ah, ah, mid day moscow tongue, whose art international headlines this saw us troops of black enough gun at this time to get the did feel about as the a tell about makes me rapid territorial gain state department claims. it's not a hasty evacuation. just a safe drawer than they saying of embassy stuff. meantime the ears open door policy seems to be slammed shut with the flocks, split over the migration of refugees from i've got several states for, insisting on the right to possibly to pull people. asylum cases have been rejected, where they're going to go to another went up in the last few hours and 17 injured off for a powerful glass top through the bus and a ton of garage in western russia. officials. we get to try to work out what really happened and i witness saying the explosion hit that very well as you can see for

yourself extremely high. 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. ah, on a very good afternoon from russia this friday, the 13th of august. my name is kevin. in here. he will do send through moscow review watching around the world. it's nice to have with us. i've got 30 minutes of our latest for you. talk to you later and i've got this down to start with a taliban says it sees the country's 2nd and 3rd largest cities know canada and hit that and verified video you're saying circulating on social media. we want to show you possibly showing africa and security forces fleeing kind of half an hour before the taliban announcement. the u. s. embassy cobble is urging all americans to leave the country immediately. this going even as far as to offer short term loans to

anyone unable to afford a plane ticket and they say they have to use the 1st available commercial carriers at the moment. anyway. meantime, the widespread speculation that the capital carnival could fall to the taliban within days. the situation of the key for you moved a bit green, amber, red. you can see yourself the militants control. 2 thirds of the countries in the red government forces are in green with a much diminished territory. the rest contested this real mixed bag. there isn't it in the yellow. currently, the islamists are taken hold of some crucial again, as you could see strategically important locations very near the capitol. the taliban ramped up, it's offensive back in april. the timeline here after us president joe biden announced crucially that he was pulling american troops out. and at the time the of his group held less than 5th of the countries territory. but now it's more or less where it stands today. more than half with a taliban taking a hold of multiple provinces in

a single day of late us troops. a back to work than enough canister, though, with a slightly different mission this time to get us embassy stuff out of the country. as the state department says, he's going to dramatically reduces diplomats in carbo. although this may look like an evacuation officials have tried to strike an optimistic note. this is not abandonment. this is not an evacuation. this is not the wholesale. busy withdrawl, what this is, is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint. this is a draw down of civilian americans. there are 3000 us military personnel headed for afghanistan to secure what it's calling a safe, draw down of american civilian personnel. basically, u. s embassy, staff, and others are going to be a score to out of the country by the military. the military will be there to make

sure that they're not harmed in the process. now we do know at this point that the taliban after receiving, receiving and seizing several provinces in a single day, is now engine closer to the capital city of cobble. but on tuesday, joe biden made clear that washington is not going to step in to rescue cobble in this situation. african leaders have to come together. we lost thousands at last death 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, what is really going on now? will the usa now that it sent $3000.00 more troops to oversee the, the, you know,

the withdrawal of us civilian personnel and embassy staff will the us, they 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 going to look like post august 31st because there's this additional mission set of, of helping process special immigrants. so we're just going to have to wait and see, but the drop down itself is still on track to be complete by august 31st. that makes no sense. john, i know i know what your troops, i know what you're saying, lucas. i'm saying of the of the original footprint plans that still continuing, but yes, we 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 lord than the poppy field has certainly expanded in the country. different terrorist groups and warlords of battled for control. the taliban remained intact with different parts

of territory and such. and now after 18 years of the united states, not having success. when it came to the stabilisation of afghanistan, we had the united states set to leave the country. and despite the taliban marching ahead and inching closer to cobble, those plans to withdraw from afghanistan seemed to be in full effect. with hostility showing no sign of abating and i've got to stand the you and holding nearly 400000 civilians over the leave, the house is out of the year with a huge spike since may further the you and saying the displaced people are heading to kabul, to flee the taliban, but how long that's going to last, given everything we just said, here are just some of the heart wrenching stories. the refugees have to tell have been displaced from telecom. the telephone killed my son because all the belongings from my house, i'm satisfied with them and not the punch me in the mouth, causing my teeth to fall out. they demanded my son, and i told them that she's

a school teacher, so she recently became a teacher and had not even received salary. had class has broken, taken hostage and the fighting went on for 7 days. but we couldn't go outside and we managed to escape, and now we cannot. but where to go versus place africa and seeking a solid might not be that welcoming europe either with the blog currently at loggerheads of what to do with migrants and those fleeing violence. next to pull asleep, delving into what happened to europe's previous open door policy. your opinion is split what to do with african refugees teaching. assigned 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 more refugees, to flee to europe. we would like to highlight the edge of 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 their 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 troops at 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 deportations can 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. greece or spread belgian and denmark standing firms. 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 of

asylum seekers? there. the 2nd largest group of the syrians and for a continent still scarred by the migration crisis of 56 years ago. it was a feeling of a who, 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 of done is time. they are not my there's a few g, 's and asylum seeker. 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 who are in the country, are any conflict personnel 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 you do for them. i think this is a violation of human rights and we should do that kind of thing. let me take you around the world. we're talking wildfires. well, weird weather at the moment. greenville, california, with a so called dixie fuzz destroyed more than a 1000 homes interrupting mid july. the majority of the town will look at it, burned to the ground more than a dozen other small mountain and rural communities have also been lost to the flames. in the largest wildfire and us history, local residents of course, distraught where you start again after something like that. well, they destroyed 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 are twisted metal. it's just all of them, but it has to be ok because what's the alternative? i mean sure. i got a cry. sure, sure. i mean i'm, i'm heartbroken. but you know, that's not gonna, that's not going to rebuild greenville. people will get scattered, misplaced, and it will be a long time. and coming back and, you know, ends up being essentially starts to become an archaeology, se, where a big world is so small to in so many ways. drone footage now from gree showing the exact same problem. the destruction left off to ferocious wildfires ripped through the via sways of scores, trees, and burned at homes. their local infrastructure, including roads and interesting networks, also obviously hit not so far away on the italian island of sicily. this came at last couple of days. they think they registered a temperature. there are 48.8 degrees celsius wednesday. if that is verified, it would be europe's highest ever recorded temperature. in contrast, china,

the chinese province of who bay hit by severe flooding chinese had so much of that lately. this is the latest 21. people have been killed for missing 5 cities, the declaring red alerts. housing is moving to safety, torrance, that re searching for city streets, flooding shops, sweeping vehicles away. damage so far estimated that more than $16000000.00. big news that came in last evening from russia and explosions ripped through a public bus, its killed 2 women, uninjured, 17 other people as the latest in the western russian city of veronica, wanting this report coming up then starts with st camera footage of the actual explosion and contained some distressing images early on. so a split 2nd before the explosion bone, and then flying debris out of all sides. then the fire. at the time it's believe the bus had around $35.00 passengers aboard. and as the blast hits,

people trying to work, what the heck happened, trying to get some sort of safety followed by more disturbing videos and explosions, showing an injured person lying on the ground doesn't look good. is it over ok among, with their brief rushes investigative committee opening a criminal probe into the explosion with a number of explanations possibly being considered. but so far is still a mystery. one eye witness told us what he saw the 1st time i was driving towards the southwest market place and drove by the bus suddenly happened, my car was shaken. i looked in the rearview mirror and saw that my vehicle had been passed by an explosion. i stopped. the buses, roof is blown away. people start arriving. emergency services please. simon. someone was taken away with a legs blown off, others had severe abrasions. 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 lock taken in the locker respondent caught it in the city of ron. it's at that spot and done, it's quote, old me to take it. we chatted last hour behind you know where all the horror unfolded last evening. the area's been cleared life more or less, but normally he didn't know what it happens. you wouldn't know. would you publicly at least a big mystery surrounding what was behind that explosion. hi there, kevin. yeah, that's right. i'm here and veronica right now, right where this explosion took place on thursday evening or thursday late evening, or rather i should say. and as you can see behind me, yeah. what was left of the blast has basically been cleaned up at this point. traffic is already moving through normally again, people also laid flowers at the bench of the bus station. that's right next to that, that area right behind me over here in memory of those who died in this tragic events. now as for what exactly cause this explosion, there are

a number of theories. the main version comes right now from the investigative committee that's looking into what exactly happened. it says that either this diesel boss was filled with the wrong fuel or a gas cylinder had exploded on board at the time just right before that blast. there were some people that were saying that it could have been due to negligence by the driver. while the police have already said that another theory that it was possibly a terrorist attack has now been deemed unlikely. projectiles such as pieces of wire on nails, things usually used and explosive devices were not found. those injured were 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 was, when the bus was right before the bus exploded, it was fully filled. all with a total of $35.00 people on board. according to the regions governor 717 people

were injured. and another 2 people were killed. one of which was a woman who brutally had her legs blown off in the explosion. it was certainly a tragic thing to see. as the driver explained after the fact was enough. oh no, 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 help to evacuate so that there are people who are seriously injured. shortly after this tragedy took place, the regions governor called for a full inspection of the entire regions, public transport vehicles. now that inspection has since concluded, and it came up with no new problems connected to any of the regions, the transport vehicles. but again, like i said, this investigation is continuing, its continuing to try to find out what exactly cause this explosion. and we'll bring our viewers the latest details as they become available. yeah, all right then tom, back ship it later. thanks for now. what you get home to watch,

the clock for the reason is not 18 minutes past the hour ahead. this friday at american study, exposing a severe drop in the efficacy of cove. it seems from follies when faced with a pesky delta variance headache, we take a closer look at it. what does it mean? how concerned should we'll be off to this break the the ah

me rather driven by dreamer shape those in me i think we dare to ask in oh, next in a worrying drop in efficacy for pfizer and mcdonough cove. it vaccines. those been

highlighted by new american studies showing that they dipped significantly parley against that problematic delta straighten up to 6 months in portraying her reports . you're about to see the face and hear the thoughts of a leader confident. he's almost beaten coven and his country. thank george, roared vaccine effort. we gain the apprehend 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 cova 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? a 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. and 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. yeah, british surgeon, physician ran sheet brush saying some countries or cut themselves off from scientific advances for political reasons. this whole pandemic really held a mirror out for the world, could show me the truth about our political system, about health and equality about inequality globally. and of course, about political motivation which interfere with what would 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 funding 5 acting tickler was 1st to

publish phase 3 results. and at that time showed in 96 percent efficacy was the most effective of all of the actions really. and it does seem that efficacy holding up very well. we are cutting off the political reasons from the scientific advances that are available in the world today. the tokyo 2020 olympics might have wrapped up in a week ago. nobody is still making the headlines with yet another doping scandal as a british olympics. silver med list has been suspended after testing positive for bond substances. alexi or jeff skew. 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 she didn't o job who won silver as part of the team in 4 times 100 meters relay when 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 ru, violate action, completed as a member of a relay team. the relate team shall be automatically disqualified from the event in question. with all resulting consequences for the relay team, including the for feature of all titled awards, metals, points and price and appearance money. well, if that is confirmed, of course, this will certainly take some last off, a very impressive performance by team g b and the talk your olympics with 65 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 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 bahrain subject me a ga, short photo betty company and the kenny and sprint medic also have been previously suspended for possible substance abuse. and i've also been cases where athletes used substances, but riots of the lympics and now these tests 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 a deal again. those provisional bands and open their sample, of course, will be keeping track of all the development that. but again, we could be facing a major candle for the british olympic history. will keep you posted on that and you can follow that and will the other stories that are to come run over social

media including more on the developing serious situation. i've got to stand on the mystery bus blast in western russia last evening to dead the 17 engine. i'm back with you so the half an hour, but for now reporting from moscow, kevin, to the teams signing off wherever you're watching around the world. what you're telling made programs for you that after this break the ah, the ah, ah,

the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest. while you see in this, these techniques is the state devising message to end essentially destroy the personality of an individual lifetime. means this is how one doctors, theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against the prisoners deemed a danger to the state. that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation, psychological torture, disseminated within the us intelligence community, and worldwide among allies for the next 30 years. and how the victim say they still live with the consequences today.

annex painted upside of the pandemic, kenya is experiencing an elephant baby boom. 206. why does kenya have so many cars? and how has the pandemic impacted people's lives? is andree roll. it's very big along in any fact he end up killing himself. i don't believe nearly and then you go on via whoa. and i will make the little was let me know if they get they can let it when the mean it will cause that and as i don't have the one of the been a good the they didn't even notice whether they call to do it. but i know they come with me

just because in order use the bus, the one business show you can't afford to mit branch the board. and i'm rachel. blood is in washington coming up. china crack down on the tech industry continues. will discuss how long it will last and what it could mean for the companies that stand the use of the anti competitive practices. plus india is considering removing its ban on boeing $737.00 next 9 months after the u. s. is the same. we'll take a look at why it is waited so long trying to.