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. >> steven jiang from beijing, appreciate it. >>> north korea is warning the u.s. and south korea over their joint military drills set for this month. the sister of kim jung-un says the two countries are face a more serious security threat for ignoring pyongyang's warnings. drills are held every year infuriating the north, but they have been scaled back recently due to covid. >>> the taliban now controls six provincial capitals in afghanistan. a local official says the entire northern city of aybak has fallen. officials will meet to try for formulate an international response. civilians desperate to escape have abandoned their homes to reach the relative safety in kabul. and nick paton walsh has reported from inside afghanistan for years now. he joins us from london live. good to see you. so what is the latest on the taliban advances and of course the ramifications for the afghan government? >> reporter: at this stage the afghan government has just announced that it will essentially be encouraging local militias form a popular up rising it says, encouraging people

as he entered those northern outskirts of what is steven city today, he started to see the signs of battle. he saw union soldiers streaming north. he saw ambulances loaded with casualties. he saw wagons moving north toward winchester. it was for the staff officers who were with him, that was very, very disheartening scene. this was an army that had racked up victory after victory after victory. and now you have this catastrophic moment. a member of called to the scene. it was a gruesome sight to meet as sheridan began to ride those remaining several miles south toward middletown, he was already running through in his mind the scenarios. what was he going to do? and his initial impulse was actually to pull his command back to winchester, pull his men in defensive position somewhere on the southern outskirts of winchester and then try to reverse the fortunes. but sheridan thought very quickly that if he did this, if he didn't give his men an opportunity to retake that ground lost earlier in the morning, it would show a complete and utter lack of confidence in them. it wouldn't be good for morale. sheridan understood the importanc

he did a swing around the circle in the north, which is a complete disaster. >> so, i'm hearing this and thinking about what you said about stevens and all the confederates entering congress. was there any strong reaction by the republicans in congress against these confederates rejoining the government? >> very good question. because in fact, when the johnsons, you know, representatives show up, congress does not admit them. they realize now that these governments, with their black codes, the riots, they're not going to be -- that they needed a proper reconstruction of the south that included african-americans because basically they've been completely excluded, right? and this is the started of congressional reconstruction, right? and this is what johnson's basically doing at this point, which is simply not being able to comprehend, that a reconstruction of the south would include black people in any way. yeah? >> i just think it's really interesting especially when he would engage with the crowds. i think my favorite part is when they go hang jeff davis and he goes why not thaddeus stevens? he openly advocated for the execution

as he entered those northern outskirts of what is steven city today, he started to see the signs of a battle lost. he saw union soldiers streaming north. he saw ambulances that were loaded with casualties, he saw wagons that were moving north toward winchester. and it was for a staff officers who are within, it was a very disheartening scene. this was an army that had just wrapped up victory after victory and now, you have this catastrophic moment. a member of sheridan's staff recalled at the scene in those northern outskirts of stephen city, who is a gruesome sight to meet the eyes of a commanding, who three four days before had left with a triumphant host resting quietly in camp resting securely on his victories and confident in its own strength. now, as philippe sheridan began to ride those remain being several mine south toward middle town, he was already running through on his mind, the scenarios, what was he going to do? and his initial impulse was actually to pull his command back into winchester, calling them a defensive the position somewhere in the outskirts of winchester, and then try to reverse the forces. sheridan thought

he did a swing around the circle in the north which was a complete disaster. >> so i'm hearing this and i'm thinking about what you said about stevens and all the other confederates entering congress and thinking about sound summoner being caned a few years prior. was there any strong reaction against these in congress? >> they realize now these governments, the riots they're not going to be free, they needed a proper reconstruction of the south. that included african-americans. basically african-americans had been completely excluded. so they realize this is the start of congressional reconstruction. but this is what johnson is basically doing at this point which is, you know, simply not being able to comprehend that a reconstruction of the south would include black people in any way. >> i just think it's really interesting especially when he'd engage with the crowds. someone yells out hang jeff davis and he cries out why not thaddeus stevens? he advocated for the execution of one of his own party members. >> whether it's stupidity, but this notion, let's hang the northern republican congressman instead of it confederates who had c

the reaction to all of this, we crossed to our chief north asia correspondent, stephen engle in hong kong. what stood out to you in the report? stevenion standout. good news, the silver lining is that they did return to a first-half profit this year. it was last year, $16 billion loss as leverage. more than 1300 times. what sense the bond markets into a tizzy in the last five months was this long-delayed financial results for 2020. you remember in march, they did not report that. then questions were being raised about the probability of a bailout. we finally got the details of little more than a week ago. state-backed firms like citic will be building the company out. over 100,000,000, yuan in abatements. slashing shareholder equity by nearly 85%. its capital adequacy ratio, sinking to 6.32% as of june 30. it was more than 13% a year prior. the regulator has a minimum capital adequacy ratio forbade that managers at 12.5%. -- forbade that managers -- minimum capital adequacy ratio for bad debt managers at 12.5%. its credit rating was cut. however, fitch was optimistic and revised its ratings to positive from negative, citing the extr