the ah project news from russia, one woman dies and 15 other people are injured in a boss explosion in the russian city, varnish the reasons for the blas all. as yet another headlines, the taliban says, the thieves have going on. second and 3rd largest cities tend to ha, inherit the medicine ramping up the country. what offensive? i mean, the u. s. troop withdrawal and firefighters and volunteers bottled huge wildfire in russia the far east. whereas they did emergencies in place smoke and ash have coated huge areas, correspondent is in the thick of a firefighters have now created this mineralized zone. this is basically all porpoise of this, is that the fire, if you could see it's still burning there,

it will not be able to pass beyond the zone. ah, why, for most good, thanks for joining us tonight. so on teens and national on dining walking through this evening, welcome to the program. now we start with breaking news. this out from the western russian city varnish were an explosion. second place on a bus, injuring 15 people. one woman later died of her injuries. another person remains in critical condition. let's take a look at some of the images from the scene. a warning view is may find these videos distressing. this was moments before the blasts and you can see the exposure actually happening with a fire taking place after the vehicle was carrying 35 passengers. some of those were able to flee in the old suing seconds. more distressing images of the explosion, which one is stockings and lying on the ground among the debris?

a number of theories of being examined by officials theme. well, he goes down off his with me in the studio, he's been across the story, eager again, the day to give a probable cause. we can speculate on what might have happened. what motions are officially looking at? well, indeed, it is a very sensitive time. and so it's easy to jump to conclusions when you breathing social media and as all sorts of experts saying this definitely looks like this. and then another one saying, well, you should look better because it looks nothing like what you've just said. so it's better to stick with the official version, the lease, the lease they are. well, they're backed with facts and they're backed with reason and right now according to a source within the louis louis enforcement. there are 3 versions that the officials will take him to consideration. the 1st one is full t bus equipment that something and jammed. something went wrong and there's plenty

of things to explode on the bus including rolled a gas tank. also another version is that some passenger or had something in the luggage, unintentionally something explosive, so not a terrorist attack, but rather a tragic coincidence and a tragic accident. or maybe the bus operator had something installed on the bus that shouldn't have been there in the 1st place. and finally, the 3rd version is something that is on everybody's minds, i should say. but this source is pointing out an underlying that in their opinion. it's the least possible version as of now is a terrorist attack. so we have that. in fact, brushes investigative committee has already stepped forward and has said that they are not preaching. this is a terrorist attack, but their main version is that it was well a tragic accident and that the just something explosive happened to be on the bus, but it wasn't planted deliberately. there was no malice. there was no attacker

sensually that just somebody will. somebody did not maintain that piece of explosive equipment, as well as they should have, or shouldn't have installed it again in the 1st place. so these are the reasons, but going back to what happened on the bus. in fact, we have an eyewitness account of a person who tried to help those injured in the explosion, and in fact, some, some of the most gravely wounded have a listen little so i was driving towards the southwest market place and drove by the bus suddenly happened my car was shaken. i looked in the rearview mirror and saw that my vehicle had been passed by an explosion. i stopped . the buses, roof is blown away. people start arriving of emergency services please. simon. someone was taken away with a legs blown off, of us had severe abrasions. the explosion was very loud. so loud i was deafened for some time. and the plus pressure was so high that my car was almost pushed to the

other side of the road. so again, the authorities, they, i'm posing basically a whole string of measures in the future. like, for example, the governor has said that basically all of the, all of the buses, you know, within the cities communication system, they will be checked. and probably the reason for this check is to see, at least to take the will, the park of this particular bus operate of this particular company and see you that maybe they have a pattern. and they habit of, you know, installing some equipment like gas cylinders, which shouldn't be, that was just storing such equipment on the bus because according to all passports, to all documentation, this particular vehicle was diesel powered. of course, you can directly marry the 2 and how to make it both diesel and gas powered, but that will be tinkering with some very well that would be a serious slaps in safety and security. so maybe they are trying to look at that because if one bus had something like routes installed on it,

then maybe other buses have to maybe this is a business model of the operator, so to speak. but also in parallel. the governor had previously also revealed that they would edge his citizens to be extra vigilant tomorrow when they get on buses, in case there are any unattended items, like well on the pendant bags and so on and so forth. so basically they're taking it with, with a big pinch of caution. essentially this is what they're doing. and so they're trying to, they're trying to contain whatever possible fall out that could be from this tragedy. again, 18 people in told who has been injured in today's tragedy. one person of the person who you've had the eye witness talking about. doctors had to amputate a woman's leg in a bid to save her life. but she was already so badly wounded that she was be on the point of well, when doctors and medics could, it could do anything. so one person dead,

18 wounded. and also another important piece of information from, from a source in the police. they told the r t that essentially they so far have not found any nuts, bolts crews, and wires and everything that terrorists use to fill their e d to maximize the may hammond the damage that they're doing. so that is not just the blast wave, but also these little tiny shopped or sharp objects which piece people's bodies like bullets and therefore kill and wound many, many more ego. thanks for that update that will get back to you during the night as more information does come in, he goes down there with the they stopped well, going back to your other top headlines now and i've got a song where the tunnel and says it sees the country, 2nd and 3rd largest cities, kendall and hara, on a verified, but it was circulating on social media, allegedly showing i've gotten security, bought his slee kandahar just half an hour before the tele buttons announcement. us

embassy, and cobble is urging americans to leave. i've kind of thought immediately going so far as to offer low to those and able to afford plane tickets. home media reports member to also be evacuated by the us military. a couple of journalists told my colleague column bray about the worst and national security situation. what more do you know about the capture of kandahar as the taliban claims? according to some icons, the governor of the province is only left with the 6 or 7 of his body guards refusing to leave his from kandahar. we heard reports of heavy fighting between the taliban and members of the con, the heart police inside the police headquarters. we have to really remember that come to har. is the home of senior thought about leaders and commanders. this is where this started their 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 falls in line and time does not have a credible piece process or a comprehensive and permanency side. the 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, that's all 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 their 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 conflicts many when they have 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 just said, that that hope is somewhat futile?

well, i ones do speak to the americans from a very been full past when the russians are defeated here, the americans basically left, there was nothing for them which led to the civil war, the rise of taliban. then the $911.00 attacks. so many 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 hold 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 to know what has been dubbed time and again by western countries in every other country as be stopped. these are efforts to be stuck to these talks have not resulted in an end to the bloodshed in suffering of the african people. and now we are looking at a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions where outlines of last homes that harvest the cause, their businesses and the situation could actually get worse. there could be a domino impact on provinces and around. cobble in, cobble itself does face

a massive risk, just how significant is monetary and crisis in afghanistan. right now, i've one children continue to get killed in tragically, shockingly big numbers. we also know that their civilian casualties and fatalities, but remember, more than a 1000000 ones have been forced to leave that homes 1000000 more. who are caught in the fighting and the major urban centers who fled, who have been displaced over the years in these districts in these provinces. and now they've got nowhere to go. and those who have been able to come to couple, few 1000 and they've only been able to basically bring with themselves a pair of clothes to be united. state says, told all american citizens under 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 on, give saying that i want to son is safe and only recently they have stopped at process temporarily. at least you know, so a couple does face the risk off the 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 thought about, you know, advances. busy and i'm afraid, you know, this is a very psychological fear. now among ones, when you hear such big names, kandahar rod 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 the african people in conflict with the taliban taking hold of multiple provinces and just

a single day to us state farm and so dramatically reduce its embassy staff in cobble with american troops to help though this may look like an evacuation something akin to the 1975 saw gone. and if the state department try to strike an optimistic note, 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. love. now it's in your can tell him, open for more on this taylor, but does sound pretty much like dasia blue, akin to, as we said, the helicopter evacuation out of sight. gone back in the seventy's. how do you think us officials are describing who to ation?

what we now understand that there are 3000 u. s. military personnel headed for afghanistan to secure what it's calling a safe, draw down of american civilian personnel. basically u. s. embassy staff, and others are going to be a score to the out of the country by the military. the military will be there to make sure that they're not harmed in the process. now we do know at this point that the taliban after receiving, receiving and seizing several provinces in a single day, is now engine closer to the capital city of cobble. but on tuesday, joe biden made clear that washington is not going to step in to rescue cobble in this situation. take a listen. the african leaders have to come together. we lost thousands at last death and injury. thousands of american personnel got to fight for themselves. now, 3000

u. s. military personnel are there to oversee the evacuation of the embassy staff. this is in process, but when asked in the us state department made pretty clear that they do not intend to leave them there. this is not taking away from the timeline for withdrawal from afghanistan that joe biden established take a listen. this is not the reintroduction of military forces to pursue the mission that they were pursuing prior to may 1. now september 11th is the deadline that joe biden sat for which the us forces will be withdrawn from the country. however, us officials continue to make clear that despite pulling all us forces out of the country, they intend to still offer support to the afghan government. in the face of the onslaught of the taliban. now how exactly this support will be offered was something that john kirby representing the pentagon refused to clarify. here's what

happened when he was asked about it. 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 august 31st because there's this additional mission set of, of helping process special immigrants. so we're just gonna 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 know the united states has maintained

a military presence in afghanistan for over 18 years. and during that time, the country is not become any more stable the role of the drug lords and the poppy field has certainly expanded in the country, different terrorist groups and warlords of battled for control. the taliban remained intact with different parts of territory and such. and now after 18 years of the united states, not having success, when it came to the stabilisation of afghanistan, we had the united states set to leave the country. and despite the taliban marching ahead and inching closer to cobble, those plans to withdraw from afghanistan seemed to be in full effect. thanks for the callum open life from new york. meanwhile, a number of us media outlets site and under closed intelligence officials, same capital kabul could fall, so that's out of and within just 90 days. well,

let's take a closer look at the situation across the country. as things stand, medicines control, huge sways all the toad. seen all around the central part here in red. that leaves africa and government forces here in green. the other areas of course, are contested between militants and the african army. now there isn't. we have taken hold of some districts in very close proximity to the capital. the thought about, of course, from top it's offensive. back in a pool that followed, jo bought nearly 60 percent all up going to stop and see not got government control . there is shrink from out 30 percent of the country to just 16 percent to day. now with austin, as he's showing no sign of waiting in the country, the u. n. has warned nearly 400000 people to leave the home since the start of the year. but the huge spikes and may, the un says of the size people are heading to cobol in such a safety. here just some of the heart wrenching stories, the refugees have to tell. i have been from telecon. the telephone killed my

son to be took all the belongings from my house and set fire to them in front of 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. so she recently became a teacher and had not even received salary. had a cautious broke out. we were taken hostage of the fighting, went on for about 6 or 7 days, but we couldn't go outside to do anything we managed to escape. and now where do you live calling called embrace spoke to 14 windsor, lonnie, who's involved in the african government official negotiations with the taliban, and guitar re capital doha. she told us the folks 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 that 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. i do people that are hurting and tell 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 my side is the people off on is done from north africa to southern europe, and beyond months of wildfires become a growing catastrophe firefighters and even the military are battling to ring the vast and deadly fires on the control. the

eastern russia is one of the areas devastated. almost 5000 people are fighting the flames in the queue. you could, your region with 700 pieces of equipment also deployed. fix smokers forced air force to cancel flights with officials, confirming permissible exposure limits for toxic smoke breached with residents complaining of shortness of breath, dry eyes, a state of emotions. he has been a force in the area from where the true power sends us this report. me. ooh

ah. so we're still traveling to 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. phoenix location is late covered in 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

wondering what the raj, all these places look like. it's something like this. give lose the last step when you full of fire is the most difficult and it encompasses a large 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, the result of his employees from the ministry emergency situation. so everyone is head, plow, plough, manage, extinguish, saw. so while 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 in 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. plus, it was taking its whole on our eyes on our breath. on our lungs are very rough out there. the guys are, they're constantly and 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 chaotic all of this can be. i have information about our t is counsel coleson killing comedy. plenty of stops and colic seem to think so. they say the loss of business is under threat to because of the so called p. c mob could be career ending material in time please everyone, your please know one with comedy as well. you've got i think god deal with booze and content issues. and sometimes you date an irony, some people don't get not when everybody gets safe and nobody tries anything. things get boring, right. moving. so i see a lot of unfunny comedians at sea 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,

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criticism of it has been to brush and people on social media and say there are plenty of up and telling comedians, happy to oblige safer. today's materials and comments tomorrow is acceptable and out of touch, gig, comedian, math, or follow though, worry 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 want to 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 will be going next to our top

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