to seats, i'm scared that more children are gonna grow pre good country look, think says no racism, but they're more likely to end up in the criminal justice system. been there although fellow friends in daycare stories that shake the way here in our tea remark. 20 years since u. s. nissan eyes invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime. and now in the wake of the american pull act, many questions are still being asked with violence. they're still on the rise pull side to cut me off in chance. the sebastian curse quits amid allegations of embezzlement and bribery and a tough week for facebook to detect giant experienced to series as g, as in 6 days. billions of uses couldn't access whatsapp and instagram either for a total of 9 at ah,

hello, good morning, the latest developments and look back. what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watch the weekly here on our t international. now this week we mark 20 years since the u. s. in its allies invaded afghanistan, top playing the taliban regime and nam, the wake of the western pull out. many questions are still being asked. not least why the tanner bands offer to hand over a sama bin laden was rejected by the bush administration that led to 2 decades of war. countless lives lost. and at the end of it all the militants back in power. water gasdio reports now from couple on what was really achieved the afghan war and is just shy of it's it's 20th anniversary, the, the war a vengeance that was launched by the united states as revenge for 911 and quickly morph into something else. one of the most protracted conflicts in modern history,

an exercise, and a nation building before losing all lame and tylenol towards the end. neither the united states nor any of its allies, still knew what it is that they hoped to achieve. here the end result is, is that it was unanimously considered an abject failure. but taliban is, is back in control. and more absolutely than it was before the united states invaded afghanistan. and the question that we're hearing now in the halls of congress, in parliament, in europe, and the press and either on television internationally is he is who the we lame. we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and nursing ranks. that we do not grass a damaging effect to frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his

commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp what there was only so much for which and for home men of the afghan forces would fight. this has been a 10 year multi administration drawdown. not a 19 month or 19 day neo, these scandal is no n yet over the americans calling it been ghazi on steroids, the republicans as well as ordinary americans that she, the end of the war is humiliating for america. they want someone held responsible, the biden and miss administration, as well as the pentagon. so far they have done their best to absolve themselves of all accountability for what many americans again see as a catastrophe. they argue that the fault is with many american administrations that, that preceded them. and that is ignoring the tremendous financial cost of the war.

some that could have made the lives of americans and many of their allies at the taxpayers so much better and so much easier. ah ah ah ah ah ah, we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest child poverty rate of almost any country on earth.

from the perspective of a civilian, there is scott evidence here on the ground in afghanistan of any of that money ever making its way here. aside from half finished clinics in and broken roots testament to record breaking levels of corruption that, that so brilliant siphoned off into the bank accounts of corrupt officials into the pockets of private contractors. though the evidence of these billions being here is in the hands of the taliban, the guns that they wield, stamped with made in america, the vehicles military vehicles left behind the industrial quantities, the town about her, of course jubilant. they have dismantled everything with the united states. built here with human rights, the tolerance, the democratic institutions, and the matter of weeks. and they are jubilant. they have after 20 years of,

and selection and rebellion believe they want. mm. by virtually any measure. this war was a failure. in some respects, it even made things worse, from a humanitarian perspective or a 3rd of afghans near an offer on the verge of starvation, with no hope inside the drugs manufactured and export to that of, of gustavo, kill countless youth world wide. from a geopolitical perspective, the taliban considered an international pariah since its inception is now having to be negotiated with it. i counted with even a, the un bob from a security perspective. yes,

al qaeda either gather star may have been degraded but, but something worse has taken its place and that is i fish, which has bound to the challenge to afghanistan. dominance by the taliban. were against the i think a bull there will also this week in afghanistan, scores of people were killed in an explosion that a sheer mosque in the countries northern city of conduce. the bloss happened during friday prayers and over a 100 people are reported to have been injured. and isis k suicide bomber was behind the attack when the slightest incident is the terrorist group, 2nd assault, and a mosque. in a matter of days, they are seni extremist and have a long history of targeting shameless limbs. in afghanistan, local journalist visited the site of the blast and sent us this report. so the little the explosion was so powerful. according to some officials, the new taliban government had warned attacks like this one were possible. earlier taliban security personnel visited this place and they gave the opinion that it

might be a suicide blast. after examining some evidence, we've seen such a blast in the past. hitting mosques and killing worshippers. assembly faith were targeting chia and era. there were targeting chia in syria. they were targeting t r everywhere in the middle east. so that i wouldn't be surprised that this business, as i said, you know, this is actually the work of them expired because they're consider she are. is there any, is there another good believer over there? so this is, this is the executors. but i mean, the major aim is to these that belies afghanistan to actually these to believe that taliban rule and of denison. so this is mrs. the beginning, and i wouldn't be surprised actually, more of the bitterly at that slide miss will take place. and there are few weeks and the among, sir, ahead me while sidney representatives from the u. s. and the taliban have made this

weekend in cat, ours. so i have met this weekend in catalyst capital, doha. these are the 1st such talk since the u. s. pull act from afghanistan, will officials from both sides said the ongoing negotiations. a sent it on the evacuation of foreign citizens and afghans from the country and counted extremism. but the taliban have rejected joint operations with the us to suppress isis k in afghanistan. and while the u. s. is made it clear to the talk stone to signal the recognition of the taliban. anti war activist brian beckett says that it clearly does. the afghanistan government is insisting is that the united states not have the right or not to believe that it has the right to continually intervene into the air space. or territory of afghanistan talks between the taliban lead government in afghanistan and the united states. and other talks with the e, u. r, constitutes

a kind of defacto recognition that the taliban, in fact are the government, the both the european countries and the united states have to make a choice. if they refuse to recognize the taliban government officially, if they continue to hold the seized assets of the afghan government, making it impossible for that government to meet basic needs of the people in afghanistan. i think it's very likely that the afghan government will seek to find new partners the united states does not legally have the right to take control of or sees the assets of afghanistan simply because the u. s. occupied the country for 20 years. not all eyes may have been on america's disastrous patrol from afghanistan, but the u. s. military is not facing to a revolt from within his own soldiers. the speaking act against the lee, the ship, and the damage done by supposedly while practices

ah all those people did die in vain. people are upset because their senior leaders let them down. and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we messed this up. we were taught that the country was evil that it was founded in 1619 and not 1776. and that whites are inherently evil to i've made that very clear to my own people, but in the light of a hyper politicized environment, i will not tolerate any discrimination of any kind based on politics. this is really about the freedom of the american people, the right to choose your own medical procedures,

the right to decide what's going to be injected into your, your body and what's not. those are a natural human right that you know, we can't take away from people with the extra chance the sebastian curse has resigned. it follows mounting for light. i have a corruption allegations made against space, the politician and his in a circle. peter oliver has the detox or hi drama, in austria on saturday evening, survosity and courts standing down. as the austrian chancellor. it's a meds of allegations that have been made against him, of having embezzled public funds and, and that money being used to pay bribes to journalists and pollsters during his

assent to power. now mister could denies all of the allegations that have been leveled against him. he stepped down from this position as chancellor, but will remain as the leader of the austrian people's party. now, it looks most likely that the foreign minister of austria, alexander schellenberg, will be promoted to chancellor. in the wake of sebastian court stepping down, his name has been put to the president of austria, will be up to him to decide if mister schellenberg gets the nod to become the at the next chancellor sebastian courts and putting forwards, alexander schellenberg named said he was the right person to unite the parties in the current ruling coalition to try and keep some semblance of normalcy on going in austria's leadership right now. now sebastian curse, as i say, as the night, all of the claims may been made against them. there was

a lot of calls for him to step down from the chancellor job on friday. he decided not to do it then, but as decided saturday evening that there's no way that he can continue. my land is new beach to go. my country is more important to me than myself. what is needed now is stable conditions. i would therefore like to make room in order to resolve the stalemate, or the fact that sebastian courts will remain as the leader of the center, right. people's party of austria suggests that he does have an intention to try and clear his name and then run again to be chancellor to make a return to that top job. or what we do know so far is that's what we're hearing, both from the party or sebastian courts, his party and from mr. courts himself. is that the idea of him stepping down from being chancellor in no way. is that supposed to indicate any admission of guilt. busy or wrong doing on behalf of sebastian courts in fact. and what we do know is that he saying that he see stepping down to avoid chaos in standstill in the

government now because of the position he holds and still holds ab, after even after he stepped down. as chancellor, mister cause has parliamentary immunity from prosecution. however, that doesn't stop investigations and we have seen the investigation interest occurred, escalating in recent while days really, which is wednesday last week while sebastian courts was at a dinner of a you leaders. his offices in vienna were being rated by police in connection to the the charges to the allegation. certainly that have been made against him. it looks like alexander schellenberg will be the next chancellor of austria as the outgoing chancellor sebastian courts. busy attempts to clear his name, amid allegations of bribery and corruption. pietro over there, we had discussed these developments with dr. hines. gartner, he's a professor of political science at the university vienna and does say that the austrian chancellor actually had little choice. but to step down it's us innovative

. busy because he came up under pressure of his party to resign. the coalition partner to green parties that they would not to over together is in the same coalition. this is chance, it chance let because he's not qualified for his job because of all. busy it is allegations and accusations, so either the correlation with a faulty part and then to people's party would not be in power at all anymore or he steps down into people's party. i mean in paula. busy a shot back on sunday. shine pack. i send you a chance law. and of course so john saw from a chancellor of austin quits for the state of florida straits in the back town. so he be to remain the strong man and alexander showing shine faggots very loyal to sebastian quits. so it might well be. sebastian courts hopes that

he be clear to forty's. busy expectations, especially the came in at eci stations, and it might well be that he comes out somehow clean and thrown again into $23.00 or 4 on elections. to come on the week he decide, but he's a facebook uses. unable to use the site for hours. this week with technical problems blamed the i'd say it will have more on what caused the blackout just off of the brand. ah, ah

ah ah . what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic or development, only personally, and going to resist are those 3 how that strategy will be successful? very critical time time to sit down and talk

ah, well, who? max? the weak, lena. boiling gas prices in europe have been reduced to more of a similar half to vladimir totes, in, said that russia is ready to help stabilize the market when addressing the continents and he crisis on wednesday. the president did add that moscow would also continue in its commitment to ukraine in regards to gas transit. as long as she does, she has prom believes that it would be more profitable for it to pay a fine to ukraine and increase the gas volume pumping through the new systems. but there's no need for that. there's more pressure in the pipe, less c o 2 emissions into the atmosphere. everything turns out cheaper. and at $3000000000.00 a year, it is necessary to fully comply with the contractual obligations for the transit of gas through ukraine. although it is more profitable to sell it on the exchange, but there is no need to but any one in a difficult position,

including ukraine despite the difficulties in relations. second, there's no need to undermine gas prompts confidence is an absolute, reliable partner in all respects. present pace in there earlier blamed europe's gas crisis on an overly hasty transition to green energy coupled with brussels decision to switch from long term gas contracts to volatile spot trading. the gas price had been steadily increasing since spring, but then shot up in the past few weeks, putting a huge financial strain on many european house sells. ah ah

well, despite the pledge then to help reduce prices in europe, moscow is still being accused of manipulating the market and congressman michael macau ko for sanctions against the nord stream to gas pipeline. we spoke to maximilian cra, an emmy pay for the alternative germany party. and also karen, i saw a former foreign minister of austria. they gave us staff a spec to some high policy axis clashing with energy security. about 7 years ago. that could have been more supply to do your market wire pipeline that was never built news house during south stream was prevented from being constructed in the summer 2014. and so, so now it seems as if all the ice, all the criticism available is simply directed against the most stream. and it

simply doesn't make sense of a real measure taken in terms of making gas as much as well as the contracts allow when we speak of energy weapon, a lot of people, even though those who have been born here, then 73 will all the think of all what, for instance, opechi arab countries use the in the 9th and seventies. we had several instances non supply and non export of oil. this what we can call it something like an an a to weapon. if you want to use that met tougher. but in the current context of the many context, long term delivery castillo complex that exist between the russian federation and various you countries. and beyond that, it simply doesn't make sense to use it. if you western europe and russia become into a partnership over economic change over energy supply,

then europe gets new opportunities and in europe. europe is not any longer, completely dependent to the united states. so to america, europe, america are playing politics to preserve their global leadership rule, su superpower. and they don't care about consumer prices and energy security in europe. they care on their part. and since we have all of us pro american politicians here, whole industry of turns, this is very powerful. so what we have there is no rational reason there is no, there is no rational reason because russia behave no because of the car dentures. but the reason behind this angie, rushing way is geo politics made part of the study live washington. not facebook has been in the headlines this week with the tech giant experiencing to series outages. her. the 1st black act happened on monday when uses the platform

along with whatsapp and instagram. we're unable to get across to their pages for 7 hours straight. the 2nd disruption which occurred on friday evening, continued for a couple of hours. both a said have been caused by technical errors. well, in the official statement, facebook engineers did say that the problem is due to a connection failure between the tech companies data centers. the attic had a knock on effect though, on individuals and businesses all over the world. platform itself was hit hard to on last up to $16000000.00, journalist and commentator chad whitmore questioned how such a vast company can be so vulnerable to technical failure. facebook. oh is a one trillion dollar company and i like these outages happen a lot. it happened in april in june of just this year. you don't see google outages or any of the big companies apple. busy happening quite so frequently, so it's a bit bizarre that facebook has

a problem with this. it seems to be that all of their, these properties oculus, instagram, whatsapp, and facebook all run through some sort of similar server. facebook is now sort of saying they were making upgrades and, and, and program got locked out or something. sounds fishy sounds really strange. the fact that this and facebook always a privacy problems and they always have problems there and they always go offline. it went down to one, so it's, it's very suspicious and it's also suspicious that facebook seems that they are problems and most tech companies with these issues. and i would whistleblowers as well. i cannot get back. this has a look at the dangers of these monopolies. if they can blink out of existence so quickly, hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue was lost in 6 hours today till these companies have it so much control, so much power. they are monopolies and look at how they can just wipe out revenue. whether the shut that was intentional or it was just the mistake yourself,

takes history and i will will with that facebook and won't sap was quite an experience. and in fact, it was one of the longest outages that facebook has experienced in its history. so yet it was long and there were long, tense hours because nobody seemed to know what caused the outage, how long it will last and well, we'll, what we should all do with it. when facebook service went down, they took along with themselves the so the infrastructure inside the, the, the facebook headquarters or wherever their services are located. so engine is when they tried to get in, they found out that their electronic cards, their passes simply did not work. so they had to literally forced their way into the server room to manually reboot them. so and it took mark zuckerberg also hours to come forward and explain what was going on. facebook, instagram, whatsapp, a messenger coming back online now. sorry for the disruption today. i know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about. you

might think that it was just facebook, instagram and you know, facebook sista companies essentially, but no, a lot of other companies, a lot of other businesses that do not necessarily rely on facebook as a social platform, but rely rather on their technical physical infrastructure like service they all went down to, from well tended to netflix to zoom, to literally websites of airline companies and world bank apps as well. so a lot of a lot of sites, a lot of services that were used to using they, well they went offline. but one app seemed to take advantage of it and mainly to take advantage of what's that not work. and that's the telegram messenger. they estimate their social media team even had their fun on twitter before twitter went down as well. and well, they try to attract new uses and did well they successfully did. so because it is estimated some 50000000 new users joined telegram and it almost went down as well.

but not because of the facebook thing, but because you had pro says so many new accounts being registered. so yeah, and there were a few funny reactions on line to this whole may have unfolding. have a look. we're working to get things back to normal. telegram you single, come over, the servers are up and my parents aren't home. so yes, being a little tongue in cheek, the s m. m team there by probably well capitalizing on the whole situation. but in general, this whole thing and underlines, especially the fact that other businesses not not, will abandon linked which didn't appear to billing to facebook, that they experienced troubles. it really points out how much people on the general, massive massive companies rely on the infrastructure of one particular tech giant. millions of businesses rely on facebook now and many other many others use, say, spoke in order to, to connect to other apps. it sends a huge warning across the bile because here we have

a major social network site. but you know, this shows us the extent to which we rely on digital technology across the board. and cyber attacks of sorts can bring down whole systems. and facebook is just one. it's a social networking platform, but a lot of businesses as we've said, relying on it. but imagine a much more intrinsic infrastructural saw attack. i'm not saying this was a a cyber attack. in fact, i have a theory about what happened. but ah, this shows you the fragility of the entire digital infrastructure that we're relying on. will facebook as insist, the sieves, heritage didn't lead to any use that data being compromised, but it is just another set back weeks after a form of product manager, they claim that the social network knowingly alive she's is to spread height and misinformation, i guess k, the savvy, so where facebook, the brand currently stands after recent events. but what's interesting about the

leak documents of the wall street journal published, is that they show quite clearly that facebook is in decline and knows it's in decline. and so you see all these desperate measures of attempting to attract pre teens and children, i mean even children. so there is a kind of convergence of several bad instances. i mean, not just to shut down, but to any trust effort to break it up, coupled with now with these lead documents show is and understanding by facebook officials, that crest of the wave is now headed downwards. facebook is not infallible, and what's up is definitely not infallible. what's that also came under scrutiny because there were reports that even though they claim that the user messages were encrypted, that they were actually sending some user data to authorities in order to help with different types of prosecution. so if there's a message to take away from this, i think is absolutely that we should be very skeptical the claims that facebook,

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