second lieutenant. she will join us along with her mother who is a brigadier general who witnessed that explosion. they will share their memories 20 years later. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we begin today with our health lead and president biden s message to republican governors looking to challenge his new mandate on businesses to either test or vaccinate their employees. biden saying, quote, have it. the president s new policies will affect about two-thirds of the american workforce or roughly 100 million americans, forcing federal employees and federal contractors and healthcare workers, all of them to get vaccinated, even private businesses with more than 100 employees will need to make sure their workers get weekly testing or get the shot. for context, 75% of u.s. adults already have at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine. biden is talking specifically to the roughly 27% of eligible unvaccinated americans who are the ones keeping this pandemic going
now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london. i m martine croxall. this week, we discuss the unfolding tragedy in afghanistan and we ask do extinction rebellion s two weeks of disruptive demonstrations here in london help or hinder the response to the climate crisis? our guests, the french journalist and commentator marc roche, the north american broadcaster and writer jeffrey kofman and with me in the studio, still suitably distance, is the bbc s chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt. now, justin covered afghanistan for almost four years of course as the bbc s south asia correspondent. he was in a mortar attack by the taliban, so he is well placed to talk to us about the events of this week. welcome to all of you. and so let s start with that then, shall we? on thursday, a suicide bomb attack at kabul airport targeted people desperate to flee the country after the taliban takeover. 90 people were killed, mostly afghan civilians, and 13 us m
hello and welcome to dateline london. i m martine croxall. this week, we discuss the unfolding tragedy in afghanistan and we ask do extinction rebellion s two weeks of disruptive demonstrations here in london help or hinder the response to the climate crisis? our guests, the french journalist and commentator marc roche, the north american broadcaster and writer jeffrey kofman and with me in the studio, still suitably distance, is the bbc s chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt. now, justin covered afghanistan for almost four years of course as the bbc s south asia correspondent. he was in a mortar attack by the taliban, so he is well placed to talk to us about the events of this week. welcome to all of you. and so let s start with that then, shall we? on thursday, a suicide bomb attack at kabul airport targeted people desperate to flee the country after the taliban takeover. 90 people were killed, mostly afghan civilians, and 13 us military personnel. a local branch o
to dateline london. i m martine croxall. this week, we discuss the unfolding tragedy in afghanistan and we ask do extinction rebellion s two weeks of disruptive demonstrations here in london help or hinder the response to the climate crisis? our guests, the frenchjournalist and commentator marc roche, the north american broadcaster and writerjeffrey kofman and with me in the studio, still suitably distance, is the bbc s chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt. now, justin covered afghanistan for almost four years of course as the bbc s south asia correspondent. he was in a mortar attack by the taliban, so he is well placed to talk to us about the events of this week. welcome to all of you. and so let s start with that then, shall we? on thursday, a suicide bomb attack at kabul airport targeted people desperate to flee the country after the taliban takeover. 90 people were killed, mostly afghan civilians, and 13 us military personnel. a local branch of islamic state call
after the taliban takeover. 90 people were killed, mostly afghan civilians, and 13 us military personnel. a local branch of islamic state called is k or isis k said they carried out that attack. throughout the week, about 100,000 people were evacuated but thousands more have been left behind. there is a huge refugee crisis in the making and a possible humanitarian disaster in afghanistan as money runs out and food disappears. it couldn t be much worse, or could it? justin, let s start with you. you know afghanistan well. you used to be in contact regular with the taliban. they are a highly organised group of people but to what extent was it inevitable that afghanistan would fall to them and fall so quickly? well, when i was covering afghanistan, the government held most of the urban centres and the taliban held most of the countryside. so if you just looked at the area of the country controlled by the taliban, it controlled more than the government. and this was in the period