with 2 seats, i'm scared that more children are going to grow up in a country that think says no racism, but they're more likely to end up in the criminal justice system. then there are other schiller friends in daycare in stories that shape the week from alta international. we mark 20 years since the u. s. and allies invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime. and now in the wake of the pentagon, pull out many questions, it's still being asked with violence. they are continuing to re ramp and gas prices scaling down a bit in europe after russia have pledged to boost supplies in the week. but the move hasn't stopped us. politicians from blaming moscow for the crisis, had austria's leaders, sebastian cuts, quit semi delegations of embezzlement and bribery.

ah, hello, there live marty's world news aged to moscow. you watching the weekly from us, surrounded by the top stories of the last 7 days we brought you. it's kevin o' in here with you this hour. and 1st this week we march 20 years. and since the us led invasion of afghanistan, which overthrew the taliban. and now in the wake of the west and pull out many issues have not been resolved. not least why the taliban offered to hand over a summer. been loudon was rejected. back then by the bush administration, 2 decades of war followed with countless lives lost. and at the end of it, all, the militants are back in charge. ok senior correspondence in cobble and asked what has really been achieved the afghan born 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

morphed into something else. one of the most protracted conflicts in modern history, an exercise in 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 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 holds of congress in parliament, in europe, and in the press in there on television, internationally is, is who the we blame. 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 did not grass a damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president gunny 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 multi administration drawdown. not a 19 month or 19 day neo, this scandal is no anywhere over the americans calling it been ghazi on steroids. the republicans, as well as ordinary americans that see the end of the war as humiliating for america. they want some one held responsible and the biden, the miss administration, as was 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. we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest child hobb 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 as 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 it, industrial quantities. the taliban are of course jubilant. they have dismantled everything that the united states built here, the human rights, the tolerance, the democratic institutions in the matter of weeks. and they are jubilant. they have after 20 years of, and so wretched and rebellion,

believe they won. ah, ah, i 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 worldwide. 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 at the un, bob from a security perspective. yes, al qaeda eve of ghana stud may have been degraded but,

but something worse has taken its place. and that is isis which has bound to the challenge to afghanistan, dominance by the taliban, or senior correspondent embedded em. well also this we can have kind of stan, scores of people were killed in an explosion of the sheer mosque in the countries northern city of con does the blast happened during friday. prayers, more than a 100 were reported to have been injured. and i c. k, so cyber was behind the attack. it is the sunny terrorist groups. second assault on her ma, skin matter days they've for a long history of targeting sheer muslims in afghanistan, one local journalist visited the site to the instant and sent us back. this report of the week 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. systemic faith were targeting chia, an era they 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 the, as i said, you know, this is actually the work of them expired because they're concerned that she or is there any, is there another good believer over slam? so this is, this is the executors. but i mean, the major aim is to these fabulous 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. this will take place. and a few weeks and then a month sir, ahead this from the u. s. of the taliban of met this weekend in catalyst capital

dough are. these are the 1st such talks 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 accountant extremism and terrorism. but the taliban is rejected joint operations with washington to try to suppress the extreme, his group ices k in afghanistan. and while the white house has made it clear the talks don't signal the recognition of the taliban. anti war activists, brian beckett thinks they clearly do. 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 african 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 started the came in early today. next 4 have been confirmed, killed in a massive explosion of the yemen. port city of aidan made a report saying a car bomb targeted the local governor and another senior official, both of whom survived. you haven't been at war for 7 years with islamist rebels fighting for control of middle east and country. and also this sunday in from russia replaying crush in the center. the countries killed 16,

including the pilot and co pilot 6 others survived, put their in a critical condition. the plane a let l 410 had 20 members apparently of a local parachute club on board at the time. it's a twin engine aircraft. it came down soon. after takeoff near the turn of men's lives, which is around a 1000 kilometers east of where i'm talking to from here in moscow, se afternoon, authorities believe the instant may have been caused by engine fairly, but the still trying to figure it out. the plane which belong to the club had been in service since 1987 boiling gas prices in europe were reduced to more of a similar in the week after the demo. putin said, russia is ready to stabilize the market, addressing the confidence energy crisis on wednesday. the president added that moscow would continue in its commitment to ukraine in regards to gas transit. as from a shortage gas 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 buy any one in a difficult position, including ukraine despite the difficulties in relations. second has no need to undermine gas problems. confidence is an absolute, reliable partner in all respects. present potent earlier blamed europe's crisis on an overly hasty transition to great energy coupled with brussels decision to switch from long term gas contracts to follow tiles spot trading. the gas price had been steadily increasing since spring, but shot up in the past couple of weeks putting a huge financial strain on many european households. ah

ah. despite the pledge to help reduce the price is in europe, moscow still being accused of manipulating the market. us congressman michael mccolan, calling for sanctions against that brand new node stream to gas pipeline. we discussed in the week how politics clash with energy security that emmy pay field, tentative for germany party as well as austria's form of foreign minister about 7 years ago. that could have been more supply to do your mom wire high plan that

was never built. then use house 3 south stream was prevented from being constructed in the summer 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 match is 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 always think of all what, for instance, opechi arab countries used in the 9th and seventies. we had to separate instances non supply and non export of oil. this what we can call it in like an energy weapon . if you want to use that from a tougher. but in the current context of the many context,

long term delivery 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 the western europe and russia are becoming into a partnership over economic change over energy supply, then europe gets new, opportunity is ended, you worlds or europe is not any longer, completely dependent to united states. so d, america, europe, america, are playing 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 part. and since we have all others pro american politicians here, a whole industry of this is very powerful. so what we have there is no rational reason there is no, there is no rational reason because of russia behavior or because of economic

interest. but the reason behind this angie, rushing rave is gee, and politics made a deep statement. washington d. c. thanks for checking with us sir. being your we can the coast. we appreciate all the more. this is our to international. if you haven't to watch the talk and do it, i think exactly 16 minutes past the hour. well, this is big news was made billions of facebook uses and able to use the site for hours in the week. the technical problems blame for the outage that struck not once but twice. the luck of that will tell you what was behind it. we'll get back with . what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is on offensive bearing dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully,

very critical of time. time to sit down and talk her driven by trainer shape and concur some of those in, ah, i dares thinks we dare to ask i

austrian chancellor surpassed in kurtz is resigned at fall as mounting fall out of a corruption allegations made against both the politician ad is in a circle. the claims against him include breach a trust bribery and making false statements to a parliamentary committee. mister kurtz denies any wrong doing the saying that the accusations are solely based on old text messages published recently and austria media. his decision to resign came off to raid on his parties, office the chancery, and also the finance ministry. as part of the probe into the case as head of the conserved to block in parliament, he still has immunity from prosecution. he insists a decision to step down to is to restore political stability. now men landis, near the 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. so that's a big way to forget for facebook. them with attack giant,

experiencing serious outage is not once but twice. the 1st block out happened on monday when uses of the platform along with whatsapp and instagram. we're unable to get access to the pages for 7 hours straight. and then the 2nd disruption, which happened on friday evening, contained for a couple of hours to both the said to been caused by technical errors in official statement. facebook engineers said the problem was because of a connection failure between the at tech companies data centers. the outage had a knock on effect on individuals and businesses all over the world. the platform itself was hit really hard financially. it lost almost $60000000.00 over at old journalists and commentator chadwick mort, shipping into the week questioning how such a vast company could be so vulnerable to a failure like this 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 other 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 has gotten locked out or something. sounds fishy sound really strange. the fact that this and facebook always the privacy problems and they always have problems there and they always go offline. they blink at one, so it's very suspicious, and it's also suspicious that facebook seems to have bigger problems than 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 off was intentional or it was just the mistake. so for

a very short time on the ground skelly things we will tend to take a breath where the outage is paradise, old pain for you. he goes down to look through a world without facebook on whatsapp 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 engineers, 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 and messenger are 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 sister 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 seem 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 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 it had process 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're single, come over, the servers are up and my parents aren't home. so yeah, being a little tongue in cheek, the s m m team there, but probably well capitalizing on the whole situation. but in general, this whole thing, it underlines, especially with the fact that other businesses not, not well upon, can 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 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 all 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 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 day to being compromised, but still another huge setback. weeks after a form of product manager claim to social network knowingly allows uses to spread

hate and misinformation. in the week our gas gave us, there he was on went facebook, the brand than currently stands off to watch. just gone on. 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 the car. 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 by any trust effort to break it up. coupled with now, with these leak document show is and understanding by facebook officials, that crest of the wave is now headed downwards, that facebook is not infallible. and what's happened, definitely not infallible. whatsapp 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 it is absolutely that we should be very skeptical the claims that facebook, what's that you, 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. i love the week that was in the headlines. we brought you over the last 7 days. i can check into weekly because we don't hear about international today. or next programs are ahead. if you can stay with us, hope you can tell you. stop by for will to pause after this, bring me ah, oklahoma. so it's a good price. you can please go visit us. i bought

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it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for finding the time. you're welcome . thank you very much. thank you. now, a few days after the taliban, i claimed it took full control of afghanistan. you called for international support, and i assume and agreeing to this interview, you are also seeking to mobilize the international public opinion. and i know that you are clearly mistrustful of the taliban. you have reasons for, you know, holding that opinion. but i wonder why i, you know, equally skeptical or cynical of the so called international community because foreign powers have used your country so cruelly, so cynically, for so many years. why asked for their support now. thanks very much. well, let me bust. i agree that i totally agree, that unfortunately our country have been used and misused and no matter how much we

try to make something at the end of the day and something to cancel because of their own interest. they use our county. once again, we go back for 10 years for 20, for 10 years, 20 years. that has been a very unfortunate scenario for us. what of course, when we raised our voice, we're not on the kind of skeptical about the taliban. but of course about the packers about dish players were using avalon, a son as a scapegoat. as a game, i guys a playground as a mag grounds for rivalry. for all of that, this is the afghans, the so our people what the victim will really paying the price. we're paying very heavy price less in recently, we have great after 20 years that out people built some life. it was all just basic and 40 once again the plate again, the whole thing like that was again we go back 20 years.