the us government has done to it for, upwards of 40 years. no point of going into afghanistan. it will, the premise was, it was the war on terra hoops to stop terrorists to protect united states from further attacks. do you think that having been controlled and an oppressed the 20 is that remember that the taliban maybe even some normal african civilians have
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just seen the family members killed. and now going to just say ok, we'll just leave it all behind is. there's no animosity here, we're not going to plan any kind of revenge. well, you know, people have shown extraordinary forgiveness and mental accomplishment, including people in, in the vietnam who have dropped demands for revenge. so who am i to say, what's impossible? but during the course of this war on terror, you have seen terrorism predictably increased. you've seen a terrorist organization expanded from a couple of caves in africa, and then 2 capitals across north africa and asia. so the notion that terrorism is going to come back now as if it went somewhere. you know, it just doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. we're dealing with
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a war that has expanded terrorism, not eliminated it. favor, appreciate your time. thanks resource. david swanson, my guest anti war activist, executive director of will beyond war. thank you. anger was bowling in the british parliament today, and peace returned from the summer break. armed with countless questions upon this divorce johnson over the handling of the afghanistan crisis correspondence in london isa ali has details. those half hazard, chaotic scenes of the western withdrawal from afghanistan continues to have political reverberations in all of the nato member states. and the united kingdom being a senior partner in our lives is know there for many taking a forest. johnson for his government perceived miss handling of the crisis, but barbara johnson strongly coming out fighting, defending the case record over the past few weeks, a month in evacuating people from afghanistan or just africans,
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but also people from other countries as well. but also defending the record of the nato alliance when it comes to the lack of any terror attacks that were planned from afghanistan over the past 20 years. one of the most spectacular operations in our country posts will military history. no terrorist attack against this country or any of our western allies, has been launched from afghanistan for 20 years. now, critics point to those comments and say that that's all well and good to there are no guarantees going forward as to whether or not any tara groups will be able to re gather enough kind of star or launch attacks from them. but as far as those critics can, the government is full and short of any type of planning for the post occupation phase in afghanistan and kiss solver is one of those critical voices pointing out that from the time the doha agreement was signed until the eventual withdrawal that
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was a whole 18 month, not there was simply no excuse for the type of chaotic scenes that we witnessed. the government doesn't have a plan to get everybody out. cobbler port remains close to international flights. safe passage has not been created to afghans, neighbors, and whatever the prime minister says today, there is no international agreement on the resettlement of african refugees. we have a prime minister incapable international leadership just when we needed it. yeah, i know, you know, against the backdrop, you've also been seeing reports that some africans were actually removed from the flights up couple airport where just hours earlier, bottom of that huge bottom and say can play some one labor m p 's saying that some amongst his constituents had family members who had not exact faith before them. the families of 2 of my constituents, including
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a 7 month old child, was forcibly removed from flight and thrown out of cobble into the street where the seat of the suicide bombing i was before. mister speaker, i absolutely feel yes, and i want to ask the prime minister, how on earth would this potentially fit decision allow perhaps even, even after i've lived these, my friends would minister toys left and all right. and how many objected from the airport into harm's way. and just now we'll be up to 3 to the families. but the goal month, how about any danger? we have no evidence of anybody being pulled off the flight, but i would ask him, obviously, and if the guy would ask him to, to raise it with the right the particular cases directly with,
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with my right honorable friends. so bars tonton, hugely proud of the case effort over the past weeks to evacuate many, but there are those who say that there are still those left behind who need help. by years of wrangling, lengthy delays to construction hollows, to view a sanctions the north stream to gasp, hotline projects almost complete final part of the pot, which will come rushing gas. all the way to germany's been welded into place tests will begin within days. b to oliver has the latest the final piece of the pipe work has be welded into place that pipe number 200858 quite the jake saw when you think about it that way also quite the cheek. so when you take into account the $11000000000.00 price tag for this pipeline, all it's left to do now is a final link cope between the end of the pipeline that originated in russia and is coming in towards germany from danish waters has to be finally linked up with the
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part of the pipeline, it's coming from the german shore. once that's done, estimate it takes around 3 months certificate ation for safety checks to be carried out, then gas should be able to be flowing through this pipeline by the end of this year . now it happened being easy. routing for nord stream to it was not liked at all by the donald trump administration in the united states. it's not really been light by the joe biden administration either. but trump put in place swinging sanctions against the project that cause delays and cost millions upon millions. well, money that was being essentially flitted away. joe biden removed the sanctions against the north stream to company in may of this year. that's really allowed things to move. pace towards the finish line where we're at, but it doesn't mean that the u. s. is happy with it. he said time and time again the u. s. president. that is that he doesn't like it. the secretary of state anthony blank and says he doesn't like it either. ukraine,
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also not happy. kiev is concerned that this could be used to couldn't ukraine, out of europe, gas transit infrastructure. what russia is said is they actually want to keep gas moving across ukraine and you know, stream to, because there's demand enough for both routes to continue being used as well as the route that goes across deliveries on poland as well to bring your rushing gas into europe, it does look like we all set to see this pipeline in process in full working order by the end of the year. it's a big job. 1230 kilometers worth of pipe that's been laid. it will provide 55000000000 cubic meters of russian gas to europe. that's roughly enough to power 26000000 european homes. there's a state of confusion in the u. k of the coven vaccine campaign for teenagers, and could see the vaccine minister himself. he gave different answers to the same
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question during interview about with the parents of teens need to give consent to the competence then that will goes in the favor. ready of what the teenager decides, can you show a parents that if there is a decision, it's about 12 to 15 year old it will require a parental consent. i can give i sure absolutely plans are currently being considered in the u. k. as to whether healthy 12 to 15 year olds should be job dom masser li, the country vaccine advisory board refused to back a mass rollout, sounding a low cobit health risk to that age group. but the chief medical officer says that this needs to be viewed from the wider impact it could have on preventing the spread earlier. a group of anti vaccine protest is attempted to store the headquarters of the medicines and health care products regulatory agency. and so the body green let the madana and fines as jobs for children age 12 to 7,
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st. louis for office range. a number of arrests were made demonstrators against me, the job on the 16th. okay, let's get reaction now from former with it in any pay bill as rich county jones, me on the line now. good evening to bill if the vaccine minister is getting confused himself on whether the, whether government stands here inspire much confidence for the public. i believe he's confused, i believe he's lying. am i believe that the government knows full well that the british public has any days insensible people would absolutely be horrified at young children being given a vaccine for an illness that doesn't kill young children who, you know, there's hardly any record of that happening. totally unnecessary overstepping them all once again and lying once again. it's not the 1st time there's been confusion
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over government policy. famously the need to face moscow or not. it's irregular across the world. if we look at how every country has dealt with dealing with cove, it doesn't seem to be much consistency. is it forgivable? that there were these inconsistencies and confusions? if it were a matter of incompetence, it would be not forgivable, because they're supposed to be governing the country, but it might be perhaps understandable. it's not a matter of incompetence. in my view, it's a matter of the states seizing powers that should belong to individuals and families in a concerted effort. let's be clear, vaccinations for kids does nothing to stop. the spread of coby people can catch cobra. them posted on the bus and i did. and the masks had been pretty time and time again. not to be the golden or silver bullet to stop people catching cove. it's what they are, a means of the state forcing it will on the people nodding all the people sensible
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people should be standing up. now saying enough's enough. what's the benefit of the government doing this? forcing it's will on people if it's not necessary. what is this you think there's some kind of conditioning of the people having that the, since the whole situation began with been condition to accept lock downs, we've been conditioned to accept that. if you wish to maintain personal freedom, you'll still have selfish. let's, let's remember, this is a country with a long history of company and hopefully we, we actually don't lecture confuse around the world, telling them that state is over better than that. they should have more personal freedom, and yet here in our own country, we don't support you because of business with as rules and regulations. now you're going to wear masks or times and i'm sure that's going to come back in october. there's more predictions. there's so many things that they're forcing on paypal to fit it through propaganda and fear. and it's tough for people to have a look at the reality of the situation and make their own decision not be forced to
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come to anything. what about those who say that, you know, teenagers, they don't get vaccinated, they're at risk of getting infected and then them giving the illness to someone else may, may be actually causing death by being spread as themselves. do have any credence to that argument. now, 1st and foremost, teenagers and young children do actually catch cove. it is probably the best way that they don't have immunity going forward, as has been proven as many studies. and the 2nd thing is, as i said earlier, there is no evidence money, even from the manufacturers of these jobs. the actually being just stop spreading, co it, because it doesn't, it doesn't know what no scientific evidence whatsoever that this is a getting government subterfuge. forcing people banding them to their will. if there was any scientific evidence to be said, even a single life, i be a 100 percent behind it. i actually think it's risky,
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more lives on the balance of risk with kids because the chance them don't come to. so slim, the chances are some kind of up to reaction from the job maybe making it just not worth doing. bill, appreciate your time. great. speak to thanks so much. bill etheridge, my guess, former west midlands emmy pay in the u. k. the special forces in the african nation of guinea claimed to have captured the president and dissolved the government. there was heavy gun for us on the presidential palace on sunday, with military vehicles patrolling streets. the defense minister claims to cure temperatures, defeated local media, se soldiers of arrested head of state, along with top ranking officials, stately palms condemned the case saying it may prevent guineas, international partners helping the country. the economic community of west africa states threatened sanctions unless constitutional orders restored while the african
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unions calling for president candidate immediate release condition as a border with molly in the north, in the saw health region which is considered on the poorest in the whole african continent. and the spot, the presence of foreign troops that terrorist violence continued to coast around for years with islamist militants flooding the territory. legal media on this line will believes that the u. s. has no right to pass judgment on getting now no one will be on this tale bond is our sensible partner. okay. if that's true, who is anybody to pass any judgment on? give me. what's the difference? mean? what? a different form of chaos. but it seems like we just keep repeating the same mistakes. so i hope this is just as a citizen, i hope that our involvement remains merely rhetorical. we give word of advice.
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we lend our assistance. do you think that right now? anybody is in the position to see, you know, what, see who would be best able to handle guinea best for each people know and dimension. i don't want to get conspiratorial, but i don't know the back story and who's who, who's paying? who and all of that. right now, we're looking at this horror story. this firestorm among other types of storms came when he saw you in 30 minutes. ah, the me that the civic leg around the world expedition 5000 miles round the clock and the
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dead. com. spanish and english as every country close by it like the crew, gavin's food and one or 2 to chat. those also let me know. i said it's got everybody locked down or almost no food and no. what about that? only give them up. sure. somebody stuck up especially if you're still in the cove it you're living like the theme of own but in the 21st century.
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