footballers of all time. he s the only person to have won three world cups as a player. a three year old boy who went missing in the australian bush four days ago has been found alive. anthony aj elfalak was discovered after police helicopter pilots spotted him in amongst trees in a deep gully in new south wales. a] was found drinking water from a creek around half a kilometre from his home. his father said his son had some ant bites and scrapes to his legs, but was in reasonably good shape, and that his rescue was a miracle . a reminder of our top story. the taliban say they are consolidating their control over the panjshir valley in the last afghan province where they were still facing resistance. a taliban leader, mullah hidayat ullah badar, called on residents not to flee into the mountains, but to stay in their homes.
did not happen on our watch. we reduced our forces significantly and the taliban didn t advance on capitals all across afghanistan. so it is a plain, old fact it is happening under the biden administration s leadership. wow. big talk from pompeo. big talk. but hold on, mike. who is this in dohar standing next to taliban official mullah badar who is now the de facto leader of afghanistan. oh, wait, that s you, mike. that is, of course, then secretary of state mike pompeo with badar who was released from prison in pakistan in 2018 at the request of the trump administration so he could participate in negotiations. the two of them first met in september of 2020 and again two months later in november, because one meeting with the taliban was not nearly enough for tough guy mike. up until a couple of months ago, trump himself was still touting his great deal and his decision to pull out all u.s. troops. i started the process, all the troops are coming back home. they couldn t stop the pr