hello and welcome. boris johnson has today set out his autumn and winter plan to deal with covid infections in england the prime minister is desperate to avoid any more lockdowns, the country can ill afford it but he can t rule one out. and so what he outlined today was plan a and plan b should the numbers this winter overwhelm the national health service. to use the analogy of the deputy chief medical officer, mrjohnson thinsk it is much better to attach guy ropes to the tent now, than to try and fit them retrospectively once the storm is upon us. so to that end, there will be booster vaccinations for the over 50 s, one dose of vaccine for the 12 15 year olds, and its highly likely they will mandate vaccines for all health workers. here s our deputy political editor vicki young. adapting to seasonal change means thinking and planning ahead, especially in a pandemic. some things ministers can t control, but the government needs to be ready for the unexpected. borisjohnson
defend the kabul airport where we re seeing frantic scenes like these on your screen. this is civilians flooding the runways, desperate for a way out. some people even chasing and clinging to the side of a u.s. military plane amid reports of gunfire there. after suspending operations for several hours, the u.s. is resuming some flights, thousands of americans still need to be evacuated, and cnn is reporting that any afghans who helped the u.s. in the past 20 years, well, they will have to wait for the moment. we ve got a team of cnn reporters covering this story, some on the ground in kabul, and all following what has unfolded today, so let s start with nick paton walsh who is live for us in kabul. nick, let s start with what s happened at the airport. what is the status of those desperate crowds we saw there? reporter: i think it s fair to say they ve probably diminished to some degree. they were telling people to move back, difficult task, though, essentially, because at
sources tell cnn that president ashraf gone any has fled his country, and in desperation, long lines of afghan citizens are trying to withdraw cash from atms and, if they can, trying to seek flights out of the country. as all of this unfolds, the u.s. is sending more u.s. troops into afghanistan, 5,000 total, to ensure that president biden calls an orderly and safe drawdown. when the president came to office, he had a decision to make. the previous administration negotiated an agreement with the taliban that said that our forces, our remaining forces, only about 2,500, would be out of the country on may 1st. the idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there i think is simply wrong. we have team coverage on the ground in afghanistan and across the globe to bring you all the breaking developments. cnn s nick paton walsh is in kabul. describe what you re seeing as the taliban enters that capital city. reporter: well, again, after hearing t
a booster shot. and the united states is more urban, more multiracial, and less white than ever, new census data triggers a consequential rewrite of our political map. we begin the hour with a crumbling afghanistan, and the question of whether president biden is guilty of a tragic miscalculation. the pentagon is rushing troops to the region to severely evacuate americans at risk of being stranded in the middle of a terrorist advance, that as a stunning taliban takeover continues. afghanistan s second largest city, its third largest city, fifth largest city, half of its provincial capitals fallen this week. the footage is stunning. taliban fighters marching with rpgs in the middle of city streets and parading around in u.s. military equipment. the president is said to be surprised by the pace of the taliban gains but unyielding in his belief withdrawing american troops now is the right call. he insists, despite what is happening in plain sight a taliban takeover is not inevi
committee can do about it. judge for yourself, is it working or not? we think that it is. plus as kids go back to school, how pro covid governors are putting backlash ahead of the health of their constituents. letting my people have freedom. it starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. after a week of breath taking revelations about the scope of donald trump s failed coup plot, the investigation into that plot is accelerating. political reporting, the senate judiciary committee is scheduled to interview former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and former acting deputy attorney general richard donahue in the coming days. based on great reporting and e-mails obtained and released by the house oversight committee it is clear that they were pivotal in stopping part of trump s coup. trump s ally jeffrey clark proposed that they sign a letter to officials in multiple states encouraging their state legislatures to send new electors, overturning the ele