[000:00:00;00] a human intellectually works well with the washer live with with breaking news this, our explosion in the afghan capital leaves up this stage. at least 2 people injured that comes out of the country marks the 1st anniversary of the tele bonds returning to power. following the bought us withdrawal. moscow urges western countries to quote, still playing irresponsible games and to all the shelling of bizarre rogia nuclear power plant. this may be about 1500 meters to move the ukrainian positions from where we are right now. i'm talking about the town of sherry,

this is the main whole sport on this direction. on r t crew. if it's the front line and on past where russian lead forces are battling ukraine's nationalist crack in battalion india, pakistan and celebrate independence day 75 years after colonial rule came to it. and we look at how the 2 nations tried to force their own paths forward. following the partition that ripped british in august of 1947 last claim to align. bothering him now and focused on 9 o. 4 divided, deescalate bought one job, tearing a pop with families and communities with across the world around the clock. this is our, the pleasure to help you with this today for the global news roundup. i'm union,

we begin this our with breaking news from the afghan capital where it, these 2 people have been injured in an explosion. the incident reportedly happened near a local tv channel. emergency services are currently up, the scene will bring you any updates on the blast on it comes on the 1st anniversary of the taliban returning to power. amid the chaotic us withdrawal will new details of the failures accompanying b. u. s. retreats of recently emerged in a leaked report. it was carried out by republicans on the u. s. foreign affairs committee reportedly claims out there were just 36 state department officials on the ground on capital or report a year ago to deal with the thousands of people desperately trying to get out of the country. now at 12 months old, there are reportedly still tens of thousands of afghans stuck in the country waiting for special immigrant visas. us congressmen, michael mccaul, safe, there was simply no plan for the chaotic withdrawal. there are many sins, if you will. there was a complete lack in

a failure to plan. there was no plan and it was there was no plan execute. there's a disconnect between, you know, intelligence on the ground and what the white house is doing thing. and this report says it all right, there is no way we're going to evacuate embassy personnel from helicopters like we did in vietnam. you know, of course, we know that happened. well, let's take a closer look at how the widely criticized withdrawal was implemented and how the

events on the ground unfolded. i do not regret my decision to end america's war fighting at garrison and maintain

a laser focused on our counterterrorism mission. there and other parts of the world and it seems the emotional wounds of the chaotic u. s. army withdrawal from the country are still being felt by americans. the u. s . media is reporting on a man who apparently committed suicide during a memorial service for his fallen brother kill during last year's pallets. the 20 rural corporal was among 13 american servicemen who lost their lives in a suicide bomb attack near kepler port the instant up. and while large crowds of

people were trying to flee the afghan capital a period of just 10 days last year, soft galveston turned on its head on the taliban back, where they were precisely 2 decades before this by 20 years of american, so named war on terror ortiz rachel blevins report one year after the botch chaotic and deadly end of the u. s. warren afghanistan. there are still countless questions about how and why the world leading intelligence agency got it so wrong. when the time came to leave the country, the u. s. had been occupying for 20 years after all, even president biden express. nothing but confidence before he made the official call is a tale mon takeover of afghanistan, now inevitable. no, it is none. because you have the afghan troops of 300000 well equipped as well as crypt is any army in the world and an air force against

something like 75000 taliban? it is not in every 2 weeks later, it was a very different story. when the us withdrew from the country, the government, they had spent 2 decades building and supporting fell apart. and it took the taliban just 10 days to gain control of the country's capital. notably faster than it took the us to do so when an invaded back in 2001 ah ah, how is it possible that multiple reports from, for intelligence agencies in the us managed to get this situation so wrong? that even the same mainstream outlet who had spent 20 years justifying the u. s. military's presence in the country were forced to admit what a disaster it was. us intelligence officials are pushing back on the chars that

they were caught off guard by the rapid collapse of afghanistan's government for 20 years. we know the taliban, we have people on the ground, and yet you the u. s. was caught unaware, and completely off guard to the commander of us forces in afghanistan. alerted the pentagon. cobble could be surrounded within 30 day, an alarming prediction that turned out to be way off. what he's talking about here is a failure of intelligence. so we saw across the world we saw in washington, knew the pentagon had no idea this was happening. however, what the us learned the hard way was i just because it spent nearly $90000000000.00 training. the afghan defense and security forces did not mean that their army of around $300000.00 would be able to take on the taliban without the u. s. military there to support them. and yes, that's despite the claims made by the biden administration, that they just needed to strengthen their unity and political will in order to succeed. ultimately,

the african national security defense versus had the equipment numbers and training to fight back they of what they need. what they need to determine is if they have the political will to fight back. and if they have the ability to unite as a, as leaders to fight back, and that's really where it stands at this point. as it turned out, the 20 year long reliance on the u. s. military proved to be much more than the white house expected. and after they were abandoned by their allies, the will of the afghan forces to attempt to fight back against the taliban fell apart in record time when the us announced a total withdrawal that sent a signal to afghan soldiers and police that the end was near. and converted chronically poor motivation into acute collapse. there's nobody wanted to be the last man standing after the others gave up. there was a all or nothing strategy employed by the u. s. in which it opted for equip pull out from the country rather than withdrawing gradually. and leaving a few 1000 troops on the ground to help with the transition, after all was said and done bite and denied that was ever an option. the pentagon

had been considering your time, realty advisors ward against withdrawn on this timeline. they wanted to keep about 2500 tr no, they didn't. it was split though that wasn't true. and it wasn't just the u. s. the u. k. foreign office admitted last month and it made a number of mistakes in its own exit from the country. and quit it on that list was the fact that the u. k. foreign secretary at the time was on holiday and didn't take the afghan foreign ministers call when he reached out for help with the benefit of hindsight, of course, it's easy to say, but i wouldn't have gone on holiday, let alone. and we've come home on the government for you as had been propping up for nearly 2 decades, was also supported by an embassy that housed around 4000 and diplomats contractors and staff who provided a false sense of confidence even though they were relying on the intent security provided by the u. s. military, but then again, they didn't invade afghanistan looking to learn about the country. instead,

the mission they claim to half was to force american values on the people. and after 20 years, it has become clear. they still haven't learned about the country they occupied for so long. it also appeared as though every assurance biden gave about the us accept plan was eventually proven wrong. there's going to be no circumstance. you see people be lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all comfortable. and yet it was the scenes of helicopters rescuing embassy staff in afghanistan that became a direct comparison to the fall of saigon in 1975. that's only finney given the fact that the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan has been called the worst intelligence failure since vietnam, proving that after a 20 year war, thousands of lives lost, countless communities destroyed. and more than 2 trillion dollars spent, the u. s. still hasn't learned from its own actions. rachel blevins on we'll be

bringing you more all of this down and how it's people have been navigating their lives since the u. s. pallets in our special coverage. right, right. this month. ah, to the ukraine conflict, not russia has cold on the west to influence the authorities in kiev to stop shelling the zappa rouge. he had a nuclear power plant. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman branded the current western up at you towards the issue responsible. we strongly urge washington, brussels and other capitals, primarily european ones to stop the irresponsible games and intrigues around the nuclear power plant and immediately influenced the key of authorities to force them to stop shelling the plant and it's adjacent territories. well, the situation is finding the facility remains very tense. the latest attack occurred on sunday,

one civilian was killed on another injured young woman receive shopping openings and needed hospital treatments. local officials also said ukrainian rockets targeted a nearby thermo power station which generates the energy for the nuclear bond. the sites on the nearby city of america dar being repeatedly targeted for more than a week now, sparking fears of a turn noble like nuclear disaster. our t donald quarter can tell us more. give stephanie, playing with a whole lot of fire by continually launching missiles and artillery strikes near the zeros or nuclear power plant. ukrainian forces did just that as early as, as recently a sunday when one civilian was killed and other was injured. and we also saw a lot of shelling on saturday as well. and all this of course puts europe in tremendous danger of another nuclear disaster on the continent. and this is exactly why the international atomic energy agency has been demanding an end to the fighting around there. now these upper ocean,

regional authorities have also commented on this. they have said the best way to accomplish that objective of ending the hostilities around there is by clearing out the ukranian, firing positions that are constantly showing near the plans because they're really the ones endangering it the most. although, lot of years, the lensky doesn't seem to see it that way. he's been pointing the finger at russian troops pushing or receive school every russian military officer who either shoots at the plant or shoots under the cover of the plan. he must understand that he becomes a special target for our intelligence, for our special services for our army. well, it's shocking enough to hear the president of ukraine say it's acceptable under certain circumstances to shoot at or around a nuclear power plants. but what's more shocking than that is that it's actually a bit of a moderate position in ukraine. others are openly calling for the ukranian military to attack nuclear sites on russian territory. cities. yes, it's a race. many people will suffer, but even more people will suffer a russian administrations and nuclear facilities are not attacked. now. there should be

a strike. there's no other way. probably the best thing to do here is what we heard from maria's car about to allow specialists from the international atomic energy agency to go there, let them see for themselves the condition of the plans. let them see for themselves who is actually endangering it. but for some reason, the united nation isn't allowing them to do that. i mean, it's more than likely that has to do with ukraine's powerful western friends which are enabling this reckless attitude. the key of hads towards the possibility of another terrible nuclear tragedy. the chairman of the we are together with russia movement of these oper rozier region vladimir rogoff believes ukraine is recklessly targeting the plant to test rushes defenses. business look at the abuse or carefully planned actions by ukraine to strike the largest european nuclear plant. and zap rosure, they'd been probing to see how effectively russian air defenses would repel the

strikes. and then they used heavy artillery mortars and drones. these were targeted strikes by the ukrainian army. zelinski is terrorists have too many targets. the cooling system of the nuclear power plant and the dry storage of the nuclear fuel waste. a damaged cooling system can lead to overheating and accidents in the power units and damaging the dry storage of nuclear fuel waste can lead to contamination of the environment. they are doing this to stop the advance of the russian army at the meetings of the national security of the defense of ukraine. zalinski senior officials say that they can cause a control to release of radiation, which in their opinion will stop the russian offensive, which is the activities of the i. e, a r being blocked by the un. because if they come, it will be forced to admit who is attacking the plant. we're waiting for the i. e. s. inspection any moment, and we will be glad to see them yet. meanwhile, local official, a say russian lead forces are advancing in don bass, reaching key strongholds previously held by ukrainian troops in the region. russian

soldiers continued to engage the printing army in the key city of div care in the den. yes, republic. the area has been the focus of fierce battle since the conflict erupted in late february with key of forces long using it to target the regions capital city done yet. or recently, the ton of pesky came under the control of the danielle republics troops. russian lead forces also secured a strategic point on the outskirts of subversive r t. cru, visited captured positions near there, and saw were no offensive against the ukrainian neo nazi battalion. the kracken is taking place. cameras are a rare auditor here. commanding offices are dazzled by our unannounced visit, but seized the chance to parade the evolution of their advance. this may be about 1500 meters towards the ukrainian positions. from where we are right now. i'm

talking about the town of save ask. this is the main hot sport on this direction. basically the russian forces and the forces of the lucas people's republic. they are advancing on a very wide section of the front. so this is the northernmost point of this advance. and basically what they're trying to do is they're trying to, well, in circle severson. well, this ration from the north, ukraine's and nationalist battalions like kracken for instance. they're ukranian nazis very much like to that of as of, they are the ones who are holding off. they're the ones who are basically defending their the frontline defenses of the town of servers. the kracken proudly brands itself as an elite unit, but outside their promo videos. the battalion's reputation is overshadowed by atrocities and lawlessness. its members and global notoriety when they were caught

on video torturing russian prisoners of war. also in part, the unit has been formed of current convicts who were moved from theirselves to the frontline via president zalinski zanada. and this video, a russian grown tracks, one of the kracken fighters to his companies trenches. from that point, the artillery takes over rounds from artillery doors were back and forth routinely here to ukrainian tanks. fleet from the shelling as 2 bright orange spots to the right suggest to moore, didn't make it. no one wanted to fight. people submitted reports to refuse paris, but they just burned them. we had poor training, we are only taught to move by 2 or 3 people, assemble and disassemble our guns and shoot. were not taught to advance at all. we were absolutely not ready for this. when we were shelled, we were told to retreat. something exploded behind me and wounded me. they left me under

a tree and abandoned me. i waited until morning than realised that they would not come and get me. so i began to crawl through the forest. i crawled for 2 days until the russian soldiers found me as we explore the captured town. 2 soldiers accompanying us notice a suspicious item, and in their words, it's better safe than sorry. it will leave as command as our dishing out new orders. the offensive goes on august dawn of reporting from the don bass r t k. another news line to bring you to day the huge flow of arms to ukraine from the west has been scale back since july. that's according to a journalist from the ukranian forbes magazine. there's a real discrepancy between the west and ukraine on this issue. now the question is, are the weapons that are being sent by the west to ukraine,

up to the tasks as ukrainian officials tell it you would think that the west was sending them into battle with squirt guns that they rifled around their closets like an older sibling. who was being pressured by a younger one to cough up some hand, me down clothing and ended up just giving them some old rags that they had used in ages. now you currently ukrainian officials know that there are some luxury military hardware lurking in those western closets and it sounds like they're fed up with what they consider to be budget weapons. they also aren't happy with the shipping speed and sound like they're on the verge of leaving some pretty nasty reviews about it on yelp or amazon. have a listen. green book, ukraine needs modern defense missile systems. the supply of such systems was possible this year last year and even earlier we did we get them? no. do we need them? yes, we urge you to provide us with the heavy weapons as soon as possible. procrastination with the provision of weapons leaves to the deal, death of our children,

to the depletion, the plates from our camp. i saw these poor reviews that you've just heard are being picked up by the mainstream western press at face value. but how legitimate is the gripe really self repel german artillery guns considered by western experts to be the best in the world, were considered defective by ukrainian officials after just one month of use in the field, according to durst, spiegel. but if that were the case, then why are western officials voicing concerns about giving away their best and brightest weapons to ukraine? to the point of creating national security vulnerabilities for themselves. a new french parliamentary report published this month, found that french weapons stocks currently need to be reconstituted because as things stand right now, french military leaders are concerned about the ability of the country to fight a high intensity conflict. like the one underway in ukraine, the german defense ministers also worried about the impact of seating more weapons

of in it stash to key. if we can no longer give away much from the buddhist fair, i will make it very clear. and my counterpart knows it as well. the u. k. has expressed similar reservations as well. now the pledges and promises of military aid to ukraine are out. pacing the ability of western nations to back fill their own supplies, leaving the you in a precarious position. as the blocks chief diplomat, joseph burrell has explained. it will be an army. she couldn't maintain a wool like the one in ukraine for more than 2 weeks. it run out of ammunition. so ukraine is complaining about the lack of weapons. is it because they are actually making it to the front lines as a recent cbs news story suggested? is it because they're actually getting duds from their very best friends and allies, or is it that ukrainian officials are exploiting the fog of war and the lack of clarity around the presence and performance of western weapons in ukraine to shake

free as much as they possibly can from the west, ah, 75 years ago to the day 2 centuries of british colonial rule in india came to an end, giving rise to 2 independent states. but partition came up a huge close to both pakistan and india. as our correspondent ruined june, shawna explained amidst the triumphal skin dell's independence in the summer of 1947. a line of separation was drawn by british barrister. it was called the partition august of 1947 ratcliffe drew a line bordering india and pakistan. that line also divided this way, part have been job tearing apart, will edges, families and communities now hindu than seeks on one side and the muslims on the other. 75 years own. we meet doors whose life was changed forever by hastily

drawn borders. this is the north and in state of punjab. the historic homeland of de seeks. we visited cordial village in the good asp or district, barely a few miles from the india pakistan. border 104 year old mila rom is one of the few living partition survivors in the village. if you're dealing with only a government, we left our entire life across the border. our old life no longer existed than what we had to start afresh. memories of days gone by come back to me and that garden in spring. it was all that shit. a chatter. he may have left pakistan, but pakistan has stayed with him in more ways than one. even today, he rides thick haines in order and keeps them close to his heart. in another which we meet, could pulsing, his grandchildren, and great grandchildren have all moved to big cities. he's decided to stay his 1st home. his ancestral village is only a few miles from your just across the border in pakistan. 3 years ago,

he got his long awaited result with it in his childhood home in pakistan was a dream come true. ah, brenda, i went to my village, my home, i cried aloud. those who live in the house that was once mine were happy to see me . they wanted to give me a gift, but i said, i won't take but give a gift. i give money and a blessing to the children living in the house. a few villages father, also by the border stands, the rows are shut. if thou gal, the sacred islamic shrine fell on the indian side when the partition line was drawn, as many seeks shines, ended up on the pakistani side. he or the entire willing around 80 families that came from sea are caught in, pakistan have maintained this structure for 75 years like their own. and, you know, the whole village takes care of the dagger. we come here every day, train it lights out the lamp, cray here, across the river robbing the sun, is setting in pakistan. it's hard to imagine that this line,

this border didn't even exist 75 years ago, but the borders of reality. and despite living to the pain of partition many so i was have chosen to remember the love with the pin ranch and sharma, arti, but job and just another story to bring you before we go to break a terror attack on an oil pipeline in the south of russia has been foiled. that is, according to the country security services, the f. s. b claims they planned strike was being directed by ukraine's secret service. as a warning, you may find the following footage, disturbing. the apparent attack was set to take place in the vulgar grout region and be carried out by 2 people. both of them were killed during the police operation. an improvised explosive device on 2 hung guns were found at the crime scene as well. the fs be also reports that both suspects were members of

a russian radical organization with ties to ukrainian nationalist battalions. now, don't dare or think about listening to tchaikovsky are mentioned tosto in polite society. russian culture is being canceled throughout the west, much to this may of sober thinking minds everywhere. next, we ask, does anyone benefit from such a strategy? ah ah, a

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as possible. if a nation suddenly be disliked, well, what is the hotel latino place there and only now come to the for the most full show you the most for so for do it is router will be a new one. hasn't been seen before. it was a form, some didn't the studies before door. i knew that i knew you started going a little bit will not. yes. those die you, it was exact or could go with, but it is i here because that's a play team is usually when you got a question was considered, is what i mean? it was due to miss delusion border over here. all we gotta do is feed him over the head and just tell him the right way to live near is going to do it