amb. neumann: thank you. bassima: thank you for being with us. i would like to give our viewers a status update on where things stand today in afghanistan. after a week of fast-moving events, to what extent are the taliban fully in control of the country and what is the status of evacuations being managed by the united states government? amb. neumann: remember, i am not a spokesman for the united states government. and this is a fast-moving situation. the taliban are in general control of afghanistan. they seem to be in full control of kabul. there are still some places that say they are holding out in resistance and asking for more support. but generally, most of the afghan army has surrendered to the taliban. in kabul, you have an utter mess. we, the united states, i'm not in the government anymore, have brought in about 6000 troops to help secure the airport. however, those troops are not going outside the airport. they are not bringing anybody in from kabul city. the airport is mobbed

amb. jargenson: thank you, mr. president. i welcome the presence any -- and the strong messages of the secretary-general and the representative of afghanistan. last week, we highlighted our grave concern that the number of civilians killed and injured in afghanistan had reached the highest on record with taliban responsible for the largest share of casualties. today, having declared control over afghanistan, the taliban bear even greater responsibility and accountability for the safety and security of all people in afghanistan. estonia calls for those in power, those in positions of authority to adhere to international law, in particular internationally communities of -- international humanitarian law, and uphold the norms and standards of human rights. what has not changed is more than half of the population of afghanistan is in need of humanitarian aid. it is of critical importance to ensure that the minute to get -- that administrative access is not hindered and that aid providers can work in safety. we call on all parties

amb. barshefsky: sorry about that. you would think i would remember. the ict sector, digital sector, is obviously critical, the backbone of industry, the backbone of services. it is what creates bid flows, data flows, the backbone of artificial intelligence premise that these systems writ large are crucial. you don't have a future economy if you don't have sufficiently sophisticated infrastructure with respect to the digital economy. the u.s. obviously has a competitive advantage with respect to it, but we don't offer a full suite of services. we don't offer a full suite of hardware. we don't offer a full suite of software. so those issues, which i think are important to the build back better and other programs, need to be resolved. i mention i would have loved to see vaccines more robustly coming out of build back better, and also the announcement of a business consortium between major u.s., japanese, and european companies who had devised a turnkey project to rollout on digital infrastructure, because no government is building this stuff, so that wou

amb. tirumurti: i thank the representative of france. i now give the floor to the representative of the united kingdom. you have the floor, please. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you, secretary-general, for your briefing. mr. president, what is happening now in afghanistan is a tragedy. we have long believed the only path to sustainable peace in afghanistan and region stability , negotiating clinical settlements. we have worked hard for the peace negotiations between the afghan government and the taliban, working closely with the u.s., relieving allies, and other regional powers. the taliban engaged in talks in delhi in good faith. the action on the ground betrayed that promise. mr. president, the taliban must need to do three things. first, they need to cease all hostilities and military action, to ensure the protection of civilians, and to allow the safe and orderly departure of foreign nationals and others who wish to leave. second, they must commit unequivocally not to harbor or give safe haven to terrorists groups which endanger

it has over three times the dimensions on wall street bets an the number two stock with the amb and whating and think this is contributing to the volatility is the comments so unlike the previous, game stop and amc, over 62% of the sentiment on robinhood is negative on the the wall street bets so it is quite the indecisive which direction they want to go. >> yeah, what are some of the other names we need to pay attention to, justin, quickly? >> so one name that is creeping into the top 40 under the radar is draft kings draft kings was hit really hard during the text sell-off but if you look at the alternative beta, the number of a mobile app downloads on their new casino app is up almost 30% year-to-date so company starter with sports gambling and fantasy sports and now doing great with gambling and the redidit audience loves the stock. >> justin zen, great stuff on robinhood and watching the weekend. up next, story number three, the big spend, what is exactly in the infrastructure bill, what is out and why there may actually be a stealth middle class tax hike built in if one thing happe

earnings fall, when cash flow deteriorates and at the same time, they're going to be ceding share to ambs going to make it look that much worse on the financial side so it is not that they're doing the wrong thing. it is just from an investment perspective, i think it is going to look like the wrong thing over the next one, two, three years, until you see them catch up and they begin to reap some of the benefits. >> that's a long time to look through, for sure, matt. i wonder separate from intel, there has been a growing view on the street that at least in memory a cyclical downturn, some argue starts in q1, we remain oversupplied for most of 22. is that misguided, do you think? >> i think it is so memory historically and particularly dram cycles have been dictated by capital expenses, people bringing on too much capacity, that creates oversupply this time around i think rather what is happening is because foundry is so tight that oems can't get the other circuits they need to make things like servers and pcs. i think there is reduced demand, not increased supply and i think that it is n