stored safely at the federal with still there are you don't forget about it. oh, heck, no. what is a recreation came when we get the right to 7 years. a report with the sources shade the week from us. we marked 20 years since the u. s. and his allies invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime. and now in the wake of the american polar, many questions is still being asked with violence. they're still on the right. there was this to ramp and gas prices may be scaling down in europe, up to russia, pledge to boost supplies for the move hasn't stopped us politicians from blaming moscow for the crisis and the austrian chancellor, sebastian kurtz quits amid allegations of embezzlement and bribery.

ah hello there life marty's will do. thank you most skill you're watching the weekly with me, kevin. now in a roundabout, the top stories of a low seventies that we brought to you. and this week remarked 20 years since the u . s. in its allies invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime then. and now in the wake of the west and pull out many questions is still being asked. of course not least why the taliban is offered to hand over a summer. been love and was rejected by the bush administration that led to 2 decades of war. countless lives lost. and that the end of it all the militants back in charge again. our senior correspondent reported them from cobble and what was really achieved the afghan born and its just shy of its its 20th anniversary, the, the war, a vengeance that was launched by the united states. as revenge for 911 and brickley

morph into something else. one of the most protracted conflicts in modern history, an exercise in and 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 that it was unanimously considered an abject failure. metalli banners 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 in the press and in there on television, internationally is, 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 in nursing. arrange

that we do not grass a damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp why there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. this has been a 10 year malt, i, 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 and 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 the 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, with the wealthiest country in the history of the world. and yet we have the highest child

poverty rates 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 other making its way here. aside from half finished clinics and, 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 off to 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 enough are on the verge of starvation. with no hope inside the drugs manufactured and export to that of, of galveston, 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 the un bob from

a security perspective. yes. shall card the eat of canister may have been degraded but, but something worse has taken its place in that is isis which has bound to the challenge to afghanistan, dominance by the taliban. also this weekend, afghanistan, scores of people were killed in an explosion, a sheer mosque in the country's northern city of condos. the last happened during friday prayers over a 100 to reportage a been injured and i says k suicide bomber was behind the attack. it is the sunni terrorist groups, 2nd assault on a mosque in a matter of days, and they have a long history to have targeting sheer muslims in afghanistan. one local journalist visited the site of the blast and sent us back this report. so the explosion was so powerful, according to some officials, the new taliban government had warned a tax 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 she on era. there were targeting, she are in syria. they were targeting t r everywhere in the middle east. so that i wouldn't be surprised that this, this is, as i said, you know, this is actually the work of them expired because they're concerned that she are as there, etc. is there another good believer over slam? so this is, this is the executor. but i mean, the major aim is to these fabulous afghanistan tool actually needs 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 a few weeks and then among sir, ahead me well on the political side of

a senior representatives in the u. s. the taliban of met this weekend in kat house, capital goer, these are the 1st such talks. and since the u. s. polo from afghanistan. officials from both sides said the ongoing negotiations assented on the evacuation of foreign citizens and afghans from the country and to counter extremism. but the taliban of rejected joint operations with the u. s. to try to suppress isis cain afghanistan. and while the u. s. has made it clear the talks don't signal the recognition of the taliban. 6 none the less anti war activist brian beckett thinks 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 their 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, 10 policy on annex some news that came in earlier on today. at least 4 people have been reported killed in a massive explosion of the jamini port city of aidan. made the report say it was a car bomb targeting the local governor and another senior official seems. both of them survived. yemen, spain in the grip of civil war for the past 7 years,

with islamist rebels fight of control of the middle east and country. looted from russia to a plane crash in the centre, the countries killed 16, including the pilot and co pilot seems 6 others survived. there are a critical conditions afternoon, the planar let l full 10 or 20 members of a local parachute club aboard at the time. it's a twin engine, the croft seems. it came down off to take off near the turn of men's lengths, which has run a 1000 kilometers east of here. moscow authorities believe in may have been caused by engine fell over the still investigating plane which belonged to the club about his service since 1987 boiling gas prices in europe have been reduced to more of a simmer after vladimir putin said that russia is ready to stabilize the market, addressing the countenance energy crisis on wednesday that the president added that moscow would continue and it's commitment to ukraine in regards to gas transit.

ashatash dicaspran 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 transitive gas through ukraine. although it is more profitable to sell it on the exchange. but there is no need to buy anyone in a difficult position, including ukraine, despite the difficulties in relations. second has no need to undermine gas prompts confidence is an absolute reliable partner in all respects. present potent earlier blamed europe's gas crisis on an overly hasty transition to green energy said, coupled with brussels decision to switch from long term gas contracts to volatile spot trading. the gas price has been steadily increasing since spring,

but shot up in the last couple of weeks putting a huge financial strain on many european households. ah ah. despite the pledge to help reduce prices in moscow in europe, rather, moscow still being accused of manipulating the market. congressmen michael mccolan, calling the sanctions against that bronze shot, a new node stream to gas pipeline. we spoke about it with maxwell in cross and emory pay field sense if a gemini party and carry can assault

a form up foreign minister for austria. they both gave us their perspectives on how politics in their view was clashing with energy security. about 7 years ago that could have been more supply to the market wire pipeline that was never billed them . you ouster in south stream was prevented from being constructed in the summer of 2014. and 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 matches take in, in terms of making gas as much as well as that the contracts allow when we speak of energy weapon, a lot of people, even though those who have been born here, then 73 will always think of all what, for instance, opechi arab countries use in the 1970s. we had to separate instances non

supply and non export of oil. this what we can call it in like an, an a to weapon if you want to use that matter. but in the current context of the many contracts, long term delivery gas delivery contracts that exist between the russian federation and various you countries. and beyond that, it simply doesn't make sense to use it. if western europe and russia become into it, people publish it over economic change over energy supply. ben, europe gets new opportunities and a new world, or europe is love any longer, completely dependent to the united states. so d, america, europe, america, playing dia, politics, to preserve their global leadership as the only superpower. and they don't care about consumer prices and energy security in europe, they care on their level palmer. and since we have

a lot of pro american politicians here, whole industry of tags, this is very powerful. so what we have there is no rational reason there is no, there is no rational reason because the russian behavior or because of economic interest. but the reason behind is angie rushing rave is g in politics made by the state of washington d. c. thanks. check in with us about international this weekend is kevin. i went here and tell you about more stories we brought you. this one was huge with billions of facebook uses and able to use the site for i was with technical problems, blame for the outage and stuff. not once barrison he twice tele more on the back. ah. join me every thursday on the alex salmon show. i'll be speaking to guess on the world politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then.

oh, but years ago the taliban were different today or more violent than ever before. 20 years ago. the really kind of the stick was central press for so parked slowly press 2 they did not have non repressive or at all except a deal using this principle can, has their own interest. but years ago, there was some sort of kind of dialogue with the others to see what they can do to day the are so kind of restrict your limits. if you check your chicken one cabinet, one interesting fall question and fronting from inside question there just completely concentrated on was focus on ah ah,

ah ah, austrian chancellor sebastian curtains resigned the fall as mounting fall out of the corruption allegations made against both the politician and is in a circle. the claims against him include breach of trust, bribery and making false statements to a parliamentary committee. mister codes denies any wrong doing, saying though the allegations solely based on old text messages published in austria media recently is his decision to resign came off to raise on his part, his office, the chancery, and also the finance ministry as part of a probe on going into the case as the leader of the conservative block, he still holds parliamentary immunity from prosecution. he insists his decision to step down is to bring political stability to the country. my landing nuvie sticker, 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 super. and then there was this facebook in there, headlines, big time, the last week for all the wrong reasons. so as a company with the tech john experiencing series outages, not once, but twice. the 1st black had happened on monday when uses of the platform along with whatsapp on instagram to we're unable to get access to their pages for 7 hours straight. that the 2nd disruption happened on friday evening and continued for a couple of hours. both as said have been caused by technical errors in an official statement. facebook engineer said the problem was due to a connection failure between the tech companies data centers. the outage had a knock on effect on individuals and businesses all over the world though. the platform itself was hit hard it last up to $60000000.00. journalist and commentator chadwick more speaking to us about it, questioning how such a vast company could be so vulnerable to attack failure like that

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 tech 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 or gotten 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, and i would whistle blowers as well, acknowledging 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. so was a momentary paradise oh, pain for you will egos dental took us through a world without facebook and walks up 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 world will 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 says to 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

eserman their social media team even had their fun on twitter before twitter went down as well. and well, they try to attract new users and did well they successfully did. so because it is estimated some 50000000 new users join 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, it underlines especially the fact that other businesses not, not well. a pankey linked which didn't appear to billing to facebook, that they experience troubles. it really points out how much people and in 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 used facebook 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. well, facebook insisted the service outage didn't lead to any use a data being compromised, but it's still another setback. big time a week suffer a full my product manager claimed the social network knowingly allows uses to spread hate and misinformation. in a week our guest gave us that he's on where facebook the brand currently stands off to these recent events. what's interesting about the leak documents that 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 preteens and children. i mean even children. so there is a kind of convergence of several bad instances. i mean, not just to shut down by any trust effort to break it up, coupled with now what these lead documents show is and understanding by facebook officials, that crest of the wave is now headed downwards. that facebook is not infallible,

and what's app is definitely not infallible. whatsapp also came under scrutiny because there were reports that even though they claim that a 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 it is absolutely that we should be very skeptical of the claims that facebook whatsapp, your, all the subsidiaries are making about their ability to keep your, your data private. because clearly it seems like they can't, at least for the moment, i keep their sites even online. whoa, your weight was more successful than facebook. thanks for checking in with us this weekend. does we bring you the headlines or the last 7 days is where it was due on a sunday, the weekly. it's kevin oh, in signing off for now and have a great rest of the weekend. ah ah.

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