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will you fought for the us army? well, i think it's, it's a tragedy for the young people, but it's been an ongoing tragedy in general that there's been 40 years of war. i think the american troops leaving the dead of night is a fitting way for the imperial us sort of forces to go this war. it's been over for 10 years or longer when you know, when i fought there in 201112 i was the height of the u. s. troop presence and we barely controlled anything but the ground we stood on. i'm for the withdrawal. i don't think that america can meaningfully influence the outcomes in afghan us than and the whole thing is a tragedy. but more so for the people who are gonna stand, i support the withdrawal. but we're, we're going out with our tail between our legs, which is surprising to people who weren't paying attention. i think so, the fact that the united states really has really is not achieved anything in afghanistan. and things are worse essentially than, than we founded or, or then we found that in february 2002 in combat oper

us army started shelling. how can you be sure? because of the bullet.side of his head, right here, near to his ear. he didn't have, he doesn't have any injury. these are noor mohammed's eight children. he had hoped to give them a better life. instead, this afternoon, they said a final goodbye. those killed in this awful attack were trying to escape years of violence in afghanistan. instead, they became the latest victims in a country torn apart by bloodshed. tens of thousands of people have been flown out of the country but now only foreign nationals are being allowed inside the airport. the british government has acknowledged some of those who want to leave will be left behind, like this former interpreter. there is no place for us to stay and we are so worried about our future. i think it's not fair. it is like a betrayal of their own heroes. these are the last days of a chaotic evacuation effort. for those that haven't made it out, a deeply uncertain future. secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul. as the western military presence ends in afghanistan over

obviously the army doesn't count. the us over u. k. hope he doesn't get african civilians. i mean use the word imperial. there. people are going to wonder when you fall in iraq and afghanistan, lots of this book. you taught to people who fight for the united states and you use the word imperial. that is not the rhetoric we hear from the hillary clinton's of this world and the liberal interventionists at all. it's trying to actually, net countries govern themselves is the whole idea, right? i mean, the polite liberals and the polite imperialist, as i call them, or the white intervention is they. they always come up with rhetoric to justify these interventions. but 11 looks at the practical end of it and for better or worse my life, really, my adult life was spent at the practical point, the end of the sphere. it looked a lot like invasion, occupation, and sort of, you know, a brand of imperialism. no one likes the word empire in the united states. in fact, we're really proud. we just celebrated the fact that, you know, we're, we were ostensibly founded in opposition to the g

army. what of the us get wrong, in your view? it police and the army. rs, $89 _ get wrong, in your view? it took 20 years, $89 billion, _ get wrong, in your view? it took 20 years, $89 billion, 300,000, - get wrong, in your view? it took 20 years, $89 billion, 300,000, and. years, $89 billion, 300,000, and here we are. you can only talk about my little corner of the global war on terror and it was a deja vu centre because i was a trainer, an operations officer in mosul and three years after i left i felt we had done some good and i worked with three divisions and they all collapsed, as we all saw, and isis. and the problems, i think, are the same. we went in all of us together with a light footprint and lightning speed and took over the country. two years later we were going into iraq and all the assets started leaving and all the assets started leaving and really, what we get to, we trace the years and it is not a 20 year war, she said, it is 20 individual wars are fought one year at a time without a single defining strategy when it comes to partner cap

with an ard for his rolling really think tough to find document via a wiki league with the help of us army intelligence on this chelsea mounting panel . my 7 years in prison, when a decision on the soldiers ladies hearing isn't expected. and so we often want to fight the high court authority supporters were protesting against his extradition, including former opposition leader, jeremy coven. always trying to create a good job in the history of the country, the world and the chief freedom from colonization or question. boy good paper like that. again, injustice in progress. i want to trade in to be able to communicate with people, and i don't need to be moderated by or any other level. news corp generally is under threat tuesday is one site impression journal dominican player. what, what, what is also known as the so the exam was used corporation control of most media, television, radio and print media. and they become a friendship on gen misbehavior. of all, as a continuing to raid across russia's utility region in the far east of the country, the smoke has covered cities and reportedly re

he is a us army sniper and veteran of the war. mission to afghanistan? that's hard. it's a hard question. i hope that i can preserve and protect human life. as many people that want to live and not to have to live under the tyranny of the taliban, that want to be contributors to a free world and free society, then i will fight for that. i will die for that. that's the america that these former translators believe in, but theirfaith in us might has been tested. now they can only wait and pray theirfamilies make it out of afghanistan alive. laura trevelyan, bbc news, texas. well, in other news, the us vice president kamala harris has been visiting vietnam as part of an effort to increase us engagement in the region, in the light of china's growing influence. vietnam is battling its biggest covid—19 outbreak yet, with hanoi under strict lockdown and troops deployed to ho chi minh city. kamala harris said it was an uncertain time. the threats we face are accelerating more rapidly. we have all felt this deeply, both as covid—19 has tak

archival mcclich was an artillery officer in the us army in world war. i saw service on in france. his brother kenneth was a navy aviator in world war i shot down and killed over flanders. and his brother kenneth has now buried in an american military cemetery in belgium. macleish went on to win three pulitzer prizes two for poetry and one for drama. he was appointed by president franklin roosevelt to serve as the librarian of congress. when world war ii broke out. he organized the research department of the oss the office of strategic services. research division became what is now the director of intelligence at the central intelligence agency? and macleish wrote this poem at the beginning of world war ii. with world war ii in the forefront of his mind, but obviously with his world war i experience and the sacrifice of his own brother in the back of his mind as he wrote this so we hope we've transformed this site from a park that happened to have a memorial as one part of it to an integrated park in memorial. a park that you visit and recognize as a world war i memorial what can a

couple . joining us now from the city via skype was a former translator for the u. s. army in afghanistan as she's withholding her identity for safety reasons. first up, please tell us about your experience. what has happened when you went to the thank you for questions and i have really 10 and my heart, which i, which is more word i can describe how i feel right now at this moment. actually, i'm sort of my country above the distance myself and my family to really it's really disappointing me. while i see all these allies are moving around. they have no right now at the moment. the walking everywhere. they are knocking. ok, we've lost connection there with the boy. you understand it is quite difficult to get that connection. we can actually let's try and get back. i think me the signal has come back up. i'm hoping you can hear me again. you would just tell me about your friends understand you've tried 2 or 3 times to get into the airport. tell us . well yeah. i tried. i thought the time i tried 3 times to get an answer to the airport. and the 1st one i tried to get inside,

he is a us army sniper and veteran of the war.chieve on this mission to afghanistan? that's hard. it's a hard question. i hope that i can preserve and protect human life. as many people that want to live and not to have to live under the tyranny of the taliban, that want to be contributors to a free world and free society, man, i'll fight for that. i'll die for that. that's the america that these former translators believe in, but theirfaith in us might has been tested. now they can only wait and pray theirfamilies make it out of afghanistan alive. laura trevelyan, bbc news, texas. i want to bring you some breaking news now that is coming through from the us embassy. we understand that the us embassy has advised... information that is coming through from the us embassies, were they cite a security alert, remaining americans not to travel to kabul airport at this time. that's the information that we have at the moment. we will sure to be bringing you more news as and we get that. the us vice president kamala harris has been visitin

events is often missing from textbooks and history classes in nato nations and new volume by retired us army officer major down the search and attempts to remedy all that by telling a true history of the united states. he joins me now. lawrence and kansas dami welcome to going underground. before we get to this monumental history of the united states, i mean it's up there with the how it is in arguably and how you manage to teach this to us army soldiers at west point, which will get hundreds. mazing, the whole idea of it. you will take, obviously, on us troops fleeing in the dead of night from afghanistan. will you fought for the u. s. army? well, i think it's, it's a tragedy for the young people, but it's been an ongoing tragedy in general that there's been 40 years of war. i think the american troops leaving the dead of night is a fitting way for the imperial us sort of forces to go. this was the ower for 10 years or longer when you know, when i fought there in 201112, that was the height of the u. s. troop presence and we barely controlled anything but the ground we stood on. i'm for the

us army started shelling. how can you be sure? because of the bullet.inside of his head, right here, near to his ear. he didn't have, he doesn't have any injury. these are noor mohammed's eight children. he had hoped to give them a better life. instead, this afternoon, they said a final goodbye. those killed in this awful attack were trying to escape years of violence in afghanistan. instead, they became the latest victims in a country torn apart by bloodshed. tens of thousands of people have been flown out of the country but now only foreign nationals are being allowed inside the airport. the british government has acknowledged some of those who want to leave will be left behind, like this former interpreter. there is no place for us to stay and we are so worried about our future. i think it's not fair. it is like a betrayal of their own heroes. these are the last days of a chaotic evacuation effort. for those that haven't made it out, a deeply uncertain future. secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul. the final british and afghan citizens being flown out by

it's the us army and it's milly and it's of course, mackenzie who is head of said, who should be, should be a portion to blame for this. and the question that i have really, where are they so dumb? how damaging is this for the by the ministration? clearly the president would have gone along with this if he thought it was going to and of such an absolute pay or not math for him, but how, how much of this hurting him? oh, it will hurt him. it's a liminal event. i would say it's as important as 911. now the real danger of course, is that the people will accuse biden, there is a prospect that the republicans could capitalize on this. because the major media will not be able to tell the truth about what happened to me now on fridays or avoiding gave an address. i also feel a journalist questions regarding the situation and i've got to saw on the decisions washington i've taken in the run up to the fall of cobble last sunday. the full mouth and criticism for all sides spied and tried to put a brave face in it and missing though. still a lot of uncertainty armed forces and it's being conducted

will give us something thing they can learn the foreign policy. lesson. britain, after all, is gone through the training, the afghan. i, britain, after all, set up the training cool to the army and the result is not going to go really . we heard from 3 behalf easy, the daughter of the british national, who stuck in afghanistan. and she told us that british officials had done little to help bring back her elderly mother from the country. her mother's a 79 years old, fragile disabled woman was previous history of a stroke. and she is currently going through severe arthritis and which is waiting for a surgery. and so she cannot travel without a wheelchair access. and she has services from the airport on freshman issue was knocked out twice at the airport by crowded passengers trying to get into the slice and other civilians who was trying to play a role. so she wasn't able to afford the flights because of her medical condition when she attended in the office on couple on threat. surely she was constantly being dismiss. why did god, i tried literally bombarding their treasure accounts as social media current trying to get their attention to and bear in mind and pay attention to

army? exactly. the us government _ british army? exactly. the us government announced - british army? now some of the people.— know some of the people. because of course, know some of the people. because of course. the — know some of the people. because of course, the taliban _ know some of the people. because of course, the taliban have _ know some of the people. because of course, the taliban have said - know some of the people. because of course, the taliban have said they - course, the taliban have said they are different from the last time the taliban were running afghanistan. they are not different, because this is their first time because they want to show to the world we are good people, not bad people, but after months, after one year they will do what they want to do, like before. j ., , ., ~j will do what they want to do, like before. j ., , ., ~ . before. and do you think there are many people _ before. and do you think there are many people like _ before. and do you think there are many people like you _ before. and do you think there are many people like you who - before.

wool wass used in many things during theay civil war that wer essentiall to the army, includig the uniform. most uniforms worn by both sides were from wool. wool wasni used in other things like blankets, gloves. now, here again, the union was able to couple its industrial might, its agricultural might to dramatically outproduce the confederacy in terms of woolen goods. itw produced 17 times more than the confederacy over the course of the war. another basic material needed during the war was leather. thatat comes from animal hides. that was used for all sorts of things during the civil war. my belt is made out of leather. my holster is made out of leather.ca things like saddles, reigns, all sorts of critical things are made outth of leather. perhaps the mostt important, my boots arell made out of leather. boots and shoes were virtually all made out of leather during theou civil war. you could not put shoes on your armies unless you used leather. once itmore, the union is able its industrial and agricultural might to far outpace the confederacy. the union, during the course of the civil war

and what was used in many many things during the civil war that were essential to the army including uniforms the uniform i'm wearing today was made a wool and most uniforms warmed by both sides were from wool. wool was used in other things like blankets gloves. now here again the union was able. to couple its industrial mite in agricultural might to dramatically out produce the confederacy in terms of wool and goods and in fact the union produced 17 times more woolen and cotton textiles then the confederacy over the course of the war. now another basic material needed during the war was leather. and that comes some animal hides and that was used for all sorts of things during the civil war. my belt is made out of leather. my holster is made out of leather. my cat box is made of leather things like saddles rains. all sorts of critical things made out of leather, but perhaps the most important my boots are made out of leather and boots and shoes were virtually all made of leather during the civil war. you could not put shoes on your armies unless you use leather. once more the union is

so it's really important that we bring out everyone who work with us. army us service members or the us government. it's more can we appreciate you being with us and i'll just, you know, thank you very much. inducer. thank pakistan's, foreign ministers told are to 0, his government is determined to help bring stability to the canister and show my mood. karnicia appealed to the taliban to form an inclusive government. but he rejected accusations that pakistan has aided the group and undermined its neighbors sovereignty boxed on has been blamed enough. you know, we've had enough of bashing. we've had our share of bashing. i mean, you know, stop scapegoating a box on for internal failures. now, i was shocked euro when i was sitting in dash gun listing to show funny when he said, oh things have gone wrong because 10000 infiltrators have been sort of have been pushed into a tunnel box on greatly. it was the most absurd statement made by anyone and everybody was listening. the question is, you had it force of 300000 korean people. you know, you had air cover. you had, you are the most. you

army were all in vain on the program. we get the view from the streets of the u. k. and us city effects on which was for everybody, not just a gun to someplace. shame. what's happening over there? it's fine. and it revealed a taliban commander who gave a big through speech from the cobbled presidential palace and used to be a long term resident pantano bay. ah, just off the 9 o'clock on wednesday morning here in moscow. this is our international. we got your latest worldwide news headlines. and 1st this morning in the program, more scenes of chaos enough dentist on following the taliban take over gunshots. we're fine to cobble international airport as people continue trying to flee the new regime. some tried to scale perimeter walls to reach evacuation flights or unconfirmed reports. a taliban fighters shot one man who was climbing a wall. we understand 7 people have been killed at the airport in just the last few days. some of those who reached the airport was so desperate to get out there resorted to clinging to the airplanes. this video was filled by one of those taking

we spoke with us army combat veteran corey mills. he says they will always 2 very clear objectives of the god, mission, number one, eliminate terrorists number to rebuild the nation. what went wrong? the minute that americans thought that we were in the business of nation building. what we went over there to do in the very beginning and i was part of that was to eliminate the terrorists who are responsible for the $911.00 attack and also stop at being a safe haven to terrorism back have been done and perfected with cpr operation irregular warfare, a symmetric warfare, and special operations forces with the, with the support of the intelligence communities basically going out putting together h b, t packets. we then got into this ship of nation building and they wanted to continue to perpetuate this idea that we need to stay there in arm and build and defend and help to create a democracy. you know, because we're american are arrogant. see that every other country needs to market like us just never ends when it comes out. and this was

he immigrated to the us 10 years ago after serving in the afghan. national army the bullets right here, he says a bullet is still lodged in his neck from an ambush that killed two of his brothers after his debilitating injury he says he became a security chief working with the u s military safi says he returned to afghanistan in july to care for his father, who was ill. it's my father. he says his father also works with the u. s government now, saffi says he's concerned for his safety and other relatives who haven't been able to leave afghanistan my father's work shoulder by shoulder with us army, so why should lose my father for what a bomb has severely damaged his father's offices? saffy tells me this is video he took of a taliban member striking a friend as saffy and that man tried to make their way to the airport saffi says it took days before he finally got inside with a u s passport but without his relatives i have a strong pain inside it's going to hurt me inside back home here in san leandro as of friday with his children savvis daughter tells me she's gr

nearly nine years as an advisor to the us senate, and served more than 15 years on active duty as a us armyafghanistan. he gave me his reaction to the views of some us veterans that the withdrawal has been a form of sabotage. to my colleagues in the us military who have served in afghanistan and our many nato allies who served bravely there, more than 1000 of our european allies who never returned home to their families, i say thanks to your service and that your service did great good. we prevented another 9/11 attack for 20 years, we allowed afghan women and girls to make gains that they had not seen in the history of that country, so there is much to be proud of. but unfortunately what we have seen here, the world is witnessing a vivid and painful display of what happens when leaders in washington, frankly, delude themselves regarding the persistent threats we confront, the nature of our enemies and our ability to end wars by simply going home. president biden has implemented explicitly conditions ignoring withdrawal, he said so on april 1a, that it ignores what is actually happening on

the 1st deaths of us army personnel, enough gone us down for 20 months, is mounting huge pressure on joe biden. and when pressed by journalist as to whether he'll speak to the british families, the president remain silent. the, the the fact 2 states also facing flag over the crisis to republican representatives of race impeachment, articles accusing antony blink and failing to properly advise the president and of abandoning american interest in afghanistan. the fool around the true withdrawal is seen the entire volume administration come under increasing fire, breaking it all down for us. his office john hardy, there really continues to be some of the back and forth between the taliban and us officials over who is ultimately to blame for the security breach. you heard the taliban spokesman talking about that it was really the, the u. s. security failure as the u. s. was responsible for guarding the entrance to the airport, but the us maintain that it was the taliban failure for even allowing the service to get through and basically infiltrate the crowds. regardless, the evacuation ef

he is a us army sniper and veteran of the war.ant to live and not to have to live under the tyranny of the taliban, that want to be contributors to a free world and free society, then i will fight for that. i will die for that. that is the america that these former translators believe in, but theirfaith in us might has been tested. now they can only wait and pray theirfamilies make it out of afghanistan alive. laura trevelyan, bbc news, texas. we will talk more about the situation in afghanistan at the top of the hour. just some covid needs to bring you which has come through in the last little while, new figures from scotland. we are hearing that the number of daily cases in scotland has hit a record high. can find daily cases now at 5021 and that is the first time the recorded figure has gone above 5000. it is a 16% increase on yesterday, but crucially the first time the recorded figure has gone above 5000. that is through from scotland on the covid figures there. extinction rebellion protesters have gathered in central london,

well, this was across the us army, the lives of almost to another 1000 soldiers. the question is, what are the feelings today of those who fought last communities and i've got to start with us for the tenant colonel karen korea. golf key says many are asking, why were we then? well, at this point for, for all of the men and women of our country have served in afghanistan who have lost friends to move, seeing people injured have gone through terrible emotional and physical trauma. as a result of this service and had hope that in some way they were helping afghanistan for all of these people. most of them are sad, some are angry, but really they're sad and they're asking the question, and i think it's been reported widely. why, why was, why were we there? what were we really doing? because we did not achieve any mission that was sold to our soldiers. jar, young men and women who served there. what they were told they were doing was not, i'm sorry, it was not the mission that was accomplished. ok. we didn't accomplish that mission, whatever mission the biden and trump

now that the former us special forces soldier, canadian, american jordan, good drugs on leaving the army in 2018 goodrow had set up a security services company called silva or usa. and he was even higher to provide security at a ruddy, put donald trump. he 1st forged legs with exile, venezuelans, and early 2019 charity, and prove that met the opposition leadership now plotting murderers. an opportunity beckoned. one race tanja was treated. he say that he has authorities and contacts a high level government in the united states. oh, he say that he has backer, big days of big money, ready to sign in something like that way to guarantee of future payments in oil and on the tree that he has around 800 people in columbia that were business whalers, or between 801200 that were ready to go. and he was trained on the 16th of october 2019 incomplete secrecy. don jordan goodrow and several position members find the general services agreement, promising goodrow and fill the cool, $200000000.00 us dollars in return for our meeting president my due in columbia operation, gideon, as it would become kn

us withdrawal from against then. sounds like something that american army bosses might like. the pentagon doesn't always get its way though the same internal report suggests christopher no one a hot shot hollywood director, simply snubbed the military as they showed their appetite for a script at its continued discussion. supportive chris nolan thriller, merry go round working title support requests that includes use of all spray and chic efraim. pse and g. b. an air force of indicated interest. if military characterizations are rewritten, emphasizing military mission request for support of chris snowden. thriller, merry go round working title seemed to have stopped likely causes that produce a direct, were reluctant to make changes needed to gain d o. d support. others like captain marbles co director, as an a, bowden and wine flag had to cozy up to the defense department reporter leave. they had lunch with air force top command and took part in a professional development session. whatever that means before the films release, one or a marvel movies are being branded as milit

that's why they are not even be are not even talking with us. army, the one is green to help us for one night to lose a give us the. then the other thing because i have its own home and they will also particular for him and so many others. yeah. well, that suicide bombing the big picture. a couple airports highlighted once again, the severe age opposed still, but let me state, despite the loss of the so called color for 4 years ago, he met her russian terror suspects who claims that he was tricked into fighting for isolated syrian by the pretty secret service and an interview with correspondingly put, try to get as much of as of made some diving allegations against the u. k. government . so i'm gonna leave you this with that in depth report coming up the we set off for russia's once troubled southern region cold. doug, it's done now mostly famous in the west for being the homeland of mixed martial arts, stark hobbies, neural montgomery, we've managed to get access from the authorities to someone who used to fight right on the islamic state line in theory, a shoulder to shoulder with jih

when, according to the files, the producers asked the us army to support the final season, filming, but initially were turned down by the military. after they saw the script, tommy entertainment office is currently in talk of the producers of homeland who've asked the modern army support initial request was declined due to a storyline that was not an accurate portrayal of soldiers. sure. and responded with some significant edits to the problematic areas. army has agreed to provide support as requested. show runners responded with significant ad. it's what they were. we don't know why. what we do know is that how one's final season speculates on a full story that the russians funded talia about insurgents and also plays off the consequence of the us withdrawal from again, it's then sounds like something that american army bosses might like. the pentagon doesn't always get its way though the same internal report suggests christopher no one a hot shot hollywood director, simply snubbed the military as they showed their appetite for a script at its continued discussion for supportive chris