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distancing laura: awesome show. the amazing president biden and his leadership is so impressive. from san francisco tonight, you don t have to go to afghanistan to see widespread suffering and despair or to witness a tragic breakdown in civil society. you can see that right here miles from multimillion dollar homes owned by the billionaire titans of the tech world. it has been a problem here for decades but the situation now is spiraling totally out of control. just a block from the major police precinct we saw people doing crack on the street and washing their clothes at a dirty wiki hydrant. this once great american city, we are horrified at the taliban and terrorizing the people of afghanistan why are so many numb when our people are being terrorized here? it is a democrat engineered american tragedy but i the voters finally wising up? we are going to show you tonight will shock you but first the great unraveling is the focus of tonight s angle. the humiliation of ....
of the country and here is that context because basically the biden administration is arguing that they are doing exactly what they intended to do that they knew would be tough and a lot of the critics or haters are essentially out of line especially republicans going with a trump taliban exit for years as a plan. they say the focus will be the evacuations because there is a hard fought effort here to protect some people but leaving no matter what is still they say the right thing to do. what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al-qaeda gone. what is the national interest of united states in that circumstances? we went and did a mission, you know my position for a long, long time. it is time to end this war. end this war. we use words a lot on the news and we are all here talking to each other endlessly. in that very statement about ending the war, this president is reminding americans that something outside of military families and a few other f ....
this is one of those stories. watch this. stick with me till the end. okay? here we go. september of 2010, the warren afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. and of course for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war in afghanistan. a lot of our allies joined in the war effort to. for years, for example, the british army had been engaged here, in the town of sank in, in helmand province and that area, helmand province, but that area near sangin was, a cure center for the opium trade. it was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. so on the earlier side of the war, first decade of the war, the british were the ploy there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there. that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. by june of 2010, the british had lost around 300 soldiers, total, and all of afghanistan. but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british olde ....
taliban leaders arrive, as the militants negotiate with politicians on forming a government. let me know your thoughts on this by getting in touch on twitter at bbcjoannag. in other news, the cost of living rose by 2% in the year tojuly. that s lower than most economists were expecting, suggeting upward pressures on inflation should prove temporary. nando s says it s been forced to close stores after running out of chicken, blaming supply issues. half a million children in desperate need of shelter and drinking water in haiti, after the earthquake which has left nearly 2000 dead. and the trial is due to begin of the singer r kelly, accused of racketeering, bribery and sexual abuse. good morning and welcome to bbc news. mps will begin debating the unfolding crisis in afghanistan in the next half hour, as parliament is recalled from its summer break. the government is expected to face questions about why the uk and its allies underestimated the speed at which the taliban ....
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