with the for the morning and national in the headlines this our us troops of back and i've got this time to get the diplomats as a taliban makes rapid territorial, gave the state department claims. it's not a hasty evacuation, just to say through that. and when the mean time, the use open door policy seems so slammed shut with the block, split over the migration of refugees from our guns. several states are insisting on the right to forcibly support people who decide them. cases have been rejected to that. now and 17 injured for a powerful blast as told through last evening of the abbreviation, western russia. official says still don't know quite what happened. and i witnessed say the explosion hit the vehicle extremely high. the explosion was very loud,

so loud i was deaf and for some time and the blood pressure was so high that my car was almost pushed to the other side of the road. ah . can i one of the morning in a good morning for russia, this friday, the 13th of august. it's kevin, over here at ortiz, will do send to moscow with 30 minutes of our latest for you love to tell you about this morning. thanks for tuning in. so 1st off, tracking the latest and i've got to stand where the taliban says it sees the country 2nd and 3rd largest cities. now canada and her rat verified video. first off to show you circulating on social media, purportedly showing africa security forces play in kandahar just half an hour before the tele bonds announcement that the u. s. embassy in cobble is now working all americans to leave the country immediately going so far as to offer loans to those unable to afford plane tickets. and to use the 1st available commercial carriers, they can find one cobble journalist told,

calling bray but the deteriorating 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 party guards, the refusing to leave. he's from kandahar we heard reports of heavy fighting between the taliban and members of the kind of 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 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 cotton r falls in line is time does not have a credible piece process or a comprehensive and permanent sci fi was the american officials and other wisdom officials publicly. priding on the fact that the top to bottom, we're not to do this. the thought 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 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 sort it out to you now see, judging by what you've just said, that, that, that hope is somewhat futile. well, i ones the speak to the americans from a very been full past when the russians who 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 fall back to the 990 s the dynamics. so quite dangerous, this time for the region for i want to sign in for the world. and let's also not forget, you know, what has been dubbed time and again by, by western countries in every other country as be stalks. these are efforts to start be stuck. 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 . there could be a domino impact on provinces in and around. cobble in, cobble itself does face a massive risk. so with a ton of and taking hold of multiple provinces in a single day, us troops back to work. and i've got to start with a slightly different mission this time there to get us embassy stuff out of the

country. has the state department says it will dramatically reduces diplomats in cobble and although. busy this may look like an evacuation officials have tried to keep an optimistic up beat note about 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 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 and 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 troops 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 and the poppy field has certainly expanded in the country. different terrorist groups and warlords have 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. yeah. kind of open that will meantime, there is wise fred speculation that the capital couple could fault with taliban within days. his situation systems right now, stand by. you can see the key, the military control, 2 thirds of the countries seen in the red government forces are in green with a much more diminished total. what's in yellow? there is contested. currently the limits of taken hold of somebody crucial strategically important locations very near the capital. the taliban ramped up it's offensive looking at the timeline back in april. you can see where it is now that happened back in april after us present. joe, by the nancy, was pulling troops of that at the time the as him, his group held less than the fist of the country territory. but know, well, if you south, they a control more than half with hostility,

showing no sign of abating enough. gonna stand the u. s. his warning that nearly 400000 civilians have had to leave the home since the start of this year that a huge spike to witnesses may further the you and says, the displaced people are heading to kabul to flee the taliban. well, that might, but far as just saying, here are some of the heart wrenching stories of refugees of to tell us. i have been displaced from telecontact. 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 a class has 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 are displeased to look at those displaced africa and seeking a solid may not be that will come in europe even with the blogs currently

loggerheads of what to do with migrants and those fleeing violence. next, the small nazis pool asleep. delving into what happened to europe's open door policy. your opinion is less than what to do with african refugees. teaching. assigned 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 urgent 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 citizen to leave the home for the e. u. the situation in afghanistan is deterioration by the all when it comes to the us and nato prepaid to what's called a truth, that the end of the month after decades is all the situation is so bad that the

netherlands, germany, and france have decided to pause 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 more atoria on debt, partition decisions and departures. agree or stress belgian and denmark standing firm. 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 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 done,

they're not my there's a few use and asylum seeker. and that is why it is very important to remember. at our best in countries have signed humor a 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 tend to, to the life? so i think than the western countries say, oh, we don't care if you go home or we do for them. i think this is a violation of human rights, and we should do that kind of thing for news around the world now briefly to greenville in california. where the so called dixie fuzz destroyed more than

a 1000 homes since erupt thing and mid july, the church, the burned to the ground because pictures more than a dozen other small mountain and rural communities have also been lost to those flames. in the largest welfare and us history or local residents where they begin, they describe the last to us everything that alan is now ashes or twisted metal. it's just all it is, but it has to be ok because what's the alternative? i mean sure. i've got a cry. sure, i'm sure, i mean, i'm, i'm art broken here, but you know, that's not gonna, that's not going to rebuild greenville, and it's just an entire community, and you can't really rebuild it effectively. and people will get scattered misplaced, and it will be a long time. and coming back and a lot of this, in my mind, you know, ends up being essentially starts to become an archaeology, say kind of

a testament to the fire era that we're in right now. maybe it's too late to help this community. maybe we can help another community. jeff drew a little easier from what we've had here. isn't it? we're a big, big world, but a small world to look, same kind of problems. drone felicia, greece showing the extent to the destruction left of to ferocious wildfires ripped across the via sways scores trees and burned homes. the sad sight in the local infrastructure, including roads and electricity networks, also obviously not so far away. worth bearing in mind on the italian oliver sicily, a temperature of $48.00 celsius, reported wednesday. if verified, it would make it europe's hottest ever knob to china. contrasting problems, the chinese province of who beg hit by severe flooding 21 have been killed for a missing 5 cities of declared red alerts. thousands have been moved to safety,

tolerant, surging through city streets, flooding shops, and sweeping and vehicles away. damage so far as estimated more than $16000000.00 news from here came last evening and explosions ripped through a public bus. it's left to women that that figure just provide was one last to know and 17 others injured in the western russian city. veronica, a warning this report coming up starts with st camera footage of the actual explosion and contains some distressing images to so a split 2nd before the explosion. and then, boom, deborah, flying up from all sides and the fire at the time it's believe the bus had around $35.00 passengers aboard. the blast hit, many of them still able to move. days shocked, fled, followed by more disturbing images of explosion. the aftermath showing an injured person lying on the ground, hope they're going to be ok among the debris rushes investigative committee opening

a criminal probe last evening into the explosion with a number of explanations being considered. it's still a mystery. one witness told us what he saw little so i was driving towards the southwest market place 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 5 and someone was taken away with a legs blown off, others had severe abrasions. the explosion was very loud. so loud i was deaf and 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 had, we've had it 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 a tax plays law mich 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 the 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 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 a an attack, but they just happened to have something 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 that installed. we should have be in there

because according to all documentation, this bus was diesel powered. 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 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 listened projectiles such as pieces of one on nails, things usually used. an explosive devices were not found. those injured but mostly

hand by fragments of flying glass. however, the chance that 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, well terrorists, they do not just hope or they 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 last week, but also these pieces of metal is going 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 is really damaged, it is still while it is still quite batted 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 well waiting at the bus stop. miss diane and 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 blast 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 to all citizens to be extra vigilant for any on an 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. well, as we know, since your father did this, not to coming up this morning this friday from moscow with me, kevin, in american study, exposing a severe drop in the efficacy of coven vaccines from pfizer min done, or when the face of the delta variable, take a closer look, and what they say live, come up with after a break. ah . driven by a dreamer shaped by those in

me dares thing. we dare to ask me. what we got to do is identify the threats that we have crazy fontaine and let it be an arms race is often very dramatic developments. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk me the news. ah, why exactly?

24 pass the hours watching the clock, but you stick around or go to work for a minute couch it was more of a news. the tokyo 2020 olympics mutter wrapped up maybe a week ago now, but it's still making headlines now though with another doping scandal this time of british olympic silver medalists suspended after being tested positive for band substances lexia jessica, across this one this morning. let's see, what's the background here? what consequences could there be than for the athlete? but we're talking about something that could become the biggest scandal and british olympic history. in fact, this get this time at british lympics silver medalists to job who won silver as part of the team. and 4 times 100 meters relay he wanted with great britain. and now he has been provisionally suspended for. 3 testing positive, allegedly testing positive for 2 band substances. and according to the rules,

if this is confirmed, then it will be a blanket punishment for the entire silver metal team. this is the part of the rules which states that where the athlete who has committed an anti doping roof violation completed as a member of a relate team. the relate team shall be automatically disqualified from the event in question with all resulting consequences for the relate. team including the for feature of all titled awards, metals, points and price and appearance money. while if that is confirmed, of course, this will certainly take some loss of a very impressive performance by team g. b at the tokyo olympics with $65.00 overall metals. as for individual punishment, this athletes can face up to 4 years of a total band on any sporting activity that i have to say overall, the games and you have been clean and have been of course cases of doping. just as of late the athletics integrity unit also revealed that

a runner from bahrain subject me a ga, short photo betty cup. i'm down and the kenyan sprinter medic, deamber also have been provisioning suspended for possible substance abuse. and i've also been cases where the athletes use banned substances, but prior to the lympics. and now these steps have resurfaced. this happened with a brazilian volleyball player and also just lately a russian try of lawn athlete, eager to buy down ski who also tested positive for a substance abuse before the olympics. the test conducted during the olympics did not show anything. and now all the athletes that i've mentioned also have the right to appeal against those provisional bands and opened their b sample. of course, we'll be keeping track of all the developments that but again, we could be facing a major scandal for the british olympic history. all right, then we'll get back to it. keep us posted for the day like search ascii. thank you for now. now,

next worrying drop in efficacy for pfizer. and madonna covert vaccines reported in the new american study, showing the dip significantly against that problematic delta strain after just 6 months in portraying could take it up. you're about to see the face and hear the thoughts of a leader confident. he's almost beaten coven and his country. thank your roared vaccine efforts. we gain the apprehend against this virus. we can live our lives, our kids can go back to school. our economy is roaring 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 out smart 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 big 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 they were in the well, the congress so much more from the rush so far today. the welcome to. so because vision are me, feel free, shattered, knocked at the corona, christ highlighted to me to rethink the way our society is function to reflect on based on joined by one of the world's most influential thinkers. legendary philosopher.