the taliban have paraded captured american military equipment in the city of kandahar, a day after the last us troops left afghanistan. armoured vehicles were driven through the streets in celebration of victory after twenty years of war. the taliban has told the bbc the formation of a new afghan government is in its final stages. there will be women in the new regime, but they will not be in any senior cabinet roles. presidentjoes biden has condemned a law banning abortion from six weeks into pregnancy which has come into effect in the us state of texas. it bans abortions after the detection of what anti abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat. fifty thousand people have been forced to leave the lake tahoe area of california as firefighters continue to battle a huge wildfire that has been growing for more than two weeks.
the mission of getting every american out of there. i think you see as the days go by that will be a big question, why do we leave a single american still in place? why did we not extend the deadline? it was a self-imposed deadline, the taliban did not create it, they just accepted it. there are some questions that are going to come out and i hope he addresses. those that they have lost in the effort, especially the 13 we lost just a few days ago. sandra: secretary blinken did not take questions yesterday afternoon, we don t know if the president well when he speaks, but we will see. as far as your point to him explaining how he went about this decision that ultimately led to 13 dead americans a couple of days ago now, it has been and obviously the millions of dollars of american military
includes american military equipment. that includes 75,000 vehicles, over 200 aeroplanes and helicopters, over 600.000 aeroplanes and helicopters, over 600,000 small arms and light weapons. these had a band now has more weapons. these had a band now has more black weapons. these had a band now has more black hawk helicopters and 85% of the more black hawk helicopters and 85% of the countries in the world. the taliban of the countries in the world. the taliban now has more. that is an incredible arsenal of equipment we have left behind in afghanistan. what is the pentagon do about that going forward? shill. i about that going forward? al, i think we need about that going forward? al, i think we need to about that going forward? al, i think we need to be about that going forward? ri i think we need to be realistic about that going forward? ai i think we need to be realistic here. the small arms that were seized from the afghan national army as they collapsed will ad
some reassurance. but more recently the second strike, where it appears early reports are that there was obviously an intelligence shortfall and i think that strike demonstrates the challenge of doing this at a distance, from outside afghanistan, and especially the challenge of using counterterrorist tactics like the drone strike, against this. you ve been heavily involved with the years with the training of soldiers on the ground and equipping of those soldiers. i want to play you a click and play it for our viewers from a press conference last week. this is republican congressman jim banks from india. he is an afghan veteran himself, captain of the navy reserve, and he was also a supply corps officer, supplying equipment through afghanistan. take a listen. we now equipment through afghanistan. take a listen. we now know that due to the negligence of this administration, the taliban now has access administration, the taliban now has access to administration, the taliban now has a
airbase, there s a prison next door, and the taliban overran the prison and freed 5 to 7,000 hard core militants economy i think in my role, my counterterrorist role, my old role that s something to be worried about. these are hardened terrorists coming out on to the street. it is going to be fair to question the decision to leave bagram. the u.s. military has given their reasons why, but there will be a need for congressional investigation when we get out of afghanistan, which it looks like it will happen on the 3 1st. jon: you have hardened terri hardened terrorists who have now been released from prison that have access to american military equipment, some of it is fairly sophisticated. what s your take on that? there is a reason to worry perhaps in the short-term. but a lot of this equipment does need sophisticated training and