in advancing by the hour, the taliban makes rapid territorial gains in afghanistan, now reportedly only 50 kilometers from the capital, sparking a massive occupation. meanwhile, the e use open door policy seems to be slamming shut with a block split over african refugees. a several states insist on their right to forcibly deport rejected asylum seekers. the powerful glass has through a passenger buses in the town of veronica in western russia, leaving 2 dead and 17 in the course of you yet known what i witness says. the explosion hit the vehicle exactly hard. the explosion was very loud. so loud i was definite for some time. and the plus pressure was so high that my car was almost pushed to the other side of the road. ah,

i live from moscow, this is our t and to nationally, it's 5 in the afternoon. it's friday, the 13th on calling bray with world stories cross for you. this is our 1st to afghanistan where the us back government is quickly losing control. following the withdrawal of pentagon troops, as the taliban makes sweeping gains with militants now reported to be just 50 kilometers from the capital. cobble the is the best groups already seized. the 2nd and 3rd largest cities, kandahar inherent in recent days and verified video circulating on social media, purportedly showing africa security forces flay and kind of hard just half an hour before the kind of been said that it had a stablished control. the u. s. embassy in cobble is urging all americans to leave the country immediately. going so far too often loans to those who were unable to 4 plane tickets home. have you any available commercial carriers for the situation right now, the militants controlling around 2 thirds of the country, as you can see, marked here in red government forces so marked here in green,

down to a much diminished territory. the rest are contested regions, but they are on the brink. currently, the islamists have taken hold of strategically crucial locations very near to the capital. as i mentioned that the 50 kilometers away i would tell about ramped up it's offensive back in april after the us president announced he was pulling our troops at the time though the medicines had belly, a 5th of territory. now though, fall forward to this week. it's well over half of the taliban taking hold of multiple provinces in a single day. us troops back to work and i've got a son with a slightly different mission of getting american embassy stuff out of the country. however, the pentagon struggling to say whether a complete withdrawal will be conducted on time. does this mean the u. s. military withdrawal is now 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 gonna 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, of british forces are also withdrawing by the country's defense secretary's already gravely warning that afghanistan is on the brink of collapse. he says, talib militants clearly at the momentum across the country. and afghan started heading towards a civil war predicting too that the battle scarred nation will again become a breeding ground for al qaeda. reporting next from outside, the defense ministry, h q. he showed edwards dashti full options on the table. that is the latest from the u. k is defense secretary friend wallace, as he tries to prevent an all out civil war in afghanistan is the u. k. begins to retreat troops out of the country. now, ever since us taliban peace still,

what we've seen is nature. have all begun to retrieve what flashes this power political vacuum in the region seeing the tale from totally taking control and shipping, that balance of power. now not only will a poverty of course increase on political de stabilisation, but what's a key worry is terrorism could also still be on the rise. and that's why you case, defendant secretary is now saying that pulling out of the region is a huge mistake. now we're in this position where we talked about how clearly to manage across the country the united states are leaving that with an honest yesterday we are leaving alongside them. and that leaves a, as you say, a very, very big problem on the ground developing with the, to fail states around the world need to instability, lead to a security threat to us and our interest. we, we are very clear about that, that fly that the west has to learn that you don't fix problems, you manage problems. pro button wallace has also said that the united kingdom may

act if asked on a stone again began to harbor terrorism. particularly if it pose an international threat like it did arguably some 18 years ago. but many onto will activists argue that the foreign policy has never been to humanitarian mission, nor was it about democracy and only ever saw the land become the place of conflicts and battle ground giving rise to the taliban. and what we see now is the tale around all accelerating the dominant. many areas are now falling to the tale bomb as a particular ring around kabul. at this point, many people question and all you, whether or not the type i'm will go directly to try and seize, cobble and according to the united nations. the gun war has now entered his more destructive phase with casualties climbing over one and a half a 1000 in the past 4 weeks alone. and all of this really has cause a lot of anger here in britain, even with many m. p 's,

some of which have even served in the connie occupation over the last 20 is them incredibly angry and all that pulling out is a complete mistake and a huge failure. the operation broke was worse. it took families apart, left children orphans and parents to cry alone. the decision to withdraw is like a rug pulled from under the seat of our partners. that's why i'm angry. it's wasteful and unnecessary. and why is it personal? because i've seen what it costs and what sacrifices are being thrown away. and i know who's going to pay for it. we will. well, it's actually a pretty desperate time for the united kingdom is actually sending in around $600.00 troops to try and get versus nationals out. see a short term basis rescue mission if you like. but for those in afghanistan, both citizens simply call and guess how this is incredibly, a tragic and scary time for all of them as a taliban relentlessly takes over. but ultimately, for nato allies,

britain and america, the last 20 years ending up like this is incredibly humiliating. because they tried to rebuild it on stabilize the region. and now it seems as though with the telephone takeover the country could be worse off than as well as the conflict sharpens the un warning. there's only $400000.00 civilians already fed homes this year with a particular spike since may many a heading to cobble to flee the taliban, but the living and extremely precarious conditions right now. here were just some of the heart wrenching stories from refugees. i have been just placed on telecom, the telephone killed my son. they took all the belongings from my house. i'm satisfied with them and 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 a class has broken over, taken hostage and the fighting went on for about 6 or 7 days. but we couldn't go

outside and we managed to escape, and now we cannot. but this place afghans who seek asylum may not be. welcome in the you either with the blog currently at loggerheads. what to do with refugees and those fleeing violence. next, our teeth pulled a slip down into what happened to brussels open door policy. 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 war refugees, to flee to europe. we would like to highlight the edge need to perform returns both voluntary and non voluntary to afghan. a stan stopping return sends the wrong signal and it's likely to motivate even more afghan citizen to leave the home for the e u. the situation in afghanistan is deterioration by the all when it comes to the

us and nato prepaid to what's called a truth, that the end of the month after decades long war, the situation is so bad that the netherlands, germany, and france have decided to pause the deportation, at least 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 percent of asylum seekers. they're the 2nd largest group after 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. 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. they're a few use and asylum seeker. and that is why it is very important to remember. at our best in countries have signed humor a convention refugee convention. and they are duty bound to has anyone, not only of guns, but syrians are anybody who come to the, to their country and as far as them, because you are who are in the country, are any conflict our personal tend 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 humor. right. and we should do that kind of thing. more news from around the world to greenville in california, where the so called dixie fire has destroyed more than a 1000 homes since they're up to late july. most of the town has been full and it does another mountain and rural communities have also been lost to the flame said, one of the largest wildfires in the states history destroy locals have been describing that loss. maybe it's too late to help this community. maybe we can help another community just 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 in greece drone video shares the extent of destruction from ferocious was filed there, which ripped, through the islands of the scale score trees and burned out homes infrastructure, including roads and electricity, networks were also hit across the sea on the italian island of sicily, a temperature of 48.8 degrees celsius was recorded on wednesday. if that's verified, it will be europe's highest. ever in contrast, the chinese province of who by has been hit by severe flooding with 21 people reported killed and 4 missing 5 cities of declared red alerts as thousands of people who are evacuated to safety tolerant, search through city streets, flooding shops, and sweeping vehicles. away the damage so far estimated a more than $16000000.00. and some of the worst flooding in northern turkeys history has killed dozens and left hundreds of villages without power to rental rate is also triggered. severe mudslide on

a 1000 people have been evacuated to safety as rescue operations continue. an explosion has ripped through a public bus in the western russian city of the runners killing 2 women and enduring 17 other people. now just a warning that this next report coming up does contain st. camera video of the actual blast and contain some distressing images. a split 2nd before the incidence, and then they be flying out from all sides than a fire. at the time it's believe the bus had around at $35.00 passengers on board, and i blocked head. many of those who worked able to move sled to safety. further disturbing images of the explosion show an injured person lying on the ground among the daybreak. such as investigative committees, open to criminal probe and looking into a number of possible explanations that so far no version is being single. as what i witnessed has been described in what he saw the realtor that 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 definite 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 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 of 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 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. and 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 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. more ahead here on our tea, an american study exposes a survey, a drop in the efficacy of covey vaccines from pfizer, against the delta strike, will take a closer look after the break. ah,

i so 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 political time, time to sit down and talk the the the problem on the death failing 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 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 announce that number. it'll be impossible to find what the data with american is that i'll just say a number sign for infinity. ah, hello again, worrying grew up in efficacy for the pfizer infidel koby. vaccines has been highlighted by a new american study showing that they dipped significantly against that problematic delta strain. after 6 months, ortiz alia patricia has more than the possible ramifications. you're about to see the face and hear the thoughts of a leader confident. he's almost beaten coven and his country. thank sure, roared fact, seen 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 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 variable as the delta various races through all 50 states, driving new case numbers upward. it's all reflected in the numbers that have gone from about 12000 new cases at the end of june in the us to more than 155001 august, the 11th. look at the curve. it's nowhere near flattening. nobody wants the worst case scenario when mutations out smart the scientists, but that is a possibility. in the meantime, southern states have begun reporting shortages and intensive care unit beds. the crisis is taking install on health workers, country by country. delta is putting the whole world to the test. now it's

apparently america's turn. it's also a crucial exam for vaccine developers. the good news is that johnson and johnson and split big v shots are still highly effective against the delta variance with 905 and 83 percent efficacy. we're actively, but it looks like covert and it's viewed patient capabilities will keep bringing new greek alphabet letters into the public consciousness. unfortunately, much more complicated efficacy. math could be on the way. british surgeon and physician run g bra says that some countries are cutting themselves off from scientific advances for political reasons. this whole pandemic really held a mirror out. well, that should have many of the truth about our political system, about health and equality about inequality globally. and of course about political move servatius, which interfere with what, what other like be strictly scientific and medical consideration. so for example,

in, in britain, we have been point forward in making huge a contract with united states and other countries to buy their vaccine. but we have to definitely 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, at the sputnik 5 vaccine tickler was 1st to publish the site 3 results. and at that time showed in 1906 percent efficacy was the most effective a lot of actually really and it does seem the efficacy holding up very well that we are cutting off of the political resume from the scientific advances that are available in the world today he limped games wrapped up nearly a week ago, but they're still making headlines with yet another doping scandal. this time of british silver med list of being suspended off the testing positive for band substances is alexi irish epsky reports. 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 rule by lation competed as a member of a relate team. the relating shelby automatically does qualify 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 at the tokyo 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 runner from bahrain subject me a ga, short photo. betty company down and the kenny and sprint medic deamber also have been provisioning suspended for possible substance abuse. and i've also been cases where athletes used banned substances, but riots will elim fixed 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 ski who also tested positive for a substance abuse before the olympics. the conductor, during the olympics,

did not show anything. and now all the athletes that i mentioned also have the right a deal again. those provisional bands and opened their sample, of course will be keeping track of all the developments that but again, we could be facing a major candle for the british. olympic history is cancel culture, killing comedy many stand ups and comics are taking the risks very seriously. right now. they say that the laughter business is on the threat because offending the p. c. movement could be a career ending move to try and please everyone. your please, no one with comedy is while you go, i think god deal with booze and contention issues. and sometimes you date an irony . 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 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 that reaction on social media suggests there are plenty of other comedians, happy to play it safe because today's you material could become tomorrow's unacceptable and how to touch gig, american comedian, math awfully. those 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 themselves. well the, what me any, holding back next on cross to here and i'll see off the, which i'll be here to update you on are developing a world stories. me the join me every 1st on the alex summon show when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the i think is part of mental health revolution. we increasingly freeze political claims. the language of mental health became more common.

so if you disagree with something i said on this program, just say i disagree with you. i think you're wrong because of the following problems in your adventure logic. you say your micro grass mate, you say you triggered me. you said you hard me again some psychological way because those are psychological terms. and i get an enormous problem for politics because it's almost impossible to have a discourse on that terrain. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest. what you see in this, these techniques, is the state devising message to end to essentially destroy personality of an individual. by scientific means. this is how one doctor's 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. the news hello in welcome to cross stock where all things considered peter lavelle, americans had a long and contentious history with the word socialism. for conservatives, 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 cross talking socialism, i'm joined by my guess kayla mauppin in new york. he is a journalist and 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 horning cross accruals and effects. that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i always appreciate it. caleb b, let me go to you 1st 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 the meaning of it in, in the context of american politics because, well, everyone know it's, i'm a conservative but i have to show my card.