are they fighting for? nobody bothers out. contractors? the the, the, the, the, the president biden gets a hostile reception from the american public, amid anger over his handling of the afghanistan full of the 20th anniversary of $911.00 approaches to explore the legacy of america's war on terror in a series of special reports today we hear from families and saw the loved ones killed and recently us drug striking comp time the head of the family that has lost

10 of its members. and this is not a mistake of america. this is a crime and the rest of emergencies ministers kills while trying to save a person's life during training exercises in the arctic. i good evening. great. have you with us an artsy international job. i didn't go to a less than warm welcome to the new jersey town, hit hard spy, hurricane. i'd a group of locals voice the anger over the i've gotten this done, pull out with some even branding the american president, a tyrant. the.

c and that fury over the war and afghan, astonished being felt all the more acutely in the run up to a grim anniversary for america. almost 20 years passed now since the tragic events of 911 a day that shook the world and set the stage for the us war on terror to market. we've been taking a closer look at the devastating impact the subsequent to decades of conflict of had on the lives of millions. as in our special project, unheard voices. the will use all tools at our disposal phase, killed our children to united states was bringing people to watch the site. it was a pointless exercise. and we'll start the series my looking at the impact of one recent event, a so called defensive as strike conducted by the us in cobble at the end of august,

just before the canister withdrawal deadline. now we've heard from fathers who lost their children and not right. the youngest of them being just 2 years old. saw the sandals belong to melinda. she was very close to me. i loved her so much. she always told me to buy ice cream us military forces conducted and unmanned over the horizon airstrike on a vehicle known to be an imminent isis k threat. on the morning of the bombing, she came and kissed me and said, good morning, father. it was her last meeting. i will never see her again. the my name is amanda maddie. i'm the head of the family that has lost 10 of its members. it was around 4 30 pm. i left for the market and on the way i met my elder brother who was driving back home. we talked

a little then he left to go home and i crossed the road to go to the other side. i just crossed the road and i heard an explosion. my daughter later to me that she saw a smaller craft, a drone, moving around in a circle which then fired and metal about hitch or home. i turned to look, there was dust and smoke. it was a terrible scene. my wife was shutting not her highest was on fire. ah, there were parts of children's bodies. it was so bloody increase and i went into my home and find my brother and the nephew. they were critically injured, but still alive and breathing. they later died in hospital. my brother and 9 others were killed in this horrific attack. my brother's daughter, who was student to get married, also lost her life. another relative was also here, a guest. she was killed to

oh, i maya love's cosmetics, she likes painting her nails for she like dolls very much. the main cause of the incident was the american president, planning this attack without any evidence and destroying our family was a catastrophe. ringback ringback ah, the president is made clear to the commanders that they should stop at nothing to make ices pay for the deaths of those american service members at the cobble airport. they say this k lived in this house in this house, were these children members of ices, a stupid thought without any proof, without any investigation, they attacked us and killed our children, and we will never forgive them. ah,

our entire families in shock. it's been so painful for us mentally. we are not in a stable condition. the women are dead silent. they don't speak. we left our devastated homes and now live in my sister's place. it's so painful to visit it, because we could see your children dying there. the people accusing us of having contact with islam mc state, the americans who bombed our family, seeing we'd been preparing an attack on them. their complete and utter liars, ah . ringback after the incident, no authority came here to investigate. nobody asked us what happened here? no one help. no one came here to morally support us. this is not

a mistake of america, this is a crime. we've lost her children. the count returned to us. so mister owner should be restored by a fir investigation into the incident. we all see international community to investigate this incident. ah, make no mistake. no military on the face of the earth works harder to avoid civilian casualties than the united states military. and nobody wants to see innocent life taken and the americans have left us galveston. they came because of their own goals and humiliated my country. america is not achieved. anything in africa on america has

failed in afghanistan. and it has made our people miserable. oh, and we'll be speaking with more people, buy soldiers and civilians. he lives, we changed forever by america's war in our continued special coverage, unheard voices throughout the week. please. if i could speak now to form a c i. officer and renown whistleblower john curiosity joined on the line. pleasure to speak to john. thank you. just witness. the the end of this 20 year military campaign by the united states in afghanistan. did you ever imagine that it would and so quickly, so frantically a no, i didn't imagine so, and i don't think any americans did just like no americans assumed in september or october of 2001 that 20 years later we would be having this conversation you know, president biden said just about

a month ago that he believed that the african government put hold out for 6 more months. in fact, they held out for 6 days. and i think that, that he gave that 6 month time because that's what he was told by the cia. and it just those to show you that this was another intelligence failure in a long line of intelligence failures. just like the horrible event that you talked about a moment ago, the attack on this family was yet another intelligence failure. i think there are a lot of people, both africans and americans who are glad that this thing is finally over posting on his face and the united kingdom held the withdrawal as quick as it was. they held it as being successful. a lot of reports that you have read suggested it didn't come across that way. how would you assess it yourself? well, it didn't look like it was successful in the beginning, but i think all told the goal was generally achieved if the goal was to,

to get out as many americans or, or american green cardholders or people who worked for the united states as possible. or as many as wanted to leave, i think probably you could call this a success. but then at the same time, we don't know if every afghan who worked for the united states and who wanted to leave for the united states or a 3rd country was able to get out. we have to take the american governments word for it and you know, that's, that's a tough thing to do. the whole lot, the reason that was given for inviting i've gone down the whole explanation was that it was to fight terrorism in the wake of 911. and yet 20 years later, the withdrawal happens amidst another terrorist attack. you've got a, an organization and the taliban that's considered to be a terrorist organization by most governments around the world now in power in the country as, as it's been a failure, then if it,

if its ended amidst all this terrorism. well the original goal was to destroy al qaeda and certainly we did that by december of 2001. so if you want to look at that very, very narrow period of time, sure, you can call it a victory. we destroyed al qaeda, we killed us, some have been locked and we arrested khalid shaikh mohammed and almost all of the kind of leadership by the end of 2001. then we made this terrible, terrible mistake called nation building, where we decided that it was, it was incumbent upon us to impose a western style democracy on a country that never had any history of western style democracy. and then we couldn't understand why it didn't stick. one of the things that i think most americans don't understand and certainly something the american government hasn't understood is that the taliban didn't appear just out of nowhere. i think that the reason why the african army has been

a failure and the afghan national police have been a failure. is because idea logically they're more closely associated with the taliban than they are with the united states military. and so i think that afghan is, dan has what the afghan people want, they want the government that is led by the taliban. and so that's what they have with so many different extremist groups. still evidence enough, ghana, stan, and after all those years of whatever you want to call it, occupation or regime change or trying to introduce a western style of democracy. do you think that will be resentment? will there be any desire for vengeance? oh, i think there's resentment all around. i think the asked the at the afghan people rightly resent the united states for 20 years of occupation and then in the end

nothing to show for it but death and destruction. i think that there are afghans who are going to be even further resentful of the fact that they are again under the control of a government that oppressed them 20 years ago. and then farther to the right is, is isis k, which hates the taliban as much as it hates the united states. and, and is anti taliban because the taliban are too liberal? so this certainly is not the end of a violence for afghanistan. it's not the end of terrorism, and i think that it's just going to continue to get worse yourself. you're involved in that war on terror. you were subjected to an intense federal investigation. you paid a high price for going public, exposing what the government was doing in terms of torturing, suspected terrorists all those many years later now. and you see what is played out

in the country. how do you feel about you have any regrets about what you did? do you think it helped in any way? i have 0 regrets. i will never have any regrets. somebody had to tell the american people that the government was committing crimes in their name. these were war crimes. in some cases they were crimes against humanity and i waited for somebody to say something. nobody did. so finally i did. i'm glad that i did. i think that the torture program that we had in this country, the torture that we carried out, an afghan stan at guantanamo and its secret prisons around the world made the united states a weaker country. it made us a less safe country. you know, when we try to convince the world that we are shining beacon of human rights and respect for civil rights and civil liberties. and then they see us carrying out

a torture program at secret prisons around the world. it just makes us look so hypocritical. i can understand why any country would want to emulate the united states in a situation like that. somebody had to say something, and i'm glad that it was me. we talked about the victims of a drone strike. i mean, i'm not saying that was anything, not necessarily on toward in that one, but it's a common story that you hear us military officials say we don't believe there are any civilian casualties. then it turns out the claim that there were multiple, do you think that in the future we will see perhaps somebody come out to whistle, blow it telling us the real story of what went on and what went wrong? is it, is it possible of the back of what you did and others have done? make it as it made it easier for people to blow the whistle now or, or is the govern actually comes down to making it harder for that happen? know it's much more difficult. we actually do have a drone whistleblower in daniel hale who was just sentence last month to 44 months

in a federal prison for, for telling the world that the drone program kills an untold number of civilians. many of them women and children, daniel was very public about his struggle and, and was silenced by, by having multiple charges of espionage leveled against him. he decided to tell the truth and to tell his story. and as a result, he's ended up in prison. i spoke with him day before yesterday and he encouraged me and others to continue the fight. the government is clamped down on whistleblowers, especially national security whistleblowers. but one of the things that government doesn't understand neil is that there is no jail sentence long enough to make people go against their own conscience. when, when people see evidence of waste, fraud, abuse illegality, or threats to the public health or public safety,

they are compelled to say something and to do something to stop it. i think we should all be in encouraging that. as i said, you paid a high price for what you did that may scare some people off from, from doing the same. what needs to be done next to make sure that those people empower, is sometimes a breaking the rules sometimes killing innocent people on our behalf. such remember they work for, for us members of the public. what needs to be done to make sure that they aren't allowed to continue to do that? what we have to have is true and robust, congressional oversight, which we have not had in decades. you know, when you look at the senate and house intelligence committees, the foreign affairs and foreign relations committees, and the armed services committees, what you see in general is a group of congressional cheerleaders for the cia, the f, b i, the defense department, and the state department and that has to stop, there has to be legitimate, true oversight,

where members of congress tell the government to stop crimes are being committed and then we have to see those crimes prosecuted and see the people who carried out those crimes punished. we haven't seen that in many, many years. that's, don't forget, there was some terrorist enough gonna stand. there was some people that the us thought were terrorist, but when shore and tortured him to try and find out. sometimes it's difficult to know who's guilty and who's innocent. we got the taliban now in power. as i said, a widely recognized group considered to be a terrorist organization, but it's saying that it isn't like that a more saying that it's more moderate, that it's going to be much reformed to do you believe what they are claiming? i actually do believe what they're claiming, and i think one of the early indications that they're telling the truth is the fact that they've reached out the way they have diplomatically and economically to china, to russia, to cut our i think that this is the new generation of taliban,

they learned from the mistakes of the past and while they are still just as religiously fundamental as the original taliban were, i think the fact that they are still willing and ready to impose a fundamentalists form of shari'a la shouldn't obscure the fact that they are also pragmatists who have learned from those mistakes. i think we're going to see a different taliban this time around. john, thank you so much for your time. my guess is our is pharmacy i, officer and whistleblower john kitty. i appreciate it. jo rushes. emergencies minister has been killed while attending training exercises in the arctic is believe that you can use any chat was fatally injured while attempting to rescue a cameraman, who had fallen off the cliff with more his on his daniel hawkins getting finish f would be less familiar to those abroad than at home. now, here in russia though,

he was a well known part of the governing body, most recently serving his head of the russian emergencies ministry. a very senior chief position once occupied by the current defense minutes the saturday should go . we know that mister is in a chef, was in the city of no risk in the northern fall of russia. taking part in trainings the size is organized by the emergencies ministry. there were a large number of journalists, video operators, directors in attendance, who were filming a training video for the emergency ministry eye witness accounts that up 1 point, one of this group of journalists and directors got too close to the edge of a cliff, and neither fell or began to fall. mississippi's chef was standing, the boy whose training kicked him and he attempted to hold the direct and jumping off to him. sadly, his efforts were futile. both men were, if it's a hospital and to come to the injuries medics palace to help. one of our

correspondence from arte spanish was also in attendance. these training exercises. this is what he told us on. but he died trying to say to film director who was there at that moment in order to choose a new location with his future film. according to witnesses, the drake to stumbled and fell have rushed to save him, but hit a rock. unfortunately, none of them survived. residence told us that this place is very dangerous, and tragedies already happened that aside from his role as head of the emergency ministry, a post yorkie pie since 2018 and mrs. ne chef also occupied positions in the russian security operator serving is that pretty head of the f s. b on the security account? so as one is being pause for many years of the russian president's partial security detail effectively being mr. putins aide to camp and the russian president has already expressed his deep condolences in connection with missing a chef. death he leaves behind is wife, a son, a grandson,

and 2 granddaughters. dying what he was trained to do, what he loved doing, and what he did for large part of his life, which was saving lives in dire situations where nobody else could do appointment for his position as head of the emergency ministry will be appointed in due course . you've been using a shift, though, of course, will be remembered as a hero. the ca reportedly helped ukraine with a plan to newer. a number of russian mercenaries wanted to capture last year and the claim being made in a new report by cnn. but things didn't go according to plan when bella roost got mixed up in the operation on the ground. the details is really patricia. this is a story that was being widely reported on last year in the media, particularly in the russian media. but what makes this case extraordinary is that a major american outlet is talking about this, so according to see and then the dramatic arrest of more than 30 russian nationals

last year in bel roost was an elaborate operation by the ukranian intelligence, an effort backed and financed by the c i a so they provide the cash, they provided technical assistance and so on and so forth. so 3 former high ranking ukrainian military officials served as sources foreseen, and they were describing how the orchestrated a secret operation to nur alleged mercenaries, alleged russian mercenaries that fought alongside the anti government forces in east ukraine. russia to make sure that they are prosecuted in ukraine. so ukrainian operatives for tended to be representative of a private security firm. and they requested applications. and this whole mass of applications that they received when they were flicking through them pretty much

served as a perfect database. for key of to get who they wanted. and minsk was simply a stop over for these men to be on the way to venezuela. this was a fake job though, that never existed to guard some infrastructure there and but the fake representatives of a security firm, they offered large sums of money for security work. like i said, that never existed. we started to call them and say, hey man, okay, tell me something about yourself. maybe not really a fighter. maybe you're a plumber or something like that. and then they started all things about themselves, sending us documents, military ideas, and proof of where they had fought and we alike. bingo, we can use that. so now it could be that this perfect plan was an even an idea that originated in key. if this could have been something that the ca hooked up

ukrainian intelligence with bit more about the, the people who were captured in others, we have to understand what was happening in bell rose in the summer last year. the country was gearing up for a crucial presidential paul, and we remember that after this election, the country was engulfed in mass opposition protest, so very 10 times for bell ruse. and at the time, when these men arrived to the battle, russian security authorities thought that these were some kind of fighters that could have been sent to the country to spark on rest, end street violence. and this was something that explains why they were detained. so, brutally like terrorists now, almost immediately after that came an extradition request from key of like i said, ukraine wanted these men to be on their territory for their alleged involvement in

the fighting in easter grain. but this extradition never happened because shortly after the incident report started to surface that this could have been a plot orchestrated by kia and i remember how president of valerie alexander lucas shank on vladimir putin. they were on the phone and initially the negotiations between these 2 lead to these fighters being sent back to russia. but like i said, the important part in this is that this could have been applaud that originated somewhere across the atlantic. and right now the russian security officials are pointing at that and what they want is a transparent investigation to all. busy this, the ukranian authorities are not interested an impartial investigation of this affair. all the facts which cnn has now confirmed serve as fresh evidence. ukraine commits acts of state terrorism by the hands of a secret service. so the mercenary never ended up in venezuela because that was

a fake job offer. they never ended up in ukraine because of a deal between minsk and moscow by the way. the relations between these 2 were never spoiled, as well as perhaps the c i a wanted even though the c i are denying their involvement in all this. but as you can see, we keep getting back to the story because of and new details emerging. we send our own request to the us intelligence for whether they can comment on that. we're waiting for their reply and possibly we'll also get reaction to this from other high ranking officials here in russia and ukraine or in the us can. i brings you out today. don't forget, you can check out moon use on a website. simply go to r t dot com. the way the u. s. government funded is the issue of treasury bond and they pay the

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with the time action or attention you're watching, going underground back for a brand new series. as us secretary said that the blinking me to a german foreign minister i go mass to discuss the significance of nature's catastrophic defeat by the taliban in afghanistan. joining me now in the studio to discuss the future of nato, so called forever was of the so called end to the usa. the longest war in history could remark the beginning of a new world order is edge and re filmmaker journalist john pilcher. john, thanks so much for coming back on. it's a week where the largest om square is just down the road here in london being hosted. they've been bombing syria, the israelis arm by the british b. u and the united states has been forming of gaza this week. but to afghanistan,

1st ahead of the 911 anniversary on saturday. did. did the americans in the british leave is they came killing babies? we saw that drones strike. we saw the chaos had come up, let alone this atrocity that killed schools of people, something american soldiers involved in the killing of civilians. there. what, what is your take? well, the killing machine ashen, kill a machine in vietnam. they called the us military. the green machines because it was colored grain. but then they changed my say bay. those who really understand what the propaganda, how the propaganda has lied to us over the years. it's basically a killing machine. i mean, you talk about down the road as arms fair. when i was out in the open, one of the missiles was an m k i t 2 that was for.