chaotic exit from afghanistan. tensions rise on the korean peninsula as north korea says it's fired a new hypersonic missile. and new details in the gamt case. what brian laundrie's family knew about his whereabouts before her disappearance. ♪ hello, everyone. happy wednesday. now two of the world's largest economies are under pressure. and there could be enormous political i am april indications in both countries. in the united states, president joe biden is continuing tense negotiations for his infrastructure as well as economic plans. political brink man ship is action to fund the government by sunday and suspended debt limit. the treasury secretary didn't mince words what will happen if the u.s. defaults on its obligations possibly by october 18. take a listen. >> this would be a manufactured crisis we had imposed on this country, which has been going through a very difficult period is on the road to recovery, and it would be a self-inflicted wound of enormous proportions. >> well, all the uncertainties you can imagine sent the dow plunging 569 points. you see there, the tech heavy nasdaq fell 3% and the s&p 500 closed below 2%. we'll keep on top of the numbers, of course, as soon as markets open. here in the uk, meanwhile, boris johnson says the fuel supply is improving though many are still lining up and facing higher prices at the pump. this is not a fuel problem. there's plenty of fuel in the uk, but it is the supply chain issue. getting drivers to deliver the fuel, a problem that has been exacerbated by the pandemic, of course, and by brexit. we'll have more on the story in about ten minutes or so. now i want to take you back to the united states because for the first time since the fall of afghanistan, top american leaders are publicly testifying before congress about what went so terribly wrong. in the coming hours they'll address u.s. house on services committee. they gave the senators their take on what the government collapsed so spectacularly and why the taliban remain a serious threat. >> we helped build the state, mr. chairman, but we could not forge a nation. the fact that the afghan army that we and our partners trained simply melted away, in many cases without firing a shot, took us all by surprise. and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise. >> we must remember that the taliban was and remains a terrorist organization, and they still have not broken ties with al qaeda. i have no illusions who we are dealing with. it remains to be seen whether or not the taliban can consolidate power or if the country will further fracture into civil war. >> well, these pentagon leaders were pressed on why the afghan army had no will to win, and it seems largely due to the deal with the taliban brokered by the trump administration, if you remember. we are hearing the agreement demoralized afghan forces. take a listen. >> did the doha agreement affect the morale of the afghan forces, i.e., was there a sense now that even though it was once away the united states was leaving since we had agreed to leave? >> i'll let frank talk the details, but my assessment is, yes, senator, it did affect the morale of the afghan security forces. >> my judgment is the doha agreement did enormously affect the morale because of actions they were required to take under the agreement. >> meanwhile, the generals are saying a complete military pullout was not what they wanted and they recommended leaving a few thousand american troops behind. >> i won't share my personal recommendation to the president, but i will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation. i recommended we maintain 2,500 troops in afghanistan. >> jen mgeneral milley, i assum agree with 2,500? >> i do agree with that. >> that contradicts earlier remarks by joe biden who told abc news he didn't recall anyone recommending those troop levels to him. the range of viewpoints were given to the president on how to afghanistan. our nic robertson has recently returned from afghanistan and tracking this from abu dhabi. nic, what i heard there we just played out was america's top generals saying their views were heard but not followed. what stood out to you from what you heard specifically on the intelligence front, and perhaps the challenges this poses, the u.s. has no boots on the ground? >> reporter: i think a number of things. the notion that it's been encapsulated into an 11-day surprise, a swing and miss, the intelligence assessment that didn't expect the afghan government to collapse in 11 days, it strains credibility that intelligence services were not tracking the potential for its collapse at an earlier phase and signalling warnings previously. and if they weren't signalling warnings, then that clearly shows an intelligence failure. that seems to be, you know, an accepted part of the narrative now, but framed rather narrowly. certainly i'm sure the united states partners, nato partners in this will look at that hearing quite critically and draw a similar conclusion. the other conclusion that relates to intelligence is that, you know, now after 20 years of building the afghan national army, the top generals should say that they realize there were errors that they made the afghan army in their own image, it was too high-tech dependent, they weren't aware of cultural sensitivities. all of that, you know, really begs the question where were the assessments made ongoing. and certainly from my experience of covering the afghan national army and the international forces who were training them, many shortcomings were known for over a long period of time. so this sudden collapse of the afghan army shouldn't be such a surprise. so, you know, where does it -- where does it leave the military going forward on this issue? clearly they have to examine this in their own, in their own terms of reference. but i think it certainly strains the credibility that intelligence that could have highlighted some of these issues wasn't available and, therefore, it appears that it was perhaps overlooked or dismissed for whatever reason. >> nic robertson for us there in abu dhabi. great to see you, nic. thanks very much. now, during the hearings, the joint chiefs chairman was also grilled about his decisions near the end of the trump administration which includes calls to a chinese general details in the new book. mark milley said he tried to assure his chinese counterpart that then president donald trump had no plans to attack china. take a listen to this. >> and i told him that we are not going to attack. president trump has no intent to attack. and i told him that repeatedly. and i told him, if there was going to be an attack, there will be plenty of communications going back and forth. your intel systems are going to pick it up. i said, i'll probably call you. everybody would be calling you. we're not going to attack you. just settle down, it's not going to happen. >> trump's former national security adviser john bolton is backing general milley. this is what he said. >> milley said today he was reading intelligence that the chinese were worried that, in this confusion and so on, this would be subjected to a wag the dog military attack. at least that was possible. i have to say quite apart from donald trump's state of mind, if the state of mind of the chinese leadership was about to make that miscalculation, it was nothing more than common sense for several communications be made to the chinese, including milley to his counterpart conversation to say, don't believe what you read in the newspapers. so those who say that milley violated the civilian control of the military, undercut the chain of command, quebetrayed the president on one hand and those who say milley saved the country from a psychopath, he did his duty. >> the hearings continue today. meanwhile, u.s. president joe biden is scrapping his travel plans to stay in washington today to negotiate key pieces of his legislative agenda. the next two days will be critical to determine the fate of his $3.5 trillion legislation, and $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. meanwhile, the senate is also looking to really expedite the consideration of a bill to avoid a looming government shutdown. even if it strips out democratic effort to suspend the debt limit. cnn's ryan noble reports. >> reporter: time is running out on capitol hill to stop america from an economic disaster. >> good morning, everyone. this is a big week for the american people. >> reporter: lawmakers are furiously negotiating, hoping to make progress on four major issues central to the biden agenda and the nation's economy. >> but we will pass both bills. >> reporter: on the docket, passing a continuing resolution that will continue to fund the government before it runs out of cash as soon as friday. ,lifting the dell ceiling before the government reaches that threshold by the middle of october. striking a compromise on a massive expansion of the social safety net that both moderates and progressives can agree on. and passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill that will offer up more than $1 trillion to fix roads and bridges across america. the problem is democrats have tied several of these items together, and now they're trying to untangle them. when it comes to the debt ceiling and keeping the government open, house leaders say they have a plan. >> so, we have a number of things on lift the debt ceiling, keep government open. we have to do those imminently. >> reporter: the intra-party fight over infrastructure and reconciliation are the bigger problem. speaker pelosi wants a vote as soon as thursday on the infrastructure plan, but progressives continue to say they won't vote yes without a guarantee about the bigger package. >> our caucus is strongest when it's unified in decoupling these bills. it starts to pit priorities against one another and that's why i disagree. >> reporter: part of the problem is that moderates still won't say what they are willing to agree to spend on expanding the social safety net. progressives want the package to be as big as $3.5 trillion. expand programs like medicaid, pre-k and the child tax credit. moderates like kyrsten sinema and joe manchin don't want to spend that much, but they're also not ready to say publicly how high they're willing to go. >> there's a lot of work needs to be done. i keep telling y'all, we're going to work and work in a good faith measure. >> reporter: as a result, democrats remain in a staring contest with the clock ticking and that big vote still scheduled for thursday with no guarantee it will pass. so it seems pretty clear that we are all waiting to see if the house progressives have the resolve necessary to hold firm against house speaker nancy pelosi's insistence on passing this bipartisan infrastructure package on thursday. they seem to be able to do it at this point, and they have some powerful backup from the former founder of the caucus in the house, bernie sanders. he's the senate budget committee chairman. he begged his fellow progressives in the house not to vote yes on the bipartisan infrastructure package until they know definitively what the reconciliation package is going to look like, and they have buy-in from all the moderates that are currently holding back. ryan nobles, cnn on capitol hill. >> for now progressive democrats say they are not giving up their leverage to pass a $3.5 trillion spending bill. they insist they will not pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill without moderate senate democrat support on the spending measure. >> the main part of the president's build back better agenda that he came and delivered to us to congress in february, the main part of that agenda that we ran on as democrats to get the house, the senate and the white house is contained within the build back better agenda. so 70% of the entire build back better agenda is in the build back better act. and if we don't pass that, then we are saying to people, sorry, we promised, but we're only going to deliver you a tiny sliver of things and we're going to go back on our word to you as voters, and also as democrats. and so, no, i'm not concerned about the perfect being the enemy of the good. i'm concerned that 4% of the democratic caucus is in both the house and the senate is not coming to the table to negotiate in good faith what we thought we had already negotiated. >> we don't have to settle for just any old something. we can do a lot better than that. the deal that came to us from the president, that came out of the senate to the house was for a lot more than just that one piece. so when folks suggest that we should de-couple them, dozens of my colleagues and i feel strongly that's a terrible idea. we need the original deal. and if we have to vote no on a vote thursday we think is counterproductive and shouldn't happen, we'll do that. but we'll also roll up our sleeves and get to work to try to get this done. >> we'll stay on top of this story, of course, as the clock ticks to thursday. i want to switch and take you to japan. the ruling democratic party has a new leader which means japan will be getting a new prime minister soon. former prime minister won a runoff election. he defeated the popular vaccine czar. se selena nguyen is following. he's not the public's favorite, but clearly the favorite of the party. what can we expect from him on the policy front here? >> reporter: yes, that's exactly right, isa. the results really show here that japan's party elites ultimately prevailed over public opinion. the winner youwho is shurassure become the prime minister, he served as former foreign minister under prime minister shinzo abe and he's a moderate liberal known as a consensus builder. he campaigned on spending billions to halep the japanese economy recover from the pandemic. he's also campaigned on narrowing the income gap. he's really seen, isa, as an establishment choice, to a large degree more of the same and status quo. and compare that to taro kono. he was the public's favorite known as a political maverick who wasn't afraid to speak his mind and tear down bureaucratic barriers to get things done. he is extremely on social media. known to directly converse with the public on twitter where he has more than 2 million followers. ultimately, analysts said that kono's reputation as this outspoken maverick was too much of a risk, and the conservative party elders, party elites preferred the stable and safe choice of kishida. now, when he assumes prime ministership, he's going to have to contend with challenges including the pandemic, boosting japan's stagnant economy, balancing deep economic ties with china and growing concerns around beijing's military assertiveness. but a key issue, isa, is that it is unclear how long kishida can maintain power since before the time of prime minister shinzo abe's leadership, japan had churned through six prime ministers in six years. so the question is, is japan returning to this period of revolving door prime ministership? another important point to note was this race was historic and it is the first time ever in which the ldp leadership race is where women are vastly under represented in politics, isa. >> celina nguyen, thank you very much. still so come, covid vaccines in the u.s. for children. time is shaping up to get shots in arms. plus the british government says petrol prices are easing. we'll take a look at the underlying issues when we come back. that is next. 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hear here he's saying there is a sign things are starting to ease even though on the streets of london that might not be the case. >> we now are starting to see the situation improve. we're hearing from industry supplies are coming back onto the full course in the normal way. i would urge everybody to just about their business in the normal way and fill up in the normal way when you really need it. you know, things will start to -- all we want to do is make sure we have all the preparations necessary to get through till christmas and beyond. >> reporter: well, the government says, of course, there is a' no national shortage of fuel. rather a shortage of drivers to get all sorts of goods that are badly needed from a to b. that's likely to get worse as we head further along the year with seasonal buying for the christmas festive season. when it comes to the panic we've seen on the pumps and the run on the pumps, that has brought out the worst of human behavior as you can imagine. this is 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they admitted they didn't plan for the afghan government's quick reveal. and kishida is japan's new leader. he will eventually take the role as the new prime minister. south korea said pyongyang test of hypersonic missile seems to be in the early stage of development and can be detected and intercepted by south korea and u.s. military assets. it was launched into the waters off the east coast of the korean peninsula tuesday and is the third missile test this month. let's get more. cnn's will ripley is in taipei. explain to viewers what is exactly a hypersonic missile and how worried, if they're worried at all, is the region to news that north korea has this technology and is testing it? >> reporter: hi, isa. both very good questions. because a lot of us haven't really heard of hypersonic missiles because they're actually pretty rare. only two countries right now are known to have them deployed. that would be china and russia. the united states is also developing and testing hypersonic missile technology. hypersonic by definition is a missile that travels five times the speed of sound. 4,000 miles an hour, around 1 mile per second. it's not just the speed that makes hypersonic missiles so concerning because a lot of ballistic missiles can travel at hypersonic speeds. ballistic missiles, once they launch, they have a set trajectory. they travel from point a on a set course to point b. a hypersonic launch can be loch launched at fast speed and zig zags. it makes it difficult to intercept and to trace. this is why south korea has come out just within the last couple hours and said, at this stage of its hypersonic missile development, based on analysis of the flight path, the speed, the trajectory of this missile which was launched from the mountainous region and straddles the border with japan, they can measure the trajectory along with the state media photo with the missile, purported missile, north korea calls the hwasong 8. they say this missile that north korea tested yesterday could be intercepted by the missile defense systems that the united states has in place to protect south korea. you know, because obviously the missile defense systems that also protect japan and all of its 120 million residents along with more than 50,000 troops stationed there, 30,000 or so troops stationed in south korea, there is real concern that a hypersonic missile could pose a huge threat if this was a really effectively developed advance piece of equipment. north korea says that this one has a gliding flight warhead, which means that the warhead would actually detach from the missile base and then it basically acts like a hang glider and can travel sometimes very long distances before hitting its target. there are other weapons on kim jong-un's wish list, isa, that was announced back in january at the north korean party congress. this would include brand-new types of solid fuel ballistic missiles, solid fuel is tough because you can roll it out and launch it. it doesn't need to be filled up on a launch pad. north korea is looking to develop an icbm, inter-continental ballistic missile that can travel 93,000 miles. new kinds of drones and even military reconnaissance satellites. all of them warring developments even though we haven't seen a nuclear test in several years, isa, still a lot of developments in their weapons programs. >> i would love to know where they're getting all this t technology. you and i can chat off line afterwards. >> reporter: this is a good question. we don't know. we just don't know. >> you've answered it already. thanks very much, will. great to see you. now, lava from the volcano in spain's canary islands has reached the atlantic ocean as eruptions continue a 10th straight day. emergency officials say residents on the island of la palma should shelter-in-place as dangerous gases are released when the lava reacts with the water. meteorologist pedram javaheri has the details. pedram. >> isa, we're following this very closely. the last ten days we've seen lava flow. we are seeing i ammages of what's happening on the ground. satellite depicting where the lava floe is headed. the concern is interaction with sea water. here's a perspective from a couple days ago. that lava floe ending up in the atlantic ocean in the past 24 hours. it develops something known as lays. it doesn't sound all that serious. it's a combination of lava and haze. once las vegas is above 111 degrees celsius, it interacts with saltwater and leads to flash boiling and the evaporation of saltwater releases hydrochloric acid. if you heard that term, it's the same acid in your stomach that breaks down food and digests it quickly. it gets especially given volcanic conditions present across this region, steam is released and these flash steams cannot only be explosive, but they can release volcanic gas. shards of small gas into the atmosphere. of course, that is, in part, why we have so many evacuations in place on la palma. this particular set of islands has been rocked in recent weeks. they have seen upwards of 600 earthquakes in the past 14 days. about 22 of them exceeding magnitude 3.0 or greater. certainly as active as it gets. and, of course, the archipelago of eight islands here is all originated because of volcanos. 3 to 4 million years ago, sea floor magma releases. you have your self la palma. this is where we stand now with eruptions every 30 to 40 years. most recently, go back 50 years ago next month, isa, and we had interruption take place here that took with it a life and, of course, left behind millions in dollars of damages. concern is this particular eruption could last several more weeks and damages ensue as a result of all this. isa? >> thanks very much, pedram. now, activist greta thunberg laid into world leaders as she calls empty promises on climate change -- climate action. they met with policy makers to hammer out possible solutions ahead of the cop-26 climate talks in glass gou. some remain skeptical saying time is running out to avoid catastrophe. this is what she said. >> there is no plan b. there is no plan blah. blah, blah, blah. this is not about some politically expensive correct dream of bunny hugging or blah, blah, blah. build back better, blah, blah, blah. green economy, blah, blah, blah. 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