For help as Evacuation Efforts in afghanistan increase and what the american military is now saying about the afghan governments collapse. There was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days. All in starts now. Good evening from washington, d. C. Im Medhy Hassan in for chris hayes. We are never going to get through this pandemic if a significant chunk of the population continues to refuse to get vaccinated. This spring the united states was leading the world in vaccinations. No large country was even close. Now theyve all overtaken the u. S. Heres a list of just some of the countries with a higher percent of the population fully vaccinated. Chile, belgium, denmark, spain, portugal, ireland, canada, the united kingdom, france, netherlands, italy, germany, austria, hungry, and china which has A Billion people more than the u. S. You know what category we are back near the top in . Deaths. Were averaging nearly 700 deaths per d
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And of course for a long time it hadnt been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the War Effort too. For years, for example, the British Army had been engaged here in the town of sangin in Helmand Province. And that area Helmand Province prominently but that Area And Sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the British Army. By June Of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that one single town
The american military is now saying about the afghan governments collapse. There was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army, in this government, and 11 days. All in starts now. Good evening from washington, d. C. Amid the hasan, in fricassees. We are never gonna get through this pandemic if a significant chunk of the population continues to refuse to get vaccinated. This spring, the united states was leading the world in vaccinations. No country in the world was even close. Now they have all take overtake in the u. S. Here is a list of just some of the countries with the higher percent of the population that is vaccinated. Chile, belgium, denmark, spain, portugal, ireland, canada, united, france, the netherlands, italy, germany, austria, hungary, and china which has A Billion people more than the u. S. You know what category we are back near the top in . Deaths. We are averaging nearly 700 deaths per day over the last two weeks. A 52 increase over that
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And, of course, for a long time it hadnt been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the War Effort too. For years, for example, the British Army had been engaged here in the town of sangin, sangin in the Helmand Province. And that area Helmand Province prominently but that Area And Sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the British Army. By June Of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that on
Right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, thanks, my friend, much appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. okay, we are going to start tonight with a story where when i start to tell this story, you are going to think that you know where it s going. you re going to think that you know where this is going to end up. but i m telling you, you are wrong about that. this is an amazing story that happened today. it does not end where you think it does. i don t mean like this is a weird cable news tease thing or anything. i will just say i believe it is my experience of having done this show for 13 plus years and knowing what matters to people when we put it on tv and knowing what news chances the way you think about the world, this is one of those stories, so just watch this. stick with me until the end, okay? here we go. september 2010, the war in