Chaotic Troop Pullout of afghanistan. France yanked its ambassador to the United States after biden kept the french In The Dark on a submarine deal. Thousands of haitian migrants surging over our southern border with the worst optics and realities imaginable. Big worries about inflation, the debt ceiling, Delta Variant and more from markets on shaky ground and democratic Infighting Threat Espn to tank the president s big Spending And Infrastructure agenda. Here was President Biden a short time ago. President biden whenever possible, in partnership with our allies, u. S. Military power must be our tool of last resort. Not our first. It should not be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world. The Security Council adopted a Resolution Outlining how well support the people of afghanistan moving forward, laying out the expectations to which well hold the taliban when it comes to respecting universal human rights. Harris Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says President Biden
Polls for Snap Elections. A tight race with Justin Trudeau hoping his handling of the pandemic will keep him in power. Although the taliban are showing increasing signs of repressive government, some women are not backing down. A group of brave activists protesting outside what used to be the ministry on sunday. The taliban closed it and replaced it with their feared ministry for promotion of Virtue And Prevention of vice. The protests come after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend Secondary School. Translator you cannot suppress The Voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them as well as by not allowing them to go to school. You cannot suppress The Voice of afghanistans women. Now, a private preschool opened on Sunday In Kabul with both Boys And Girls attending. Thats a rare sight. The taliban insist that public Secondary School for girls will be allowed, but they say they have to set up what they call safe transportation first. Well, for th
Live from cnn center, this is Cnn Newsroom with Robyn Curnow. Thanks for joining me this hour. So, we know that afghan women are defiant, despite growing signs that the taliban government is sidelining them. A group of activists protested outside what used to be the Womens Ministry on sunday of the the taliban closed that ministry, and replaced it with their ministry which is called the ministry for promotion of Virtue And Prevention of vice. The protests came after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. Translator you cannot suppress The Voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them, as well as by not allowing them to go to school. You cannot suppress The Voice of afghanistans women. Well, the taliban have claimed they will not rule as they did during the 90s but they have done little else to calm fears that women will be denied basic freedoms or be shut out of jobs and schools. On sunday, Afghanistans Ministry of education ord
The bloody aftermath of the Soviet Occupation set the ground for a new force to emerge. They were really seen as angels, these young angels who had arrived to save the country. On december 27th, 1979, soviet Special Forces stormed the president ial palace in kabul. The president , hafizullah amin, was killed. This was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. The soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. Afghanistans communists had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition to the radical modernisation programme, together with internal Communist Party squabbling, had resulted in crisis. Moscow ran out of patience. After assassinating president amin, Soviet Forces poured into afghanistan and occupied the major cities. This was the first time in the Cold War that a regular armed force, tanks, jet fighters, was crossing into another country and occupying it. Now, if they had their own jet fighters, at the Air Force Base in bagram and herat, they could have contro
Hakim examines the rise of the taliban after the soviet occupation of afghanistan. Back in control. After nearly 20 years of conflict, thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent, the taliban has seen off the us, nato and their afghan allies. A stunning success for them and another superpower humbled in the streets and fields of afghanistan. But to understand these events and the origins of the taliban, we need to go back to the Cold War. The bloody aftermath of the soviet occupation set the ground for a new force to emerge. They were really seen as angels, these young angels who had arrived to save the country. On december 27th, 1979, soviet Special Forces stormed the president ial palace in kabul. The president , Hafizullah Amin was killed. This was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. The soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. Afghanistans communists had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition to the radical modernisation programme, to