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announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. the taliban are pushing ahead with their offensive in northern afghanistan in their quest to take control of the last holdout for resistance fighters. on sunday, fierce fighting was reported in the panjshir valley with both sides claiming to have made gains. now, the leader of the national resistance front says he supports calls for an end to the fighting and is ready to talk once the taliban withdraw their fighters. meanwhile, a vital lifeline for afghanistan has reopened. the kabul airport is now seeing more domestic flights resume, and on sunday aid planes brought in more than 50 tons of medical supplies and food. and while the taliban have taken a key step in reopening the airport, they still haven t announced what their new government will look like. nic robertson has the details on that. nic. reporter: the taliban are still yet to announce who s going to be in their government. they ....
dose to get into arms. and denmark lifting restrictions as it declares victory over coronavirus. how did they do it? vaccinations. great to have you along with me this hour. we re certainly following new developments out of fags where the taliban are flaming to the have, to have completely captured panjshir. that claim is being denied by the national resist front. they are still in strategic positions across the valley and are continuing to fight. i want to head straight to kabul where our reporter is standing by. good to speak to you. what more do we know about the situation there? we know the taliban released a statement about 90 minutes ago saying they have claimed complete control. they said the valley where they ve been trying to invade for five days now, they said they ve been completely conquered. that is contested by the opposition forces. the opposition forces say they are still have some strategic positions and they say they re also controlling several s ....
and celebrations in guinea after the military takes over in an apparent coup. good to have you with us. the taliban are now claiming to have taken complete control of the last holdout province in northern afghanistan. the panchia province has been the scene of first fighting but the taliban s claim is being denied by the national resistance front. a spokesman told cnn resistance forces are still in strategic positions across the valley and are continuing to fight. meantime, a vital lifeline for afghanistan has reopened. the kabul airport is now seeing more domestic flights resume, and on sunday aid planes brought in more than 50 tons of medical supplies and food. so let s head straight now to kabul where journalist ben farmer is standing by. he joins us now. so ben, we are getting these mixed reports on where things stand in northern afghanistan. what are you learning about who has control in that region after some fierce fighting there? reporter: just in the last f ....
ago and highest since early march. the delta variant still spreading among and killing the unvaccinated. health officials plans to roll out booster shots has hit a hitch. pfizer has passed its study information to the fda but moderna hasn t yet. what you might see is rather than the simultaneous rolling out of the booster program of both dose products, you may be sequential by about a week or two. i don t think that that is a major issue there, but we would have liked to have seen it happen all together simultaneously. the completely avoidable resurgence of covid compounded by fallout from chaotic u.s. withdraw from afghanistan, new concerns over job growth and latest complications facing the president s sweeping infrastructure and social programs. jasmine wright is live in washington. jasmine, a tough summer for the president and the country ending on a tough note. reporter: yeah, certainly not the summer that the president and the white house wanted. and this ba ....
and then today on cnn, the white house chief of staff tried to clarify. did he get ahead of the science by setting the specific date for boosters before the data was? . i think what we said was we would be ready as of the 20th. that was the projection from the senior science team as to when the fda would clear the boosters. i want to be clear. no one is going to get boosters until the fda says they re approved until the cdc advisory committee makes a recommendation. all this as the virus spreads rapidly. virtually all americans live in areas with high levels of community transmission. florida is seeing its deadliest days of this pandemic. the average number of daily deaths reported in florida has broken records for three straight weeks in a row. across the country hospitalizations nearly tripled in july. then doubled in august. and now concerns are growing about the new, new coronavirus variant beginning to circulate. let s begin with that confusion over the boos ....