About topic 18 which is Southeast Asian immigrations. If you have within following the news in recent years i imagine that you like me found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a Refugees Experience fleeing Kmunsist Vietnam in 1975 it reminds us of images we might see today. Refugees are suffering in meat trucks. They are crowding on the leaky boats. They are drowning. The bodies of those unable to cross in safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So we are not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the republican response to refugees. And the Refugee Settlement like so many other Topics Today has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, the opposition to refugees has
Who are still there valiantly carrying on in a horrible situation. Here is what the president of the united states said about this shameful tragedy. These american Service Members who gave their lives, its an over used word but totally appropriate here were heroes. The lives we lost today were lives given in the service of liberty, the service of security, the service of others. To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this, we will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down. And make you pay. We will not be deterred by terrorists. We will not let them stop our mission. We will continue the evacuation. But how will it be changed to reduce the risk that this happens again . Now, not since a Chopper Crash in 2011 have we seen death on this scale of our own. 13 dead. 18 others injured, some very badly. 60 afghans may have been killed. More than 100 afghans injured as well. We dont know the real numbers because we dont control the ar
Not allow afghans to leave. Members of the group are telling the thousands of afghans at Kabul Airport to go home. Here is what a taliban spokesman said today. Quote, the afghans leaving, we are not going to allow that and we are not even happy about it, end quote. So the pressure is on to accelerate those evacuations. The pentagon says a plane is now departing kabul every 45 minutes. The u. S. Military and Coalition Forces evacuated an unprecedented 21,600 people from the Kabul Airport in just the last 24 hours. But pentagon officials still are not giving an exact number of americans who have gotten out. A source tells Cnn An Internal report shows 4,293 u. S. Citizens have been flown out of afghanistan since the flights began. Cnns nick Paton Walsh is in doha following the evacuees. Cnns Oren Lieberman is at the pentagon. We will start this hour with Cnns Phil mattingly at the White House. What are we expecting to hear from the president in a few minutes . Reporter guys, i think you w
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