obscene these people up nor saw with in the stories that shaped the week. we marked 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, are still being asked with violence. they're continuing to rage dump and gas prices scale down in europe after russia pledges to boost supplies. but the move hadn't stopped us. politicians from blaming moscow for the crisis. and the rapid rise of one of europe's youngest leaders comes to a dramatic holes as austrian li, the sebastian kurtz quits and made allegations of embezzlement and bribery.

ah oh, sunday. and i'll tell you that means we're going to take you through some of the biggest stories that we've covered over here in the past the 7 days or so. i'm calling bright welcome to the program 1st. then this week we marked 20 years since the us led invasion of afghanistan, which overthrew the taliban. and now in the wake of the western pull out, many issues have still not been resolved. not least why the taliban offered to hand over to sama. ben loudon was rejected by the bush administration, 2 decades of war, followed with countless lives lost out at the end of it all the militants back in charge. i'll senior correspondent is in cobble and asked what's really 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 is that it was unanimously considered an abject failure. metallic 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, in, in the press and in there on television, internationally is, is who do we blame? we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership in her senior ranks. 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 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 see the end of the war is humiliating for america. they want someone held responsible, the biden, the mish 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 that. and that is ignoring the tremendous financial cost of the war. sun 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, you're the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest trial top race 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, 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 or of course jubilant. they have this mantle that everything that 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 won.

ah, 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 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 in afghanistan 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 week and afghanistan scores of people were killed and an explosion that a sheer mosque in the northern city of condos. the bloss happened during friday prayers, and more than a 100 people are reported to have been injured. and isis case suicide bomber was behind the attack. it was the sunny terrorist groups, 2nd assault on a mosque in a matter of days. and they have a long history of targeting shia muslims. in afghanistan, a local journalist visited the site of the incident and sent us this report. childhood. 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 with faith. we're

targeting here and there are, there were targeting, she are in syria. there 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 or 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 tool, actually these to believe that taliban rule and that is that so this is mrs. the beginning, and i wouldn't be surprised actually more of the big li at that slide. this will take place and a few weeks among sir ahead. meantime, senior representatives from the united states and the taliban met this weekend and he could tarry capital. the 1st such talk since think us pull out from afghanistan, officials from both sides said the ongoing negotiations are centered on the

evacuation of foreign citizens and afghans from the country and also to counter extremism. but the taliban rejected joint operations with washington to suppress the extremist group ices k in afghanistan. and while the white house has made it clear that the talks don't signal the recognition of the taliban, anti war activist 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 that 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. look at some news from this sunday, 6 people have reportedly been killed in a massive explosion in gibbons pulled city of aden, new tripled, say a car bomb, talked at the local governor and another senior official, both of whom survived yeoman's. been a wall for 7 years with his rebels fighting for control of the middle east country . also this sunday, a plane crash and central russia has killed 16 people, including the pilot and co pilot 6 others survived, but they were in a critical condition. the plane, which was a letter l. fulton had 20 members of

a local parachute club on board. the twin engine aircraft came down soon after takeoff. near the town of mandolin, scope, which is around a 1000 kilometers east of moscow. engine failure, this the suspected coals and, and investigations underway. the plane which belonged to the club, had been in service since 1987 rushes, now suspended, fl. of all our craft of that type. pending the results of the inquiry. oil and gas prices in europe have been reduced to more of a some of the, of the, of ladiva potent said that russia is ready to stabilize the market. the president addressed the confidence energy crisis on wednesday data that moscow would continue in its commitment to ukraine. in regards to gas transit, especially as soon as she gets 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 but any one in a difficult position, including ukraine despite the difficulties in relations. second, as no need to undermine gas prompts confidence is an absolute reliable partner in all respects. president potted 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. a gas price had been steadily increasing since spring, but it shot up in the past couple of weeks putting a huge financial strain on many european households. ah

ah well, despite the pledge to help reduce the price is in europe, monica was still being accused of manipulating the market. and you as congressman michael cole, cole, the sanctions against the old stream to gas pipeline. we discussed how politics clash with energy security, where the german european parliament and paper as well as with a former austrian foreign minister about 7 years ago. that could have been more supply to the your market wire pipeline that was never billed them. use ouster in south stream, both 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 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, opechi arab countries tuesday 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 gas to really complex, it's exist between the russian federation and various new countries. and beyond that, it simply doesn't make sense to use it. if the western europe and russia become

into a partnership over economic change over energy supply, then 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 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 our american politicians fear of a 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 of russian behavior or because of economic interest. but the reason behind this angie, rushing leave is gee, and politics made by the deep state of washington dc said i had all the weekly

billions of people had an unexpected digital detox this week is facebook fall off line for hours not once, but twice. one of our stories still to come after the break. ah oh, driven by dreamer shapes bank, concur. some of those with dares sinks. we dare to ask

for 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 often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk with welcome back. altree and chancellor sebastian kurtz has resigned. it follows mounting fall out over corruption allegations made against both politician and also his inner circle. the claims against him in crude breach of trust. bribery and making false statements to a parliamentary committee for

a minister. alexander schellenberg will be sworn in as the new leader on monday. cuts denies any wrong doing, saying that the accusations are solely based on old text messages recently published in the austria media. his decision to resign no comes after raids on his parties. office also the chancellor a and the finance ministry as part of a probe into the case of the conservative block in parliament, he still has immunity from prosecution. he insists, though, that his decision to step down is to restore political stability. my landing nearby 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, tick, that's your base books. but in the headlines this week with the tech giant experiencing serious outages, not once but twice. the 1st black out happened on monday where news of the platform along with whatsapp and instagram. we're unable to get access to their pages for 7

hours straight. the 2nd disruption which happened on friday evening, continued for a couple of hours. both the said to been caused by technical errors or in an official statement. facebook's engineer said the problem was due to a connection failure between the tech companies data centers. the outage though, had a knock on effect for individuals and businesses all over the world. the platform itself was head out financially over it. losing up to $60000000.00 journalist and commentator chadwick more question, how such a vast company could have been so vulnerable to a 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 other big tech companies. apple. busy happening quite so frequently. ready 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've got one, so it's, it's very suspicious and it's also suspicious that facebook seems to have bigger problems than most tech companies with these issues and, and now with 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 short time, we'll have a little bit of time to take a breath that we're the outage is paradise old pain for you. negotiate on of took us through a world without facebook and waltz app 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 tendered 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 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 mayhem 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 yeah, 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 with the fact that other businesses not, not well, apparently linked which didn't appear to billing to facebook. that they experience 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 were relying on facebook insisted that the service outage did not lead to any use of data being compromised, but it still another setback. weeks after form, a product manager claim to the social network knowingly allows uses to spread hate and misinformation. in the week our guests gathers their views a where facebook the brand currently stands off 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 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. well, there are plenty of for social networks around and we on all of them. so look up our tv surfing over the next few hours. that's it for me. i'll have your next edition of weekly right here in about half an hour or ah, it's what i think most basic, but i still believe we did. who bought. i bought a dial tomorrow. a couple of these on your way. but i know from politicians to athletes and movies, does the musicals does it seems every big name in the world has been here last year . hope a bazooka. this goes to school and when you get the course, but i need to finish with give me a glover new school,

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me. hello and welcome to wells at barclays. for day care, gander spent has been everybody's business, and no one's responsibility of the power is big and small. pursued that for the agenda there with little regard to the country, costa, or aspirations. the down of the taliban has abandoned the 1000000 status. the question of denison trajectory and when it was time for the region as a whole is more pressing than an effort to discuss them now and join bi monthly was soon brought there of the late resistance. later, my check my suit and format of genesis ambassador to the united kingdom ambassador miss it. 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 claimed it took full control off 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 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 ask for their support now? thanks very much. well, let me 1st, i agree that i totally agree, that unfortunately our 10 feet have been used and misused and no matter how much we try to make something at the end of the day, then 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. 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 back us about players will using avalon, a son as a scapegoat, as a game, as a playground, as a mag counsel rivalry for all of that this is the afghans, the so our people what the victim will really paying the price, looking very heavy price. listen recently we have paid 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. once again, we go back 20 years back now we have to start to get from the scratch from digital . what we all come to point in our lives in our countries when we have to choose whether our amity for something is bigger than our law for something.