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with russia, instead of them, giving russia too much influence in a place where britain thought that they should be in charge. so in 1839, the brits invaded afghanistan, they tried to install their own, guy who they had handpicked to run afghanistan. who they thought would make afghanistan more closely aligned with them. the british army state for several years, fighting that war, but in the end that did not work out. the brits left in 1842. but then, 30 5:40 years later, the british army tried again. the brits were freaked out all over again, that a place they thought out to be aligned with them, was actually more inclined toward russia, same thing that has driven them 30 5:40 years before. in so in 1878, the british invaded afghanistan again. and again they installed their own handpicked guy. this time for a hot minute they actually thought they had one. in that afghanistan would have a long term alliance with britain, which is what they were seeking in that first and ....
would make afghanistan closely aligned with them. the british stayed to fight that war, but ultimately it did not work out. the brits left in 1842. but then 35, 40 years later, the british army tried again. the brits were freaked out all over again that a place they thought ought to be aligned with them was actually more inclined with russia, the same thing that had driven them 35, 40 years before. so in 1848, the british invaded afghanistan again. and again they installed their own hand-picked guy, this time for a hot minute they actually thought they had won and that afghanistan would have a long-term alliance with britain, which is what they were seeking in that first and second war. but the guy they installed in the government, he abdicated, and afghanistan went back to its previous ways again and the british left again. how long does it take to forget? it was 35 years between the first war and the second one. it was another 35 or 40 years before they invaded a thir ....
a spokesman, captain bill irvin, adds there were significant secondary explosions from the vehicle which indicated a presence of a substantial amount of explosives. this official said there were no indications of civilian casualties at this time but that assessment could change, we re told. the air strike took place in a crowded kabul neighborhood outside the airport. we re told the u.s. military used this over-the-horizon capability and unmanned drone which means the drone likely flew from a military base in the gulf like the one on friday. i think it s notable the timing of this military strike, it was just as the president chairman of the joint chiefs general mark mille and defense secretary lloyd austin met with families of the fallen at the dover air force base. we re getting more details but right now we can confirm it was a drone strike in the kabul neighborhood and the threat was imminent. howie: the early reports was that it was an explosion near the airport. w ....
service warns the damage from ida could be, quote, catastrophic. hello, welcome to fox news live. i m arthel neville. eric: hi, thank you for joining us with the late breaking news. i m eric shawn. hurricane ida came ashore just before noon local time as a category 4 monster, sustained winds just under category 5, 150 miles per hour. thousands of gulf coast residents have already evacuated, thank goodness, after the warnings the storm could be as bad to make rescues impossible. arthel: and all of this, 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall in louisiana as a category 3, bringing scenes of devastation in new orleans and the gulf coast that quite frankly we wish we could forget. eric: absolutely. can t believe it s only been 16 years for all the storm coverage let s begin in new orleans, jeff paul is there in french quarter with the very latest. jeff. reporter: yeah, eric and arthel, the winds are really starting to pick up. the rain is coming down ....
hello, everyone. welcome to fox news live. i m eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: hi, eric. hello, everyone. i m arthel neville. the national weather service is warning as eric mentioned of catastrophic damage from hurricane ida and that s a quote. the storm set to hit the louisiana coast 16 years to the day after hurricane katrina made landfall. we have live fox team coverage. jeff paul is on the ground in new orleans. first we go to chief fox weather meteorologist rick reichmuth. there will be catastrophic damage from this storm, most of that will be kind of right where the storm comes on-shore and just to the right side of it. take a look at this graphic right here. we ve got the center of the storm making landfall, the inner eyewall is making landfall just to the southwest of grand aisle, about 16% of all the oil that s produced in the u.s. goes through this point right here. they shored it up in recent years to be able to handle a hurricane. a category 4 hurricane ....