Drowning of migrants off the coast of yemen. 19 people have died and more are missing. This is the second incident in as many days. On wednesday, 50 people died after being pushed off a boat by smugglers fearing arrest. This information is coming from the uns Migration Agency and this was told us. This is the same modus operandi. 150 people this time. Theyre worth your people this time. Theyre worth your people 22 or 23, who were the same age, same profile. But they were trying to dropped in the sea close to the shore. It is may be linked to the fact that maybe they have lost control at the borders and the smugglers are panicking but the reaction was worse. Because instead of preventing them entering theyre basically continued their business by killing people. We think the victims were trying to get to yemen despite the ongoing conflict there, its still seen as a gateway to other gulf states or europe. And other migrant routes remainjust as active. Let me show you this footage. Its fro
Drowning of migrants off the coast of yemen. 19 people have died and more are missing. This is the second incident in as many days. On wednesday, 50 people died after being pushed off a boat by smugglers fearing arrest. This information is coming from the uns Migration Agency and this was told us. This is the same modus operandi. 150 people this time. Theyre worth your people this time. Theyre worth your people 22 or 23, who were the same age, same profile. But they were trying to dropped in the sea close to the shore. It is may be linked to the fact that maybe they have lost control at the borders and the smugglers are panicking but the reaction was worse. Because instead of preventing them entering theyre basically continued their business by killing people. We think the victims were trying to get to yemen despite the ongoing conflict there, its still seen as a gateway to other gulf states or europe. And other migrant routes remainjust as active. Let me show you this footage. Its fro
trey yingst, thank you very much. we are learning more tonight about the men in charge of the new taliban government. one of them is worth a $10 million reward courtesy of the u.s. government. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details tonight from the pentagon. it s a who is who of radical islamic terrorists the new interim taliban calculate net includes as prime minister a man who faces u.s. sanctions. he served in the last taliban government until 9/11. the new defense minister is the son of mullah omar the spiritual founder of the taliban who welcomed usama bin laden to afghanistan. the new interior minister will oversee the brutal taliban police and security forces. haqqani has the blood of hundreds of american troops on his hands, is currently holding american hostage mark feerk has been financed by the pakistan government for years and has up to $10 million bounty on his head from the fbi. also in the new cabinet, four
ridiculous. afghanistan has just become a major ongoing problem for us again. shannon: byron, is this a case of misunderstanding the reality on the ground or sort of a willful blindness about wanting to change the perception of the reality? well, the statements coming out of the state department seem incredibly naive. we should say the u.s. obviously failed to stand up a government, an afghan government. that failure took four presidents to actually happen. the problem now the way the biden administration has done this and the fact that it did not take care of all the business before leaving, leaving the united states in a sum can t position with zero assets in afghanistan. shannon: up next the biden pivot away from afghanistan continues.
allowed into our country. thank god there hasn t been u.s. influx of refugees so far. for those afghans left behind, they face a taliban that is consolidating power with the new government and cracking down on opposition. protests erupted again in the afghan capital of kabul as civilians demand their rights be respected and their country remain sovereign. taliban fighters responded by firing their weapons in the air to disperse the crowd. the islamic government is shooting at our poor people. these people are very unjust and they are not human at all. they do not give us the rights to demonstrate. they are not muslim but infidels as you can see the situation we are in. [screams] there are efforts underway right now to reopen kabul s international airport if those talks with the taliban are successful. it could provide a way out for some of those trapped. shannon? shannon: that s good news.