the who's who's been the, except any responsibility, any personal responsibility for the message be left up. we have a prime minister in capable international leadership just when we needed it. british lawmakers around on the prime minister over the disastrous withdrawal from us. dennis done with m. p 's funding bar is johnson incapable of international leadership. also coming up in the program, the baby se apologizes for a documentary on the ledge chemical at tech in syria, back in 2018, which made false claims about a former inspector to challenge the western normative,

blaming the syrian government. also the whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. r t reports for more games incur against russia teams up with its central asian allies to counter any potential threats stemming from the payoff enough ah, global world news life from moscow studios. this is art teacher national. my name's unit o'neill, pleasure of your company. the u. k. parliament saw some angry exchanges on monday as m. p 's return from their summer recess. as in the u. s, the opposition has been roundly condemning the leadership over the last minutes evacuation from afghanistan. there were some tough questions for the british prime minister families of 2 of my constituents, including

a 7 month old child, was forcibly removed from flight and thrown out of cobble into the streets where the seat of the suicide bombing. i was before. mister speaker, i'm absolutely furious and i want to ask the prime minister, how on earth would this potentially fit decision allow perhaps even, even after i lived these, my friends were minister left under life and how many objected from the airport into harm's way. and just now will be up to 3 to the families, but the boom and about port, any danger? we have no evidence of anybody being pools of flights, but i would ask him obviously, and if the guy would ask him to to raise it with the raise the particular cases directly with with my right, honorable friends of ours,

johnson went on to defend the afghan polite as a success, but that only riled up the opposition parties with some branding him, quote, incapable of international leadership. i think they serve the crystallize, and this is not so much a defeat is a capitulation. those appointments to accept any responsibility, any personal responsibility for the message be left an upcoming time we have before us the prime minister desperately trying to cover for a foreign secretary who should have been 5 weeks ago. he has consistently failed to take the measures required to make that a reality for veterans and communities like mine, a national disgrace. as far as those critics are concerned, the u. k. governments fallen short of any type of planning for the post occupation phase in afghanistan and the government doesn't have a plan to get everybody out. cobbler pool remains close to international flights.

safe passage has not been created to africans, 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 of international leadership just when we needed it. yeah, i know it's on johnson strongly coming out, fighting, defending the case record over the past few weeks, a month in evacuating people from afghanistan are just africans, 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 our son over the past 20 years, one of the most spectacular operations in our country post will military history. no terrorist attack against this country, or any of our western allies, hoping loans from afghanistan for 20 years. so bars, johnson,

hugely proud of the u. k. f. a over the past weeks evacuated many, but there are those who say that there are still those left behind who need help. well, let's welcome onto the program. now jonathan steele, international 1st commentator and author of the book, ghosts of i've got to stand the haunted bottle grind. good to have you. here. as we just heard, jonathan, burris johnson called the afghan evacuation, one of the most spectacular operations in our countries post war and military history and quote, what's your response to that? well, if you look at just microscopically, then he's correct because there hasn't been another alice like this before. it wasn't necessary before. and the large number of people 15000 were taken out by the r f. that is a huge number. so that's impressive, but the point is much broader than that. you can't just the content and not microscopically why wasn't planning. why wasn't just people who are eligible to

come up to be given up much earlier by when people are invited to come to the british embassy and get that paper sorted. so they could go immediately to the point without having to have all the problems that they had. there was since february 2020, when dot in terms of ministration signed to, to telephone and care. a lot of people would want to leave it on took over this should have been foreseen much, much earlier going to was can i put it to you? that's right. there's a lot of anger against bar as johnson. but what about britain's entire 20 year rule enough chemist on standing as we do now? was there any justification for joining the american invasion? well, the invasion itself has misconceived because the people who did the 911 attacks were not africans, there was scientists. they didn't train enough kind of stuff, they trained in germany and in the united states to be pilots and so on. so that kinda stuff was not replace where the kind of an attacks were launched from what

was changing so that, that was misconceived. and if you were to try and take a sound, been large and i was the americans wanted to do george w bush. taliban had no control of him after mind enough. and they weren't privy to the strategy or the tactics service on the been not him. they was surprised as anybody else when the world trade center in new york was attacked. and as soon as that happened to us on bill not and of course left come to where he had been living and moved to the tora bora. busy busy mountains where he couldn't take him. and so the bush is, he did tell by the rest, some belong in hand to be treated as harboring. terrorists was completely unrealistic. if military action was to be taken, it should have been focused entirely on tolerable mountains. there's no need to topple the government in it. come to cobble and get rid of the taliban. this is regime change. completely unnecessary. can i just touch on another aspect of this,

most of the media coverage has been about the botched withdrawal. but what about the media is own role in promoting the war in the 1st place? almost all major tv networks. newspapers in the u. s, for instance, were in favor of validation. well, they wanted revenge and they wanted some kind of response to the 911 attacks, which of course were tertiary, almost a 1000 people, williamson people were killed. but as i said, just it was misconceived. go up to the telephone, go after al qaeda by all means they were responsible, but not off to the taliban who had nothing to do with it. jonathan, thank you all is for your thoughts. joining us live in the program, jonathan steele international 1st commentator, will the u. s. president joe biden is also facing a barrage of criticism over the pianist on tobacco around a 100 americans are still stranded there, but with the telephone and full control,

washington now has little room for maneuver. we do not have personnel on the grounds. we do not have an assets in the country. we do not control the space where the over afghanistan are elsewhere in the region. given these constraints, we also do not have a reliable means to confirm the basic details of charter flights and creating who may be organizing them the number of us citizens and other priority groups on board . but earlier i discussed the chaos of the last few weeks with former pennsylvania republican state senator bruce marx, the bible ministration, as you well know, as hailed the withdrawal quotes, an extraordinary success is something we keep hearing repeatedly considering the chaos playing on screenings in the past. number of weeks, is that how you see it? no, it's not how i see it at all. be necessarily critical present value, but i thought it was a historic tobacco. the information that he provided at the beginning,

the couple wasn't going to, you know, fall and then it fell within a week or so apparent lack of preparation to have the americans ready to go 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 extraordinary success at all. and we of course lost, i think at least 13 american soldiers who were killed as part of this hurry up and get out process. so unfortunately, it wasn't a very high point in american history. what would you say to some of the present supporters to say that he achieved what 3 other presidents didn't and actually ended us involvement. 3rd, does he deserve praise for that? i think 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 could do. you have an orderly plan to get the americans. and of course,

the afghans have dentist answers 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 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 biting was vice president for 8 years. and when obama was the president and we lost a lot of lives during that time, president trump had a plan. in the last, i think over a year, i think was a year and a half the week americans were understand when president accomplished president would lose a single life. so i don't think he deserve particular credit for for the withdrawal. i do think it's going to be hard. we have a lot of americans who served bravely enough, ghana, stan, and i think that they are very upset about how this ended. and i have to say, you know, they, when you give the analogy to the vietnam war, you know,

we have the famous photos of the helicopter leaving, you know, the, the roof of the embassy in saigon and joe biden said that wasn't going to happen if we had a helicopter leaving the embassy in couple like the next day. so yeah, americans don't like to, to, to be involved in lose american lives and then have it turn out not to be a very positive outcome. had happened vietnam. and it happened unfortunately here and off canister. do you think that other administrations bear responsibility for the crisis that unfolded in the scanner on your george w bush beginning the whereas as you say that what were the war in terror? and then you had perhaps donald trump reaching withdrawal agreement with the taliban. that didn't very much free. i think the questions, yes and no, but obviously you have the george bush administration, in spite and ministration and trump to maintain the american presence there. we just made a miscalculation at the beginning that we were going to be able to change and how i how afghan, a span operated. i think the president bush,

when he went in there and we went after okay to after 911. i don't think there's much doubt that that was the right thing to do. we had to take out ok to and we did . but as it turns out, i don't think we made a very good decision because we are optimistic that we could change how the country was operated. not just frankly, turned out to be dead wrong. i think that taking out of al qaeda was important and that was the right thing to do. records back, we spent a lot of american lives in american money on something that turned out to be completely unsuccessful. and if you're asking me sometimes do something, it doesn't work out and they say, well would you do it again and you say, yeah, because i would because maybe i would do it better. again, i wouldn't do this again. what we should have done was taken out, al qaeda is unfortunate is, is, it is we should have left because at some point, so you simply have to allow other countries to govern themselves. and if, and as long as they're not exporting terrorism, you can't, you can't permit that. but if, if there is none, the less that,

that's how the people in those countries want the want to live. unfortunately, it's not worth american or russian lives for that matter. tech to, to interfere the bruce marx, there will a gun for you just heard. here it was a protest against interference from another direction. crowds gathered in kimball, just a few hours ago to pakistan, ledger room and helping the telephone militants broke up, not gathering which shots fired into the or no casualties. with silicon this hour, we'll be reporting from military drills in central asia where russia of its allies are preparing for any potential spillover from us together. the b, b. c. as apologize for a documentary on an allege chemical at tech in syria, in 2018, admitting it contained serious inaccuracies. it comes 10 months after the report

was earned on radio for a key implication by the british broadcaster was not a former inspector, whose views contrasted starkly with the western normative blaming. the syrian government was motivated by a pay off from wiki leaks. the whistle blowing website was in fact offering a cash incentive for information on do not the time, but said no such reward was ever paid. the editor in chief of wiki lakes. welcome the apology from the bbc, adding that he hopes other media outlets will follow suit. shutting edwards dusty has more in the case unraveling. what really happened? takes us to the heart of the global race and to control the narrative of the war. this is the opening of a, b, b, c radio for documentary. and as we know, the bbc predicates itself on anything box, fake news, this holes you can rely on the go to the top from the truth and the broadcast the valve to leave no stone left on turn over the ledge. 2018 chemical talk in syria.

but i run it clean now 10 months off to the publishing of this so called truce the b b. c. admit, so that contains some serious inaccuracies. the see you found that although they were limited to one aspect of an investigation into a complex and hotly contested subject, these points represented a failure to meet the standard of accuracy appropriate to a program of this kind. and this program as so called account of a former inspector from the organization for the per bishan of chemical weapons under the name alex was included. only it suggests that alex is disclosures have been motivated by reward of a $100000.00 offered by wikileaks. now, just to be clear, no such reward was ever paid according to ricki lake itself. but why does the baby see? remember this, this serious is the result of sorrow journalism and meets to be b, c's editorial standards. a number of your points are based on inaccurate interpretations of the contents of the series,

and we would suggest listening again for clarification. as appropriate. we approached individuals where allegations were raised, invite exam, as well as others to respond to what is reported in the program. was sent by the investigation and now we're journalism. yes, it was a b, c. talking about the same documentary off the journalists are and must a sensible casa. his question about how the documentary series failed to mention reports, i found a, b, b, c, john, this rhymes lassie that the attack may have been staged, and how it was down damming by former p. c, w inspector, jose bas donny, as merely having an axe to grind with the americans. however, they will either rebuff or down played back then that he was, he now admits it insinuated that alex was off to the cash bounty. but that's all the documentary fabricated, or at least seriously exaggerated. it also claim that pizza hitchens the agenda to fall the complaints against the documentary in the very 1st place,

shall the russian and syrian state views on the complex that these attacks were indeed staged. and yes, the claims have been withdrawn by the b b. c. but aligning hitchens with the russian, syrian official view leads to worry and questions about anyone stepping out of line automatically being pitted as spinning. and i'm to watch the narrative. as to alex is dealings with journalists, although he has collaborated with journalists who held broadly the same views on the war as the russian and 3 governments. he had also collaborated with journalists of whom that could not be said, mister hitchens, among them. if they say, suppose that the bank can tackle narratives rather than spin and create them all this need to be b. c has backtracked on that. and well peter hitch and to push the b b. c to face. it's fundamental flaws. hales is all as a factory for truth. what does this mean about the war agenda? the broadcast has been pushing for years. the bbc reporting is very biased and,

and very much supportive of british establishment. this was a very important incident. it led to the u. k. the u. s. and perhaps bombing syria, there's been a very heavy bias. an assumption that i thought was always wrong and that the accusations of the west were always right. and it's time after time we've seen incident switch up and accusations by the west, which have convincingly turned out to be not through time hoping that more a more request will be made to them to look into more substantial issues here. the full light from the tell upon take over in afghanistan has posed a challenge for this central asian region and also russian and facing off any potential threat is a key focus of military drills. now happening in the nation of kirk is down ortiz, constantine, or rush cough reports the cloud.

while the military exercises been crickets have officially kicked off and show a force displayed by famous rocket. artillery launcher is the famous grab and elsewhere . the training facility troops have also engaged in active shooting, and these are well under way. now these were games are stage of annual leave, but this year they are common and the backdrop of the disaster. it's us redraw from again, it's dan which is by the way, not far from here. and as the taliban is still trying to establish itself as the new government and cobble neighboring countries, namely, get, dan, did you get sam as big as dan, as well as russia, their main military ally are weary of uncontrolled militants, for extreme as he might take advantage of the situation and cause trouble in the military and political situation in collective security treaty organization, soon of a direct responsibility is still complicated. the most vulnerable area is central

asia. in the wake of the talent, they coordinate the dentist and which borders on the genius time the region is seen height and activity from international terrorism. and really just radicalism. now this training facility, the training ground where we are at, is located in probably one of the most scenic part of stan and the mountains by the lake of a cool. and it is specifically designed to help the military. we deal with mountain work, 1000 military personnel as well as job artillery over 100 feet. the armored vehicles tanks as well as a vh and are taken part in this maneuvers now according to the area of the israel, the terrorist and the made up country named guardia, attacked several villages here, and there is main job to repel the sold as quickly as possible, well, that's really great strategic importance for russia,

chris and one of the main rushes out posed in this region, the no tree being in the seed of khan. and by the way, helicopters and several closures, or jobs from the base are also taken part in this maneuver and other countries that have send the military to the exercise. there were conflicts done in just on, along with russia and burgess done. these are for members of the c s c o, the collective security treaty organization, which brings together 6 former soviet republics. now, the main goal of these trails, like any other drill, improve skills of the military. but there is also a message here that moscow allies in the region remain vigilant. in this you most was time following the us pull out from, again a sample 20 minutes past 2 pm here in moscow. still ahead, we look at how military over throw in the west african nation of guinea has sent metal prices. so we can find out more often.

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what is faith in the world corrupted. you need to defend the join us in the depths. will remain in the shallows, ah, in the hello get the west african nation of the really draws global headlines, but a military coup there has sent shock waves through commodity markets. that's because it's a key metal producer with a dramatic spike, anela minium prices. some market players have spot that chance the caution or he's telling hawkins has been taking a closer look. this isn't the 1st 2 in guineas. recent history. in fact, is one of several people's in a number of former french african colonies in just a few months. presidents of the impoverished west african states taken into custody

while the countries special forces. their constitution dissolved by nationwide curfew declared with any refusal from officials to corporate deemed a rebellion. the mutiny is certainly mean business, but claim is all for the greater good. will no longer entrust politics to one man will in trust it to the people. guineas, beautiful. we don't need to re guinea anymore. we just need to make love to her world is seeing a rare moment of unity from the year when to the african union. even usually rival states quickly bonded together to condemn the military takeover. i am personally following the situation in guinea very closely. i strongly condemn any take over the government by force of the gun and call for the immediate release of president alpha con day said why all the attention? guinea, despite being direly poor, is actually pretty rich. apart from large amounts of gold and diamonds, the country holds by some estimates. a 3rd of the world's was the book site. one of

the main sources of minium, in fact, is the world's 2nd largest producer and metal markets look pretty rattled right now . if you do have issues in the country that supplies 20 percent of book site to the global market, then clearly that will be a problem. aluminium price is a decade high. great news for mining companies. but it probably makes little difference to the average guinea and like in most former colonies, is mainly mining conglomerates that tend to profit multiple states have investments in the country from russia and china to australia and the u. k. according to the us state department, one of the biggest plays in guineas. marcus is france. french companies, as part of international conglomerates, play a big role in the mining sector, as well as the privatization of the countries. any grid on relations between the 2 countries have grown closer under the baffled president's rule. from from guinea have thrown bilateral relations with many high level meetings relations have

intensified since our convey came to power. convey one office in the country's 1st free elections in later years. like many lead is on the continent. he was accused of holding sham elections, which the opposition boycotted, cracking down on descent amid bloody protest, costing dozens of lives. yet his rule is still considered better than an unknown alternative. and guinea turbulence follows and all too familiar pattern, 3 crews, and just 10 years and laboring form will furnish colony. molly, a recent military takeover in shad following the killing of its strong one pro didn't erase debbie, a long time, french ally with president micron even attending his funeral again. despite his flaws. paris was pragmatic. things could be worse. this latest crew certainly won't be the loss in a vicious cycle of violence, power struggles, and instability for africans in former colonies, the only certainty seems to be more of the same. and as the world condemn is the

latest round of violence. it's a sad fact that unity only seems to be shown what national interests are at stake. africa seems to be still stuck between either authoritative regime and truly do not want to leave out like what happens or school and the worst type. of course i always the military one, so it's unfortunate, but i don't see positive developments in the future in the conference because this is a problem of most african and developing countries. it's the natural resources are not really used to help develop the country for the sake of the test. that's the conundrum that most african countries have not managed to break away from. so i don't think even the new regime we manage to do different policies, i guess the business as usual would be the same. again, give a, be me going to korea. and then the multinational companies will keep proctoring

from the actual resources for what they smoke size or gold or diamond. i don't think thing would change for the regular regular giddeons to get the story to bring you just before we go to break. israel has launched a series of earth strikes on southern galvan, the aircraft targeted a rocket manufacturing site and a concrete plumps which allegedly made interiors for pulse. puerto tunnels no casualties were reported. the bombardment comes in response to arson balloons, launched from gas on monday, which caused a series of fires in southern israel. now it's a story that cause ripples in the financial world, the nation of el salvador, accepting bitcoin as legal, tender. so what will the ramifications be max and stacy get to grips without next

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