Today after deciding not to extend the deadline to american troops to withdraw. This comes as the Evacuation Mission has accelerated rapidly. The president says the u. S. Has helped Air Lift more than 70,000 people out of the country in just ten days. The president is warning that the withdrawal timetable depends on the taliban continuing to cooperate with the evacuation. There are new questions about whether that will happen. The taliban now says they will not allow afghan nationals to leave the country as thousands are still waiting for flights out. Our correspondents, analysts are standing by as we uncover this breaking story. First lets go to Kaitlyn Collins. We heard from the president a little while ago as he sticks with his Withdrawal Deadline. Reporter yeah, wolf. He is sticking with that. That means the clock is now ticking. With just seven days left to complete this evacuation from afghanistan before the president says he is going to standby August 31st as the exit date. This
On what shes learning in San Jose. Claudia . Right now investigators are combing through two Crime Scenes. The Light Rail Yard Maintenance Facility a few blocks behind me in San Jose. Thats where a Gunman Opened Fire killing eight people this morning before turning the gun on himself. Authorities are also investigating the Shooters House about eight miles away which went up in smoke right around the same time. Ill all started after 6 30 a. M. Local times when police got calls of multiple shots fired here at the Maintenance Facility run by vta. It operates trains and buses for commuters all over Santa Clara County. There was a Union Meeting going on and a possible Shift Change happening as well. More than 2,000 people worked for the vta and the gunman was one of them. Hes been identified as 57yearold sam cassidy, a technician that worked here at this yard. Again, as you mentioned, the motive behind this shooting is unknown, whether he was targeting anyone specifically, those are questio
are they the next step that would push the united states and its presence out of europe altogether? general jack keane, former secretary state and mike pompeo and senator tom cotton on board with us with these difficult questions that america faces in an urgent situation as 8,500 u.s. troops get ready for action. all that as we await a live update from the state department. a lot of focus there, a controversial move to pull americans out of ukraine leaving them in some cases to their own devises to get out. is this like afghanistan? we ll take you live there next. national security correspondent jennifer griffin joins us live with the pentagon with the latest. good afternoon, jennifer. it s very important to reiterate that none of the 8,500 troops on alert by the pentagon would be going to ukraine. none are going to be fighting russian troops, in other words. if they are called up and they haven t been so far, it would be to defend article 5, nato allies like romania, polan
graham, just fill us in, what more do we know about this story? well, as you say, these allegations first appeared in a british newspaper, the sun newspaper. they are spoken to the mother of this teenager, is now 20, but was 17, we understand, in this first started to happen. and the allegation is that the unnamed bbc presenter paid significant sums of money over a period of time for explicit photographs. these allegations are serious, not just ethically or reputationally, but legally, as well, because in british law it is an offence to share, create or possess pictures like that of anyone under the age of 18. and in tomorrow s paper, the sun is giving more details of the kind of things that were allegedly exchanged between the unnamed presenter and the teenager, so, it says that there are pictures of this presenter allegedly in his underwear on the sofa in preparation for a video call. you can see that there are now serious questions being asked about the way the bbc is star
on the first day of the invasion, february 24th, 2022. their obscene reply to russian warnings became a rallying cry, and they were presumed dead when russian troops invaded and captured the island, though it later transpired that the guards had survived. ukraine re took the island four months later. mr zelensky toured the island, laid a wreath and spoke to his nation. translation: dear ukrainians. i wish you good health. today we are on snake island, on our snake island, which will never be conquered by the occupier, like the whole of ukraine, because we are a country of the brave. today we want to our ukrainian heroes, all the soldiers who fought for this island, who liberated it, and although this is a small piece of land in the middle of our black sea, it is a great proof that ukraine will regain every bit of its territory. i want to thank, from here, from this place of victory, each of our soldiers for this 500 days. as ukraine s counter offensive grinds on, the us has c