The pentagon is moving 3,000 marines to afghanistan and another 4,000 troops to evacuate the embassy and u. S. Citizens In Kabul. Here is the urgency to leave afghanistan immediately using available commercial flight options. If you cannot afford to purchase an airline ticket, contact the u. S. Embassy for information regarding a loan. Given the Security Conditions and reduced staffing, the Embassies Ability to assist u. S. Citizens in afghanistan is extremely limited. Even withIn Kabul. There are haunting echoes of the evacuation of saigon in 1975 being voiced by supporters and detractors of the current president and harsh critique of the treatment of our friends and allies in afghanistan. David ignatius boats, for President Biden who had hoped for a orderly withdrawal if fr afghanistan, the chaos carries the image he wanted to avoid. And if the saigon parallels century disturbing enough, the New Yorker offered this, when i spoke on this with experts who have decades of afghan experie
Live Lives Profit driven. And globally connected. Or has this pandemic sparked irreparable change. How will we live in the future. After the pandemic. Hello and welcome to the cove in 1000 special im Stephen Beardsley in berlin well this week were taking a look ahead at life after the pandemic for what it means for cities to economies and even nutrition a recent study has linked higher obesity rates with higher Cova Death rates the World Obesity Federation report says covert death rates were 10 times higher in countries where the population was on average overweight further almost 90 percent of covert deaths occurred in countries with high obesity rates the report calls for people living with obesity to have Priority Access to vaccines. I mean while the pandemic itself has increased Hunger And Malnutrition around parts of the world take brazil for the 1st time a whopping half of brazilians dont have access to safe and nutritious food thats according to reddy pence on a local Food Resea
That is the narrow focus. it is about safeguarding the people there at the airport and also our operations at the airport. and in your briefing today you described the speed with which the taliban is taking over and we ve got a map at how much territory they ve actually taken over. it is concerning. because the intelligence didn t predict it or why is that concerning? it is concerning because for two reasons. one, there is an element of time here. and i mention that earlier. the speed with which they re doing it. certainly that is deeply concerning. but also we re concerned because we re not seeing the level of resittance out of the afghan national security forces that you would expect to see given the advances that the taliban are making. so it is two fold. but i ll tell, it is not like we weren t watching this or aware of this. even before the biden administration took office, the taliban was making advances, certainly that has accelerated in recent weeks. we re not arguing again
President is standing by the decision because he didn t want to send anyone else s son or daughter in to die in afghanistan. we don t go to war to protect women and children. i thought it was an interesting and brutal reality perhaps, but i also wonder if you think it cuts against this president s essential strength, which is empathy and the perception that he cares about everyone? i mean we re now about to witness really likely horrific things happening to some of our closest allies, people who went in and stood alongside american soldiers, american intelligence officials, american state department officials for 20 years. do you think that endangers this president politically? well, i think it is also clear that president biden is where he is today, which is where he has been for the last decade. so in that sense it is not a surprise that this is a strategy that he would embark on in the earliest months of his
The testimony of former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and former u.s. attorney in atlanta, mr. pack, reveal an even stronger portrait of a leader willing to use any means necessary including his own justice department to keep himself in power. in an interview with greg sergeant of the washington post , congressman raskin declined to say whether the select committee will seek to hear from rosen and clark, the doj official who tried to overturn the results, presumably to avoid tipping the committee s hand. but he noted that these new revelations underscore trump s intent on january 6th with fresh clarity. raskin noted a few days ago that trump s pressure campaign on the doj could potentially lead to criminality. we want to get testimony from every material witness. there was clearly a campaign originated with donald trump but sweeping within it the whole executive branch to try to convert the department of justice into an instrument of the president s political will,