the main goal of destroying terrorism and then was it achieved yes and no. okay, to essentially no longer exists good for us, but there are certainly other terrorist groups that are worse than our the head of the 911 oliver 3 r t commemorates the enduring impact of the us led war on terror. today we'll be hearing from a british army veteran the devastating tool of 20 years off. again. we've lost too many people for situation which we just gave a point. also ahead in the busy news over the telephone on fields, it's new government for f d on a stone, including a terrorist on the f. b i most wanted list, but washington is left with no option but to cooperate with the incoming leadership

. the doctrine florida course is outraged by refusing to treat patients who haven't had a cobit back here from voices. we strongly agree with. the medics can understand this doctor's getting frustration. she wants to help people and they haven't even bothered to have the bags. i think we need to respect the people who, who are so far, refusing the vaccine and trying to lower them into persuading them, making them comfortable in receiving the bags ah, from moscow to the world. this is our t pleasure of your company. i'm, you know, neil miss get to her top 3 almost 2 decades had passed since the horrors of 911. the event that triggered america's war on terror. we're continuing to investigate

the enduring in pine, those conflicts south out on the lives of millions, in our special project on heard voices. the will use all tools at our disposal. killed our children to united states was bringing people to watch a site. it was a pointless exercise or among those who paid the highest price for the afghan invasion, where the $457.00 british personnel killed in action. but even for those who did make at home many were left with lasting trauma. let's hear the account of trevor coal to served in the british army for 20 years, including 4 tours in afghanistan, and who received one of the u. k. highest honors for his service. i can take my life last year. i was in a wheel by the way, my mind ended. i nearly lost my son, and i didn't know what to do. a lot of the guys i was with don't really talk to

each other any more. i mean, they're going try to delete it and move away. so we'll put, put quite a few people lives in the last, but for 5 years. i think the most recent is only a few months ago. i have been through hell and you're still living it. you just get a feeling of fear somebody wouldn't understand, you know, and given the order to kill someone and stuff you, people get upset of it, things today that don't need it saturday. i want so i walk in my coffee,

i really just drink the coffee when i 1st went to the dentist on, we were told that we were going to burn the poppy fields to the plumbers to work and do not, not plan change them. we landed in on our troops in a way that they haven't for many years, are going to be fighting alongside other countries and situations of great danger. soonish are very good at taking orders and just getting on with it. i'm not questioning orders, but as you go through the years and you mature and you start to sort of have to bring the thing for yourself and realize why we here. what do we think we know looking at this time? i think there was a point this exercise. what's happening in the south of afghanistan, the residence about the taliban trying to get back power the

way back and the tell about had already got id in the grind that we'd already cleared. my friend, my really was just a couple, stood on one and died instantly, lost his arms and legs. i believe it's 17 casualties all from, from our group out of each of those casualties. you've got quite a few guys affected by what they've seen. it's trauma on top of trauma, it's a constant heights about over a weeks and weeks, and most of the u. k. troops and officials of work round the clock to a remorseless deadline. it thanks to that colossal exertions this country has not been processed and checked, vetted, and ended more than 15000 people to safety in less than 2 weeks. i mean, it's been

a complete mess. had binds in ministration, worked with the rest of his allies. it would've been, we were going to leave anyway, but we could have done it in a systematic approach. for instance, you don't even need to have a middle mindset. you understand that if you're going to extract from a country, you bring back all your citizens from the embassy, put them into secure bias and then fly them. what you don't doing is flyers your military and angle. what about the one with the civilians? tom and i got tional home be 600 version m. 16 weapon systems, 3 stars and bombs left behind. so that's munitions that can use for id. like last night i was watching that i watched a video of telephone draft as us special forces moving in behind her to take control of fortune x. which, you know, it's just unbelievable. we'd love to many people for situation, which we just give upon. trevor colfey, highly decorated former british army officer,

well throughout the week will be speaking with more people. both soldiers and civilians whose lives were irrevocably altered by america. the longest war, mountain or special coverage on heard voices. 9 days after the rushed us polite from a famous done, the country has a new government in waiting. it consists mostly of hard line taliban militants. and the u. s. a. it's in no rush to recognise the new regime that said, though, i how i saw that it has little option, but to work with the tara group, america went to war against 20 years ago. their new acting interior minister is a tiny network terrorist. these wanted for a bombing, the killed 6 people, including an american, is believe, to participated in cross border attack against us troops. there's a $10000000.00 bounty on his head. why are we engaging? should we, should we not talk to the people who are overseeing of ghana, stan, and just leave it and not get the rest of the american citizens out?

the international community is watching the united states as watching its whether they let people depart the country who want to depart, whether they treat women across the country as they have committed to treat them and how they behave and operate. and therefore, we're not moving toward recognition. at the same time, we're dealing with a reality world here where we have to engage in order to get american citizens and others out of the country. the taliban unveiled it's all male interim government. on wednesday, the military will be led by the film of the tele bonds thunder. the interior minister is a militant wanted in the u. s. for some deadly bombings, including a 2017 truck, bluffton boomer killed. 150 people. the taliban leadership will also include members of the us designated group. my former guantanamo inmates, the off shore prison has been operating on a u. s. military base in cuba for 19 years. in that time, almost $800.00 people have been held there without charge or trial. many subjected

to water boarding stress positions and sleep deprivation. john curry alco, a former c. i a analyst who lifted the lead on abuse of interrogations in guantanamo talk to r t earlier. he still stands by his decision to speak out. 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. you know, when we try to convince the world that we are a 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. 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. 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 goes to show you that this was another intelligence failure in a long line of intelligence failures. i think the asked 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. 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. what we have to have is true and robust, congressional oversight, which we have not had in decades. what you see 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 crime prosecuted and see the people who carried out those crimes punished. we haven't seen that in many, many years. john kerry co speaking to our tea. meanwhile, the united nations human rights body has worn about gala families facing a total collapse in basic services with food life saving 8 as well about to relock

. it estimates that at least $600000000.00 in a will be needed by the end of the year a to prevent a customer. the u. n. also reports nearly half of of gala sounds population. 38000000 needs humanitarian aid. among them are 3 and a half 1000000, internally displaced by the conflict. red cross president peter mar, travel to the country. he. this is a medical facility. he also met with the new african government and assured what he learned, what he saw with us here on the program. the on the one side, you will see all that these are remnants of war. you see these are camps distorted vehicles, military vehicles, you see destruction where fighting has taken place, including in some of the cities like classical regard and others. and on the other hand, you see an normality of life and normal life. you see that this country is

and has been affected by 40 years of war and by poverty. and the 2 together create enormous human period need. we had a long conversation with marla, about the deputy of now we're now in government, a very substantive conversation with him self and with some of his closer agent collaborators. in order to ensure that the humanitarian space, which is needed for a good, impactful, and mutually humanitarian assistance are guaranteed. i think we got a lot of understanding and also good sense that we need for it or dialogues as we move forward. let us shift the program now to

florida. we're a doctor in miami is making headlines after announcing she will treat anyone in person who hasn't had a coven vaccine. dr. linda motor seen a claim. she's been forced to draw a red line by her concern for public health. we will no longer subject our patients and stuff, so unnecessary risk when it comes to safety of others. when it comes to the fact that it's a global health problem and community health problem, at this point, i really said this is where it draws the line and the sense for me. something else . no, she said was not the decision complies, which she believes with ethical standards because she still offering phone appointments on exempting people who can't get vaccinated on medical ground with the highly contagious delser. very into cove, it's still a concern. dr. morris senior joins the global course of those calling for a greater bucks a nation. push my colleague, neal harvey, put the issue off for debate. let's listen to

a doctor 1st. she's obviously set out a standard in her practice and everybody knows about that. then all of our patients know, and she's using, i'm sure, computer based telemedicine. however, if they require in person care, she'll have to refer them elsewhere. here in my own medical center, the vanderbilt university medical center. we're not doing that. we're using good infection control precautions to take care of all patients infected with coded and not vaccinated or not. can understand where this daughter's getting frustrated because there she is. she wants to deal with people. she wants to help people, but she's got people who are present in themselves who wanted to present themselves, her medical center, and they haven't even bothered to have the vac. local, i believe is everybody's duty. no man is an island and everybody should be getting

vaccinated for a few high profile cases that gets picked up by the media. i think that was a b, b. c presenter who got a blood clot from a vaccination and died. so he's got a lot of attention. can you understand people reading something like that and thinking, i don't want to die. i don't want to be one of the lucky ones. you get some blood clot and dies from this. and it probably statistically isn't going to kill me anyway. cobit, i'm going to take my chances. can you sympathize with that mentality? the average person has a background in science, and they are fearful fearful of the vaccine, and fearful of the virus, and kept them in the middle. and they don't act at all, certainly not receiving the vaccine. we've given this vaccine to more people in a short period of time than ever before. now have the best experience, not only in our own country, but around the world with respect. we know how it works. its not perfect, but it sure is very, very good. and if we all took it, it could really on board the further spread of this virus, the internet is

a great place to spread conspiracies. and i think mouse where is coming from? well, i from the wild conspiracies that bill gates, he put a chip in there. what he's to the, this is an experiment vaccine. he's not an experimental vaccine interaction that's being tested. what about the societal in but couldn't we end up with a situation where you've got, you know, for example, almost half of the population in america who haven't been in a to, you could have a last indigent people saying we will refuse this mandatory vaccination. could you end up with a real societal split and a kind of to tear society where you've got people who actually have a lot less freedom because they refuse vaccination 1st, who mandates really, i don't really want to be mandatory. there shouldn't be a need for that. people should be selfless, not selfish, recreate in our country, you know, they're talking all if you have enough vaccination, it's like in apartheid state. it isn't

a part we combs and let these people who got these stupid ideas. well, this so called hesitance, i think we need to respect the people who, who are so far, refusing the vaccine and trying to lure them into persuading them, making them comfortable in receiving the vaccine. the thing or no, the messaging service watson prides itself on advanced encryption technology, which supposedly keeps your message, is private. but it turns out most users are hunting over far more data to the apps parent company facebook than thoughts or cheese. dimitri poke, has been doing some digging. everyone likes their privacy. and when you use a messenger like what's app that keeps hammering on and on about how secure it is, you're inclined to believe that your private data stays well private. well, shocker, that's apparently not the case. what's up turns out to be, well,

not that private and it's owner facebook keep thing. hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations. and that's after numerous promises from zocker berg about insuring a truly secure experience on their platforms. i believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private encrypted services where people can be confident, what they say to each other, stay secure. this is the future i hope will help bring about that was back in 2019 and what was supposed to be the messenger to bring about a part of that private future. but come on, this is facebook we're talking about, according to a recent investigation by the pro public a platform, it turns out facebook actively undermined its security assurances. zoning, crypted dates available for scrutiny is extensive. its includes the names and profile images of the uses. what's up groups, as well as the phone number, profile, photo status, message phone, but your level language and time zone unique mobile phone id and ip address. and

that's not all. other unencrypted data reportedly includes access to the user's entire list of electronic devices. any related facebook or instagram accounts the last time they use the app and even a history of any previous violations? not exactly what you would call complete privacy, although a spokesperson for what's ab did reiterate that users messages are still encrypted and are only seen when they are forwarded to the user submitted report system. the decisions we make around how we build out app. our focus around the privacy of our users, maintaining a high degree of reliability and prevention abuse. but the company doesn't just stop at batting accounts, which have been reported by users. they've also allegedly share all the information they have with the justice department. apparently what's up metadata played important role in the arrest of a former senior advisory at the us treasury. natalie may edwards, who had been sent to prisoner for leaking sensitive information to the media,

describing how dirty money flows through us banks edwards has maintain. she leaked the documents in a bid to expose corruption. notice was accountability and the american people had the right to know what was occurring with the treasury and that it was a national security issue and that american lives were in jeopardy. instead of the government doing their job, they decided to come after a whistleblower with the increasing rate at which the u. s. government requests information from all facebook affiliated platforms. it's plausible to assume there will be more arrest based on may the data in the near future. and while facebook promises but it cares about security and privacy, if it's users at the end of the day, it doesn't seem to have an issue collecting and giving out information to those who ask for it seems the company is more concerned with stopping the spread of what they call disinformation, and with trying to assert their influence in politics, instead of actually remembering that they started as a social media site,

it's true to say that nothing is really private nowadays, but that doesn't change the fact that when a company assures and promises its users that something will be encrypted and they, they will not be able to review the content of their messages. when that trust is broke. i think that they should be entitled to, at least, frankly, at this point, some sort of compensation. there are different protections for consumers in every industry, but for some reason, tech companies seem to be the only ones out there that can once again reg, they're on terms of service and for their customers trust with no consequences, largely. and i think it's about time that the actual elected officials in the world start asserting their power against these tech janes and reminding the silicon valley billionaires that know they are not our rulers, and that nobody elected them. they are not above the law. your engine running on that report. now, as we approach the 20th anniversary of $911.00, the saudi embassy in washington sees it once classified documents relating to the

terrorist attack to be released. it leaves the files will prove the gulf kingdom was in no way involved. no evidence is ever emerged to indicate that the saudi government or its officials had previous knowledge of the terrorist attack, or were in any way involved in its planning or execution. its already been a long standing aspect of suspicion on saudi arabia due to the fact that a number of the hijackers were from saudi arabia, those who hijacked the aeroplanes. however, the united states is long been basically downplaying any investigation or talk of such involvement by the saudis in 911. because saudi arabia is a key ally of the united states in the region. now relatives of victims of $911.00 have attempted to sue saudi arabia. in court, alleging that it was involved or complicit somehow in the attacks. however, under a 1976 law, basically they're unable to do to take that action just because the 976 law gives

foreign governments immunity from such lawsuits. now, will recall that there were the $28.00 pages from the $911.00 commission that were released. and those were, you know, long classified pages about saudi arabia as possible connections and f b. i investigations into saudi arabia following the 911 attacks. now the, the panel, basically they use the language that they said they did not discover any role by a quote, senior high level, saudi government official in the $911.00 attacks. but many of looked at what they referred to as the commissions, narrow wording, and basically said that it's possible that less senior officials on the part of the saudi government could have played a role. now. so far, washington has claimed that there was no direct role by saudi arabia in the 911 attacks. here's what we've heard. our investigation has covered no credible evidence that any person in the united states gave the hijackers substantial

financial assistance. now, there are a lot of americans who have looked at what was in the 28 pages previously released style and have looked at some of the information surrounding the 911 attacks. and do one answer is about the kingdom of saudi arabia and perhaps nefarious activities or what role it could have played. people want new information about what went on and the attacks that took place 20 years ago and certainly left a big scar on the u. s. public, but it's unclear if joe biden will go ahead and take this move if he will make such information public or not. joe biden will have the final say as the president of the united states. and that is where we wrap the news roundup for know neil's here the top with all the very latest. do hope you'll spend some time within the ah, the ah

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united states. and many of the names involved are very familiar to the u. s. government r. he's a john had a takes a closer look. meet the new taliban government. pretty much same as the old taliban government. hardliners and heavy way to oversaw the fight against the united states and half can stand some with ties to al qaeda are now in key leadership positions in the countries. new caretaker government, 3 men, stand out in particular interim prime minister amolla mohammed has san kuhn considered a terrorist by the u. n. e u and u. k. and has been sanctioned by the un security council deputy prime minister mala dog county bar. dar, a taliban founder and leader who reportedly met with c i a director william burns in august to discuss the u. s. is withdraw from afghanistan. molar you called the minister of defense and some of the late taliban founder mohammed omar whose refusal to hand over osama bin ladin after the attacks on 911 led to the us

invasion of afghanistan. and sir, as you dean how connie acting interior minister, who's on the f b i most wanted list with a 10000000 dollar bounty. on his head as head of the ha connie network, a us designated tara group considered one of the most dangerous and violent in afghanistan. his uncle caliah has a $5000000.00 bounty on his head for his ties to al qaeda. he's now acting minister for refugees, for other men appointed to senior positions, were detained that guantanamo bay, and released as part of a prisoner swap for sergeant bo birdsall, in 2014, including neural la norry acting ministers of borders and tribal affairs. and abdul hoc le seek acting intelligence minister. the list of taliban veterans goes on, including those who fought against both the united states and russia. but a taliban spokesman said the group is willing to work with any country that wants to help with afghanistan reconstruction. the only country the taliban said it is

not willing to work with israel.