me the ah, this weekend on the 20th anniversary of the 911 terror attack, the f. b. i has released a declassified, declassified documents about those who carried out the atrocity with the files, though essentially repeating known facts and adding up no information on possible audi involved in the meanwhile, in our news review of the week, a series of leaks unconfirmed messages from the pentagon revealed panic resulting from the afghan to stand withdrawal. us troops are unable to rescue desperate american citizen than one former special forces soldier who shared the encrypted messages gave us his thoughts about what happened. our biggest problem of getting

people out actually is the u. s. government, this is actually not the time. we've seen the military lead people behind the gate . the us military was not letting even civilian americans with passports, american passports. and the british prime minister admin fee broke a key election promised by hiking taxes to fix a shortfall in health and social care fund. ah . hello there. thanks for joining us for the weekly on our international. my name is donald quarter. welcome to the program. now the f b i has released to previously classified document on its investigation into the 911 attacks that comes families have long demanded such records to be made public with many calling for more focus on allegations of saudi involvement. however, it's not clear whether the latest disclosure really says anything new as

r t 's corresponded to be 3 po reports. the latest report declassified by the f b i, pertaining to the 911 terror attack, was hoped by many to finally shed light on the role of saudi arabia and the plot. some of the families suing the saudi government for its alleged involvement. wanted this report to be a smoking gun, but is it? well, frankly not really. the report is heavily redacted. a meeting, many names, titles, and other information, but more important wait. most of the information is actually old news. most of the things detailed in the report turn out to be supplementary. the findings made public years ago. for example, the new report just give us more details on a man accused of supporting 2 of the hijackers. but says pretty much essentially the same thing as the 2016 document to describe what you mean the saudi citizens treated with great respect inside the cell,

be considered well regarded by counselor personnel who held a very high status, the f. b. i has received numerous reports of al by you, me may be a saudi intelligence officer. i'll, by you, me, had extensive contact with the saudi government establishment in the united states . it's still not exactly evidence of saudi government involvement. another example is hot offer, married an accredited diplomat, society consulate who allegedly also provided logistical support to 2 of the terrorists in los angeles. and yet again, we learned practically nothing new about him. other than some details about how he helped that would be hijackers. the report says he held extremist views, but we sort of already knew that because he was borrowed from entering the us precisely because of his extremist leanings and some of the passages on. also, mary, are nearly identical to what was published back in 2016. with co split to my re, to cyst has me and mid while they were in los angeles,

out to my re immediately assigned an individual to take care of al has me and me dar during their time in the los angeles area. so basically the release report only give us more details on information that was already known, but doesn't seem to review any new facts that could directly incriminate the saudi government, which has repeatedly denied any involvement or prior knowledge of the attack. but nevertheless, some of the families of the victims maintain hope that this latest report will be instrumental in their lawsuit against the saudi arabian government. 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 american 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. however, remaining suspect that this will not be a transformative report at best. it reinforces suspicions that saudi officials

might have been involved with the attack, but the document does not provide any concrete evidence. then again, this report is not the last of its kind executive order following through on his presidential campaign promise. biden said, there will be more documents to come within the next 6 months. however, given how little this 1st report delivered in terms of actual evidence, many, including a former c i, a director, are skeptical that these documents will actually provide any useful insight. 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. meanwhile, some suspect that even if there was saudi involvement, the u. s. wouldn't want to release that information after all, for v was putting such a valuable economic partner like react in a bad life would be just bad for business. but whatever the truth for many of the victims, families,

the reality is nothing can bring their loved ones back. the 911 terror attacks killed almost 3000 people and changed the lives of so many americans on that day. and even years later, in the subsequent war on terror, families of 911 victims, war veterans and others who have been immensely impacted shared their stories in our special investigative series on heard voices. the will use all tools at our disposal. killed our children for united states was bringing people to watch a site. it was a pointless exercise. we spoke with monica, i can murphy widow who lost her husband in the 911 attacks as well as gabriel martinez, a veteran of the war and afghan. stan, they said their lives have been forever divided into what had come before and what followed these harwick events. the

people, the me i was happily married. i was looking forward to be a mom because i don't happen to know you're always thinking pulled. my life has been like, you know, people think i do move on. you don't move on. you move into the new life you're given because that was chosen for me. i didn't choose add life. that wasn't my plan . even people chose that plan for me. i. i think about michael, i mean there's not a moment or a time. i mean, everything i do is for him, my preschools name, i can find academy. his name was, and i keep my, i can name, hyphenate murphy, i made a promise that i would honor him to the day i die. and that's exactly what when you

start thinking 20 years is a long time to still be in it. ah, the day that i lost him, i can bring him home myself. no more remains of him, which is why i was so involved in fighting for the memorial. and just that was where he took his last breath, his last step. and that's actually my home. so for me that was sacred and how it said i had nothing to live for. i was going to fight for that space. i didn't care how long it took me. they had a very over me. the void is like a ghost. intangible, lingering the opposite of something that is concrete and tangible that leads to ongoing pain and suffering for many of these families. ah, me

will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. mm. i know that those, all those service men and women went there to fight for us after $911.00. and that, that's, that's a detriment and it's very sad, but i know it's not in vain. when i joined the military, i was pretty ideal, is i want to go out and serve my country in which while the different now which you see things they really are. and i feel like the war and i've dentist in it of itself. they have to last as long as it drag on the way it has and caused dollars of lives and even many more dollars of

the extraordinary success. and this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of united states military. it's been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. you feel a little bit you feel, let down you feel angry, you feel. ready up and down completely lost faith in this binding administration. complete disaster honestly. ah, it's totally botched. there is no. ready political will, and there is still americans trapped in afghanistan. and as far as lessons learned from, i mean other previous words. i mean, if we haven't learned from vietnam, if we didn't learn from, you know, from iraq and early to thousands. i mean,

we're just going to continue to make the same big mistakes. now, you know, our children, we have to protect, protect on their future generation. that's why the story that's so important to keep telling the stories, understanding what really happened here and why it's so important that we don't let this happen again. soon. we'll have more 1st 10 stories from people whose lives were forever changed by americans. longest war in our continuing special theories on heard voices, you can also check it out at r t dot com. now, more americans were allowed to leave afghanistan on thursday with the taliban, giving them the green light to flee on charter flights. almost 10 days after the official end of the u. s. withdrawal. many more though still remain as the biden administration, grapples with the fall out. and a series of leak to messages is now shedding light on 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 yet, were disclosed by michael young, a war correspondent and former us special forces soldier. he was among civilians working with the military and private networks to rescue stranded americans. and he gave us details of his conversation with a high ranking u. s. military 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, had 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 us government. it's actually not the todd man. i know that sounds crazy, but the biggest problem is not valid. be in italy, man. i'm actually, it's in some cases of actually helped us, you can 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 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 yon also released conversations with contractors who are in call one of them, claiming that $45.00 americans, including women and children, were unable to enter the airport even if they had their passports with them. the source claims that there were even be that they were even beaten and assaulted just for trying to get in. he added that he was asking senior officers for clarification on how they could be helped as they faced a terrifying wait. however, the, those commanders apparently refused to step in, leaving those still stuck outside to meet their fate. and other contractor wrote that us generals, new their citizens were stuck outside the airport, but still would not grant access, even proposed paying other governments, such as the united kingdom to help airlift, americans out of there and confirmed that general mark millie,

chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of staff had no, had 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. the picture coming from those conversations starkly contrasts the biden administration's narrative, as the white house kept insisting that the situation was under control, and that 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 safe passage for all civilians, including the afghans who work for us to the airport to get them on planes and get them out. i think they're responsible, 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 of this mission was due to the incredible skill,

bravely and selfless courage of united states, military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. after the evacuation, michael yon wrote a scathing letter to the military high command, highlighting some of what he saw as missteps. specifically that us nationals were abandoned at the gates, while 3 empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. we asked the pentagon for clarification, but they have so far declined to comment on believes the lack of transparency has made matters worse. that's what americans already say. 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 to 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. now in the u. s. a suspected gas explosion has ripped through an apartment building in a suburb of the city of atlanta. the building partially collapsed with 4 people, reported injured. authorities structurally reinforced the destroyed area to conduct a thorough search. and they now do not suspect that anyone else has been trapped inside investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of this incident. a short range, passenger plane, with 16 people on board has crash, landed in the remote air, coots, green of central russia. not far from lake by call,

authority say to flight crew members and 2 passengers were killed. recording has emerged of a phone call by one of the survivors to the emergency services. someone just like you did your home on the attention of the l. 410 propeller aircraft operated by a regional airline. made a hard landing in thick fog. about 4 kilometers short of the destination runway emergency workers had to pull apart the wreckage to free. the people stuck inside, poor weather conditions and possible technical failure are being investigated as suspected causes. still to come on, the weekly a candidate for the french presidency is calling for his version of briggs, it telling citizens to free themselves from the clutches of the you. this story and more after a short break, the the

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let it be an arms race is on 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 the welcome back to the program. now the british prime minister has admitted to breaking a key pledge of his election manifesto by raising personal taxes to, to their 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 taxes. now will be honest with the highest like steps. yes. like that. with the brakes manifest commitment,

which is not something which is not something i do likely, but a global pandemic within this follows and 18 months spending spree because of covered 19, which is 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 the workers furlough scheme. forest johnson called tuesdays tax hike, a difficult but responsible decision needed to fix funding shortfall in health and social care. we're beginning the biggest catch up program in the history of the chest. 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, an 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 try 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, to 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 pretense to the prime minister is only here because the panoramic is not going to wash. he's putting a sticking plaster over gaping wounds which his party inflicted. he made the comment on 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 filled back and better point. and slogan the bars johnson repeated again. do i know how much was political commentator anthony webber told us the taxes reflect irresponsible government behavior amid depend demik? i think it is damaging because of the way it's been done to saw where he's playing 3 times. i make the governments is actually dealt with the district course that way it's been spending money. i'm not thinking about the consequences. it's now trying to deal with the consequences by bringing in this additional means, like

a mummy term has as the leader, the opposition court. and now today, all the problems we had with the chests and with social care existed well before the camera won't seem briggs, it but could for exit be next. 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 and politics to charlotte to been sky reports from paris. he was the man that was losing the charge. when it came to the brig negotiation, he was the man that was in charge of insuring a victory. you fool that you and during many years of reg that he was the man that kept saying you is the gold standard during those discussions you even accuse the u . k. you trying to cherry pick was wanting from the you. now mission volunteer is

telling a very different story. he's standing for the presidency hearing from elections, take place in about a month. and the things he is saying is shocking. many events in the south from yesterday, he was leaving out more european count. it was too many is doing and when it came to migration of 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 of 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 vanya see such things. there is a junior european affairs. mister clement ball 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 close to school feels would only apply when it comes. european calls 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 are just some of the comments. this is breathtaking . the hypocrisy the same. michel bonnie who doing the brakes it negotiations try 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 overpower for

e. u and european court of human rights who born is true feelings, it seems about the new and about european institutions couldn't have come at the worst time to the book at the moment. brussels is trying to reschedule supremacy when it comes to issues of the poor. poor countries such as hungary and poland, even seeing some questions being raised by germany, constitutional court. and his comments from meeting to maybe to, to have more influence when it comes to the european union to counterbalance influence of germany. this will suggest that the relationships within the block goes cosy, i think, would have you believe which many will one day if this does mean that there are trouble waters hash. and that's the weekly on r t international will be back again in just about 30 minutes. so stay tuned. the i have often said

transparency for the powerful privacy for the kids about privacy. what people care about is power. julian, a son just become a symbol of the battles of barissi. information is power. that's what's going on. a huge struggle with governments and corporations who want to keep information secret and others who democratic rights should be pushed forward. and people have a right to know what to do. watch houses help to shift the conversation around transparency and see what that battle has done to him. i feel like julian's life might be coming to an end. we are in a conflict situation with the largest and most powerful employer. in such a situation, it's remarkable. somebody told me join me every

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