have a discourse on that terrain. the the 21 moment said and 17 others arrange it for a powerful bluff test for a bus in the town of roneesh in western russia. officials a yet to identify what happened. know what the cause was and i witness says, explosion hit the vehicle extremely hard. the explosion was very loud. so loud i was deaf and for some time and the plus pressure was so high that my car was almost pushed to the other side of the road. the elsewhere us soldiers a back up canister. and this time to get the diplomat. so who's the taliban? say they've seized the country 2nd and 3rd largest cities. now, the state department claims. it's not a hasty evacuation low, just to save drop down. they say, of embassy staff. meantime, use open door policy. st slammed shut with

a block split over the migration of refugees from i've got several states sort assisting on their right to forcibly deport any of those asylum seekers cases that are rejected. ah, they're good morning from russia this friday. the 13th of august. kevin. oh and here darcy's will be center moscow with 30 minutes of our latest for you. and 1st, as you heard, there are top stories in from russia, in the western russian city of veronica and explosions ripped through a public bus earlier killing one woman and injuring 17 others. a warning this report coming up starts with st. camera footage of the actual explosion and contains some distressing images. so a split 2nd before the explosion. then deborah, flying up from all sides and then a fire at the time it's believe the bus at around $35.00 passengers aboard. and as

the blast hit, many of those still able to move fled best they could, followed by more disturbing images of the explosions showing at one point and in person lying on the ground there among the debris rushes investigative committee this morning over the criminal probe into the explosion with a number of explanations being considered. when i witness told us what he saw. i was driving towards the southwest market place and drove by the buses. 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 5 and someone was taken away with legs blown off, others had severe abrasions. the explosion was very loud, so loud i was deafened for some time, and the blood pressure was so high that my car 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, or rather, russia's 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. pleaseland 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 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 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, it 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 had something like had installed, which should 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, 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 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 to such as pieces. so when nails, things usually used in explosive devices were not found, those injured were mostly calmed by fragments of flattened 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 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 can 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 is severely damaged, it is still while it is still quite distort, batted investigated. 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 i thought 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. people helped to evacuate others. there are people who are seriously injured. so again, the authorities are, of course, looking into all versions into a possibility you can parallel to this, the governor has announced,

and he's that he's urged to all citizens to be extra vigilant for any on the unattended packages, any unattended items, like wild 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. he goes down off the next this morning truck in the latest enough, gonna stand where the taliban says it sees the country's 2nd and 3rd largest cities . canada and herat and verified video is circulating on social media, purportedly showing africa, security forces, flea and canada. just a half an hour before the tele buttons announcement. us embassy cobble is edging all americans now to leave the country immediately going so far as to offer loans. those enabled for ford plane tickets, homes telling them to take me any commercial flights. they can get a s a p,

a couple journalists told totally bray of the deteriorating security situation. what more do you know about the capture of kandahar is that taliban claims? according to some, the governor of the province is only left with a 6 or 7 of his body guards 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 kandahar is the home of senior, all of our leaders and commanders. this is where they 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 cotton, our fall line is time, does not have a credible piece process or a comprehensive and permanent sci fi. there was the american officials, you know, and other wisdom officials publicly, priding on the fact that the taliban was not to do this. the thought about it or

not to do that and 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 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 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. i want to sign in for the world, and let's also not forget, you know, what has been dubbed time and again, by western countries in every other country as be stalks. these are efforts to start be stuck to these talks of 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 mandatory 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 leave that homes 1000000 more. who are caught in the fighting and the major urban centers 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 that the united states has told all 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 be as keep deporting off once. give saying that i want to start a safe and only recently they have stopped at process temporarily. at least you

know. so a couple does face the risk of attacks large scale attacks because the districts of cobbled province are not the provinces in an round carbon like low. but in water that i've, i've seen a lot of taliban advances 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 the african people in cobbled. yeah. and with the taliban taking hold of multiple provinces in a single day. now us troops a back to work, and i've got to start with a slightly different mission this time there they say to get us embassy stuff. i was of the country as the state department says it will dramatically reduces diplomats in couple of of this might look like an evacuation. officials have tried

to strike an optimistic note over it. 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 for footprint. this is a draw down of civilian americans. 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 escorted 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, 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 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 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 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 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, an engine closer to cobble. those plans to withdraw from afghanistan seemed to be in full effect. meantime, this widespread speculation at the capital couple could fall to the taliban within days. is the situation right now you can see the key here. the military control, 2 thirds of the countries seen in red, the government forces are in green with a much diminished territory, the rest conic contested regions. currently, the islamists have taken hold of some crucial strategically important locations very near to the compet. lucas, so it's ramped up over the last couple of months by looking at that, and the telephone's big enough, it's offensive back in april, off to you as president joe biden announced that he was pulling american troops out at the time. is this miss group held less than a 5th to the countries territory now a control more than half. so with hostility showing no sign of abating enough canister. the un, though, is warning that nearly 400000 civilians have had to leave their homes since the

start of the year with a huge spike since may further the you and says the displaced people are heading to cobble to flee the taliban. there are just some of the heart wrenching stories that refugees of hudson 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. she recently became a teacher and had not even received his salary yet, had the clashes broke out and we were taken hostage in the fighting, went on for about 6 to 7 days, but we couldn't go outside to do anything we managed to escape. and now we're displeased. yeah, but another twist of this, those displaced afghan seeking asylum may not be that welcoming europe either with a blog currently loggerheads of what to do with migrants and most trying to flee violence. next, he's pull asleep, tells into what happened to europe's open door policy. your opinion is split over

what to do with african refugees seeking, assign them. in the letter to the european commission, civil countries insisted they have the right to forcibly support those whose cases have been rejected. they vote that not to deport them, would motivate war refugees, to flee to europe. we would like to highlight the edge need to perform returns both voluntary and non voluntary to afghan. a stan stopping return sends the wrong signal and it's likely to motivate even more afghan citizens to leave their home for the e. u. the situation in afghanistan is deterioration by the all when it comes as the us and nato prepaid to what's called a truth, that the end of the month after decades long war, the situation is so bad that the netherlands, germany, and france have decided to cause the deportation to be for now,

the situation in afghanistan is likely to change and events for the coming period are so uncertain that i have decided to introduce a more atoria on deputation decisions and departures. agrees or stress belgian and denmark standing. they want the rejected, assign them because the e u is not really and does not have the capacity to kind of another major migration crisis. why haven't you guys are waiting make up around 10 percent on asylum seekers there. the 2nd largest group after syrians and for a continent still scarred by the migration crisis of 56 years ago. there was a feeling of deja vu, a feeling of having been they before. that has your opinions worried. they might be on the verge of a fish refugee crisis. those people who are here from a gun is that they're not migrant. they're a few use and asylum seeker. and that is why is very important to remember at

all best in countries have signed humor, right, convention refugee convention. and they are duty bound to has anyone, not only of guns, but syrians are anybody who come to the, to their country, and as far as them, because you are who are in the country, are any conflict personnel tech to, to the life. so i think than the western countries say, oh, we don't care if a wonder if you just go home or do for them. i think this is a violation of human rights and we should do that kind of thing. that goes whole years 21 past the morning, coming up on this friday with kevin. and the american study exposes, have been drop. this is a worry in the efficacy of coven vaccines from pfizer. i'm a turner when faced with that pesky delta variant else. think about we take

a closer look. can the rest of this morning's news so me back to 92nd the the ah me rather driven by

a rumor shaped by those in me dares thing. we dare to ask me. oh, hello, good morning for most go. so then as mentioned, a worrying drop in efficacy for 5 koby vaccines has been highlighted by new american study showing the dip significantly against the problematic delta straight enough to just 6 months. if a drink takes up the story, you're about to see the face and hear the thoughts of

a leader confident. he's almost beaten, coded, and his country. thanks to our roared vaccine 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. 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 kobe, 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 shortages 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 the g v shots are still highly effective against the delta variance with 905 and 83 percent efficacy. we're actively, but it looks like covert and its butane capabilities. we'll keep bringing new greek alphabet letters into the public consciousness. unfortunately, much more complicated efficacy. math could be on the way, research and physician run g broad telling us some countries are cutting themselves off from scientific advances for political reasons to it. this whole pandemic

really held a mirror for the world. it's showing that many on the truth about our political system, about health and equality, about equality globally. and of course, about the political motivation which interfere with what would other light be strictly scientific and medical consideration. so for example, in, in britain, we have been point forward in making huge a contract with the 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 as a result of that at the, at the funding 5 acting tickler was 1st to publish it say 3 results and at that time showed and 96 percent efficacy was the most effective of all the vaccines really and it does seem that efficacy is holding up very well, but we are cutting off those of the little reasons from the scientific advances

that are available in the world today. is a question for breakfast time is can so culture killing, comedy will stand ups and colleagues are raising the alarm about it. so the laughter business is under threat. they worry because offending the so called p c. bob could be career ending material can try and please everyone your please know, one with comedy as well. you got, i think you've got 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 movie. so i see a lot of unfunny comedians. i see 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 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 by the american comedian i turned direct and seth rogan, so he got no trouble telling the p. c lines. and the co makes criticism, has been to brush reaction on social media just there are plenty of up and coming medians. happy to play it safe. as they said you, material listening could become tomorrow's unacceptable and other touch gig. however, another twist to it. comedian muscle failure, worries that self. censorship is increasing and it is a troubling trend. comedy is something that brings people together in what, 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 itself. 30 minutes past the hour. that's it for now or 2, they'll convert so much more on track. and of course, the latest on the bus last in western russia last evening. still a mystery. what's happened? one dead, 17 injured and the developing serious situation. i've got to stand as well, but for now, reporting for moscow. my name is kevin owen from in all the team there on the scenes here. thank you for watching and have a super day me.