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welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden says us troops might stay in afghanistan beyond his deadline at the end of the month, if more time is needed to get every american out of the country. it comes three days after the taliban takeover, which prompted thousands of people to try to leave. we ll have a full report from there in a moment, but first here s president biden explaining the chaos we ve seen in kabul in the last few days. he s been speaking to us network abc news. when you had the when you had the government when you had the government of when you had the government of afghanistan, the leader of that government getting a plan, taking off to another country, when you saw the significant collapse of the afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them, just leaving their equipment and taking off, that was. . ., ., ,, equipment and taking off, that was. . . ., ,, ., was. that what happened. that is sim -l was. that what h ....
of the singer r kelly, calls him a sexual predator, who groomed and exploited young people. president biden says us troops might stay in afghanistan beyond his deadline at the end of the month, if more time is needed to get every american out of the country. it comes three days after the taliban takeover, which prompted thousands of people to try to leave. here s our north america correspondent, david willis. in correspondent, david willis. the afghan capital, pi scared in the afghan capital, people, scared and desperate are still trying to flee the country. the tell about our coming for me, this girl cries. one of hundreds pressed to the gates of kabul airport in the hope of joining a flight out. president biden continues to blame the chaos on the craven capitulation of the afghan government and conceded it might not be possible to complete the american withdrawal by the deadline in two weeks time. two weeks time. americans should understand - two weeks time. american ....
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secretary, dominic raab, of a dereliction of duty, after reports he declined to phone his afghan counterpart to seek help airlifting interpreters out of afghanistan. but the government has defended his actions. the only problem last week was not a phone call to an afghan government that was melting away and had almost, or didn t have any leverage. the number one challenge at the end of last week was whether the airport would continue to fly, allow planes to fly out, and those people we were getting out, would they be allowed to get out? survivors in haiti ask when is help coming, after saturday s earthquake killed almost 2,000 people. the largest survey of covid infection in the uk has found that both the pfizer and astrazeneca vaccines are still offering good protection against the delta variant. and coming up this hour, as the paralympics get under way next week, one campaign will light up uk landmarks to raise awareness of global disability discrimination. hello and ....
i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. president biden is tripling down on his decision to withdraw american forces from afghanistan by month s end despite the mayhem that has ensued after the taliban took over the country. during a tense interview with abc news, job said he doesn t believe the pullout has failed so far and when asked if it could have been handled better, he said no. biden then suggested the chaos in kabul was inevitable, but that goes against what he said last month. listen here. back in july you said a taliban takeover was highly unlikely. was the intelligence wrong or did you downplay it? i think there was no consensus. you go back and look at the intelligence reports, they said that it was more likely to be sometime by the end of the year. you didn t put a time line out, you just said flat out it is highly unlikely the taliban would take over. yeah. well, the question was whether or not the idea that the taliban would take over was p ....