ah ah, covered vaccines from 5 to a madonna show it to be dropping efficacy when faced with the delta vary according to an american study. the taliban sees is a 10th african provincial capital and now controls nearly 60 percent of the country fighting for hundreds of thousands of civilians from their homes. many fleeing the capital cobble or abroad firefighters and volunteers. battle huge wildfires and rushes far east. wherever state of emergency enforce, smoke and ash coated huge areas correspondent as in the thick of firefighters, have now created this mineralized zone. this and basically the whole purpose of this is that the fire, as you can see, it's still burning. there. it will not be able to pass beyond the zone. ah,

hello malcolm from the team here in moscow this thursday. i'm calling bray with the world news for marty international. first has been a worrying drop in efficacy for the pfizer madana cove. it vaccines that's been marked in a new american study showing that they did significantly against the delta strain after 6 months correspond. anavia patrol could join me earlier to explain the findings. this is a so called pre print study, which means that it hasn't gone through peer review yet, but the study contains numbers. the numbers outlined trends and they are scary. they cannot be ignored, even though they only come from one state of minnesota. but there are about the efficacy and when it comes to preventing infection for the moderne vaccine, the efficacy has dropped from 86 percent in january to 76 percent in

july. however, with pfizer, it's been a real statistical nosedive because the efficacy has fallen from 76 percent in january to 42 percent. and experts are linking all this with the spread of the delta various in the us. now i've said that this is a pre print study. however, the overall situation with corona virus in the us is echoing these numbers and it does look scary because if you look at the daily growth a bit more. busy than a month ago, it was about plus $12000.00 new cases in one day and you know what they registered on august. the 11th plus, $155000.00 southern states are reporting that they are running out of intensive care unit bed. and here's what we heard from one doctor who was working with corporate patients in the region of food. we're going back to when you to go, when you don't have where you base our full. so we have to put tens work i've been

outside, they have to allow people to come on a while. the spread of the delta variant is clearly set to become a nightmare for. ready american officials, without full vaccination of a vast majority of the population, most likely new variance will keep appearing. and again, perhaps they will be more dangerous. and this is something that senior medical experts have been warning about for, while long as the virus continues to spread. you give it ample opportunity to mutate and when you give an ample opportunity to mutate, you may sooner relate a get another variant. and it is possible that that variant might be in some respects worse than the already. ready very difficult, very, and we're dealing with now. so any thoughts or reassurance from any officials on this? well, so far in common to the outlet that 1st reported on the minnesota study as senior joe biden, administration. officials said the following, literally, if that's not

a wake up call, i don't know what is and perhaps at this point these guys weren't that key to comment on that worsening situation. because only a bit more than a month ago during the 4th of july celebrations. joe biden was more than just optimistic about his efforts against colbert. thanks. george roared fact. seen efforts. we've gained the upper hand against this virus. we can live our lives. our kids can go back to school. our economy is rory back. well, this is what joe bought was a bit more than a month ago. now the situation is completely different and it could turn into a complete flow for the government, trying to stay positive these. they don't, they need to, vaccines in the mix. how many others holding out? i'm going to give you 2 other names, and in that case, the situation is much more promising that is johnson and johnson and rushes split. make me now for the 1st one i mentioned,

the efficacy against the delta variant is at 95 percent, which is impressive when it comes to rushes. sputnik fee, the efficacy dropped, just like in the case of but there are no. and pfizer, but it only dropped to 83 percent, which is still an impressive result. compared to 42 percent of pfizer. so perhaps this is the reason why the developer of sputnik be suggested and proposed cooperation with pfizer. suggesting starting trials with sputnik as a booster jap. let's see what kind of response they're going to get. because we do remember that despite being allowed in dozens of countries, sputnik b as not yet been officially approved by the world health organization. both pfizer and medina, which a us firms have acknowledged that there is waiting efficacy and they recommend booster shots, microbiologist, dr. simon clark told me that the new cobit strains will seriously test and okay, lation programs. the vaccines cook best to work against generation against the

region. we haven't stayed, which is long gone in the archives and really doesn't cause a problem any more. what we probably need is new axioms against new strange, but that will take time. it will not be as easy as some people who pretended that protection against transmission is, is not as good as we have against the delta variance. so what that does is mean that an ability to generate immunity almost vanishes because you need to protect against transmission. nothing else. immunity does not involve itself, protect you against getting seriously. it protects you against contract and virus k. now the taliban has captured a 10th provincial capital in afghanistan and a massive offensive following the withdrawal of us troops. and in another province, local officials and security forces are also reportedly surrendering to the

islamists. thus, despite the new round of so far fruitless talks in doha between the african authorities and the taliban. meanwhile, washington's made it clear they won't come to cobbles, rescue african leaders have to come together. we lost thousands at last death in injury. thousands of american personnel got to fight for themselves. meanwhile, the number of us news outlets are citing an undisclosed intelligence official claiming that the capital cobble could fall to the taliban within 90 days. but look at the situation as it is right now. the militants controlling around 2 thirds of the country, we can see that in red. that leaves afghan government forces with this cluster that you can see in great much diminished territory. for them the rest a currently contested regions and the more populated north. now the islamists has taken hold of some districts in close proximity to the capitol as well. the taliban has ramped up it's offensive in april. following us,

the president jo biden's announcement that it was pulling american troops at another time. the islamist group held less than the 5th of the country's territory . now though, it's more than half, it's seen africa and government controlled area shrink from about 30 percent of the country to just 16 percent. now, the pentagon though insists that the fall of cobble isn't necessarily on the cards . we are certainly mindful of the advances that the taliban have made in terms of taking over yet an increase number of, of provincial capitals. other thing i'd say is that no potential outcome has to be inevitable, including the, the fall of cobble, which everybody seems to be reporting about. it doesn't have to be that way. for the hostility showing no sign of abating and afghan, this done the un warning that nearly 400000 people of had to leave their homes. since the start of the year there was a huge spike in may as well. the u. n says that the displaced people are heading to

cobble in search and safety. here are just some of the heart wrenching stories that refugees have to tell. i mean, just from telecom, the telephone call to my son, because all the belongings from my house, i'm satisfied with them and the punch me in the mouth, causing my teeth to fall out. they demanded my son and i told them that she's a teacher. she recently became a teacher and had not even received salary, had a cautious, broken, taken hostage as the fighting, went on for both 67 days. but we couldn't go outside until we managed to escape, and now we can look at, let's begin, fussy, about golly, on who's negotiating with the taliban for the african government in capitals? capital. doha is also a leading women's rights activists. welcome to all t to people, feel that down by washington telling the african sources fend for yourselves against the taliban? exactly, we are. we are lived down by everybody. and we are lit down by the us. we are live

down by the whole world. you will track in this war 43 years ago and it's going on and on the countries burning non stuff. he saw it just few years competitively piece. and now it is growing again. we lost opportunity of political men several times. we cannot afford to lose it again. we should, we should have changed the system with president legible law. with a political settlement, we lost this oppertunity very badly. then again, we had several times other opportunity. in my opinion, this is the last. it is not about the gains and military the it's is about we are responsible. what side of the table are definitely go. she, asians is responsible to bring peace for the people are not to describe

the situation that you, you should know or the situation that people are beaten, or people women, peace or broken or young teacher kids. we have to come to an understanding that this is the last opportunity and we have to, to change this country lives together through a political settlement. the pentagon doesn't seem to worry about cobble falling to the taliban. should it be care any more what the americans think? what i think that what we think we the people think what is our responsibility? are we going to look into the eye of others for the rest of our lives and let them decide for us? or we should look to the eye of those people who are this based to the eye of those

people that they are. first thing, i'm told them that we have still an opportunity move side of the negotiation table and we are going to secure a political settlement which bring peace to apply as a country for everyone. for life. we've made a huge mistake and one tyler bond. we're not part of it. we read a huge mistake before that, that we didn't negotiate with president. are we going to repeat that again? well, i mean the gentleman to ruin this country once and all his day here and everyone is here. the region is here. the one is here, he was here, call to do this. just this. before i ask you about the state of things with the internally displaced people. and i've got this done. i want to ask you that because it's been 20 years of conflict led by the american lead to coalition. do you not think that the power will shift to too much exponentially in one way again,

just like it did before, the actual sharing of power is going to be tricky within this generation. if we talk only about the military game, yes, you're right. either goes one side or it goes on the other side. if we talk about peace and into this war, then let's not talk about who is and who has the upper hand on the ministry ground live stock. that's when is the time to sit down and finish this one. some are for all if people look our people to live in peace, god. and what about those hundreds of thousands of people who now think it's not safe for them to stay at home? the heading for cobble, they're heading abroad. how serious is the crisis with that? it is extremely serious. i have predicted this for months now. if not for

one year, that this is going to happen. and it has happened. look, i was for more than 12 years, the president of the gun read kristen society. i saw that i saw what is happening to the government side or the side because as a neutral body of auxilary to the government, but also the catering for all the people that i saw that were the last 20 years. what's happening to the people. mit ended, but while you seem to be what you're seeing today will not be even compared that in a few months we will see how to work with this. and certainly it's, i don't want to underestimate the difficulty of the talks that you're facing and trying to get that piece that you're calling for and a clear what you want is the end result. but also, as you say, what you saw previously, you know, worried about the mistreatment of people, women in particular under the taliban in the provinces that it's captured. when

it's it, my question is here, because what the color bon are telling us, telling me, filling the world is totally different to what is happening in the field. i don't want to think that they are not telling the truth to ask or the clear to the room. my fear is that they have lost control over their writers. this will be the most dangerous tonight. this will be the most got those topics scenarios live in. this is good both sides because there isn't woodside, there is the one side that's one side is the people offer. one is done. that's one side, is the innocent people, not the sun, that they have to have a chance to live in peace and prosperity. and as you said, what the african people to be able to decide their own future from now on off the decades of having it dealt out for them. can anybody else outside african it's done

play a part in helping to oil the wheels in order to get the piece that use. so we need, in my opinion, and now the rule of region is much more important than international rules because we are connected to each other. what happens is time to fire, which starts at the number one sun. unfortunately, going to continue will get to the country every single country around us or even to country further. so that's why it is very important that the region and. ringback they are sitting with us now and they should also play a very positive road. not the rule of all. i am going to sit back and see what happens. no, there is no time for that. we are all responsible. we are all responsible and my home, and my hope is more that the region should have proper look at what's happening

to be are we going to lose control more than that? it's about new mental tasks, but from outside everyone's hoping for some positivity soon. we wish you luck. fatima galandes from the government delegation into i really appreciate you talking to us on archie. thank you so much. next it from north africa to southern europe and beyond months of wildfires becoming a growing catastrophe. 55 isn't even the military of bringing battling to bring the vast and deadly fires under control. the

land east in russia is one of the areas devastated. almost 5000 people are fighting the flames with 700 pieces of equipment deployed to a state of emergencies being declared in a huge acuity of regions where fix smokers forced airports to cancel flights to meet republic. is there incent this report? ah ah, so we're still traveling to the village where we are expected to meet the firefighters that some of those we actually saw yesterday. but right now on the way, we couldn't help but stop at this scenic location. it's late covered and smoke a red sky above it. and over looking all of this is a bunch of cows from dogs. some people who live here, this is their life. and now it's all covered in smoke. and we know how close the

fires have gotten to this place specifically, but firefighters. there's a bunch of equipment. there's a lot of volunteers. so i think these guys are safe and these cows and these dogs definitely to now we're going to head back on the road to the village, which is now under threat of fire. me. if you're wondering what the raj all these places looks like. something like this, the last step, which when you full of fire is the most difficult as it encompasses enlarge area. the mineral eyes area has been created along the perimeter and that area has now

been dug up from there to there. so we just arrived at one of the locations where the firefighters have now created this mineralized zone. this is basically the whole purpose of this is that the fire, if you can see it's still burning there, it will not be able to pass beyond the zone. also this area has obviously been burned off, which is one of the ways they stop the fires. you know that a fire is coming from the direction so they burn everything off. so they make that trench the mineralized zone. then the started burn off. as you can see, the ground hears all ash, all of this is nash. ah, there was allan, his employees from the ministry emergency situation. so everyone his hair plow, plough, manage, extinguish, saw. so. well,

this fire does not represent any immediate threats, any people, but so it still feels just kind of good to have a part in extinguishing it. so now is just a bunch of smoke but there's no me. ah, so we've traveled back to the village that is currently being threatened by the wildfires. there is one coming from one side and the other. it's chaos right now. we tried to go to the fires, but this place is very big. and so we just didn't have enough time to reach it. it's way too far away, and it's through very dense wilderness. the only thing that can get through there are things like this, but they're all packed with firefighters. but we did see the mineralized line that they made. we saw the burn off and the,

the aftermath of that burn off the burns trees the burned ground. we walked to know for at least an hour through all of the we still couldn't reach the fire. we decided to head back, it was just too much blood. it was taking its whole on our eyes on our breath, on our lungs are very rough out there. the guys are there constantly. some of them have been there for 40 days already and even they are getting tired already. so i think at least now many people have gotten understanding of what it takes to battle these wildfires to battle nature and how chaos call of this can be. i have information about r t on the way a toby outbreak, a cram for a few g facility in england sees it locked down to isolate, but those inside, they are worried. as all the reports among all stories after the break. ah, i

the ah, me ah, more environmental headaches here russian prosecutors of probing an oil spill near the black sea port of november ceased. as scientists won, the scale of the disaster is much worse than initially reported than they came as crude was being pumped from a terminal onto

a greek flag. tanka. it was initially claimed that just 12 cubic meters of oil spilled into the sea and that the leak didn't spread further. however, russian scientists analyzed satellite data and found that the space covered an area 400000 times larger than claimed. the authorities say there's not been any significant environmental damage, but an investigation is continuing high school students in the us state of oregon will no longer have to prove that they're proficient in reading, writing, and mathematics in order to graduate. according to a new law, signed off by the governor, kind of open, explains a bit more about the theory behind it. according to the bill that was signed into law in the state of oregon, last month, students in order to graduate from high school in the state of oregon will no longer have to prove that they're capable of reading, writing, or performing basic mathematical operations. this is don, according to the bills language, to help students from communities that have quote,

historically experienced academic disparities. the testing that we've been doing in the past doesn't tell us what we want to know. we want to have kids getting a chance to do and learn and be curious about everything. and what we've been doing is stopping that curiosity. now the bill from what it's supporters say is about trying to help students who are from immigrant populations or refugees who have come to the states who the examinations and the tests required for graduation are seen as kind of a barrier to them getting the high school diploma now, reportedly these rules will now be in place for the next 5 years now. the bill was signed into law without much fanfare. there was no signing ceremony. there was no press release announcing the bill, and it was added to the database a few days after it was signed and now i was last month. and now there's been quite as strong a negative reaction. this is the progressive left form of education,

dummy down kids. you are taking away the only tool to get to break the poverty cycle. this is the type of legislation that they want to make black people a permanent underclass. these requirements were suspended during the pandemic due to the circumstances, but now the suspension of those requirements has been fully signed into law in the state of oregon. now it's possible that the federal department of education could step in to overturn these requirements. but many see this as a trend of a lowering standards. there needs to be standards at what level you need to have reach in high school in order to get that diploma is to represent something. so if we take out and dumb it down than what does it really mean any more organs? graduation rates a bad, but the solution to that is not by taking away all the high school standards solution to make this was better for attending that these rock accountable for the

same thing. like i think if you come from different backgrounds, you should be able to have the same as they really like the requirements should be a little bit more level than what they are. asylum seekers housed in a former british military barracks in order to self isolate. because of a co that outbreak, although only 3 people tested positive around a 100 and now look down in the extremely crowded facility, which rides group, se isn't safe. or london correspondent, shoddy edwards dashti has the story. well now know torres napier pirates for a minute to cite in folks in, in kent is on the verge of yet another kind of 19 outbreak. it comes around a 100 people have been forced to south, i say, following a handful of people contracting the virus. but it really comes as no surprise considering 234 people are living inside ne p barracks, 28 people. chevy, one bedroom, and one ball through that hasn't changed

a slight high court ruling suggesting that ne p barracks is yours is completely on the lawful and failed to meet a minimum standard. but it hasn't stopped the home office and continuing to use this facility, which quite frankly decided that this type of outbreak was only a matter of time. yes again, but it now has re energize the coal from campaign. is to shop for good with yet another cove it outbreak spreading throughout the camp. once again, the home office is putting the lives of the men held their at risk, as well as those in the wider community. any improvements the home office claims to have made are inadequate, and not care bags must immediately be closed and safe, quoted secure accommodation provided the home office insist that the site is adequate, uncovered, secure, all appropriate covert protocols. so being followed in accordance with public health, england to advise, to manage the small number of cases currently at naples barracks. when i, myself have visited the bar for numerous occasions over the past few months. and

many asylum seekers told me of the conditions inside liking it to prison like condition for in relation to coven 90. and they say it's absolutely impossible to socially distance latter learn, self isolate, teaching, sharing, carrying kitchen, setting or not lifting that on some some people not eating, not going be what we're saying from campaign. this is our arguing that it was really just a stroke of luck so they would know death back in january. and how can we possibly see the same thing? now the only way they all get to prevent the west from happening is for the legal proceedings to actually be taken into consideration by the government to change its policy and shot napier for good or how to mob would of care for kelly refugee. charity told me earlier that the authorities are ignoring advice on the migraines conditions. the advice from public housing and on the pier period was that they

didn't see how the dormitories could be situ. despite this to home office has continued to house hon. and because in napier endorse, right, and in the middle of a comic the messages. ringback that we've been getting for residents today suggest that extremely worried about this. they are able to isolate properly. isolation is extremely difficult for them. and now we've had these 3 initial cases encoded where extremely worried that more are going to come in the next few days is just over the issue ation. as you said, this happened in january as well. it was an apple to go car and it's really only a kaiser report is on the way to stand by for maxim, stacy, i'll have you next level up. they live for moscow and just under half an hour see that i.