lack of courage on fighters on either side. certainly we are watching the cia special operations units that are afghan are incredibly effective and brave. but the notion that we have any leverage at all left is nonsensical. we re out. bag ram air force base is gone. i am bothered by the mumbo jumbo speak from state department, dropping to core diplomatic presence. we re getting out of there to avoid the unlikely outcome that the taliban will seize u.s. and other missions. don t want to take the chance. only thing we re doing is leaving afghan stand. millions of refugees flee into
their main base in afghanistan, heralding the end of almost two decades of military engagement in the country. us defence officials in afghanistan say the last troops have left bag, their main military base in afghanistan. a ceremony marking the formal handover of the air base which is north of the capital will take place on saturday. president joe biden has promised all american troops will leave by the symbolic date of september the 11th. 0ur correspondent is in campbell and is following developments. bag ram air base was a symbol of the us military might in this country. 30 miles
counting. this afternoon, ash carter defended the move. he says an american presence was still needed in that region. afghanistan is on a better path, but more work lies ahead and america s national security remains very much at stake. in that part of the world. the president and the afghan people we re with you, we support you and we re not going to give up the gains we fought so hard to achieve. troops will be stationed at kabul, bag ram, kandahar and jalalabad and today, the president addressed those troops directly. afghanistan remains dangerous. 25 brave americans have given their lives there this year. i do not send you into harm s way lightly. it s the most solemn decision that i make. i know the wages of war and the wounded warriors i visit in the hospital and in the grief of gold star families.
gave thanks to the afghan and american governments for the return of their son. the president said he and the family can t wit for the family to be reunited. bergdahl was captured in june, 2009. he is currently at a hospital in bag ram air force base. now back to caught on camera. 23i6r789s long years of relentless palestinian-israeli violence. in 2000 to 2005 leaves a legacy of terror, destruction and death, throughout the second uprising. it happened again today, another suicide bomber in israel. this one killed 17 people. food is scattered on the highway. often on crowded bussings. some burned to death. men and woman whose bodies were
disorderly disintegration of greece and the european union that causes all of our financial ankments to come unclooued. finally markets get to react to $173 billion bailout deal that was thrashed out. one of the european leaders actually saying there s a reason why the marathon was invented in greece, because that s what they were doing last night, marathon negotiations. greece will stay in the eurozone. it will get the financing it needs to pay its bills in march. a big bond payment due. greece will have to take more cutting, more painful cutting and all of this is something that investors in this country are relieved about. believe it or not, in case you missed it, the dow, stocks have been moving higher for some time now on the hopes that greece would get this all settled. the dow jones industrial average is trading at the highest level since january 2008. also an election year, kyra. a real big advance. 66% has been the gain since the president took office of the dow jone