Kabul airport. Afghan families desperate to escape the taliban s fanatical rule. They ll run behind you with the ak 47. And boom, boom, boom. Our country is right now is finished. No more afghanistan. After 20 years of fighting. The united states military has begun strikes. The taliban will pay a price. And tens of thousands of of a began and american lives lost. We try not to think about it, because when you think about it, then i get like this. The united states became the latest super power to suffer defeat in afghanistan. We have defeated britishers, and now americans. And a generation of afghans who grew up knowing freedom saw their dreams denied. The taliban reimposed strict islamic law. I came here on this last trip less than two weeks ago, and afghanistan was a republic, backed by the united states. Now it s an islamic emirate, run by the taliban. It did not have to be this way. The united states war in afghanistan started a lot earlier than most people realize. It was in the
President biden says the longterm effects of covid19, socalled long covid will now be recognized as a disability by the federal government and that is as officials within the biden administration announced a new vaccination mandate on the entire va hospital system. Veterans affairs is going to require all docs working in facilities have going to have to be vaccinated. Jennifer did you know that explains whenever a veteran or step foot they deserve to know could we have done everything in our power to protect them from covid19. Covid19 57 groups including the american medical urging vaccination for all healthcare workers and all state employees in california now have a choice. Get vaccinated or wear a mask and get tested. Individual s choice not to get vaccinated is now impacting the rest of us. In new york, workers need to prove vaccination or wear masks and get tested, too. In the city government employee does not wear a mask indoors and they are unvaccinated there unfortunately will
Jones and police chief and michigan gubernatorial candidate james craig on this busy monday afternoon. Looking forward to all of that but first a highly contagious delta variant is bringing back fears of tightened covert restrictions along with concerns of the cdc will recommend a vaccinated americans to put on the masks yet again. I m john roberts on washington. Sandra, great to see you. Sandra: great to be back together again, i m sandra smith in new york. President biden s chief medical advisor dr. Fauci said it s likely that new federal guidance could encourage everyone to wear masks in public again. Places like los angeles county and st. Louis have already taken that step. John: in the following weeks of following vaccination rates the there was actually an uptick in shots over the weekend as the u. S. Grapples with what the cdc is calling it a pandemic the unvaccinated. We start off this monday afternoon at the white house with mark meredith where the biden administration debates
arms a day. this is the nationwide average but there are exceptions, of course. you can see in five states case rates are climbing by at least 10%. more that you from cnn s paulo sandoval. reporter: christine, laura, good morning to you. big picture, covid rates are on the decline across most of the country. 45 states according to johns hopkins university which tracks these numbers saw cases decline or remain relatively steady over the weekend. nationally the u.s. seeing 95,000 new cases throughout the day. it s more than 2 months since it s dipped below that number. that number of infections is still too high and the number of vaccinated americans is still not high enough. he s warning against declaring a premature victory. take a listen. we still have around 68 million people who are eligible to be vaccinated that have not yet gotten vaccinated and even those who have been vaccinated, you want to look forward to holiday season, spending time with your family and doing t
ambassador vasily nebenzya, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. ambassador, i want to begin with some words said recently by the uk foreign minister, david cameron. he said this: the lights are flashing red right across the global dashboard. it is hard to think of a time when there s been so much danger, insecurity, instability in the world. would you agree with him on that? i would. and where do you see the instability at its most dangerous? the most pressing thing today is, of course, the middle east. you cannot deny it. it s obvious. it is a conflict that is fraught with the regional conflagration, potential global conflagration. you see what s happening what has been happening in recent days. you have seen what s been happening in the red sea with the us aggression on yemen, with the recent us plus uk aggression on iraq and syria, the situation on the northern border of israel with lebanon. so, the middle east may explode, unfortunately. i m looking at some of