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announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. thanks so much for joining me this hour. there are certainly new fears the taliban could make moves against afghanistan s capital in just a matter of days. so far the militant group s advances are being met with little resistance. the taliban now control half the country s provincial capitals as you can see from this map, all taken, all taken within the past week. now the country s second largest city kandahar is among the latest to be captured. many observers see that as the beginning of the end for the country s u.s.-backed government. the u.s. embassy in kabul isn t taking any chances, staff are being told to destroy sensitive material while several thousand u.s. troops will be arriving to provide security and possibly evacuate personnel. the pentagon spokesman says afghan forces need to step up their response. take a listen. certainly deeply concerning the speed with which the taliban h ....
of covid. it s august 13th, why conspiracy theorists were wrong about this date and others. good evening. i m erin burnet. three teachers in the same school district died in the span of 24 hours and two more hospitalized this is happen income broward county, florida, right now ground zero for the fight against that state s governor s attempt to ban mask mandates in schools. the school board has defied governor ron desantis as he continues to threaten to cut funding and salaries and the school board kept the mask mandate in place and that s important because all three of the teachers that died were unvaccinated and all three of them were set to teach kids that were too young to get vaccinated. as the mother of three children, two in school i ll be blunt and honest where i stand. it s important to be honest. i think it s wrong for teacher whose are unvaccinated and maskless to be teaching unvaccinated children. thankfully, the kids in broward county, they weren t schedu ....
this week: a special programme. can artificial intelligence make healthcare better for all of us, and save the nhs? here in the uk, the national health service has been in crisis for many years, looking after an increasingly ageing population with complex needs. fighting for resources, it has been at breaking point. and then the pandemic hit. there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope. and indeed, many countries health systems have struggled with the sheer number of covid patients. even those which didn t have people spilling out onto the streets had to put all other treatments on hold. the nhs is an old health system. in fact, it s several different systems that sometimes work together and sometimes don t. and now, it s trying to reinvent itself and embrace technology to beat the queues that covid 19 has created. this is a story i started filming just before the first uk lockdown, when we weren t yet wise to masks or social distan ....
kabul airport. the marine and army forces, about 3,000 in total, will be tasked with what the pentagon spokesman calls a quote, reduction of civilian personnel at the embassy. the those old enough, this might bring back the american departure in 1975 with helicopters on the saigon embassy rooftop. listen to ned price saying this is neither an escalation nor a retreat nor any kind of signal to the taliban. this is not about reengaging militarily in conflict in afghanistan. this is not abandonment. this is not an evacuation. this is not the wholesale withdrawal. what this is is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint so this shouldn t be read as any sort of message to the taliban. whatever it is, however you want to describe it, the american pullout appears to be accelerating from a country if not on the brink of collapse, it s certainly falling. cl clarissa ward is on the ground in kabul. what s the latest you can tell us about the plans the u.s. government ....
retreat nor any kind of signal to the taliban. this is not about reengaging militarily in conflict in afghanistan. this is not abandonment. this is not an evacuation. this is not the wholesale withdrawal. what this is is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint so this shouldn t be read as any sort of message to the taliban. whatever it is, however you want to describe it, the american pullout appears to be accelerating from a country if not on the brink of collapse, it s certainly falling. clarissa ward is on the ground in kabul. what s the latest you can tell us about the plans the u.s. government has put into motion about the american embassy? the situation is really going from bad to worse. 12 provincial capitals now under the control of the taliban. among them, harat, the third largest city in the country. also, kandahar appears to be on the brink of falling. this would be a huge one. it s a strategically important city. also the birthplace of the ta ....