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a senior taliban official. and what s happened to afghanistan s president ghani? we speak to a former mp who gives fresh detail into the president s final moments in the country. hello and welcome to bbc news. in afghanistan, military flights have resumed at kabul airport a day after the scenes of chaos on monday, as people tried to cling on to a departing us air force plane. india was among those evacuating its personnel from afghanistan early on tuesday. a french military plane also departed. it s now two days since the taliban entered kabul without resistance, meaning they now effectively control the entire country. president biden has strongly defended his decision to withdraw us troops, saying the goals of the us mission in afghanistan had been counter terrorism, not nation building. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams reports. at kabul airport, the exodus of foreigners continues, civilians boarding an indian military flight this morning. after yesterday s chaos, pla ....
gupta. good morning to you. that there is going to be a lot of people, myself included, fully vaccinated and questioning why do we need a third booster shot. you could explain it to everyone? well i think you re asking a very fair question. especially given that just a couple of weeks ago the message seemed to be you re not going to need booster shots this will probably just be for people with weakened immune systems that couldn t generate the proper immune response initially. it is a very fair question. and i will preface this by saying the mass majority of severe disease is still occurring among half of the country that is not vaccinated. so people that are vaccinated, they have really good protection. let me show you what is driving this data that we re seeing here. this was basically looking at vaccine effectiveness against any kind of infection. breakthrough infections and just getting surveillance screening, they did see waning of the vic effectiveness overall. ....
flooding the airport. some dying in the process. bill: the pentagon will brief in 60 minutes and well oh he carry that live. it will work to fly out as many as possible over the coming weeks. that is going to be a proper cities. process. the taliban formed a barrier around the airport, not letting anybody inside a certain area of the perimeter. dana: look at this photo here. more than 600 people crammed into an american airplane headed for qatar. they were told the flight crew let them remain on board. bill: the biden administration arguing it was inevitable. republicans calling that argument absurd. it goes to show how full of crap the administration really are. they are trying to play it both ways. they re trying to say we knew they weren t going to be able to protect things and that s why we were getting out. didn t matter if we stayed a month or year. they didn t care and we see the consequences. we didn t blame them we dealt with them and confronted t ....
don t you understand born in the usa i was born in the usa. hello, happy 4th of july. it is such a beautiful day in america, i am aishah hasnie with raymond arroyo and and lisa boothe. we ll take people to u.s. military academy at westpoint for a live five fire works spectacular. yes, we ll reflect on what it means to be a proud america, and hear from men and women who fought to defend our freedom. we have live fireworks from the nation s capitol, can t miss performances from john rich, lie greenwood and toby keith. we start with independence day across america. any time we get an opportunity to celebrate of being an american that awesome. really exciting this year, to have 4th of july in normal way. importance in times right now we re dealing with to remember those who help keep us safe. as far as i m concerned, the flag represents the most consequencal of all human ideals that is freedom. i m been to a lot of countries in my lifetim ....
has been unveiled. what are your thoughts? i think it is absolutely wonderful and ver sur mer is a wonderful location, on the eastern half of gold beach and then you have gino and saud. every single name carved is wonderful. juno and then sword. this is the first time it is a single memorialfor sword. this is the first time it is a single memorial for everyone sword. this is the first time it is a single memorialfor everyone but there are commonwealth war graves throughout normandy and they are very beautiful and they have been maintained absolutely meticulously ever since the end of the war. it is ever since the end of the war. it is obviously important to remember there has not not been a memorial but they have been scattered. there are 18 british cemeteries. i spoke earlier to one person who does to others around at normandy saying obviously for the veterans when they have gone back to it as been very, very personalfor them to have gone back to it as been very, ve ....