in the tragic news it from russia, one woman dies and 18 other people are injured in an explosion on a bus in the russian town. of the reasons for the blast are as yet unknown. the explosion was very loud. so loud i was deafening. for some time and the flush pressure was so high that my car was almost pushed to the other side of the road. to tell upon, says it has seized, i've got to stand 2nd and 3rd largest cities come to her and with the militants wrapping up their country. why defensive? amid the u. s. troop withdrawal, the firefighters and volunteers, battle huge wildfires and rushes far east, where a state of emergency is enforced. smoke and ash coated huge areas are corresponded in the thick of a firefighters have now created this mineralized zone. that's 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, broadcasting live direct, more studios and moscow. this is our t international. i'm sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. and we start with breaking news from the western russian city of nations where an explosion has taken place on a bus, injuring 800 people. one woman later died of her injuries and another person remains in a very serious condition. a bit of a warning viewers may find the following images distressing. or this was taken moments before the explosion and there you can see it happening, debris flying from all sides. then a fire vehicle was carrying 30 to 35 passengers. and some of those still able to move fled within seconds. more disturbing images of the explosion. an injured

person lying on the ground among the debris and a number of ex, for the glass are being looked at by officials and eye witness told us what he saw . the realtor that i was driving towards the southwest marketplace and drove by the bus. a blast 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, 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 was basically the most concrete and well statement we've had . we've had, is from russia's anti terrorist committee, or rather rushes investigative committee, i should say, the version of a terrorist attack. this is something that has been on everybody's minds on

everybody's lips because russia is no stranger to such attacks by law, mac radicals, according to them, this version is not completely ruled out, but it is definitely not the primary one. they are essentially treating this as a very tragic accident, and they're suspecting that the operator of the bus talk that it was, well, it was negligent when it came to will safety of transportation. and that they're suspecting the maybe they had like a gas cylinder installed. and that was something that went off another version. and another aspect of this suspicion is that some of the passengers might have had something in their luggage. again, like a gas leak or something. there was no malice, no bad in time to cause and, and well, it wasn't the, wasn't an attack, but they just happened to have something that went off. we do know for a fact that the investigators, they all checking the whole bus pog, perhaps suspecting. but maybe one vehicle had something like that installed. we shouldn't have to be in there because according to all documentation,

this bus was diesel tower. of course you can, mary, diesel and gas about, i mean, that would go very much against any will any safety of transportation. so they're taking the whole parks to see that if other buses have something like that installed. is that the possibility that the bus in question that the vehicle in question also had this device there? well, it grows exponentially. and so also another thing that is, is pointing against the version of a terrorist attack is, well, a witness account over the source in police of an r t source within the law enforcement. who have said that basically the aftermath of the explosion says simply, doesn't look like the one you see after a terrorist blas have listen projects such as pieces. so when nails things usually used in exposes devices were not found. those injured were mostly calmed by fragments of flat and glass. however,

the chin said it could be an explosive device, can still not be ruled out. so what that talking about that is a very common and well world by practice used by world terrorists. they do not just hope or the do not pin the hold on the blast wave on the damage done by the blast wave. but rather they stuff for the id with all sorts of little sharp metal objects like bolts nuts and wires and so on. and so forth, so that when this device goes off, it's not just the blas wave, but also these pieces of metal is seeing through the flesh, through the bodies. and it just multiply the may, that the device can well can, can, can wreak the, all the, all the havoc, basically something went off in the rear left side of the bus. something went off and you can see there, you see, there you go, there it goes off in the rail, left part of the bus. you can see the explosion very clearly. there it is again. and so the left even, even, even if you look at the pictures,

the left side of the bus is completely destroyed and the right one, even though it severely damaged, it is still while it is still quite battered and decimated. but according to the bus driver, who is fine and who was in the front part of the bus, his what happened on that vehicle as it was well waiting at the bus stop? miss diane and we were still people 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. people helped to evacuate so that there are people who are seriously injured. so again, the authorities are, of course, looking into all versions into all possibilities in parallel to this, the governor has announced, and he's that he's urged all citizens to be extra vigilant tomorrow for any on an unattended packages, any unattended items, like quote, bags and so on. and so forth. so just to just so,

so that the people remain vigilant just in case the raises someone out there who wants to hurt people of veronica. and of course, hopefully the list of wounded and killed does not grow any further. and i want to i can stand where the taliban says it has seized the country. second and 3rd largest cities, kandahar and up on verified video is circulating on social media, purportedly showing aft end security forces, fleeing kandahar just half an hour before the telephones announcement. u. s. embassy in trouble is urging all americans to leave. i understand immediately going so far as to offer loans to those unable to afford plane tickets. home media reports, claim embassy. staff will also be evacuated by the u. s. military. a couple journalist told my colleague, con brake earlier about the deteriorating national security situation in the country. 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 god is refusing to leave. here 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 come to har, is the home of senior thought about leaders and commanders. this is where they started their movement in the 1990 s. i think it's also very embarrassing scenario for the americans, the international community, a nickel. when a place called in on line, and sam does not have that credible piece process or a comprehensive and permanency side, the was the american officials and other western 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 their own political interest and 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 african 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 set that, that, that hope is somewhat futile? well, i ones the speak to the americans from a band full past when the russians are defeated here, the americans basically left there was nothing for them which lead 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 a stand 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 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. these talks have not resulted 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 mandatory and crisis in afghanistan. right now, i've won 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. a 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 gotten 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 has told all american citizens under the embassy that they should leave afghanistan for that safety and other american official earlier said he expected cobbles 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 parents keep deporting on. keep 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 of 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 seen a lot of taliban 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 psych in confidence. so the african people in cobbled with the taliban taking hold of multiple provinces in a single day. the state department says it will dramatically reduce its embassy staff in couple with american troops sent in to help. and although this may look like an evacuation something akin to the 1975 saigon airlift. the state department tried 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. there are 3000 us 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 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. 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 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. 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 set 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 the 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 completed 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 going to 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, 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 over 18 years. and during that time,

the country has not become any more stable the role of the drug lord than 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. meanwhile, a number of us at news outlets site and on disclose intelligence official saying that the capital couple could fall to the taliban within 90 days. and here's the situation right now on the ground. the militants control about 2 thirds of the country. you can see it marked in red. now leaving africa and government forces

right here in green, in the center, much diminished territory. now the rest are currently confessed contested regions. the islamists have taken hold of some district in close proximity to the capital. the telephone ramped up it's offensive in april, following us president joe biden, to announcements that he was pulling american troops out at the time. the is mr. group held less than a 5th of the countries territory. now they control wasn't half. it is seen african government controlled areas shrink from about 30 percent. the country to just about 16 percent now. now, with the hostilities showing no sign of abating in afghanistan, the un has warned that nearly 400000 people have had to leave their home since the start of the year with a huge spike. since may you and says the displaced people are heading to cobble in search of safety. here are just some of the heart wrenching stories that refugees have. i mean, just from telecom,

the taliban 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's 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 in 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 we are displaced. earlier, my colleague collen brace spoke to fatima galani, who is involved in the afghan government official negotiations with the taliban in the tar e capital. doha. while she told us that these talks could be the last chance for peace, we are down by the us. we are let down by the whole world. he 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 oh those people that they are hurting and tell them that we have still an opportunity will side of the negotiation table. next ended because they double side did the one side and that's one side is the people off on is done watching our teacher national one is after short break. stay with us. oh i i driven by dreaming shaped by

those in me dares thing. we dare to ask in a crash trillions of dollars that they send to chinese workers and chinese factory owners who make the world goods that they shipping containers into amazon warehouses and wal mart stores where millions and millions of americans work at a less than survive role minimum wage and are for the 1st time in america,

life expectancy is going down. the welcome back. this is our international not least 6 people have died in a shooting in southwest england. 3 females, 2 men and a man believed to be the offender have died. several other people were also injured in the incident which took place on thursday evening. and the shootings in the city of plymouth are understood to not be terror related. an investigation continues and an area has been cordoned off overnight from north africa to southern europe and beyond. months of wildfires are becoming a growing catastrophe firefighters and even the military are battling to bring the vast and deadly fires under control.

the news news in and eastern russia is one of the areas devastated almost $5000.00 people are fighting the flames in the huge equity region. with 700 pieces of equipment deployed there as well. fix smoke has forced airports to cancel flights. officials have confirmed permissible exposure limits for toxic smog have been breached the residents complaining of shortness of breath and dry eyes. the state of emergency has been enforced in the area from where to be true. power consensus. this report,

me who i 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 can 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 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 that, give me the last step, which once you full of fires the most difficult as it encompasses enlarge area, the minimalized 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, 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 situations of 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 and 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 blind 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 blood. it was taking its whole on our eyes on her breast, 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 r t new developments in conservative talk show host tucker carlson's claims that the american government was spying on him. as the u. s. national security agency now says it will conduct an internal investigation. carlson claimed in june that an informant had said that the agency was spying on him in an effort to derail his show. on sunday, we heard from a whistleblower within the u. s. government some with direct knowledge who warned us that the essay was reading our electronic communications or e mails and tax and was planning to leak them selectively in an effort to hurt us. and at the time, the se abruptly denied carlson's accusation saying it had no plans to sabotage his

program. it was a rare response from the traditionally reclusive agency and fellow journalists from rival media outlets mark the fox news host, suggesting he might have simply made up the claims. 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 and do it me in tucker carlson. and i now it appears not so far fetched with a report saying that carlson's personal information was illegally passed around the intelligence community when possible. reason for the alleged surveillance was reportedly that he was trying to arrange an interview with let me put in journalist and commentator chad work more says that it is odd in this story has been largely ignored by the us media. what's interesting, what was telling of the state of journalism in this country is that when tupper

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 affecting them. it's something that certainly affects their industry and would affect the integrity of the profession, the integrity of american journalism. so you think that if a journalist for doing something, an 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 you 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 that's the news is our another look in about 30 minutes. this is our international. glad to have you with

ah, me one. make no certainly no borders under my teeth. and you emerge. we don't have authority, we go to the back seat. the whole world needs to take action and be ready. not a joke. people are judge governors crisis, we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes it feel very proud that we need together.