the in the the news the as far doesn't seem like 20 years ago. it was just never ending funeral in new york for a while to decades own from the worst terror attack in modern history. the world remembers from died in 91123. we talk to witnesses that both of these, we continue in debt to gauge the impact the american war and terrorism followed and speak to former one kind of magazine chinese, on the horrors they said. they had a found a woman in the next room that led me to believe with my wife being tortured with, with the picture of my children in front of me. awesome. where do you think they

are now? what happened to me took your way and what does the future hold for afghan? extend the taliban back in power off the 20 years. conflict can give us it. on the us invasion, they bombed our cities. they killed civilians, innocent children, and many people were killed. nothing good came out to the american invasion. the americans came to ganesh and because they wanted to exploit our resources, poor people like us became their slaves. and when they left, they took everything with them. ah, hello, welcome. good morning, you watching archie international where she's gone 11 o'clock in moscow. today marks the 20th anniversary of the worst terror attacks in modern history. they claim the lives of almost 3000 people when us planes were hijacked and flown into the twin times of the world trade center in new york. another aircraft was flown

into the pentagon, while one more crashed into a field in pennsylvania. the memorial service in shanks veil is just one of many being held across the us today. relatives and friends of those on the united lines flight $93.00, which crashed after 4. i'll call you to terrorist were overpowered, attended the ceremony there, and place candles under the names of 40 crew and civilians. at the $911.00 memorial, former president george bush will lead a service there a bit later today, while president joe biden were joined. formerly this bill clinton, i'm barack obama for ceremony in new york. i was witnesses to that. i ran just attack. recollect that day with a shiver. when our team run ads into the streets of new york, with his video camera off the 1st plane hit all day for all these years, he hasn't been able to find the strength to watch his own footage until the day of our interview. the

i knew something was terribly wrong and i immediately wanted to get out there. and for some reason i, i wanted to grab my camera, put on my skates, and i by the time i got my skates on that one of the towers had fallen already. and i was just so unbelievable. and so i, i ran outside and they were already crowds of people outside gathering. i just felt i needed to, i wanted to document that i wanted to to be able to, to see it, you know, and, and it's funny that because i did shoot some video and i couldn't look at it later . i, i never looked at it. i put in a box and i just put it away. i read.

the 1st thing i remember was a commercial airliner, had flown overhead and everybody just screamed and thought it was coming down also . and everybody sort of ran for cover. and then you could see people with ash on them and they were just walking with just the last 4 eyes. and i was just very unbelievable. and then you saw this plume of smoke. that was what once was the towers and you looked at that and you just couldn't believe that that that skyline was gone. and i think everybody was just and this belief at that time, i remember the smell that came over the, the city. it was this horrible smell that smell like, i mean i don't, i can only describe it as metal and flesh and it was so strong that you could taste it in your mouth. and we were all wondering if we were going to get sick from

this. the side, you know, doesn't seem like 20 years ago. all of a sudden and yeah, it's just, you think you lose these emotions and, and they just seem to always sit there somewhere and they and they come up. you know, i think about it, i think about my friends who've off their family, their friends, i know a lot of people that have lost loved ones and it was just a constant funeral, basically for name after name, after name of people who died. and we saw their life stories on tv, and it was just never ending funeral in new york for a while. the

media was constantly bombarding us days later with a message that we should live our lives. like normal to show that we beat this. but i was angry wait power, excuse me. i was angry because the people saying were in big white houses for a lot of security. and they were saying to go with our lives and we had to walk around and we were afraid to go and you know, public places like times square. we just never knew what was going to happen at that point. and i remember, you know, thinking i'm going to bring my son into the world. you know, what kind of world is this going to be?

and, and that scared me while the $911.00 tragedy did lead to the american war on terror and the invasion of afghanistan and with us troops now out of the country, our t will scrutinize the horrific impact that campaign had on the lives of civilians and soldiers. alike in a special project called on heard voices, we tell the stories of those directly affected by the long running battle. the will use all tools at our disposal. said kill dock. children to united states was bringing people to watch a sight. it was a pointless exercise. well 53 year old mos him back here lives in britain, works for a prisoner rights organization and doesn't look like somebody who slid the experience of america's worst prison practices. but he knows about them all too well. i had to stop telling myself that i'm a father that i am a son. i'm

a husband that i'm a human being. i started to whole myself. what i had been told that i was and that was my number 558. that was my number and gone to the in the room in may 2002. i was interrogated by the c i and the f b i and they threatened if i did not corporate to send me either to egypt, syria to be further tortured. either you're with us or you were the enemy. there's no in between and that doctor still stand in. i think it's quite clear to meet the united states response to the terrible ducks of

911 was vengeance. the war on terror is not a police operation. it's a military operation. why they picked from me. it wasn't just me. they picked on everyone. you know, who knows. if anybody prepared to hand you over to contact, to talk to you. you know, i live in the bill of rights and i'm my parents from boston. i'm a deal national. they handed me over to the americans without any legal process before i was held that for a year in 2002, 2003. and i saw 2 individuals beaten to death by american soldiers. these terrorists play by a whole set of different rules. it's going to force us in your words to get me dirty and nasty in order to take them. i will use all tools at our disposal to do the

boys a few bad apples. isolated incidents one by one. the terrorists are learning the meaning of american justice. for me, this place, i pity my eyes. what the united states was doing in afghanistan, they were bringing people to this torture sight afghans ordering africa and abusing them outside of the rule of law. and then allowing some of them to go back home. and they would go home and tell people what the americans did. by the time i got to guantanamo, i was begging to go to one tunnel because what i've seen and witnessed in belgrade was so destructive to this day. i haven't, i can't sleep. oh, i,

several of us were sent to one tunnel including several taliban members who now heads of various departments in the act and government were tortured. we were stripped, we were beaten with spat upon. we were humiliated photographs. this was taken during this period of time. they had a found a woman in the next room that led me to believe with my wife being tortured. they waved with the picture of my children in front of me and asked me where do you think they are now, what do you think happened to them? the lightning took your way. and of course, what they wanted me to do was to sign a confession that i was a member of al qaeda, which i was not. and this was, i'd say send it, i got it. i think i got it better than a lot of the other prison i ah,

so this is the hon made calendar that i made when i was in tunnel. i thought that perhaps if i counted the days that it would be easier. but when the days tended to weeks and months, and then 2 years, i realized that it was just futile. when i received such letters from my children who are very young at the time, it's actually made it worse to look at the calendar and start the count down the days my children growing up without me and every day, without them with a stabbing heart. and they would come sporadically, they had to be vetted uncensored by the us censorship. my daughter who was 6 at the time, wrote a poem 12345, once i caught official life. and they redacted that because they said that has numbers in a numbers could mean some sort of a code. so it was that kind of nonsensical reduction disconnecting from the idea of

being a father, ironically and sadly, but also my own personal faith. my belief in god my reading the koran and again inexpensively becoming friends with several of the american soldiers who would bring me little snippets of inclination sometime next week and chocolate. sometime next week, and a dvd player and show me a film. didn't like that humanity that i have never forgotten to this but and i think i left guantanamo not hating america because of those soldiers. me messages directly from some american soldiers who say that this has be a, a war that has destroyed us as individuals, soldiers spoken to told me that they cannot sleep at night. so i am in no doubt

about the, the effects of this war, not just on the individuals, but on the nation as a whole of whom the soldiers are representative. me has gone to the shop and unity types were destroyed. the united states produced a senate to report on torture, but not a single person was bought for charges for these crimes. recently i gave evidence the international criminal court for their investigations of abuses by americans in africa said they were investigating the united states, the national army, and the caliber. the only ones who responded by threatening the international court was the united states of america. they said that we will sanction all members of the international court. we will arrest any members of the icpc who come to the usa

or elsewhere that want to investigate. i think the united states of america needs to step back if it wants to help any of any assistance to the people who understand it's got in a position to negotiate those conditions. it has, it has been an aggressor. the taliban already made gestures towards russia towards china to have the wrong to it's passed on to within an easier would be like states and britain in particular. i think that feeling very upset because this is a defeat. it's a military defeat. however, you want to look at it and that imperial hubris, as it were, will not allow them to say that we need to move forward and continue within negotiations that we began in doha, that they cannot be any more saber rattling. it's no good for the people, it's no good. got a sense of what the britain or america you've really got to find a way forward and try to day we will be hearing more from those whose lives were forever changed by merrick is longest for that's in our

special coverage, unheard voices. so as we heard america's war on terror began in afghanistan, the goal of changing the world for the better. but it ended in chaos with the taliban, seizing control. and the us through being blamed for the habit followed. i'll senior correspondent takes us through the whole mission now from the day it started in 2001 i began with with why just and pump invade of dust on to fight for freedom to fight terrorism and make the world a better place. 19 years, 10 months and $25.00 days on. this is america's legacy. they're stored and sabotaged equipment. a country bought a ruin and still in control of the talbot. that is the ultimate tragedy of the afghan war at was entirely and violently pointless. years and years

of an obliging little questioning media. fooled billions into believing that there was progress that america could win to victory over the taliban to taliban flat, the end of the taliban. taliban leadership on the run. and now the question is, how do you handle that? success the the, it wasn't supposed to be this way. the taliban wasn't supposed to sweep the country in me a weeks. the pentagon spent a decade preparing to leave of got a thought. and even though they weren't ready for this, together with our allies, we will complete our mission there. by the end of this year, i announced a timeline for drawing down our forces. we are working to finally end america as longest war, and it's time to end for evermore. the

america's proudest movement of the afghan war wasn't supposed to be a humiliating evacuation under the guns of the taliban. but it was there is absolutely nothing else to celebrate. the united states ended 20 years of war and can stand the longest war in american history. we completed one of the biggest air lists in history with more than 120000 people evacuated to safety. no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all history. the only the united states had the capacity in the will believe you to do it and we did it today. where was

the afghan army? where was the western back government? where did all the money go? the united states sank more than a $100000000000.00 into rebuilding of data stock for reference adjusted for inflation. that is more than the united states sped on the marshall plan to rebuild europe after world war 2. and the tragedy of it is that for a civilian the side from all the american weapons and the taliban pads, berries almost no evidence that any of that money ever passed through here, from broken roads that lead to nowhere to abandon hospitals from twisted contractors and corrupt leaders again, it's dawn can arguably be called the largest money laundering operation in human history. the united states is also committed to playing a leading role in the reconstruction of afghanistan. a 2021 special inspector

general for afghan. a stay and reconstruction report found that the united states has spent nearly $7800000000.00 on capital assets in afghanistan, including buildings, transmission lines, and substations, roads and bridges, motor vehicles, and aircraft. of that total, nearly 31 percent 2400000000 dollars was spent on assets that were not being used as intended, remained unused, or had been abandoned or destroyed in 2008. the u. s. department of defense spent $549000000.00 to provide the afghan air force with g to $22.00 military transport planes. a variation of an aircraft that the u. s. air force itself had retired almost 30 years earlier. because replacement parts were hard to find to the same conclusion. and the g $222.00 planes that had delivered to f ganna stan 6 years earlier were and ceremonies li sold for only $40257.00

as scrap metal. the taliban now controlled more of the country than it did before. the us invaded its new government the field with what dynamo, bay, inmates, and terrorist medina, dean who even have american bounties on their heads. what washington achieved was the absolute opposite of what it intended. our war on terror begins without canada, but it does not in there. it will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found. stopped and defeated. every fraud, the mission of god, this dawn failed. the taliban is back in power icon in africa in asia, and in the mid least now more powerful than it ever was before. things even worse

boards and said, i says relentless, ruthless and remorseless. we must rid the world of terrors, or children and grandchildren can grow up in freedom. we are not nation building again. we are killing terrorists. the the key bombing at capital airport during the evacuation epitomized the afghan war, a senseless act, devoid of reason which needlessly cut short so many lives. we will not

forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down to make you pay. we've heard the same promise before 20 years ago when america was united and when it thought that it could change the world when it thought it was invincible. and when the people believed a president's promise more, i guess the f r t couple of cada's thought. now, with the town about an almost full control of the country, we have spoken to people in the capital cabal and discovered how the past 20 years of american occupation have taken that help. when i was at school, i said my targets in live. but unfortunately now it looks like all my dreams have vanished. i can achieve those goals and we're worried about our studies and the prospect of finding work. many of my classmates have left have dentist who missed them a lot. i still hope to regain some kind of normal live ago,

but looks difficult. i was almost optimistic before. now with the new system, i'm confused. we're facing many difficulties. the body can amik situation, unemployment. we've lost our future. it's in the hands of gods whether this new government will deliver in 34 provinces of afghanistan, there was peace. 20 years ago. it was a war by the u. s. economic gain. we have won our freedom by sacrificing the blood of many people. the countries back contract now going to stop was progressing 20 years ago and it will advance again now the war happened because the americans invaded our land to serve their own interests. they will not have to reconstruct or develop a chemist on look how they destroyed or across the room, the airport. and this shows that they were not here to help us. when the americans were here, they bombed our cities, they killed civilians, innocent children, many people were killed. nothing good came out to the american invasion. the americans came to ganeth stand because they wanted to exploit our resources. they

brought their allies with them. poor people like us became their slaves and when they left, they took everything with them. look what they did to our airport. in the last 20 years, a lot of money has flowed into afghanistan, but not to all people. members of the lead class built up their properties and businesses. ordinary people got nothing. so i was be heard that it's been a great human cost to the war on terror, but it's also been to a gigantic financial price to pay is a closer look at that in more detail. ah, [000:00:00;00]

i tell it now has more black hawk helicopters than 85 percent of countries in the world. me and i still exist in our growing and afghan to stand and eventually they acquire these went ah, the majority of every member behind me is a veteran. never in my lifetime, would i ever believe america would have it administration knowingly make a decision to leave american? whereas just 2 weeks ago,

the president promised this nation that he would not leave until every single american was out. we now have americans stuck in afghanistan. the taliban in charge with more more weaponry they've ever had in the past. and a border that is doing the the humanitarian catastrophe looms enough canister. almost half of the population need humanitarian assistance. one and 3 don't know where the next meal will come from. now more than ever, african children, women and men need the support and solidarity of the international community washing off to national need 20 found the 1st of the $911.00 terror attacks will be

back with more analysis and coverage of today's event to the top of the me there's a thing in the koran attributed to the brother mohammed, the dreams, a threefold. sometimes they represent divine guidance, sometimes sorrow from the devil, and sometimes there about the conflict of daily living and past events. this applies also to women's rights in afghanistan, today. encouraged in the past to live out their dreams of being fully fledged human beings, african women and now being told that this amounts to satanic possession when they turn to and on, what can they count in this time of existential struggle,

ah, ah, the pacific leg, around the world expedition 5000 miles round the clock and the dead calm as every country close by with my food, the crew, cabins, food and water to go to those also bloom? i know i got everybody locked down or almost no food and no water really sure. somebody stuck

a species in the cove. it you're living like the fema of home, but in the 21st century. ah the look we're in that war for 20 years. wow. but a junkie. she's really, which most of the procedure to do project can troubleshoot the united states did what we want to do in afghanistan. john john, i was going to put it for the with the city way with john, by the way,