Happening inside afghanistan. The Taliban Takeover has reached the Oneweek Mark and multitudes of people are trying to flee their country. More than 20,000 are now at the airport in kabul waiting in the brutal sun, hoping they get that golden ticket out. Secretary blinken says 8,000 people were evacuated yesterday alone. All countries combined have now evacuated some 26,500 people. The pentagon announced this morning it had invoked something called the civil Reserve Air Fleet which compels u. S. Commercial airlines to assist with the evacuation. Meanwhile President Biden is expected to talk to the american public again this afternoon about those efforts in afghanistan. Tune in to cnn at 4 00 p. M. Eastern time to see exactly what he has to say. Lets begin with my first two guests, Sami Mahdi just got out of kabul, and Rina Amiri has helped her country from abroad. She was assigned to Winston Holbrook when he was representative in afghanistan and pakistan. Good morning to both of you. I
The man in that video, the one m the red jacket, is thomas webster. He s a former marine, a retired nypd officer, being charged with seven federal crimes, including assaulting police, unlawfully entering capitol grounds with a dangerous weapon and civil disorder. Despite that and despite federal prosecutors charging several others, some republican lawmakers are downplaying or outright dismissing what happened that day, refusing to acknowledge the heroism of the as far as who put their lives on the line. Terrence gainer joins me. You saw the video. Cnn and other outlets pressed to get the video for transparency. You are a former u. S. Capitol police chief. Thank you for being here. Good morning. What do you make of what you just saw? well, it s painful for me to watch and i wasn t even there, but having spent so much time on that hill with those officers, i get how it hurts them. And every time there s a video like this that comes out and i am glad there is transparency on that, it real
A former conservative party chairman has become the latest figure to intervene in the escalating row surrounding david cameron s lobbying of ministers on behalf of greensill capital a finance company that has since gone bust. Lord pickles, who currently advises ministers and officials when they take jobs after leaving government, says there didn t seem to be any boundaries at all between civil servants and the private sector. His comments follow the revelation that a top civil servant was working for the government and greensill at the same time. Here s our political editor laura kuenssberg. One out, one in. The revolving door. Politicians and officials leave public service and walk in to big private sectorjobs. It s allowed, within a set of rules, but the man checking up on sleaze thinks some officials have gone too far. It is not a satisfactory situation, and i think not only you are entitled to know or i m entitled to know, i think the wider public are entitled to know what these
Reopen. bars. Lets take a look at the morning s papers. We start with the financial times which leads on a story from china. Apparently officials there are considering whether to mix and match different coronavirus vaccines. It s the first time beijing has acknowledged doubts over the effectiveness of its domestic vaccines. Next up, the i . It s main story is the reopening of non essential shops in england. People are being urged to behave responsibly as the economy begins to emerge from the latest lockdown. Government scientists say infections could spike if people don t respect the rules. The guardian reports that young black workers have been hit disproportionately hard in the pandemic with unemployment figures three times higher than young white workers. There s also an interview with scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon. She says downing sttreet won t be able to block a second independence referendum if her snp party wins the upcoming elections in holyrood. And the
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