it's remarkable give me the weekend on the 20th anniversary of the 911 terror attacks the f. b i is released declassified document into who carried out the atrocity with a file. so essentially repeating known facts, adding no information on possible saudi involvement report suggests us mistakenly targeted an african aid work or in a drug strike and getting haven't 9 members of his family. we had from a former american drone operator who told us of his own experiences, killing innocent people. every shot that we turn like they're cheering their congratulating each other. they're high fiving each other. people getting promoted because of this stuff. plus and due to a few of the week, a series of leaks unconfirmed messages from the panic and reveals the panic of the

withdrawal from afghanistan with troops unable to rescue desperate american citizens. one for the special forces soldier who shared the encrypted messages give us his thoughts about what happened. our biggest problem with getting people out actually is the us government is actually not the time. we've seen the military lead people behind the gate. us military was not letting even civilian americans with passports, american passports, the british prime minister admits to breaking a key election promised by hiking taxes to fix a shortfall in health and social care funding. the news either it's a weekly formality international will take you through some of the biggest stories we've reported on here over the past 7 days, the weekends developments to get you up to speed on 1st though. under the f b i is released to pre asleep classified document on

a probe into the 911 attacks victims families have long demanded that the record to be made public with many calling football focus on saudi arabia as possible. involvement. however, it's not clear whether the latest disclosure really says anything new. as kevin, when discussed with our t correspondent dmitri polk. this report what it is basically is. it's an interview with a saudi national, who is applying for citizenship, who apparently had contacts with, to saudi nationals who apparently assistant to hijackers while they were in the u. s. when they 1st came to hijackers of the $911.00 lane 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 the saudi national. there's no link to the actual, sorry, facial 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 extremist 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, not new, no connection. society, 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 in 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 in their lawsuit against saudi arabia. because again, they're suing saudi arabia for billions of dollars in damages. for their suppose that involvement in the 911 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 she 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 the 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 and 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 no, it's fortunate to know that this is saudi arabia. us has very tie, dealings with 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 and the terrorist and during that attack, and most of them were saudi nationals. so it's obvious why 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 for the us saudi relation. 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 suspected gas explosion read through an apartment building sunday lunch time in a suburb of the us city of atlanta. several people have been reported injured and another 2 are missing with the building. having partly collapse, nearby roads have been closed and nat courtesies been shut off as investigators trying to determine the exact cause of the incident. the apartment complex has been evacuated with emergency workers reinforcing but destroyed structures to continue to search for people who may be trapped inside the shore range passenger playing with 16 people on board as christ landed in the remote could screech it in central russia not far from lake bike, how the authorities say the to flight crew members in 2 passengers were killed. recordings emerged to a phone call by one of the survivors to the emergency services. to someone just alone. someone always do it like you did. your home on the board was given

the l. fulton propeller. i. croft operated by a regional allied, made a hard landing and thick fog about 4 kilometers short of the destination. by way, emergency work is had to pull apart the wreckage to free. the people stuck inside the pool weather conditions and possible technical failure being investigated as suspected causes the suggest to us drone striking cobble that have been meant to target. a terrorist group actually killed an aide work or transporting drinking water. 10 civilians died and that attack last month including 7 children. us forces said the mans vehicle match the description of what used by the terrorist 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 claimed was false according to an investigation by the new york times. the worker had even been employed by an american n g o. other of any similar fate, some victims of the 20 year us campaign in afghanistan, as we discover,

and to investigate his series, unheard 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 and our latest report, we talked to brandon bryan to flute drones for the us military to help pay for his education. he spoke to us about his own personal experiences, which include his belief that he killed innocent people. after my 1st shot i took with the 3 innocent men killed, that i believe are in the sand. 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 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 serve 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 crater and since your job is to kill people and break things. so you got all these young enlisted deeds and girls gallon 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 or friendly forces die and the forces die and then innocence, innocent people die. and so i got to see like the impact on everybody ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, ah, mental degradation with 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. me when you were hunting, a man named and was lucky. he was a mom from pm and ah, i 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 the 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 in a joint strike. when i asked some of the people that i knew why they struck romanella lucky, they said that because i didn't want them to become a figure. the 1st thing that trump did in office was kill and we're our lock. he's

8 year old daughter. we sit with the terrorist, you have to take out their families, maybe to them, it seems practical, but to me it seems evil. ah, there was an incident involved killing of civilians. they might have been to new zealand white 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. commander 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 sexually 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 killed myself with a 9 millimeters 6 p 2266, 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 what, let's go for walk. i'm ready to go for what i . ready ready have more 1st and stories from people whose lives have been forever changed by americans longest war and are continuing special series on heard voices, which you could also watch the r t dot com. more americans were allowed to leave afghanistan on thursday, where the taliban giving them the green light 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 full series of leave. messages is now shedding light on the failed efforts to evacuate american citizens and the american citizens. yes, all of them we are abandoning american citizens. those texts which haven't been verified were disclosed by michael yon. he's a war correspondent and for us special forces soldier who was among civilians working with the military and private that works to rescue stranded americans. he got his details if his conversation with a high blanket u. s. military officer. that colonel was not physically present, but he was in contact. major general christiana, you who, who was the combatant commander on the ground. and so, 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 he said, can you read the gate and other intended with the car and get in?

i mean, he wanted to rescue those people and you know, and 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 have 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 is actually not the taliban. 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 gate. then of course, the next day we haven't pentagon in the white house that 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. michael also released conversations with contractors who were in cobble. we want them claiming that $45.00 americans, including women and children, were unable to enter the apple, even if they had the us passports with them. the source also claiming the summary from beaten and assaulted just the trying to get in and added that he was asking senior officers for clarification on how they could be helped as they faced that terrifying weight. but however, the commanders apparently refused to step in, leaving those still stuck outside to meet their fate. during those chaotic hours, another contract wrote that the us generals knew that their citizens were stuck outside the apple,

but still wouldn't grant access. he even proposed to the governments like the u. k . to help and left americans out and conserve the general mark. milly, chairman of the us joint chiefs of staff, had made the decision to not open the gate. can you confirm? general milly was mentioned by name as the leader there is condemning them to death . yes, i can confirm that mentioned by name. the picture coming from most compensations is in stark contrast to the narrative from the biden administration. the white house kept insisting that the situation was under control and no american citizens will be left behind. what we're doing every single minute of every single hour of every single day is working to create safe passage for all civilians, including the afghan, to work 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 completed. one of the biggest err lists in history,

extraordinary success. and this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of united states, military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. lots of evacuation. michael yon wrote a scathing letter to the military's high command, highlighting some of what he saw was missteps. specifically, the us nationals were abandoned that the gates while 3 empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting on the tarmac for them. we've asked the pentagon for clarifications, but they so far declined to comment. now your believes that the lack of transparencies made matters worse. that's what americans are saying. we leave no one behind. 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, we're more efficient. and we don't have the bureaucracy and we're just smarter than they are. still to come on, the weekly a french presidential candidate wants to bring breakfast from. even though he was the used man battling brussels colma against the u. k. o, i use the 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 amounts to satanic possession. who can they turn to? and i'm, what can they count in this time of existential struggle? ah, join me every 1st a on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me the, the news.

ah, hello again. the british prime minister submitted breaking a key pledge in 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. no conservative government, no conservative government to speak every once to raise taxes. and i will be honest with the high except yes, i, except for the break i manifest commitment, which is not something which is not something i do likely, but a global pandemic within no one who has follows and 18 months spending bonanza because of koby 19 that seen the national debt spiral. in the 1st year of the pandemic, the government borrowed $300000000000.00 pounds, a large part of which was to fund a work as furlough scheme for his johnson called tuesdays tax hike. a difficult but

responsible decision needed to fix the funding shortfall in health and social care . we're beginning the biggest catch up program in the history of the an hfs. 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 saying the way the government tries 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 that pensions to governments, cases of the 1st day or in the pandemic have produced a statistical aberration. i reject the presentation of this issue as a 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 said 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 manifest 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 teams. 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 build back and better point. and

slogan the bar, as johnson repeated again, trying to i know of rex. it could for exit be next because the candidate for the french presidencies 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 as well as shallow do. ben sky explains from paris. he was the man that was leaving the charge when it came to the brig negotiation thing was the man that was in charge of insuring a victory. you fool you. and during many years old briggs that she was the man that kept saying you 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 thing he is saying is shocking. many events in the phone yesterday

about needing to have more influence in european counterpart, it was germany is doing. and when it came to migration of the rule, what do you have 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. so the european convention on human rights, or by an interpretation by our own judicial institutions, the reaction, i mean, i will, in fact some people were so shocked about these comments. they thought that they would fake news. how could someone like me should vanya see such things, the policy is junior european affairs, mr. clem. paul said that he couldn't believe that somebody who was truly committed . you will, 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 to you repeat calls on issues such as migration. but his attempts to defend his comments seem to have made 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. born is true feelings, it seems about you in about european institutions couldn't have come the worst climb to the floor at the moment. brussels is trying to reschedule supremacy when

it comes to issues of the countries such as hungary and poland. even seeing some questions being raised by germany called to school court, and he's coming to from meetings to maybe to, to have more influence when it comes to the european union to counterbalance 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 they're all trouble voices hash. okay, that's it for me in the moscow news team for now in the next half hour on a quarter, we have the next edition of the weekend. so we wrap up the past 7 days here on santa actually for me, for now about the war on drugs started as a way to come back. a great problem. what's the one?

it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of north dakota. and it got to be something that you could get elected. this time, the fight against drugs took a check and told us that. and there was a competence on the form. this is way too dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way, a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in a river like something else had to be happening with the the ah the me,

the me i don't of welcome to all the. there is a saying in the garage attributed to profitable honda, the readings be 4 times their representatives to guide him some time. * from the job and sometimes there about the conflict of daily living impact supplies per se, tragically to women. and i've got an encouraging in the past to leave out that dream that we flush the human beings being told by the taliban. this amounts to nothing more. but the panic possession, who was the count on in this time of a truly existential struggle. well, to discuss it now joined the slow kabul by what was the rash executive director of athens, women, field development center mr. osh?