ah, ah, lay friday morning, lovely moscow tons is opt in to national a headlining us troops back enough. got a list on the get the diplomats as a talib makes rapid territorial getting the state department claims. it's not a hasty evacuation, just to say strong with them, they say of embassy stuff. meantime, these open door policy seems to have slammed shut with a block split over the migration of refugees from afghanistan. several states insisting on the right to forcibly to pull people is asylum cases of be rejected. i'm sorry, update to know 17 ended up up powerful bloss pull through a bus in the town of iran, asian western russia. last evening. officials a yet to identify the court and i witnessing the explosion hit the vehicle as you

can see for yourself extremely. 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. ah, good morning from russia to me, kevin. oh, in here this in front of the 13th of august, watching out international life from a world news sense at 30 minutes of a latest for you. this 1st trucking the latest. and i've got to see where the taliban says it sees the country's 2nd and 3rd largest cities, canada, and hit that now and verified the video to show you circulating them social media, purportedly showing africa, and security forces, flea and kind of just a half an hour before the tele buttons announcement, the u. s. embassy and cobble is urging all americans to leave the country immediately going so far as even to offer loans,

temporary one for those unable to afford plane tickets home and to use the 1st available commercial carry. as the saying meantime, is widespread speculation. indeed, the capital kabul could fall to the taliban within days is the situation of the moment tom, but there's a key for you to take in the militants control to search the country. you see and read the government for service in the green and what's contested is in yellow basically that contested regions not currently the islamists have taken hold of some crucial strategically important locations very near the capital that says see the progress with tele buns ramped up. it's offensive lot so it's gone so far this year. since april, particularly after us president jo biden's announcement he was pulling american troops out. at the time the miss group held less than a 5th of the country territory. but look at where it is. more or less to day, more than 50 percent, more than half of it. but the taliban taking hold of multiple provinces in the single day. the us troops a back to work it f canister though with

a slightly different mission. this time on the face of it that there they say to get us embassy stuff out of the country. as the state department says, it's going to dramatically reduces diplomats in carbo. although this may look like an evacuation officials tried very hard to strike an optimistic note. this is non 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. of african leaders have to come together. we lost thousands at last death in 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, in what is really going on now, will the usa now that it sent 3000 more troops to oversee the, the, you know,

the withdrawal of us civilian personnel and embassy staff? will the u. s. a. 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 to august 31st because there's this additional mission set of, of helping process special immigrants. so we're just gonna have to wait and see, but the drop down itself is still on track to be complete by august 31st. that makes 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 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 for over 18 years. and during that time, the country has 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. then despite the taliban marching ahead, an inch and closer to cobble. those plans to withdraw from afghanistan seemed to be in full effect. so with hostility showing no sign of abating enough canister another you and is warning with nearly $400000.00 civilians have had to leave their homes since the start of the year with a huge spike. since may further the you and saying the displaced people are heading to cobble the fleet, the taliban will iowa with that last given everything we just said, here are just some of the heart wrenching stories that refugees have to tell. i have been displaced from telecon city. the telephone 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 the clashes broke out and we were taken hostage in the fighting, went on for about 6 to 7 days. we couldn't go outside to do anything we managed to escape, and now we are displaced to know where to go to those displaced africa and seeking a sala may not be welcome in europe, either with a blog, curly, a big loggerheads of what best to do with migrants and those fleeing violence. next them for you tease, pull asleep, delving into what happened to europe's open door policy. european union is less than what to do with african refugees speaking, assign them in the letter to the european commission. civil countries insisted they have the right to force to be deport 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 of need to perform returns,

both voluntary and non voluntary, to off, gonna stand, stopping returns, and the wrong signal, and is 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, what's called a proof that the end of the month, after decades, long war, the situation is so bad that the netherlands, germany, and france have decided to port 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. agree 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 your guns are waiting, make up around 10 to sit until asylum seekers there. the 2nd largest group, after syrian and for a continent still scarred by the migration crisis of 56 years ago. there was a feeling of a who, a feeling of having been they before. it 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 are not my. there's a few gees and tell him. and that is why it is very important to remember. at all, 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 in the country, are any conflict personnel tech to,

to their life. so i think then the western countries say, oh, we don't care if a wonder if you just go home or we do for them. i think this is a violation of humor. right. and we should do that kind of thing. we're going to try wildfires now. so much going on at the moment. greenville, california said here with the so called dixie, far as destroy, more than a 1000 home thing. and mid july majority, that sound has been raised to the ground. nothing left of it so sad to see it more than a dozen other small mountain rural communities have also the last of the flames and the largest wild fire in us. history of course, goes without saying local residence. well, where do they start? they described their loss. maybe it's too late to help this community. maybe we can help another community. if you're a little easier than what we've had here,

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 got to cry. sure, i'm sure. i mean, i'm heartbroken, but you know, that's not gonna, that's not going to rebuild greenville. people will get scattered and misplaced, and it will be a long time and coming back and, you know, ends up being essentially starts to become in archaeology, say, we're a big world, but i such a small connected world to token of wasting similar problems in greece. drone footage there showing the extent of the destruction after throw shit. wildfire ripped through the island via swathes of scores, trees, and burnt out homes. the local infrastructure, including roads and interesting networks, will obviously hit to and not so far away by this in mind. the italian on the sicily recording a temperature couple of days ago. a 48.8 degrees celsius celsius is that is verify . crucially, it's the highest ever recorded in europe. now in contrast,

whether it causing another son, a problem to say a lot of this to in the chinese province of who bay severe flooding 21 have been killed for missing 5 cities, there has been declared red alert places, foundations have been moved to safety. tolerance surging through city streets, flooding, shops, and sweeping vehicles away as it went. damage so far estimated that more than $60000000.00 this was a big story. it came in the last evening for western russia and explosion ripping through a public bus, killing to women. that figure went up just last hour. it was one notes to me, an injuring 17 others in the western russian city of or on a she, a warning. this report coming up starts with st camera footage of the actual explosion and contained some distressing images thereafter. so a split 2nd before the explosion, boom and then debrief, flying out from all sides. and then the fire at the time it's believe the bus at

around $35.00 passengers aboard is the blast hit. many of those still able to move, dazed down what's happened? try to flee, followed by more disturbing images of the explosion, showing an injured person lying on the ground that don't know the severity look good. ok. ok. among the debris rushes investigative committee is open to criminal probe into the explosion with a number of explanations still being considered. but so far it's a mystery. one eye witness told us what he saw really i was driving towards the south west 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. simon. someone was taken away with their legs blown off. of us 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. well, correspondence said total court in the city of her on a still morning. you're up the scene. of course there's little that to tell us about the horror that happened last night. spring cleared away as fast as i can, but still a big mysteries run. and what happened geoff? hi there, kevin. like you said, yeah, i'm on site where this tragedy took place. this explosion on thursday night, as you're going to be able to see soon as soon as these buses get out of the way, most of what's left of the explosion has already been cleared out. but as you can see over here behind me, there are some flowers that have been laid at the bench of the bus station that people laid overnight in memory of those who died in this tragedy. as for what caused this, this explosion, there are a number of theories. the main one comes from the investigative committee that's looking into what happened. it says that either this diesel bus was fueled with the wrong fuel, or it was the result of a gap cylinder explosion. on board,

some were also saying that it could have been due to the negligence of the driver while the police have already said that an earlier theory that it was a terrorist attack is at this point deemed unlikely. projectiles such as pieces of one on nails, things usually used and 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. now when the bus exploded, every seat on board with phil, that was a total of $35.00 people on board according to the regions governor. 19 people were injured and another 2 were killed with one woman, tragically, having her legs blown off in the explosion. it was a brutal sight, as we later heard from the driver's description of what happened with diane and us . we were still people were getting on the bus, the traffic light to read. people go on 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. that shortly after this tragedy took place, the regional governor of the varone as region called for a full inspection of the transport vehicles that are there that can, that the inspection had since concluded. and it found no problems with any other vehicles involved. so the investigation is still going on, of course, into what exactly caused this explosion, and we'll bring our viewers all the details about this tragedy as they become available to own yeah, thanks the uptake that he was posted. thanks for watching. how let me tell you what's coming up after the break his late friday morning from oscar with me, kevin, though, and what an american study exposing a severe drop. so else to worry about the efficacy of covert vaccines from maternity, especially when faced with that pesky delta wherein we take a closer look around this occasions. how serious should we take it off to this

break? oh i, i what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, 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. the problem on the desk failing is that it forces them to admit what that number is like 3 or 2, which are the money supply numbers. once the numbers got so scary,

they stop reporting them. similarly with the debt ceiling kabuki theater, that happens every couple of years. they're just going to get rid of it won't even announced that number. it'll be impossible to find what the american is. and i'll just say a number sign for infinity. ah, why again? so then worrying drop in advocacy of 5, i'm with the cobra vaccines has been highlighted by a new american study showing the dips significantly against the problematic delta strain. after 6 months in a per trend could take up a 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 roaring fac, seen 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 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 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. you know so much of the mix, in part where there's pretty surgeon and physician run sheet bra saying some countries that cut themselves off from scientific advances for political reasons. this whole pandemic really held a mirror out to the world. it showed us many uncomfortably true about our political system, about health and equality about equality globally. and of course about

a political move of ation, which interfere with what would life 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 vaccine tickler was 1st to publish phase 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 reason from the scientific advances that are available in the world today. this came in you just last time. the tokyo 2020 olympics might have wrapped up almost a week ago,

and nobody's still making headlines with yet another doping scandal. this time, a british olympic silver med list has been suspended after testing positive for bond substances or like sierra shasky picks up the story. well, we're talking about something that could become the biggest scandal in british olympic history. in fact, this at this time it's a british limbic silver medalist to gender job who won silver as part of the team in 4 times 100 meters relay. he wanted with great britain, and now he has been provisionally suspended for 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 medal team. this is the part of the rules which states that where the athlete who has committed an anti doping rule violate been completed as a member of a relay team. the relate team shall be automatically qualified 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 last off, 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 social band on any sporting activity that i have to say overall, the games that you have been clean and have been of course cases of doping. just as of late, the athletics integrity unit also revealed that a run from bar rating, subject me a ga, short photo benteke up and down. and the canyon sprinter medic but also have been provisioning suspended for possible substance abuse. and i've also been cases where athletes used 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 athletes, eager to buy down ski who also tested positive for a substance abuse before the olympics. the cost conductor 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 bounds and open there be sample of course will be keeping shock a whole the developing sad. but again, we could be facing a major scandal for the british olympic history. it seems so doesn't have us. if an oxy, they'll cover so much more on the developing serious situation enough gonna stand on the latest on the mystery bus, plus blast in western russia. the death toll went up there. it's no 2 dead. 17 injured the correspondence at the scene, but for now, reporting for moscow and kevin, for all of us on duty, he's world new center. thanks for watching around the world and have a great day. mm.

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you know what came well look at the rest, the 7 years. what kinds of report the ah ah ah hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered. i am peter lavelle. americans had a long and contentious history with the word socialism for conservative. most often it is a dirty word, even unpatriotic. for many liberals,

it's about social justice in compassion. however, for better or worse, it remains a red line within the electorate. the, the cross talking socialism, i'm joined by my guess kayla mauppin in new york. he is a journalist in political analysts and r t in miami. we have sariah foss, she is a former us presidential candidate, and in atlanta, we have the don jones, she's an attorney and a former state director for bernie sanders and 2016 honda cross rules and effects. that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i always appreciate it. okay, let me, let me go to you for us because we've kind of bumped heads in the past about this issue here. what, what does socialism mean to you? and i really want to make it very clear here. i don't really want to go into the pros and cons of it. i want to talk about.