and he moves the defense minister in that particular moment. so base i, it is very concerned about the consequences of his actions. he has been explaining some of those actions today when he said that people have understood him wrong when, when they thought that he's, that he has stage a coup or can easiest form a president, one segment of key says supporters of k said might not realize they're supporting a new dictator, we have this political crisis and that's the worst process that we have ever had. indonesia, we have 100 people dying every day from corona virus, and then we have also a huge crisis. so this one, if you could kind of excuse me because people are exhausted, they are scared and nobody knows exactly where we are heading. i know this is not exactly what we would say, a wise man, and i'm afraid what his reaction the next few days when the face and the opposition growing from the bottom from the suicide. i don't know exactly what my main concern is. how was the army out there that the military would react? i know very closely this t

hear from them they want the tech companies to censor more, they want them to further define what is defense of the speech and whatnot, they want the tech companies to become wings of the democrat party, i am a poster that weathers right or left. >> i want to be clear the companies have denied that they center, moving on to the future of the republican party i want to ask you the falsehood that the election was stolen, is not bad for the party. >> my purpose under perspective or proposal that we automate their own terms and service enforceable against them, you are right they do say tech companies do say that they don't discriminate on the basis of political viewpoint, they say that over and over under oath, i say that's fine let's make that enforceable, right now if you're the normal person and you get the platform did you say wait a minute i think that you google violated your terms of service and discriminated against me on the basis of political speech, there's nothing that you do about it my view take the tech companies own view of service and make those enforceable in court and if they

always on defense, you often expose yourself in an unfortunate way. sometimes you have to go forward to make sure you're keeping yourself safe at home. >> in the context of recent meetings for trust president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin where a big topic of conversation was cyber and in particular ransomware attacks and i get biden mentioned a few things about the significant cyber cap abilities of the u.s. and ask questions around the lines of how you feel as your pipeline was taken down and it feels thinly veiled warnings to russia and yet threat or warnings following that meeting goes like the president included, most are in this way and see approach to see if the meeting will change anything about russian policy or if anything will change in regards potentially launching a offensive strike back. i guess i'm curious if the wait-and-see approach, how meaningful it can be when it feels like so many people in washington, lawmakers want to see aggressive action like yesterday. [laughter] >> is a great question, i don't think mr. puti

depending how you describe defense spending that encompasses all natural defense programs and then the defense department shared 715 billion of biden's request in the subcommittee have a smaller share because they'll have military construction so those are the dollar amounts we are talking about. one.6 percent increase over the current level. or it would be if enacted. versus on the left a 10 percent decrease they had a vote on that last year which did not go well for the liberals and to the read write people like senator inhofe who chairs the committee would like to see at least a 3 percent annual increase or three or 5 percent of what he is advocating so biden hasn't gone the way the liberals want the not quite as high as inhofe once but it would definitely be a dispute still have to figure out the total amount of discretionary spending and all the subcommittee allocations in the senate so it will be a big dispute they are that i should point out that the amount of spidey spending biden is proposing for defense is the largest amount since world war ii of inflation adjusted terms exce

e. 3. others were killed in fighting with security forces and 8 still at large columbia as defense minutes to confirm that several were time colombian soldiers were involved in the assassination a desktop from a fire. in a banquet, food factory has risen to at least 40 thousands of people are injured and missing in the blaze which broke out in an industrial town in the countries north, 8th, 5, the common and bangladesh because of lack safety regulations, russia and western nations, a divided over access to aid into northwest syria from turkey, moscow wants the us to authorize the extension of deliveries for just 6 months. western nations pushing for one year, millions of people depend on getting through about how of crossing. the un security council is expected to vote on friday. us president joe biden has announced american troops will leave afghanistan nearly 2 weeks earlier than planned by august 31st. and that's despite taliban forces making rapid advances across the country. with rural will bring an end to the longest us war a nearly 20 year conflict of the departure of nato troops is

missile defense is one. shipbuilding to a larger extent, every year something that they push parred. but it's amazing how bipartisan the consensus is at least on the defense panels as to where the increases should go and, in fact, where the decreases should come to pay for them. the members of the appropriations and armed services committee tend to hardware, bending metal, you see, those are the programs that have established constituencies that have people who have, you know, high-paying jobs, performing this work and so, you know, that's where you have a lot of political support and you see that in the house appropriation defense bill that we have just gotten in the last few days where they would increase biden's procurement request and make a similar decrease in research and development accounts. so overall, there's a lot of consensus of where they spend the money and i can give you a few examples if you'den like. things like medical research, every single year they add about a billion dollars for medical

and this line of defense is struggling to maintain its integrity. we can all applaud biden for organizing the they summit with world leaders, phase charming environmental policy and motivational speeches. but when it comes to hod, the action, the tough decisions don't expect biden, to step up. he is a relic of the will age and one that apparently doesn't want to evolve. biden has no backbone. i don't think he feels he could have a mandate, which is a mandate for the earth mandate for everybody lives on it. as opposed to being of the hold into the fossil fuel and oil industry by increased amount of permits for drilling. you clearly made a statement that he's worried about have a republic is going to react as opposed to you know, the catastrophe. we're now facing me. this isn't an urgent, drastic situation where the urgent action is needed biden is not taking urgent action. whether by who he has to tiptoe around the republican to get their support from the climate deniers. or more likely, it's just the 2 parties of war in wall street that are basicall

and so the self defense forces, one of their missions is to, to go to these disaster zones. and to kind of add some manpower to a situation where, you know, otherwise local authorities might be overwhelmed elsewhere. and she's a prefecture cruiser rescuing people from flood waters rains. are expected to continue in several areas in the next 2 days. inter chappelle al jazeera, indonesia rolled out more restrictions in his capital jakarta and the main island of java, as well as the 2 is have a bali, mosques, restaurants and shopping. malls have been close after a record number of new daily infections and deaths. malaysia is typing pandemic restrictions in color, poor and other areas surrounding the capitol. the countries under a national lockdown and reported nearly 7000 new cases on thursday. the government set a date for parliament to reconvene next month after it was suspended in january. let his job numbers in the united states. so a big increase in the number of people going back to work. 850000 jobs were added in june. the u. s. economy groomed by more than 6 percent in

it's the department of defense, the department of commerce. and i think that by continuing the national space council, the biden administration has made it clear that leadership in the space continues to be a priority. and they already have a number of initiatives going forward. the program to land the first woman on the moon of the mars exploration was perseverance and ingenuity. watching those videos and seeing not just the attention in the senate but across america really was inspiring and i think that is the endless frontier act innovation competition act is going to help foster that excitement in a lot of places. we will also have two missions to explore venous and the gateway for future deep space exploration. let me finish and say the success also requires that stem workforce i mentioned earlier not just colorado but across the country. we see a lot of muscle that hasn't been used and i think engaging young people in space will take adversity across the country. it's what inspires so many people to go into space and i think that they ha

we will always advance in the defense of america. thank you and god bless you and god bless the united states of america. [applause] >> thank you, senator cotton. i want to make sure i think for people. first, thank you to our sponsors for the event tonight. first, ryan, a double sponsor tonight mentioned in our program. [applause] state representative, darrell --, thank you, darrell. and to my friend, we sometimes find ourselves on the same side and sometimes opposite sides, stephen --. [applause] as you folks have probably noticed, there has been a beautiful woman traveling around the room today. for all the photos taken today we will put them in a google drive and make sure we get you all that information so you can grab it. i want to make sure to especially thank that very beautiful woman, my wife. [applause] and we have a q&a. sen. cotton: jason, thank you. and gretchen, thank you for the great work today. >> representing auburn, army veterans thank you for your service. as i look at a poll that came out a week ago, it shows one

it's had such a great impact on the missile-defense policy and missile-defense technology. to respond to the proliferation of the missile threat i want to say for a moment what's happened in israel has helped greatly the width of the debate on capitol hill. we used to deal with the issues of the arguments of missile-defense of work and its provocative. was israel hasas shown by the deployment of the iron dome is itom isn't. it is a defensive system and it iss the escalatory as they've used the iron dome and it's given them time and space to be able to measure the response as opposed to if they didn't have the technology what they wouldat have to do at the moment was facing people and it is cost-effective because the amount of damage and loss of life that is prevented and it works unbelievably. you say that you are going to leave both your populations and infrastructure and critical capabilities. about the d escalatory nature and how it paints a picture on the receiving end of aggression. the ability to be restrained in that way brings us to another point, the biden administ

and peter mart spurred on monday, zoom as defense lawyer want this case adjourned again, its being heard virtually at the moment. they wanted to journey until zoom is able to pay in person to make his case. the judge will rule on that application. on tuesday, the u. s u k into other allies are accusing china of protecting hackers engaging in malicious cyber activity, including the breach of the microsoft exchange email server. earlier this year. they say hacker groups, protected by basing were responsible, compromising tens of thousands of computers worldwide. it's one of a range of cyber threats. china is being blamed for, including ransomware attacks involving millions of dollars to the best of my knowledge. and i'm getting report tomorrow morning. and this detailing for my understanding is that the chinese government, not unlike the russian government, is not doing this themselves, but or protecting those who are doing it, maybe even accommodating and being able to do it. montana has more now from washington d. c. well, it seems that president biden is attempting to leave himself some

john tyranny, where are you on the subject of putting missile defense on the table? in negotiations, you look at missile defense, a stabilizing, and a responsibility to protect americans, or do you look at as a d, stabilizing investment? i'll try to make the st. steven study to do 1st of all we, we initiated that we circulating the signatures on or whatever. so our position is very clear that we think that the abandonment of the a b m 3 and the ballistic missile treaty was a severe mistake. it came about because russian united states and realized that as long as somebody attended that they had missile defense of the other side would have no choice. but to their mind to increase the number of weapons they had to leave. the overwhelmed that purported the fence and became global john reagan and succeeding presence of both parties. all realize what that's ludicrous, we need to limit the number of defense that you can have or capital. and eventually treaty ends up just one site to be, protect my site if it gets assistance, the work which on the credibly. and then the saw

we begin with some breaking news just coming in the united states. defense ministry says all fallen foreign military force members have exit in the background military base outside the african capital kabul. a senior pentagon official told news agencies that all american soldiers and members of nato forces have withdrawn from the fields the biggest foreign military advice in afghanistan. the move signals, the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from afghanistan after 2 decades of war. background served as the strict center of us military operations in afghanistan during the war against the taliban and their own kind of allies. us invaded the country following the 911, allocate a terror attacks on new york and washington. and we'll have more on that story. lation well to our other top story now, and the official death toll from the corona virus pandemic in india has passed the 400000 mark of public health experts founding the alarm about another new variant of the virus that causes cove 19 more than 50 cases of the so called delta plus the variance has now been detected in india. the varia

he served under four presidents and was defense secretary in 2001. reporter: donald rumsfeld was brash and abrasive. his critics say it was his undoing during the worst days of the u.s. wars in iraq. his take was he was right in his critics were wrong. he was a survivor of washington politics. he made history as both the youngest and oldest secretary of defense and did the bidding of for republican presidents. in 1983, ronald reagan sent rumsfeld to baghdad to try and broker closer ties with saddam hussein. two decades later, it was defense secretary rumsfeld who argued saddam had to go. >> the iraqi regime has chosen more peaceful disarmament. reporter: in the u.s. led war was to make that happen. he and other officials accused iraq of helping to plan the september 11 attacks which it did not. he also accused iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction which it did not. he was wrong, but rumsfeld refused to say so. >> we believe the intelligence was correct. it turned out it was not correct. reporter: at first, rumsfeld embraced neoconservative i

and the only defense we would have to overwhelming. so lots of data to upgrade and increase the number of others that we have. so there's a little bit of a race on that. it's not just united states as seeking to modernize, is able to increase the numbers and style weapons. what is all of the other nice states, and then the weather's doing some upgrade on that. and i know we'd like to blame it on russia or china in doing this. we have to do it. we've been doing it for a long time. and they are now doing this too. and it was the russian, they want us back when the united states pulled out of the abm treaty by george w bush. that it was a lead to them having an i was ration, doing new types, weapons, and was just to get them powerful weapons. jacob convene intellectually, some of the best writers in think here is that i know when it comes to thinking about the broad dimensions of national security. and i'm interested in where current thinking is and where your thinking is on america's nuclear arsenal. it's aging parts of it. there are the

i'm curious to get your thoughts on how much americas cyber defense is, whether it, whether it comes to, you know, private enterprises or whether it comes to government institutions actually need to be beef up beefed up right now and how vulnerable as the country from cyber attack it feels like i've been beating this job for at least 20 years, and most people in the security industry feel the same way. it's we keep telling you what to do and you don't do it. and i think it's just because that, you know, of business managing somebody else's id is just not aware of, of all the dangers to them. and can say in, in the united states have a piece of software that was completely vulnerable in several researchers had pointed that out over the years, including a group in the netherlands. and those on abilities were used in a very targeted and campaign that occurred. of course, friday of a 3 day holiday in the united states. so people won't be able to react quickly enough to it. so i think that's the, yes, everyone's vulnerable, of course, is not the united states of brown's as united states i

she serves as their defense reporter. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. yours takes a look at the efforts going out of afghanistan. you make the case that this was pre-much already completed even before yesterday's announcement. can you give us context? guest: scheuer, one of the news items from the president's speech was that he moved up the deadline. previously it was september 11. now it's august 31. but my sources are telling me that the drawdown is effectively done. we currently have just 600 troops in afghanistan. just about all of them were always expected to stay past the official withdrawal date to provide security at the u.s. embassy in kabul and at the kabul international airport. the only personnel left to withdrawal is general scott miller, and a handful of his staff. there is a handful more of security and logistics forces that the pentagon sent in temporarily to aid in the withdrawal. they will also depart. but out of the 2500 or so that president biden started out with, all but a handful are gone. host: when it comes to the decision, did t

kathleen hicks, the deputy secretary of defense for the department of defense. thank you for being here today. >> thank you so much. and good afternoon, chairwoman spear, ranking member gallagher and all committee members. a special thank you to chairwoman spear for her leadership on this issue over the past decade. i'm here to describe the department of defense's efforts to counter the scourge of sexual assault and harassment in our military. it remains serious problems in our force with lethal consequences for our service members and harmful effects on our combat readiness. this administration has placed a high, even unprecedented priority on this challenge set. and we have moved quickly and deliberatively to address it. one day after being sworn in, secretary austin issued a memorandum to senior dod leadership tasking them with reporting on data. with information on hand, on february 26th, secretary austin detailed three immediate actions. he directed the secretaries of the military departments to ensure full compliance with existing sexual assault and sexual

they want to define what is a defensive speech to become wings of the democratic party. i am opposed to that right or left. >> i want to be clear that companies have denied they censor on the basis of political view. with the future of the republican party how is the falsehood the election was stolen has become a litmus test for the party is that bad for the party. >> going back this is why my perspective or my proposal is we are to make the tech companies enforceable. you are right they do say that they don't discriminate on the basis of political viewpoints they have saidec that over and overca under oath. let's make that enforceable. right now if you are a normal person with these platforms if you google violated your terms of service and you discriminate on the basis of political speech take their own terms of service and if they really are applying and evenhanded way there is no problem that we ought to give people the ability to go into court. your second question? >> senator i want to ask about the future of the republican partyf. there are reports there is a move

this after he froze parliament and fired the prime minister, as well as the defense and justice ministers, sparking claims of a crew set a hide. it reports the gathered outside to parliament that was now out of service for a month demonstrated from different sides of the political divide, refused to leave. once again to nicea isn't home on the support is the largest main . vulcan, not all angry president, quite side decision to sac the government, including prime minister, the she she, as well as the justice and defend ministers. were painfully the president's choice to overthrow the constitution, which took place on the day. the technicians people celebrated republic day, the republic through which the monarchy was overthrown. the was the largest main block and not all angry at president clay site decision to sac the government, including prime minister machine parliament speaker, russia. the new she and head of the party staging is sitting in his car, refusing to move until politicians are allowed back in earlier. he called it a qu, center to, i mean he's decisions have no bases in the

more defense cooperation, and has maritime secured security training. and although lastly, the read it, this actually comes as a surprise to many majority of the people who are here in the philippines filipinos to fight the defense establishment has always been pro america in terms of their leaning and of always race concerns behind closed doors about the abrogation of the visiting forces agreement, which is critical as many believe in deterring the expansion of china in reclamation, in areas in the chinese, the particularly in the spread this group of islands, which the philippines have control of several areas. thank you so much for that. update from an along bringing some breaking news out of hong kong and we're hearing the 1st person to be tried under hong kong. national security law has now been sentenced to a total of 9 years in prison. tony on kit was convicted on tuesday on charges of inciting secession and terrorism. he was arrested last year for writing a motor by into a group of police officers, as you can see in that video right there. while

she serves as the defense reporter. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: a story of yours takes a look at the efforts going out of afghanistan. you make the case that this was pre-much already completed even before yesterday's announcement. can you give us context? guest: scheuer, one of the news items from the president's speech was that he moved up the deadline. previously it was september 11. now it's august 31. but my sources are telling me that the drawdown is effectively done. we currently have just 600 troops in afghanistan. just about all of them were always expected to stay past the official withdrawal date to provide security at the u.s. embassy in kabul and at the kabul international airport. the only personnel left to withdrawal is general scott miller, and a handful of his staff. there is a handful more of security and logistics forces that the pentagon sent in temporarily to aid in the withdrawal. they will also depart. but out of the 2500 or so that president biden started out with, all but a handful are gone. host: when it comes to th

richard is also author of the books there will be cyber war and cyber defense countering targeted attacks in toronto, albania, clear minority founder and ceo of pen geo wire group, a geopolitical consultancy, and geneva defined to get chief executive officer of cyber peace institute. stefan has led projects to counter cyber crime and online terrorism. a warm welcome to you all. thanks for joining us today on inside story. richard, let me start with you today. i just like to take a step back for a moment and ask you to explain to our viewers what exactly constitutes a ransomware attack and how it works. yeah, it's pretty straightforward. a attacker find some vulnerability inside a network ground, somebody's computer infects it, and downloads tool, the ransomware software itself that encrypts the complete hard drive making without a key that you know about. so it makes it impossible to get access to your data. if it's spread throughout a large network like calling your pipeline, it can shut down all of the office systems of an organization. and then the attacker demands ransom usually right

charges of fraud corruption and money laundering linked to a $2000000000.00 alms deal with a french defense and dating from when he was deputy president. earlier this month, zoom attendance of into police to serve a 15 month prison sentence on a separate case. his arrest led to days of violence and looting, printed smith has moved from outside court in peter merits book. this case goes back to 1999. when jacob zoom was deputy president, an indication of how long the former president's trials and tribulations have dominated the political scene. here in south africa, it concerns allegations of fraud over the sale and purchase, a fighter jets of military hardware from 5 european companies. the one in this case is policy jacob zoom. it denies any rolling corruption, sodas, toddlers. now the trial only got going in may after many, many, germans over the years. and then a couple of weeks ago, zoom was jailed for refusing to give evidence to a govern corruption. inquiry that sparked the violence that swept these countries to most popular populace provinces in the last week. and there were concerns

and so the self defense forces, one of their missions is to, to go to these disaster zones. and to kind of add some manpower to a situation where, you know, otherwise local authorities might be overwhelmed elsewhere. and she's a prefecture cruiser rescuing people from flood waters. rains are expected to continue in several areas in the next 2 days and are chappelle helped 0. to more bodies have been found in the rubble of the apartment block that partially collapse in florida last week. it rings the number of confirmed people who have died to 24 while 124. those are still and accounted for emergency workers plan to demolish what's left to the building on sunday, canada, as many as harry's preparing for evacuation size wildfire spread across british columbia. more than a 105 are raging as a record breaking heat wave grips the province around a 1000 people sled, the destruction rescue work as a searching for some have gone missing now to chile, which is going through political change, a may a group of anti government protestors were elected to write a new constitution. the peo

and to included major defense contractors. it is one thing if he wants to run his business into the ground in all they do is sell sugary beverages and another thing, if the corporations to make weapons and equipment that are troops dependent are wasting their time to do this i was news that came to light, i started demanding answers from ceos of the company's and why they are wasting their time on this and why they were threatening their workforce when consequences if they did not go to these sessions and if they did not bow down to these ideas. something that is dangerous for troops and ultimately for all of you up so we are doing everything we can. robbie. >> thank you. [inaudible]. i have concerns as a lot of people do. and people like josh and. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. in the reporting and the white house is suggesting and telling people to take this down, take down all of the stuff. anything congress should do to make sure the conservative have a future.r for better or for worse as the boys. [inaudible]. have a slight po

so to the starters, we do not agree with these self defense groups. under no circumstances do we accept that being armed and calling themselves self defense. it's the government's responsibility to guarantee peace. and that's what we're doing. but indigenous communities throughout mexico said that's not the case. pointing to successive governments, they say, have ignored their concerns for generations. since june of this year, confrontations involving vigilantes have become increasingly common and shoppers, where the sin, low and holistic cartels are said to be buying for control of territory, considered prime for drug smuggling and human trafficking. human rights observers in the regency, thousands of people have been internally displaced by localized fighting in recent months. with no obvious signs of government support the vigilant who say they are alone in defending them and their livelihood maneuvered up a little al jazeera mexico city. israel's foreign minister is blaming iran for an apparent attack on an israeli oil tanker of the coast of a min

masking is one defense against the spread of covid-19. but make no mistake, vaccines are the best defense events you getting severely ill from covid-19. the very best defense. and do you want to know how we put this virus behind us? i will tell you how, we need to get more people vaccinated. look, it is important to understand what vaccines are due in what they don't do. put simply, the vaccines are designed to save lives and prevent illness. they are highly effective at both. 190million americans had at least one shot. of that group about 90 are done now. and 10% are waiting for the second shot. to those folks who have a one shot but not the second, go get the second shots. even if you're overdue for the second shot it is not too late. go get to the second shots, now, now. the bottom line is if you are fully vaccinated your highly protected from covid-19. but i also know that many of you who are vaccinated are concerned what's called a breakthrough cases. yes, some fully vaccinated people will still test positive. some will show some sym

constitutional council's decision to repeal this really prompted demonstrations across the country in defense of these regional languages. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> what did the constitution council find so threatening about this immersive teaching? >> the constitutional council said this form of teaching threatens article two of the ranch constitution that said that french is the official language of france, but it is not just linguistics. they also say it threatens the unity of the country. something you need to know about france is there is a fear of a group of people clinging to separate cultural identities like a regional identities before the national identity. language is a huge part of this. defenders of regional language say there's no way they would replace french, but what's interesting is some linguists have sounded the alarm over this immersive learning before children have fully mastered the french language. >> [speaking foreign language] >> the president has weighed in on this debate and pledged to protect fr

the philippines is restoring a defense packed with the u. s. that allows for joint military exercises. the move was announced during a visit by the defense secretary, lloyd austin, in a big house counter. japan has expanded its state of emergency after reporting a record number of code. 19 infections. restrictions will continue on to the end of next month in tokyo, with the games are being held. the organizers say there were $27.00 new infections linked to the event, which is the highest so far more china is battling its 1st major cove at 19 outbreak. in month, hundreds of thousands of people are in lockdown in junky province. a cluster of cases was 1st detected in the regional capital, non ging, but has spread to 5 provinces and the capital aging. only 200 people have been infected since early this month. officials believe it is linked to the delta variance. normal israel is offering a 3rd shops of the find the curve at $900.00 vaccine president issac hertzog and his wife for the 1st to get the booster. the extra job will be 4 people above the

well, that's according to russia's defense minister. he was speaking at a meeting of the shanghai co operation organization, which brings together top military officials from your asian countries, including china and india. ortiz elliot try and goes mania, keeping a close eye on the high profile gathering and even managed to get the minister to himself for a few moments. where in the capital of ticket stand, just to the north of of ganeth stand where as a result of a swift pull out by the us led coalition, the crisis is deteriorating. day by day, the taliban is pretty much in control of the entire country. apart from the couple region and this could easily spill over the border. now, as the russian minister of defense was meeting his counterparts from the neighboring countries here induce on bear, he blamed the us for the situation that's getting increasingly dangerous. the hazy withdrawal of us and nato troops create lots of problems. we're aware of the ongoing robust work aimed at providing security on the border, which is currently a

and the president and he moves the defense minister in that particular moment. so base i, it is very concerned about the consequences of his actions. he has been explaining some of those actions today when he said that people have understood him wrong when, when they thought that he's, that he has stage a coup. and the moment just stepping away from the immediate politics right now, can you 0 was of course, still is facing a coven crisis, one of the worst infection rates in the world, and still very few people, relatively speaking, vaccinated. what is happening on that scale? while we're seeing the politics controlled and of course continuing demonstrations or at least until before the curfew. well, that's very interesting because, you know, when you look at the degree of the crisis, now that i mean that in this 24 hours, i mean, we have been talking about coffee. 19 pandemic reaching unbelievable proportions in indonesia. very dangerous proportions and how to talk about now we have moved into something very completely different. i mean, the question now into ni

all of that haven't pulled well with the spirit of the actual defense forces. and there are other strategic reasons as well, where the government has children to tactically retreat from specific districts, which has created this sense of defeatism amongst its own trucks. is that why you got to flee to places like that? yeah, so that's basically one of the reasons why we have low morale and spirits, but again, this is not going to be a rule. this is not going to exist too long. eventually the fighting will die. how to a certain extent, there the he, the holidays coming up as well. this has to be seen as a blitz by the ponder, by movement. this has to be an offensive. it is unrealistic to believe that the taliban can sustain the fighting for undefined periods of time. so this will eventually come down a little. and the one government and defense forces just need to hold their ground and probably interact better with their own soldiers to understand better communication strategies and keep morale. hire people, galbraith, i you as optimistic as obey don't are who s

no defense. we have to start playing defense. we have to start making it tougher to perpetrate these attacks. we can never stop them from attacking. but what we can do is make sure that these attacks fall short. they fall off at the shore and they do not enter our shores. and that's the different mindset we have to have. it's been awful for too long. we've got to get back into playing, good, strong defense. now lastly, before we go, we've heard these claims from the us. now we're hearing that the chinese ministry of foreign affairs is throwing out an accusation of their own, saying that groups associated with the cia have carried out cyber attacks for the last 11 years. that seriously compromise china's national and economic security. we have about 30 seconds here, but i mean, is that just a tit for tat comment? or is there something more to it? i hope we are. you know, you never want a letter. you never want to take punch. it's you got to, you know, mike tyson used to say everybody has a plan till they get punched in the face. w

all of that does not bode well with the spirit of the actual defense forces. there are other strategic reasons as well. host: is that where we are seeing fruitfully? >> yes, that is one of the reasons. this is not going to be a rule, not going to exist. the fighting will die out to a certain extent. this has to be seen as a blitz and movement. this is unrealistic to think the taliban can sustain the fighting. this will eventually come down a little and the government and defense forces just need to hold their ground and probably attract better. host: you say this is a blitz. >> i think my position would be somewhere between the positions of your two other guests. there is no doubt that the taliban have demonstrated an ability to control large parts of the countryside. but they have not demonstrated an ability to take and hold cities. i think it is important to remember the taliban is not a broad-based movement. there are large segments of the population for 10%, 15% of the population that are shiite. . they see the taliban is a genocidal enemy. that part of th

and so the self defense forces, one of their missions is to, to go to these disaster zones. and to kind of add some manpower to a situation where, you know, otherwise local authorities might be overwhelmed elsewhere. and she's over the prefecture cruiser rescuing people from floodwaters brains. are expected to continue in several areas in the next 2 days and are chappelle helps 0 time for a short break here and just here, right. when we come back, i'm just seeing human insight julian, historical building, which has just been refurbished for us to start the process. next, we'll explain how the double threats of fragile wetlands in spain, a local man tells us europe. suppose climate refugees will be from his town more than a hello there. let start in north america and forest fires are raging across western canada. this was the scene in british columbia. those sparked by lightning strikes thanks to the record heat wave we've seen there recently. and those hot dry conditions are expected to fuel the frames, but temperatures have come down slightly. that heat has pushed into more