kirby: they're certainly going into harm's way, lucas. lucas. they will be armed and have the right to self-defense. i do not think i could've made it any more clear that if there is an attack upon our forces, our commanders have now and always have had the right and responsibility to defend themselves and any attack on our forces in afghanistan will be met swiftly with a forceful and appropriate response. i know you want to get into the nomenclature. nobody is walking away from the fact that this is dangerous. in fact, i think one of things i said at the opening of the press conference is i will not provide a lot of operational detail because we know it is dangerous. we are all mindful of the perilous situation in afghanistan. and the security situation. i find it a little -- i find it frustrating that you are trying to pin me down on a nomenclature here. like we are afraid to say the word "combat" after 20 years of being in afghanistan. we understand what we are facing right now. we are taking the risks very seriously. our troops and their lea

and it was a habit of lucas shank or to jail some people then trade them for some benefits. and that's how he kept going. but i think after 2020 there is a certain point of no return and the not live unions position. i mean, if union is in the position, definitely, and we are strong advocates office position about this position of european union and there was no disagreement in the block. but your next door, you're right physically we are next door. yes. but the same arguments held where there was a debate about russia imposing sanctions. i would say on its own people after crimea, where europe and union imposed sanctions and, and russia and both factions that made foot more expensive or some, some products that usually came from european union, unaccessible for, for, for russian people. so this was not the faction against european union and sanctions against against the russia people, but still there was impacts on, on the trades that we had a big part of re export because the geographically we close the big part of free export. when to, to russia, there was a decent share

i knew and has been drumming up international pressure. lucas shanker to step down in may. a ryan in flight, heading to lithuania, was forcibly diverted to minutes where police detained an opposition journalist on board romano pro to say, which is accused of being involved in so called terrorist activity. and last month bell, russian police rated the offices of 14 rights groups. non governmental organizations and independent media outlets. ah, well, let's bring in august. now joining us from warsaw is an a toll co tower international relations manager of the bell. russian sports solidarity foundation. the organization helps athletes who faced repercussions for expressing political views in brussels. we have a cat, a lantern chief executive of the center for european policy studies, and also in war. so valerie sep carlo bell, russian opposition, leader and former presidential candidate a warm welcome to all of you. so anatole, if i could start with you than 1st because i know that you have spoken to christina tim on sky. so just fill us in. first of all, what has she told yo

i want to bring back in lucas tomlinson. he brought us the story of the isis-k planner killed in a drone strike. what more can you tell us? >> i learned it was a u.s. reaper drone flying from the middle east in the united arab emirates that flew from the middle east to afghanistan over the air corridor in pakistan to kill this isis planner. it was not necessarily an isis leader. we know this was in retaliation for the deadly suicide attack that killed 13 american service members just yesterday and wounded another 20. in fact, the dignified transfer to dover air force because we're expecting that tomorrow and expecting president biden to attend that ceremony when the 13 americans return with honor to dover air force base. i'm told that president biden approved this strike. he claimed that he would be carrying out revenge, he would kill those responsible. the big question was, peter, that with 5,000 u.s. troops on the ground there kabul, would the strike happen with the 5,000 u.s. troops still at the kabul airport or wait unti

lucas tomlinson live for us at the pentagon. lucas, good evening. >> good evening, trace.ded just 30 miles outside the capital. john kirby admitting the soldiers and marines going to kabul face a dangerous situation. >> these soldiers and marines, they are fulled kitted out. putting on night vision goggles landing in kabul putting positions at the airport they are going to a combat zone, are they not. >> they're certainly going into harm's way, lucas. >> [inaudible] >> they will have the right of self-defense. they will be armed. >> the sudden decision to rush 3,000 troops to kabul just weeks ahead of president biden's deadline withdrawal all-american forces by august 31st drawing into question that the pentagon will be able to meet that goal. the u.s. military's authority to carry out airstrikes in afghanistan expires at the end of the month. the u.s. spent over $85 billion in the past 20 years building an afghan army. officials say they have crumbled. top pentagon brass wanted to keep 2,000 american troops in afghanistan. president biden overruled his generals. after wit

and what is the role of president alexander lucas shank in this? first of all, they invite to be alerts, and we've seen the attempt of lucas angle regime to get more routes that would fly over to misc we, we hear about negotiations with countries, for example, like pakistan and others opening gulf of, of new new new roots. we know that the travel agencies that are close to regime because whole sort of business is close to regime in that country are also part of it. and when we see on the bill, ocean propaganda, the military guy commencing the option of opening up of belarus as a tourist destination. these the sounds a little bit, we're not mentioning the people, the uniform people that we physically see at our borders. also in this attempt of people from iraq or other countries, what time to to, to cross the border. are you convinced that alex on the look shanker and russian officials are personally involved? he simply declared that, that he will flood european union of a quote with drugs and my france, and that was his threat. so of course you hav

it's probably why lucas b wall is so happy. but he isn't the only one to take advantage of this phenomenon . who various other businesses propose these sorts of repetitive and underpaid online tasks? the biggest amongst them being click worker and amazon mechanical turk, a platform provided by amazon, and it's boss jeff bezos who invented the concept in 2005. think of it as micro work. micro working is a growing concern for the i l. o. the international labor organization, a us agency in charge of protecting worker's rights across the globe. hello jim, in jeanine berg because the resident expert on this subject at the low who speaks to us through skype. with globalization, you could see emerging that kind of a global labor force here. it's the next step. it's really the service industry that can break up work into kind of very short cap and then dive all due to, to workers all over the world to compete for the job. do the job. the price of the wages are down because of this global labor supply and the technology has, has facili

lucas? reporter: does the taliban provide intelligence or support for the drone strike that killed these two? john: i will not talk about intelligence matters one way the other. reporter: with the taliban supporting this drone strike in any way? john: we had used was intelligence on our own to conduct the strike. reporter: do you consider the taliban in the network separate entities? john: lucas, i will not give you a breakdown in characterization of the taliban. lucas you have to remember what we are focused on, getting more people out, getting our troops out, completing this mission, and i am not sure what benefit it does for me to characterize one group or another. reporter: the people, the deputy leader of the taliban had a $10 million bounty on his head. are these separate entities? john: there is a co-mingling, a marbling of the two i am pushing back because the relevance of that discussion to what we're doing today, complete and evacuation safely and get our troops and our forces at t

she's now fled to poland. lucas shanker says she was manipulated by outside forces. when last week 26 year old activists vitale shelf was found dead, the ukrainian capital kiev. please say it may have been murder disguised as suicide . lucas shenker denies any involvement to talk with. who was he from me and for bella luce in general. ok, only me a president and i could not know him, but i'm sure that only 3 or 4 people in this room, you him. he will no one to us. what madman could hang him in bella, ruth, the opposition leader exiled and living in lithuania, says lucas shank up must be pressured by the west to stand down. know dealing with this regime? it's impossible to talk to elisha, to make the president who keeps power only thanks to violence and tortures and the repressions just if you need to talk to somebody. there are representatives in barrows who you can deal with, but not to be the criminal a year ago. self expression was a weapon of the better route of position. now it's a movement living in fear and dependent on foreign support. andrew simmons al jazee

>> i didn't sleep on that question, lucas. thought i answered it pretty well yesterday. >> you didn't answer it, john. john, these soldiers and marines, they're fully kitted out. putting on night vision goggles, landing in kabul, taking positions at the airport, they're going to a combat zone, are they not? >> they're certainly going into harm's way, lucas, and they will -- >> is it not a combat zone? >> lucas, they will have the right of self-defense. they will be armed and as i said yesterday and i don't think i could have made it any more clear, if there is an attack upon our forces, our commanders have now and always have had the right and responsibility to defend themselves and any attack on our forces in afghanistan will be met swiftly with a forceful and appropriate response. and i know -- listen. i know you want to get into the nomenclature here. nobody's walking away from the fact that this is potentially dangerous. in fact, i think one of the things i said at the opening of the press conference is i'm not going to pr

this is not just the game of lucas shank or his black male on european union trying to press european union to sort of lift up the sanction really hearty his regime. but there is more to this because in this time of the year, a little bit later, but the preparations are ongoing. there is a military exercise. we're b, l, a russian, russian army is about dissipating it up. yes. and this is not the 1st time this is happening and every time this is happening, we are at high level of alert because we know a lot for some countries. unfortunately, the borders are conditional thing. and we've seen the proof to that in 2008 and soccer law in 2014. and in ukraine you say it's the way now is alert. in what way are you prepared for an incident, the military aggression, anything that you just mentioned, that's something that it's not only for us, but also for our international partners. and we are in very close and day to day corporation on, on the situation. so are there for example reinforcement from nate to at the moment in lithuania to prevent possible? well, i don't think that i can't speak a

i would claim that that lucas shank with opposition to his own nation. and in this case, i very much doubt that there is any majority behind. look shanker any more because similar things happened 10 years ago or 15 years ago, and it was a habit of lucas ankle to deal some people then trade them for some benefits and that's how he kept going. but i think after 2020 there is a certain point of no return and the not live union position. i mean if union is in the position, definitely, and we are strong advocates office position about this position of european union. and there was no disagreement in the block, but you know, next door, you're right physically we are next door. yes. but the same arguments held where there was a debate about russia imposing sanctions. i would say on home, people after crimea, where europe and union and post sanctions and, and russia and both factions that made foot more expensive or some, some products that usually came from european union, unaccessible for, for, for russian people. so this was not the faction against european u

lucas. lucas: the reports u.s. jets are hitting the taliban outside of kabul over fear it is capital with fall anyday. the first u.s. marines arrived to start evacuating americans. marine corps chc helicopter, preparing for full evacuation and closure of embassy in kabul, and if ordered by the state department. since the documents destroyed that cost $7 billion to build, neil, president vowed not to give up achievements over the past 20 years. the taliban seized half of the provincial capital. officials now say this crumbled. 3,000 u.s. troops rushed into kabul this weekend to evacuate thousands of americans. months ago the u.s. had 2500 troops from the ground in afghanistan. now same number heading back because of the deteriorating security situation despite the danger the pentagon refusing to call this a combat mission. >> these soldiers and marines are fully kitted out, landing in kabul, taking position in the airport, they are going to a combat zone, are they not? >> they are certainly going to harm's way, luca

at my request kimberly came down when it happened and watch lucas for the evening. in my pocket i feel the heavyweight and titanium ring and custom-made for the occasion the jeweler agreed to let me purchase and i've been sending checks every month. we parked the car and held hands as we walked in as he sat down he noticed how many of our friends were at the audience and he said dang everybody knows her lady today. >> soi agreed. my boss that watched our relationship blossomed from the very beginning as were half a dozen of his friends from a social group. the lights went out in the show started. our lady j emerged into the spotlight on the stage and began her usual stories about her life and childhood along with dolly parton covers in original songs. her feet pounded the petals and i began to sweat. then she said the phrase i had been waiting for. love, love, love is there any lovers in the audience that they love a hand went up she stated her highs pretending to notice me, is that triston, come and appear you guys. >> exactly as planned, i grabbed biff's hand and

lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon with more on that attack. lucas? officials say these two isis fighters are part of a planning cell ready to carry out more attacks on u.s. force at the airport in kabul, ahead of president biden's deadline of august 31st, which is fast approaching on tuesday. earlier at the pentagon, john kirby described who u.s. forces killed. >> they have two -- they have two high-profile planner -- one planner and one facilitator that are no longer on their role. they have lost some capability to plan -- make no mistake, nobody's writing this off saying well, we got them, so we don't have to worry about isis-k anymore, not the case. >> kirby refused to name who exactly the u.s. military killed, calling these two guys planners and facfacilitators, ws usually for lower ranking. note the word leader was not in that description. they carried out the strike at a hotbed of isis activity in eastern afghanistan. it is located on the board we are pakistan the same place where president trump dropped the mother of all bombs against the same

has accused, lucas shan't go. of a violently quelling protest that happened after last year's contested election. now ruth has come forward and said this was a coup attempt. this was an attempt to overthrow the government by violence. they were protesters who were violently attacking police officers. it was necessary to take action to stabilize the country. we also have the states raising the issue of air travel on the fact that there was a plane that was brought down and according to bela loses authorities, this was done because of a very credible threat of a bomb. now we have also the bel ruth olympic committee that has been called out by the united states. they've called out develop bruce olympic committee involving there was a track and field athlete and some controversy. but repeatedly the athlete who is at the center of that controversy has said their gripes are not political, but related to athletics out of the athlete is upset about decisions that was made by their coach. so regardless, we now at this poin

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is this all about really all about mr. lucas shanker trying to point school against the e u. because of the position of sanctions and he knows he's got a weak situation there because his country board is lithuania and latvia. well i think that's correct. this is directed at the you, but in particular, the lithuanian country country lithuania. let's go back and really look to see how we got to where we are today. roughly a year ago, lithuania was at the forefront of the fight against the door, tearing regime in baler roots and after a completely falsified election, an election that alexander lucretia go stole an election that fits on a chicken australia we believe. and data supports actually won that election. she was forced to flee her country and take up brad region. lithuania. their lead by foreign minister lands burgess and others. they took her in, they supported her. now other western organizations are supporting her and she is building a very strong and vibrant opposition movement based in gone this that's the 1st of that, the 2nd event was the series of sanctions promu

griff: lucas tomlinson at the pentagon, lucas, thank you. >> in my friend's house, two or three timescouple of times. i don't know who are they. i'm sure that if they capture me, they will kill me. griff: now that's only one of the many interpreters for the u.s. left in afghanistan. we obviously pixolated his face for safety. .was killed in action, his best friend brenda looney killed in afghanistan and buried together in section 60 of arlington cemetery, brothers forever is how president obama remembered them. she has had a very tumultuous 48 hours as she's been trying to work to try and get one of those interpreters out. we will bring you the interview coming up, anita. >> griff, yeah, very scary to hear the experience that those interpreters are having. joining us to discuss how republicans and democrats are responding to expanding crisis in afghanistan we have atlantic talk radio host and civil rights attorney robert patillo and independent women forum senior analyst kelsey, thank you for joining us on this saturday. we really appreciate it. there's lots of criticism, certainly, o

we have to worry about in bill or was that happened when lucas end? because regina hijacked the knack raft and they brought them on a beach to prison and she started to speak what they wanted. and the same thing happened with one of our athletes, m. m i champion and also to be in their hands and they are old. so he also started to speak what they want from him to to talk about. so, you know, i think that the re, jim ones now the same christina would be started to speak about good things about them, but nobody trust them. and or, and what i expect i expect, but most probably the decision will be taken out. the national olympic committee from the international committee and the billing team will continue to participate on the neutral fat blacks in this olympics carolina, given what bella bruce has done to previous dissenters to this surprise, you at all? no, no, no, no. let's build the in line to get the patients or what this look. sure, go, government is doing. i mean, it's even sometimes look shank or has government there even sometimes ahead of the o

i used by lucas shanker regime as the tool as a weapon against the european union in general. and particularly sienna, because of its very strong political position in an effort to stop the influx of migrants and asylum seekers. lithuania has been constructing a barrier on its 670 kilometer long border with barrows. these are desperate people who have become victims of political conflict. far away from home. their presence here of this gateway into europe shows how vulnerable district you stance on asylum seekers and migrants has become. the e u. s. had more than 100 border troops and pledged 37000000 euros to helpless away . and yet that usually only sees a fraction of these arrivals to deal with the crisis. bella rush and opposition latest atlanta taken off the guy i was living in exile in lithuania, or just the you not to give in to look was shanker, what regime is doing is blake malin european union, with this migration situation. and the answer should be even stronger. you can't be blackmailed by regime. the number of migrants arriving at the board has decreased since ira

because this is what's gonna happen to you. lucas young cut up by his enemies. the last of europe's dictators has ruled the 27 years. but since a disputed election a year ago, he's been cracking down on a physician support. in may a protest lead a roman protest, a which was detained after a passenger plane, heading to vilnius in this way, nia was forced to land. the capital of bella, luce security agents had effectively hijacked the plane. the leader of the opposition's fet, lana, taken off. gaia has been on a world tor trying to week night. the western outrage that followed that arrest the u. k. prime minister barak johnson said he was the 1st to impose sanctions and vowed more support for the opposition. diplomatic niceties. aside though, the opposition data set, none of the people was safe, least of all her. i can disappear any moment. i understand this, but i should do. what time do i come? because i'm you know, i feel this responsibility for future. i found with the same as all those that were sent for fighting the moment feel they were supposed to be said

shank is disputed election when under simmons has warmness now was goods alex and lucas shanker was big conversation. event was still going on when the consequences of his actions in the past year started to play out on the world stage. new sanctions the u. k. first are now fam reaction. the point that is just where you can choke on those sanctions in the u. k. we haven't had even the faintest idea for a millennia about this great britain. your america's lap dogs. later came new sanctions from the united states and canada as well. because shanker said the election was free and fair describing the opposition protests as an attempt 235000 protest is were arrested $600.00 opposition. supporters are in jail now. the crackdown even reached the olympics in tokyo athlete. christina sim news gaia had shown descent to her coaches. she was being sent back to bella ruth, but escaped her minders. she's now fled to poland. lucas shanker says she was manipulated by outside forces when last week 26 year old activist vitale shelf was found dead in the ukrainian capital. kia, please say it may have

now, just including lucas shank, a show of defiance. the president of ellers says countries can quote, choke on their sanctions, and we'll look at the risks facing migrant sent back to mexico. well, to illegally crossing into the united states. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello, thanks for tuning in. here is your weather story for the middle east. we do have a wind blowing down from iraq through to the goal, so will be dry at times, but also gusty. so q $850.00 degrees and just want you to be on the look out for this. we could see those wind swept up to about 45 kilometers per hour. and temperature is here. well above where they should be. southern areas of pakistan, we've lost those gusty winds, so karachi $32.00 degrees and we do have our mon sooner. moister toward the north, anywhere from the hor, to islam about could catch a shower or a storm in some in turkey. we've got rain falling in all the wrong places toward the black sea region, which is still trying to recover from devastating flo

eric: lucas, thanks so much is.o will the after afghan force hold out, or will the taliban take kabul and the whole country, and could this have been prevented? coming up i'll ask a member of the house foreign affairs committee about that. arthel: also in progress, the migrant surge at the southern border breaking records in the month of july. even president biden's homeland security chief calling the situation, quote, unsustainable. but saying that only behind closed doors. we're live on the border with the latest coming up next. ♪♪ ugh, there's that cute guy from 12c. -go talk to him. -yeah, no. plus it's not even like he'd be into me or whatever. ♪♪ ♪ this could be ♪ hi. you just moved in, right? i would love to tell you about all the great savings you can get for bundling your renter's and car insurance with progressive. -oh, i was just -- -oh, tammy. i found your retainer in the dryer. -oh, i was just -- -oh, tammy. we did it again. verizon has been named america's most reliable network by rootmetrics. and our

lucas is live at the pentagon. >> u.s. military is planning for the evacuation of kabul as the state department orders the closure of the u.s. embassy. >> this is a temerary mission with a narrow focus. our commanders have the right of self-defense. any attack on them will be met with a forceful and appropriate response. a total of 8,000 u.s. troops are deploying to afghanistan and the middle easted. 3,000 going to kabul and. . 1,000 troops also going in. the taliban seized more than half of afghanistan's 34 capitols. the u.s. spent over 85 billion dollars to build an afghan army. they have crumbled. president biden overruled his general managers. the pentagon is not calling this a combat deployment. >> this is a narrowly focussed mission of safe guarding civilian personnel out of afghanistan. >> the marines are going to kabul and this is not combat. >> lucas, they will have the ability to defend themselves. >> the u.s. military officers are demoralized watching afghanistan melt away. others want to pull all americans out

when i'm here to do, lucas, my job is to articulate the policies that we are exkiting and way in which i am executing them. so i amming the tell you what we have been ordered to do. >> it is timeton pull all of the americans out, and just pull -- >> we are focused on having americans reduce their footprint in kabul, and that is what we are doing. >> i would like to follow up on lucas's fourth question. >> as opposed to the 14th. >> you talked about how the troops there have the inherent right of self-defense, and that is going to be i many question. there is a tactical purpose for sending the troops there which you have described in very general terms, and i know that you don't want to get into the secondary, a secondary effect that you are having by sending the troops there into kabul which is sending a message to the taliban. these troops are here, don't want to attack us, but we are here to carry out the mission, and at the same time saying that we are here to support the government of kabul, and don't attack kabul. >> are you suggesting that there is a, that there's a contradiction

with me, matthew dowd, and lucas kuntz, a former marine officer who served in afghanistan and iraq and a candidate for u.s. senate from missouri. i want to start with you mr. kuntz, thank you for your service, and i'm fascinating to get your take on the end of this war as somebody who fought in it. >> yeah, absolutely, joy, so i've been talking to a lot of my friends, people who were over there with me. i was in afghanistan 2012, 2013, and again in 2014, and like right now, most of us are just feeling this sense of sort of grim relief, just relieved that, you know, not another service member is going to come home mangled or dead. and so i would say, though, that that is paired with this very deep frustration that the same people who kept us there for 20 years, you know, the people who day after day were like, oh, just one more day, just one more month, just one more dollar, just one more marine, like those people who claimed to the american people that we were building something worthwhile there, that obviously then collapsed in two weeks, those people are controlling the narrative sti

>> lucas, they will have the right of self-defense. they will be armed. and as i said yesterday, and i don't think i could have made it any more clear, that if there is an attack upon our forces, our commanders have now, and always have had, the right and responsibility to defend themselves. >> reporter: and tonight officials still insisting afghan forces can fight back.p>> you'vs have the advantage. what proof can you offer, as the taliban have taken over now vast majorities of the country and they've now surrounded kabul? >> that -- that the taliban have moved with the speed with which they have, and that the resistance that they have faced has been insufficient to stop those. to check those advances does not mean, lucas, that the advantages aren't still there. you have to use it. you have to be willing to apply it. >> reporter: afghans now fleeing to neighboring pakistan. others fleeing north, setting up encampments in kabul. speaking of the terrors they've already witnessed. this woman saying the taliban forced her out of her home in zar begum. they k

if i could follow up on lucas' question. we have all of these new troops, resources going into kabul. is there any consideration of using the kabul airport as a staging point for what had been the over the horizon capabilities and has there been any progress on securing anything closer to afghanistan in terms of staging or basing for the over the horizon air strikes? secondly, how worrisome that a city like kandahar where u.s. air power has been focused in attempts to assist the afghan security forces are falling or have fallen to the taliban despite the additional u.s. support? >> i'm sorry. i didn't get what the question was on your second question. >> sorry. over the last couple week or so, the u.s. we're told has focused some of its air strike capability on cities like harat, kandahar in an effort to bolster the efforts of afghan security forces there. how worrisome is it that those cities appear to have fallen in taliban hands despite the security focus on the areas? >> no one is pleased to see that the security situati

while the usa continues to demonize, the leader of bella, ruth alexander lucas shank. of another story to go through this news are and it is an intriguing one, america's proving to have a growing up a tight for russian oil. it's no 2nd only to canada when it comes to supplies of the fuel to the u. s. imports of crude, unrefined petroleum products from russia grew 29 percent in may, amounting to more than 800000 barrels per day. mexico is 3rd after canada and russia, although it comes for less than 3 percent of us importance. so america has been buying more russian oil despite tensions with moscow in the energy sector. indeed, washington regards russia's huge north stream to gas pipeline project. the threats to european energy security in july, germany and the u. s. reach the deal under which berlin will take action if moscow tries to use the pipeline to apply political pressure or commit aggressive acts against ukraine to what it only has of it's almost completely microsoft now, what i found, if we got to ultimately it's in contradiction to the use own energy security

lucas, thanks very much. lucas tomlinson following this from the pentagon. how do we get out who americans are there and other afghan nationals that are there? we have a representative from a nonprofit trying to get people out. james, the numbers not withstanding, i'm wondering how your group finds these people, however many there are. how do you reach them, how do they reach you? >> good afternoon, neil. i'm very proud of our team. we've had very little sleep. we've received thousands of e-mails from afghans just reaching out to us but also on facebook, through what's app, and also u.s. veterans that are getting inundated with requested and pleas from afghan allies trying to get some answers. neil, we have a list of over 1,000 sivs, people that have already been screened. they have their visa in hand. they have not been able to get in to the gates of the airport. they're in hiding around kabul. it's heart breaking. we're trying to do what we can. one last thing for you, we flew out five families before the fall of the airport. that was the previous week thr

lucas tomlinson has more on the pentagon's role. hi, lucas. >> hi, a second wave of u.s. marines arrived at kabul's airport. there are reports that they're hitting the taliban outside of the capital over fears it could fall any day now. >> clearly from their actions it appears as if they're trying to get kabul isolated. >> you're looking at a marine corps helicopter right now. the u.s. military is preparing for a full evacuation and closure of the embassy in kabul if ordered by the state department. sensitive documents now being destroyed at the compound that cost over $700 million to build. in a speech to its nation, asraf ghani. and the u.s. spent over $85 billion on the afghan army in the past 20 years and the officials say it's now crumbled. 3000 u.s. troops are placed in kabul by the end of the weekend to evacuate thousands of americans. months ago the u.s. had 2500 troops on the ground in afghanistan and now roughly the same number headed back because of the deteriorating situation. the pentagon refused to call this a combat mission. >> the soldiers and marines full

and we had quite a reaction from the bell rouge and leader, alexander lucas. shank, britain. good. god, go check on those sanctions. for 1000 years we haven't known britain, and we don't really want to see what you are americans. yes, men. now a number of countries around the world are the target of us sanctions. i think obama administration escalated these sanctions on a number of countries. new sanctions were imposed under donald trump as well. and it seems like the bye didn't ministration has now come forward and more sanctions are being imposed on beller roost. while the usa continues to demonize the leader of bell roost, alexander lucas. shank, america is proving to have a growing up at times for russian oil. it's no 2nd only to canada when it comes to supplies of the fuel to the u. s. imports of crude, unrefined petroleum products from russia grew 23 percent in may, amounting to more than a 100000 barrels every day. mexico comes 3rd after canada and russia, although it accounts for less than 3 percent of us imports. so america has been buying more russian all despite tensions