certainly in bold in the religious zealots in africa. and now there is a danger that with this defeat of us imperialism and ghana, stan that the religious zealots will be energized. that is to say, the taliban is not arguing that they defeated the super power. speaking of the united states of america, and that will help them to attract adherents and not only in south asia, but in africa as well. this is a very serious scenario to contemplate. a lot of the news for this out, they shoot for news use queues coming away in just a few minutes time. we're back in 30 minutes with the latest. you want to again, the join me every 1st on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the

world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. in the security alert was raised in washington dc. today a pickup truck driver claim to have the bomb and his vehicle will have the later plus the outfit. afghanistan, presidents was spotted in the united arab emirates all the while. it turns out his daughter is living a comfortable life in new york, very different than what many other afghanistan women are facing. and is our trip to the moon getting delayed. we'll have an expert way in all that a more right here on our america. ah, hello and thank you so much for joining us this evening. i'm latasha sweet and then

1st scotty. now hughes. we begin with develop the news out of washington d. c. a pickup truck driver claimed to have a bomb and his vehicle near capitol hill. police said the man appeared to have something in his hand, a possibly a detonator. authorities then evacuated the area around the library of congress in a tweet us capital. police said they were responding to a suspicious vehicle near the library of congress urging people to stay away. negotiations ensued and the man to render 49 year old floyd rate rose theory of north carolina was taken into custody around $230.00 local time. and as the crisis continues in afghanistan, the country as president ash rough connie is in the united arab emirates where he was welcomed with open arms after fleeing the taliban. r t. john hardy has more down the hill before the commercial, william afghan, president, sheriff gone. he said he was forced to leave cobble with just the clothes on his

back when the taliban entered the city sunday. my boy, i was forced to leave afghanistan with one set of traditional clothes, the best in the sandals added weight to attention. but by the sound of a gun, he may able to afford a new set of traditional clothes. he also reportedly left afghanistan with $169000000.00 in cash. something connie denied and his facebook page video posting r t has not been able to independently verify that claim. but connie is in the united arab emirates, or the u. a confirmed in a statement that he and his family were welcome into the country on quote unquote humanitarian grounds. connie defended his decision to flee afghanistan to them. yet i am grateful for security and defense forces and i am proud of not defeated and they did not. they ought to. we failed, but which it was the failure of the taliban leadership. that was the failure of the government leadership and also the political failure of the international allies. us president joe biden, and nato secretary general young stuart and burg,

both blamed a failure in afghanistan leadership for the countries collapse. and while gaudy, seemingly rest on his laurels into bye for asking the president how many cars i met with taliban leaders this week. to discuss a new government as reports begin to surface of taliban executions, beatings and sure. a law enforcement, the hundreds of afghans march in this demonstration, thursday, and cobble in defiance of the taliban carrying the country's national flag. that is until the taliban shut it down. with automatic weapons, it's unclear if anyone was shot or killed. and at the airport and cobble the taliban also opened fire to disperse the crowd of men, women and children trying to desperately leave the country. gone. meanwhile, said he plans to return to afghanistan at some point, i did not have the intention to flee and abandon the country. i am currently in the emirates to prevent bloodshed. and i am in consultation to return back to

afghanistan and to continue the fight together to ensure justice of afghan sovereignty and to restore the actual is womic value and national achievement. for news years hughes, john hardy. as we have dentist and presidents knocked out of the presidential palace sunday, many local women are in fear of their lives as a taliban take over. but not the president's daughter. she is reportedly living in much different lifestyle in new york, while the basic rights of women are being stripped in afghanistan, 42 year old. marian connie is living in brooklyn working as a filmmaker the united states plans through vacuum as many as 22000 people by the end of august, while the united kingdom has brought back 300 british citizens and 2000 afghans. germany has now helped almost a 1000 as they look to bring more safe to safety or to peter oliver has more from

berlin. well, what we've been hearing here in germany from the interior ministers of the 16 states that make up the federal republic is there petitioning whole state hope of the federal interior minister saying germany needs a new african refugees program, the official message, or the message coming from the top of government here in berlin low is that they want to see african refugees housed and looked after in neighboring countries to galveston. countries like a ron pakistan as well. what we've heard from angular merkel though is she says there are lessons that must be learned from what's happened enough on the phone. these are still missing at this point, and i can say that we have nor did she sell the goals and rehab to discuss lessons . we have a loan from german evacuation flights are continuing to leave the airport in cobble as of thursday morning, around 900 people had been taken out on lowes plains, but not before. they'll germany a vacuum 265000 cans of beer and 340 bottles of wine. the common for some criticism

for doing math before people were put on those planes were also looking at how it's being perceived in the why the european sends. a lot of you politicians desperate to avoid a repeat till the 2015 refugee crisis. what we've, what we've heard from the likes of a manual mark on the french president, him saying that his country needs to be protected from those who are seeking refuge . austria has said that camps need to be set up in neighboring countries to i've got us down to detain those people who've already previously been expelled from the european union to stop them. essentially, trying to get back in to the you, when it comes to greece, which is one of those countries that is at entry into the european union for refugees and migrants. well, they're saying they're not going to see 2050 repeat itself. very strong words coming out of athens, as they say absolutely no way,

it's not going to happen. they're in fact threatening. they'll send people back to turkey, which is in turn, say no way they can't take any more refugees coming over these particular routes. president, one, they're saying fences and walls will be erected you commission as well. those saying refugees need to avoid those routes that had been used since 2015, 16 to get into the european union. we should avoid irregular routes, dangerous routes that are of that facilitated by marvellous. instead, we should engage in legal, safe ways for people in need of international protection to come to your opinion. well, it's not just those people that have been referred to is illegal, irregular that are having issues at the moment. those that have right says it would be to get out of call blackboard on some of those planes are also at a loss how to do that. right now, our colleagues at the german language system service spoke to one german passport

holder, one german citizen who told us his situation. and i just, i'm a german citizen. throughout the day, i stay in constant contact with the german foreign ministry and the german ambassador to couple. i received e mail saying that one can enter germany, only one of the family, number of german. my fiance is such a person, but she's not being recognized when the official stab. she's a citizen of afghanistan to leave the country as soon as possible. i want to play some charter course. we're very worried about what's going on. we haven't gone out since the day before yesterday. just the taliban set of checkpoints all around the city were also worried that they could find out that i'm a foreigner or that in the future our situation might be worse. they find out that my fiance is engaged or married abroad once we arrive safely in germany and will of course, have no more reason to fear for our lives. we live in a free and democratic country. that's where i want to return to. that's where i belong. calling on the government and the german foreign ministry to let us finish all the paperwork in germany,

and we have the original all of our documents in our hands. let us finally leave this caliphate. give me my fiance. permission to enter germany. netherlands reportedly evacuated 35 of its citizens, along with 20 other 4 nationalists out of afghanistan. wednesday, the dutch are hoping to rescue 1000 local embassy workers, translators, and their families from war on what is happening among american allies and their attempts to evacuate people from afghanistan. we bring in john jordan, political commentator, and former naval intelligence officer. thanks so much for joining us, john abbey, to be here. and so john, before we get into the complexities of actually evacuating people out of afghanistan, let's talk about that sense of urgency. some are clearly feeling as we saw in the airport video, do people they are associated with the west in some way or form essentially have a target on their back where absolutely they have a target on the back. there's all kinds of news reports and uploaded videos to the

taliban now going house to house and creating with the taliban right now. understand that they're in the media spotlight. so to the extent that they can, they're going to try to present themselves as being reasonable and relatively harmless and conciliatory. but they are, however, there are very few news outlets there and the taliban are trying to control the almost act cnn through the other day on the digital web to producer. there is a time constraint. however, the taliban is still consolidating their rule and eventually what they're going to do is isolate cars i international airport and prevent refugees, whether it's westerners or whether it's people that had helped us out west in the past, from getting to the airport at all. and so you can have all these troops there in the you are us troops sitting there with nothing to do and airplanes ready to go with nobody able to get on them. once the taliban is really consolidated their ruling cobble, and that is in court and off the airport completely. really hard to watch. now we

heard german chancellor muckle say that they were working to get people out of afghanistan, but there seems to be a lot of cooks in the kitchen if you will, when it comes to germany. so some are pushing for a federal program to evacuate people as opposed to individual states ordering extractions. and then word got out that merkle was actually advised to put people out months ago. so while the country is hoping to offer refuge, you know too many. do you think that, you know, there is an organized plan on how to implement all of this? that's a really great question. something nobody else has time now. so congratulations to you, natasha. for that is illustrates rather nicely how isolated the europeans, where from the decision making process. the senior officials in the british army are today saying that they've completely been cut out of the decision making loop. here, the germans were caught completely flat footed. they must have several 100 citizens there and nobody really knows for sure. but they weren't able to get them out. they

probably got assurances in a binding administration that when that situation starts to deteriorate, will have plenty of notice. but the german government, the federal government in germany was completely caught flat footed so much so that you have some of the regional states in germany trying to organize their own rescue efforts. but the fact of the matter is, is that the taliban controls all the border crossings in almost got cars. i airport completely sealed off. so what they want to organize in germany or england are here in the u. s. and then that it won't matter a damn in less, they're able to actually have physical access to those to those people they wish to extract and then tell about are not going to permit that. interesting. and now us officials say 20 to 100 diplomats and civilians have been evacuated from afghanistan and military flights. but i know you alluded to this earlier. do you expect that number to continually climb? or, as you mentioned, you see that you see the taliban, you know, putting a stronger holds on people who are there, they're going to get everybody out who's at the airport. i don't doubt that for

a minute. everybody is inside of that u. s. perimeter and hama cars, i national airport. the question is, how effective and over what period of time is the holiday and going to be able to isolate that airport and how permeable or impermeable will that taliban coordinate be? secondarily, how many will the taliban let go? as a show of good faith or for the for the cameras. but the taliban to keep a lot of these people behind does 2 things for them. it's a hell of a bargaining chip. this makes the around hostage crisis look like a picnic into they want to make examples out of those afghans that helped us to ensure that the rest of the population. that's 3939000000 atkins, that this never happens to the taliban again. so they want to make and it's certainly in their history to make a been bloody example out of those that would dare challenge their rule. well, now some german officials have mentioned negotiations with the taliban. but i mean,

can you really trust much of what the world considers a terrorist organization? what you can't really trust? anything that the taliban are going to say they're going to right now is representation of the both sides the taliban. one thing that does want to look good in the court of public opinion right now, and will want to resume having access to the international monetary fund, the i m f and will want to have trade relations with other countries. so that and so they may just for show, gives that help the germans out or accommodate, accommodate the germans to some degree. but, but the end of the day the germans don't have a lot of leverage here. they have no military leverage. what's on the ground there? the taliban are not afraid of anything that the wound is for the german military can do to them. so the germans, they can only, it can only be just for optics where there were the help of the, of germany in securing sanctions really for act to out of the i m f. i thing,

well thank you so much john jordan, political commentator and former naval intelligence offer. we always appreciate your insights and coming up, southern california officials announcing and even worse throughout ahead have a full report after the break. they, with the news a lot of the an unexpected upside of the pandemic kenya's experiencing.

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there's no local but i know the company just wasn't go or whatever it is, the water supply alert has been issued for 900000000 people in southern california as an unprecedented route continues to raise the western united states. our team to santos has the story. the metropolitan water district of southern california is calling on consumers in the region to conserve water and prepare for dry conditions to continue so far. water restrictions have yet to be issued in southern california as they have throughout the states. northern and central regions. southern california reportedly has enough water in reserves to get it through the rest of the year. however, governor gavin newsom says that could change as reservoirs across the western united states continues shrinking to historically low levels. last week. federal

officials declared the 1st ever water shortage on the colorado river, which serves 40000000 people in the west, including california. as the levels continue to go down is certainly some of the cities such as phoenix, tucson, or even l. a. if, if we got into further cuts on the system could be subject to additional cuts and it's certainly of concern. water levels at lake need have also dropped to record lows, threatening household water, irrigation and hydropower for 25000000 people in 7 western states. southern california is water supply alert, encourages residence to do their part in helping to preserve the regions, remaining reserves in hopes of preventing all out water restrictions. but these efforts may be short lived. governor newsome says, mandatory state wide water restrictions could be coming at the end of september

until then. local residents are being asked to voluntarily reduce water usage and consumption by 15 percent in los angeles, brazil santos, r t. one of the biggest mysteries facing humanity is whether we are alone in the universe or now a team of researchers think they may have come up with an idea that can help search for life beyond our planet are to tourney. java's reports a possible new way to help find life beyond our planet, researchers say dyson spheres. surrounding black holes could yield up to a 1000000 times more energy than those built around stars and could powering alien civilization dyson spheres. think of them as advanced power plants and outer space . they surround stars and harvest their immense energy for some purpose, like an extremely powerful computer. but a team of researchers are proposing the idea of the dyson sphere inside out. and

instead of calling it an inverse size of the sphere, or i d. s, which feeds on the power of a cold sun or black hole, saying in a statement overall, a black hole can be a promising source and is more efficient and harvesting from a main sequence star. and while black holes could potentially produce 800-0021 1000000 times the energy of living stars, the researchers say that the waste heat from id yes, could be detected by our current telescopes, including the hubble space telescope, the to model, the potential energy yields that an inverse dyson sphere or ideas could capture from 6 different energy sources, along with other radioactive processes around black holes, the researcher sound and took into consideration the huge mass ranges of these objects. by envisioning id like structures around stellar mass black holes. busy that are about 5 to 20 times as big as the sun, all the way up to super massive black holes, like the one at the center of the milky way, which contains 4000000 solar masses. the lead author said in a statement,

we speculate that this kind of civilization can collect the energy remotely or treat the energy source as a power station, rather than living around a black hole with a harsh environment. therefore, throughout the paper, we do not discuss whether the temperature and the gravity of our configurations are suitable for life. and with that taken into consideration, the chance result suggests that an id s built around these black hole structures could satisfy the needs of an advanced alien civilization in ways that far exceed the dyson sphere around a regular star. reporting for news use use trinity. java's are t mobile space where he continues, but there's been a minor setback when it comes to the u. s. visiting the moon by 2024 and want some claim. the goal was overly ambitious. nasa just announced that the space suits for the moon won't even be ready until april of 2025 at the earliest. so what does this mean for our lunar dreams? for answers we turn to filmmaker,

steven barber builder of the apollo 11 and apollo 13 monuments. thanks so much for joining us. thank you to now she's going to be here. so did you think moving up our initial deadline of going to the moon from 2028 to 2024. as realistic. well i, i always knew there's, there is no way, you know, we're, we're really good going stuff or, you know, you can and merging galactic in us. and, you know, they've got that down to a science. but, you know, going to another sphere, the moon, the mathematic involved in the thousands of technicians that's going to take, it was realistic, but, but it's really good that they, they set these dates, and they inspire people. because that's how you know, kennedy did that back in 61. when he said, hey, we're going to go to the moon by the end of the decade. well that, that put a fire under a 400000 people but, and that, that one man can make a difference. so it's good that we have these dates, but it was certainly not realistic. in my view. i don't think, i mean even 2028

a little i think a little early, but i think we could do it by the end of the decade. like president kennedy once that you know, 5060 years ago. interesting. and do you think us not meeting this deadline will cause a country such as maybe china or russia to try and make a move landing and happen even sooner? absolutely, and i hope that happens because that once again, it's a new space race that, that, that, that like the fire under people's, you know, their, their, their brains and gets them going on. the competition is always the fuel for innovation. you know, it always has been, so it's, you know, i know the chinese and the russians and in many other countries are buying for the movies and as we are, we've already been there. so it's not on us any more. but i think that's absolutely fantastic. i think you're absolutely right on that, that is going to happen. and i want that to happen. i mean that innovation once

again is the fuel for creativity. and that's what keeps, that's what keeps me going. i wake up every morning and i, i see somebody who's done something innovated. i, i see some of these done something inspirational, and i'm like, hey, that's for me. i want to do that as well. so, you know, i hope they keep putting these dates. i hope they keep, you know, thing that they're going to get there at a certain time. and it keeps other countries you know, excited to, to go to the moon as well. care. and regardless of when we actually make it to the moon again, why do you think it's important that we make the trip and what does it do for not only our country, but for us as human beings? well, i am really fortunate because i was able to build a puddle up in monument and apollo 13, and i'm working on dr. sally right right now. and i just met with charlie. charlie for your viewers. don't know the 10th man on the moon. charlie's beautiful is a great soul, is the youngest of the poor, living mood walkers. i met with him in years, not a couple weeks ago, and we were talking to him about building his monument. he's always been all when people come up to me and say, you know, all, we should be spending the money here on earth,

taking care of earth people. and he said nothing like that. he said the power and mercury in gemini projects brought so much innovation, brought millions of jobs to the world. and everything we have today is because no power, mercury, german gps, you know, all this incredible sign. all the aerospace companies that you know, there are, you know, hiring millions and millions of people and it's brand new space rate is because we went to the moon. so this time when we go to the moon again, it's going to be 10 times as big because the technology is so exponentially bigger than it was 60 years ago. the phone that i'm speaking to you on right now, have, you know, 10 times the computing power that the lunar module had to be. think about that that's, that's really quite fine. so it's a very exciting time. i couldn't be happier to be part of this and innovation is really the key to this entire mathematical equation that nasa keeps throwing out. and so, and that's, that's going to the moon as a country, you know, like you're saying with nasa. but what, how did you see space as

a commercial endeavor and how that is just expanding so rapidly? well, it's me, kathy, i don't know where you are when, while the function and you know mr. mr. a, be those went up into space. i was riveted. i was like this p a tap that, look what these people do. and then people who think, well, he's not really an aspirin. let me tell you what you get out of it. and you go 55 miles in space at the 4000 miles an hour. you're now not in my book. you know, that's a pretty, you know, a lot could have went wrong, but nothing did go wrong. so it's, i just think it's an exciting time for a new space, res space tourism is obviously the key because you know, going to the moon is such a huge astronomical mathematical conundrum. it take hundreds of thousands of people to do it, but, but not so much when it comes to space tourism we can, we can actually the whole net down to, to really say signed. and i think that's really where the key to new jobs and new innovation and new excitement is going to be in the space, raises sub horrible. and quickly we know that you are

a filmmaker. are you working on anything at the moment? oh, i'm so glad you asked. i am i shot the documentary to apollo 11 when i built the monument to the greatest technological achievement in history mankind. of course the the moon landing passion warburton from seinfeld name and the family guy here ready for me. i'm working on the apollo 13 documentary right now with captain jim level, and i'm halfway done with that. and i start shooting the apollo 16 documentary. as soon as i can find the money for the 60, my name is i'm constantly fundraising for these monuments. for these films, and i'm excited to get this inspiration just in my own little tiny way. i'm in, i'm able to inspire new generation of america with these monuments in some of these apollo stories that the young people aren't really aware of. molly love your passion. thank you so much, stephen barbara, builder of the apollo 11 and 13 monuments. we appreciate your time. thank you so much. thank you. thanks so much for watching. we'll see you back here tomorrow at 3

pm eastern. have a wonderful night. ah . the news the the

the gunfire and chaos around the international level in cobble was ever more, again striking desperately fleeing the country. trying to get into the americans. they pushed me out. they kicked me out. i would just be there with the strict about the ration like so the u. s. cost $2000.00 or more. but washington seems to have scrap plans to charge people fleeing. i've got a song following a wave of criticism online that tell you why this shop that you're seeing here. they're all clues. a local journalist gives us a tool around cobble to see how life is changed under.