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we have committed suicide, but left behind, nor state explicitly states that it was the constant intimidation and billing by bank officers. that late them to i took the spear is obscene. these people up, nor saw 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 still being asked with violence that continuing to rage up and gas prices scaled down in europe, off to russia, pledges to boost supplies, but the move hasn'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 hold. as austria leave, the sebastian could quit their mid allegations of embezzlement and bribery.
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ah no good, happy with us in sundown, i'll tell you, and that means we take you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days, so i'm calling bright welcome to the program. now this week we marked 20 years 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 by the taliban offered to hand over the summer. been loved and was rejected 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 dot senior correspondent is in cobbled and asked what's already been achieved. the afghan war and is just shy of its 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,
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an exercise, and a nation building before losing all lame and tylenol towards the end. neither the united states nor any of its allies still knew what it is that they hoped to achieve. here, the end result of is, 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 halls of congress, in parliament's, in europe, in and the press in there on television internationally is, is who de, 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 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
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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 see 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
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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 rates of almost any country on earth. from the perspective of a civilian,
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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 did industrial quantities. the taliban, or 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 after 20 years of, and selection and rebellion, believe they won bmw
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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 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 at the un, bob from a security perspective. yes shall card the eve of ghana stud may have been degraded
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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 we had afghanistan, schools of paper were killed in an explosion of the sheer mosque in the northern city of condos. the bloss happened during friday press, one to more than a 100 people are reported to have been injured isis case suicide bomber was behind the attack. it was the sunny terrorist groups, a 2nd assault on a mosque in a matter of days. and they've got a long history of targeting sheer muslims in afghanistan. a local journalist visited the site of the incident and sent us 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. some of faith were
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targeting chia and the era there were targeting here in syria. they were targeting t r everywhere in the middle east. so i wouldn't be surprised that this mrs. as i said, you know this is actually the work of them expired because they're consider shia. 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 that belies afghanistan to actually these to believe that taliban rule and of denison. so this is mrs. the beginning, and i wouldn't be surprised actually, more of the big li at that slide miss will take place. and a few weeks a month, sir, ahead. meanwhile, senior representatives from the u. s. and the taliban met this weekend and the katara capital. and 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 also to counter
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extremism. but the taliban is rejected joint operations with washington to suppress the extremist 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 activist brian becka 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,
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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 and look at some news from this sunday and 6 people have reportedly been killed in a massive explosion in yemen. paul city of aidan with 7 others injured. this video shows the immediate aftermath of the blast. as the thick black smoke rose from the ensuing blaze. demons in information ministry says the attack targeted the local on his convoy and another senior official, both of whom survived the explosion, damage the surrounding area, buildings and vehicles, as well as the power grid. no one's yet claimed responsibility. however, the authorities are investigating islamist militants who have carried out similar
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attacks in the path. yeoman's been at war for 7 years with islam is rebels fighting for control, middle eastern country. witnesses have been describing the assault. i'm at noah and landing lanning let us then when we left school traffic was flown on the street. then we heard a sudden and powerful loud explosion. it shook houses and buildings or baha. it was a boom stripped, co that targeted aiden's government, which led to casualties among his team and some civilians. it also led to damaged houses and civilian cars. electricity was also hits, affecting all the way to the city sense of property. also this sunday, a plane crash in central russia has killed 16 people, including the pilot and co pilot 6 others survived, but they were in a critical condition. the plain which was a lead l full 10, had 20 members of local parachute club on board. the twin engine aircraft came down soon after take off near the town of mental lynch, which is about a 1000 kilometers east of moscow. engine failure is the suspected call. sand and
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investigation is currently underway. the plane which belonged to the club had been in service since 1987 rushes, now suspended flights of all aircraft of this type pending the results of the inquiry. ford and gas prices in europe have reduced to more of a similar after that. he may put in said the russia is ready to stabilize the market. the president addressed the continents energy crisis on wednesday, adding that moscow will continue in its commitment to ukraine in regards to gas transit. to spruce, as today. yes, 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 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 anyone in a difficult position, including ukraine,
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despite the difficulties in relations. second, as no need to undermine gas prompts confidence, is an absolute reliable partner. in all respects. president putin 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. but gas price has been steadily increasing since spring, but it shot up in the last couple of weeks putting a huge financial strain on many european households. ah .
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well, despite the pledge to help reduce prices in europe, moscow, it's still being accused of manipulating the market. and you as congressman, mike of a cold call for sanctions against the north stream to gas pipeline. and we discussed how politics clash with energy security with a german european parliament and pay as well as with a former austrian foreign minister. about 7 years ago that could have been more supply to do your market wire pipeline. that was never billed them. you saw stream sales to reimburse prevented from being constructed in the summer 2014. and so now it seems as if all the i and all the criticism of where level 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
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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, opec era countries tuesday, in the 9th and seventies. we had several 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 natasha. but in the current context of the many context, 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 the western europe and russia become into a partnership over economic change over energy supply, bad in europe, gets new opportunities and a new world or europe is not any longer,
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completely dependent to the united states. so d, america, europe, america, plain 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, a 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 rushing behavior or because of economic interest. but the reason behind is angie rushing rave is g in politics made by the deep state in washington, dc. i still had on the weekly billions of people had an unexpected digital detox this week has facebook fell offline for ours? not once, but twice. one of our stores to come after the break. join
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me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess in the world . politics. sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. 020 years ago the taliban were different today or more violent than ever before. 20 years ago. they really turned out to stick with central press for so parked to they did. i have none of principal at all except a deal with principal couldn't, 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. you're so kind of restrict your limit. if you check your chicken one cabinet one, it listed, clark question and from, from inside question do just completely concentrated on westcove. this clarified
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with awe low again. austrian chancellor, sebastian kurtz, has resigned. it follows mounting fall out over corruption allegations made against both the politician and also his inner circle. the claims against him include a breach of trust, bribery, and making false statements to a parliamentary committee. for a minister, alexandra salem burg will be sworn in as the new leader on monday. kurtz for his part denies any wrong doing, saying the accusations are solely based on all text messages recently published in the austrian media. and his decision to resign comes after raids on his part is office also the chancery and the finance ministry to is part of the probe into the case. the side of the conservative block in parliament. though he still has
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immunity from prosecution and insist that his decision to step down is to restore political stability. men landis new v 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. facebook to put in the headlines this week with the tech joint experiencing serious outages, not once but twice. the 1st blackout happened on monday when users of the platform along with whatsapp and instagram. we're unable to get access to their accounts for 7 hours straight. the 2nd disruption, which happened on friday, continued for a couple of hours, both and said to have been called by technical errors. facebook's engineer said in a statement that the problem was due to a connection failure between the tech companies data centers, the outage had a knock on effect. 2 for individuals and businesses all over the world. the platform itself took a financial hit, losing up to $60000000.00 journalist and commentator chadwick more question,
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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 and 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 got locked out or something. sounds fishy sounds really strange. the fact that this and facebook always a privacy problems and they always have problems there and they always go offline. it went down to one, so it's, it's very suspicious and it's also suspicious that facebook seems that they are problems and most tech companies with these issues and, and now it whistleblowers as well. we acknowledge impact this has a look at the dangers of these monopolies. if they can blink out of existence so
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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 for a brief period, we'll have a bit of time to take a breath. so with the outage is paradise or pain for you. he goes on off, took us through a world without facebook and walked 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
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they tried to get in, they found out that their electronic cards, their passes simply did not work. so they had to literally forced their way into the server room to manually reboot them. so and it took mark zuckerberg also hours to come forward and explain what was going on. facebook, instagram, whatsapp, a messenger coming back online now. sorry for the disruption today. i know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about. you might think that it was just facebook, instagram and you know, facebook sista companies essentially, but no, a lot of other companies, a lot of other businesses that do not necessarily rely on facebook as a social platform, but rely rather on their technical physical infrastructure like service they all went down to, from well tended to netflix to zoom, to literally websites of airline companies and world bank apps as well. so a lot of a lot of sites, a lot of services that were used to using they, well they went offline. but one app seem to take advantage over it and mainly to
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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 yeah, 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 and underlines, especially the fact that other businesses not,
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not well, apparently 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 whole systems. and facebook is just one. it's a social networking platform, but a lot of businesses, a who 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,
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this shows you the fragility of the entire digital infrastructure that we're relying on. a facebook insisted that the service outage didn't lead to any use a data being compromised. but it's still another setback, just weeks after a form. a product manager claimed that the social network knowingly allows uses to spread hate and misinformation in the week august schedule lab use on wet facebook . the brand 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 pre teens and children. i mean even children. so there is a kind of convergence of several bad instances. i mean, does not just to shut down, but to any trust effort to break it up. coupled with now with these lead documents show is and understanding by facebook officials,
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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 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 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. hey, around the world of a few other stories making the news this sunday. some 200 properties have been severely damaged on the via islands. north of the greek capital, athens powerful storms flooded an area still reeling from the summer. devastating wildfires meteorologist say that rivers burst their banks causing huge amounts of damage and dramatic images of another natural disaster. this time in the canary
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islands, the spanish archipelago of north west africa. 3 story high blocks of lava have belts from a volcano that down the hill side. on the island of la palmer, reeking more havoc in the area. well that a 1000 buildings have been badly damaged or destroyed as the molten rock streaks through villages and has been doing so for 3 weeks now. there were 21 seismic movements on sunday alone. had iraqis have been casting their ballots for the national elections. it's the 1st vote since to major protest broke out in 2019 and which then top of the government, thousands of candidates competing for more than $300.00 seats in parliament. i, thanks for checking in with us this weekend. whatever's happening around the world will keep watch and be here to update you again and just to have a half an hour on our t from moscow. ah,
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