ah, all, ah, it ah, the stories that shaped the week we marked 20 years since the us and its 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 raise lights out for facebook. what's happened to instagram after the company experienced massive outages twice during the week, leaving the firm, nursing a $60000000.00 loss and ramp, and the gas and prices had drop in europe after russia pledges to boost supplies. but the move has not stopped us politicians from blaming moscow for the crisis.

ah, broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow, recapping week's top stories with our weekly program. this is our t international. now this week we march 20 years since the us led invasion of afghanistan, which over through the taliban. and now in the wake of the western pull out many issues remain on resolved not least why the taliban offered 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 militants back in charge. our correspondent is in kabul and asked what's really been achieved the afghan war and is just shy of it's it's 20th anniversary, the, the war a vengeance that was launched by the united states as revenge for 911 and quickly

morphed into something else. one of the most protracted conflicts in modern history, an exercise, and a nation building before losing all lame and tylenol towards the n. either the united states, nor any of its allies, still knew what it is that they hoped to achieve. here the end result is, is that it was unanimously considered an abject failure, but taliban is, 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, and the press in there on television internationally is, is who the we lame. we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and nursing ranks. that we did not grass

a damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp 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 end year over the americans calling it been ghazi on steroids. the republicans, as well as ordinary americans that see the end of the war as humiliating for america. they want some one held responsible, the biden, the miss administration, as was the pentagon, so far they have done their best to absolve themselves of all accountability for what many americans again see as a catastrophe. they argue that the fault is with many american administrations, that, that precede is 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 ah, we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest trial top right, almost any country on earth. from the perspective of the 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 kleenexes 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 the industrial quantities. the taliban are of course jubilant. they have dismantled everything that the united states build. the human rights, the tolerance, the democratic institutions, and the matter of weeks. and they are jubilant. they have after 20 years of,

and so wretched 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 got to start 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, accounted with even at the un, bob from

a security perspective. yes, al qaeda even gonna stop. may have been degraded but, but something worse has taken its place nowadays. 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. and a she, a mosque in the northern city of conduce the blast happened to during friday prayers, and more than $100.00 people are reporting to have been injured. and isis k suicide bomber was behind the attack. it was the sunni terrorist groups, 2nd assaulted on the matter on a mosque and a matter of days. and they have a long history of targeting shia muslims in afghanistan. local journalist visited the site of the incident and sent us this report. 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. assembly faith were targeting she on era. there were targeting, she are in syria. they were targeting chia 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 consider shia that etc. is there another good believer 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 denison. so this is mrs. the beginning and i wouldn't be surprised, actually, more of the bitterly at that slide miss will take place in that fuel we among sir ahead. meanwhile, usaa delegation met with senior taliban representatives over the week and in the

katara capital. the 1st such talks since the american pullout officials from both sides said ongoing negotiations center on the evacuation of foreign citizens and afghans and countering extremism. but the tele bonds rejected joint operations with washington to suppress the extremist group, isis k. and while the white house has made it clear that the talks don't signal the recognition of the taliban, anti war activists, brian becker think state 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. a, constitutes a kind of defacto recognition that the taliban in fact are the government. 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. facebook has been in the headlines this week with the tech giant experiencing serious outages, not once but twice. the 1st blackout happened on monday when users of the platform along with what's happened to 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 are said to have been caused by technical errors. and

facebook engineers blamed the problem on a connection failure between the tech companies data centers. the outage had a knock on effect for users and been says, all over the world. the platform itself took a financial hit, losing up to $60000000.00 journalists and commentator chadwick more questioned 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 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 or gotten locked out or something. sounds fishy sounds really strange. the fact that this and facebook always of privacy problems and they always have

problems there and they always go offline. they went down to one, so it's, it's very suspicious and it's also suspicious that facebook seems to have bigger 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 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 can just wipe out revenue. whether the checkout was intentional or it was just the mistake. so for a brief period, we all had time to take a breath where the average is a pleasure or a pain for u g z goat donna 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, 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 or 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 seem 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 and underlines, especially the fact that other businesses not, not well about the link to which didn't appear to billing to facebook, that they experienced 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 facebook 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, so 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 the service outage did not lead to any user data being compromised, but it is still another setback. weeks after a former product manager claimed the social network knowingly allows users to spread a 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 elite 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 all the 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 on line. boiling gas prices in europe have been reduced to a summer. dr. vladimir putin said russia is ready to stabilize the market. the

president addressed the continent energy crisis on wednesday, adding that moscow would continue its gas transit commitment to ukraine. as should i should 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 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 buy anyone 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. of 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 valvo, spawn trading. the gas price had been steadily increasing since spring, but shot up in the past couple of weeks putting a huge financial strain on many european households. ah ah. despite the pledge to help reduce prices in europe, moscow is still being accused of manipulating the market. meanwhile, us congressman michael mccaul,

called for sanctions against the north stream to gas pipeline. we discussed how politics and energy security clash with a german european parliament m. p. and 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. is house 3000 to reimburse prevented from being constructed in the summer 2014 and so so now it seems as if all the i, all the criticism available is simply directed against the most free mentor. 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 at 7 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 there he is. you can present 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, opportunity is ended, you 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 rule. that's the only superpower. and they don't care about consumer prices and energy security in europe,

daycare on there, a martin. and since the whole others, pro american politicians here 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 russia behavior because of economic interest . but the reason behind this angie rushing rave is g in politics made a deep statement. washington the austrian chancellor, has it resigned as a result of mounting fall out over corruption allegations made against both sebastian curts and his inner circle. the claims against him included a 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, curts. it denies any wrong doing, saying that the accusations are solely based on old text messages. recently published in austria, media is decision to resign,

comes after raids on his parties, office the chancellors, and also the finance ministry as a part of the probe into the case as a head of the conservative block in parliament, he still has immunity from prosecution. and he insists his decision to set down is to restore political stability. men landis 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. if that's your 6 people have died and 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 in suing blaze . yeoman's information ministry says the attack targeted the local governors conway, and another senior official, both of whom it 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 islamist no chance to have carried out similar attacks in the past. yemen has been at war for 7 years with illness rebels fighting for control of the middle eastern countries. witnesses describe yourself as this and not examine. 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, the targeted aiden's government, which led to casualties among his team and some civilians. it'll solitude damaged houses and civilian cars. electricity was also hit, affecting all the way to the city sense of an opening. elsewhere powerful storms and mud slides had flooded every island north of the greek capital. some $200.00 properties were severely damaged in an area. still reeling from me this summer is devastating. wildfires meteorologist say that more rain is expected in the area throughout monday. dramatic video of another natural disaster. check this out. this

is a volcano eruption in the canary islands, off north west africa lava. as high as 3 stories slid down to the mountainside on the la paloma, reeking, more havoc in the area in the past 3 weeks more than a 1000 buildings have been badly damaged or destroyed. as the molten rock forced its way through the villages, there were 21 seismic movements on sunday alone. and the rockies have been casting their ballots in nationwide elections in 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 seats in parliament. that is, look at your weekly this hour. i will be back in, let's say, 34 and a half minutes with another full fresh look. these are interesting. mm hm. mm

ah. and i make no borders line nationalities and you various as a merge, we don't have authority. we don't to look back seen the whole world, leads to take action to be ready. people are judge, you know, common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. every one is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great. the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel

very proud that we are in it together with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic development only i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical. i'm time to sit down and talk ah with me

telling welcome to work for daycare janice, that has been everybody's business and no one's responsibility. other powers, big and small, perceived that on the agenda there with little regard for the countries constance or aspirations. and the taliban has abandoned the 1000000 status, one washing. oh, i've got a since trajectory and what it was for the region as a whole is more graphing than ever to discuss with them now joined by a brother of the late resistance. later i might shock my suit and form afghan essence 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 claim to full control of afghanistan, you called for international support. and i assume and agreeing to this interview, you are also seeking to mobilize the international public opinion. and i know that

you are clearly mistrustful of the taliban. you have reasons for holding that opinion, but i wonder why are you not 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 country has been used and misused and no matter how much we try to make something at the end of the day and something because 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 grounds for rivalry, for one of that, this is the afghans, the so our people what the victim will really paying the price we're paying very heavy price. let's say 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 was again, we go back 20 years back now 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 amateur for something is bigger than our law for something. and i you clearly have many grievances when the taliban . i wonder though if it's.