and more deadly. according to the documents, the nih was funding despite the genes from other corona vice uses in the process. the documents reveal the research has created a new more potent virus that can easily infect humans.po what can go wrong. the executive director of the group, u.s. rights to they say the documents are a road map to the high risk research that could of lead to the current pandemic that includes a 2014 project funded by the nih in wuhan. know for back corona viruses. peter dazzler, there is that name again, the president of the group echo health alliance and a grant authorized peter, of can owe health alliance to conduct virus infection experiments across a range of cell cultures from different species and humanized mice. we have known about the grant for months now. the new documents obtained tell what went on during the experiments on the mice. according to the professor of chemical biology at rutgers rouniversity: the materials reveal for the fir
team who risked their lives to bring them to safety say the federal government had very little to do with it that comes as the taliban s reportedly preventing at least six planes at an airport in northern afghanistan from taking off. secretary of state tony blinken claims the taliban not blocking americans from leaving and said the biden administration is working with the terror group. they said they will let people with travel documents freely depart. we will hold them to that. so will dozens of other countries. the international community is watching to see if the taliban will live up to their commitment. without personnel on the ground we can t verify the accuracy of manifests, the identities of passengers, flight plans or aviation security protocols. so this is a challenge. jesse: and if you think the situation is bad in afghanistan now general mark milley says things can get a lot worse. my military estimate is that the conditions are likely to develop of a civil w
the uk s twenty year military mission in afghanistan has ended, with the departure of britain s last evacuation flight. almost all remaining british troops, diplomats and officials have now left. the government in london says it has airlifted more than 15 thousand people from kabul in the past two weeks, including around 8,000 afghans. here s our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley. heading home. 1,000 british troops were sent into kabul to get people out. us troops provided security for an unprecedented international rescue mission. the last british plane carrying civilians flew out of kabul this morning. this evening, news that the last soldiers and british diplomats have now left. in all, there were over 100 raf flights. the end of a 20 year campaign that was not supposed to finish like this. we ve done an extraordinaryjob to evacuate as many as we have, but i m afraid it s absolutely that heartbreaking that we can t bring everybody out, and that point has been made v
americans were sold to stay away from tree different gates and only to approach when instructs. these are the first u.s. troops killed in afghanistan since before january of last year. it comes hours before the august 31st deadline. still the evacuation operations condition including for though the who are still in afghanistan. the plan is to still operate while under stress. we ll continue to make sure that the mission continues. they will continue to push out the security corridor and shared some information to prevent attacks. we believe it s possible that others have been thwarted. we cut down the information we gave the taliban. they don t get the full range of information that we, have but we give them enough to act and time and space to prevent the attacks. the situation on the ground has been fluid for weeks changing by the hour but these attacks mark a much greater shift. general mckenzie made it clear they would use the forces available, aircraft overhead includ
certain afghanistan will become a safe haven for terrorists. i know you and the president have disputed that. what do you think those officials are getting wrong and can you ensure that americans are safer today because of your actions than we were several months ago? we have to deal with the threat of terrorism in syria and yemen and deal with the threat of terrorism across and deal with isis k and have to do so using a wide variety of tools, intelligence capabilities, defense cavebil capables and tht to provide to local partners to help them deal with the challenge and what we have shown is in many of the countries i mentioned among others, we have been successful to date in suppressing the terrorist threat to the u.s. homeland in those countries without sustaining a permanent military presence or fighting in a war. and that is what we intend to do with respect to afghanistan, as well. this isn t a question whether we re clear eyed about the terrorist challenge from afgha