d. c. and wanted to talk about what he or she had seen so that the folks at home could have that experience as well. so for, instance this book, here as far as i can tell he did not live anywhere in the area. but he just came down once and spent some time in washington and wrote that up. ellis is kind of a odd character. i found very little information about him. the only other book that he wrote was sort of odd, sort of conspiracy theory type of book. but this is a pretty straightforward kind of narration. the only thing that is sort of fun about it is the things that he gets away with that she would not get away with today. so he talks about going into -- wandering into the capital, wondering into the basement there where he, saw and i quote here i or tubes and pipes extended in every direction overhead. there's no want to be seen. broken only by the monotonous sound of machinery, passing the sound of the senate we see two men sitting at armchairs at the end of the passage and where he actual

d. c. and phil. say the president, ready, talking up evacuation efforts and just doubling down on the whole situation. yeah, there was no big announcement that the deadline was going to be extended. he's been asked this question again. and again, will you extend that, that like the was a little bit of movement in that he said that we're hoping not so, but i mean, he left it open ended, but he really doesn't want to commit to keeping trips in that any longer than they are supposed to be, cuz this is a huge domestic issue. i mean, you look at the polls today here in the u. s. he's down his approval ratings down to 50 percent in one po. and another poll, it's down a points on last month because the broad consensus among americans is they do approve at the withdrawal. they just don't approve of the way that the president is handling it. so he was really concentrating in this press conference on the place of getting americans back when he said that is the focus. they don't know how many americans are in af

d. c. and he said that the resolution is about to start. jo. we don't know whether this is true. these are just reports that are coming through, people are trying to get these tip, but some piece that altogether. but that is one of the things that is floating around at the moment. so the offices are trying to negotiate with him. he is repeating things like we're living in a free country. joe, we're also patriots. it doesn't. he seems that he is talking about paint trips a lot and he said something about the revolution is about to start. now of course people have been taking into who re rose bree is not that much has been found. however you tube channel has been found, and this is something apparently that he posted around 3 years ago. let's take lesson ashes. the ashes dusted the man fired. well listen, donald trump carolina still be with us so looks like we have a trump support to that. my god die hard, potentially. that could be why he's talking about i want to speak to joe, and he definitely

d. c. and two, can you contrast our gun restrictions to a place like britain where they just have a series of looting? >> yeah, and district of columbia, it's still very difficult to buy a firearm. the district of columbia after the heller case was decided didn't exactly throw up its arms and say, okay, we'll have liberal gun laws. they passed a series of very burdensome regulations that are currently making their way towards the supreme court and we'll see what happens with those particular provisions. so it's difficult in the district of columbia to get your hands lawfully on a firearm. i will say this, washington d. c. banned handguns in 1976, ten years later, when i lived in washington d. c., it was known as the world murder capital of the united states. even banning guns didn't stop guns from finding their way into the wrong hands in washington d. c.. so, today you can probably get a gun easily in washington d. c. if you're willing to buy one illegally. legally, it's more difficult. but wi

d. c. and mike, it does seem that the us is really not taking any chances and evacuating some of its citizens with the help of the us military. well indeed, yes, the thought running perhaps so that you now have some $3000.00 us forces will be in theater incoming days. that's the same level that the true presence has been over the past 2 years of the u. s. as longest running war, there are 3 brigades going into secure the couples international airport to marine brigades and an army brigade. in addition to that, the 1000 troops, the strike force is going to be stationed in kuwait. they will operate as a quick reaction force, should the u. s. embassy and couple ever come on the threat. and in addition to this, another $1000.00 support personnel of being drafted off to comp, time to process the single immigrant visas of africa. nationals who worked with the us forces. so it is a very huge deployment indeed. and showing that the bite and administration has been in a way, been taken back by the speed

d. c. and we are expecting the secretary of state blinking to be standing there and talking to us, of course, as soon as we get that picture will take you there live. interestingly to hear the marine general earlier talking about the military phase. being over because of the announcement of the withdraw this evening, but the diplomatic phase will be next to begin. and i believe that's where the state department picks up the reins. let's talk now to roles. jordan, she's live in washington, d. c. hi, there was. so my right and thinking that this is where the state department gets involved when we moved into this different phase. well, actually, the state department and the pentagon have been working together on the evacuation since it started on august 14th. but now it is going to be solely the state department's responsibility to make, make it possible for those remaining american citizens. fewer than $250.00, we are told by state department officials as well as those afghans who are applying to

d. c. and say what? and that has been going on in your germ warfare laboratory. what did you make of this chinese response to the by the ministration allegations? where look, i've followed chinese diplomacy for years. i remember meeting chinese diplomats in the middle east. they used to be so cautious on the word stage and they'd always talk about every country has the right to its own internal affairs. one should not interfere and so on. in recent years, you don't see that you see what you know has been called as with diplomacy, you know, this much more aggressive form of reacting to us pressure in latin america. we've seen ambassadors right in the breast in last year, the ambassador and she lay, for instance, wrote in carrying cord on bill, my bill and the secretary of state, a liar, much more aggressive responding. you know, the chinese, it seems to me, i have had enough of it at anchorage, alaska and in the blink and open the meeting, the 1st meeting at the highest level of the biden administration, with the chinese government by insulting the chinese, i mean

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we have some day, some data guarantee of the d, c, and c. we are closer to a 100 percent off a few cmc and so all our people develop the antibodies and which is splitting be maxine ation after one week from the start of the 2nd. those is what maybe we start to do to, to free our ospital and our accounts and, and now we have people in, in, in the roof because some are called from turkey to the united states and russia to italy. devastating wide wildfires are raging throughout the world in greece. this week 2 people were killed in searching fires me. described as the worst in decades. massive blazes are causing havoc across turkey as well. at least 8 people have been killed and around 10000 evacuated amid extreme wild fires burning along the coastline. popular tourist destinations like pho, durham, and maro maurice have been hit on local. describe the scene there as raining ashes on saturday. heavy rains brought at least some relief to the country. meanwhile, there were some surreal scenes in california this week. one town in plumas county look

d. c. and in london is clear, minority founder and ceo of penalty, a wire group, a geopolitical consultancy, a warm welcome to you all. and thanks for joining us today on inside story harun, let me start with you. you tweeted that stopping the flow of funds into afghanistan will punish millions, 99 percent of the population that can't or won't leave. we need to care for them too. so i'd like to get your thoughts on the kind of impact that all this will have on afghan citizens. absolutely, i mean, honest on has huge trade deficit. we finance that trade deficit mostly true for an 8. now the foreign aid is in jeopardy. and upon a government upon the great now does not have access to it or in reserve, because the situation of governance, who's actually in charge is right now being negotiated. as a result of that, the currency is depreciating fast. and if we don't have enough u. s. the injected in the market soon, the prices may continue to rise right now there are rumors that cobble the price of ou

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we have some day, some data guarantee of the d, c, and c. we are closer to a 100 percent off a few cmc. and so all our people develop anti bodies and which is putting be maxine ation after one week from the start of the 2nd. those is, maybe we started to, to, to free our article in our accounts. and, and now we have people in, in, in the roof up because some are called the french government's been accused of running a health dictatorship over its plans for coven passes. people poured onto the streets of paris, the voice, their anger on thursday, after frances constitutional counsel rules, governments move, legal and so to liberty. in the forty's, we had a period of occupation and people need to, to, to, to show a paper to go here here. and it's a bad memory hearing friends. yeah. we are because i speak on behalf of everyone, a little angry. it's not that we against the vaccine, but we have no one said because it is only 6 months old. we can no longer go to the cinema or if children want to go to the cinema, if the parents are not vaccinated,

we have some day, some data guarantee of the d, c, and c. we are closer to a 100 percent off a few cmc and so all our people just a lot of anti bodies and which is putting be maxine ation after one week from the start of the 2nd. those is maybe we started to, to, to free our, our, and our accounts and, and now we have people in, in, in the roof up because some are called hill. remember how joe biden have any criticized donald trump for his migration policy? while now it seems that you're gone for a similar strategy. more immigrants are being spelled from the u. s. under federal law that allows deep locations during a health crisis. and now coalition of groups led by the american civil liberties union has announced its resuming a law suit against the white house over expulsions. daniel wilkins explains so bought and sold the public as the antidote to donald trump. his migration policies will mark it as fair and humane a far cry from his previous s as children in case you scandal of what he wanted his barrier to look like, including spiked stee

d. c. and against the coven, 19 virus. you said that without those putting the vaccine country wouldn't have been able to get the vaccine rollout that they had. they also said that hungry host to be producing sputnik v inside its own territory. in the very near you check us with, you know, spoon the we would not have been able to have the most successful vaccine roll out in the european union. the plan to manufacture the vaccine in the hungarian city of britain. starting at the end of 2022 will be manufacturing the vac thing through a russian license. thus in the future will be less vulnerable. gala from describe the relationship between hungry and russia as a pragmatic one. he said they didn't let geo politics get in the way of getting business done. however, he did point out that they don't agree exactly on everything. we've seen him that he has a magician. we do appreciate hungary pragmatic behavior. as with the past doesn't geopolitical and ideological games above the interest of development and the economic cooperatio

d. c. and kimberly we need the pressure has never really been off the united states these past 2 decades. but none also is the focus than this last, you might say 14 days, and certainly now as the clock ticks away on president biden pressure at home and abroad. that's right, and well the us felt the pressure as the u. s. president spoke with g 7 leaders just yesterday today. much of that pressure that is growing on this white house is coming from the u. s. congress. and it's not just the expected republican critics, but members of the president's own democratic party. in fact, there was one prominent democrat as well as a republican that made a secret overnight trip to afghanistan in order to, as they say, conduct oversight on the administration and this evacuation, which they've been sharply critical out, been arguing that the white house ignore the intelligence and that this has been nothing short of a debacle. they argue that american as well as potentially african lives, could be lost as a

d. 's are ends, nurses related specialists who are objecting to clearly assign, talking points from this. and i h, w, h o c, d, c, and big farm a syndicate, essentially, because corporate media and corporate medicine ultimately obey the same a lead establishment and have for over a century. i mean, the media parents quote unquote, trust the science rather than suppose it quackery online. yet not every specialist loudly objecting to these assigned orthodoxies. is a quack. i mean, the late nobel laureate carry mullis who both invented the p. c. r test and critique. it's institutional misuses certainly wasn't a crack, a quack of any sort, but you wouldn't know that because the corporate press painted him as some drug inspired loon or something. yeah, you know, you're, john is like, when i hear you know, trust the science. i actually that translates to my mind as shut up and listen and follow the leader. okay, that's what i tell i read when anyone tells me, follow the science. that means they got an angle that they got an angle there. ok. why do i feel that way? they made me do that, they make all feel that wa

d. c. and pretend that they don't see that that's what their job is, that their primary job. so they focus on things that are distractions, like social justice warriors, and who's wearing, what it, what cocktail party and everything. but the actual fact that the oligarchy in america is about draining every last, then from the economy. and when it's all said and done, they'll be gone. they'll be on there just off. they'll will never hear from them again. and what will be left is a dead zone, demilitarized zone of poppers and beggars and people who didn't buy bitcoin because big winners will be out of there also, yes. will picking up on that whole point. so back to 971. when we went off the gold standard, it used to be the situation during the seventies and perhaps the early eighty's. whereby if the government or whenever it's all the debt in the system, $1.00 that would perhaps create 2 or $3.00 of g d p growth. and so that the, the theft concept, the fact that a felt money is theft, right? inflation is theft. the fact that that mindset has sat in through the entire economy dow

d. c. and kimberly, they may come to some cold comfort, said josie, this is in the us to learn that this equipment that has been left behind us is not usable. i mean, i have american reaction thus far to the images that we've seen ice of cobble as the last americans departed. well, it's been a rough week for the us president joe biden, who's also the commander in chief of the u. s. military because well, he is able to say that he kept the campaign promise. he ended the forever war. as many americans referred to the conflict in afghanistan. the final stretch of that conflict with marred with the images not only of soldiers, deaths, but also in the final hours. there are the hours after the united states left soldiers parading around in american military uniforms with american weapons. so it's, it's unclear if there will be any consolation to the fact that some of the equipment wasn't working, because certainly there's enough equipment working that it's going to make some americans uncomfortable.

d. c. and speak to alan fisher. he has all the latest lines for us out of the pentagon, and we are hearing confirmation that for marines were killed in this attack. what more do we know? the information was given to staff at the u. s embassy in cabal, by the ambassador. he confirmed that 4 marines had been killed, 3 had been injured. certainly the pentagon has, in the last 20 minutes, put out a statement confirming that there have been a number of american casualties. and we should get more details on that. when the pentagon is due to brief and about 90 minutes time, a stanley and 24 hours ago because they were aware of this thread that had been made by i saw that there was the potential for an attack at the airport. the marines on duty, there had been given advice on what to look for for a potential suicide bomber, even though these, even with that, they continued to process people through the gates. they are trying to get them on flights and get them out of can it's done. but interestingly enough, the numbers over

d. c. and from bar tune in, nor the lebanon hoco women, head of the international crosses, groups iraq, syria, levon on project. very well, welcome to you all. i'd begin with with you if i may, jo mac roll. most recently the most recent tragedy to happen in labor on 28 people have just died on sunday in a fuel tank or explosion lining up to get fuel fuel. which was probably smuggled men confiscated, the unraveling in lebanon, seems unstoppable. what's your sense of where things are at and where they're heading? i mean, this is all the absence of the state we had, and we still want to government. we have the last 2 years basis that conditional corruption. and now we see the black market basically taking over over the medicine whether the fuel and their initial sources. so we see a government based she's, i was to get it done. she told the government, we reached a point to say to teachers for him. and if he is that every day with the army, to keep over even getting walked in by the army or to dea

d. c. and then on there, they will go to various places including a large 10 city which is currently being set up somewhere in new jersey. but as i say, the main focus for the americans is to get their own people out in the problem that they've got is they don't actually know how many americans in afghanistan, many of them register when they arrive, but then they have failed to de registered when they left and many have also been told not to go anywhere near the airport because of that threats to the safety of those people trying to get into the ford. although president biden has said that the taliban are giving safe passage to americans and to those who want to leave, who worked with the americans, the accounts on the ground site that is anything but the case. marian, thank you from washington. phil laval taliban is trying to form a new government with hopes of a possible breakthrough in the coming week. group senior leaders are in talks with their commanders, former government figures and rel

d. c, and we also had from the pens, gonna clarification about what happened yesterday outside the airport. and i believe an investigation is still underway. again, this isn't a criminal investigation. they're not going to go into deep forensics, but certainly the americans want to know what happened and how it can possibly be avoided. again, what they've confirmed is that there was one suicide bomber. they got very close to the gate. what american troops were patting don't lewis, who were getting onto the air base, there was no 2nd suicide bomber at the bottom. so tell, and it's understandable that these things happen when events like this. obviously, more often than not the 1st reports wrong, simply because people are panic, they're frightened, they're seeing things, they're hearing things. it is a search of adrenalin, a subject, tedder, and suddenly changes the whole perspective. one things. but we did find out that remember when they had a news conference late on, on thursday, there was 12 that that number has no been amended to the team. and it could well be that part of the problem i

d. c. and from bar tune in, nor the lebanon hoco women, head of the international crosses, groups iraq, syria, levon on project. very well. welcome to you all. i'd begin with with you if i may, jo mac roll. most recently, the most recent tragedy to happen in lebanon, 28 people have just died on sunday, in a fuel tank or explosion lining up to get fuel fuel, which was probably smuggled men confiscated. the unraveling in lebanon, seems unstoppable. what's your sense of where things are at and whether hitting i mean this is the absence of the state. we have, we still one of those governments with the last 2 years of business that conditional social mismatch corruption. and now we see the black market basically taking over over the medicine, whether the fuel and their initial sources. so we see a government based she's, i was ever done. she told the government, we reached a point of teachers and we see that every day that the army and they keep getting walked in by the army or did the over stretch

d. c. and he was also us deputy assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan, pakistan and central asia and joins is now on skype. david sydney, welcome to the program. first up at. thank you. good, president biden doubling down on how he's acted, but he's just putting a positive spin on a bad situation. his knee he is working hard to do so. the american people, according to polls are very disappointed in president button. this comes at a bad time for him as he is pushing for a major domestic spending initiative and preparing for bi election in the midterm elections next year. president by didn't want this disaster, he had hoped to that everybody would ignore it. when they didn't, he had to move quickly and, and flexibly to try and make up for lost ground. whether that's going to work or not, it's still to be seen is not so much. it was the only withdrawal, is it? but it's just a matter of departure which is led to this. chaos isn't it? it's a matter of departure, the very clear lack of plann

d. c. and can be really the pressure on president by them from home and abroad in terms of that final withdrawal date and the clock ticking away. yeah. and the pressure is growing, particularly in the u. s. congress were members of congress are increasingly arguing for an extension of that august 31st deadline. the latest include one member of the president's own democratic party, as well as a republican member of congress who made a secret overnight trip to afghanistan. the members of congress are molten and peter meyer. both of them are veterans of the u. s. military and well, their trip itself has been controversial. they have been highly critical of the by the administration said that their trip was necessary to conduct oversight. and what they say has been nothing short of the debacle in terms of this evacuation. both men have been highly critical saying that this is something that would have been entirely avoidable. there is no way they believe that all of the vulnerable app, as well as a

d. c. and let me throw that question that you, kimberly all the ok button, administration and us officials speaking firm to this 31st of august deadline, despite what we've seen today, a couple that is the open question. and so we are watching carefully to hear from the u. s, president, we had anticipated it would have happened in the past hour, but due to the explosions that have happened at cobble airport at abbey gave as well as the baron hotel. the president's schedule has changed considerably. let me go through some of the updates. what we had been anticipating is the president would be appearing with the really prime minister of tale bell of bennett in the oval office. and that report would have a chance to ask him about these explosions. that meeting has now been delayed. officially, israeli media has left the white house grounds. we understand they may be at the willard hotel and no word yet on. when that meeting will take place, if it will even happen today. instead, what we know is th

d. c. and rob. so what our official saying about the result of that us drone strike in afghanistan? well, in a statement that charlie referred to from the us central command, the military says that they successfully carried out a drone strike against a vehicle. they said that they observed secondary explosions after hitting the vehicle, which they said indicated that it had on board a large amount of bomb or explosive material. so they are saying that this was an ice ok. opperation that they disrupted. they said in a, in their statement that there was no indication of civilian casualties. so how that squares with what charlie and others are seeing on the ground with reports of civilian casualties is not known. but the us military says it is going to continue to do this sort of post operation assessment of what's going on there. and very interesting saw me that's the sound bite from the us secretary of state anthony blink. and that he played a moment ago indicating that this sort of thing, this air strikes, drone strikes over the horizon as they're called attacks, a will continue in

d. c. and you got to wonder what sort of political pressure is brewing for the buyer and ministration as a result of those events we're looking at unfold enough, ghana, stan rather than well, it seems as if the pressure on president joe biden is coming mainly from congressional republicans who are saying that the president is essentially recreating the situation or the environment which led to the september 11th attacks just about 20 years ago. however, the president is getting support from his fellow democrats, including senator chris murphy, of connecticut, who says, not only was the president correct to continue the trumpet, ministrations deal with the taller bond to pull us forces out of afghanistan. but murphy goes on to say that this is a matter of reckoning for the foreign policy establishment here in washington, murphy says that it didn't matter whether the us state another year, another 5 years, another 10 years. it was simply putting off the inevitable. and that the country needs to r

and my colleague that my kind of so mike, for people at the c, d. c and the biden administration is the worry here that after 8 months, the efficacy of that 2nd booster does begin to wayne perhaps here as well. there has been a briefing by the cobra joint task force and they released 3 studies that have been undertaken by the cdc in recent weeks, which indicate very strongly that the efficacy of the various vaccines has dropped significantly. this is partly an issue of time, but also say the reports a result of the incredible strength of the delta variance. in some cases, the efficacy of the via the vaccine. for example, the fire of exceed has dropped from some 76 percent to roughly 46 percent. although the study stress that this is different in many areas, it's no common trend that one is seeing. so the recommendation now is that everybody get a 3rd boost a shot by from the 20th of september. that is 8 months off to the 2nd booster shot. this one is recommended, peter. but they're not going to take their eye off the ball when it comes to 2nd vaccine