the, the, the, the ah, the taliban didn't see that going to song the 2nd and 3rd largest cities kandahar and harassed with the medicines ramping up the country was offensive with the us to draw her good luck seems from far as the madana show, a severe dropping efficacy when faced with the delta vary and that's according to a new american study. firefighters and volunteers bottled huge wildfires and rushes far east water stay through emergencies in place. smoke and sharp coated huge areas. correspondence is in the thick of it. firefighters have now created this mineralized zone. this basically a 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, for moscow joining us an ice on our things and i shall, i'm daniel hawkins review. all right, welcome to the program. breaking news has just been coming in from the western russia. and if you vote on ash we're, a bus has exploded with 14 people report leans, and one woman has lost both her legs in the explosion. that's about the size of the bus with the very many meters from a vehicle. there are conflicting reports from the scene about possible causes several scenarios all being investigated, including a gas explosion. russian authorities have been searching for explosive, a local senior official, lo, it says her rhythm is not currently being considered. vehicles driver told us how the incident unfolded. so we were still, people were getting on the bus,

the traffic light turned red. people got them from the cross walk. i started driving off then the last happened, broken glass smoke. i couldn't understand what happened. there was 30 passengers on board. people helped to evacuate. others, there are people who are seriously injured. we go back to, i've got to start our, the taliban says it sees the country 2nd and 3rd largest cities, kendall hall, an error on verified video circulating on social media. you can see it here, religiously shutting africa and security, both fleeing canada hall just half an hour before the announcement. us embassies, no us citizens, to leave. i'm going to start immediately. and so far as to offer loan to americans and able to afford flame tickets. home media reports a claiming and with the staff, but also be evacuated by the us military. couple journalists told my colleague and bray earlier about the worsening national security situation. what more do you know

about the capture of kandahar is that taliban claims? according to some icons, the governor of the province is only left with the 6 or 7 of his body guards, the refusing to leave. he's from kandahar we heard reports of heavy fighting between the taliban and members of the con, the harp police inside the police headquarters. we have to really remember that kinda har is the home of senior, all of our leaders and commanders. this is where this started movement in the 1990 s. i think it's also a very embarrassing scenario for the americans. the international community inital, when a place like cotton r falls in line is time does not have that credible piece process or a comprehensive and permanency side. it was the american officials, you know, and other wisdom officials publicly, priding on the fact that the top to bottom, we're not to do this, the thought about, we're not to do that in this. and now the african people are left extremely

vulnerable. that is not to say that the african government was not incompetent. that is not to say that i've gotten politicians in africa and government failed to put the country before that own political interest in political bickering. and one really feel sorry for africa and soldiers. you know, like they've been bearing the brunt of this conflict. so many within the i've gotten military are now asking, why did we did? why so many sacrifices allow, the americans will say they put in the money they put in the effort. they've had significant losses themselves and i've now pretty much said you're on the road and it's up to you to sorted out. do you now see, judging by what you've just said, that that, that hope is somewhat futile? well, ones that speak to the americans from a very bad full past when the russians who are defeated here, the americans basically left there was nothing for them which lead to the civil war . the rise of tyler bond in the 911 attacks. so many have ones are saying fine, you're leaving, but leave responsibly, you know, leave what the peace process commit to that, you know, don't lit up on it,

on fall back to the 1990 s the dynamics. so quite dangerous, this time for the region for i want to sign in for the world. and let's also not forget, you know, what has been dubbed time and again by, by western countries in every other country as b stocks. these are efforts to start be stuck. these talks have not resulted and an end to the bloodshed and suffering of the african people. and now we are looking at a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions where one's of lost their homes, that harvest the cause, their businesses and the situation could actually get worse. there could be a domino impact on provinces in and around. cobble in, cobble itself does face a massive risk, just how significant is monetary in crisis in afghanistan. right now, i've one children continue to get killed in tragically, shockingly big numbers. we also know that there are civilian casualties and fatalities, but remember, more than a 1000000 ones have been forced to live that homes 1000000 more. who are caught in

the fighting in these major urban centers who fled, who have been displaced over the years in these districts in these provinces. and now they have got nowhere to go. and those who have been able to come to cobble few 1000, and they've only been able to basically bring with themselves a pair of clothes to be united states says pell, told american citizens and at the embassy that they should leave afghanistan for their safety and other american official earlier said he expected cobble to fall within 90 days. how well defended is cobble is 90 days. optimistic? well these statements do cause psychological torture and turbulence among ones. but, you know, we have to also remember that all of these countries, except for the united states and great britain, especially to keep deporting up once, give saying that i want to sign a safe and only recently they have stopped that process temporarily. at least you know, so a couple does face the risk off taliban attacks. large scale attacks because the

districts of cobbled province are not secure the provinces in and around carbon like low. but in water that i've seen a lot of advances. busy and i'm afraid, you know, this is a very psychological fear. now among ones, when you hear such big names, kandahar here, odd mazata. when you hear one official surrendering and making their own ideas, it is ought to have a very destructive and negative impact on the psyche and confidence of african people in cobbled well with the thought about and taking hold of multiple provinces in a single day. the us department says all dramatically reduces the embassy staff in cobble, and american troops will be sent in to facilitate that retails them now joined by correspondent kayla baldwin in new york. caleb, thanks for joining us. thing across the story. this sounds pretty much like it's the last helicopter, out of saigon. how are us officials viewing the situation?

while we now understand that there are $3000.00 us military personnel headed to afghanistan for the purpose of, according to the us state department, overseeing the safe, draw down of civilian personnel from the country. basically, let this point, the u. s. embassy staff and others are being pulled out of the country very quickly . and the military is being sent to a score them and make sure that they are protected in the process of doing that. now, despite the fact that this looks almost like an emergency withdraw, it looks like you know, kind of a panic situation. we have the military escorting us personnel out of the country. there was an attempt to sound optimistic from the us state department. take a listen. this is not abandonment, this is not an evacuation. this is not the wholesale. busy withdrawl,

what this is is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint. this is a draw down of civilian americans. now, in afghanistan, we've seen the taliban sees control of several provinces in just one day. they are inching toward the capital city of cobble. and it's important to know that the taliban offensive, which is now culminating in today's events. it began back in april when joe biden announced that the usa intended to withdraw troops from the country. september 11th . was set as the date from which all us forces would be out of the country. now, this sending in a 3000 more troops to oversee the withdrawal of the u. s. embassy staff, and others that has raised the question about whether or not this fall withdrawl

that was promised by the biden administration is actually going to happen. while the state department is adamant that withdrawal will take place. this is how they responded when being questioned. this is not the reintroduction of military forces to pursue the mission that they were pursuing prior to may 1. now at this point, the united states maintains that despite withdrawing all of its forces and all its personnel from the country within the next couple months, they will continue to offer support to the government of afghanistan. they will support the government of afghanistan. now specifics about how that support would be given were not provided john kirby was pressed on this representing the u. s. department of defense from the pentagon. here's how he responded. does this mean the u. s. military withdrawl is not going to be complete by august 31st. again. what i said was, we're aiming to facilitate the reduction of the civilian personnel by august 31st.

so it's all lining up on the same timeline. i won't speculate about what the footprints gonna look like post to august 31st because there's this additional mission set of, of helping process special immigrants. so we're just going to have to wait and see, but the drop down itself is still on track to be complete by august 31st. that makes no sense, john, i know i know what your troops and i know what you're saying, lucas. i'm saying of the of the original footprint plans that still continuing, but yes, we are adding additional troops for this specific and narrow focus and we're hoping to get them all out by the end of the month. i'm not going to speculate beyond august 31st. now it's important to note the united states has maintained a military presence in afghanistan for over 18 years. and during the time the united states maintain its military presence in afghanistan, things of the country have not become more stable. the drug trade expanded terrorist groups also expanded,

and now it seems that after well over 18 years the united states is in the process of removing its forces from the country. yes, oracle days, although sadly for the people of i've got a son caleb open that with the latest from new york, with austin as he showing no sign of a basing in the country un has worn nearly 400000 people have had to leave their homes since the thought of the gay with a huge spikes may un, this place, people are heading to cobble and search for safety. you know, just some of the heart racing stories that refugees have been displaced from telecom. the telephone killed my son. they took all the belongings from my house and set fire to demonstrate the punch me in the mouth, causing my teeth to fall out. they demanded my son and i told them that he was a school teacher. she recently became a teacher and had not even received his salary yet, had a class has broke out and we were taken hostage and the fighting went on for about

6 to 7 days that we couldn't go outside to do anything we managed to escape. and now where displaced lily my colleague could embrace spoke to for team a guy dani who's involved in the african government official associations with a taliban in the category capital. she told us these talks could be the last chance for peace. we are down by the us, we are let down by the whole world. you will drag in this war 43 years ago and it's going on and on the countries burning non stop. we saw just few years, comparatively, a peace. and now it is growing again, we have to come to an understanding that this is the last opportunity and we have to go to change this country. i'm live together. politically, i saw i saw what is happening to the government side or the side of our sites. we should look to the eye of those people who are this place to the i do see that they

are urging and told them that we have still an opportunity will side of the negotiation table in the because they double side, there is a one side and that's why i'm side is the people of mine is done from off africa or southern europe and beyond months of wildfire. is it becoming a growing catastrophe? 5 heart is and even the military are battling to bring the vast and deadly fires on the control. the, the me in eastern

rushes, one of the areas devastated by flames. almost 5000 people fighting the wildfires and the huge you could, your region with 700 pieces of equipment also deployed. take smokers forced air force to cancel flights with officials, confirming permissible exposure limit for toxic small company breached with reserve residence complaining of shortness of breath and dry eyes. a state of emergency has been enforced in the area for my dmitri poke sent us this report. me who i so we're still traveling for the village where we're 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 is late covered and smoke a red sky above it. and over looking all of this is a bunch of cows. some 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 in if you're wondering what the raj all the flavors looks like, something like that the lose, the last step of the 20 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 today. 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 were fallen tis 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 a whole on our eyes on our breath, on our lungs. it's very rough out there. the guys that 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 a warring drop and efficacy for the pfizer and madana cobra vaccines. mom been marked to a new american study. the results, so they dipped significantly against the delta straight off the 6 month,

responded here, but frankly joined my colleague calling bray earlier to explain the findings. this is a so called 3 print study, which means that it hasn't gone through peer review yet, but the study contains numbers. the numbers outline, the 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 z, madera 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 these 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 than a month ago, it was about plus 12000 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 beds. and here's what we heard from one doctor who was working with corporate patients in the region. we're going back to want you to go when you base our full so we have to put pins lacking more than happy to allow 2 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 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 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 aren'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

to our roaring fact seeing efforts, we gain 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 variance is at 95 percent, which is impressive when it comes to rushes. sputnik fee, the efficacy drops, just like in the case of but there are no. and pfizer, but it's 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 nick 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. i'm pretty sure, and the physician runs, you bra says some countries and cutting themselves off from scientific advances for political re this whole pandemic really held a mirror out for the world. it's showing us many uncomfortable truth about our political system, about health and equality about inequality globally. and of course, about a political move to ation, which interfere with what other light be strictly scientific and medical consideration. so for example, in, in britain, we have been quite forward in making huge

a contract with the united states and other countries to buy the vaccines. but we have to just ignore the efficacy, both of the russian vaccine and of course of the chinese. and it does seem that we're going to suffer the results of the funding find vaccine tickler was 1st to publish phase 3 results. and at that time showed in 1906 percent efficacy was the most effective of actions really. and it does the efficacy holding up very well, but we are cutting off the political reasons from the scientific advances that are available in the world today. new development is now in the concert talk show host tucker carlson claims that the american government was spying on him. the us national security agency now says it will conduct an internal investigation called complained in june that an enforcement had said the agency was spong and him in an effort to derail his show. on sunday, we heard from

a whistleblower within the u. s. government, someone direct knowledge who warned us at the n s i was reading our electronic communications, our emails and tax, and was planning to leak them selectively in an effort to hurt us. at the time, the and i say abruptly denied causes accusations, saying it had no plan to sabotage his program. this was a rare response from the traditionally secretive agency, and fellow journalists from rival media outlets marked the fox news host, suggesting he may have simply made up the claim. if you want to believe the n s a is reading your favorite tv star, the males go right ahead. he claims it's true. carlson is a conspiracy monger law enforcement about to expose you for doing something really bad. been doing me in tucker carlson and the size of our peers not so far fetched. the report saying that calls in his personal information was illegally foster on the intelligence community. one possible reason for the ledge, that surveillance was reported that he was trying to arrange the interview with

vladimir putin. so unless i'm calling to try to, it was says it's all this story has been largely ignored. what the us media what's interesting and what was telling of the state of journalism in this country is that when deborah calls and birth came out with these allegations, you would think that journalists across the country would pay attention that they would be concerned that you story this is something that affects them personally that could end up with them. it's something that certainly affects their industry and affect the integrity of the profession, the integrity of american journalism. so you think that if a journalist for doing something as innocent and rightful as requesting an interview with a world leaders and then made that person a target of fighting and perhaps political retaliation by the n. a say you would think media across the board would be very concerned and interested in this. instead, what happened? did you add mainstream corporate media roundly, either ignoring it or mocking tucker calls and ridiculing in and suggesting he was

some sort of conspiracy theorists. and that he was paranoid and and now it turns out new is probably correct that these things we're going back to going on is council culture killing comedy? plenty of fan ups and comics seem to think so. they say the laughter business is under threat because offending the so called p c. mall could be career ending. material can try and please everyone, your please. no one with comedy is while you go, i think god deal with booze and content issues. and sometimes you did an irony, some people don't get, not when everybody gets safe and nobody tries anything. things get boring right movie. so i see a lot of unfunny comedians unfunny tv shows, you know, it's hard to be a comedian as it is. and if you're going to muscle someone and they have to be careful what they say, it makes it that much more difficult. so we should the stand up,

no censorship here and comedian should not be afraid. and they should not be attacked by others who are the twitter police or, or the morality police. where do you draw the line or the silent job? many comic say they feel have to comply with the more woke a gender avoiding controversial jokes such as these 3, like a 100 pounds overweight. i'm like, why don't you show some respect and lose a little weight. next time you have the middle seat on a flight, you won't be filling. literally the only thing a modem, where a burke in an engine and comment is an order survive. they both need to be quiet. i dealt with the restaurants and that indian food, that indian cuisine, indian food, potatoes and poverty. but american comedian, actor and director seth rogan, has no trouble talking to p. c lines saying comics,

criticism of it has been to brush evil and social media is say there are plenty of up and coming comedians, happy to play it safe for today's edge. you material that comes tomorrow's unacceptable and out of touch gig. but comedian months or failure worries that increasing self censorship is a troubling trend. comedy is something that brings people together in why, why would you want to get rid of that? yes, some people will be offended by some jokes. not everybody finds the same things funny, but the potential is there, like what brings people more than anything else? is comedy and, you know, i don't think it's just comedians, you know, people in general are certainly self censoring. they don't wanna lose their job over something. they said 10 years ago or just ever they don't want to get censored or lose their income for a joke. so of course people are self censoring that stuff.