station let it be in arms, race is on offence, very dramatic and development only personally and get into this. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk ah, 6 in the evening right now. moscow time with the stories that shape the week we mod 20 years since the u. s. and allies invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime. and now in the wake of the pentagon, big pull out men, the questions are still being asked, the violins continuing to rage to rampant gas prices. scale down a bit in europe in the wake up to russia. pledge to boost supplies. but the move hasn't stopped us politicians from fleming moscow for the crisis and austria's leaders, sebastian kurtz quits made allegations of embezzlement to gripe re ah,

oh i there were a good evening life. marty's will do use h q. moscow. he watching the weekly. i'll run to put the top stories we brought you over the last 7 days on. i'm kevin owen. this week that has mentioned, we marked 20 years since the us led invasion of afghanistan, which overthrew the taliban. and now in the wake of the western polite, many issues still have not been resolved far from it. not least why the taliban offer to hand over a summer. ben 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 back in charge. again, i've seen a correspondence in cobble and asked what really had been achieved the afghan war. and it's 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, and, 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 of is, 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, the holds of congress in parliament, in europe, in and the press and that 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 in nursing arrange

that we did not grass a damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp that there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. this has been a 10 year vault. 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 see the end of the war is humiliating for america. they want some one held responsible and the biden and 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 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 trial top 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 par, finished clinics, him 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, and the matter of weeks. and they are jubilant. they have off to 20 years of answer rection and rebellion. believe they won bmw 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. adat 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 at the un, bob from a security perspective. yes, al qaeda either 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. ah, senior correspondent, reporting bout from there for you will also this week and have canister, and scores of people were killed in an explosion of the sheer mosque in the countries north and city of con. does. that blast happened during friday, pres more than a 100 people reported to have been injured. and i says k suicide bomber was behind the attack. it is the sunny terrace groups is 2nd assault on a mosque in a matter of days, and have a long history of targeting sheer muslims in afghanistan. one local journalist visited the site to the incident and census park this report. an 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. as them faith we're targeting chia and iraq. they were targeting, she are in syria. they were targeting, she are 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. it's b because they're considered she are as there it is there. another good believer over slam, so this is, this is the execute. but i mean, the major aim is to these that belies afghanistan tool. actually these to belies back up taliban rule and i've got a, sam. so this is mrs. the beginning and i wouldn't be surprised actually more as the bitterly at that slide. this will take place. and a few weeks a month sir,

ahead will means hon running parallel on the political side to which senior representatives from the u. s. and the taliban met this weekend in kettles capital door. these are the 1st such talk since the u. s. pull out from afghanistan. officials from both sides said the ongoing negotiations is centered on the evacuation of foreign citizens and afghans from the country and to continue to counter extremism. but the taliban rejected joint operations with washington to suppress the extreme miss group, i says k in afghanistan. and while the white house has also made clear, the talk do not signal the recognition of the taliban as they put it. anti war activist prime becker 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 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. now some music came in earlier on today for confirmed killed in a massive explosion, and the yamani port city of aidan, me to report saying a car bomb targeted the local governor and another senior official. both of them

survived as the latest we've heard on it yet. has been at war for 7 years with islamist rebels fighting for control of that middle eastern country. also this sunday in from russia, a plane crash, killing 16 people, including the co pilot and pilots. 6 others survive. but they're in a critical condition. the plane a let l full 10 had 20 members of a local parachute club on board. the twin engineer croft came down soon off to take off near the town of men zalinski sit on the map there, which is around a 1000 kilometers east of where i'm talking to from moscow. authorities believe the instant may have been caused by engine failure. the still not show what went so badly wrong. the plane which belonged to the club had been in service since 1987. those boiling gas prices in europe were reduced more of a similar in the week. then after that, him a potent said, russia is ready to stabilize the market, addressing the continence energy crisis. on wednesday,

the president added that moscow would continue in its commitment to ukraine in regards to gas transit. spruce, as today she's just 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 transitive gas through ukraine. although it is more profitable to sell it on the exchange, but there is no need to put anyone in a difficult position including ukraine, despite the difficulties in relation sorta. second has no need to undermine gas prompts confidence is an absolute, reliable partner in all respects. president 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 past couple of weeks putting a huge financial strain on many european households. ah ah. despite the pledge to help reduce prices in europe, though moscow still being accused of manipulating the market. us congressman, my come a cold calling for sanctions against our brand new node string to gas pipeline. we discussed in the week how politics clashed with energy security with an emmy paid

for the alternative germany party, as well as austria's form of foreign minister. about 7 years ago. that could have been more supply to do your market wire pipeline that was never built. then the south 3 south stream was prevented from being constructed in the summer 2014. and so now it seems as if all the i, all the criticism available is simply directed against the most free men for it simply doesn't make sense of a real match is taken in terms of making gas as much as way level 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 the 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 matter. but in the current context of the many context, long term delivery, very complex. it's 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 than europe gets new. opportunities under new worlds or europe is not any longer, completely dependent to the united states. so d, america, europe, america, are playing dia, politics to preserve their global leadership role as the only super power. and they don't care about consumer prices and energy security. in europe, they care on their arm. and since the whole of is pro american

politicians fear of a whole industry of turns, this is very powerful. so what you have there is no rational reason there is no, there is no rational reason because the rushing behavior or because of economic interest. but the reason behind this angie, rushing leave is, gee, and politics made a deep stain on washington dc. this is all it's international coming up, going, going, gone, not once, but twice, billions of facebook uses, unable to use this site for i was the technical problems. blame for the out takes instruct customer pretty penny to well at the low when we're back. ah ah, ah.

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oh, i again how you weekends going good. so all change in australian channels to sebastian curts resigning it follows mounting. 8 followed of a corruption allegations made both against the politician and his in a circle. the claims against him include breach of trust, bribery and making false statements for parliamentary committee. mister kurtz denies any wrong doing those saying that the accusations are solely based on old text messages recently published in austria media. his decision to resign came after raids on his parties, office the chancery, and also the finance ministry. all as part of a proven to the case as head of the conservative block at the moment in parliament, he still has immunity. from prosecution insists though his decision to step down is just to restore political stability. men landis 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. sit there and there was this week to forget for facebook, a with a tech giant experiencing series. so to just not once but twice the 1st blocker 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, continued for a couple of hours. both the said to been caused by technical errors in an official statement. facebook engineer said the problem was because of a connection failure between the tech companies data centers. the outage had a knock on effect on individuals and businesses all over the world. the platform itself was hit hard financially to losing up to $60000000.00. journalist and commentator chadwick more chipping in about it, questioning how such a vast company could have been so vulnerable to a technical 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 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 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 now it whistleblowers 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 if it was just the mistake. well either which way for a relatively short time, we all had time to take a breath where the outage is paradise or pain for you. he goes down off to cas through a world with 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 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 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 or 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 whatsapp not work. and that's the telegram messenger. the 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 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, they're 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, accounting linked, which didn't appear to billing to facebook. that they experienced 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 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 that data being compromised, but it's still not a huge set. but weeks after a former product manager played the social network knowingly allows uses to spread hate and misinformation in the week, i guess, gave us that he's all with facebook the brand these days currently stands after these recent events. 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 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, but to 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 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 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 here, but of a shocker wasn't. that was the way the way shape tied to some of these headlines we brought you. i hope you enjoy our programs today. this is outs international on sunday with me, kevin, i will have your weekends going good and enjoy next programs. ah ah ah

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