the tragic news from russia, one woman has died and 18 other people are injured. after a blast tore through a bus in the russian town of ron. as officials are yet to identify the cause. and i witness says the explosion hit the vehicle extremely hard. the explosion was very loud, so loud i was definitely for some time. and the plus pressure was so high that my car was almost pushed to the other side of the road. to tell about it says it has seized the dentist and the 2nd and 3rd largest cities that come to her and her aunt with the militants ramping up in their country. why defensive amid the u. s. a troop withdrawn and fire fighters and volunteers. battle huge wildfires in rushes far east, where the state of emergency is enforced. smoke and ash have coated a huge area of correspondent is in the thick of it. firefighters have now created

this mineralized zone. that's 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 ah, the broadcast you want to read from studios and moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now news from the western russian city of veronica, where an explosion tore through a public bus injury 800 people. one woman later died of her injuries and at least 3 more people remained in a very serious condition. now a bit of a warning viewers may find the following images distressing. this we've taken moments before the explosion and here you can see it happening, debris flying from all sides than a fire. the vehicle was carrying 30 to 35 passengers and some of those still able to move fled within seconds and more disturbing images of the explosion. an injured

person lying on the ground among the debris. a number of explanations before the blast are being looked at by officials. an eye witness told us what he saw. the little revenue i was driving towards the southwest marketplace and drove by the bus . a black 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 the 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 call was almost pushed to the other side of the road. basically, the most concrete and well statement we've had, we've had, is from russia's anti terrorist committee 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. but why mac radicals? according to them, this version is not completely ruled out, but it is definitely not the primary one. they are essentially freezing verse 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 there, 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 the 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 a an attack, but they just happened to have something in that went off. we do know for a fact that the investigators they are checking the whole bus pause, perhaps suspecting, but maybe one vehicle has something like that installed,

which should have be in there. because according to all documentation, there's bus was diesel tower. of course you can marry diesel and gas, but 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, then the possibility that the bus in question that the vehicle in question, who had this device there? well, it grows exponentially. and so also another thing that 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 bloss have a listen project 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 they're 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 piercing 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 this 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 is severely damaged, it is still while it is still quite battered investigated, but according to the bus driver who is fine and who was in the front part of the bus. here's what happened on that vehicle as it was world waiting at the bus stop. miss diane and i thought we were still people getting on the bus, the traffic light tone red people got them from the cross walk. i started driving off, then the blast 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 well, 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 now track down the stand where the taliban says it has seized the country. second and 3rd largest cities tend to hard rock on verified video is circulating on social media, purportedly showing after security forces fleeing kinda hard just half an hour before the telephones announcement. the u. s. embassy in cobble is urging all americans to leave half gonna stand 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 us military, couple journalist and told my colleague, calling bray earlier about the deteriorating 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 here 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, all of our 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 cutting our falls in line and 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 it. 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 con, like so 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 band 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 tyler bond in the 911 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 stan 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 b stocks. these are efforts to start be stuck to these talks have not resulted in 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 that cause their businesses and the situation could actually get worse. that could be a domino impact on provinces in and around. cobble in cobble itself does face a massive risk just how significant is like the amount of terry and crisis in afghanistan. right now, have 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 leave 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've 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, to state says, told all american citizens under the embassy that they should leave afghanistan for that 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 be as keep deporting off once. 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 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 i've seen a lot of thought about advances. busy and i'm afraid, you know, this is a very psychological fear. now among ones, when you hear such big names, kandahar, hey, 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 african people in common with the taliban taking hold of multiple provinces in a single day. the us state department says it will dramatically reduce its embassy staff in cobble with american troops sent in to help. and although this may look like evacuation something akin to the 1975 saigon airlift. the state department tried to strike an optimistic top 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 the current taliban offensive began back in april when joe biden announced that he intended to withdraw all us forces from the country by september 11th. now that gave question gave rise to 2 questions at this point. you know, and what is really going on now, will the usa now that it's sent, you know, 3000 more troops to oversee the, the, you know, the withdrawal of us civilian personnel and embassy staff. will the usa continue to have a role in the country? well, when that question was presented to the state department, here's the response. 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 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 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 emission 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 adding additional groups for this specific and narrow focus and you'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 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, an engine closer to cobble. those plans to withdraw from afghanistan seemed to be in full effect. meanwhile, a number of us, a news outlets aside,

an undisclosed intelligence official saying that the capital couple could fall to the taliban within 90 days. here's the situation on the ground. now the milton's control about 2 thirds of the country here shown in red and leaving africa and government forces cure in green with a much diminished territory. the rest are currently contested regions. now the islamists have taken hold of some districts in close proximity to the capital. the telephone ramped up it's offensive in april following us president jo biden's announcement said he was pulling american troops out at the time. the limit group held less than a 5th of the country's territory. now they control well more than half. it's seen africa and government controlled areas shrink from about 30 percent of the country to just 16 percent right now. and with the hostilities showing no sign of abating in afghanistan, the u. n. has warned that nearly 400000 people have had to leave their homes since the start of the year with a huge spike. since may,

the un says the displaced people are heading to cobble in search of safety. you are just some of the heart wrenching stories that refugees have to tell. i have been just placed from telecom. the telephone killed my son. they 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 he's a school teacher. so she recently became a teacher and had not even received his salary. had a cautious broke out, we were taken hostage in the fighting, went on for about $6.00 to $7.00 days, and we couldn't go outside to do anything we managed to escape. and now we are displaced to let you know jerome. we saw the ball from the international committee . of the red cross told us that civilians are caught in the crossfire with hospitals. hard pressed to deal with the influx of injured and dead as well as coven infections. right, so more and more, we've got this been kinda for in their house. they've been

hospitalized for stuff like electricity for like what are distributing for in the near offer is that the people that are offered hospitals who are already sick now. for example, hospitals in margin over the seas. you're coming from the thing is is this, make this miserable for the common people who have been in the nation actually. now if you remember

from north africa to southern europe and beyond months of wildfires are a growing catastrophe firefighters and even the military are battling to bring the vast and deadly blazes under control. the, the me in and eastern russia is one of the areas devastated. almost 5000 people are fighting flames. and the huge your could, your region with $700.00 pieces of equipment also deployed, fix, smoke has forced to airports to cancel flights. officials have confirmed

permissible exposure limits for toxic smog have been breached with residents complaining of shortness of breath and dry eyes. a state of emergency has been enforced in the area from where dmitri pollock sends us this report and 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 couldn't help, but stop at this. scenic location is late covered and smoke a red sky above it. and all we're 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 a wondering what the raj, all these places look like something like this. the last step is when you full of fires the most difficult as it encompasses enlarge area. the minimalized area has been created there 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 ash ah, the result of his employees from the ministry, the emergency situation, everyone, his 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 blood, so they cancel on our eyes on our breath, on our lungs. 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 6 people including a child who died after a gunman repeatedly opened fire and south west england. 3 females, 2 men and a men actually believed to be the shooter, have died. several others were injured in the incident as well, which took place in the city of plymouth. on thursday evening, the shootings are not thought to be terror related. an investigation continues with the area cordon off overnight worrying drop in efficacy for

pfizer and madonna covert vaccines have been highlighted by a new american study showing they dipped significantly against the delta strain after 6 months. or do you feel if trent go goes deeper into the story? you're about to see the face and hear the thoughts of a leader confident. he's almost beaten coven and his country. thanks to our roaring facts, seen efforts, we gain the apprehend against this virus. we do live our lives, our kids can go back to school. our economy is rory back. it must be really painful to peddle back from that which mr. biden hasn't done for now. a month after the speech, though, a senior member of his administration couldn't help admitting the nation was facing a real wake up call. if that's not a wake up call, i don't know what is, what is this scary wake up call that can be rail the whole quote unquote,

heroic vaccine effort. look, pfizer is the most popular job in america. but research data collected in one state, minnesota shows that pfizer efficacy against coven dropped below 50 percent in july . and now stands at 42 percent. the studies. 6 not universal and its conclusions haven't gone through a peer review yet, but there's no turning a blind eye on the worrying numbers in it. so what, what wrong key reason could be that the white house, along with the whole health care system is up against the pesky enemy, the numbers, unfortunately moving in the wrong direction. as delta is the predominant variant here in the united states, we are going to begin with the pandemic cases are soaring across our country. driven by the highly contagious delta vary and the as the delta various races through all 50 states, driving new case numbers upward. it's all reflected in the numbers that have gone

from about 12000 new cases at the end of june in the us to more than 155001 august, the 11th. look at the curve. it's nowhere near flattening. nobody wants the worst case scenario when mutations outsmart the scientists, but that is a possibility. in the meantime, southern states have begun reporting, forges and intensive care unit beds. the crisis is taking install on health workers, country by country delta is putting the whole world to the test. now it's apparently america's turn. it's also a crucial exam for vaccine developers. the good news is that johnson and johnson and split big v shots are still highly effective against the delta variance with 905 and 83 percent efficacy, we're affectively. but it looks like covert and its butane capabilities will keep

bringing new greek alphabet letters into the public consciousness. unfortunately, much more complicated efficacy. math could be on the way. all right, british surgeon and physician around g, brian says that some countries are cutting themselves off from scientific advances for political reasons. this whole panoramic really held a mirror out for the well did show many of the truth about our political system, about health and equality about inequality globally. and of course about the political move servatius which interfere with what other light be strictly scientific and medical consideration. so for example, in, in britain, we have been quite full would, in making huge a contract with united states and other countries to buy their 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 result of that at the,

at the sputnik 5 vaccine tickler was 1st to publish the site 3 results. and at that time showed in 96 percent efficacy was the most effective vaccines really. and it does seem that efficacy is holding up very well, but we are cutting off political reasons from the scientific advances that are available in the world today. that is a for me, i'll be back and say 30 minutes with a look at your headlines. this is art international, me, the next 10 is really blessed and we got to take bus buddy. the last stroke had a weird incident at home where a pins that are in his home bullying land screws his pop. but he's back susan, 3, duff versus buddy. the cake bus buddy the last row right up to this. dennis miller plus one.