the the, the weekend or the 20th anniversary of the 911 attacks the release of the declassified document into who carried out the atrocity with the files. so essentially repeating the facts, adding no installation or possible saudi involvement. the whole suggests the united states mistakenly targeted an afghan aid work, or in a drone strike, killing 10 members of his family. we heard from a former american drone operator who told us of his own experiences, killing innocent people. every shot that we took, like they're cheering their congratulating each other. they're high fiving each other. people getting promoted because of this stuff. also ahead in our news review of the week, a series of leaks unconfirmed messages from the pentagon,

revealed to panic of withdraw from afghanistan. troops unable to rescue desperate american citizens. one form of special forces soldier who shed the encrypted messages gives us his full wants about what happened. our biggest problem with getting people out actually at the u. s. government is actually not the taliban. we've seen the military lead people behind the gate. the us military was not letting even civilian americans with passports, american passports. the british prime minister admits the break and key election promised by hiking tactics to fix the short fall in health and social care funding . ah, over the weekend i'll say a bit later, we'll take you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here and over the past 7 days. first we got some breaking news for you from the u. s. city of atlanta . a suspected gas explosion has caused an apartment complex to partly collapse in

a city suburb. it happened at around $130.00 on sunday afternoon. a number of people have been injured and pictures. bloodied on ambulance stretches to people is said to be missing. as of this moment, an investigation is trying to find the source of the blast as of now surrounding road to being closed. and electricity supplies disrupted. and what police are describing as an active incident will keep you posted on that, should we learn any more actually the f b i is released the previously classified documents on it's proven to the 911 attacks victims, families have long demanded the records be made public with many calling for more focus on saudi arabia as possible. involvement. however, it's not clear whether the latest document really says anything new. as kevin in discussed with archie, correspondent, me through polk. this report. what it is basically is it's an interview with saudi national, who is applying for citizenship, who apparently had contexts with 2 saudi nationals who apparently assisted to

hijackers while they were in the us. one of the 1st came to hijackers of the $911.00 plane basically. but a lot of this stuff, a lot of the information regarding this latest report is actually not that new. there was already a report declassified report back in 2016. and basically this, the stuff told out in this interview that we got in this report is all the same stuff. it's the same people, especially the same people. for example, one of them is being a person named alba, jo, me, who was apparently held in high regard within the consulate of saudi arabia in los angeles. now apparently this person was not working there, but he was highly regarded. and the person in this interview says that he was seen as one of the higher ups, even amongst the staff, even though he did not work there. but the main thing that this report was supposed to do is prove a connection to the saudi arabian government. and it does not do that. there is no

concrete evidence that links these people who were, sorry, national, there's no link to the actual saudi officials, government officials. so that link does not exist. also there were people names such as baton again, another person who had a ties to the hijackers who lives across their apartment in los angeles. again, he held extreme views, but no official ties to saudi government. and then there was also also mary, who was apparently accredited diplomat. so she's like one of mark accredited people . but again, he was not proven to be following any direct orders from saudi arabia from their official government. so this report basically just shows more details like 5 minute detail, like phone calls, where the met accidentally from restaurant the one to but it does not give any specific evidence new, no connections to the saudi government. ok, going along with what the saudi government said, all along the way that they would not respond revolt in this, in any shape or form. right. that when all that said, what are the victims?

relatives had to say this report was heavily redacted. you saying this hardly anything new? it it, are they happy or not about this them? it's odd actually, because one of the 1st report, one, the 1st dropped the initial reaction from the families was that a this is a big step in their fight against their lawsuit. against saudi arabia, because again, they're suing saudi arabia for billions of dollars in damages for their suppose it involvement in the $911.00 attacks. the one the 1st report dropped. the said yes, this will definitely help. but upon closer inspection, really there's not that much of air, even though the families have been fighting for this, these documents to be released for quite a while, even threatened bite, and that would be not welcome at any memorials pertaining to 911. unless you released the documents, we had great hope that president biden to campaigned on bringing truth and trust back to the oval office would value the lives and sacrifices of america citizens over diplomatic relations with

a country accused of mass murder. we cannot in good faith and with veneration to those last sick and injured welcome, the president to a hallowed grounds until he fulfills his commitment. those calls were heard and biden did respond. no, not directly, but he did issue in order to release more documents pertaining to the investigation of the 911 attacks. and this is just the 1st one and there will apparently be more within the next 6 months. but these, as you saw this one, the report is heavily redacted and doesn't really provide any bombshell, revelations, or any of that anything of that sort. and even the former c i e, director, has said that there's people shouldn't really expect too much from these upcoming documents. and reveals, i suspect that the families not going to get the kind of satisfactory answers about the role of saudi arabia with regards to this attack. well, yeah, and doesn't seem to be any of that information. and a lot of people have, know, it's worth it to know that this is saudi arabia. us has very high dealings with there's a lot of money involved and really there's,

it's been 20 years since the attack. there's been many investigations and still there's not been anything to link even though the, all the terrorists, like 900, there was 1900 the terrorist and during that attack. and most of them were saudi nationals. so it's obvious why it's some people would assume there isn't a connection, but it doesn't seem like any of these documents will actually prove that connection for whatever reason either there really isn't on or that just wouldn't be really beneficial to the u. s. saudi relations. so we'll see maybe the next 6 months we'll see something substantial. some actual revelations. what for now we're still getting the same old the short range passenger plane has crashed, landed in the remote, a could screech of central russia not far from lake by cow. the authorities say that 4 people were killed, 2 members of the flight crew and 2 passengers and a dozen others were injured and recording emerged of this phone call may to the emergency services by one of the survivors. so i don't just

like to be home on the for the l. fulton propeller aircraft operated by a regional airline. made a hard landing about 4 kilometers short of the destination runway emergency workers had to pull apart the wreckage to free people who were stuck inside. pull weather conditions and engine failure being investigated as possible. cause you footage suggests that us drone striking cobble targeting terrorists killed an aide worker loading his car with water. 10 civilians died in last month's attack including 7 children. us 40 said demand vehicle match the description of was used by the terry risk group isis k. they also said there was a large secondary blast after the drug strike suggesting that he was transporting explosives. but it turns out that claim was false according to an investigation by the new york times. the 8 worker had been employed by american n g o. there are many similar fates and victims of the 28 us campaign that have

kind of stand that we discovered in our in depth investigation series, unheard voices. the will use all tools at our disposal and killed our children to united states was bringing people to watch a sight. it was a pointless exercise in our latest report we took to brandon bryan to flue drones for the us military to help pay for his education. he spoke to us about his own personal experiences, which include his beliefs that he killed innocent people. after my 1st shot, i took the 3 innocent men killed that i believe in this, and i called my mother afterwards and cried. and she told me that it was good that i felt bad about it, because if i felt good about it, i was, i would just be another psychopath. ah

no other way. and again, for my education and the military showed up one day and i will pay for your education if you, sir, for a minimum of 4 years. and how can anyone turn that down? i started and comes down and turns around now goes in the military grade, wrestling since your job is to kill people and break things. so you got all these young enlisted dude and girls, girls and guys who are out of high school, grab no experience in anything who are now basically video game snipers for months of training. made that put in the position to make these decisions. the are

the 1st 3 months i was in active missions. i watched enemy forces die. friendly forces, di and the forces die and then innocence, innocent people die. and so i got to see like the impact on everybody's ah, ah, ah, ah, mental degradation, the proper term, every shot that we took, like they're cheering their congratulating each other. they're high fiving each other. people are getting promoted because of this stuff. it's like a withering away of who you are. i,

when you were hunting, a man named and was lucky. he was a mom from pm and i . ready was told one day going in that president obama himself would stop and give the order himself to me. and i got this euphoric feeling. the death of a lock is a major blow to all kind of most active operational affiliate. and then his 16 year old son was killed 2 weeks later and drones, right. when i asked some of the people that i knew why they struck me. romanella lucky. they said, because i didn't want them to become a figurehead. the 1st thing that trump did in office was kill and we're our lock.

he's 8 year old daughter. well we see with the terrorist you have to take out their families, maybe to them, it seems practical, but to me it seems evil. ah . ready there was an incident involved killing of civilians. they might have been to new zealand right civilians in afghanistan. so president obama got on television himself and was saying it was not the fault of intelligence or the military leadership. it was defaulted to drone operators that cause this and that really upset me because we get no intel. i felt like he was blaming me. landor in chief of the united states military was pointing a little me and saying, oh all those things that were other people's fault and sexual, your phone, the ah,

i didn't know who i was anymore. i didn't know what i believed anymore. i didn't know my purpose anymore. i almost kill myself with a 9 millimeters 6 p t u 266, our german law enforcement weapon. and the only reason i don't is because of him. but he said he just wants he wanted to go for a walk and i'm sitting there with the goat in my hand and i'd ready to do it. and he's just like, dad, let's go for work. let's go for walk. i'm going to go for one. 0. ready i. ready says and stories from people, his life for forever changed by america's longest war and continuing special series on heard voices, which you can also find at r t dot com for americans were allowed to leave afghanistan on thursday. the taliban giving them the green lights to flee. on charter flight, almost 10 days after the official end of the u. s. withdrawal. many more though,

remain as the biden administration grapples with the fall out. and a series of messages now shedding light on the failed efforts to get it citizens out. and the american citizens, yes, all of them we are abandoning american citizens. those texts which haven't been verified, were disclosed by michael young. he's a war correspondent, informing us special forces soldier was among the civilians working with both the military and private networks to rescue stranded americans. he get his details of his compensation, but the high ranking us army officer that colonel was not physically present, but he was in contact major general chris donahue who, who was the combatant commander on the ground. and so that colonel wasn't physically there. in fact, he was very frustrated. you can see from that tax, there was more tax those while he was really demonstrating a lot of frustration at one point you said 10, you ran the gate. in other words, hit it with the car and get in. i mean, he wanted to rescue those people and you know, he,

i hope that his tags don't cause him any problems. he's the kind of general we need . no, he didn't want to follow those orders. he wanted to get them out. we had 3 jets on the ground that were private jets that were paid for by a friend of mine's team. his name is rick clay, and his team had paid for 3 jets. they were on the ground civilian jets waiting. and the us military was not letting even civilian americans with passports, american passports, our biggest problem on getting people out actually is the u. s. government. it's actually not the todd man. i know that sounds crazy, but the biggest problem is not valid in italy. man, i'm actually it's in some cases of actually helped us. you can't even make up the stuff. this is like something for a weird movie. so taliban is saying that us forces, happy to come and get them or call us to let them through. nobody can make up the stuff. i don't care who's fault it is the department of state or the military. it's all of your fault. you didn't let them in period they were at the beginning. then

of course, the next day we have a pentagon in the white house. they're going know, you know, all american citizens who wanted to get in could have gotten in. but they couldn't actually make it to the airport and were saying, excuse my language, i don't know if i can say this on russian tv. they definitely were at the gate period. when i could make a lot of what michael was saying, he also released conversations with contractors who were in cobble one of them, claiming that 45 americans, including women and children, were unable to get into the airport, even if they had us passports with them. the sole source claiming the summer, even beaten and assaulted just trying to get in the source attic that she was asking senior officers for clarification on how they could be help as they faced the terrifying ways. however, the commanders apparently refused to step in leaving all those still stuck outside to beat their fate. during those chaotic hours. another contract wrote, the us generals knew that their citizens were stuck outside the apple,

but still wouldn't grant access. he even proposed paying other government such as the u. k. to help lift americans out and confirm the general mar. many was chair of the join us chiefs of stuff that made the decision to not open the gate. can you confirm? general milly was mentioned by name as the leader that is condemning them to death . yes, i can confirm that mentioned by name picture coming from those conversations in stark contrast then to the narrative from the biden administration. the white house kept insisting that the situation was under control, and no american citizens would be left behind. what we're doing every single minute of every single hour of every single day is working to create a safe passage for all civilians, including the afghans who worked for us to the airport to get them on planes and get them out. i think they're responsible to say americans are stranded, they are not. we are committed to bringing americans who want to come home homes. we completed one of the biggest err lists in history,

extraordinary success. and this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage is united states, military and our diplomats and intelligence professional law for the evacuation. michael leon wrote a scathing letter to the armies high command, highlighting some of what he saw as mister. specifically, the us nationals were abandon the gates while 3 empty jets pay for by volunteers. with sat waiting for the now we've asked the pentagon photography occasions on this, but they've declined to comment so far. you know, believes that the lack of transparency has just made matters worse. that's what americans are saying. we leave no one behind and right. and right now we've seen the military leave people behind the gate. but it's, it's a sin to say, well, i'm just going to live because it's humiliating. so we just have to leave behind and lie about it. know, we're going to try to get them out and we're getting a lot of them out right now. the military in the department state are in our way at this point. so in addition to leaving people behind,

they are stopping us from getting them out. now, department state isn't our way where we want the military and the government to get out of our way. we don't need their help anymore. i mean, now that we're getting success as civilians, because you know, we can do it. we don't need them, we're faster or more efficient. and we don't have the bureaucracy and we're just smarter than they are. without still to come on, the way clear candidate for the french presidency is calling for his version of rex . it telling him that to free themselves from the countries. and he is one of our stories off of the breaking the so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally,

i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk with the the the the the

the hello again, the british prime minister submitted breaking a key pledge of his election manifesto by raising personal taxes to the highest level in decades. we promise not to raise the rates of income tax, national insurance, or v a t. this is a tax guarantee, it will protect the income, so hardworking families across the next parliament, the no conservative government, no conservative government to speak, every once to raise past is not will be honest with the highest like yes, i accept the break. i manifest commitment, which is not something which is not something i do likely, but a global pandemic within the with follows and 18 months spending, but answer because of covered 19 that seen the national debt spiral. in the 1st year of the pandemic, the government borrowed 300000000000 pounds, a large part of which was to fund a work as furlough scheme. pers johnson called tuesday's tax hike

a difficult but responsible decision needed to fix the funding shortfall in health and social care were beginning the biggest catch up program in the history of the chess. the levy will share the cost as fairly, as possible between people and businesses because we all benefit from a well supported and a chest and all businesses benefit from a healthy workforce. the shuttle work in pensions. secretary, jonathan reynolds, reacting to the prime minister, essentially. 3 saying the way the government have tried to frame this issue of, for example, people living longer and having healthier lives and insensitive way of dealing with what are very real issues for the elderly when it comes to their pensions. the governments cases of the full data and the pandemic have produced a statistical aberration. i reject the presentation of this issue as the source of intergenerational tension or unfairness because we all have an interest in ensuring

that there's a decent state pension in the future. we would never present increase longevity as a problem the pretends to the prime minister. he's only here because it's time to make is not going to wash. he's putting a sticking plaster over gaping wounds which his party inflicted. he made the comment of social care before the pandemic, and he said he would pay for it without raising taxes before the pandemic. now this is of course, the 2nd manifesto pledge that the prime minister has broken within a day. the 2nd of those being an announcement to raise national insurance contributions, which they the government that is promised not to do in the lead up to that election at the end of $29.00 team. so the government, the chancellor, the treasury all with a balancing act to do to have tried to please if not all sectors of society as many as possible when it comes to the agenda, not just in the u. k. the so called global gender of build back

a better point. and slogan the bars, johnson repeated again. how much of a political commentator anthony webb told us the tax hike reflects are responsible government behavior during the pandemic? i think it is damaging because of the way it's been drawn to saw where he's playing a pandemic. the government has actually dealt with the kid a district course. no way it's been spending money. we're not thinking about the consequences. it's now trying to deal with the consequences by bringing in additional means, like a mummy term has as the leader of the opposition in court. and now today, all the problems we had with the chests and with social care interested. well, the pool, the panoramic camera won't off the bracks. it could fax it the next because a candidate for the french presidency is now calling on his country to seize back control and free itself from the grip of brussels. and he's

a big name in politics to shall do. bad sky explains from paris. he was the man that was leaving the charge. when it came to the brig negotiation. he was the man that was in charge of insuring a victory for you. and during many years of reg that she was the man that kept saying e, u is the gold standard during those discussions. even if she was the u. k. you trying to cherry pick was wanting from the you. now mission volunteer is telling a very different story. something for the presidency hearing from elections, take place in about a level. and the things he is saying is shocking. many events in the south yesterday he post about leaving out more fluid still european counter by it was germany is doing and when it came to migration of the rules rules, what he has to say. we cannot do all this without having regained our legal

sovereignty. being permanently frightened by a ruling or a condemnation at the level of the european court of justice or the european convention on human rights, or by an interpretation by our own judicial institutions. the reaction, i mean i was in fact some people were so shocked about these comments. they thought that they would fake news. how could someone like me should volunteer see such things? the problem is junior european affairs, mr. clement born said that he couldn't believe that somebody who was truly committed to europe will be able to say such things. others suggested the mission volunteer had essentially imploded entire career. michelle bonnie: a is giving a master class on how to destroy your career and legacy and the desperate hope of looking electable to elect for that just straight up dislikes you regardless. well, bonia has defended his comment, saying the idea of a constitutional field would only apply when it comes european court on issues such

as like gratian, but his attempts to defend his comments seem to make things worse. you can only how briggs and she is, has been reacting to this here just some of the comments. this is breathtaking. the hypocrisy the same. michel bonnie who doing the brakes. it negotiations taught to belittle the u. k. for demanding control over our courts and our borders. now he wants the same for friends for exit. this is ironic in the extreme bonnie: a preaching the merits of national sovereignty to cover the over powerful e. u and european court of human rights. one is true feelings, it seems about the new and about european institutions couldn't have come. i don't climb to the brock at the moment. russell is trying to reschedule supremacy when it comes to issues with the cold countries such as hungary and poland. even seeing some questions being raised by germany called to school court and his comment to

from meeting to maybe the am to, to have more influence when it comes to the european union to counterbalance the influence of germany. doesn't suggest that the relationships within the block goes cosy, i think would have you believe which many will wonder if this does mean that there are troubles was, is hash just before we wrap up, just let me remind you of the breaking news. it brought you at the start of the program from the united states were a suspected gas explosion has caused an apartment building to partially collapse. in a suburb of the city of atlanta in georgia, 2 people are reported to be hospitalized. and another 2 currently missing, nearby roads have been closed and medic, tricity, the area's been shut off as investigate, has tried to determine the exact cause of what happened. i will keep you posted if we learn any more. that's it for the weekly, for this edition, though. thanks very much for watching wherever you're shooting in this weekend. thanks for choosing outside. i'll be back in about half an hour with the next step that the

dentist thing in the koran attributed to the prophet mohammed, the dreams are threefold. sometimes they represent divine guidance, sometimes sorrow from the devil, and sometimes there about the conflicts of dated 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 amount to satanic possession. and they turn to and on what can they count in this time of existential struggle. ah the.