Across the country. Do i trust the taliban . No, but i trust the capacity of the Afghan Military who is better trained, better equipped and more competent in terms of conducting war. Lets begin with afghanistan and nbc national Security Correspondent Courtney kubiak at the pentagon. Good to see you. Taliban leaders are selling themselves to the afghan people as basically an inevitably that they will inevitably take over. How strong they are and how fast theyre advancing. Most afghans dont want that inevitability. They dont want the taliban to take over, but they may not necessarily have that choice. The reality is the taliban have been taking over large parts of the Country And Theyve been doing it very quickly. Its been a contested country for 20 years now. So its not a surprise that whomever is controlling one area moves back and forth in various hand, but whats been surprising to the Defense Officials and military officials who have been speaking about this recently is just the spee
it is a law that voting rights advocates say overtly targets minority residents in georgia, making it harder for them to vote. remember, voters in georgia not only flipped their state from red to blue in november s presidential election, they also voted out their two gop senators and replaced them with democrats in a january runoff election. critics of georgia s governor accuse him of creating this law to restrict voting. president biden does not disagree. it s an atrocity. the idea if you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness or decency, they pass a law saying you can t provide water for people standing in line while they re waiting to vote? you don t need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. you can t provide water for people about to vote. give me a break. president biden is referring to one part of this new voter access law that makes it a crime to provide food or water to people waiting
in a bomb attack on a military bus in the syrian capital of damascus, in the city s worst attack for years. a leaked report from brazillian lawmakers says the country s president, jair bolsonaro, should be charged with murder over his handling of coronavirus. the uk s biggest study into severe sickness during pregnancy finds many women consider terminating their pregnancy because of the condition. they said i could have cracked a rib or torn and intercostal muscle from being sick so much, and that is when they started to take note. it s now a month since a volcano on the spanish island of la palma first erupted, and officials say there are no signs of the lava and ash stopping. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. health leaders are demanding the immediate reintroduction of some covid restrictions in england to avoid the nhs stumbling into a winter crisis . the nhs confederation says a sharp rise in cases means measures, rise in cases means mea
latest on the volcano eruption in the canary islands, as fears grow that lava flowing into the sea could create dangerous gases. hello and welcome to the programme. at a virtual summit on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly, president biden asked world leaders to pledge to vaccinate 70% of the world s population against covid 19 by september next year. he said america would buy an additional 500 million doses of the pfizer vaccine, to donate to poorer countries. research underlines a stark contrast richer countries have vaccinated much of their populations, while poorer ones are lagging far behind. our health editor hugh pym has more details. wealthier nations are pushing on with boosterjabs, but it s a different story in low income countries in africa and around the world, where vaccination rates are much lower. that divergence has been criticised by the world health organization, and there ve been growing calls for more vaccine doses to be diverted to tho
external factors that you don t get to control, like the weather. so lots of things go into making a decision about when you execute a raid of this complexity and this danger. and there were a lot of factors that had to line up to be just right. you have to make sure that your intelligence is solid and that the individual that you re going after is, in fact, at the location you believe him to be and that all the external factor s, not just the weather, but the ability to operate at that particular time of day and have enough visibility. all those things factor in. so it was a multiple factors. it all came together such that this was the best window to execute this mission. and i would remind you that it s not like we were just sitting on our hands for those months. as you probably saw in the secretary s statement, these special operations forces conducted dozens of rehearsals to make sure that they could get this exactly right. okay. mike breast. hi, mr. kirby. i m hoping y