i this is our international in our headline to so us troops a back can. i've got to stand this time to get the diplomat so as to tell about makes rapid territorial gains. estate department claims. it's not a hasty evacuation though. just a safe throw down of embassy stuff or examine that more closely. meantime, the use open door policy seems to slam shut with a block split over the migration of refugees from i've got. several states are insisting on their right to forcibly deport people whose asylum cases have been rejected. news from russia that came in last evening to dead now in 17, injured off for a powerful block, tore through a bus and a ton of iran in western russia. officials yet to identify exactly what happened

but an eye witness saying that explosion. let's see for yourself. hit the vehicle extremely hard. the explosion was very loud. so loud i was definitely for some time . and the blood pressure was so high that my car was almost pushed to the other side of the road. ah, hi, good afternoon. russia this friday, the 13th of august. kevin, over here at ortiz world, new century, moscow with 30 minutes of our latest for you. in 1st trucking the latest and i've got to stand where the taliban says it sees the country 2nd and 3rd largest cities know canada and iraq and verified video to show you circulating on social media. purportedly showing african security forces in kandahar just half an hour before the taliban announcement that the u. s. embassy, and cobb alleging all americans to leave the country immediately going so far as to

offer loans, short term to people unable to pay for the plane. tickets and tell them to use the 1st available commercial carriers. meantime, this widespread speculation that the capital cobble could well fall to the taliban within days is the picture of the moment. the key for you, the military control, 2 thirds of the countries seen there in red government forces are in green, and then you'll see the yellow as well. that's the contested territory. it's a real patchwork, isn't it? currently, the islamists have taken hold of some really crucial, strategically important locations near to the capital. that's where they said it could be just a few days of the picture. this is how it's unfolded through the year. up to now, the taliban ramped up. it's offensive back in april after you as president jo biden's and so that he was pulling american troops out at the time this and his group held less than a 5th of the country territory. but look where it is now. non 60 percent with a taliban taking hold of multiple provinces in a single day than us troops of back to work enough canister that with

a slightly different mission. this time they're there to get us embassy stuff out of the country. as the state department says, it's going to dramatically reduces diplomats in kabul. although this may look like an evacuation. officials try to strike an optimistic tone. 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, 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 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 this 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 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. 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 hoping to get them all out by the end of the month. i'm not going to speculate beyond august 31st . now it's important to note the united states has maintained a military presence in afghanistan for over 18 years. and during that time, the country is not become any more stable the role of the drug lords and the poppy field has certainly expanded in the country, different terrorist groups and warlords of battled for control. the taliban remained intact with different parts of territory and such. and now after 18 years

of the united states, not having success, when it came to the stabilisation of afghanistan, we had the united states set to leave the country. and despite the taliban marching ahead and inching closer to cobble, those plans to withdraw from afghanistan seemed to be in full effect. without still it's he showing no sign of abating. i've got to stand in the u. s. knows warning. nearly 400000 civilians have had to leave the home since the start of the year with a huge spike since may further be un says the displace people are heading to cobbled a fleet tolerable taliban. but how long is that gonna last give everything we've just said in the previous report. here are just some of the heart wrenching stories of refugees. i've had to tell us. i have been displaced from telecom, the telephone killed my son. the took all the belongings from my house, i'm satisfied with 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 she is

a school teacher. she recently became a teacher and had not even received his salary. had a class has broke out. we were taken hostage of the fighting, went on for about 6 or 7 days, but we couldn't go outside to do anything. we managed to escape. and now we're going to look for those displaced off cancer seeking a solemn may not be that will come with a try to get to europe either with a blog currently loggerheads of what to do with migrants and those fleeing violence . next for you all to pull asleep building into what happened then to europe's previous open door policy. the european union is split from 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 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,

send 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 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 deportation 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 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 of asylum

seekers? there. the 2nd largest group off the syrians 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, that has your opinions worried. they might be on the verge of a fish refugee crisis. those people who are here from a gun in time, they're not migrant. they're a few gees and asylum seeker. and that is why it is very important to remember that our best and 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 of you 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 do for them. i think this is a violation of human rights and we should do that kind of thing. the news now we're across through the day, let's go to greenville california and look at the mass there. the so called dixie foss destroyed more than a 1000 homes interrupting in mid july. the majority of the pounds burned to the ground. more creepy and scary, more than a dozen other small mountain and rural communities have also been lost to the flames. and one of the largest wildfires in the state's history, local residents, distraught where you start after something like that, where you start again. well, they described some of them the last to us. maybe it's too late to help this community, but maybe we can help another community to if you're at 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 a cry. sure, i'm sure. i mean, i'm heartbroken, but you know, that's not gonna, that's not gonna 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 an archaeology site. so you'll know some weird weather, a late, same kind of prominent grease as well drone footage to show you know, show the extent of the destruction after ferocious wildfire read through the l into the via sways of scores, trees and burned out homes, local infrastructure, roads that christy networks are knocked out as well and not so far away worth bearing mine is a big headline. this hidden away on the italian island of sicily a couple of days ago, a temperature of 48.8 degrees celsius was reported. now if it's verified, it will be europe's highest ever recorded temperature. in contrast,

china, under the cautious well, the province of who basing severe flooding, there's been so much flooding there lately 21 people killed now and 4 missing 5 cities of declared red alerts. housing to move to safety, witnessing tolerant, surging through the city streets, the flooding sharp, sweeping vehicles away, causing so much damage. thus far as estimated more than $16000000.00 worth of damage was a big story came in last evening from west russia. an explosion ripping through a public bus, killing 2 women, an injuring 17 in the western russian city of veronica. no warning. this report starts with actual st camera footage of the explosion and contained some distressing images from the outset. so a split 2nd before the explosion, bang her, it goes, deborah, flying out of all sides, then a fire at the time it's believe the bus at around $35.00 on board as the hit,

the people trying to get out the total shock. no idea what's going on around them, you'd think that they got away followed by more disturbing images of the explosion . then we saw the injured person lying on the ground. look good. does it, was there ok among the debris, the russia is investigative committee, opening a criminal probe into the explosion with a number of explanations being considered the sofa. it is still a mystery publicly. anyway, one eye witness telling us what he saw. you can see what he shaken by little i was driving toward the southwest marketplace and drove by the bus. a 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 5 and 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. so hi, that my car was almost pushed to the other side of the road while we're here in verona right now where the explosion took place on thursday evening. as you can see behind me, whatever was left of the blast has already been cleaned up. traffic is already moving normally on the street. again, you can also see behind me a bench where there are some flowers. this is the bus station right next to where the explosion take took place. people put flowers there overnight in memory of those who died in this tragic event. now, as for what caused this explosion, the investigative committee is looking at several different theory. so the main version it's looking at is that either the diesel boss was filled with the wrong fuel or a gas cylinder had exploded on board. there were other people that were saying that the driver per potentially was being negligent and that it was his fault. while the police have said that an earlier theory that it was a terrorist attack, has now been deemed unlikely. projectiles such as pieces of one or 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. right before the bus exploded, it was fully filled all with a total of $35.00 people on board, according to the regions governor $717.00 people were injured. and another 2 people were killed, one of which was a woman who brutally had her legs blown off. and the explosion was certainly a tragic thing to see. as the driver explained, after the fact miss diane and the phone, 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 at people helped to evacuate, know 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 vehicle. now that inspection has since concluded,

and it came up with no new problems connected to any of the regions, the transport vehicle. but again, like i said, this investigation is continuing. it's continuing to try to find out what exactly cause this explosion. and we'll bring our viewers the latest details as they become available. calling bradley here in half an hour, thanks for the to as we get more ill, tell you about it. now, i can tell you what's kinda about the break. an american study exposes a severe drop in the efficacy of coven vaccines from 5 when face for that pesky delta, the area we take a closer look at what that's going to make a worried should we be. after the break? i driven by a dreamer shaped by those in

me dares thing we dare to ask in the problem of the dead sailing is that it forces them to admit what that number is like am 3 or 2, which are the money supply numbers. once the numbers got so scary, they stopped reporting them. similarly with the debt ceiling kabuki theater, that happens every couple of years. they're just going to get rid of it. no one even announced that number. it'll be impossible to find what the american is. and i'll just say, and number 2, the sign for infinity. the

c for pfizer, madana coban vaccines, highlighted by a new american study showing that they did significantly against problematic delta straight enough to just 6 months. if a trend could take 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 roaring fact seen efforts, we gain the upper hand against his 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 it's 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 storing 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 u. s. 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 americans 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 it's butane capabilities will keep bringing new greek alphabet letters into the public consciousness. unfortunately, much more complicated efficacy. math could be on the way pretty search physician run, she'd process some countries or cutting themselves off from scientific advances for political reasons. this whole panoramic really held a mirror out the well did. sure enough, many of the truth about our political system, about health and equality about inequality globally. and of course about the political move of ation, 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, with united states and other countries to buy the vaccine. but we have to 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 find vaccine tickler was 1st to publish phase 3 results. and at that time showed a 96 percent efficacy was the most effective of all the vaccines really. and it does seem that the efficacy holding up very well. but we are cutting off political reasons from the scientific advances that are available in the world today. the tokyo 2020 olympics might be wraps up maybe a week now, but it's still making the headlines this time we get another doping scandal as a british olympics. silver med list is suspended of to testing positive for bond substances are alexia jeff. ski reports on it. was talking about something that could become the biggest scandal in british olympic history. in fact, this, at this time, it's registered in big silver medalists to gender. oh 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 by elation, competed as a member of a relay team. the relating shelby automatically does qualify from the event in question with all resulting consequences for the relay team, including the for feature, a full titles, awards, metals, points and price and appearance money. well, 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 overall metals. as for individual punishment, this athlete can face up to 4 years of a total ban 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 runner from bahrain subject me a ga, short photo, betty coming down and the kenny and friend mike also, i've been previously suspended for possible substance abuse. and i've also been cases where the athletes use bad stuff, the right to be fixed, and now these tests have resurfaced. this happened with a brazilian volleyball player and also just lately a russian try of lawn. please eager to find out 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 mentioned also have the right to a deal. again. those provisional bands and open there be sample. of course we'll be

keeping shaka whole the development there. but again, we could be facing a major candle for the british. olympic history is one for you is canceled culture killing comedy will stand ups and comics are raising the alarm, taking it very seriously. said the laughter business is under threat these days because offending the p. c. movement could be career ending, material can try and please everyone, your please. no one with comedy is while you've got i think you've got deal with booze and contention 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 attack by others who are

the twitter police or, or the morality police. where do you draw the line? despite the reaction that social media suggests there are plenty of other comedians, happy to play it safe because today's edge material could become tomorrow's. unacceptable and at a touch gig wild comedian, much or failure, thinks that this increasing self. censorship is a troubling trend. comedy is something that brings people together in why, 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 as well as my show over the same for now archie, they'll cover so much more on that developing serious situation. i've got to start on the latest of the mystery bus plus the western russia last evening to the 17 engine. kevin, now we've been reporting for moscow and, but with more all the same terms tomorrow, called embrace here and how from, from all of us, wherever you're watching. thank you for watching t international me the look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except when the shorter the conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is to great truck rather than fear

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