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[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, advancing the why the, our, the about it makes rapid territorial gains and i've got to stop now reportedly only $15.00 from the capital wanting a mass evacuation. meanwhile, the huge open door policy seems to be signing shots with the blocks place over gun refugee several sites on their right to forcibly deport, rejected a thought and take a powerful blas through a passenger buses. the town of western russia leading to dead and 17 injured. the cause is as yet unknown eye witnesses, the explosion hit the vehicle extremely hard. the explosion was very loud. so loud
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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, lot from moscow. thanks for joining us on our national tonights. i'm daniel hawkins . wherever you are, welcome through the program. now going to stones us back. government is quite quickly losing control following the withdrawal of pentagon troops that's about makes sweeping games with medicines, now reported to be just 50 kilometers from the capital cobble. early on friday, the unclaimed it sees that sounds 2nd largest city canada. ha, you can now see exclusive footage from there. the medicine groups that it sees hundreds of weapons and vehicles as one of the large amounts of munitions during the operation. u. s. embassy and cabal is urging all americans to leave the country immediately. and so far as to offer loans for those unable to afford plane tickets
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home and to use any available to martial carriers on the map, you can see the situation in afghanistan right now. currently, the islamists have taken hold of strategically crucial locations very near the capital tunnel ramp top it's offensive. back in april, off of the us president announced he was pulling out troops at the time. the militant group held less than a 5th of the country. now they control more than half. we spoke to people on the streets of trouble. the taliban ruled here before and they didn't rule in the people's interest. what people think that they will act the same. we will read there is fighting everywhere in the provinces of fooling day by day. the government should do something the people of a thing with a kind of taking hold of multiple provinces and a single day. us troops back to work and i've got to start with a slightly different mission of getting american and was you saw out of the country . the pentagon, however, is struggling to say whether
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a complete withdrawal will be conducted on time. 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. john, i know i know what your troops, i know what you're saying, lucas. and the us military helicopters arrive at the american embassy in kabul summer, comparing the scene to the last helicopter out of saigon. in the final days of the vietnam war, senior republican lawmaker, mitch mcconnell says the hasty deforming of the military forces seems like a preparation for the fall of cobble. but just one month ago,
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president joe boyd and hand dismissed with yet non power of you see any parallels between fit withdraw and what happened vietnam with some people feeling went on watching 0. the tele vaughn is not this out. the north vietnamese army. they're not, they're not remotely comparable terms of capability. there's going to be no circumstance for you to see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the united states from afghanistan, author process. we now cross live to political activist and found a member of us stop the war coalition for 9 am. great, thanks for joining us today on the program. do you think these people about que ations echo the us exit from saigon back in 1975? well they may well do, and he's a substitute actually that the the u. s. military and the whole occupation has reached
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a point of humiliating defeat at the hands of of the taliban. how these plays out in the. ready in the days in the weeks to come, it's a little bit hard to predict, but it does look because it's very, very serious forward. ready momentum either they'll be a, an entrenched civil war or they'll be complete telephone and take out that neither is very good for the people of african the song. but it's also an absolute catastrophe. full. ready of western powers that can go into this occupation almost exactly 20 years ago this year. so it's, it's definitely respecting human. yes. i'm just a month ago, of course joe barton was saying that the taliban army, their fighting power isn't even close to the capability of the vietnamese forces
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back in a more era. just a month later, they control most of the country and all days or weeks away from seizing. cobble. and do you think the president made a big mistake, underestimating the power? well, i think the mistake does the politicians on the military and most of the common carrier make in this situation is they don't understand the extent to which the patient has created bitterness and anger against the west and the circumstances in which the taliban. ready have been the only organization in africans facility that as opposed to resistance as opposed fields. and they have a significant support. they generated, they put towards then, whole numbers of militia. they have support some support in the country. precisely because be the occupation has been so. so horrendous to the people of africa
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understand. i think that's the dynamic that most of the people analyzing situation massively underestimated the pens and doesn't seem to worry about. couple falling to the taliban despite the plan to actually evacuate. missy saw that suddenly does seem like a hurried retreat. should it be and do you think the u. s. may still reverse that decision to pull out his troops despite all of longstanding promises? well, i mean, this is, this is something that needs to be seriously considered. i mean, sending 3000 troops in to evacuate. the remaining personnel seems like cannot reactions, 600 british troops going in as well. i think there is that danger the u. s. gets to the western powers, get drawn back in to get a new stone in order to try and a desperate efforts towards proper the, which the government that they bank against kind of that, that would be
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a bad mistake. and as i said, the lesson people need to learn from the last 20. ready years is that you can't bama country to liberation. you can't introduce democracy. you can't introduce any kind of any form of humanitarian progress by invading it or not bombing it. and any attempt now by the us to get back in and try and defend the government will only deep in the crisis and, and actually dede from the suffering of the african people in the last few weeks. the u. s. has been intensifying, it's for main, including using blanket bombing from b 50 twos. that means the already herein, this death told us civilians from the last 2 decades will only increase the deep in the division from the country. deep in the desperation of yes, can people, so there's no military fix to this situation. it's, it's,
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it's catastrophic. it's, it's, it's, it's a pulling for the people of afghanistan, but it can only be solved by people in that country. and in the region it can be so by any further ministry dimension you mention, this is a disaster for western countries and also disaster for the afghan people. and they those 3 factors really collide in times of the displaced people li, both internally and externally displaced. refugees, yourself, serious situation is for those a price within the country and also the knock on effects the repercussion potentially for flows of refugees. margaret's asylum seekers to europe and other countries. but it's always a desperate situation to have to move from your home and cross whether it's crossing the country, trying to get into carpool, where there's apparently mastered both crowding and public spaces and public
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buildings, or trying to cross borders in front. it's a, it's a desperate thing to have to do. and rather than sending more troops in, rather than intensifying the bombing, one thing the, the us and the other members, the west coast, you could do, would be to offer a, saw an offer saying 3 to the as many as possible. that the african people who is suffering the situation. after all these, the situation is a product to 20 years of occupation. it is a result of the invasion in 2001 and everything that happened subsequently. so we have a responsibility. the western panelist, who were involved to have responsibility, in my opinion, to, to, to fund the construction of the country, but certainly to open our doors to the victims of these terrible war and the terrible situation that is ensued. ok. chris 9 am political
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activists and founding member of the stop the war coalition. like for joining us on the program today. so you want will, british forces are also withdrawing, but the country's defense secretary's already gravely warning and going to san is on the brink of collapse or in the u. s. decision a mistake. and wanted to says about medicines clearly have momentum across the country. and i've got to start heading towards civil war predicting too that the battle scarred nation will again to become a breeding ground for all kind of voting next, from outside, the british defense ministry, his shot was dusty. well, all options on the table is the latest from the u. k. is defense secretary, friend wallace, is he twice prevention all out? civil war enough? county stone is the u. k. begins to retreat troops out of the country now. ever since not us taliban p still. 2 what we've seen is nature that we have all begun to retrieve what flashes this power political vacuum in the region, seeing the tale around,
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totally taking control and tipping that balance of power. now not only will a poverty of course increase on political destabilization, but what's a key worry is terrorism could also still be on the rise, and that's why the u. k. the funded secretary is now saying that pulling out of the region is a huge mistake. now we're in this position where it's out of the house, click manage across the country. 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 taliban failed states around the world lead to instability, lead to a security threat to off and our interest. we were very clear about that. that's why the, the west has to learn that you don't fix problems, you manage problems. prob wallace has also said that the united kingdom may ox, if asked on a stone, again, began to hob a terrorism, particularly if it pose an international threat like it did arguably some 18 years
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ago. but many on to activists argue that the foreign policy has never been about to humanitarian mission, nor was it about democracy and only ever saw the land become the place of conflict and battle ground giving rise to the taliban. and what we see now is the tale about all accelerating the dominant. many areas are now falling to the tale bottom as a particular ring around kabul at this point. so many people, question and all of you, whether or not the type i will go directly to try and seize kabul and according to the united nations, the gun war has now entered its 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 years. that incredibly angry and ology that pulling out is a complete mistake and
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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 feet 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 what it's actually pretty desperate time for the united kingdom is actually sending in around $600.00 troops to try and get british 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
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to rebuild that unsafe allies the region, and now it seems as though with the telephone and take over the country could be worse off than as well as the us lead alliance quits the country. i've gone translated contractors and the other workers who helped them increasingly scan to revenge by the advancing about a group of workers who helped you. k for use of ral, rallied on the streets of couple demanding borrowers. johnson's government protect them. 600 british troops that to be sent to the region to help you national and the country, as well as support the relocation of former stock workers. however, i still frightened, i joined the british, told me in the hope of stabilizing. it's kind of fun and i thought that the british forces represented the best chances of bringing peace to my country. i've kind of thought was not the that's a but we invested all our efforts on energy. but i didn't know how complex my
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country was because the time on gaining control of the capital of the provinces on there. i don't think there i talk to cobble. i'm very worried and concerned about the safety of my family because the taliban will target my family because of my service. our service was by ricky linked to u. k. national security on the british interests across the region and ask on the phone. so it is not really a moral humanitarian for the britain's government to leave those off guns who stood by the soldiers to fight a force that reboots called an enemy. there are no doubt the thought of the will. will target to our families on do golf grounds who help you can government mission in the military and civilian mission. so leading them at the mercy of thought is simply a huge mistake. as a conflict sharpens un warns the 400000 civilians already fled their homes this year with a particular spike. since may many heading to cobble to flee,
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the taliban are living in extremely precarious condition. or just some of the heart wrenching stories from refugees have been displaced from telecontact. the telephone killed my son just because 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 his salary. had a class has broke out, taken hostage of the fighting, went on for 7 days, but we couldn't go outside and we managed to escape and now cannot yet moonless place, guns who seek asylum may not be. welcome. in the e u. i them with the block currently loggerheads of what to do with refugees fleeing violence. next thought he's paul asleep. delves into what happened to brussels open door policy. your opinion is less than what to do with african refugees. speaking, assigned them in the letter to the european commission,
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civil countries insisted they have the right to forcibly support 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 urgent 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 as the us and nato prepaid to what's called a troops at the end of the month after decades is all the situation is so bad that the netherlands, germany, and france have decided to cause 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
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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 is done, they're not my. there's a few g, 's and asylum seeker. and that is why is very important to remember at our best in countries have signed humour
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a convention refugee convention. and they are duty bound to has anyone, not only of guns, but syrians are anybody who come to the, to their country, and as far as them, because you are in the country, are any conflict our personal tend to, to the life. so i think than 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. still to come. an american story exposes a severe drop in the efficacy of cobra, vaccines from pfizer and madana are against the delta vary and we take a closer look off of the break. ah
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going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, a very critical time. time to sit down and talk the welcome back of an explosion ripped through a public boss in the western russian city varnish, killing 2 women and injuring 20 other people. and i witnessed the rush to help the survivors told us what he saw. why not, but i slot minnesota a minutes after the blast, i heard children scream, people please help me, didn't rush to the bus and jumped in through the window which had already been shattered. once inside, i saw an 11 or 12 year old girl, she was stuck between 2 seats. at that moment the guy came to help me. first we got the girl out. i'm sure her ribs broken, given how tightly she had been stuck. made several attempts to stand her row with
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which she couldn't and started falling after her. i'll go back on the bus. there was a woman in a green dress. her legs were severely hurt, her legs had been blown off to above the knees. we took her out and puts her on the ground. it was appalling. inside. you could see legs quality parts scattered around, but you don't focus on that as you battle to save human lives. the human life is the most precious thing on us. i didn't analyze anything at the moment of rushing to help. i acted instinctively. what self can you do when you hear children screaming, moaning my heart told me to do that. i understand this would shock, ordinary people. they'd seek to avoid such things. i've been to war on sort of used to it. i helped i went hung up all morning. the following report begins with st. camera video footage of the actual blossom contains some distressing images. a split 2nd full incidence and debris flying out from all sides that followed the
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fire at the time. it's believe the boss held around $35.00 passengers on board as diblasio. many of those who were still able to move fled the scene that was followed further. distressing images of the explosions show an injured parson along on the ground among the debris brushing throat. he have opened a criminal pro but looking into a number of possible explanations with no rush and singled out. so far. all he's done, of course, has been following the tragic events off tomorrow. 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 theories. so the main version it's looking at is that either the diesel boss was filled with the wrong fuel or
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a gas cylinder had exploded on board. there were other people that were saying that the driver per potentially was being met negligence 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 and explosive devices were not found. those injured but mostly hand by fragments of flying glass. however, the chance that it could be an explosive device can still not be ruled out. right before the bus exploded. it was fully filled all with a total of $35.00 people on board. and 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,
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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 region public transport vehicle. now that inspection has since concluded, and it came up with no new problems connected to any of the region, the transport vehicle. 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. a worrying drop and efficacy for the fines madana cobra vaccines has been hon. i did buy a new american study, it showed they dipped significantly against that problematic delta strain office 6 months onto easy to but frankly has more on the possible ramifications you're about to see the face and hear the thoughts of a leader confident he's almost beaten, coded in his country. thank george roared fact seen efforts. we gain the upper hand
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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
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a blind eye on the worrying numbers in it. so what, what wrong key reason could be that the white house, along with the whole health care system is up against the pesky enemy, the numbers, unfortunately moving in the wrong direction. as delta is the predominant variant here in the united states, we are going to begin with the pandemic cases are soaring across our country. driven by the highly contagious delta vary and the as the delta various races through all 50 states, driving new case numbers upward. it's all reflected in the numbers that have gone from about 12000 new cases at the end of june in the us to more than 155001 august, the 11th. look at the curve. it's nowhere near flattening. nobody wants the worst case scenario when mutations out smart the scientists, but that is a possibility. in the meantime, southern states have begun reporting shortages and intensive care unit beds. the
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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, pretty surgeon and a physician runs the bra. so some countries that cutting themselves off from scientific advances for political reasons. this whole pandemic really tell the mirror for the world. it shows me the truth about our political system, about health and equality, about inequality globally. and of course, about
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a political move of ation, 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 vaccines. but we have to just ignore the efficacy, both of the russian vaccine and of course of the chinese. and it does seem that we're going to suffer as a result of that funding 5 acting tickler was 1st to publish the site 3 results. and at that time showed in 1906 percent efficacy was the most effective of all of actually really. and it goes in the efficacy holding up very well that we are cutting off of the political reasons from the scientific advances that are available in the world today. the next talk to the commentary, present money, machine a look back at the was to my students and us history and what followed for the city of las vegas and the victims were back in half an hour with the latest join us
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