reports 2. is million people went through security checkpoints on friday. that is the highest point since august 15th. airlines have seen a slowdown in passengers cue to spikes in covid-19 cases. a 6-year-old girl dies while on vacation with her family in colorado. officials say she was on a ride at the glenwood caverns adventure park when something happened causing her to fall off. the haunted ride plunges into mountain mine shaft. according to local media riders have complained the restraint system is not safe. a shoplifter is left literally holding the bag when her get away driver just speed off walsh as the sticky. spotting police. she tries to make a bolt for it with stolen good. appears to give up with nowhere to turn. officers were able to catch up and take her into custody. that s a look at your headlines. brian: probably free by now and able to go to school today no.
italy are all doing. the second is around extra doses. while third doses are going to be offered to around half a million people with poor immune systems soon, it s not clear when the rest of the population will get them. in a tweet, former health secretary jeremy hunt said the clear lesson for the uk seems to be get on with boosterjabs, not just for the clinically vulnerable, but for everyone. health secretary sajid javid said the booster programme is on track to start later this month, subject to the green light from scientists. matt graveling, bbc news. let s return now to afghanistan. and when the taliban took over the capital kabul on august 15th, residents covered over billboards showing female models advertising beauty parlours. during taliban rule in the 90s, salons were banned.
worry about what s happening on the ground and give ghani what he need and then we wouldn t be in that mess. ainsley: that call they spoke for 14 manipulates at the end of july, july 23rd. that about two or three weeks before ghani fled the presidential palace on august 15th. what i also took from this conversation is that biden had no clue that this was going to happen. that the taliban were going to take over. he said something a few weeks ago back in july in the united states that he said on that call. he said you clearly, thanks to began any, you clearly have the best military. you have 300,000 well armed forces versus, 70, 80,000, talking about the taliban. they are clearly capable of fighting well. bine bine we are facing a full plan invasion statistical support. ainsley: ghani said that. brian: begany says no you can say what you want, mr. president. let me tell what you is happening. pakistan is staging this war. 10 to 15,000 international terrorists predominantly pakistanis th
then the taliban seized kabul august 15th and like thousands of others he tried his luck and tried to get to the airport gates where he was rebuffed by u.s. forces he said that he could get in, they told him, but not his wife and children. general jack keane if i could finish off with one question to you as we are about to hear from the president, and jen psaki giving some guidelines on what we will see and hear from the president, what does the president have to say to those women and children who so many of them, they made such great progress for so many years, for two decades they tried to build a better life for themselves, i am just curious, how he addresses them if he addresses them and those left behind? final thoughts. automatic i don t know if you will address that at all. i mean, there has been a certain amount of callous indifference to the suffering that is taken place in afghanistan as a result
throughout kabul. the taliban had not intended to take kabul that day but ghani s exit gave the group no choice. what can you expand on that, marc? so basically the biden administration lied to the american people. they told us they were taken the taliban takeover of kabul took them by surprise and put them in a situation where we had no control and which we were dependent on the taliban for security as we carried out evacuations. that turns out to not be true. the taliban had no intention of entering the capital on august 15th according to the washington post reporting and they actually offered the united states the opportunity to be in charge of security in the afghan capital. and we turned them down. we decided not to control to take responsibility for security at the capital. general mckenzie the commander of central come and had a meeting with the taliban where he said either you have to do