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are broadcasting a lot of direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international and whether you're watching inclusion of income or bali, we're glad to have you with us as we recaps a week's top stories with our weekly program. now this week we march 20 years since have us led invasion of afghanistan, which overthrew the taliban. and now in the wake of the western pullout, many issues remain unsolved. not least why the tele bonds offer to hand over osama . bin laden was rejected by the bush administration. 2 decades of war followed with countless lives lost. and at the end of it all the millions and militants back in charge. our senior correspondent is in cobble and asked what's really been achieved the afghan born and is just shy of its, its 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 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. 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 the press and either on television internationally is, is who the we lay. we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not

fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership in nursing. arrange that we do not grass the damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp what there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. this has been a 10 year malt, i, administration, drawdown. not a 19 month or 19 day neo, these scandal is no n yet over the americans are 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 vitamin 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 a catastrophe. they argue that the fault is with many american administrations that

the preceded good. 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 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, other making its way here. aside from half finished clinics and, and broken roots, testament to record breaking levels of corruption that, that so brilliant siphoned off into the bank accounts of corrupt officials into the pockets of private contractors. though the evidence of these billions being here is in the hands of the taliban, the guns that they wield, stamped with made in america, the vehicles military vehicles left behind it, 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 insurrection and rebellion, believe they won. mm . by virtually any measure. this war was a failure in some respects, it even made things worse, from a humanitarian perspective or a 3rd of afghans near an offer on the verge of starvation, with no hope inside the drugs manufactured and export to that of, of gustavo killed 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, i'll car the eat of canister. 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. also this weekend, afghanistan, scores of people were killed in an explosion at a she, a mosque in the northern city of condos. the vice happened during friday prayers, and more than a 100 people are reporting to have been injured. and isis k suicide bomber was behind the attack. it was the sunni 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. some states we're targeting here on the era there were targeting here in syria. they were targeting chia everywhere in the middle east. so i wouldn't be surprised that this. this is, as i said, you know, this is actually the work. oh, that's them speak because nicholas said that here is that it is there. another good believe are over there. so this is, this is the execute. but i mean, the major aim is who these that belies afghanistan to actually be stabilized by taliban rule and of been, is that so this is the beginning. and i wouldn't be surprised that we more of the big li at that slide miss will take place in that fuel. we sent them

a month. so ahead. right. meanwhile, a u. s. delegation met with senior taliban representatives over the weekend in the katara capital. the 1st such talks since the american pullout. now officials from both sides said ongoing negotiations center on the evacuation of foreign citizens and afghans and countering extremism of the taller bonds rejected. joint operation with washington to suppress the extremist group, isis k. and while the white house has made it clear, the talk said don't signal the recognition of the taliban. anti war activists. brian becker thinks that 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. facebook has been in the headlines this week with the tech giant experiencing serious outages, not once but twice. the 1st black out 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 only a couple of hours. both are said to have been caused by technical errors. now facebook's engineers blamed the problem on the connection failure between the tech companies data centers. the outage have a knock on effect for users and businesses. all of the world. the platform itself took a financial hit. losing up to $60000000.00 journalist and commentator chadwick more questioned how such a vast company could have been so vulnerable to a technical failure. 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 or gotten locked out or something. sounds fishy sounds really strange. the fact that this and facebook always a privacy problems and they always have problems there, and they always go offline and went down to one. so it's, it's very suspicious. and it's also suspicious that facebook seems that they are problems and most tech companies with these issues and, and i would whistleblowers as well acknowledge, in fact, 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 our they are monopolies and look at how they could just wipe out revenue. whether the shut that was intentional or it was just the mistake. so for a brief period, we all had time to take a breath. were the outages, a pleasure or pain for you, he goes on off, took us through a world without facebook and what's 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, well, 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 force their way into the server room to manually rebuild 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 or physical infrastructure like service. they all went down to, from well tender 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 working. 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 tried 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 mayhem 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 by probably, well, capitalizing on the whole situation. but in general, this whole thing, an underlying, especially the fact that other businesses not, not well upon can link to 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. facebook insisted the service outage didn't lead to any user data being compromised, but it's still another setback. weeks after a former product manager claims the social network knowingly allows users to spread hate and misinformation. in the week, our guests gave us their views on where 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 into caught. and so you see all these desperate measures of attempting to attract preteens and children, i mean even children. so there is a kind of convergence of several bad instances. i mean, not just to shut down by any trust effort to break it up, coupled with now what these lead documents show is and understanding by facebook officials, that crest of the wave is now headed downwards, that facebook is not infallible. and what's 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 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. more of our headline news on the way russia stepped in to help take some of the heat out of europe. soaring gas prices, but you have to call dish and still school moscow. it's our next story. when we come back with weekly right here on our international ah ah, maximizes financial survival guide. stacey, let's learn about fill out. let's say i'm a true i care. many are great from grief on base of the fight. wall street broad thank you for helping ah enjoy.

6 that right fell out if you're a desk slavery. ah . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offensive, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk oh, walking back to the weekly right here on our team international. now boiling gas prices in europe have been reduced to

a summer after vladimir putin said russia is ready to stabilize the market. the president addressed to the continent energy crisis on wednesday, adding that moscow would continue. it's gas transit commitment to ukraine. a spruce, should i say 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. as 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 40 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 burn any one in a difficult position, including ukraine, despite the difficulties in relation sorta. second, as no need to undermine gas prompts confidence is an absolute, reliable partner. in all respects. of the president putin earlier blame to europe's at gast crisis on an overly hasty transition to green energy,

coupled with brussels decision to switch from long term gas contracts. to volatile 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 . despite the pledge to help reduce prices in europe, moscow is still being accused of manipulating the market. meanwhile,

us congressman michael mccaul called forth sanctions against the nordstrom to gas pipeline. we discussed how politics and energy security clash with a german european parliament and p, and 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. is house 3000 stream was 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 to stay in the 9th and seventies. we had at 7 instances non supply and non export on this. what we can call it in like an energy weapon. if you want to use that met tougher, but in the current context of the many context, long term delivery gas, very complex that 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 are becoming into a partnership over economic change over energy supply than europe gets new opportunities and a new world. europe is not any longer, completely dependent to the united states. so d, america, europe, america, are playing politics to preserve their global leadership route. that's the only superpower and they don't care about consumer prices and energy security in europe,

daycare on there are. and since the whole others, pro american politicians here a whole industry of turns, this is very powerful. so what behalf there is no rational reason there is no, there is no rational reason because rushing be a no because of the credentials. but the reason behind is angie rushing rave is g in politics made by the deep state of washington. the austrian chancellor has resigned as a result of mounting fall out over corruption allegations made against both sebastian curts and his inner circle. the claims against him include breach of trust, bribery, and making false statements to a parliamentary committee. foreign minister, alexander schellenberg will be sworn in as the new leader on monday. kurtz denies any wrong doing, saying the accusations are solely based on all the text messages recently published

in austria media. his decision to resign comes after raids on his parties. office the chancellor re and also the finance ministry as part of the probe into the case . now as head of the conservative block in parliament, he still has immunity from prosecution. he insists his decision to step down is to restore political stability. 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. 56 people have died in a massive explosion in yemen, support city of aidan 7, others have been injured as well. now this video shows the immediate aftermath of the blast as thick black smoke rose from the ensuing blaze. gibbons information ministry says that the attack targeted the local governance convoy and another senior official, both of whom survived. the explosion damaged the surrounding area,

buildings and vehicles, as well as the power grid. no one has yet claimed responsibility. however, suspicion has fallen on illness, militants who have carried out similar tax in the past. government has been at war for 7 years with is lumniss to rebels fighting for control of the eastern country. witnesses described this although such and the hunting land and let us then when we left school traffic was flown in the street and then we heard a sudden and powerful loud explosion. it shook houses and buildings. era. it was a boom stripped, co that targeted aiden's government, which let the casualties among his team and some civilians. it'll solitude damaged houses and civilian cars. electricity was also hits affecting all the way to the city, sense of them all, but elsewhere, powerful storms and mud slides have flooded elvia island north of the greek capital . some 200 properties were severely damaged in the area still reeling from this summer's devastating. wildfires meteorologist save more. rain is expected in the

area throughout monday. dramatic video of another natural disaster this time a volcanic eruption in the canary islands off north west africa lava. as high as 3 stories it slid down the mountain side on la palma, reeking more havoc in the area in the as 3 weeks more than a 1000 buildings have been badly damaged or destroyed as the molten rock forced its way through villages, there were 21 seismic movements on sunday alone and iraqis have been casting their ballots in nationwide elections is the 1st such a vote since major protests broke out in 2019 which toppled a government facing accusations of corruption. thousands of candidates are competing for more than $300.00 seats in parliament. that is a look at your weekly. i will be back in 32 and a half minutes with another look. say with us. this is our international. mm mm.

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