is almost impossible to have a discourse on that terrain with the headline news us troops up back in afghanistan. this time though to get the diplomats out as the taliban makes rapid territorial gains. the state department claims. it's not a hasty evacuation. just a safe draw down of empathy staff. meanwhile, the use open door policy seems to slammed shuts with the lock split over the migration of refugees from afghanistan. several states are insisting on their right to forcibly deport rejected asylum seekers and a powerful blast ted through a passenger of us in the town of veronica and western russia, leading to dead and 17 injured. the cause isn't yet known. i witness says the explosion hit the vehicle ex 3 me hard. the explosion was very loud. so loud i was

deafening for some time and the blood pressure was so high that my car was almost pushed to the other side of the road. ah, hello, welcome from me and the news team here at c h q in moscow. my name's kasha gray, but the stories the way across with this hour in fact is changing almost hourly and africanist and tracking the latest that the taliban says that it sees the country 2nd and 3rd largest cities, kandahar and hit up and verify video that circulating on social media, purportedly shows africa security forces play in kandahar to half an hour before the taliban to the u. s. embassy in cobble is urging all americans to leave the country immediately going so far as to offer loans to those unable to afford plane tickets. home and use the 1st available commercial carriers. meanwhile, this widespread speculation that the capital cobble could fall to the taliban within days if not hours. here's the situation as it stands at the moment. the

medicines controlled around 2 thirds of the country. you can see them here and read government forces though in great and much diminished territory as far as that concerned. the rest disputed areas, but a lot around that capital city. now currently the islamists have taken hold of some crucial strategically important locations. very near the capital. we're hearing that one regional capital, 50 kilometers from cobble, has already been taken. the taliban ramped up, it's offensive only in april, off the us president joe biden. so downstairs that he was pulling troops out now at the time the as them is controlled, less than a 5th of the countries territory. now though, up to this week and it's well over half with the taliban taking hold of multiple provinces in a single day. us troops back to work and i've kind of sent over the slightly different mission this time that, that to get us empathy stuff out of the country. as the state department says, it'll dramatically reduces diplomats in cobble. and although this might look like an evacuation officials have been trying 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 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 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 us military withdrawal 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. 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 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 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 are 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

hospitals he showing no sign of abating and africana stem, the un is warning that nearly 400000 civilians have had to leave their homes since the start of the year with a huge spike since may further, the un says the displace people are heading to cobble to flee the taliban, even though that's looking increasingly future right now. here were just some of the heart wrenching stories. the refugees have to tell. i have been displaced from telecom. the telephone killed my son. they took all the belongings from my house and set fire to them and front of me, 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. he 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 displaced, but those displaced afghan seeking asylum might not be able that welcome in europe either with the blog currently at loggerheads over what to do with refugees and

those fleeing violence. next to us, he's pulled a flip, dealt into what happened to europe's open door policy. your opinion is split from what to do with african refugees seeking. 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 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 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 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. grease or stress belgian and denmark standing. they want that would checked, it assigned them because the e u is not really and does not have the capacity to kind of another major migration crisis. why having us, as guns are waiting, make up around 10 percent of asylum seekers. they're 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 is time,

they are not my there's a few use and asylum seeker. and that is why is very important to remember. at all, western countries have signed humour 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 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 do for them. i think this is a violation of human rights. and we should do that kind of thing. ammonia from around the world greenville, in california, where the so called dixie fire has destroyed more than a 1000 homes interrupting in mid july,

the majority of the towns been turned to the ground. well then, a dozen other small mounted and rural communities of also been lost to the flames. one of the largest wildfires in the state's history destroy locals have been described in the last maybe it's too late to help this community. maybe we can help another community to 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 an archaeology site. drone video from great shows the extent of the destruction there left off of the ferocious wildfires ripped through the auditors as he swayed the subscriber trees and burnt out homes

local infrastructure, including roads and electricity networks, but also has not so far away on the italian island officially a temperature of 48.8 degrees celsius was recorded on wednesday, or if that's verified, it will be europe's highest ever. in contrast, the chinese province of wu a has been hit by severe flooding. 21. people have been killed and 4, missing. 5 cities there of declared red alerts and thousands have been moved to safety towards search through city streets, flooding shops, and sweeping vehicles away. the damage, so far as estimated more than $16000000.00 an explosion has read through a public bus on the city of veronica in western russia, cutting 2 women and enduring 17 other people. i just have warning that this report coming up does start with st. camera video of the actual explosion and it does contain some distressing images a split 2nd before the explosion, and then debris flying out from all sides than

a fire. at the time it's believed that the bus had around $35.00 passengers on board. and as the bloss hit, many of those were still able to move sled. so the disturbing images of the explosion show an injured person lying on the ground among the daybreak and rushes investigative committees opened a criminal probe, and it's looking right now into a number of possible explanations. but so far it's still a mystery. what i witness has been describing what he saw really i was driving towards the southwest market place 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 was so high 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, they are overnight and 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 on nails, things usually used. an 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. 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 in the explosion. it 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. people helped 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 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,

its continuing to try to find out what exactly caused this explosion. and we'll bring our viewers the latest details as they become available. okay, this is our fee for moscow on the way an american study exposes as drop in the efficacy of cobit vaccines from pfizer. when faced with that delta area and we take a closer look at what they say, they've come up with them, we'll have to break the ah, ah, ah ah

ah, i use what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk the hello again. her worrying drop in advocacy for the pfizer, a medina,

cody vaccines has been highlighted by new american study showing they dipped significantly against the problematic delta straight after 6 months of these illegal drug has more on the findings you're about to see the face and hear the thoughts of a leader confident he's almost beaten, coded in his country. thanks, george roared fact seen efforts. we gain the upper hand against this virus. we do 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 and 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, 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 a british surgeon and physician run j brown says that some countries are cutting themselves off from scientific advances for political reasons. this whole pandemic really held a mirror out for the world. it shows me the truth about our political system, about health and equality about inequality globally. and of course, about political motivation which interfere with what, what 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 ignore would be because the, 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, at the sputnik fine vaccine tickler was 1st publish phase 3 results. and at that

time showed a 96 percent efficacy was the most effective of all of them actually really. and it does seem that efficacy is holding up very well. we are cutting off the political reasons from the scientific involved that are available in the world today. the games might have wrapped up nearly a week ago, but it's still making headlines. we have yet another doping scandal. this time a british olympics over medalist has been suspended off the testing positive for band substances. the lexy shasky report. 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 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 violation completed as a member of a relay team. the relate team shelby automatically does qualify from the event in question with all resulting consequences for the relay team, including the 4 feature full 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 at the tokyo olympics with 65 overall metals. as for individual punishment, this athlete 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 runner from bahrain subject me a ga, short photo. betty couple man and the kenny and sprint medic also have been provisioning suspended for possible substance abuse. and i've also been cases where athletes used banned substances, but dry it 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. council culture killing comedy stand ups and comics had taken the rest very seriously these days. and he say that

the laughter business is under threat because offending the p. c. movement could be a career ending move. if you try me please everyone your please. no one with comedy as well. you've got i think you've got to deal with booze and content issues and sometimes you did an irony and some people don't get not when everybody gets safe and nobody tries anything. things get boring. right. 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 just 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? all, despite that reaction on social media suggests that there are plenty of other comedians, happy to play it safe because today that even serial could become tomorrow's

unacceptable and out of touch gig, american, comedian, math. so awfully though that says that the increasing self censorship is troubling . comedy is something that brings people together and 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. that's up. okay, that's the way it looks for moscow. this hour i'll have the next update out to scottie. now hughes nail, t america team a washington. me

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their own interest. while you see in this, these techniques is the state devising message to end essentially destroy 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. send out the victim, say they still, with the consequences today the i think is part of mental health revolution. we increasingly freeze political claims at the language of mental health became more common. so if you disagree with something i said on this program, you know,

just say i just agree with you. i think you're wrong because of the following problems in your evidence or logic. you see your micro grass mate, you say you triggered me. you said your heart be again some psychological way because those are psychological terms. and i guess an enormous problem for politics because it's almost impossible to have a discourse on that terrain. the the new charges against canada for violating international law regarding arm sales have been made. we're going to give you the details regarding the parties involved and their responses. the national security agency award of a secret 10000000000 dollar contractor amazon has been challenged by microsoft raising questions that only about the annotated ability to keep

a secret. but how tight is that relationship between silicon valley and intelligence agency? or ben was going to give us some answers. and speaking of government contracts in my p. d as good and $59000000.00 on 5 year. we're let you know what was purchased and what the n y p d hope to accomplish with their arsenal of potentially invasive surveillance tool. there's a new article out reveals the inside pay to play world involving some of the most popular magazines on your new rack. we will ask someone who is very familiar with the business and whether or not this is just the evolution of the industry, as well as get her take on the latest news about prince andrew under review by london police. but no official investigation has been open yet. these stories, as well as your i should be on the skies night 1st, last feel performance. you don't want to miss hughes and you're watching news views right here on our to america. let's get started.