i've spoken with our nato allies. we've spoken with nato allies, the secretary state or national security via he's been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world. and our allies, as has the general r c b, i keep calling them in general, but my secretary defense the fact of the matter is i have not seen that matter of fact the exact opposite i've got. now donald trump has said that this is the greatest strategic error in u. s. history. he called it capitulation. donald trump has said that joe biden owes america an apology. the world is now looking on and watching the scenes and cobble the white house is certainly under quite a bit of fire. joe biden's, whole numbers are dropping. many are looking on the situation and afghanistan and saying that the united states seems to have pretty much dropped the ball here. caliber in reporting that will washington's allies are also counting the cost of events after their 20 year campaign in afghanistan. the simon right now explains betrayed, abandoned latin fend for the

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yes, it's important to know to a subtle difference and approached by nato. we heard that from the secretary general, and what president biden said in justifying his decision to continue with the withdraw. president biden said, didn't acknowledging the fact that his administration was taken aback by the speed of the taliban at bonds. he also made very clear his belief that the mission of gun this done was one of narrow focus. it was not primarily about nation building, it was about destroying a terrorist threat to the united states. that mission, president biden says, has been accomplished. he's no longer prepared to preside over yet another us will the president to do so. and he insist if he will be the last but president by didn't, insisting that there was a failure by the can force is also a failure of political leadership. now what is happening at the moment is that the department of defense says confirm that there are at least 3 us spaces being set up to start coping with the afghans who worked for us forces within afghanistan to process them in the unit

we land on the nato control side at the airport. the situation is calm, far removed from the chaos outside the perimeter. fence controlled by the taliban. long lines of africans wait in single file to bold the plains. these are some of the 10s of thousands of people try to flee. cobble today we arrived here, i suppose about half an hour ago. they're all for military. i crawl civil chinese the loading up with people so they are too afraid to remain in this country. i think this is divine williams by the city that i fall off the city that gave me the time to be i think there's a lot of raw emotion. these are really emotion. i live, find a lot of memory and contradictions. a lot of been a lot of suffering, but yet cobble gave us a threat and somehow what you're seeing here, a rain rain. this is the mother being forced beneath all of the navy act like it's all about of course have said that they will be no reprisals against people who've worked with oversees all was the media organizations for their family members speak to people if the

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he made a unilateral decision, he did not consult with nato allies. he said, i'm going to do this, and i'm sorry, i'm going to have to disagree it on the vietnam analogy as well. president ford did not unilaterally decide to withdraw us troops from afghanistan. us troops withdrew 2 years before this, the fall of saigon. what happened was, the u. s. was committed providing logistic, a congress passed a law that said that won't happen. i refer you to the louis sorely book, a better war for the details on that. so what you had here was a different situation entirely. how to unilateral decision by the president, which i think history will show in the fullness of time, did not consult with. and he, cutty, in the career oxy and the kindergarten the state farm. it's because he was worried that he would get rolled as happened in 2000 and made a unilateral decisions without consulting with allies, that created a condition that just snowball beyond any recognition. but that being said, nobody expected it to happen this quickly. and i don't really fault him for

it is being called the worst the buckle in nato's history. the fall of afghanistan to the taliban, turning out to be the biggest crisis of jo biden's presidency. so far he's facing criticism from us politicians and afghan veterans, they say the ultimate beneficiary of the billions of dollars spent on afghan forces is the taller bond. the u. s. president is adamant he made the right decision and blamed the afghan government and military for not being willing to fight for themselves. we have a lot to discuss with our guest, surely before us this report from she advocacy in washington. joe biden attempted to keep public opinion focused on a promise kept up to 20 years. the u. s. was finally leaving f honest on i stand squarely behind my decision. after 20 years, i've learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw us forces. but neither the president or any administration official has been able to address the chaotic matter of that withdrawal. despite biden's proclamation that the buck stopped with him, he lashed out both of th

i've spoken with our nato allies. we've spoken with nato allies, the secretary state, or national security via he's been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world. and our allies, as has the general or excuse me, i keep calling him in general, but my secretary defense the fact of the matter is i have not seen that matter. fact the exact opposite i've got. now donald trump has said that this is the greatest strategic error in us history. he called it capitulation. donald trump has said that joe biden owes america an apology. the world is now looking on and watching the scenes in cobble. the white house is certainly under quite a bit of fire. jo biden's poll numbers are dropping. many are looking on the situation and afghan stan and saying that the united states seems to have pretty much dropped the ball here. yes, not an issue that is not going away anytime soon for president biden. caleb opened there. thanks for that late this up, that will be all going into a short break now join us again in a few on his

he made a unilateral decision, he did not consult with nato allies. he said, i'm going to do this, and i'm sorry, i'm going to have to disagree it on the vietnam analogy as well. president ford did not unilaterally decide to withdraw us troops from afghanistan. us troops withdrew 2 years before this, the fall of saigon. what happened was, the u. s. was committed providing logistic, a congress passed a law that said that won't happen. i refer you to the louis sorely book, a better war for the details on that. so what you had here was a different situation entirely. how to unilateral decision by the president, which i think history will show in the fullness of time, did not consult with. and he, cutty, in the career oxy and the kindergarten the state farm. it's because he was worried that he would get rolled as happened in 2000 and not made a unilateral decisions without consulting with allies. that created a condition that just snowball beyond any recognition. but that being said, nobody expected to happen this quickly. and i don't really fault him for

and nato and western european countries like in libya and syria. and i've had, you know, disastrous consequences. so, one would hope this might situation f canister might be a wake up call. you know, these military interventions don't work affectively and cause a lot of hardship and sufferings for the population of these countries who have to solve their own internal political problems. most international legal scholars have the war and afghans dance was illegal because the taliban never directly sent 911 hijackers to bomb the trade center. and there are no legal basis for that war. so the swift advancement made by the taliban is a failure of the afghan forces. i mean is that kind of tone deaf and simply just punting responsibility. the us cannot and should not try to deflect blame for what's happened there at the end of the day. we are the ones who invaded that country. we're the ones who over through the government there and replaced it with, with our own. and so when we suddenly decide to leave and everything goes to crap, we're ultimately respo

i've spoken with our nato allies spoken with nato allies, the secretary state or national security via he's been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world. and our allies, as has the general r b, i keep calling them in general, but my secretary defense, the fact of the matter is i have not seen a matter of fact the exact opposite. i've got, this is about america leading the world and all our allies have agreed with that. the seemingly out to lunch attitude and utter fiasco that took place under the current administration has drawn criticism from not just biden's rivals, but from fellow party members as well. i'm disappointed that the button administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid us withdrawal. the images we saw coming out of august on show a tremendous humanitarian crisis. this is going to hurt us. no question about it. i think of janice town, his last, every terrorist around the world is cheering. they have watched the taliban defeat america. in effect, president buttons, poor judgment produced the worst possible outcome in afghanistan

he made a unilateral decision, he did not consult with nato allies. he said, i'm going to do this, and i'm sorry, i'm going to have to disagree it on the vietnam analogy as well. president ford did not unilaterally decide to withdraw us troops from afghanistan. us troops withdrew 2 years before this, the fall of saigon. what happened was, the u. s. was committed providing logistic, a congress passed a law that said that won't happen. i refer you to the louis sorely book, a better war for the details on that. so what you had here was a different situation entirely. how to unilateral decision by the president, which i think history will show in the fullness of time, did not consult with. and he, cutty, in the career oxy and the pentagon, the state farm, it's because he was worried that he would get rolled as happened in 2000. and he made a unilateral decisions without consulting with allies that created a condition that just snowball beyond any recognition. but that being said, nobody expected to happen this quickly, and i don't really fault him for bei

this is difficult for nato. that is the reason why we need to be honest and be clear eyed and also ask hard questions about what are the lessons learned. >> stoltenberg primarily blames the afghan government and armed forces for failing to repel the -- the telephone advance. others say there is plenty of responsibility to go alone starting with the west's intentions to change afghanistan. neither the united needs designated states nor nato afghanistan well enough when we were setting these goals. things like the geography, the demographics, the history, the economy of afghanistan. coco they retired -- >> doug lute is a retired u.s. general as well as an ambassador to nato. he says one big mistake the military alliance made ironically was its focus on the military fight. >> afghanistan collapsed, our government and afghanistan collapsed not becausef military failu where w could put all this focus but because of politics. we over militarized our approach to afghanistan. two others will be drawing conclusions from

i've spoken with our nato allies. we spoken with nato allies, the secretary state or national security via he's been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world. and our allies, as has the general or excuse me, i keep calling them in general, but my secretary of defense. the fact of the matter is i have not seen the matter of fact the exact opposite. i've got, this is about america leading the world and all our allies have agreed with that. the seemingly out to lunch attitude and utter fiasco that took place under the current administration has drawn criticism from not just biden's rivals, but from fellow party members as well. i am disappointed that the button administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid us withdrawal. the images we saw coming out of of going to start show a tremendous humanitarian crisis. this is going to hurt us. no question about it. i think of janice town, his last, every terrorist around the world is cheering. they have watched the taliban defeat america

i would like to ask about nato rule in afghanistan. nato is not only u.s.. don't you think the decision that you or nato took, it was wrong? how do you respond to that? when we saw the situation -- as an afghan woman, you see the situation -- there are thousands of women who don't know what is going on and what will happen to them. they always ask what it means in 20 years. nato and international communities. we are going back 20 years after we were in that place. i would like to ask how that is possible. the u.s. and the eu with their work of fascism and imperialism. after the second world war, the nato -- nato and the european union with all this vague intelligence. they are never able to defend it. how do you see the future? i would like to ask as a woman, please don't recognize the emirate islamic taliban without any conditions. please don't recognize the taliban and put us in the same situation, thank you very much. >> it was extremely difficult to make the decision to and the nato military presence in afghanistan. i share your pain, i understand your f

that were common date from the a, the afghan national army, and us and nato forces. but some expert saying a lot of these weapons of also colon into the hands of i. so now the pentagon said that there has been cooperation between us and nato forces and the taliban during this evacuation operation. and the taliban has said that he will not allow either homegrown or foreign terror organizations to use this country as a base to attack foreign countries or course target inside afghanistan. but there are questions being asked as to whether that level of cooperation between the u. s. and the taliban that we've seen during this evacuation right evacuation operation will continue once nato forces leave. but one thing is for sure that it is in both the us nato countries and the taliban interest to prevent an organization that not re presents a threat to this country. but the world shall stratford the inside story trouble. so what do we know about? i saw horse and also known as ice. ok, that's claimed responsibility for the attacks. while the arm group was formed in 2014 by br

we land on the nato control side at the airport. the situation is calm, fall removed from the chaos outside the perimeter. fence controlled by the taliban . long lines of africans wait in single file to bold the plains. these are some of the 10s of thousands of people try to flee. cobble today we arrived here, i suppose about half an hour ago. they're all for military. i call civil chinese the loading up with people. so they are too afraid to remain in this country. i think this is devastating. will you find the city that i fall off the city that gave me the chance to be why? i think there's a lot of roy emotion. these are really emotion. i live line a lot of memory and contradictions. a lot of been a lot of suffering, but yet cobble given the threat somehow. and that's what you're seeing here in rain rain. this is the prima, the crop being forced beneath all about maybe the act like it's all about, of course have said that they will be no reprisals against people who've worked with policies or what's the media organizations for the

ready enough time there is lively, severe society and all these nato involvement success. all this is of course is he, paul chrissy. it's, it's page, it was for 4 years of painted a picture which is not in line with reality, which we can see, you know, i think we should take and bring refugees who are in fear of life. but at the same time, i think it's necessary to really talk to the real power in afghanistan taliban to go to negotiations to negotiations as well. concerning the refugees and not to break all diplomatic ties. processes gathered in london on wednesday condemning the u. k . government response to events in afghanistan, cooling for those still starting to be brought to the u. k as quickly as possible. the foreign secretary dominic rob sees criticism in the media. that's after it was reported. ask on interpreters with british troops missed being evacuated from campbell because the politician was too busy to agree to move while he was away on holiday has come. ministers refused to talk to a junior minister and delayed the cold. by which time the taliban swept int

to get staff out, staff from nato allied countries, but also afghans who supported nato and nato allies over all of these years. we are working hard on that, 24/7. we have seen some dramatic stuff, but also some locally employed afghans have been evacuated out of afghanistan. we are working to speed that up to get more planes in and out with people leaving. then, some nato allies have also stated that they will not only focus on and provide support to those afghans who have worked for us over all of these years, but other afghans who are vulnerable were in a difficult position. we have seen public announcements by several nato allies, but the precondition for getting also these other afghans out is of course to have the airport up and running and we have no many nato allies helping to ensure exactly that. we have the united states, they are deploying more troops. we have turkey, who has been there for many years. we have norway running the hospital at the airport. the united kingdom and other allies are helping and supporting. during the meeting of the north atlantic council today, seve

nato was not consulted. the nato secretary-general was surprised. >> jack kingston, it is your view if we go back way before biden and trump and back to the bush administration in 2001 after the taliban fell 20 years ago? there are those who say the campaign was lost a long time ago going back as far as that because of the approach the united states took to all of this. what do you say to that? >> i think once we were there with the idea of we need to fight the war against terrorism on their territory not in the united states, which is one of the themes george bush said over and over again, we needed to convince people that effort is succeeding. if you look at troop loss, in 2019, it was the third highest year since 2013. 2013, you lost about 100 troops. 2015, 54. 2000 19, 22. the reason why i am bringing that up is you had reasonable stability. you did not have huge battles, huge warfare and slaughter. there was a grind appeared am not saying it was good because of that. i'm saying american congress did not

and nato and western european countries like libyan syria. and i've had, you know, disastrous consequences. so, one would hope this might situation f canister might be a wake up call. you know, these military interventions don't work affectively and cause a lot of hardship and suffering for the population of these countries will have to solve their own internal political problems. most international lead scholar, believe the war in afghanistan was illegal because the taliban never directly sent 911 hijackers to bomb the trade center. and there are no legal basis for that war. so the swift advancement made by the taliban is a failure of the afghan forces. i mean is that kind of tone deaf and simply just punting responsibility. the us cannot and should not try to deflect blame for what's happened there at the end of the day. we are the ones who invaded that country. we're the ones who over through the government there and replaced it with, with our own. and so when we suddenly decide to leave and everything goes to crap, we're ultimately respon

america and nato, it is also to appeal— america and nato, it is also to appeal to _ america and nato, it is also to appeal to russia _ america and nato, it is also to appeal to russia and - america and nato, it is also to appeal to russia and china. i america and nato, it is also to- appeal to russia and china. russia and china — appeal to russia and china. russia and china both _ appeal to russia and china. russia and china both have _ appeal to russia and china. russia and china both have their- appeal to russia and china. russial and china both have their problems with istamic— and china both have their problems with islamic minorities _ and china both have their problems with islamic minorities and - and china both have their problems with islamic minorities and the - with islamic minorities and the taiiban— with islamic minorities and the taliban are _ with islamic minorities and the taliban are politically- with islamic minorities and the - taliban are politically manipulative and sophisticated _ taliban are politically manipulative and sophisticated enough- taliban are po

, or nato decided to take on the mission. so i'm sure that you know, people spinning it negative would give me personally a great degree of culpability. but look, what we saw was we never fully addressed corruption within the afghan government. and what we've seen here is not a military defeat. we've seen us failure of morale, a collapse of government, where forces decided not to fight because they had no confidence in their leaders. so really what it shows it's difficult for them when they rely on us air power and not us air power. 5 is pulled out from under them. well they, there was an effort. there are significant if you look at the satellite, those of our sri, there's a lot of aircrafts that just stay static and who are defended. but yeah, i take your point. what we're seeing is this idea that you can build a modern military without having a corresponding civilian government and the like painting over russ. i mean we, we had a civilian government that was fundamentally corrupted, tribal. we tried to build a modern milita

i've spoken with our nato allies who spoken with nato allies, the secretary state or national security via has been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world. and our allies, as has the general are for me, i keep calling them in general, but my secretary defense the fact of the matter is i have not seen that matter of fact the exact opposite. i've got the exact opposite. these were acting with dispatch. we're acting, committing to what we said we would do. look, let's put this thing in perspective here. what interest do we have in afghanistan? at this point, with a kinder guy, we went to afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al qaeda in afghanistan, as well as, as well as getting you know, some a lot. and we did imagine, just imagine if that attack, if been loudon had decided without kind to launch an attack from yemen. would we ever gone to i can stand with there every, any reason we be that can stand control by the taliban. what is a national interest states in that circumstance? we went and did the mission. you know, my position for a long, long time. it'

since the taliban takeover of gun it's done, nato forces have been scrambling to get out of the country, trying to make sure the same time they leave behind nothing of value for the militants. and i'm of nato bases in helmand province were left abandoned by foreign forces though they 1st destroyed buildings, vehicles and equipment taliban fighters, the since moved in to see control of those side. but the crisis dominating debates in america the by the ministrations found itself in an awkward position. not just because of the intense criticism it faces, but because it seems unable to decide what relations with the taliban should now be used on of exploits of ghana stern is teetering on the brink of a security collapse and washington which brought the country to the edge is busy figuring out if it has any friends left in the taliban controlled country. the television is not what they are, not a group. we trust they are not our friends. that message is clear enough, but only until you hear this and we're doing everything we can to be prepared for those attacks that includes reaching out to

, and nato has been in an existential crisis ever since the cold war ended. it was devised, if we all remember, as an adversary to the soviet bloc and the communisty bloc, and when communism collapsed and there was no more soviet union to oppose, the obvious question is what is nato for? and within ten years of communism collapsing, we had 9/11 and the rise of islamist terrorism, and so nato became, basically, a counterterrorism outfit, and that was its impetus, that was its raison d'etre. so that's why biden can say the reason that we were able to pull out of afghanistan t,hat we wanted to pull out of afghanistan was that we felt we had solved the terrorism problem in afghanistan. we killed bin laden, we'd got rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan, so if we could get out, that got nothing almost to do with the original conception of nato, which was to act not only as a military adversary, but as an ideological adversary to the soviet union. and now we seem to be in his peculiar vacuum where there is an entirely new global dynamic, and it's not ideological at all, i

if all had warnings from nato countries and the taliban, not an attack was eminent. president joe biden has found to strike back at those responsible. let's go straight away to correspond child stratford, who's standing by there in couple. charles, what's the latest? well, yes, the restarting of the evacuation has begun. we've seen a number of planes taking off from the airport from our position here. also earlier reporting that the numbers were smaller than yesterday, that is now changed quite dramatically. certainly around the eastern gate, we see pictures of thousands of people scrambling up against the wall as still desperate to get all these few remaining planes. meanwhile, the security situation down there, so the talk about and saying is, is, is much improved. we know that they put more resources into it today, a lot of finger pointing we saw yesterday between the americans and the child about who was responsible for letting the suicide attack as suicide bombers into the crowds. it's all about saying now that they are going to buy and watch towers not only around the airport here

since that's all about and take over all of us, honest on a nato forces have been scrambling to get out of the country, trying to make sure at the same time believe nothing of any value for the militants . a number of nato bases and helman province were left abandoned by foreign forces, though they 1st destroyed buildings in vehicles and equipment. taliban fighters have since moved in to seize control of these sites. with the afghan crisis dominating debate in america, the biden administration has started self in a rather awkward spot. not just because of the intense criticism it faces, but because it seems unable to decide what its relationship with a taliban now ought to be. eager to turn off takes a closer look of ghana stern is teetering on the brink of a security collapse and washington which brought the country to the edge, is busy figuring out if it has any friends left in the taliban controlled country. the television is not what they are, not a group. we trust they are not our friends. that message is clear enough, but only until you hear this and we're doing everything we can

nato whojoe biden has not because it — really nato whojoe biden has not because it was nato after all following the collapse of the twin towers _ following the collapse of the twin towers back in 2001 that evoked article _ towers back in 2001 that evoked article five and did go shoulder to shoulder— article five and did go shoulder to shoulder with the us to sacrifice blood _ shoulder with the us to sacrifice blood and — shoulder with the us to sacrifice blood and treasure in this pursuit. so they're — blood and treasure in this pursuit. so they're right. it is woeful, it is shameful and it is very bad but unfortunately the taliban have been very clear that any extension beyond the 315t— very clear that any extension beyond the sist of _ very clear that any extension beyond the 315t of august will be regarded as a violation and we know that as head _ as a violation and we know that as head of— as a violation and we know that as head of the cia, the been having the meeting _ head of the cia, the been having the meeting yesterday with the cohead of the taliban. we don't know w

, and nato has been in an existential crisis ever since the cold war ended. it was devised, if we all remember, as an adversary to the soviet bloc and the communisty bloc, and when communism collapsed and there was no more soviet union to oppose, the obvious question is what is nato for? and within ten years of communism collapsing, we had 9/11 and the rise of islamist terrorism, and so nato became, basically, a counterterrorism outfit, and that was its impetus, that was its raison d'etre. so that's why biden can say the reason that we were able to pull out of afghanistan, that we wanted to pull out of afghanistan, was that we felt we had solved the terrorism problem in afghanistan. we killed bin laden, we'd got rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan, so if we could get out, that's got nothing almost to do with the original conception of nato, which was to act not only as a military adversary, but as an ideological adversary to the soviet union. and now we seem to be in this peculiar vacuum where there is an entirely new global dynamic, and it's not ideological at al

her tension is growing between russia and nato in europe. after a series of incidents between the military forces. moscow says nato spy planes have stepped up. attempts to gather intelligence in the black sea region. andrew simmons spend a day with british war force, a pilot station in the romanian coastal city of constantia. ah, they call them q r a's quick reaction alerts from the physical sprint to the thrust of take all within minutes. these nato fighter jets can intercept or track russian warplanes is the latest incident, the top left of this cockpit, or russian fighter jet, intercepted of the romanian coastline. it's close with the room for mistakes. tens of meters would seem quite close to $21.00 that's on initiated since a relative procedures. it's totally normal. it's been set to in that range. but raffles, commanders, there's nothing normal about what's happening. probably in my senior since then we've had, i think anytime you fly inside a flight, information region of another country, not following the norms without flight plan, t

a number of nato basis in how much providence were left abandoned by the foreign forces that they 1st destroyed buildings, vehicles, and equipment. taliban fighters have since moved in to seize control. and besides, russia, special representative afghanistan says a political settlement and the country is feasible. taliban wants to form a new leadership which will include representatives of other ethno political forces if events develop. according to the scenario, there is a chance, a pretty good one. the restoring order enough janice done was the support of the international community with the afghan crisis dominating debate in the us. the biden administration is found itself in an awkward spot. not just because of the intense criticism it's facing, but because it seems unable to decide what its relations with the taliban now or to be as r t. c goes down of explains. of ghana stern is teetering on the brink of a security collapse. and washington, which brought the country to the edge, is busy figuring out if it has any friends left in the taliban controlled country. the television is

i not leashed off in one tablet, block nato, to it's our we move east. the reason us hedge emily, some dangerous is the last, the sovereignty of other countries. the exceptionalism that america uses in its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if need, what is founded, shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in larger companies would lose millions and millions more business and businesses good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fascist. americans love buying homes. ah, this is a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood the bargain. you get a whole and then you will rebel. right? that's the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. be really interesting to dial back and think about the longer deeper history of what housings meant in the united states. not just that old question of the american dream, but the bigger question of who the dream has been for the this is boom by someone business show you can't af

michael, george robinson who is nato's secretary i robinson who is nato's secretary general at the start of the century and who was the man who effectively convened the meeting that said we are going in because one country has been threatened and i nato member by the attacks on 9/11, so we are all frightened, so we alljoin in. he says he thinks the decision by america now has undermined the organisation and raises real question marks about its credibility and alliance. given what janet was saying there we are now entering a much more dangerous phase where there isn't a straightforward division and where we can't guarantee are rely on the people we thought we could rely on. the neck, that was for me. this is this thought we could rely on. the neck, that was for me. this is— that was for me. this is this is the roblem that was for me. this is this is the problem with _ that was for me. this is this is the problem with not _ that was for me. this is this is the problem with not being _ that was for me. this is this is the problem with not being in - that was for me. this is this is the pr

, and nato has been in an existential crisis ever since the cold war ended. it was devised, if we all remember, as an adversary to the soviet bloc and the communisty bloc, and when communism collapsed and there was no more soviet union to oppose, and within ten years of communism collapsing, we had 9/11 and the rise of islamist terrorism, and so nato became, basically, a counterterrorism outfit, and that was its impetus, that was its raison d'etre. so that's why biden can say the reason that we were able to pull out of afghanistan, that we wanted to pull out of afghanistan, was that we felt we had solved the terrorism problem in afghanistan. we killed bin laden, we'd got rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan, so if we could get out, that's got nothing almost to do with the original conception of nato, which was to act not only as a military adversary, but as an ideological adversary to the soviet union. and now we seem to be in this peculiar vacuum where there is an entirely new global dynamic, and it's not ideological at all, it's really crudely nationalist. the mo

but i think we come almost full circle from 20 years ago when nato went out of theater. by getting involved in afghanistan, i think it is now highly unlikely the us european alliance will now operate outside of europe in the same way. i don't think if the americans ask for europe to follow, say in the middle east, in central asia, or even against china, that they can necessarily count on getting a yes back from close allies with france and germany and from united kingdom it's dealing with its own shock or bribes and it's very much isolated in the world right now. ok, scotland gates, get your insights that thank you so much for joining us. only use our we appreciate it. thank you. and american air base in germany is being used as a transit points for afghan, a vacuum. he's hundreds to the rise at the ranch, dean air base from carter. it can hire is up to 5000 people and move the lights on respect suits. in the coming days, germany has been sending its own planes to evacuate citizen stock in afghanistan. columbia is one of more than a dozen countries have agreed to host af

i've spoken with our nato allies who spoken with nato allies, the secretary state or national security via has been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world. and our allies, as has the general r b. i keep calling them in general, but my secretary defense. the fact of the matter is i have not seen a matter of fact the exact opposite. i've got. this is about america leading the world and all our allies have agreed with that. the seemingly out to lunch attitude and utter fiasco that took place under the current administration has drawn criticism from not just biden's rivals, but from fellow party members as well. i'm disappointed that the button administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid us withdrawal. the images we saw coming out of august on show a tremendous humanitarian crisis. this is going to hurt us. no question about it. i think of janice town, his last, every terrorist around the world is cheering. they have watched the taliban defeat america. in effect, president buttons, poor judgment produced the worst possible outcome in afghanis

and nato and western european countries like in libyan syria. and i've had, you know, disastrous consequences. so, one would hope this, my situation, f canister might be a wake up call. you know, these military interventions don't work affectively and cause a lot of hardship and suffering for the population of these countries who have to solve their own internal political problems. most international legal scholars, the war and afghans was illegal because the taliban never directly sent to 9 alone hijackers to bomb the trade center and there are no legal basis for that war. so the swift advancement made by the taliban is a failure of the afghan forces. i mean is that kind of tone deaf and simply just punting responsibility. the us cannot and should not try to deflect blame for what's happened there at the end of the day. we are the ones who invaded that country. we're the ones who over through the government there and replaced it with, with our own. and so when we suddenly decide to leave and everything goes to crap, we're ultimately responsible

a. nato pledge to accelerate the number of evacuations. he was president joe biden has been speaking about, thinks he's speaking about the situation. he has to evacuate all afghan to work alongside us forces. he says significant progress has been made in the so far but also growing fear for the safety of afghan. john, less german broadcast to deutsche about. i says, family member, one of its journalists, was shocked at the developments in haiti and the operators of southern haiti's only medical oxygen plants are appealing to help . after with severely damaged and last saturdays of quake, facility supply several hospitals, demand for oxygen has sold this month, driven by the cove in 1900 pandemic and casualties from the earthquake, which kills more than 2000 people. thousands more though are seriously injured. john hallman has this report now from a hospital and just a warning that view as might find some of these images here, disturbing the came across sun whose men the immaculate conception hospital in la k. his toes and sco were fracture

since that's all about take of all that kind of st on nato forces have been scrambling to get out of the country, trying to make sure the very same time. they leave nothing behind of any value for the military. a number of nato basis in the hellman province were abandoned by foreign forces, though they 1st destroyed a buildings, vehicles and equipment. taliban fighters have since quickly moved in to seize control of these sites. for the meantime, rushes a special representative for kindness on says a political settlement in the country is actually feasible. taliban wants to form a new leadership, which will include representatives of other ethno political forces if events develop. according to the scenario, there is a chance, a pretty good one, restoring order enough canister on was the support of the international community. with the whole, the afghan cries as dominating debate in america, the biden administration has found itself in a rather awkward spot. not just because of the intense criticism it is facing, but because it seems unable to decide what its relations to ship with a

an ignominious end to nato's 20 emission enough kind of stone. for the last european members which threatens a repeat of the refugee and flux, shook the e u countries in 2015. turn our report among nato allies in europe. there is a feeling of deja vu. the looming threat of an afghan exodus recalls the influx of more than a 1000000 refugees in 2015 most fleeing war in serious, many, even then from afghanistan, it was a movement of people that reverberated politically strengthening right wing support across the continent. the direst consequence of the taliban takeover of afghanistan for europe now, with the repeat, the distributed has shown that have given you stories, again, destabilization of afghanistan research causing irregular migration to europe. france, as i've said, has and will continue to do its duty for those who are most threatened. but afghans in times to come, will need to muster their strength, and europe cannot shoulder the consequences alone. cause for humanitarian corridors and a coordinated european response by the likes of emma

her conclusion, nato did not succeed in afghanistan. stuff i'm belong to. now we're given that car to can no longer carry out the tax against the united states. from again, is done as they did on the 11th of september, 2001. but everything that has followed hasn't been a successful and hasn't been achieved in the way we had planned. now you'll notice that merkel use the reference of 911, which is actually a little bit silly because it was saudis who were involved in the 911 plains. and at the same time the taliban is not the same as our kinder. but certainly here in france, the poetry at the moment is on evacuation, as it is within other european countries. and on monday we could see these flags gaping on the way with france, placing a power sheet, bringing home and evacuating both french citizens and africans who have been assisting the french government. meanwhile, the 1st batch of british trips arrived in cobble on site today to safeguard nationals and help relocate former town staff. $600.00 soldiers are expected in total of the european states have bee

that there is now a full democratic state enough time there is lively, civil society and all these nato involvement success. all this is, of course, is hypocrisy it's. it's page, it was for 4 years of painted a picture which is not in line with reality, which we can see, you know, i think we should take and bring refugees who are in fear of life. but at the same time, i think it's necessary to really talk to the real power in afghanistan, the taliban to go to negotiations to negotiations as well. concerning the refugees and not to break all diplomatic ties. this is gathered in london on wednesday to condemn the u. k government in response to events in afghanistan, they called for those still stuff that to be brought to britain as quickly as possible. and the case for the secretaries facing calls them to resign. after africa, interpreters who work with british soldiers missed being evacuated from cobble because dominant. rob was too busy on holiday to give the green light in san marcia . bob, a car killed an african form, a judge. she fled the country when the telephone 1st came to power

nato working there right now. we had a message from the nato secretary general saying... clearly there are fears of violence around the airport and given events are moving so quickly, international security efforts based around that airport, so that update from nato which we will keep across any other updates. i want to show you other pictures which demonstrate exactly what is going on. this from france. we've had pictures from the french ambassador to afghanistan so let's pause to take this in there. there are no words on these pictures by just absorbing them gives you an idea of what exactly has been happening in the last few hours. it is extraordinary. pictures taken inside a helicopter moving from the embassy, so out of the green zone to the airport, france saying it is moving its afghan embassy closer to kabul airport. and it's going to stay operational, they say, to help the evacuation of all french citizens so extraordinary pictures on the ground centred around the airport. i want to finish with one final message which kind of sums up in lots of ways many of the co

there that includes people who worked with us forces with nato forces, with the embassies diplomatic stuff. people who still haven't been able to get out, never might get out. they still haven't been vetted or approved for evacuation. they haven't been able to contact anyone. they haven't been able to secure arrangements for their families. so certainly with just 3 days left for people to get out of of get this done and, and the crowds, the queue huge their ease, i sense of desperation, of those who served in the afghan army, police and the western back government. now fear persecution, the taliban though has promised to sweeping amnesty for all those who fought against them. roughly video agency talked to a man who served as a special forces officer under the previous government. oh, as i am, i mean i had always wanted to join the military. and so when i graduated from school, i did, i received training at the academy of special forces in cobble unit was deployed to areas where i was fierce fighting police officers would call us in as reinforcements when under heavy fire. and it loo