a and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves well, the part we choose to look for common ground. ah, breaking news this hour explosion in the afghan capital leaves to people injured gums as the country marks the 1st anniversary of the tele bonds return to power. following the botched us with rolled moscow urges western countries to quote stall, playing irresponsible games and push kiev to hold the shelling of bizarre project nuclear power plant. also ahead this may be about 1500 meters to the ukranian positions from where we are right now. i'm talking about the town of

sheriff's, this is the main whole sport. on this direction, on rti cru, visits the front line and don boss where russian lead forces are battling ukraine's nationalist cracking battalion. india and pakistan celebrate independence day. 75 years after colonial rule came to an end, we look at how the 2 nations tried to force their own path forward following the partition that ripped british india apart. almost have 1947 black live to align, bothering him now and focused on that. i'm also divided display top, it's been job to learning about when it is families in communities mid day and montevideo midnight in so on 6 in the evening here in moscow this monday, august, the 15th. welcome to the news hour. we begin this hour with some breaking news from

the afghan capital where 2 people have been injured. after an improvised device planted in a car exploded, the instant reportedly happened near a local tv channel. now the blast comes on the 1st anniversary of the taliban returning to power and that the chaotic us withdrawal new details, all of the failures accompanying the u. s. retreats have recently emerged in a leak report. it was carried out by republicans on the u. s. foreign 1st committee and reportedly claims, there were just $36.00 state department officials on the ground applicable report a year ago to deal with. you may remember the thousands of people desperately trying to get out of the country. now, 12 months old, there are reportedly still tens of thousands of guns stuck in the country waiting for those special immigrant visas. us congressmen, michael mccaul, safe, there was simply no plan for the chaotic but role. there are many, soon if you will, there was a complete lack of failure to plan. there wasn't

a 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 i, 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 out how the patrol criticized widely 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

the and it seems the emotional wounds of the botched military withdrawal from the country are still being felt by americans, the u. s. media reporting a man who apparently committed suicide during a memorial service for his fallen soldier, brother killed during last years. polite. the 20 year old corporal was among 13 american servicemen who lost their lives in a suicide bomber attack near campbell. the report,

the incident happened while large crowds of people were trying to flee the afghan capital l. a period of just 10 days last year. so off galveston turned on its head on the taliban backward. they were precisely 2 decades before ortiz. rachel blevins reports one year after the botched chaotic and deadly end of the u. s. war and 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. 7 bomb take over against that now, inevitable? no, it is none. because you have the african troops have 300000 well equipped as well as crypt has any army in the world and an air force against

something like 75000 tele mom. it is not inevitable weeks later, it was a very different story. when the u. s. 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 took the u. s. to do so, when an invaded back in 2001, ah ah, how is it possible that multiple reports from, for intelligence agencies in the u. s. managed to get this situation so wrong, that even the same mainstream outlets 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 charge that they were caught off guard by the rapid collapse of afghan us and the 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. 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 learn the hard way was that 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 have 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 fall 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 as 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. and 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 top

military advisors war against, withdrawn on this timeline. they wanted you to keep about 2500 to no they did. it was split. no, 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. this was the fact that the u. k. foreign secretary of 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, and i wouldn't have gone on holiday, let alone, and we've come home on the government, the u. s. had been propping up for nearly 2 decades, was also supported by an embassy that housed around $4000.00 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 that 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 gonna be no circumstance for you to 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 fitting, given the fact that the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan has been called the worst intelligence failure since the non 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. the report by rachel blevins. well,

we'll be bringing you more enough dallas down and how it's people have been navigating their lives since the turbulent u. s. poli, dinner special coverage. right? throat this month. ah. all right, let's good grasp on the latest in the ukraine conflict. nar, russia has called on the west to influence the authorities and t if to stop shelling the zappa rogia nuclear power plant. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman has branded western roberts towards the issue reckless. we strongly urge washington brussels in 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 its adjacent territories will indeed the situation surrounding the facility remains extremely tense. we're now hearing from local

authorities at the city of inert good dar, on the nuclear side, or once again, being shelled by ukraine will try bringing the latest on exactly what's occurring there. as soon as we know more though, for now, let's focus on some, these deadly attack on the same territory. this is the new s c c t v footage we've received, which allegedly shows the exact moment of the strike. one civilian was killed and another injured, a young woman who received shrapnel wounds and needed hospital treatment. local officials also said ukrainian rockets targeted a nearby thermal power station which generates the energy for the nuclear plant. the sites on the nearby city of an arg adar have been repeatedly targeted for more than a week now, sparking fears of a cher noble like nuclear disaster ortiz. donal quarter talked us through all that earlier. he of stephanie playing with a whole lot of fire by continually launching missiles and artillery strikes near the zap erosion 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, put 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 shelling near the plant because they're really the ones endangering it the most. although vladimir zalinski doesn't seem to see it that way, he's been pointing the finger at russian troops. or she is casually, every russian military officer who either shoots at the plant or shoots under the cover of the plan, you 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 plant. 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 ukrainian military to attack nuclear sites on russian territory. the 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 plant. let them see for themselves who is actually endangering it, but for some reason the united nations 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 toward the possibility of another terrible nuclear tragedy. well,

the german of the we are together with russia, the movement of these upper lucia region bloomer. rogowski believes ukraine is recklessly targeting the plan to bring it by the radiation. i break and force the russian lead troops to retreat. business law, abuser carefully planned actions by ukraine to strike the largest european nucular plant and zappa. roger, they've 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 coin 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 and the power units or, 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 at any moment, and we will be glad to see them yet. while local officials say russian lead forces are advancing and on bass, reaching key strongholds previously held by ukrainian troops in the region, russian soldiers continue to engage the ukrainian army and the key city of the day of care and that done yet. republic theory has been the focus of fierce battle since that conflict erupted in late february with the air force as long using it to target the regions capital city than yours. were recently, the town of pesky came under the control of the daniel republics troops. russian lead forces also secured a strategic point on the outskirts of sabres and r. t. crew visited captured positions near there and saw where an offensive against the ukrainian neo nazi

battalion named kracken is taking place. cameras are a rare auditor here. commanding offices are dazzled by our unannounced visit, but sees 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 spot on this direction. basically the russian forces and the forces of the guns people's republic. they are advancing on a very wide section of the front. so this is the northernmost wind of this advance. and basically what they're trying to do is they're trying to, well, in circle severson on 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 convict, who will move from theirselves to the frontline, vice president zalinski soda. and this video, a russian drone tracks, one of the kracken fighters to his company's trenches. from that point, the artillery takes over rounds from artillery. doors were back and forth routinely here to ukrainian tanks, flee 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 report story to service, but they just burned them. we had poor training, we were 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. we'll leave as command as our dishing out new orders. the offensive goes on august, dawn of reporting from the don bass

r t o another news line. the huge flow of arms to ukraine from the west has been scaled back since july. now it's according to a journalist from the forbes ukraine magazine. are the weapons at the west descending to ukraine, up to the job. there is a discrepancy between the west and cave on the issue as ukrainians tele, you'd think that the west was sending them into battle with squirt guns that they rifled around in their closets like an older sibling who was being pressure by a younger one to cough up some hand me down clothes and ended up just giving up some old rags that they hadn't used in ages. ukrainian officials know that there's some luxury military hardware lurking in those western closets and it sounds like they're accusing the west of refusing to hand over their very best weapons. they also aren't happy with the shipping speed and sound like they would like to speak to the manager please. or the who me. we need wells. we need to weapons for us.

and in sufficient quantities grainy grew crane needs, modern defense missile systems. the supply of such systems was possible this year and last year and even earlier we did, we get them all know, do we need them? yes. when it long range missiles, when it a fighters, when it tanks, we don't ask for boots on the ground. but please help us with this provide us with that with this. so 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 propelled 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 dirt spiegel. but if thou 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. and new

french parliamentary report published this month, found that french weapons stalks 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 a stash to give. 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 backfill their own supplies, leaving the you in a precarious position. as the blocks chief diplomat, joseph burrell has explained utopian remish, 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 new 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? no 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 a huge cost to both pakistan and india was our correspondent region sharma takes us through amidst the triumph lost in dallas independence. in the summer of 1947, a line of separation was drawn by british barrister. it was called the partition

august of 1947 ratcliffe to align bordering india and pakistan. that line also divided this way, part of punjab, 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 partitions of i was in the village there. here 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. no memories of days gone by. come back to me and that garden in spring. there was all that shit of 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 is decided to state 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. alarm. those who live in the house that was once mine were happy to see me . they wanted to give me a gift of it, but i said i won't take but give a gift. i gave 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 see, are caught in pakistan have maintained this structure for 75 years like their own. and you have the whole village takes care of the dogger. we come here every day. train it lights out, the lamp right here, across the river, robbie, the sun is setting in pakistan. it's hard to imagine that this line, this border didn't even exist 75 years ago, but at 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 orange and sharma artie. but jop russia is ready to arm its allies with quote, the most modern types of weapons. hillary combat aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. in russia sincerely cherishes historic can strong friendly trudy trusting ties with the states of latin america, asia and africa with the military forum is

a showcase of the latest technology in the sector with a staggering, more than 1000 pieces of military equipment on displaying screening time. helicopters and missiles and on the 1st day the attendees were treated to an earl show of the latest russian fighter jets in production. oh, that's how you do it. now i don't dare think about listening to chikavsky are mentioning tolstoy in polite society,

congressional culture has been cancelled throughout the west. much of this may of sober thinking minds everywhere. next we ask, does anyone benefit from so just, just ah, [000:00:00;00] a credit and that, you know, if you speak russian, keep your voice down while out and about a couple don't put your human symbols on display a guy. so you guys don't talk to strangers. i. 7 avoid noisy gatherings,

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