Hello and welcome. There is heavy fighting in the southern afghan city of Lashkar Gah, the capital of helmand province. Security forces in two other key Cities Kandahar in the South And Herat in the west are also battling to try to halt the taliban offensive. Thousands of people have been fleeing their homes to other parts of afghanistan and neighbouring countries. Our Correspondent Secunder Kermani is in the capital, kabul. This is the most serious Fighting Weve seen since this latest taliban offensive began. The group already had captured vast swathes of rural territory. Now, theyre trying to take their first city and earlier this evening, they made their way right to the centre of Lashkar Gah before being pushed back by afghan special forces. In the last few hours, a number of Air Strikes have been launched against taliban positions there, too. The fighting, as you say, has also been taking place around herat in the west of Afghanistan And Kandahar in the south. Caught in the middle
Domestic extremists specifically, expanding on a warning issued shortly after president biden took office. This memo says in part, quote, violent extremists may seek to exploit the easing of covid19related restrictions across the united states to conduct attacks against a broader range of targets after previous public capacity limits reduced opportunities for lethal attacks. Think about what s been missing these past 14 months, soft targets, large crowds. Earlier today, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence frank figliuzzi was asked about this potential threat. We have yet to break the connection that radicalize them, to continue to say it was peaceful on january 6th. These were coploving protesters. The election was stolen. We re still doing an audit in arizona. We ll get to the truth someday. Until that connection breaks, we will see people continue down the radicalizization trail. Indeed today house democrats announced a deal on creating a bipartisan commission to in
Despite those efforts today democratic congressman betty thompson, republican congressman john cap ko announced a bipartisan commission to investigate the january 6th attack. The commission will include ten unelected officials, five appointed by democrats and five appointed by republicans. It was modeled after the commission that was established after 9/11. Today house minority leader kevin mccarthy said he did not signoff on the commission but there s a pretty good chance he ll be involved nonetheless. Here s what congresswoman liz cheney said today. Should kevin mccarthy be willing to testify before that commission? after all he s one of the few people we know of was actually talking to donald trump while the attack was taking place. Reporter: he absolutely should, and i wouldn t be surprised if he were subpoenaed. I think that he very cleary and said publicly he s got information about the president s state of mind that day. I would hope he doesn t require a subpoena, but i wouldn t
Commission to investigate the january 6th attack. The commission will include ten unelected officials, five appointed by democrats and five appointed by republicans. It was modeled after the commission that was established after 9/11. Today, house minority leader kevin mccarthy said that he did not sign off on the commission but there is a good chance that he will be involved, nonetheless. Here is what liz cheney said earlier today. Should kevin mccarthy be willing to speak, testified before that commission after all, he is one of the few people who was actually talking to donald trump while the attack was taking place? he absolutely should. I wouldn t be surprised if he would be subpoenaed, he very clearly that he has information about the president s state of mind that a. I would hope that he doesn t require a subpoena, but i wouldn t be surprised if you were subpoenaed. This week luncheon as you know was run out of the republican party leadership because she s refusing to go along w
Extremists may seek to exploit the easing of covid19 relation restrictions across the united states to conduct attacks against a broader range of targets after previous public capacity limits reduced opportunities for lethal attacks. Think about what s been missing these past 14 months. Earlier today, former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence was asked about this potential threat. We ve yet to break the connection that radicalized them. The connection is to trump and lawmakers who continue to say it was peaceful on january 6th. These are cup loving protesters the election was stolen we are still doing an audit in arizona we will get to the truth someday. Until that connection breaks, we will see people continue down the radicalization trail. Nda today house democrats announced a deal on creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the january 6th riot and insurrection. Five republicans, five democrats will serve on the ten person panel with the subpoena power will momen