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Jesus is the Christ
"afganistan" Discussed on Jesus is the Christ
"Here we have a book fifty four. It is i timothy speaking about the law. You know the noise for men steelers kidnappers. You know anything. Corn tried to sound doctrine. I listened to the taliban speaking and they said that they had taken some single women but they would not harm them. You know they said. And then there was a In afghanistan when some people that are kidnapped nine year old girl and they would the taliban they would hang him or hang them. Who have done this. They will kill them. That had done this but they themselves kidnapped this single women. But they don't concede that kidnapping and raping they. They take them and make them wive. So someone you know that's kidnapping and rape continuous rape from western civilized society position. I is is that for. In most societies the talibans want to want to have international acceptance. They want to be accepted as as the leaders of afganistan they're looking for that. That's why trying to be diplomatic. But they don't seem to have you know they have another definition staff. You know they men steelers. That's what they are. That's going to come to the men's dealers so one of them. Even a prophet of their own said the creatures are always liars evil bellies evil beast and slow bellies. I think this is such a great application whim now so good. This weakness is true. Where for beauty rebuked him sharply that they may be sounding the faith so they're always liars where we know that all men are liars but they they need this is there are some people who want to promote the idea. Don't call anyone a lawyer because we're all lawyers or something or you know and that's true. Everyone is a liar but said some people have made it their way of life to lie. The dc's the way and he's a truth that also means he doesn't lie you know so the ways not to to go around and lie but that's what they do. That's what i found out. You know that they've now the g. Some people have a jesus that all based on work. It's work work work and so lying is okay. Because they're working you know so. They lie all the time and they have made it their way of life to.
Democracy Now! Audio
"afganistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Interim government by the thought of on pakistan's supports the taliban very closely a number of the senior leaders. The taliban were living in pakistan so the isi the pakistani intelligence agency was basically sheltering their senior talbot leadership. There's a very close working relationship there but it's very important to understand the history here. Which is that in two thousand one. When the us invaded the taliban was defeated men basically either surrendered or escaped ran away so there was in two thousand two. No taliban in afghanistan there was no resistance whatsoever kaieda as well fled the country. They went mostly to pasta. And some of them to iran so you thousands of us troops on the ground in two thousand two with a mandate to fight a war against terror but with no enemy actually to fight and so this was the context in which they began to incentivize the allied warlords basically produce bad guys enemies for them. They started to arrest these people. Kill them this created the insurgency once the insurgency was was created. This is now two thousand four. Then pakistan got involved and tried to influence students urgency for its own interests its own interests as they basically views afganistan as its own backyard and doesn't want indian and so pakistan's role in upcoming role but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that the ultimate cause of the war in afghanistan one by the us actions in the early years. I wanted to ask you about a part of the article. That hasn't gotten very much attention. a non you tweeted. Cia created afghan death. Squads were evacuated before many american citizens. Can you explain so from the very beginning. The us created these militias as i mentioned earlier. Warlordism and militias. That's not something. That's natural to afghanistan. Really emerged in the late seventies early eighty as a result of the war in two thousand and one the us really invented some of these created some of these groups. So there's a group called the close protection force which was a ci created militia in the southeast of the country. There's many groups like this around the country and they were seen as the closest allies and trying to fight. The taliban and many many innocent people many many civilians were suffered as a result of this and so there. Their methods were seen as extraordinarily brutal. What happened with the evacuation last month. Was that the cia cia squads. Where essentially the one that. We're one of the guards of the airport itself. And the reason they were there is ultimately they were going to be evacuated as well and it was a horrific scene as i was talking to colleagues and friends who are on the ground. Sometimes these these debts shooting crowds also. The taliban wasn't always letting people through chaotic but ultimately all of these death squads got evacuated. There are still american citizens. Here afganistan today trying to get out but the militias are all out there now living in the united states and it's not the first time this has happened there have been others backed strong men who have been living comfortably in the us for the last decade or two decades and so this is kind of. I think an indictment on what the priorities are in terms of lives and before we conclude if you could comment on people. The taliban has appointed to serve in the interim government. You've said that what's striking in the list. Is that the most powerful members of the taliban those who were running the insurgency in the last twenty years have been excluded. What are the implications of this. You've said that this might create a shadow government. I think that you know when. See the taliban cabinet. It was announced a few days ago. I mean what all of those figures in the communist were held similar positions in the nineties. But the really powerful people in the movement some of them were not commanders others do cabinet positions but they all exist in what's called the sure leadership shera which is in kandahar. That's really who's controlling the country. There's a prime minister. He's a member. He's a longtime member of the taliban. But i'm not sure how much power he actually has. The real power is behind the scenes and that's tragic for off because that means even less accountability the previous regime that was here for twenty years. Had very little accountability. There was elections. Elections are mostly rigged And a lot of the real decision-making was done behind the scenes. And i think there is some afghans who were hoping that this would be a change. I think this is not going to be a change. It's going to be further down the line of zero count ability and power being wielded behind the scenes. Finally i wanted to ask you main issue that you write about is the countryside versus cobble. We know a lot more about what's happening in kabul. you're right. The taliban takeover has restored order to the conservative countryside while plunging the comparatively liberal streets of kabul into fear and hopelessness. Can you end with that well. You know there's a lot of there's activists. Women's rights activists people part of civil society et all of which only appeared in the last two decades and only appeared because of the american occupation and for people like that. This is a lot of their facing despair. And it's very understandable. Many of them have been able to leave. The country. many are still stuck here in kabul and kabul is relatively liberal area compared to the countryside. And they're more freedoms for women here than there are places like helmand where i visited and the idea that the taliban are going to impose the mores of helmand onto kabul. I think is a tragedy because it means that People who've enjoyed some freedoms for the last dick you're going to see them rolled back all of this. I think didn't have to be this way the. Us had the opportunity in the early years to negotiate with the taliban. When they were much weaker they had the opportunity to try to create an inclusive government but instead they chose the path of war. And here's where we are now. Nobody's really want from this. The people in the countryside breeding sigh of relief. Because there's no war but the people in the cities are terrified. Nobody's actually happy with the outcome. And that's a tragedy and then go thank you so much for being with us. Journalists and professor at arizona state university is article the other afghan women is in the new yorker magazine would link to it a democracy now dot org. He is also author of the book. No good men. 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The Erick Erickson Show
"afganistan" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"We're not talking about if you say well. We're talking about afghanistan. The media is not talking about afganistan and the situation there continues to destabilize. And that's largely the point here. The media is seriously collapsing. And in its obligation to cover real current events The osha regulation. We're going have people on about the osha regulation in fact todd Stafford's gonna join me an hour from now in the second hour of this program. His law firm specializes biting osha. We're going to get into the nitty. Gritty of the vaccine mandate but the media is using these things to willfully avoid having to talk about afghanistan. You're the acting director of the cia. Four barack obama on television this weekend. His name is michael morell and he is saying that afghanistan is even worse. Now that the we're going to see a level jihadist extremism coming from afghanistan. We're going to see this. And by the way. I think there's there's truth there legitimately. This is the situation that we can't let go of even as the media decides to move on. Their part of this is not intentional. The in the case of the media you need to understand that part of it's not intentional. A lot of it is their attention span members of the media like to move onto the current hotness afghanistan. They spent multiple weeks on. It is no longer the current hotness. It's still a problem. There's still issues there. There are still americans there. It was kind of striking this weekend. Joe biden did his best not to talk to the public at nine eleven celebrations other that one type masking yelling at people. But it's kinda hard for joe biden to say. We should never forget nine eleven. Would he's forgotten. Americans stranded enough ghanistan. But that's where we are. That's the situation. But the media of course as we brought to the vaccine mandate they. They've moved onto the budget by the infrastructure fight. All of these things are pressing fights. They get bored with us. It's not simply they wanna help joe biden but that's part of it it's also their attention span is very short and they moved on and that's part of the serious problem we've got a nation right now is that we are losing focus.
Poets and Muses: We chat with poets about their inspirations
"afganistan" Discussed on Poets and Muses: We chat with poets about their inspirations
"Effects undermined the division. I think quite at link with david would begin. Are the fuelling of again. It's as sudden rape seeing something that not everybody else sees. Yeah i'm off. I really liked it enrich Event like this like how did you right. Yeah sure this character is actually as i said before the subject of another poem that i wrote about and she is based on someone that i've seen in real life but i don't just just a stranger that i saw when i was taking public transportation kind of stunned by ho colorful her kneecap was and it was really arresting Bright red. I think it was after nine eleven. It wasn't immediately after but as some years a number of years after more. Recently i been reading the news following the news and you know as you mentioned earlier about how explosions in the conflict in afghanistan and also unfortunately afganistan also became victim to some terrorist activities. I think one of the things that americans are not as aware of where very aware of nine eleven were very aware of what happened then. And it's very it's very traumatizing and it. It has the right to be right because this is something that's never happened to us previously at the same time. We're so focused on that that we've forgotten or were not paying attention to the fact that most of the victims of terrorist activities are actually people in the muslim world and after nine eleven. There's unfortunate link or unfortunate stereotype of linking muslims with terrorists which is not only unfortunate but also incorrupt. I have wanted to write something about that too. Just rate raising awareness of that and so she is a character that was in the first poem. She kind of came to me. The poem kind of came to me. Even though i've been aware of this for some time item. Right about it. Until i forget when this is an older poem my It's of these. I think two years old. I remember being really affected by this idea and this character and she remained with me even after. I written the first poem so i decided to write the second poem. Which is poem that i'm meeting with you. Pitted true muslim worth ever on that live.
On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
"afganistan" Discussed on On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
"The two girls that i talked about in the article i published in washington post when they went home on their grandmother gave them a side and ask them that if win the taliban walking to their house on these girls were instructed to take their own lives on waste. Time doing that and partly because Around that time Fear across afganistan was that taliban were instructing people who have daughters between the ages of fifteen and over to marry them to their soldiers. And this is an example of how people were reacting to that to that Decree if you will But then the break was over under goals were expected to return to seoul in early august and their grandmother gave these girls. Burqa mind. you these are six girls really on On on a bus to send them to kabul and when these girls arrived on campus on the bowed down.
On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
"afganistan" Discussed on On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
"All over the country knowing that The reality in provinces and that is when we started that experience in sixth grade level Of this age girls are in afghanistan seen as young girls and not women so it was much easier to convince their families to allow them to board developmentally. It's an exciting time to work with young girls and a practically allowed us time and space to address academic gap or gaps that A lot of these students would have. Whereabouts was in literature or You know Math sciences before the reached a high school with us and we were very Purposeful in making this very gradual growth. We admitted our very first cohort of sixth grade. Students in two thousand sixteen Those girls are currently eleventh grade And they're scheduled to graduate sola high school twenty twenty two. We will very first graduating class. I'm an ever. Since we have admitted a new cohort of sixth grade level and eagles. Have you know. Grown would the school and every single grade eight presented by girls from across afghanistan. We have we have girls who come to us and meet people from or meet girls from other parts of afganistan for the very first time in their lives often being the first person in their families to have that experienced For the past five years we've also Sent a group of our students for Winter program that winter being our equivalent of summer break so we've taken advantage of it by designing a short study abroad program typically taking our students to india for an educational trip often for a month and in most cases These girls have been the first people in their families to travel outside of afghanistan and when they have gone back to their villages to their homes had people from their villages. Come to the house asking them.
Democracy Now! Audio
"afganistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The president could not have made it any clearer. Two weeks ago when he said that there will be no discussions and negotiations. So what they say. It's not as important as what they do. And it's time for them to act. It's been time for them to act in december of two thousand one just a month or two later. The taliban offered to surrender control of kandahar. If its leader mullah mohammad omar would be allowed to quote live in dignity in opposition custody. Us defense secretary. Donald rumsfeld rejected the offer. If you're asking would would an arrangement with omar where he could quote live in dignity in the kandahar area or some place in afghanistan. Be consistent with what i have said. The answer is no would not be consistent with what i have said. That's donald rumsfeld speaking december. Six two thousand one the us. Warren afganistan would continue for almost twenty more years through two now. According to the cost of war project the us has spent over two point. Two trillion dollars afganistan and pakistan by one. Count at least seventy one thousand. Afghan and pakistani civilians have died in the fighting. Afghanistan is now facing a massive humanitarian crisis in. The taliban is back in power well today. We're spending the hour with the pulitzer prize. Winning reporter spencer akron author of the new book reign of terror. How the nine eleven era destabilized stabilized america and produce trump. The book is based in part on his reporting from afghanistan iraq and guantanamo. Talk about this moment is. Us began bombing an occupying afghanistan when the taliban basically said they would surrender and also give osama bin laden over the us rejected. President bush rejected. Both this was a central aspect of the war on terror at its inception and a foreshadowing of what its implications being..
THIS IS DEMOCRACY
"afganistan" Discussed on THIS IS DEMOCRACY
"The president could not have made it any clearer. Two weeks ago when he said that there will be no discussions and negotiations. So what they say. It's not as important as what they do. And it's time for them to act. It's been time for them to act in december of two thousand one just a month or two later. The taliban offered to surrender control of kandahar. If its leader mullah mohammad omar would be allowed to quote live in dignity in opposition custody. Us defense secretary. Donald rumsfeld rejected the offer. If you're asking would would an arrangement with omar where he could quote live in dignity in the kandahar area or some place in afghanistan. Be consistent with what i have said. The answer is no would not be consistent with what i have said. That's donald rumsfeld speaking december. Six two thousand one the us. Warren afganistan would continue for almost twenty more years through two now. According to the cost of war project the us has spent over two point two trillion dollars enough ghanistan and pakistan by one. Count at least seventy one thousand. Afghan and pakistani civilians have died in the fighting. Afghanistan is now facing a massive humanitarian crisis in the taliban is back in power. Well today. we're spending the hour with the pulitzer prize. Winning reporter spencer ackerman author of the new book reign of terror. How the nine eleven. Era destabilized stabilized america and produce trump. The book is based in part on his reporting from afghanistan iraq and guantanamo. Talk about this moment is. Us began bombing an occupying afghanistan when the taliban basically said they would surrender and also give osama bin laden over the us rejected. President bush rejected both central aspect of the war on terror at its inception and a foreshadowing of what its implications being..
Democracy Now! Audio
"afganistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The president could not have made it any clearer. Two weeks ago when he said that there will be no discussions and negotiations. So what they say. It's not as important as what they do. And it's time for them to act. It's been time for them to act in december of two thousand one just a month or two later. The taliban offered to surrender control of kandahar. If its leader mullah mohammad omar would be allowed to quote live in dignity in opposition custody. Us defense secretary. Donald rumsfeld rejected the offer. If you're asking would would an arrangement with omar where he could quote live in dignity in the kandahar area or some place in afghanistan. Be consistent with what i have said. The answer is no would not be consistent with what i have said. That's donald rumsfeld speaking december. Six two thousand one the us. Warren afganistan would continue for almost twenty more years through two now. According to the cost of war project the us has spent over two point. Two trillion dollars afganistan and pakistan by one. Count at least seventy one thousand. Afghan and pakistani civilians have died in the fighting afganistan is now facing a massive humanitarian crisis in. The taliban is back in power well today. We're spending the hour with the pulitzer prize. Winning reporter spencer ackerman author of the new book reign of terror. How the nine eleven. Era destabilized stabilized america and produce trump. The book is based in part on his reporting from afghanistan iraq and guantanamo. Talk about this moment is. Us began bombing an occupying afghanistan when the taliban basically said they would surrender and also give osama bin laden over the us rejected. President bush rejected. Both this was a central aspect of the war on terror at its inception and a foreshadowing of what its implications being. Once we accept the frame that offered war on terror we were then locked into a struggle not just against arc fighter the entity culpable for the nine eleven attacks but a much brought her struggle against an enemy that a president could redefine at will and leave in the popular. Was something along the lines of a civilizational challenge to america for the future. Unin which america itself was in the balance. Now let's look in particular at that moment. In canada har- the united states is northern alliance allies head routed. The can't had routed. The taliban from kabul islamic emirate of afghanistan had fallen after about five six years in power and they recognized after a last stand. They tried to put on a in canada. Didn't go the way they expected that the end was near for them and then they offered to hamad karzai. The us's appointed leader for a post-taliban afghantistan that as long as more omar could live in some kind of house arrest. Basically not be killed not be put on trial. They were prepared to entertain negotiations for what their role might be a post-taliban afghanistan basically a political settlement at that point karzai for all his flaws that the united states would both contribute to and then criticize him for over the coming years nevertheless new afghan history and recognize that unless there was some kind of political future for the taliban the taliban would opt for violence future and they had proven capacity not just to wage insurgency but to triumph in one and karzai. Took the deal. It was the bush administration. The united states that said such a deal was unacceptable not to the afghans but unacceptable to the united states..
H-Hour: A Sniper's Podcast
"afganistan" Discussed on H-Hour: A Sniper's Podcast
"To be inspired by the generations. That were before us whether you look at the korean veterans. The normandy veterans. I think we do need some structure and we do need to regain the narrative afganistan and when required people need support being that single body of afghan veterans to regain this narrative. Because that will then stay with us for the rest of our lives. Because at the moment i just think we're a little bit lost. I feel lost and then as a side project that if the media do decide. Forget about us if we're ever happens. Afghan stone throughout the rest of our lives happens governments. Come guy but we have the constant threat of the afghan veterans sociation. We can ensure that future generations understand what that conflict was about that. We've had that debate. There were able to pass onto each generations of afghan stone. That if they are in school of afghan child as well that they'll have an understanding of of whether there in the first place so we need to get into schools at this. It needs to be part of the curriculum. And i think there is now a space for the afghan veterans association. And i'll be sent me making that case politicians. The i know to provide us with a center of gravity around it to take some time to debate that what the narrative means but i come together as a community and bay purpose be more. I think the purpose is to give us a central center of gravity. And going back to my fish analogy. Everyone's got their fish tank. At the moment some people might not all aspects. days are and very kinetic time working closely with afghan special forces and he's yeah formula Kind of made my piece of it full of people haven't and i just think that what's particularly going forward through life. It gives a constant threat that we can dip in devout but having association and a recognition by this country..
Democracy Now! Audio
"afganistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"In iran later phil what i wanted to ask you about the refugee issue. The the press coverage of the the plight of those trying to get out the civilians trying to the afghans trying to get out of the country in the last few weeks. It seems to me. There's enormous hypocrisy and in this kind of coverage. First of all is no retreat from a lost war is going to be orderly and and well managed but the issue of refugees. There have been an estimated by the united nations over six million refugees from afghanistan about three and a half million internally displaced and another two point six million who are outside of afghanistan and other countries and of those the united states has only taken in twenty thousand over the last twenty years and we have countries like pakistan has one point four million afghan refugees iran seven hundred eighty thousand afghan refugees even germany eighty thousand and the united states which started the war per prosecuted the war and maintain the occupation has so far only taken in twenty thousand refugees so this refugee problem is not new one. It's just now only now being focused on by the press. It's absolutely right. It's not only just being focused on by. The press is also just being focused on by the government by a whole host of of forces across this country. And you're absolutely right on this enormous levels of hypocrisy the hypocrisy in this war. It's hard to measure how how far it goes but certainly on the question of refugees that suddenly now the refugees that are coming out are the refugees who are the people who who did in many ways benefit women in particular did benefit if they lived in kabul they benefited in certain ways in a temporary sense from access to education healthcare and jobs were not available before that israel and the us did make a promises that it should have kept the the way. This withdrawal was carried out with not just disorganized. It was badly planned. It was it was terribly done in my view. But that doesn't go to the question of the hypocrisy on. What was the us obligation to those refugees to the id. Ps to the countries like pakistan iran that were hosting for years millions of refugees. Iran won't quaint had two and a half million refugees. Many have left some gone back. We are hearing now from for example. mahbouba sarraj the head of the afghan women's network. Who said yesterday. She felt an absolute sense of relief. Seeing the last u s forces leaving as as a woman and she said we are now able to figure out what we're going to do in this new era. I think that we in the in. This country have enormous debt not only to the refugees that are coming out this month. But to the people of afganistan whose country we have so devastated where we have killed tens of thousands of their citizens so we owe a debt of of of reparations. We owe compensation we don't own continued drone strikes. We don't oak continued attacks from over the horizon something that guaranteed to maintain a level of of violence and extend the cycles of violence that we have seen in these last twenty years but certainly the press should be in. Every one of these articles should be focusing on the relationship of all of the The refugees the peas those that are seeking some kind of attack could steps asylum in ways that this country has not been willing to provide. We're going to wrap in one minute. But i wanted to get your comment on. President biden. referencing china twice during his speech. This is what he said. Here's a critical thing to understand. The world fish changing were engaged in a series competition with china. We're dealing with the challenges. A multiple fronts with russia confronted with cyber attacks and nuclear proliferation. and there's nothing. China or russia was rather have would want more in this competition in the united states to be bogged down another decade in afghanistan as we wrap up clearly. The united states is concerned about china and russia as he says china and russia stepping into the breach in a different way as the us pulls out soldiers just to be clear. There's an army. They are of intelligence of mercenaries. That is not over to the forever. War is not exactly over. But what about china and russia fell us. I think that why we saw in twenty years of worn afghanistan. It proved once again that there is no military solution to terrorism. If our relationship with china and russia can be based on competing for who can provide the most and the best aid and assistance to the country of afghanistan that has been so devastated by outside powers led by the united states for so many years. Not just this year's for twenty years before that that would be victory. I think for those of us who fought against this war for twenty years if we can see a competition between russia and china and the us for who can provide the most vaccines instead of what the us is doing right now. Preventing the imf from giving afghanistan. Four hundred fifty million dollars that was pledged for vaccines and for cova care. That would be a great thing. That's the kind of competition we should have. That wealthy countries are competing with each other to see who can provide the best and the most effective aid to those in need. We're going to thank you. Phyllis author and fellow at the institute for policy studies coming boy speak with an afghan doctor who just fled kabul with his wife and four children when to cut her and germany eventually came back home to virginia. We'll hear his story that press thousands of fable lion in their grades celebrities. Colin him this week new they made with. What's the deal with all these war criminals out walking around. Just want to say thank you brady. Women in the swap. Every day by that he monger and his mom. Oh and you care about this bigger than you even the too much to walk. You wanna say thank you going down to tests to texas by iris. Dement coming up. We'll talk about the almost total abortion ban that just went into effect in texas last night midnight. But this is democracy now democracy. Now dot org. I'm amy goodman with one gonsalez solace and we continue to look at afghanistan as we're joined by an afghan doctor who fled afghanistan last week with his four children and his wife. The family was airlifted to doha cutter. After spending days trying to get into the kabul airport from doha they flew to germany then to the united states arriving saturday dr wife saudia joins us now. He's the founder of tabesh a nonprofit that provides mental health care to traumatized afghans. He and his family have been in afghanistan since june visiting family. He's joining us finally from his home in alexandria. Virginia dr welcome to democracy now. Can you describe your journey. How you got out of afghanistan with.
No Agenda
"afganistan" Discussed on No Agenda
"Have some biting clips. When i get why. Because i like them. I liked him. I think people enjoy listening to joe. Okay and by the way the one clip. That was weird. I'm gonna play this one. This is the bite in one clip. This is and if you listened to his setup he says as a reason for us getting out one and he says one to do this he's always doing second and then fifth and fourth. He's going back and forth a lot in his. In this case i didn't click the whole thing but i can assure you he says is a reason to get out one. Then he says something he never says two days reason to get. There's easy makes it clear. There's a reason and then he does. You don't need to say one and there's some one thing i tell you one you've got you've got nice hair. You don't need to go because you got you. I think your point is clear. I think it's it's very poor. Diction here we go. We went to have ghanistan with our allies and two thousand and one for clear reasons one to get the people attacked us on nine eleven to get osama bin laden and to make sure that afghanistan was not used again as a base from which to attack the united states or our allies we chief that objective we delivered justice bin laden more than a decade ago goes on and on and never says to in any leaves that come by the way walkaway joe's as new nickname by the way I'm getting confirmation of ten marines killed in the bombing. That's going to well there. You go maybe my original thesis that we're not leaving is not gonna make. Sales taliban supposed to take care of these. Clowns are not supposed to be friends. The isis k. It's an here that i soul though back to that sort if isis i soul isil weird. Here's buying with just off the wall. Anti trump note is pretty organizations to rebuild the system that was purposely destroyed by my predecessor. L. i wish i had it in context. What system it assistant to bring you. The refugees to this country produced organizations to rebuild that was purposely destroyed by my predecessor. Really now what's he talking about. Totally not true. I mean by the way the refugees because they're already arriving here. Amsterdam no oh yeah. Hundreds and hundreds of refugees Texas even austin has one hundred. I think i was seeing earlier. Ninety the us alone have flown. Ninety thousand people out of afganistan which about five thousand americans so about eighty five thousand afghan nationals in the netherlands. What they do is they bring them in. And i was just temporary. Don't worry and they take him to the smallest town with eight hundred people where they have a refugee center which hasn't been used in a while. Because you know everyone's already integrated and and making the netherlands much nicer. So now they dropped eight hundred. I think they dropped eight hundred refugees afghan refugees in a town of me. Thirteen hundred people and you know so what happens. Is they're pissed off. And they start lighting fires and getting mad because they went through refugees before it totally disrupts your entire village so now it's all the same thing. All the women owned so sad story after story of people gathering toys and clothing for the poor refugees. And you know that's the majority story and then you get a news report to you. Know some kids with some barricades on fire. But it's a problem and ninety thousand coming to america ninety thousand. That's a lot. They define with the mexicans Here we go biden on a on the pullout and this is kind of a ramble Ramble number ninety nine. I call it stations in third countries in short Flying directly to their country flying to these processes stations. We're working with more than dozen countries across four continents. I've secured agreements. Which secured agreements with gulf got shimmying across the gulf in central asia and europe including processing centers and cutter germany kuwait spain and elsewhere august. A sort i and processes evacuees. They're maintaining constant vigilance tomorrow. We're maintaining the concept to monitor and disrupt threats from any source including the likely source being isis isis k. Yet you referred to as isis k. We continue to see not only enormous enormous scope and scale the effort. We will see the individual lives that are affected. The families that are desperate to get home to their loved ones in america. What we're doing is extraordinary. Think the wall. They're doing thanks to the people who from all over the world who are helping this effort. Oh man you got ten dead marines. This is going to be bad. I'd say here's biden on this storm. The storm of the we're talking about the storm that wasn't gonna do anything flooded toys. Thought you i thought you trump and the patriots. That's coming okay liz. The radio in case of extended power of the battery powered radios in case of extended power to our power outages. And don't forget you may need to sheiks seller while you're battling the delta of very Cove nineteen so where mass and try to observe social distance and everyone across the country. Don't get caught by the next storm. Get vaccinated yes how to prepare for storm. Make sure you've got batteries for your radio and get your backs beyond me that clip we had we have the the storm center or the what we had. We had someone else on a earlier hurricane or something how to prepare vacs. Yeah be prepared. Get vacs okay. So that's my little biden thing. I do have a.
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"afganistan" Discussed on No Agenda
"You have some biting clips when i get. Why because i like them. I liked him. I think people enjoy listening to joe. Okay and by the way the one clip. That was weird. I'm gonna play this one. This is the bite in one clip. This is and if you listened to his setup he says as a reason for us getting out one and he says one to do this he's always doing second and then fifth and fourth going back and forth a lot in his. In this case i didn't click the whole thing but i can assure you he says is a reason to get out one. Then he says something he never says two days reason to get. There's easy makes it clear. There's a reason and then he does. You don't need to say one and there's some one thing i tell you one you've got you've got nice hair. You don't need to go because you got you. I think your point is clear. I think it's it's very poor. Diction here we go. We went to have ghanistan with our allies and two thousand and one for clear reasons one to get the people attacked us on nine eleven to get osama bin laden and to make sure that afghanistan was not used again as a base from which to attack the united states or our allies we chief that objective we delivered justice bin laden more than a decade ago goes on and on and never says to in any leaves that come by the way walkaway joe's as new nickname by the way I'm getting confirmation of ten marines killed in the bombing. That's going to well go. Maybe my original thesis that we're not leaving is not gonna make. Sales taliban supposed to take care of these. Clowns are not supposed to be friends. The isis k. It's an here that i soul though back to that said if isis i soul isil weird. Here's buying with the just off the wall. Anti trump note is pretty organizations to rebuild the system that was purposely destroyed by my predecessor. L. i wish i had it in context. What system it assistant to bring you the refugees to this country you organizations to rebuild that was purposely destroyed by my predecessor really. Now what's he talking about. Totally not true. I mean by the way the refugees because they're already arriving here. Amsterdam no oh yeah. Hundreds and hundreds of refugees Texas even austin has one hundred. I think i was seeing earlier. Ninety the us alone have flown. Ninety thousand people out of afganistan which about five thousand americans so about eighty five thousand afghan nationals in the netherlands. What they do is they bring them in. And i was just temporary. Don't worry and they take him to the smallest town with eight hundred people where they have a refugee center which hasn't been used in a while. Because you know everyone's already integrated and and making the netherlands much nicer. So now they dropped eight hundred. I think they dropped eight hundred refugees afghan refugees in a town of mu thirteen hundred people. And you know so what happens is they're pissed off and they start lighting fires and getting mad because they went through refugees before it totally disruption entire village. It's so now it's all the same thing. All the women owned so sad story after story of people gathering toys and clothing for the poor refugees. And you know that's the majority story and then you get a news report to you. Know 'cause some kids with some barricades on fire but it's a problem and ninety thousand coming to america ninety thousand that's a lot they define with the mexicans Here we go biden on a on the pullout and this is kind of a ramble Ramble number ninety nine. I call it stations in third countries in short Flying directly to their country flying to these processes stations. We're working with more than dozen countries across four continents. I've secured agreements which secured agreements with gulf assuming a across the gulf in central asia and europe including processing centers and cutter germany kuwait spain and elsewhere august the sort i and processes evacuees. They're maintaining constant vigilance tomorrow. We're maintaining the concept to monitor and disrupt threats from any source including the likely source being isis isis k. Yet you referred to as isis k. We continue to see not only enormous enormous scope and scale the effort. We will see the individual lives that are affected. The families that are desperate to get home to their loved ones in america. What we're doing is extraordinary. You have to think of the wall. They're doing thanks to the people who from all over the world who are helping this effort. Oh man you got ten dead marines. This is going to be bad. I'd say here's biden on this storm storm of the we're talking about the storm. That wasn't gonna do anything flooded toys. Thought you i thought you trump in the patriots. That's coming okay. Liz satellite radio in case of extended power of the battery powered radios in case of extended power to our power outages. And don't forget you may need to sheiks seller while you're battling the dealt of very Cove nineteen so where mass and try to observe social distance and everyone across the country. Don't get caught by the next storm get vaccinated a yes how to prepare for storm. Make sure you've got batteries for your radio and get your backs just beyond me that clip we had we have the the storm center or the what we had. We had someone else on a earlier hurricane or something how to prepare vacs. Yeah be prepared. Get vacs okay. So that's my little biden thing. I do have a.
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"afganistan" Discussed on No Agenda
"Have some biting clips. When i get why. Because i like them. I liked him. I think people enjoy listening to joe. Okay by the way. The one clip. That was weird. I'm gonna play this one. This is the bite in one clip. This is and if you listened to his setup he says a reason for us getting out one and he says one to do this he's always doing second and then fifth and fourth. He's going back and forth a lot in his. In this case. I didn't click the whole thing but i can assure you he says is a reason to get out one. Then he says something he never says two days a reason to get. There's easy makes it clear. There's a reason and then he does. You don't need to say one and there's some one thing i tell you one here got you've got nice hair. You don't need to go because you got you. I think your point is clear. I think it's it's very poor. Diction here we go. We went to have ghanistan with our allies and two thousand and one for clear reasons one to get the people attacked us on nine eleven to get osama bin laden and to make sure that afghanistan was not used again as a base from which to attack the united states or allies we chief that objective we delivered justice bin laden more than a decade go goes on and on and never says to in any leaves. They come by the way walkaway joe's as new nickname by the way I'm getting confirmation of ten marines killed in the bombing. That's going to well go. Maybe my original thesis that we're not leaving is not gonna make. Sales taliban supposed to take care of these. Clowns are not supposed to be friends. The isis k. It's an here that i soul though back to that said if isis i soul isil weird. Here's buying with the just off the wall. Anti trump note. This fiji organizations to rebuild the system that was purposely destroyed by my predecessor l. I wish i had it in context. What system it assistant to bring a the refugees to this country. Do you organizations to rebuild that was purposely destroyed by my predecessor. Really now what's he talking about. Totally not true. I mean by the way the refugees because they're already arriving here amsterdam. oh yeah. Hundreds and hundreds of refugees Texas even austin has one hundred. I was seeing earlier ninety the. Us alone have flown. Ninety thousand people out of afganistan which about five thousand americans so about eighty five thousand afghan nationals in the netherlands. What they do is they bring them in. And i was just temporary. Don't worry and they take him to the smallest town with eight hundred people where they have a refugee center which hasn't been used in a while. Because you know everyone's already integrated and and making the netherlands much nicer. So now they dropped eight hundred. I think they dropped eight hundred refugees afghan refugees in a town of mu thirteen hundred people. And so what happens is they're pissed off and they start lighting fires and getting mad because they went through refugees before it totally disruption entire village. So now it's all the same thing. All the women owned so sad story after story of people gathering toys and clothing for the poor refugees. And you know that's the majority story and then you get a news report to you. Know some kids with some barricades on fire. But it's a problem and ninety thousand coming to america ninety thousand that's a lot. They define the mexicans Here we go biden on a on the pullout and this is kind of a ramble Ramble number ninety nine. I call it stations in third countries in short Flying directly to their country flying to these processes stations. We're working with more than dozen countries across four continents. I've secured agreements. Which secured agreements with gulf got shimmying across the gulf in central asia and europe including processing centers and cutter germany kuwait spain and elsewhere august. The sort i and processes evacuees. They're maintaining constant vigilance tomorrow. We're maintaining the concept to monitor and disrupt threats from any source including the likely source being isis isis k. Yet you referred to as isis k. We continue to see not only enormous enormous scope and scale the effort. We will see the individual lives that are affected. The families that are desperate to get home to their loved ones in america. What we're doing is extraordinary. You have to think of the wall. They're doing thanks to the people who from all over the world who are helping this effort. Oh man you got ten dead marines. This is going to be bad. I'd say here's biden on this storm storm of the we're talking about the storm. That wasn't gonna do anything flooded toys. Thought you i thought you meant trump in the patriots. That's coming okay. Liz satellite radio in case of extended power of the battery powered radios in case of extended power to our power outages. And don't forget you may need to sheiks seller while you're battling the dealt of very Cove nineteen so where mass and try to observe social distance and everyone across the country. Don't get caught by the next storm get vaccinated a yes how to prepare for storm. Make sure you've got batteries for your radio and get your backs just beyond me that clip we had we have the the storm center or the what we had. We had someone else on a earlier hurricane or something how to prepare vacs. Yeah be prepared. Get vacs okay. So that's my little biden thing. I do have a.
Makom Israel Teachers Lounge
"afganistan" Discussed on Makom Israel Teachers Lounge
"Different photographs of the physical Distinction of twenty four hours. About how immediately women became covered in the body covering called the borka totally from heads to to totally black covered. Because that was what it was like. When did the taliban mujahedeen regime and The taliban the mujahedeen allowed al-qaeda to to have their infrastructure where they train they train them. They supplied them with weapons that they enabled an allowed in arabic. Speaking different muslim terror organization al-qaeda and all of our us listeners. I sail kaieda. You nine eleven or at the end of august. It's just about to be twenty years to nine eleven and here. We got into geopolitics. The united states entered in concord. More or less. It's very weird sort of way because the united states never shown cred afganistan what they did is they wanted to oust l. kinda and they never defeated the taliban. The the chairman dune the taliban have moved away and allowed the united states to take care of al qaeda and that was already in two thousand one beginning of two thousand and to join nato who's an international international. Everybody was together a lot of british forces. A lot of dane denmark's forces. Though were nato norwegians i mean you think of the different nato sources turkey by the way a muslim country did not as big a presence in afghanistan but turkey very dominant player here in the middle east from two thousand and one on the united states invaded to again destroy al-qaeda that was the premise of their invasion. So we don't call it an occupying force. It was a military force. They never came in and said in. The united states is now running afghanistan. What they did is the united states over. The last twenty years worked with different local leaders. What's a local afghani leader. Somebody who's the mayor who under the taliban went backwards because the taliban came and said you're losing by exceedingly strict harsh. Muslim law and afghanistan wasn't like that in the nineteen seventies and eighties and nineties. This is a trend throughout the middle east. Because i'm looking at yuli al and i'm thinking to myself of our listeners in from muscle for you right now. Who are finishing high school. You're in the beginning of university. You gone off to college okay. Or you're going to go there through five six years ago. If i had said to you if slavic state or the arabic term guys that was the way we would scare you. But the taliban were running a very strict muslim state four invented itself and right. Now there's actually even a power struggle between a region of the islamic state. Which is the the area next to iran. Enough garrison. Kind of what i call. Eastern iran western afghanistan about it was an area where women islamic state in two thousand and thirteen. Fourteen and fifteen was height of its outreach. Portions of afghanistan pledged allegiance to the islamic state so the taliban are part of that but they preceded about idea so are we are feeling better. Something similar to the islamic state with an exceedingly strict muslim outlook within from the time that the united states said twenty years. Look the afghans run their own life. We're gonna leave and the united states. Choose to leave quickly. I don't have a problem without choice. There's no good way to do it. We can have the discussion. Take the band aid off slowly or quickly and immediately all of our listeners. There are those who say slowly and are those who say quickly. There is no correct incorrect way to do it. There are different and in this case the united states said let's do it quickly. And they left and the forces that they had built the interest to the united states had built mainly a security military infrastructure did not withstand anything in my military hat. They didn't do anything. And i think it's because they felt that by fighting they would die. They weren't gonna they just feel did not hard. What i call the Own comes from leadership and they didn't have local leadership. I mean they had a force and the leaders about force where the americans that were on the ground and as soon as the americans left the high ranking the middle they didn't have the local leadership to say get up and fight and the mujahedeen who come with a very strong ideology. They are moved by belief. What can be stronger than moving by this belief and it is very similar to the state. But it's not like it at all and why does it connect. Israel is going to be the next thing in that sense to build up. This immediately connects. Toss my one question before we get to connect it to. Israel is when you say that it's because of the lack of leadership yes and is it also like when american marines gave their life at guadalcanal to hold back the japanese because they protecting the concept of japan japanese being able to get to the american west coast. They're laying themselves down because they believe in america the concept of a nation state. They see people in america's they're people they're willing to give their lives to protect this idea of america whereas up to twenty years americans train these afghan troops to protect this thing called afghanistan as an entity but they i don't know the the afghan troops were really. You know that was a cousin. We're so i love your question. And i'm gonna do what i always do. I'm going to be the toll. Music spoiler rephrase. Your question because. I don't accept the premise of the question. What you ask to me. But he led a bit chamois. What you asked. Ray is a way of raising that question who says that nation states in the western liberal judeo christian forum is the way okay there. There are lots of ways which challenge us judeo-christian liberals greatly especially all over the world. All over the world we look at these different by the way not just in in muslim countries were challenged by what china does. What china does we see. As and i say that not because i don't say is wrong. I am a liberal. Judeo christian liberal on but there are different ways of having a communal state. I mean i'm going to oppose anything that close women at the bottom of the level but this is a problem of all of his slum not of the alabama johnny dean because he slow on as religion can have an amazingly beautiful interpretation. If i just wanna go to off pal chevelle right now as i do in judaism because right now we're.
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"afganistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Us central command estimates the us withdrawals ninety percent complete last week the us military left bog. Graham airfields a key center of command and america's longest war and afghan officials said. Us forces did not coordinate that departure with local authorities resulting in a period of looting at the airbase before and forces took over control as the us winds down its withdraw from afghanistan. At least six hundred fifty troops are expected to remain to secure the us embassy in kabul. In addition the new york times reported the us will maintain a quote shadowy combination of clandestine special operations forces pentagon contractors and covert intelligence operatives president biden scheduled to speak about afghanistan today meanwhile representatives of the taliban and the afghan government met in iran. Today for high level peace talks in joint statement. The two sides said quote wars. Not the solution to the afghanistan problem. We're joined now by two guests. Sima samar is with us. A longtime afghan women and human rights defender served as minister of women's affairs. Afganistan from two thousand one to two thousand three in two thousand twelve. She was awarded the right livelihood award over advocacy for women's rights. She's joining us from houston. Texas and joining us from afghanistan is a latifi freelance journalist based in kabul. His recent piece for aljazeera headlined afghans say recent taliban advances forced them to take up arms. Let's begin in with ally. Can you describe what you are seeing on the ground. According to al jazeera what thirty percent of the country now under taliban control is do you find that you can actually verify this. It's hard to verify these statistics because for one thing. A lot of these districts are often trading hands. You know they go back and forth and this is something that's been going on for years. You know the differences that end the past this kind of cat and mouse game toke weeks or months sometimes even years now. It's a matter of days where you'll get a report that district fouled the taliban and then to three or four days later. They say that it was regained by the government. And the last week. I've been to two different including kabul three different provinces of the country. You know i've met with people who are part of these local uprising forces. Which is what. I wrote about for the al jazeera story. I met with security forces. I met with officials including provincial governors. And they're really putting a lot of weight behind these uprising movement. Saying that they want to. They are supportive of actual people trying to defend their own areas of taking guns. That were all either already. Owns leftover from the civil war. Or the telethon time they were hiding these guns or even the current last twenty years when disarmament kind of went awry was never really successful. or in some cases handing out new guns to them Because the idea is that they want to show the taliban the people are a against them. Be supporting the national security forces and that see they are willing to fight against them against the taliban. So it's really a big gamble at this moment can you Explain why you're concerned about this. The fact that former mujahedeen as well as many other volunteers are taking up arms. So what you wrote about. What do you fear might happen. I it's not necessarily my fear. It's a fear that permeating the look there plenty of people that support absolutely one hundred percent support these uprisings because they think it's localizing security. It's bringing power back to the people but then there are some people who fear that if you're handing out all of these guns aac. Can you get them back when when you when you supposedly won the war reached your goal of somehow getting rid of the taliban and be. Can you make sure that these people will not turn their guns against the people of these areas because in some areas that we went. You know the people that were part of the they may have been from the same province or the same region but they weren't necessarily from the same exact district or the same exact area as where they were fighting in so there are questions. Will this lead to tensions and could we end up in a situation like nine hundred ninety two where you know. All of these armed movements essentially turned their guns against each other and there were rockets. Raining down on kabul entire city was divided along ethnic lines and lines according to to their allegiance to different armed groups. And you know the city was getaway is than there was all kinds of in a way lawlessness at that time. Which is what eventually led to the taliban coming to power. So that's really the fear that people have is. Can you control this when you need to an Seem ahmad. you were a the minister for women's affairs in from two thousand one to two thousand three. that is a following the installation of the government After the us invasion. Could you talk about your concerns regarding the taliban the taliban as we've discussed reportedly in charge of a third of districts across the venison and also the broader effects of the withdrawal of us and foreign troops from the country. Good morning to you and good morning to your listen. I think a let me. The i was minister of women's affair for only for six months. But then i was for a long time. I was chipper son of coniston independent human rights commission which was also one of the an institution. I would say that the one of the success stories of the country rich done the promotion and protection of human rights and continue to do the same work i think as as mike only set the thirty percent of the country will district is under control of the taliban but the people are not supportive of their presence. It used to be exchange of districts between the two conflict warring factions. But this time they are more rapid. It is concerned because we don't know at will happen. But the the consent of the people that more people displaced and it's a lot of violence which push the people out of their homes and the countries all the the people are older the poor and the the economy is not very cheap. So it is a concern. They're more displacement more poverty more tension.
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"afganistan" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Us central command estimates the us withdrawals ninety percent complete last week the us military left bog. Graham airfields a key center of command and america's longest war and afghan officials said. Us forces did not coordinate that departure with local authorities resulting in a period of looting at the airbase before afghan forces took over control as the us winds down its withdraw from afghanistan. At least six hundred fifty troops are expected to remain to secure the us embassy in kabul. In addition the new york times reported the us will maintain a quote shadowy combination of clandestine special operations forces pentagon contractors and covert intelligence operatives president biden scheduled to speak about afghanistan today meanwhile representatives of the taliban and the afghan government met in iran. Today for high level peace talks in joint statement. The two sides said quote wars. Not the solution to the afghanistan problem. We're joined now by two guests. Sima samar is with us. A longtime afghan women and human rights defender served as minister of women's affairs. Afganistan from two thousand one to two thousand three in two thousand twelve. She was awarded the right livelihood award over advocacy for women's rights. She's joining us from houston. Texas and joining us from afghanistan is a latifi freelance journalists based in kabul. His recent piece for aljazeera headlined afghans say recent taliban advances forced them to take up arms. Let's begin in with ally. Can you describe what you are seeing on the ground. According to al jazeera what thirty percent of the country now under taliban control is do you find that you can actually verify this. It's hard to verify these statistics because for one thing. A lot of these districts are often trading hands. You know they go back and forth and this is something that's been going on for years. You know the differences that end the past this kind of cat and mouse game toke weeks or months sometimes even years now. It's a matter of days where you'll get a report that district fouled the taliban and then to three or four days later. They say that it was regained by the government. And the last week. I've been to two different including kabul three different provinces of the country. You know i've met with people who are part of these local uprising forces. Which is what. I wrote about for the al jazeera story. I met with security forces. I met with officials including provincial governors. And they're really putting a lot of weight behind these uprising movement. Saying that they want to. They are supportive of actual people trying to defend their own areas of taking guns. That were all either already. Owns leftover from the civil war. Or the telethon time they were hiding these guns or even the current last twenty years when disarmament kind of went awry was never really successful. or in some cases handing out new guns to them Because the idea is that they want to show the taliban the people are a against them. Be supporting the national security forces and that see they are willing to fight against them against the taliban. So it's really a big gamble at this moment can you Explain why you're concerned about this. The fact that former mujahedeen as well as many other volunteers are taking up arms. So what you wrote about. What do you fear might happen. I it's not necessarily my fear. It's a fear that permeating the look there plenty of people that support absolutely one hundred percent support these uprisings because they think it's localizing security. It's bringing power back to the people but then there are some people who fear that if you're handing out all of these guns aac. Can you get them back when when you when you supposedly won the war reached your goal of somehow getting rid of the taliban and be. Can you make sure that these people will not turn their guns against the people of these areas because in some areas that we went. You know the people that were part of the uprisings. They may have been from the same province or the same region but they weren't necessarily from the same exact district or the same exact area as where they were fighting in so there are questions. Will this lead to tensions and could we end up in a situation like one thousand nine hundred ninety two where you know. All of these armed movements essentially turned their guns against each other and there were rockets. Raining down on kabul. Entire city was divided along ethnic lines and lines according to to their allegiance to different armed groups. And you know the city was getaway is than there was all kinds of in a way lawlessness at that time. Which is what eventually led to the taliban coming to power. So that's really the fear that people have is. Can you control this when you need to an Seem ahmad. you were a the minister for women's affairs in from two thousand one to two thousand three. that is a following the installation of the government After the us invasion. Could you talk about your concerns regarding the taliban the taliban as we've discussed reportedly in charge of a third of districts across the venison and also the broader effects of the withdrawal of us and foreign troops from the country. Good morning to you and good morning to your listen. I think a let me. The i was minister of women's affair for only for six months. But then i was for a long time. I was chipper son of coniston independent human rights commission which was also one of the an institution. I would say that the one of the success stories of the country rich done the promotion and protection of human rights in continue to do the same work i think as as mike only set the thirty percent of the country will district is under control of the taliban but the people are not supportive of their presence. It used to be exchange of districts between the two conflict warring factions. But this time they are more rapid. It is concerned because we don't know at will happen. But the the consent of the people that more people displaced and it's a lot of violence which push the people out of their homes and the countries all the the people are older the poor and the economy is not very cheap. So it is a concern. They're more displacement. More poverty more tension.
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News in Brief 26 September 2019
"This is the news in brief from the United Nations two days before Afghans go to the polls to vote for their next president the head of the UN mission there has made a strong appeal full the protection of civilians from harm citing this month's indiscriminate suicide truck bomb attacks by the Taliban and strikes coordinated by the US military Tadamichi a Yamamoto the UN secretary general's Special Representative for Afghanistan called the violence appalling in previous elections level of civilian casualties in two thousand fourteen were surpassed Austin twenty eighteen when there were more than two hundred twenty six deaths and over seven hundred eighty injuries the comments by Mr Yamamoto who also heads the UN Assistance Mission in Afganistan or follow several deadly incidents in September including a Taliban suicide attack in power on at an election rally where thirty people were killed and more than and fifty injured in two other incidents in recent days. Mr Yemo said that there were multiple credible reports that U s led airstrikes in Nangahar and Helmand killed killed high numbers of civilians according to U Nama more than three thousand eight hundred civilian casualties were recorded in the first half of two thousand nineteen on Thursday a U. N. panel announced the launch of guidelines to protect children from sexual abuse online which it says is growing at an alarming rate drawn up by the the UN Committee on the rights of the child. The guidelines focus on new threats from digital technologies such as the Internet and Social Media Committee expert Felina Todorova River warned that sex offenders are finding new ways to abuse children as Internet access expands at unprecedented levels this has made it possible for abusers to share encrypted scripted information and use the secret of dot net to commit facilitate offenses. She told your news is no longer. A case of an occasional hidden offender living at the bottom of the street it is now a case of a multitude of offenders on the other side of the world who can reach the rectal inside a home in order to corrupt and destroy our children's life the battle we simply cannot afford to the guidelines are designed to assist the one hundred seventy six states that have ratified the Optional Protocol on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography with practical solutions based on good practices and challenges that states have encountered they cover the prevention and prohibition of the children and their sexual exploitation for prostitution and in pornography with additional measures to prevent impunity of perpetrators and measures to support child victims while majority of victims are girls the committee cited research search showing that a significant proportion of children depicted in online material are boys and finally in Sudan thirty six tonnes of cholera treatment medicines and supplies allies have arrived as the UN response to an outbreak in Blue Nile and sin states according to the World Health Organization or who eight sufferers have died from the water-borne quantities whose symptoms include fever and watery diarrhea cholera is particularly dangerous for young children and the elderly it is not treated early according to who which is warned about open defecation a lack of clean water outside the capital Khartoum and the country's dilapidated health sector latest information from the Sudanese authorities points to around two hundred reported cholera cases in coordination with these Sudanese health authorities the UN agency has sent staff to monitor and control the spread of the disease. He's they've also been tasked with maintaining clean water sanitation and nutrition and raising awareness among at risk communities Daniel Johnson U._N. News.
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Taliban attack on US-based aid group raises concern in Kabul
"Nationalist views research, the addresses of US supreme court justices sought to assassinate democratic presidential hopefuls and cable news anchors and intended to quote, murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country and Afganistan the Taliban has claimed response. Ability for an attack Wednesday and the offices of a US-based non-governmental organisation in the capital, Kabul that killed at least five people and left two dozen others injured the attack targeted the offices of counterpart international, a nonprofit based in Arlington
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Jim Mattis, Defense Secretary, Resigns in Rebuke of Trump’s Worldview
"Nomination for the joint. Chiefs of staff job at being vetoed. Effectively. He'd been frozen. Out. But it seems like yesterday's surprising decision from the president to withdraw the remaining troops in Syria. Really was the final straw for him. Although he hasn't directly stated that in his letter. But this is a strongly worded resignation letter that talks about America's strength through a comprehensive system of global alliances and partnerships, the importance of maintaining international relationships and respecting allies. And I think it's clear from this letter that James Mattis feels that the president Donald Trump's America first foreign policy rolling back on some international agreements, criticizing international organizations and putting in doubt some of those relationships with allies with something he just wasn't willing to tolerate any longer. He's a former military man, a Marine Corps general who spent his career working through these coalitions internationally to secure America's influence in the world. He obviously feels that. He can no longer stand by the president with that. And what has President Trump said about General Mattis? This decision while he the president tweeted first announcing the gym Mattis would be retiring he said at the end of February and thanking him for his service. So no criticism from the president, but he has called into question Jim Mattis's judgment before. And I think we could see the relationship deteriorating. Now, the president has said that he's looking for a replacement and expects to make an announcement next week of who will take over a secretary of defense. But he said something similar when his chief of staff left. Also when he was looking for a new attorney general we have acting positions filling both of those roles at the minute. So this is another job at the top of the administration that needs to be found. Someone new to take on it looks like it's getting increasingly difficult for the president to find the right people to surround him. And Jim Mattis has made clear in his letter that he simply couldn't carry on working for someone whose views he wasn't that closely aligned with any longer. And meanwhile politicians are scrambling. Travolta, partial federal government shutdown tells more about this. Yes, there is legislative deadlock in the United States. They have to approve a new budget effectively to fund government services over the next few months. Donald Trump says he won't approve a budget that doesn't include money for his wall. The Senate will not approve money for the wall. It looks like that's going to be a sticking point. And it looks like we are going to have a government shutdown from tomorrow night. Ten johnson. The head of chillers. Police force has been told to stand down by presidents have a Pieta amid growing pressure over the death of an indigenous man five weeks ago. Gummy look at the Janka. The grandson of Emma Pooja indigenous leader was shot in the head as he drove a tractor in the southern province of out Ganea. I asked her America's editor Leonardo Russia for the background to the case Camila cutter. Janka was a was a young man living in the southern province of federal Canea his pool change agents, and he was driving a tractor. When he was released was. Carrying out an operation there against a local gang of car thieves and accidentally shot in the head and died instantly. But because of all the history there is in the area with them approaching data fighting for the rise. They complain against the presence of farmers and big companies a campaign that's been going on for for many many years that just sparked protests across the country with many people saying this is enough. The police has made a mistake here. And why is the police chief being targeted? What happened is initially. The police said they were acting in self defense which implied that Tammy look at the young had any moment, which he didn't. And then they said they didn't have any footage of the Gulf the incident, but the police there the carabineers they normally go with body cams body cameras on them and all the pictures in the Chilean media showed there were policemen with cameras and earlier this week to visas were published. Showing how the operation was carried out how it developed in proving that this man was killed didn't have he was an armed. He was holding a gun. So that created a big problem for presence in yet? Who was in a way supporting the police in this case, but he's changed position. Typically, he changed. He was very critical. He said a small group of policemen had betrayed designed the police, and they they will be excluded. But he didn't refer specifically to the police chief in those terms he said, they should go because the police chief and ten all the commanders because it's time for new leadership. So that happened under there is under the guidance, and they shouldn't be happening and that will see now what what's going to happen. But it's a militarized police in Chile the many accounts in many critics of much criticism about the police held riot police act and the indigenous the perception of agents and approaches that they are unfairly targeted Russia. Now Neil has some other stories from our news desk lawmakers in Denmark have approved plans to banish foreign criminals to a tiny offshore island. The change would affect to a hundred people who have completed their sentences, but cannot be sent home because they would be at risk of torture or execution in their countries under the plan, the released former criminals would be allowed to leave the island during the day. But it needs to report their whereabouts to police and returned Lind home every night. Britain's Jeep of defense staffs are gen generals. Sir. Nncholas Carter has said he believes the US remains committed to the international mission in Afghanistan reports overnight suggest the Trump administration is considering plans for a significant drawdown of forces in the country the general described the current security situation in Afghanistan is fragile. Here's our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, Syria and Afganistan are two very different missions said general nNcholas. Carter. He admitted that Afghan security forces were suffering worryingly, high casualties from the ongoing insurgency, but said there were signs some Taliban were growing weary of fighting. And I wanted peace. Donald Carter said British lives have been lost in vain enough ghanistan. The west could not afford to take its attention of the presence of ISIS them. He blamed a lack of education and opportunity for the group having gained a foothold. There was no evidence that he said if any attacks being planned on the west from Afghanistan. The government of president macro and FRANZ has bowed to police demands for a salary increase and payment for decades of unpaid overtime after officers staged nationwide protests. The deal comes after police were deployed in large numbers to try and control five weekends of often, violent demonstrations by yellow vest activists. Thanks, neil. A major search is underway at the UK second busiest airport for the operators of one or more drones which have forced the authorities to ground hundreds of flights since the devices first appeared on Wednesday evening at London's Gatwick airport one hundred and twenty thousand passengers have been left stranded authorities at the airport say they're now attempting to reintroduce a limited number of flights over the coming hours. The passengers are still being advised to check with their airline before travelling to the airport. Our correspondent chichi Zindel who's at Gatwick airport gave us this update is festival trying to actually spot the drone in enough time. To disarm think about that our police here who are frantically searching for the straight twenty police units from different police as a trying to locate the drone the public being is quite a large airfield every time it goes up. It disappears Justice quickly. They still don't the make all the models. So they can't use the technology that has been pulled into a number of trains that means that they can remotely disable it from where this operating it. And therefore, they call finds the person he's operating it. So this is the main and a huge problem to the police they had called in the army and gains their assistance to try and locate it, they say there's been continued sighting of Adrian they said so far they have had fifty reports of Jane sightings in and around the airfield Gatwick says the runway remains closed because of they sightings passengers due to travel to check the status with our airlines, and they said, no. Not come to get weak airports unless that flight has been confirmed. Gatewaycc have also called it additional staff across the apple to try and help people that had been stranded hair, and they stopped themselves.
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Flaws found in German program to resettle asylum seekers
"The opposition left party in Germany has criticized a multi-million dollar German government program that offers to help asylum seekers find jobs back home, if they return voluntarily the government acknowledge that not a single person who'd returned to Afganistan, Egypt, Ghana Morocco and Nigeria in the twelve months to July had been found a job
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Afghan president declines resignation of top officials
"To Afghanistan where president Ashraf Ghani has rejected the resignations of three senior. Officials including his national security adviser who looked to quit following what they say. Are, serious differences with the government Hanif Atmore is that security advisor he'd been considered close to president Ghani and was appointed to the. Post in two thousand fourteen now all this comes amid increasing Taliban. IS attacks across the country in which hundreds of? Soldiers and civilians have been, killed the fighting has now resumed after a brief lull during the festival of aid well, in the Afghan capital Kabul is the BBC's show Sharifi before I talk about those resignations show but word about Senator John McCain we were. Talking about his legacy at, the start of the, program how did, he impact American policy specifically on Afghanistan do you think Well he was. A recognized name for policymakers here at home and? Also those mobbing Arkansas news strategy in the, u s he was One of the key Passan's who sort of introduced or brought the what they called success. Lessons learned from Iraq Cornerstone was, seen as the key person behind the use of they called counter insurgency or introduce coin as well as introducing the PRT's provincial the construction teams believing both in surge in the number of troops winning militarily as well as how to Win by introducing more reconstruction efforts and putting more money parallel to the military operations on the ground so he was Key figure not, just during. The years of Bush and Obama even in the most recent uses strategy and Trump's strategy of. South Asia mainly Afganistan he was somebody with experience on a variety to say an impact a. Policy on a country like I've? Honest on a word then about, these resignations which have been rejected by the president what's the background to this wise it got to. This point well Just during the first day of about a. Week ago as Aveline president was? Delivering his message to the. Nation Attackers insurgents made it literally to that doorsteps of the presidential palace and moved to a dozen of Moto fired very close vicinity of president granny as he was delivering a speech sound of explosion could, be heard that the food that, just a few days before the Taliban penetrated big city and important Junction City and. Almost the city, almost collapsed and the security forces had to fight for five days to push the Taliban back so in theory, what presidential palace is showing that because the president was Not happy in, annoyed about what is happening deteriorating security and the security Top security officials including March could have. Done something to have prevented attacks as close as to the presidential palace but. At the same time, we have been parliamentary elections and presidential elections coming so things of men quitting jobs to form and. Joining new teams for. The. Presidential in presidential elections could be
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Santa Fe senior class balances grief and memories with celebration at graduation ceremony
"Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Windsor. Johnston President Trump's top economic advisor is downplaying anger from US allies over the administration's new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Speaking on Fox News, Sunday, Larry cudlow says Trump is trying to fix the world trading system, not break. It was president from day. One wants to reform. The world trading system is not working, and there is so much unfair trading at illegal trading practices. There is virtually no reciprocity here Kudlow remarks came after finance ministers from the group of seven industrialized countries held talks in Canada. This weekend. China's says it won't buy more US goods. If the Trump administration goes ahead with plans to raise tariffs on Chinese imports, the warning comes as commerce. Secretary. Wilbur Ross concluded trade talks in Beijing today, emergency crews are airlifting people trapped by fast moving lava. From kilowatt volcano on Hawaii's, big island, Jackie young from Hawaii, public radio reports. Search and rescue missions are being conducted in isolated areas. Today, emergency crews are working to extract residents after a large half mile wide active lava flow, closed all access to the Kahal community and the vacation land subdivision civil defenses, instructing residents in those areas who ignored mandatory evacuation orders to get to designated landing zones of I state Senator Kyko Kelly said during an overflight on Saturday evening that he witnessed trap residents. The active lava flow was so hot. It evaporated all the water in the centuries, old green lakes, the largest freshwater lake in the islands, lightweight volcanic glass known as Pele's hair named after the goddess of fire and has it as gases continue to be health rates for NPR news. I'm Jackie young in Honolulu. Seniors at Marjory stoneman Douglas high school. School in parkland, Florida graduated today, diplomas were presented to the families of four seniors killed in the February shooting. NPR's, Greg Allen reports. There was also a surprise guest speaker. NBC tonight show host, Jimmy Fallon told the students. You're not just a future, you're the president, keep changing the world. He said he met many of them at the March for our lives, rally in Washington in March, several hundred Marjory stoneman Douglas seniors. Their families and friends attended the ceremony at arena. In sunrise, Florida often used for hockey games. The school district said, the ceremony was closed in the media because students asked that it'd be kept private afterwards. Those attending said it was a celebration, but somber, the families of four seniors killed in the February shooting were given standing ovations when they received the diplomates, the mother of slain student walking, Oliver war shirt. That said, this should be my son, Greg Allen NPR news, sunrise, Florida. This is NPR news in Washington. North Korea's state news agency says, Syrian President, Bush are all sawed plans to make a state visit to Pyongyang. United Nations monitors accused the two countries of cooperating on chemical weapons, which they deny President Trump has twice ordered air strikes against Syria to punish Assad for suspected chemical attacks on civilians. A new report says more than forty percent of children in Afghanistan. Do not attend school Jennifer glass reports from Kabul the report by the United Nations, children's agency, UNICEF, and the Afghan ministry of education acknowledges that Afganistan has achieved enormous progress in education since two thousand one. When the Taliban had forbidden girls education and supported mainly religious schools. The report says there are still many challenges and girls are far more likely to miss out on education than boys because of cultural barriers, including child marriage, poverty, fighting displacement, migration, and natural disasters are. All factors that keep Afghan children out of school. The ministry of education has a national strategic plan that hopes to address some of these problems. But in a country where statistics are difficult to calculate this report will serve as a baseline to measure progress for NPR news. I'm Jennifer glass in Kabul. Tunisia's defense ministry says at least forty six migrants have died after their boats sank off the Tunisian coast sixty seven others were rescued Tunisian officials, say some one hundred eighty migrants were fleeing for a Europe when the boat went down. I'm Windsor Johnston and you're listening to NPR news in Washington.