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Bloomberg Radio New York
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"You G is a symbol More coming up This is Bloomberg Yeah I'm Nathan Hager and the Bloomberg 99 one newsroom in Washington checking our top stories of the morning Airline cancellations are piling up once again this day before New Year's Eve with COVID climbing and heavy snow piling up out west Flight aware dot com says more than a thousand flights have been scrubbed as of this morning including about 17% of JetBlue's schedule and 8% of united Michael osterholm with the university of Minnesota center for infectious research and policy says this record oh Macron wave maybe just the beginning What we're seeing right now though is a very different part of the pandemic than we've seen in those past two years And that is with omicron we are going to see a viral blizzard over the next 5 to 8 weeks in this country Doctor Michael osterholm at the university of Minnesota President Biden has a phone call set for this afternoon with Russian president Vladimir Putin It will be their second talk this month Bloomberg's Amy Morris reports from Washington The Kremlin says Putin saw a need to talk to President Biden before next month's talks with the U.S. and then later with NATO Gleb pavlovsky is a former Kremlin political adviser and tells Bloomberg news the move could indicate Putin's desire to reach a new level of relations with the west and achieve deescalation This as U.S. and European allies are alarmed that Russia could invade Ukraine as early as next month something Russia denies in Washington I'm Amy Morris Bloomberg radio Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani says he had no choice but to flee Kabul last summer in an interview with the BBC Ghani says an adviser gave him just minutes to abandon the capital before the Taliban swept in and he denies widespread accusations that he left with millions in stolen cash Global news 24 hours a day on air.
Ideas
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on Ideas
"Kind of negotiated end to the war. Now very little remains of the foreigners plans afghanistan and the dreams. We inspired except for painted slogans on fortified walls. Soon even those will disappear now. Girls are putting their burqas back on and venturing out like so many others into an uncertain future once again. Under taliban rule august fifteenth twenty twenty one the taliban entered coffee and cemented their hold on the country it brought to an end a weeks long campaign of fighting and negotiations between taliban leaders and local powerbrokers that saw the militants takeover province after province. The last american soldier left afghanistan on august. Thirty first ending. What has been dubbed. America's forever wore but announced photo time. The journalist left the country in november of twenty twenty after receiving death. Rates hummed alaba. The national security adviser fled with president. Ashraf ghani on augustine as the taliban made their way into kabul leaving afghans without government. Sheherazade akbar the human rights advocate state as long as she cooked. it has also now left afghanistan. Dr aziza what wall. Ozzy is determined to keep her health clinic open. The girls school in heart is now closed. It's unknown if it will open again. You've been listening to ideas and to our adaptation of ghosts of afghanistan at tv. Oh original documentary. You can watch the full documentary at tv. Oh dot org and don. Tbo's youtube and roku channels for more information. Visit our website at cbc dot ca slash ideas. Ghosts of afghanistan was written by julian cher. Brame smith and natalie dubois director julian cher presenter graham smith produced by natalie du bois. The film's executive producer. Are neagh effort. Original music composed by eric lloyd for a full list of credits. Please visit our website. This episode of ideas was produced. By the heedless stafa technical production. Danielle do our web producer. Is lisa a you sell senior producer. Nikolic greg kelly is the executive producer of ideas and dime. Nah i had for more. Cbc podcasts to cbc dot ca slash podcasts..
WTOP
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on WTOP
"W T o P at 11 41. Afghanistan's former president has apologized to the Afghan people. In a statement posted on Twitter, Ashraf Ghani said he owed the Afghan people an explanation. He left the country, he says at the urging of palace security, calling it the most difficult decision of his life. He said it was with profound regret that his own chapter ended tragically much like his predecessors. And he apologized that he could not make it end differently. CBS correspondent Cami McCormick there. Ghani also denied stealing millions from the Treasury. Saturday marks 20 years since the terror attacks of September 11th 2001, But just down the remains of two more victims who died at the World Trade Center have been identified. Just days away from the landmark anniversary, The New York City chief medical examiner announced identification of two more victims of 9 11, the Patient came through DNA analysis of remains. The arduous process has been going on since the attack took place. 2753 people died at the World Trade Center. But more than 1100 have yet to have their remains identified. Improved DNA science has assisted New York officials who vowed to continue matching remains to those who perished. Steve Futterman. CBS NEWS Following September 11th. Many of our country's leaders made an effort to discourage hate crimes and unite the nation. Did they succeed? Our coverage continues. September 11th 20 years later, it's a day in history. Americans, including Muslim Americans will never forget. We watched in horror. Edward Ahmed Mitchell is the national deputy director with the Council on American Islamic Relations. He says the impact stretched across the country and into the Muslim community. American Muslims had an additional challenge to face and that was the rise of anti Muslim bigotry. But Mitchell says, while he crimes increased immediately after it was only slightly Negative opinions towards Muslims soared 10 years later, and they continued increasing from 2010 through 2014 through 2016 and up to close to the present day. His hope moving forward 2021 will really be the year where we can get a better understanding whether or not hate crimes against Muslims are really decreasing, but we are hopeful that things might be moving in the right direction. So how w T o Penis It's 11, 44 and fell. Coronavirus.
The South Florida Morning Show
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on The South Florida Morning Show
"The ringling brothers museum. He was alive the today show back in when he was like it was so cool smucker's by the way gave him his own jar yesterday because usually it was for any man made one hundred and he would do the hundred-year-old clubs make it. Yeah so honor being willard scott. They put his not good for them all right. Well that's wraps up rapid-fire bill great radios coming up more headlines we've got an update again on the president's former president doing boxing commentary. That's crazy. isn't that nuts. It's almost as crazy as how these americans got out of afghanistan. Yeah we get more in that too. You're right coming up next morning. Show this gen bill. Cubit here stuck eight fifty w. f. t. l. l. florida morning show is jan diener. Bill got more news about ten minutes for you not too far from right. Now joe biden. You'll have this in the news. In fact he made the The appearance of the visit wasn't alone. Though in new york in new jersey on my buddy was with them. Chuck schumer right there by telling them what to say. I thought this fascinating i. I don't even know what he was trying to get at here. None of them were shouting complaining. Every one of them thanking as if it was something special. I mean necessarily that i was here. I don't think you're paying attention to everybody. Joe because the very same site where he was. Here's here's the stuff. We edited out. there was a lot of shouting against him. They people aren't happy that he left these people behind yesterday Secretary of state anthony blinken remember. He had that five o'clock deadline to tell us how many americans are still left in afghanistan. His comment a small number of how many is a small number. he never gave an answer. A small number of americans were left behind. it's inexcusable to even to even not face up to it. I mean even if it was even if it was this big of a disaster and it is to not even be to face the question truthfully. They know exactly. You can't get into the country before kabul without registering right. Do you think people are just it in there. Yeah they just go to. Who's left behind their aunt and uncle Remember the four americans. Their made their way out with that special retired ops team that went in. I'll cla homa. Congressman mark twain. Mullen says how they got out. They traveled three hundred miles. He doesn't say by foot by car by jeep however they went through twenty taliban checkpoints and each one they paid five hundred to four thousand dollars per person so either the woman. They rescued in her in her. Three children was extremely wealthy. Or somebody she knows has a lot of money because somebody had to pay all of them right. That's a lot of money but this is the nice taliban that we're that's on our side. That's working with us. How do you even carry that kind of cash without being afraid. You're gonna be outgunned and take what kind of cash y- zelda to the i i don't know i thought the same thing because how much cash carrying around window you take. Bitcoin allow jeez what they had to pay to get through the checkpoints. That's crazy speaking of the taliban. And i know i get it. It's tough news every day. It's this situation just gets even worse in today's no different taliban forming its own government. We knew that take. That was gonna take place today. Guess who's ready to jump right in and work with them cool shopping at the bit to get in there. China china Here is zo bo. Former director of the center for security corporation at the chinese ministry of national defense. Okay d- think he's excited to work with them by the way the The entire government here is made up of men and apparently our state department. This was an actual statement yesterday. We're concerned about the diversity of the telephone government. That's no joke. i'm not making. You gave a country the for them to run over any most other countries because of the military armament we left behind. And you're an you gave him over a country terrorists in. You're worried about the fact that they don't have women in the government. Yes there's something something so wrong with this administration anyway leaves. China is very excited to work with the taliban. Apparently the fact he's the afghan taliban has taken over the whole country as they have promised to make changes in the right directions. So why don't we give them much house. Yeah let's give them a chance chance. Let's be fair. what is going on. let's give them a chance. Oh wasn't so sad and it would be said. Yeah you know what it's the only thing you can do is laugh because the know it sounds like something you you read in a robert ludlum book. It's like you gotta be kidding me. And unfortunately it's true. Have a whole country now. Whole country Whole country to train terrorists. That's what it is by the way the what's his name sheikh Lead muhammed there. Whatever the hell is not can't stand them in and neither can the rest of the world that was in charge of the home mission to bomb the united states. Nine eleven There trial is continuing guantanamo bay. But when they brought him into the courtroom yesterday and it's four little accessories were there. They're waving at each other smiling. I'm like really This is what you're reporting on i. He'll thousands of people and that's the big news. Yup oh my goodness. They reported stop. It's a most wanted to get to hear. Was i completely forgot already okay. In the time we got this coming up the short these four day. workweeks mean. we're at mid week already. Which is good news. Which means this is the last full before we have this. The nfl kicks off tomorrow. Night does doesn't it. Are you gonna watch the game absolutely okay. So it's the box gonna raise their championship. Been going to host the cowboys. But here's the story. I thought this fascinating memories. Even like i was even like three years ago to mention gambling gambling in the nfl pro sports new. We may lose our license. That can't be true. You know what to think about it. Because the pete rose thing was so big. It's true from here so i mean in the. Nfl has fully embraced gambling. because they have they. Have you know sports apps and they have preferred partners and all this other stuff right. It's huge now. So huge that one in five americans are expected to gamble on one of these online sports things or vegas upon the nfl this year in the largest growing number of people women. And we're going to rule you watch. They're gonna show you how many women one more money than guys women are gonna win all the fantasy leagues. He's he's good looking cute right forms. It'll be something like that and they win would always happen in the office pool for entertainment purposes only. Yes you'd have you'd have some lady just just gambling on you know. I like he's uniform. he's cute. I like it and they'd win everywhere. Tom brady oh he's the one in the office pool because we thought he was cute. And it's right all right we got more headlines coming up next. Is governor dissents running for president. He says no a new haven't even brought up our best flora dope of the week. We got a good one once again from tampa to it's coming up next. These florida morning show is jen bill. Keep it here..
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"With Ivor Mactan. They say the best defense against Covid is the vaccine. Covid is keeping dozens of students in the Lake Washington School district Home today covers seven TVs. Lauren Donovan is at CA Mike in middle school. There have been 53 people from the school community that have been asked to quarantine and the district says a member of the school community tested positive Monday and that this person was both inside comic in middle school and on board a bus. Still, our state is faring better than Texas, where Covid precautions are minimal. CBS is Moret. They real reports from San Antonio. According to the Texas Tribune. At least 45 school districts across the state have suspended in person learning following spikes and infections. The Lone Star state recording a record in pediatric hospitalizations over the weekend to Virginia, where the governor ordered the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond. This resident says it's significant we no longer have to drive up and down Monument Avenue and be reminded of what he stood for, and white supremacy and Richmond being the capital of the Confederacy. The elected former president of Afghanistan is apologizing for fleeing the country, paving the way for a quick Taliban takeover more from CBS's Commie McCormack In a statement posted on Twitter, Ashraf Ghani said he owed the Afghan people an explanation. He left the country, he says at the urging of palace security, calling it the most difficult decision of his life. He said It was with profound regret that his own chapter ended tragically much like his predecessors, and he apologized that he could not make it end differently. On Wall Street. The Dow is down 47 points. NASDAQ is off by 98. Now let's go to Cairo Radio. Real time traffic. How we Looking out there, Sully. Well, we're struggling in most places right now, Heather. We've got heavy, heavy slowing. Now on southbound. I thought coming out of Snohomish County, basically starting right.
WTOP
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on WTOP
"On the go. W T o p never miss a moment. Good morning. I'm Sarah Jacobsson. Teddy Gellman is our producer coming up. The Taliban is grounding charter flights of evacuees at airports in northern Afghanistan. The White House addresses new questions about congressional support for the president's agenda. I'm Mitchell Miller today on the Hill and the nation's top infectious disease expert, is talking about the timing for those covid booster shots. It's 6 31. The Taliban says it has taken control of the Panjshir province north of Kabul, the last holdout of anti Taliban forces in the country. Witnesses who spoke anonymously out of fear for their safety, told the AP, thousands of Taliban fighters overran eight districts of Panjshir overnight. The anti Taliban forces had been led by Afghanistan's former vice president, umbrella solid who had declared himself the acting president after President Ashraf Ghani. Lead fled the country August 15th when the Taliban reached the gates of the capital. Meanwhile, several planes chartered to evacuate people from Afghanistan, including Americans have been unable to leave the country. Four days An email from the State Department notified members of Congress about this unfolding situation, the State Department email reviewed by CBS News acknowledges to members of Congress. The Taliban is grounding charter flights at an airport in northern Afghanistan. The email goes on to say the U. S government does not have personnel at the airport and does not control the airspace. State Department spokesman said they will hold the Taliban to its pledge to let people freely depart the country. Catherine Herridge CBS NEWS Guantanamo BAY, Cuba. 6 32 President Joe Biden will visit all 39 11 memorial sites to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks and pay his respects to the nearly 3000 people who were killed. That day. The White House says. The president will visit ground zero in New York City, the Pentagon and the Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United flight 93 Was forced down. Biden's itinerary is similar to the one President Barack Obama followed in 2011 for the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Shanksville for a separate event before joining the president at the Pentagon. The White House says it remains confident President Biden's tax and spending plan will get final approval in Congress. Despite new questions about lawmakers support W T. O P S. Mitchell Miller has more today on the hill were still full state. My head on trying to get our legislation passed. White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond says the administration is working with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who recently said he won't support a plan that costs $3.5 trillion. But Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who also spoke on ABC s this week, believes mansions opposition will make it tougher for Democrats to link the larger proposal to a vote on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. He says that Bill should have every lawmakers support go down to the Food and Terrebonne Parish. People who will not have electricity back until September. 29th go to those parishes until them Whatever cockamamie reason you have to vote No on Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller. W T o P News coming up on w. T. O. P. Despite a surge in Covid cases, at least one thing returned to normal this holiday weekend. It's 6 34. Why is Inova Schar Cancer Institute, the only health system in Virginia with Proton therapy? Because we're pro patients with the most advanced options to treat their cancer were.
KTOK
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on KTOK
"We're featuring Armstrong and Getty in the mornings. Um, with Larry. So I personally know Larry and so, you know, take it with a grain of salt, But, you know, I I know the guy and so um, and and so I'm going to vote for him because he has the greatest chance of winning. And also he really is a really nice guy. And somebody correct me. He's the sage from South Central, not the Oracle of Compton with I believe that Snoop Dogg, the Oracle of Compton, Um or it was easy, but so he's he's, uh, He's the same guy off air that he is on her a really, really good guy. And it's crazy, funny seeing seeing a black and sort of black conservative smeared They're they're they're trying to, you know, dragging up old girlfriends and all this stuff and and the smear job is hilarious. And you're not seeing this because you're not in California. But Larry has a TV spot, pushing back, believe it or not, the L A Times called him a white supremacist. And it's like, Have you seen his picture? Do you know anything about they called him a white supremacist. So he has a TV spot where he flashes a picture of him like in 1982. And he has this mod squad Faro. He has this link from Mod squad. Uh, you know, Dr J Circa 1977 pro. It's the funniest damn thing. And he's sitting in a chair and he said, Do I look like a white supremacist? It's devastating. But Anyway, so so just so just to let you know that's that's the disclaimer. Um okay, Someone called, so we'll take the car Claude in Fountain Hills, Arizona. What's the radio station? You're listening to, uh, I'm actually listening to you over the Internet. And I actually enlisted in the Army in 2000 and three because if you're Seattle radio show, so thank you. I would like to know what? Yes, you had a caller who called in And was saying he felt really frustrated being on the sidelines. You said, Well, you got enlist by, I think at the time it was 35. I thought. Oh, I'm 33 so I didn't like sitting on the sidelines. And you were very inspirational at the time and you have been my play by play through the, uh, the past. I guess 18 19 years of what's been going on, and that's the way I'm trying to get the order. Right. Let's see what I was on tire all the time or kpi. But that was before I went, and that's yes. And that's before I got deployed. With, uh, window. Yeah. Okay. That was that was pretty well, you know, I have ahead were either traumatic brain injury now, some little different there, Richard Cranium. I'm sure I am. I've listened to you talk about Obama's use of signature strikes, which you clarified for me meant he was literally signing on the dotted line to allow for drone strikes, and I'm wondering What will this current administration do to help the pockets of resistance? Still fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan? Um, I'm take my index finger. Making a big zero because that's great radio. Literally. Nothing literally. Nothing think so. They abandoned the Afghan National Army with air support. You know, as we find out from that transcript That was released last week by Reuters of Ashraf Ghani, the the the the Worlds worlds. He holds the record for most weight in $100 bills placed on the Gulf Stream. Um, I don't know. Literally 167 million ways like £3200 So, but so anyway, no, it's dead. They want no matter how many American citizens no matter how many Children From Sacramento, San Diego. Whatever are are are left behind. They will not officially ever kill someone or do anything. They will not lift a finger to help the newly reformed Northern Alliance. Um, nothing. They will do nothing and also they're being assisted. By the American media because you're seeing absolutely Bob guests on TV about these Americans we left but never mind the the Northern Alliance and Ahmad Shah Massoud Sound is the new leader of the northern lines. Never mind that never mind that they could use in a 10 or two or even a drone being flown from from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. Not even that They won't do a bit. Not not. Not a bit rate..
The Dan Bongino Show
Democrats Must Impeach Joe Biden for Quid Pro Quo Conversation With Ashraf Ghani
"You're going to claim conservative Bona feeds the Republican Bonefish. You got impeached this guy. You have no choice right now. Yeah. Impeach the sky. I mean, we're just using the Democrats own standards. What? What do you mean? What happened? Did you catch the breaking news yesterday? If you didn't you missed out on a doozy. Remember when the Democrats impeach Donald Trump over a phone call with the Ukrainian president, suggesting it was a quid pro quo. We Illicit scandal is something for something. President Trump demanded they look into Hunter Biden story, ironically turned out to be true looking a hunter Biden in exchange for military aid. Story turned out to be entirely discredited after Donald Trump released the actual transcript of the call, and, uh, that was proven to be categorically false. I mean, if you can read if you can't read, Um are you the reading comprehension of a kindergartner? You may not have seen that in the transcript, it was Trump himself. That also authorized the release of the transcript. The left double down It didn't matter because there Buffoons, they said. We have to. We must impeach this guy scandalously demanding something demanding an investigation into the corrupt son of the former vice president. Now President Joe Biden. Demanding that exchange for military and, of course again. None of that happened now, Fascinatingly enough. We have an actual quid pro quo where Joe Biden asked the Now since the part in Afghan president departed since Joe Biden surrendered to the Taliban, Ashraf Ghani, where he asked him to lie. About the status of Afghanistan and the pending collapse of the Afghan military. And he held up actual military aid.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Thanks for the update, really appreciate it. Glad to be with you, Steve Dr Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. President Biden is meeting virtually this morning with G seven leaders on Afghanistan. The withdrawal has raised some big questions about how Biden views America's role in the world as NPR. White House correspondent asthma, Hadid reports. In January 2000 and two when the U. S Embassy in Kabul reopened, Ambassador Ryan Crocker says the first member of Congress to visit him was then Senator Joe Biden. One of his really great qualities I thought was Is driving need to see things for himself. Cracker says. Biden did the same in Iraq, and I just I really respected that. So what have they done with the real Joe Biden? And who is this guy up there? Now? Cracker had thought the president was an old school internationalist in the vein of presidents going back to World War two who believed in American leadership on the global stage. But with the chaos in Afghanistan, he can't seem to make sense of him. For me. There are kind of sets of issues here. One of them is what his, uh, international philosophy actually is the the other is quite frankly, an issue of confidence. And I find both alarming. Much of Biden's foreign policy is rooted in his years of first hand experience, and that's why the withdrawal from Afghanistan has raised so many questions. Leon Panetta was director of the CIA under President Obama. He has publicly refer to this as a bay of pigs moment for Biden the issue that concerns me. Is that when the president does want to make a decision that you want to be able to implement that decision in the right way, which means that You have to look at all of the contingencies. You have to look at all the possibilities that could develop and in this case, it's not clear to him. The president did. Panetta has sat in the situation room with Biden. He's seen him deal with crises. He's someone who feels that he's had a great deal of experience in dealing with the world. I think he does have Deep sense of confidence in his views, and one question is how much Biden trusts his own instincts over everyone else's. But the president's worldview isn't just about policy. It's also about style. He said that all foreign policy can be boiled down to personal relationships. Richard Fontaine was a foreign policy adviser to GOP Senator John McCain. When the president spoke about Afghanistan. He mentioned that Ashraf Ghani, the now former president had assured him certain things would happen. They obviously did not US presidents often. I believe put too much stock in their ability to sway foreign leader solely to force a personality and and things like that, because countries have these things called national interests, Fontaine says. That's not entirely unique to Biden. The bigger thing he's noticed is that the president who once supported intervention on humanitarian grounds in the Balkans in Iraq. And even to some degree in Afghanistan has changed his tune. Nowadays, Biden speaks about the most important global struggle as a battle between autocracies and democracies, and Afghanistan is not part of that equation. He's focused on China. His team often refers to this idea of creating a foreign policy for the middle class. A response to President Trump but also progressives within his own party. Matt does is a foreign policy adviser to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. I think there's a recognition that so much of the way that foreign policy was Talked about and made in Washington had become completely detached from the kind of lived experiences of Americans. And so Biden, like Trump made a commitment to end the Forever wars. It meant pulling back in some places, even as Biden promised to re engage with the world. And that sends a risky message to some If you withdraw from the world stage because we're gonna fix the home problem and ignore the rest than the world is going to be a very, very dangerous place. General Jim Jones served as Obama's national security adviser for the last half of the 20th century. We figured out how to do it both ways. But Biden seems to be making the calculation that in the 21st century Americans want to see nation building at home, not overseas. Asma Khalid NPR news Yeah. This is NPR news. Coming up on morning edition on W. N. Y. C Search and Rescue efforts continue in Waverly, Tennessee, after flash floods tore through the town over the weekend. It's a very tried to give in. I mean pictures. Don't do it. Justice down here. You know, it's just.
KCRW
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on KCRW
"Thanks for the update, really appreciate it. Glad to be with you, Steve Dr Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. President Biden is meeting virtually this morning with G seven leaders on Afghanistan. The withdrawal has raised some big questions about how Biden views America's role in the world as NPR. White House correspondent asthma, Hadid reports. In January 2000 and two when the U. S Embassy in Kabul reopened, Ambassador Ryan Crocker says the first member of Congress to visit him was then Senator Joe Biden. One of his really great qualities I thought was Is driving need to see things for himself. Cracker says. Biden did the same in Iraq, and I just I really respected that. So what have they done with the real Joe Biden? And who is this guy up there? Now? Cracker had thought the president was an old school internationalist in the vein of presidents going back to World War two who believed in American leadership on the global stage. But with the chaos in Afghanistan, he can't seem to make sense of him. For me. There are kind of sets of issues here. One of them is what his, uh, international philosophy actually is. The the other is quite frankly, an issue of confidence and I find both alarming. Much of Biden's foreign policy is rooted in his years of first hand experience. And that's why the withdrawal from Afghanistan has raised so many questions. Leon Panetta was director of the CIA under President Obama. He has publicly refer to this as a bay of pigs moment for Biden the issue that concerns me. Is that when the president does want to make a decision that you want to be able to implement that decision in the right way, which means that You have to look at all of the contingencies. You have to look at all the possibilities that could develop and in this case, it's not clear to him. The president did. Panetta has sat in the situation room with Biden. He's seen him deal with crises. He's someone who feels that he's had a great deal of experience in dealing with the world. I think he does have Deep sense of confidence in his views, and one question is how much Biden trusts his own instincts over everyone else's. But the president's worldview isn't just about policy. It's also about style. He said that all foreign policy can be boiled down to personal relationships. Richard Fontaine was a foreign policy adviser to GOP Senator John McCain. When the president spoke about Afghanistan. He mentioned that Ashraf Ghani, the now former president had assured him certain things would happen. They obviously did not US presidents often. I believe put too much stock in their ability to sway foreign leader solely to force a personality and and things like that, because countries have these things called national interests, Fontaine says. That's not entirely unique to Biden. The bigger thing he's noticed is that the president who once supported intervention on humanitarian grounds in the Balkans in Iraq. And even to some degree in Afghanistan has changed his tune. Nowadays, Biden speaks about the most important global struggle as a battle between autocracies and democracies, and Afghanistan is not part of that equation. He's focused on China. His team often refers to this idea of creating a foreign policy for the middle class. A response to President Trump but also progressives within his own party. Matt does is a foreign policy adviser to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. I think there's a recognition that so much of the way that foreign policy was Talked about and made in Washington had become completely detached from the kind of lived experiences of Americans. And so Biden, like Trump made a commitment to end the Forever wars. It meant pulling back in some places, even as Biden promised to re engage with the world. And that sends a risky message to some If you withdraw from the world stage because we're gonna fix the home problem and ignore the rest than the world is going to be a very, very dangerous place. General Jim Jones served as Obama's national security adviser for the last half of the 20th century. We figured out how to do it both ways. But Biden seems to be making the calculation that in the 21st century, Americans want to see nation building at home, not overseas. Asma Khalid NPR news This is NPR news. And this is KCRW. KCRW. Thanks. The Roth Family Foundation committed to supporting organizations that inspire hope, dignity and creativity, primarily in the Los Angeles area. On a Tuesday morning. You are listening to KCRW. My name is Matt Dillon with you for morning edition just ahead of the program. We're going to be taking look at Tennessee. Specifically, we are going to be off to Humphreys County. We're gonna be hearing about flash flooding there. It ravaged parts of the state over the weekend. Details of the flooding in Tennessee and look at how it could be linked to climate change. That story coming up in 15 minutes. I'm Jonathan Bastian this week on KCRW's life examined. It's part two of our searching for Utopia series, and this time we talk about the cult of personality behind Jim Jones Peoples Temple. This is a group which began with a seed, which was very positive out of racial reconciliation and serving the poor and ended with something I think we can all agree is about as horrible as it can get Murder suicide That's life examined wherever.
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"ashraf ghani" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Now they start because 1995% of Afghanistan covered by Taliban 5%, which is Panshir Province and Notre and some of the problems in north There are under control of mujahideen there under control of the people who beat the Russia who beat the China who beats, Uh, England who beat the Pakistan and India whatever. But what happened was the the manager. The so called President, Mr Ashraf Ghani? No, he elected by US government he elected by president of United States whatever was That he was the fraud, briber and cautious president. We ever had. He was beheaded president of Afghanistan. So then the Taliban they became strong. Why? Because Mr Ashraf Ghani was supporting Taliban under table and they Mr Ashraf Ghani released a lot of Taliban Mr Ashraf Ghani. Broad. The representative of, uh, Taliban on the table. Still Taliban was was lost the war. America won the war, but Hamid Karzai. Ashraf Ghani, They support Taliban. You know the Taliban? They didn't expect that they get their all problems of Afghanistan like a water. Why? Because Mr Ashraf Ghani called every record We call We have 11 corps in Afghanistan. They call him they said, Leave all your core. All your battalion for Taliban, but the people the army, our army, Afghanistan Army. And they said we can part we have tank we have Holly cooked, er we have Armin ation and we have everything but, uh Karzai and also Ash Afghanistan. No, leave it. Leave it to them. That's why we lost Afghanistan. The problem. Majority of people of Afghanistan state as we see Ashraf Ghani Anywhere. We will not leave them alone. They are very, very, very upset from so when, when he left because he apparently left with his family and his gold and everything else. Um, it was kind of it looked as though he was leaving because of the Taliban. He wasn't According to you. He's he's leaving because the people were angry with him. Correct. He left Afghanistan for two reasons. Number one. He is stole $50,001,000. Even he didn't talk high million dollars with him. He given to the PPS. The reason why he left because the people was hungry on him. Number two. He left because of the money. He stole the money. He got it. He you know, there was a three guy. Three person control all Afghanistan number one. Ashraf Ghani, number two, Dr Moorehead, which is he was not a doctor. He was a nurse. And there was another guy. Partly, Mr Fosse. These three gentlemen. Cover all Afghanistan. That's why the Taliban became upset. The people of Afghanistan became upset base it as better the people of Afghanistan tape as better that we can leave Afghanistan because these three gentlemen Sold every single mind to the neighbors, but he had they have three. They have to finish it. Number of what the first base is just Polishers. I'm sorry to say that he polish everybody. He you know, he show has sympathy to the people but the other faiths. Was just selling our country, our people, our army, our tank to the, um to the enemy of the human being right, including including China. Right. That's where the that's where the mines went. Of course, the copper mine from east of Afghanistan on the cars. I sold it before then Ashraf Ghani told that, but they sold it and they act under table. Not at the table. Mhm, Um and and and I'm sorry to say that Kylie I'm requesting from Mr Joe Biden. Please follow. And in fact, they, uh Mr Ashraf Ghani. He is he You know, we want the war. I'm a U s. Citizen. You United States wound the war but now Taliban, they got celebration. They got party. They said we beat Russia. We beat America. It's not true. It's not true if United States want to win the war or jump back They? We have one length. We have a big unit right now. They are located and north of Afghanistan. We called Pan should have province. We the passion leader, Mr Ahmad, son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, champion of Afghanistan, You can just Google it he takes We have 200 unit, 200 Special Forces units and the Taliban. They scared from them. Yesterday, Taliban lost three, uh, villages. And five city right operation started. Uh, the people the northern people know the line. People say we don't need support of, uh, United States now, right? I just want to support us. We are kindly the questing and welcoming American forces. We don't need military person. We need domination. We need air support, then. We promised and one year we will get all Afghanistan. We promised that so we have a strong unit now. Saber, I I appreciate the insight on this, and I do hope that we Change our tactics here because we are just abandoning our friends in so many women and so many little girls and Children from having a safe future and the future of freedom. Saber necessary. Thank you very much our best to you. We will pray for your family. Uh and we will do all we can to make sure that your your family is with you here. As an American citizen. God bless you. Let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's.
Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan
America's Longest War: 20 Years of Missteps in Afghanistan
"Begin with the final fiasco the images. We've been getting all day. Tell the chaotic story. The us continues. Its chaotic. exodus out of afghanistan. The withdrawal from afghanistan is a poorly planned debacle. The collapse of afghanistan represents another catastrophic failure of our political establishment. President biden is apparently delusional about the disaster in afghanistan but at the heart of the criticism is a contradiction that nobody in the american media or foreign policy. Blob wants to grapple with and it's this the only way for there to have been an orderly transfer of power in the wake. The us departure was for the process to have been negotiated as a transfer of power and to negotiate a transfer of power required acknowledging. And here's the hard part for the. Us that power was actually transferring. Therein lies the contradiction an orderly exit required admitting defeat and negotiating the unthinkable surrender to the taliban instead the us preferred to maintain the fiction that it was handing over power to the afghan government. Whatever that was and two former president ashraf ghani we would rather risk the chaos. We witnessed that admit defeat after all. It's mostly not our lives on the line anymore. But rather the lives of afghans who helped us over the past twenty years and focusing on the chaotic scenes at hamad karzai airport also. Let's commentators avoid asking the bigger questions. How is it that twenty straight years of. Us lies about progress in afghanistan could be so starkly exposed in a single weekend. And there'd be so little interrogation of that. Failure
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"ashraf ghani" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Town of bates fafa near jerusalem in a victory for indigenous rights and the environment a federal judge wednesday block construction permits from massive oil and gas project northern alaska known as the willow master project environmental and indigenous groups sued the. Us government to stop the multibillion dollar deal with conaco phillips which was approved last year by the trump administration and backed by biden's interior department groups argued the project which was set to produce more than one hundred thousand barrels of oil. A day for the next thirty years would disrupt fragile wildlife and contribute to the climate emergency. The environmental protection agency has banned the use of corpora. Fos a common pesticide which has been linked to brain damage in children. The obama administration said it would ban the use of the pesticide in two thousand fifteen but the ban never took effect before it was reversed by the trump administration. The pesticide is used by farmers on more than fifty fruit nuts cereal and vegetable crops and the acclaimed italian surgeon. Dr gino strada has died at the age of seventy. Three strana was the founder of the medical aid group emergency which provides assistance to civilian victims of war. He worked enough. Kind of stan in iraq yemen rwanda and other countries in two thousand fifteen. He won the right livelihood. Award deadly disease has to be prevented and cute. Violence is not the right medicine. It does not cure. The disease accused the patient. They will listen to. War is first indispensable step in this direction to see our two thousand five interview with dr gino strada visit democracy now dot org and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the warring piece report. I mean goodman with democracy now is ner means shea hi nermeen hi amy and welcome to listeners and viewers across the country and around the world today. We spend the hour on ghanistan where protesters have taken to the streets for a second day in a row in defiance of the taliban which seized control of the country sunday protests have been held in kabul and other cities today tomorrow afghan independence day l zero reports. Two people died in the city of asadabad after the taliban opened fire on protesters waving the afghan national flag. This comes a day after. The taliban killed three protesters in jalalabad on wednesday ousted. Afghan president ashraf ghani spoke publicly for the first time since fleeing kabul he spoke from the united arab emirates. Ghani said he left to prevent more bloodshed. All my colleagues in the west told me that. If i don't leave things would be worse. I could have stayed and started to war. But i had a responsibility to my people. And i didn't want to start a bloodbath. Like in syria and yemen donny. Said if he had not left afghanistan quote the people of the country would have seen another president hanging on the news of cerium. This comes as president biden says. Us troops will stay enough ghanistan until every americans evacuated even if that means staying beyond his august thirty first deadline evacuation. Flights are continuing from the kabul airport. But the taliban's preventing many afghans from reaching the airport with some being shot or whipped. A student in kabul told reuters. No women could be seen on the streets. After the taliban took control of the city are not out theft of from Of their homes. Dale items are two days. I i don't see Any negotiating the street state in. They are afraid that they are scared. Sullivan for more. We're joined by three afghan women who have fled their country. One left in two thousand seventeen one left last month but was planning to return and one left friday just for brief visit to the united states. Let's begin with nasseri nawa. She was in kabul until friday and joins us from lincoln nebraska where. She's a fulbright scholar at the university of nebraska. She's a former journalist with bbc. Persian based in kabul and her piece published monday in the washington. Post is titled. Taleban nightmare came true. I left but my sister couldn't in it. She writes quote since before. I left kabul a few days ago. I keep having the same nightmare. My sister running sweating bleeding followed by taliban fighters on the streets of kabul then. The nightmare came true now screen now while your sister is journalists like you tell us what happened to her on sunday after the taliban seized control and since then she was out of the house like so many other people in kabul because every mos- so to fight in the spirit to complete some official documents and apply for visas for in other countries. My sister was Bank to take some money but defined refused to to get their money almost two days before their take over. That bags didn't have enough money. So we we were actually facing with Difficult things that we were singing. Something bad is happening but not social satan than they get the power by my sister here that everyone is shouting of taliban came and you should run away so she starts running to a house and she cannot find her way out of that crowd and she's so scared and crying so finally. She finds her way to the apartment but at the house. Just my family is coming. They they will start killing people right now at Be something in easy comb so and they tried to call people to help my sister get out of the country moments and it failed because light got cancelled. And can you talk about what her situation is. Now and all the other people you know of who are trying to leave gobbled trying to leave. Lana assan. They are totally hopeless in the stuck at their houses. They don't dare to go out Provoking something and the only hope is right now that The normal life resumed enough ghanistan. The start number flights that everyone can use it because not everyone can get that emergency opportunity that the united states offer to offer to owner able people in afghanistan of my sister just told me an hour ago did receive guests from City in other province They hair that you can just go out by reaching to the airport but but it's not easy At our house and they cannot find their way to airport taliban. Don't allow anyone at it. It's it's just violence.
Here & Now
Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Emerges in the UAE
"United Arab Emirates says it is accepted former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his family for humanitarian considerations. Ghani fled Afghanistan just as the Taliban approach Kabul Statement, carried by the U. S State run news agency did not say where Ghani was in the country.
Pod Save the World
"ashraf ghani" Discussed on Pod Save the World
"I thought did a better job in biden of explaining the broader options available when it comes afghantistan. Let's hear that clip biden had to think about the human costs of the alternative path as well which was to stay in the middle of a civil conflict in afghanistan. There are those who argue that twenty five hundred forces the number of forces in country. When president biden took office we could have sustained a stable peaceful afghanistan. That is simply wrong. The previous administration drew down from fifteen thousand troops to two thousand five hundred troops and even at fifteen thousand. The afghan government forces were losing ground. What has unfolded over. the past month has proven decisively. It would have taken a significant american troop presence multiple times greater than what president biden was handed to stop a taliban onslaught and we would have taken casualties. American men and women would have been fighting and dying once again in afghanistan and president was not prepared to send additional forces. Were asked any american personnel to do that over the period so this is a very important argument. I think that is not breaking through and stop breaking through. Because i think the media doesn't want to believe it but also because you're the charlatans out there like selling lie which is that biden's options were not keep a few thousand troops in afghanistan yeah automatically life is better for the afghan people. Human rights are protected. Young women and girls are protected. It was keep. Us troops in afghanistan or probably be forced to send more troops afghanistan's engaged in heavy fighting take casualties in for the afghan people. Most of all means spending another year or two or three or four living in a civil war. And that that's the trade off right like you get killed Yen like the visa issues. The criticism of the last few weeks. That is all absolutely real and fair. But jake i think is right that these are the imperfect options biden. Had it would like staying. Afghanistan creates risk for afghan civilians. Leaving afghanistan creates risk for afghan civilians. I i don't know how to make this depressing context breakthrough that's right and it's it's the bottom line. Which is that two thousand five hundred troops which is where was you know because of what trump had done ram twenty five hundred troops in the context of a deal in which you've already cut a deal with the taliban to leave that i've i've seen these people say what we could have just left the two thousand five hundred troops and had this kind of status quo that was relatively stable. No i mean the first of all was not relatively stable and since that the taliban has been making gains steadily year after year after year and they were doing that when there were more than twenty five hundred troops. I hadn't said there were stronger today than they were before nine eleven. What in clearly the are given how mu- they ran over the country and and so so like in order to stay first of all you are going to be in a civil war you're going to be in the middle because it has been a civil war and away for twenty years governor since we went in and even in some ways before that and so either we were probably going to have to surge back up if we made the decision to stay in point. Five hundred troops is not even enough to protect our own forces. They're like so there would have had to be a plus up of forces I think in order to stay and inevitably It's not that we would have been taking enormous casualties because we haven't been taken that many casualties fears. But you would have taken some and not just that you would have still been in afghanistan spending billions and billions of dollars and trying to tip the balance of a civil war that has been going in the wrong direction for for many years now and so i think jake did lay out very honestly like this is just a calculation. That biden made which is like. We've been there twenty years. We have not found the formula that works the former works is not going to be two thousand. Five hundred troops there And he made a determination that given everything else we have to do in the world given desire to kind of put a period on you know a a an aspect of post nine eleven foreign policy like this is what. This is the only option that we had to do that. Otherwise were deeper in afghanistan with all the risks. Go along with that. And i think that's you know people don't want to accept that logic but but that logic is clear and you can argue that you know what i it's worth like having a few more thousand troops in afghanistan worth billions and billions of dollars in. It's worth the occasional american casualty. And it's worth all the band with the us government that goes into this. And that's another thing. It's a lot of bandwidth in the us government. That is not doing other things because it's been fighting award afghanistan for so long but but the idea that there's this there was this status quo option. I mean that that is not right. I mean that is that is not right and and and is right to point that out and then you raise this this broader question of like. Why did the afghan security forces not fight and it keeps getting reported on his an intelligence failure. I'm not even sure. That's the right terminology trying to turn to assess what happened. A you mentioned this this logistics problem right the us pulls out the. The afghan army is dependent on us personnel to do logistics or contractors. And suddenly they're gone. It's hard for the armed forces to operate. I think that that ch- logistical challenge was compounded. By the fact that ashraf ghani didn't wanna pull back afghan forces from remote areas that he probably should have retreated from zd. Didn't wanna look like us giving parts of the country but then they literally couldn't get those guys food is from what i've read and then the other part of seemed to not be paying salaries. Yeah and they weren't paying see the reporting like and that may be corruption like why these guys are being asked to find. They're not getting paid in. That merits further scrutiny. Yet it's a big big problem And then the other factors. There's really interesting. Washington post report that said that afghan officials have been quietly surrendering to the taliban since last year And they said it started at low fuel happened. Exactly right peace deal the you know the taliban withdrawal off the withdrawal deal. Yeah and so basically you know what it sounds like happened. Was these deals. We're getting cut at lower levels and then as the taliban advance accelerated and got momentum. These deals started getting cut by more and more senior afghan government officials. And that's why you saw you know. The taliban just walk into kabul without firing a shot like one important caveat to this is that the afghan commando unit. There's special forces have been in like brutal combat. Yeah months places. Like canada heart. The big deal that was cut was the trump deal and again. This isn't about politics. it's about facts. Like trump cuts deal the taliban where he says you know essentially. We're going to leave if you don't shoot it us And what happened was yeah. They stopped showing us but they kept shooting at the atkins grief forces and all the afghan warlords or regional or tribal leaders are looking and reading the writing on the wall. This even before biden comes in and they start cutting deals with the taliban because they're literally cutting the same deal the trump you know they're cutting a deal that says like don't shoot at us and you know you guys can do what you want. And so the the momentum of this thing was well underway by the time biden made his decision and that. That's just a fact. That has to be a part of a reckoning with so i agree like and again. I think it's quite clear from this conversation. We'll get into the broader history and a second that four presidents are responsible for the outcome. But it's been frustrating to see. Mike pompeo and trauma guy in others try to take a victory lap on this given their role so just some context ben that we should talk about like you just said they. They cut this deal with the afghan government.
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
Taliban Takes Full Control of Afghanistan
"Chief foreign correspondent. Richard engel as you probably know. He has spent big portions of the last two decades of his life in afghanistan during the war. There richard also just weeks ago reported on some of the last fierce fighting by elite afghan commando units fighting against taliban forces. We know that was some of the last fighting like that. That there was in afghanistan and richard. Was there in the middle of it but now that the taliban have been able to take control of. I all the provincial capitals and then the whole country including kabul without fighting at all not in a military operation but just in what appears to have been a negotiated surrender by afghan government forces and the afghan military all over the country as the taliban have now walked in to kabul without firing a shot. Richard has been there reporting around the clock as they have taken over again. As i mentioned we have been battling technical difficulties as you might imagine for some obvious reasons. But i do believe we've got our dear friend. Richard engel now joining us live. Richard thank you. I'm sorry to have you up at this hour. Thank you no problem at all. Comes with the territory with your show seriously seriously. I have bad technical. Gremlins karma as you know from the very beginning richard. Let me just ask you how you are right now. What this last few days has been like for you with all that you've seen in kabul over the years and what you're expecting over the day that is newly donning right now where you stand. So the taliban are spreading their wings they are establishing more and more of their control. They're trying to establish a government. The first two days in power they were coming out of the woodwork. So to speak they were battling lueders because that that happened here there was a collapse of law and order when ashraf ghani. The president fled when all the police fled. Even local security guards
WSJ What's News
Three Killed at Kabul’s Airport Amid Effort to Flee Taliban
"We begin this morning in afghanistan on your firm. The taliban claimed victory sunday after sweeping unopposed into the capital city of kabul president. Ashraf ghani fled abroad. Police deserted their posts and the afghan government collapsed now in chaotic scenes. The us along with western diplomats and thousands of afghans are trying to get out on sunday secretary of state. Antony blinken told abc news. This week with george stephanopoulos that the withdrawal would happen in a safe and orderly fashion. We're working to make sure that our personnel are safe and secure were relocating The men and women of our embassy to location at the airport this morning at least three people were killed by gunfire at the passenger terminal of kabul's international airport officials at the us central command. Were immediately available for
POLITICO Dispatch
Afghanistan: The Taliban Has Gained Ground at Surprising Speed
"Afghan army is quickly losing ground throughout the country to the taliban now to bolster its flagging military. The government is arming militias to help in the fight and by the way it should be said. This was the expectation the expectation was that if the us left afghanistan and foreign troops also left that the taliban would do a takeover right. This isn't the surprising part. The surprising part is the speed. And that's what's caught everyone off guard. They started by taking a parental capital zaranj. Just over a week ago right. The taliban have captured the capital of afghanistan's nimruz province as they step up their across the country earlier in the day gunman shot and killed the head of the afghan government's media and inflammation and really taken almost every provincial capital since With kabul really the last main wanting to fall the situation on the ground in kabul rapidly deteriorates. Us forces there are rushing to evacuate all personnel from the embassy or images online. Coming out right now inside kabul the presidential palace overrun by the taliban as you noted. Us officials have confirmed to fox news that afghan president ashraf ghani fled the country. So at this point you've basically seen a complete collapse of the afghan military of afghan authority in just over a week or so. The blistering taliban gains have reportedly taken some us officials by surprise but many this week including president biden have kept the focus on the afghan governments. Need to defend itself. Gotta fight for themselves simply stunned everyone in the us and around the world and it is arguably already one of the most successful guerrilla urged campaigns in history. I mean think about it. You have a militant group that in a matter of days not only looks like it's going to depose a government but a government backed by a major foreign power. It's quite
Monocle 24: The Briefing
The Taliban Has Retaken Control of Afghanistan
"We begin in afghanistan where the taliban are now in control of the capital kabul and much of the country having made sweeping advances in recent weeks following the withdrawal of us forces. The militant group took over the presidential palace where it says it will declare a new islamic emirate of afghanistan. President ashraf ghani fled the country on sunday while american and western nations scramble to evacuate diplomats and their citizens earlier today monocle producer. Emma searle spoke to charlie faulkner a correspondent based in kabul. Here's what she had to say about. The chaotic scenes on the ground The streets of kabul of being obsolete of clogged with traffic this we out of it was down to displaced people fleeing from conflict in the provinces in other parts of the countries that are flooding into kabul in the hope of some sort of support but certainly yesterday morning the chaos on the streets was very much down to people desperately trying to get cash out of the. Atm's trying to buy different sim cards. So that if communication lines go down this sort of increasing their options really of still being connected in some way people were sort of packing up and moving into different relatives houses of moving out to the center because they were expecting some sort taliban attack. But what actually unfolded was that by the mid afternoon following this crazy league. Celtic morning the city sort of just fell into. It's very eerie quiet nurse whereby people were home just waiting ready for the news of what was going to come watching social media keeping an eye on the news and then we always he got the news that was going to be a transition of power from the afghan government to to the taliban
AP News
Taliban Seek to Project Calm as US Speeds Chaotic Evacuation
"The U. S. ministry took over Afghanistan's has space in the chaotic at times with accu rate that's the Taliban rolled into the capital Kabul the Taliban swept into the capital of to the western backed government collapsed in president Ashraf Ghani fled the country the militants trying to project calm amid widespread fears of unrest videos circulating the internet sales team hundreds of people based on my naked Hamid Karzai's national anthem as they tried to flee the country the U. S. embassy has been evacuated and the American flag loads with diplomats relocating to the apple to aid with evacuations I'm Karen Thomas
The Economist: The Intelligence
Nothing to Break the Fall: Afghanistan
"Over the weekend afghanistan's acting interior minister warned citizens not to fall prey to taliban propaganda assuring them that the capital kabul would be safe but it was not safe kabul was the last bastion of government control at any pretense that the government had any disappeared. As reports emerged that president ashraf ghani had fled the country. Afghanistan is now squarely under taliban rule just as it was twenty years ago when america invaded. What brought off on your fan man. Mulata the dara renault this morning the taliban released video claiming a great victory congratulating the people of couple on their new leadership and claiming now is the time to give serenity to the nation law so the serenity is distant crowds continued together at kabul airport hoping to hitch rides on the evacuations. Being haphazardly arranged by western powers there was always a risk that as american forces and nato allies withdrew from afghanistan that the taliban would surge but with three times the troop numbers no one predicted. The afghan forces would fold so fast when the soviet union withdrew from afghanistan at the end of the nineteen eighties. The regime that they created losted for several
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Afghanistan Conflict: As Kabul Falls, Biden Backlash Grows
"Departure of the U. S from Afghanistan has some making comparisons to the fall of Saigon in Vietnam back in 1975, as thousands are desperately trying to get on air lifts out of the country, hearing reports of U. S. C. 17 aircraft carrying hundreds of people These planes are meant for just around 100 paratroopers. They're fitting as many U. S personnel and US allies in these planes as possible, trying to very quickly get people out of harm's way. There are also reports of sporadic gun Fire around the airfield that in some cases will temporarily slowed down how many planes are able to take off? But this process will continue. We understand. Additionally, across Kabul there are Taliban fighters that have taken over key government buildings, including the presidential palace. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was inside before he fled the country for a jinxed reporting The Taliban moved in quickly this weekend took control of key strategic locations with relative ease. Leading to blame the Biden administration for underestimating the Taliban forces.
KQED Radio
Taliban Take Presidential Palace
"Course in Afghanistan, with the Taliban claiming victory after seizing the capital, Kabul, bringing to a swift end 20 years of the U. S. Led coalition's presence in the country fighters have seized the presidential palace. The government has collapsed. President Ashraf Ghani has fled There's chaos at Kabul airport, particularly with residents and foreign nationals trying to get out lots to make sense of add to that the United States says all of its embassy staff in Kabul now assembled at the international airport, ready to be flown out of the country in the coming hours. More than 60 countries have signed a statement saying all Afghans and other citizens who want to leave Afghanistan must be allowed to depart and we've heard from a Taliban spokesman. He's told the BBC that they are working to form a new government in Afghanistan and has urged calm a little bit later
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"ashraf ghani" Discussed on No Agenda
"You wanna do ghana stan. Let's do afghanistan only have to touch but they're pretty I've i have a couple. I got a coupon have I have afganistan rundown. But let's do the rap. Which i think is best. This is on npr. This is actually cut you. Three clips got taliban rap. Npr and then to and then then there little connection to china which is beginning to become a huge humiliation for china. i think if people get kluber. let's start with taliban taliban rat by in recent days. The taliban have captured huge territory in afghanistan including many of the country's largest and most important cities president biden issued a statement reaffirming his decision for a us withdrawal and explaining the steps. he has taken but the situation is dire. The un estimates that since may nearly a quarter of a million people have been forced from their homes due to the conflict and there are reports of afghans fleeing to the capital kabul desperate to find a way out of the country. This surge defied all predictions forcing reassess. His they try to figure out what could happen next for a look at the possibilities we're joined by. Npr national security correspondent. Greg mary hi greg i don. I don. What's happening today. The taliban claimed another big prize on the battlefield today. They seize the important northern city of mazaar-i-sharif. This was one of the last big cities. The government had the taliban now control virtually all the northern southern and western parts of afghanistan The associated press is reporting. The taliban appear to be within ten miles of kabul president. Ashraf ghani Just has the capital and some other parts of eastern afghanistan. He gave a recorded speech. That was televised. He said he would prevent further instability. Hard to imagine that that would reassure anyone. there's no sign that government is capable of stopping this taleban surge. So given. what options does the government have. They are shrinking by the day. They can rally and put up a fight to defend kabul. They do have resources. But it's it's really not clear that they have the will they could try to negotiate with the taliban but power-sharing isn't realistic right now it would be more. Perhaps about the terms of surrender which has happened in other cities in recent days and a third possibility is just a total collapse at the government and the troops will will simply flee. What at the other thing. I don't understand but maybe get to it. Why is the military industrial complex allowing this pullout. Is this the non pullout. Is that exactly what is going on here is. They're they're not gonna not gonna pull out all right. We have a lot of explaining to do the date put us. I mean the the pentagon the pentagon has got to have a lot of explaining to do because they wouldn't let anyone leave. And if you remember. I don't know if you remember this but this is about two or three years ago. He played a bunch of clips. They somebody went and did an investigation on on our involvement in afghanistan. They with the tape recorder and they record all these generals in their opinions and district. This is just before trump got elected when this took place and it was played during the trump administration. That's when general. Flynn was the one who kind of blew the whistle on this whole thing being a giant sparse. Big-money suck yeah. It was a big farce and he was the only general who came out and said so and come out and that was around the afghanistan papers. Yes that's right. That's if ghanistan pay which was showed just trillions of dollars going everywhere just farce the scam and was bad news and flynn was the only one who said it ever recorded saying it and that put a target on his back and you saw what happened to him but so there is. I believe there was a direct connection between what flynn had to say about afghanistan and what happened to flint. I wasn't wasn't a team player. no he he was embarrassing. Everybody yeah you're not a team player. He's what happens to you and so he ended up getting screwed over and But this whole thing is a fiasco from the get go. It was a fiasco during their fiasco in bush didn't go. Bush didn't follow the lead of his dad of doing something quick and easy get in and get out. I mean that old man at least knew that much he got in and stayed in and then he got stuck in there in. This obama ran for presidency. If you remember we take it to the bank. As a matter of fact that he's going to get out never got out. So obama was in for eight years with biden and the never got out. So what was that all about. So then trump gets his. We're getting out. And then they let him get out so he didn't get out either and so biden now gets us out and biden's already. I don't have a clip on. There was a bunch of new. You can hear him. Biden's blaming trump. So it's all trump's fault. The historical biden clip is the one. That's funny though you have it. Yeah yeah i do. Actually yeah president. I publicly silent about the taliban's accelerating takeover afghanistan privately consulting with the secretary of state and defense as well as national security adviser the rapidly deteriorating situation following the presence decision to withdraw. Us troops from a war. He believes his lasted too long and cost too. Many lives sparking fierce criticism. Well it's a disgrace and it's a national humiliation. Didn't have to be this way. The president's aids today standing by his comments from just seventy two hours ago. We're going to continue to keep our commitment. But i do not regret my decision. But now you're questioning the execution of that plan. He owns this now completely. It isn't donald. Trump's afghan policy is still biden's rush to remove americans now drawing harrison's to the chaotic evacuation from vietnam more than forty five years ago despite the president's promise otherwise there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the united states from afghanistan. Still for those who served and sacrificed disbelief and sadness. I'm really upset angry with with what's going on right now. Retired army ranger comment. So what i'd like to ask you for we continue is that moment the The withdrawal was it's like saigon. was that the. The embassy were the helicopter on saigon. Yeah yeah you are older. Than i. I was then. So what was that like. Was it a feeling of defeat was similar to now is at the same. Like what the hell did we do. I don't think that the american public ever saw any of these things as defeat. I believe because. I think i can reflect this. I think the american public saw these things as fiascos. They never went into the war seriously. They were always police actions. And we got rousted. Because we just we didn't have a heart wasn't in it if you really if our heart was in it were dropped bombs on these people. But it was just like a fiasco the same thing with the korean war of fiasco. This was a fiasco. This is a fiasco. Iraq was a these are fiascos run by our military and intelligence zero and intelligence at our intelligence agencies. Squandering money baby doing a favor. We don't know 'cause they always like to say well you. If you only knew won't be so happy proven you'd be happy and you'd be say. Wow you guys are the best But instead is a lot of money squandered. And and i probably wouldn't be happy if someone would finely somehow audit the pentagon and see where this money is going It's going to happen. We had.
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"ashraf ghani" Discussed on No Agenda
"Don't wanna do ghana stan. Yeah let's do afghanistan. I only have to touch. But they're pretty I have a couple. I got a coupla. have I have afganistan rundown. But let's do the rap which i think is best. This is on npr. This is actually cut you. Three clips got a taliban rap. Npr and then to and then. Then they're little connection to china which is beginning to become a huge humiliation for china. I think if people get kluber. Let's start with taliban taliban rat in recent days. The taliban have captured huge territory in afghanistan including many of the country's largest and most important cities president biden issued a statement reaffirming his decision for a us withdrawal and explaining the steps. He has taken but the situation is dire. The un estimates that since may nearly a quarter of a million people have been forced from their homes due to the conflict and there are reports of afghans fleeing to the capital kabul desperate to find a way out of the country. This surge defied all predictions forcing reassess. They try to figure out what could happen next for a look at the possibilities we're joined by. Npr national security correspondent. Greg mary hi greg i don. I don. What's happening today. The taliban claimed another big prize on the battlefield today. They seize the important northern city of mazaar-i-sharif. This was one of the last big cities. The government had the taliban now control virtually all the northern southern and western parts of afghanistan The associated press is reporting. The taliban appear to be within ten miles of kabul president. Ashraf ghani Just has the capital and some other parts of eastern afghanistan. He gave a recorded speech. That was televised. He said he would prevent further instability. Hard to imagine that that would reassure anyone. there's no sign that government is capable of stopping this taleban surge. So given. what options does the government have. They are shrinking by the day. They can rally and put up a fight to defend kabul. They do have resources. But it's it's really not clear that they have the will they could try to negotiate with the taliban but power-sharing isn't realistic right now it would be more. Perhaps about the terms of surrender which has happened in other cities in recent days and a third possibility is just a total collapse at the government and the troops will will simply flee. What at the other thing. I don't understand but maybe get to it. Why is the military industrial complex allowing this pullout. Is this the non pullout. Is that exactly what is going on here is. They're they're not gonna they're not gonna pull out all right. We have a lot of explaining to do the date put us. I mean the the pentagon the pentagon has got to have a lot of explaining to do because they wouldn't let anyone leave. And if you remember. I don't know if you remember this but this is about two or three years ago. He played a bunch of clips. They somebody went and did an investigation on on our involvement in afghanistan. They with the tape recorder and they record all these generals in their opinions and district. This is just before trump got elected when this took place and it was played during the trump administration. That's when general. Flynn was the one who kind of blew the whistle on this whole thing being a giant sparse. Big-money suck yeah. It was a big farce and he was the only general who came out and said so and come out and that was around the afghanistan papers. Yes that's right. That's if ghanistan pay which was showed just trillions of dollars going everywhere just farce the scam and was bad news and flynn was the only one who said it ever recorded saying it and that put a target on his back and you saw what happened to him but so there is. I believe there was a direct connection between what flynn had to say about afghanistan and what happened to flint. I wasn't wasn't a team player. No he was embarrassing everybody. Yeah you're not a team player. He's what happens to you and so he ended up getting screwed over and But this whole thing is a fiasco from the get go. It was a fiasco during their fiasco in bush didn't go. Bush didn't follow the lead of his dad of doing something quick and easy get in and get out. I mean that old man at least knew that much he got in and stayed in and then he got stuck in there in. This obama ran for presidency. If you remember we take it to the bank. As a matter of fact that he's going to get out never got out so bomb was in for eight years with biden and the never got out so what was that all about. So then trump gets his. We're getting out. And then they let him get out so he didn't get out either and so biden now gets us out and biden's already. I don't have a clip on. There was a bunch of new. You can hear him. Biden's blaming trump. So it's all trump's fault. The historical biden clip is the one. That's funny though you have it. I think i do actually yeah. President publicly silent about the taliban's accelerating takeover afghanistan privately consulting with the secretary of state and defense as well as national security adviser the rapidly deteriorating situation following the presence decision to withdraw. Us troops from a war. He believes his lasted too long and cost too. Many lives sparking fierce criticism. Well it's a disgrace and it's a national humiliation. Didn't have to be this way. The president's aids today standing by his comments from just seventy two hours ago. We're going to continue to keep our commitment. But i do not regret my decision. But now you're questioning the execution of that plan. He owns this now completely. It isn't donald. Trump's afghan policy is still biden's rush to remove americans now drawing harrison's to the chaotic evacuation from vietnam more than forty five years ago despite the president's promise otherwise there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the united states from afghanistan. Still for those who served and sacrificed disbelief and sadness. I'm really upset angry with with what's going on right now. Retired army ranger comment. So what i'd like to ask you for we continue is that moment the The withdrawal was it's like saigon. was that the. The embassy were the helicopter on saigon. Yeah you are older. Than i was then. So what was that like. Was it a feeling of defeat was similar to now is at the same. Like what the hell did we do. I don't think that the american public ever saw any of these things as defeat. I believe because i. I think i can reflect this. I think the american public saw these things as fiascos. They never went into the war seriously. They were always police actions. And we got rousted. Because we just we didn't have a heart wasn't in it if you really if our heart was in it were dropped bombs on these people. But it was just like a fiasco the same thing with the korean war of fiasco. This was a fiasco. This is a fiasco. Iraq was a these are fiascos run by our military and intelligence zero and intelligence at our intelligence agencies. Squandering money baby doing a favor. We don't know 'cause they always like to say well you. If you only knew won't be so happy proven you'd be happy and you'd be say. Wow you guys are the best But instead is a lot of money squandered. And and i probably wouldn't be happy if someone would finely somehow audit the pentagon and see where this money is going It's not gonna happen. We had.
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"ashraf ghani" Discussed on No Agenda
"You wanna do. Ghana stan yeah. Let's do afghanistan. i only have to touch. But they're pretty I have a couple. I got a coupla. have I have afganistan rundown. But let's do the rap which i think is best. This is on npr. This is actually cut you. Three clips got a taliban rap. Npr and then to and then. Then they're little connection to china which is beginning to become a huge humiliation for china. I think if people get kluber. Let's start with taliban taliban rat by in recent days. The taliban have captured huge territory in afghanistan including many of the country's largest and most important cities president biden issued a statement reaffirming his decision for a us withdrawal and explaining the steps. He has taken but the situation is dire. The un estimates that since may nearly a quarter of a million people have been forced from their homes due to the conflict and there are reports of afghans fleeing to the capital kabul desperate to find a way out of the country. This surge defied all predictions forcing reassess. They try to figure out what could happen next for a look at the possibilities we're joined by. Npr national security correspondent. Greg mary hi greg i don. I don. What's happening today. The taliban claimed another big prize on the battlefield today. They seize the important northern city of mazaar-i-sharif. This was one of the last big cities. The government had the taliban now control virtually all the northern southern and western parts of afghanistan The associated press is reporting. The taliban appear to be within ten miles of kabul president. Ashraf ghani Just has the capital in some other parts of eastern afghanistan. He gave a recorded speech. That was televised. He said he would prevent further instability. Hard to imagine that that would reassure anyone. there's no sign that government is capable of stopping this taleban surge. So given. what options does the government have. They are shrinking by the day. They can rally and put up a fight to defend kabul. They do have resources. But it's it's really not clear that they have the will they could try to negotiate with the taliban but power-sharing isn't realistic right now it would be more. Perhaps about the terms of surrender which has happened in other cities in recent days and a third possibility is just a total collapse at the government and the troops will will simply flee. What at the other thing. I don't understand but maybe get to it. Why is the military industrial complex allowing this pullout. Is this the non pullout. Is that exactly what is going on here is. They're they're not gonna they're not gonna pull out all right. We have a lot of explaining to do the date put us. I mean the the pentagon the pentagon has got to have a lot of explaining to do because they wouldn't let anyone leave. And if you remember. I don't know if you remember this but this is about two or three years ago. He played a bunch of clips. They somebody went and did an investigation on on our involvement in afghanistan. They with the tape recorder and they record all these generals in their opinions and district. This is just before trump got elected when this took place and it was played during the trump administration. That's when general. Flynn was the one who kind of blew the whistle on this whole thing being a giant sparse. Big money suck. Yeah it was a big farce. And he was the only general who came out and said so and come out and that was around the afghanistan papers. Yes that's right. That's if ghanistan pay which was showed just trillions of dollars going everywhere just farce the scam and was bad news and flynn was the only one who said it ever recorded saying it and that put a target on his back and you saw what happened to him but so there is. I believe there was a direct connection between what flynn had to say about afghanistan and what happened to flint. I wasn't wasn't a team player. No he was embarrassing everybody. Yeah you're not a team player. He's what happens to you and so he ended up getting screwed over and But this whole thing is a fiasco from the get go. It was a fiasco during their fiasco in bush didn't go. Bush didn't follow the lead of his dad of doing something quick and easy get in and get out. I mean that old man at least knew that much he got in and stayed in and then he got stuck in there in. This obama ran for presidency. If you remember we take it to the bank. As a matter of fact that he's going to get out never got out. So obama was in for eight years with biden and the never got out. So what was that all about. So then trump gets his. We're getting out. And then they let him get out so he didn't get out either and so biden now gets us out and biden's already. I don't have a clip on. There was a bunch of new. You can hear him. Biden's blaming trump. So it's all trump's fault. The historical biden clip is the one. That's funny though you have it. I think i do. Actually yeah president. I publicly silent about the taliban's accelerating takeover afghanistan privately consulting with the secretary of state and defense as well as national security adviser the rapidly deteriorating situation following the presence decision to withdraw. Us troops from a war. He believes his lasted too long and cost too. Many lives sparking fierce criticism. Well it's a disgrace and it's a national humiliation. Didn't have to be this way. The president's aids today standing by his comments from just seventy two hours ago. We're going to continue to keep our commitment. But i do not regret my decision. But now you're questioning the execution of that plan. He owns this now completely. It isn't donald. Trump's afghan policy is still biden's rush to remove americans now drawing harrison's to the chaotic. Us evacuation from vietnam more than forty five years ago despite the president's promise otherwise there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the united states from afghanistan still for those who served and sacrificed disbelief and sadness. I'm really upset angry with with what's going on right now. Retired army ranger comment. So what i'd like to ask you for we continue is that moment the The withdrawal was it's like saigon. was that the. The embassy were the helicopter on saigon. Yeah yeah you are older than i was then. So what was that like. Was it a feeling of defeat was similar to now is at the same. Like what the hell did we do. I don't think that the american public ever saw any of these things as defeat. I believe because. I think i can reflect this. I think the american public saw these things as fiascos. They never went into the war seriously. They were always police actions. And we got rousted. Because we just we didn't have a heart wasn't in it if you really if our heart was in it were dropped bombs on these people. But it was just like a fiasco the same thing with the korean war of fiasco. This was a fiasco. This is a fiasco. Iraq was a these are fiascos run by our military and intelligence zero and intelligence at our intelligence agencies. Squandering money baby doing a favor. We don't know 'cause they always like to say well you. If you only knew won't be so happy proven you'd be happy and you'd be say. Wow you guys are the best But instead is a lot of money squandered. And and i probably wouldn't be happy if someone would finely somehow audit the pentagon and see where this money is going It's not gonna happen. We had.
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Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul
"As the Taliban into the Afghan capital U. S. officials say the international airport has been closed to commercial flights as minute tree evacuations continue the suspension of commercial flights cuts off one of the last options for Afghans trying to flee from Taliban rule meanwhile Afghanistan's embattled president Ashraf Ghani was one of the lucky ones he managed to flee alongside other Afghans and foreigners the president's departure signals the end of a twenty year Weston experiments aimed at remaking Afghanistan the Taliban said it would soon announce the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace I'm Karen Thomas
Kim Komando
Haiti Earthquake: At Least 700 People Dead, More Than 2,800 Injured
"Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The number of confirmed dead from yesterday's massive earthquake in Haiti has risen sharply to more than 700. Haiti's Office of Civil Protection says the 7.2 magnitude quake also injured at least 2800. The U. S and
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Pope Francis Calls for Peace in Afghanistan
"The pope's prayers come as a Taliban enters Kabul, the Afghan capital, and is negotiating a takeover of the government. Taliban official says the group will soon declare the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace right in the capital that was the name of the country under the Taliban government ousted by US led forces after the 9 11 terrorist attacks Now the official did speak on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief media. Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has left the country. Meanwhile, Pope Francis also says his hope here is that the din of weapons ends and solutions can be found around a table of dialogue. The Department of
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Afghan official says Taliban negotiators heading to presidential palace
"Are said to be at the presidential palace in Kabul today seeking the unconditional surrender of the central government. Afghan officials say the president Ashraf Ghani, has left the country. Meanwhile, helicopters buzzed overhead to evacuate personnel from the U. S embassy. While smoke rose near the compound. Staff destroyed important documents can watch White
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Afghan president: 'Consultations' ongoing amid Taliban blitz
"Afghanistan's president says he will not give up the achievements of the last twenty years as Taliban fighters have seized mates of northwest and southern Afghanistan in a televised address to the nation president Ashraf Ghani said it is my historical responsibility to try to prevent this and paste will took by the cools the killing of innocent people and the loss of your achievements of the past twenty years the address comes as the Taliban seize the province to some kind of self capital insurgents have also launched a multi pronged assault on the major city of Mazar I. Sharif in the north defended by powerful former warlords Mazar I. Sharif president calabash ARATS says the security situation in the city for a few months back as a young person he's been living here for eight years I want peace and stability I think should be done the Taliban's breakneck offensive comes less than three weeks before the United States is set to withdraw its last troops I'm Karen Thomas
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Taliban Take Afghanistan's Third-Largest City in Onslaught
"The taliban seized three more afghan provincial capitals and the local army headquarters on wednesday completing a blitz across the country's northeast and giving them control of two-thirds of the nation as the us nato finalized their withdrawal after decades of war the fall of the capitals of badakhstan bank land and farrah provinces put increasing pressure on the country's central government to send the tide of the advance even as it lost a major base in kunduz president ashraf ghani rushed to balkh province already surrounded by taliban held territory to seek help from warlords many links to allegations of atrocities and corruption in pushing back the insurgents he'll say replaced his army chief of staff while the capital of kabul itself has not been directly. Threatened me advance the stunning speed of the offensive racist questions of how long the afghan government can maintain control of the slivers of the country. It has left. The government's may eventually be forced to pull back to defend the capital and just a few other cities the success at the taliban offensive also calls into question whether they would ever rejoin long. Stalled peace talks in qatar aimed at moving afghanistan toward an inclusive interim administration as the west hoped instead. The taliban could come to power by force or the country could splinter into factional fighting like it did after the soviet withdrawal in nineteen thousand nine. The multiple battlefronts have stretched the government special operations forces while regular troops have often fled the battlefield and the violence is push thousands of civilians to seek safety in the capitol the us military which plans to complete its withdrawal by the end of the month because conducted some s strikes but has largely avoided involving itself in the ground campaign.
Morning Edition
Afghanistan Government Reaches out to Former Warlords to Defend the North
"President, Ashraf Ghani landed in Mazar e Sharif in the country's north to rally troops attempting to beat back out Taliban offensive. Ghani has been meeting with local leaders and former warlords during his visit. The BBC's on bar Asan at Ruth and John has more As the Taliban continue their advance. The Afghan president is reaching out to former warlords to defend the not previously a stronghold of anti Taliban militia 40 years, Mr Ghani tried to sideline the warlords in an attempt to boost the Afghan National Army now is turning to them in this hour of need. Earlier this week, he also agreed to armed pro government militia. The loss of Missouri Sharif would be a significant blow for Kabul in yet another blow for the government reports that several soldiers were drawn from Kunduz city to the airport outside have surrendered to the militants following a sustained onslaught.
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"ashraf ghani" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"As several council members are looking to scoop up the big chair on the fifth floor at City Hall. Counselor Andreia Campbell, a candidate has been the most vocal saying in a statement. Your Janey's budget doesn't rise to the urgency of the moment, setting issues that mass and cast and police reform. There were accusations of the mayor being exclusionary. Janey, telling reporters she has reached out to the council, 12 were invited for a face to face 11 of 12 took up that invitation. Invitations remain open and again beyond June, 30th the mayor's proposed budget. Is $3.76 billion. With the mayor in Boston. Karen Regal WBZ Boston's NewsRadio president. Biden welcomes Afghan's president Ashraf Ghani to the White House today as the last of the U. S. Troops in Afghanistan are about to hit the road. And now a possible humanitarian crisis awaits about 20,000. Afghans who worked with US troops during America's longest war are looking for sanctuary. Correspondent Mike Lyons, former Army major joined us earlier this morning. He highlights just how important it is to get this withdrawal rights. We really have to make this happen and again. We'll repeat history if we don't do this, and those individuals if they're left in Afghanistan will likely be rounded up put in jail by the Taliban if they do take over, But we've got to get them to go on. Get them to safe places outside of the country. They've got to be physically out of there. While The US goes through its process of making them U. S citizens. Eventually, it's an important mission. I'm glad yet of the Biden administration has realized the importance of this is going to work this very, very diligently. It is important to note that while these Afghans will be moved to third countries and awaiting visas, it is not a guarantee that those visas will come through. Well locally. This guy's got some skills basketball player here in Boston. Greater Boston goes viral on video and his moves get picked up by ESPN. In fact, he wipes the floor going up against our own Matt Shearer. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't block Matt Thompson. Not only does he have a great shot, he's got some ridiculous movies like Harlem Globetrotter stuff. You gotta go for it if the opportunity is there I take it. It's frustrating as it may be to play against Mack. He is something else to watch. With Hundreds of thousands of followers on Tiktok, the Brockton native is more Internet famous than most NBA players. Had Samuel Jackson, follow me. Whatever I did, I'm gonna keep doing that. But nobody is a bigger fan than his six year old daughter. I played in a tournament and we won and I got a trophy for it. And she was like, Dad, you're on the trophy because you're the best shooter, and it was like certain things like that just melt my heart. His lesson for her is the same one He has for you and me. Just go out there have fun and enjoy.
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"ashraf ghani" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Worshipers had stayed in Al Aksa ready, they said to defend their mosque because hundreds of Jewish activists had planned to enter the compound, which is holy to Muslims and Jews. Emergency legislation has taken effect in the United States to keep fuel supplies flowing. After cybercriminals targeted the country's largest pipeline Colonial It carries nearly half the fuel supplies of the U. S East Coast. Planned trip to Japan by the head of the International Olympic Committee. Thomas Bug to review Preparations for this summer's games has been postponed because of the coronavirus Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Tokyo has more details. Thomas Bach was planning to arrive in Japan in time to see the Olympic flame carried through the city of Hiroshima, past the city's famous atomic bomb dome. Officials have now decided that is a bad idea. Japan is in the midst of 1/4 surgeon covert infections under pressure in parliament today, Prime Minister Yoshihide a Sucker said he is not putting the Olympics first and that his priority is stopping the spread of the virus. He continued to insist that the International Olympic Committee has the final say on whether the games should go ahead. The Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani has ordered government forces to match a three day cease fire announced by the Taliban to mark the festivities at the end of Ramadan. He also called for a permanent truce and a return to peace talks. His second Kamani With fighting flaring over the past week. Any respect from the violence will be welcome. But the country is still reeling from the terrible attack on female pupils at the school in Kabul, the Islamic state group is likely to be responsible for that. The Taliban behind most of the bloodshed elsewhere in the country. Officials have blamed them for the two recent roadside bombings, which struck the passenger bus is This is that the time the Taliban have announced a brief ceasefire for he'd put on each previous occasion. Fighting has resumed shortly afterwards. Secunda Kamani reporting..