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"Media we've got tips First news Live from NPR news on Barbara Klein The U.S. continues to report a record number of coronavirus cases amid the rapid spread of the uma cron variant yesterday brought an all time high of nearly 500,000 confirmed infections and piers Michelin du clef reports hospitalizations have also increased but nowhere near as much as cases have In the past week COVID cases have risen about 75% largely because of the new omicron variant which spreads very fast But hospitalizations have gone up only about 12% Doctor Roby botta chariot Harvard Medical School says this difference makes the Omar crown variant look like it causes less severe disease But for people who aren't vaccinated did you suggest omicron is just as severe as earlier variants of the virus It's still going to find people who don't have immunity And in fact I think it's going to find them faster just because it spreads faster That's in the long run by says the U.S. could have more hospitalizations during the search than this initial data suggest And PR news The Texas juvenile Justice Department is requesting help from the state's National Guard amid fresh coronavirus outbreaks Paul flav of Texas public radio reports More than two dozen staff at 5 secure youth detention sites in Texas have been diagnosed with COVID-19 facilities that have been criticized in the past for under staffing The Justice Department launched an investigation into these facilities in October The Texas juvenile Justice Department requested help from emergency managers to keep staffing about minimum levels the Texas National Guard says it provided a half dozen guard members per 12 hour shift at two of the state's facilities Tuesday with more help coming to other facilities later this week state juvenile justice officials say guards will assist and transportation meal service medical assistance and supply runs but will not deal directly with youth I'm Paul flav and San Antonio President Biden is talking with Russian president Vladimir Putin on the foam this hour The White House says Putin requested the call as tensions mount over Russia's troop build up on the Ukraine border Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani says his decision to flee his country in August when coalition forces were pulling out was last minute just after his security forces told him they could no longer protect him or the capital Kabul Ghani who's now in exile in the UAE says he understands being blamed for Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban The blame is totally understand what they rightly claim They have a total right as I trusted in our international partnership In pursuit that all of us made a huge mistake in assuming that the patients of that national community would last Ghani spoke on BBC This is NPR From W ABE news in Atlanta good afternoon.
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"You G is a symbol More coming up This is Bloomberg Yeah I'm Nathan Hager and the Bloomberg 99 one newsroom in Washington checking our top stories of the morning Airline cancellations are piling up once again this day before New Year's Eve with COVID climbing and heavy snow piling up out west Flight aware dot com says more than a thousand flights have been scrubbed as of this morning including about 17% of JetBlue's schedule and 8% of united Michael osterholm with the university of Minnesota center for infectious research and policy says this record oh Macron wave maybe just the beginning What we're seeing right now though is a very different part of the pandemic than we've seen in those past two years And that is with omicron we are going to see a viral blizzard over the next 5 to 8 weeks in this country Doctor Michael osterholm at the university of Minnesota President Biden has a phone call set for this afternoon with Russian president Vladimir Putin It will be their second talk this month Bloomberg's Amy Morris reports from Washington The Kremlin says Putin saw a need to talk to President Biden before next month's talks with the U.S. and then later with NATO Gleb pavlovsky is a former Kremlin political adviser and tells Bloomberg news the move could indicate Putin's desire to reach a new level of relations with the west and achieve deescalation This as U.S. and European allies are alarmed that Russia could invade Ukraine as early as next month something Russia denies in Washington I'm Amy Morris Bloomberg radio Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani says he had no choice but to flee Kabul last summer in an interview with the BBC Ghani says an adviser gave him just minutes to abandon the capital before the Taliban swept in and he denies widespread accusations that he left with millions in stolen cash Global news 24 hours a day on air.
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on Sky News Daily
"That's why we would not panic mood. In august the ousted afghan president ashraf ghani dismissed as lies claims that he fled kabul with a helicopter full of cash. We have to take taleban into different categories. Because has i always said that taliban not an a different group. Alabama are not united. They are separated their committees. So so that's why we have to see which taleban you're talking with which taliban is going to rule carbon so covered will have different mentality and maybe a not side eastern side west side. Intimate me another pal. So that's why we have to see problems by problems and the tile which is a doha. I'm hopeful that they have seen the word now. Their kids went to go to school. They're getting good. Education has far. Has i know that so the day came to come and be. I'm hopeful for those taliban melas af team. So how optimistic are you. See ultimately eventually you might just be able to go back yourself and take your daughter's there to grow up and their education in afghanistan cayman see and has had has. I am here in these days. I've looked into it very closely. Talk with them. I have connection that he has to sit down and talk. How much genuine. The regarding the fi men on women's rights are human rights. Fortunately now internet media is very open and so fast nothing. They can hide things they were doing before. Become hide now because everything will come up.
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"We turn out to afghanistan. it's been one month. Since the taliban seized control of kabul after afghan president ashraf ghani fled the country on tuesday. Us secretary state. Tony blinken defended the us withdraw from afghanistan during second day of questioning on capitol hill blinken was grilled about a us drone strike in kabul on august twenty ninth. It's the last drone strike before the withdrawal the pentagon claim the strike targeted a facilitator with the militant group isis k. Who is preparing to attack the kabul airport but local residents said the strike killed ten afghan civilians including seven children and zamora ahmadi not an isis k. Operative but an afghan engineer who had worked since two thousand six for the california based charity group nutrition and education international. The pentagon claims surveillance. Video showed semari loading what they thought. Were explosives into a car at an unknown compound earlier in the day but video evidence obtained by the new york times found. Mari was actually loading canisters of water at the charities office to deliver to those in need the pentagon's described the drone attack as a righteous strike but on tuesdays secretary state blink and acknowledge the. Us is not certain who was targeted question by republican. Senator rand paul the guy. The biden administration drone was in aid worker or an isis k. Operative the administration is of course reviewing that strike..
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"We turn out to afghanistan. it's been one month. Since the taliban seized control of kabul after afghan president ashraf ghani fled the country on tuesday. Us secretary state. Tony blinken defended the us withdraw from afghanistan during second day of questioning on capitol hill blinken was grilled about a us drone strike in kabul on august twenty ninth. It's the last drone strike before the withdrawal the pentagon claim the strike targeted a facilitator with the militant group isis k. Who is preparing to attack the kabul airport but local residents said the strike killed ten afghan civilians including seven children and zamora ahmadi not an isis k. Operative but an afghan engineer who had worked since two thousand six for the california based charity group nutrition and education international. The pentagon claims surveillance. Video showed semari loading what they thought. Were explosives into a car at an unknown compound earlier in the day but video evidence obtained by the new york times found. Mari was actually loading canisters of water at the charities office to deliver to those in need the pentagon's described the drone attack as a righteous strike but on tuesdays secretary state blink and acknowledge the. Us is not certain who was targeted. One question by republican senator rand paul the guy. The biden administration drone was an aide worker or an isis k. Operative the administration is of course reviewing that strike. And i'm sure that a full assessment will be will be you don't know if it was an aid worker or an isis k. Operative i can't speak to that and i can't speak to that setting in any event so you won't tell us i don't i don't know because we're reviewing we'll see you'd think you'd kind know before you off somebody with a predator drone whether he's an aid worker or he's an isis k. See the thing is is. This isn't just you. It's been going on for administration after administration..
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"We turn out to afghanistan. it's been one month. Since the taliban seized control of kabul after afghan president ashraf ghani fled the country on tuesday. Us secretary state. Tony blinken defended the us withdraw from afghanistan during second day of questioning on capitol hill blinken was grilled about a us drone strike in kabul on august twenty ninth. It's the last drone strike before the withdrawal the pentagon claim the strike targeted a facilitator with the militant group isis k. Who is preparing to attack the kabul airport but local residents said the strike killed ten afghan civilians including seven children and zamora ahmadi not an isis k. Operative but an afghan engineer who had worked since two thousand six for the california based charity group nutrition and education international. The pentagon claims surveillance video showed murray loading what they thought were explosives into a car at an unknown compound earlier in the day but video evidence obtained by the new york times found. Mari was actually loading canisters of water at the charities office to deliver to those in need the pentagon's described the drone attack as a righteous strike but on tuesdays secretary state blink and acknowledge the. Us is not certain who was targeted question by republican. Senator rand paul the guy. The biden administration drone was an aide worker or an isis k. Operative the administration is of course reviewing that strike. And i'm sure that a full assessment will be will be. I don't know if it was an aid worker or an isis k. operative. I can't speak to that and i can't speak to that setting in any event so you won't tell us i don't. I don't know because we're reviewing well see you'd think you'd kind know before you off somebody with a predator drone whether he's an aid worker or he's an isis k. See the thing is is. This isn't just you. It's been going on for administration after administration..
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"We turn out to afghanistan. it's been one month. Since the taliban seized control of kabul after afghan president ashraf ghani fled the country on tuesday. Us secretary state. Tony blinken defended the us withdraw from afghanistan during second day of questioning on capitol hill blinken was grilled about a us drone strike in kabul on august twenty ninth. It's the last drone strike before the withdrawal the pentagon claim the strike targeted a facilitator with the militant group isis k. Who is preparing to attack the kabul airport but local residents said the strike killed ten afghan civilians including seven children and zamora ahmadi not an isis k. Operative but an afghan engineer who had worked since two thousand six for the california based charity group nutrition and education international. The pentagon claims surveillance. Video showed some loading what they thought were explosives into a car at an unknown compound earlier in the day but video evidence obtained by the new york times found. Mari was actually loading canisters of water at the charities office to deliver to those in need the pentagon's described the drone attack as a righteous strike but on tuesdays secretary state blink and acknowledge the. Us is not certain who was targeted. One question by republican senator rand paul the guy. The biden administration drone was an aide worker or an isis k. Operative the administration is of course reviewing that strike. And i'm sure that a full assessment will be will be you don't know if it was an aid worker or an isis k. Operative i can't speak to that and i can't speak to that setting in any event so you won't tell us i don't i don't know because we're reviewing we'll see you'd think you'd kind know before you off somebody with a predator drone whether he's an aid worker or he's an isis k. See the thing is is. This isn't just you. It's been going on for administration after administration..
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on John and Ken on Demand
"Remembers it. So here's the Response from the tree of life. What's this person's name. Barb five executive director of the tree of life said biden did not visit the synagogue in the nearly three years since the anti-semitic attack it did not happen. She said they go well. They remember joe biden. It showed showed up I just looked up. Because i remember when he was running and Earlier trump had go there three days after the shooting when he was running in august twenty nineteen. There was a story new hampshire. He painted a vivid scene Four hundred people in packed college meeting hall a claims. He claimed a four star general at ask then vice president to travel to the cone our province in afghanistan a dangerous trip to recognize the remarkable heroism of a navy captain. Some told him. It was too risky but by city brushed off their concerns. We can lose the vice president. He said we can't lose any more of these kids. Not a joke and So the general wanted biden been a silver star on this navy captain and he talked about the captain said sir i want the damn thing. Do not pin it on me sir. Please sir do not do that. He died he died referring to the guy who's trying to save. That is the god's through truth biden said as he told the story. My word is abiding except almost every detail in. The story appears to be incorrect based on interviews with more than a dozen. Us troops their commanders. Biden campaign officials appears though that the former president for a vice president had jumbled elements of three events into one story of bravery. That never happened. He visited there as a us. Senator not as vice president and he got all the details wrong in the wrong people in three minutes. He got the time period. The location the heroic act the type of metal the military branch and the rank of the recipient all wrong as well as his own role in the serra body. I would have to believe that. This was off the cuff today because most of the stuff he's doing now is on a teleprompter that he just reads from. But i doubt anybody would have typed up that. He visited the tree of life synagogue. If he ever went. I think and i think it was just something that came to him. That sounded great. This guy comes from the pre internet age where you could easily check anything you know the way stuff. And who knows the way the way people used to campaign. Is you go from town to town or state to state and say whatever you wanna say because you only have mostly the local media and they can't fact check something that you said differently in another town or another state the week before and and that's that's what they did because there was no way to now so people used to tell all kinds of crazy stories just in the room to make an emotional connection emotional connection. Then you're much more likely to get the vote. You say something really moving about a heroic naval captain who actually didn't exist but hey what the hell you make you make that emotional kick because there was that there was not a sound in the room and buying told that story everybody bought it. He sold it really. Well we're still trying to get americans out of afghanistan. Is one story tonight that the person trying to get over afghanistan went to one of the taliban government places and said he was there on request the state department and was told by a guard. F the state department the. Us date when we come back. We have a couple of clips. We wanna play you. Jen psaki who was the white house. Press secretary apparently she was asked about the phone. Call transcript obtained by reuters. It was joe biden talking to the former afghan president ashraf ghani and telling ghani directly no matter what the taliban is doing what the truth is make it sound like you guys are winning all about tainting the perception. We'll talk about it coming up. John and ken. Kfi john and ken show kfi am six. Forty live everywhere on the iheartradio app. Slide is tomorrow one your final reminders. To leave a message. One eight seven seven moist eighty six. That's one eight seven seven six six four seven hundred sixty play those calls at around five twenty and five fifty. We're biden ville. We are well wanted to play back this from yesterday. The big story yesterday from reuters says that they obtained a transcript of a july twenty. Third phone call that biden had with the former. Afghan president ashraf ghani. That's the guy that allegedly flew off in the helicopter with piles of cash anyway back. On july twenty third biden was urging gaudy to change the perception of the news about the fight against the taliban at that point they were just city by city retaking the country but biden wanted the president to say otherwise in talking about it he wanted. He wanted the public impression to be that. The afghan army was holding off the taliban that they were winning the battle. And that's what that's what biden waterproof wanted to project here. He wanted to lie to us and he wanted ghani to lie than anybody. Listening afghanistan and the basis for the last impeachment against trump was his phone call with the ukrainian leader. Well here's jen psaki. The white house spokes whole responding to the question. But i'm not going to get into private diplomatic conversations or leaked transcripts of phone calls But what i can reiterate for you is that we have stated many times that no one anticipated The vast majority. I should say there may have been individuals and agencies so i don't want to eliminate that option but our national security team and no one in congress or i would say most people out in the public anticipated that the taliban would be able to take over the country as quickly as they did or that the afghan national security forces would fold as quickly as they did so even the content of the reporting is consistent with what we've said many times publicly also note something that the president said in his press conference Around the same time of this reported phone call. The afghan government in leadership has to come together. They clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place. The question is will they generate the kind of cohesion to do it. And what the president conveyed publicly and certainly privately as well repeatedly to afghan leaders as did our national security officials is that it's important that the leaders in afghanistan do exactly that lead and show the country that they are ready to continue to the fight against the taliban that they have the will for the afghan national security forces to continue that fight. So it's like a morale-booster i mean. This is how propaganda works. This is like the russian news agency pravda. Tell the people something different than what's happening. Tell him that we're that we're we're we're repelling. The taliban they're not taking our country back we need a morale-booster you lie to them side and tried to get ghani to lie and ghani told him. Look we're in trouble here. All we gave them the numbers about taliban coming over the words. I'm not lie. It i need you to help me. I need more troops here. I don't even know what went out. So the the president. The afghan president knew that a lot of soldiers already abandoning their posts by the wella ban. Ran right through them all that diarrhea she spewed. Why is it that everybody in the. Us government didn't know that the afghan army was losing was weak and was about to flee. How do you not know that. How is that possible to light. Twenty-third just a few weeks. Later they had the whole country we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on intelligence agencies. And not one guy picked up that The.
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on Pat Gray Unleashed
"Gone what we're gonna do when he's gone. Yeah there's no good old stuck with no good answer to that. O'connell canada yes. That's right and then kind of a campaign with candidate with him. We'll be back a policy that we stuck over cal. Yeah there's no good option here appreciate it. Thanks there's no. There's no good option as far as president until twenty twenty four. They're now what they will. I think what they might angle to do if they see that. Definitely the handwriting's on the wall biden's gotta leave somehow get kamala harris fired from the vice presidency and bring somebody else in because they know she's super unpopular and maybe they'll try to groom somebody for twenty twenty four. Who's in that position. I don't know but it'll probably just be common. No what's by leave. There is no good option here. There's no good You got you know. Biden harris pelosi as he mentioned. It's not mcconnell next. It's not which is patrick leahy right now i mean there's nowhere to try and then then then you get into the fourth senate pro tem right. And then v is the cultural terrier when no then they go in the order that the office was established the cabinet positions establishment secretary state. Which would be anthony blinken. And that's terror. Oh no then. Janet yellen no lloyd austin after. That merrick garland and then deb secretary of interior than tom vilsek and then a bunch of people. You knew marcia. Fudge is forgot about urban development. Maher's show bug pete. Buddha judge marcia fudge from the harry potter series on my kids my kids if they were listening to fester fun. Yeah for sure. I think you're right. Yeah yeah yeah. But does the characters name. Cornelius krylya close. Hey peter in florida hi. You're on the blaze with Buying action for the billions of dollars for reconstruction. that's really not gonna go towards rebuilding afghanistan. 'cause there is really no afghanistan left Alabama i think we're our own on nine eleven attack. Jeez frightening thought Thanks peter i certainly hope not but how do you discount that with with these incompetent buffoons in office. You can't you can't discount that david maryland. You're on the blaze high. You bad day. the Was that you guys to the point of that several months ago about tom. Hanks saying that he doesn't respect the man. What a mask. And then he like those down to australia and infects everybody right. Well only ninety people or whatever. It was only nine right only nine news. Sun is apparently turned out so much. How'd that happen. Keep up keep up the good work all right. Thank you appreciate it. Thanks to his son was making some serious sense though. Yeah the apple. Did fall away from the tree which was great because his son was on fire this week. I love the with the. I got the vaccination psych psych reference too often not anymore. Yeah i mean. That's that's thirty. Years ago i like to hear that Triple eight nine hundred thirty three ninety-three speaking of of afghanistan we got a mean making the rounds here meaningful. Yeah we the original taliban okay and budget photos. Twenty years ago photos from twenty years ago and then the cia trained taliban which is another photo of of them but this time they don't have their fingers on the trigger gun yes twenty years ago when we first encountered the taliban and they had their finger on the trigger. Not gun safety. No i mean i. Target pro people be upset but now that their ci training now they know not to put their finger on the trigger until the ready to fire and then at the bottom no the different the difference. Yeah good so well we did. We did make a difference in afghanistan and we got that going for us Former afghan president ashraf ghani has fled the country of cries with a hundred and sixty nine million dollars. Say what it is cash stuffed helicopter. I wanted to take more than that. But he didn't have room. He literally didn't have room for all the cash he stole from. Was that problem. He's been given asylum in dubai on humanitarian grounds. Okay good for him. Yeah and you got a little money. Now there's a little line in that story their pet. What does it say. He was forced to leave some of the money behind as it would not all fit on the flight right okay so that stories out there then. There's video circulating that Well look at look at what was left behind here. I don't know if this is that money that didn't fit on the plane. But oh my gosh look at this. Those are hundreds. Those are stacks of hundred dollar bills. My god his piles and piles and piles of money. Oh my gosh all for the taliban now unless you think it's just one hundred dollar bills on the top we're gonna show you. Let's make sure there's not what's happening solid hot one hundred and solid benjamins right there. I okay shirt out air it is. There's the money yeah. Us dollars congratulations. Somebody's got hundreds of millions of dollars right there and that will go to pay terrorists in afghanistan that will probably fan out across the world and assault single western way of life. Just threw up a little bit in my mouth right there. You think of all the americans who could could use a portion of that right mean rather than squander it leaving it for the taliban but that does what if you put that to use here. In the united states of america now again we don't know for a fact that that money is what the president was trying to get out of there the afghan president But just the fact that the dude had one hundred sixty nine million dollars plus the shows you that. Hey maybe you're citizens could've used that bro. Come up with one hundred sixty nine million dollars. You must have invested really well. No no no no no. I wish that were the answer. That would be your paycheck in mine. Of course it is. Yeah of course it. Whatever money we sent to afghanistan just ended up at the presidential palace and so clearly there was some serious corruption to begin with which you know i mean obviously the taliban is going to be a hell of a lot worse but what was going on there before wasn't good either wasn't good guys. He's got so much money in. Us cash that he can't get it all on his helicopter. Unbelievable really unbelievable. Triple eight nine hundred thirty three ninety three. Still we've got leftists like stephen colbert. Who are still so hung up on the january. Sixth capital riot. Gosh that compare. What's going on in afghanistan To what happened on january. sixth this. he's right. We've had troops there for twenty years they fought. They sacrificed their families sacrifice. So that we wouldn't have a terrorist attack in america planned in a foreign country. Why should our soldiers fighting radicals in a civil war in afghanistan. We've.
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
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The pesticide is used by farmers on more than fifty fruit. Nuts cereal and vegetable crops and the acclaimed italian surgeon. Dr genus strata has died at the age of seventy. Three strana was the founder of the medical aid group emergency which provides assistance to civilian victims of war. He worked enough coniston in iraq yemen rwanda and other countries in two thousand fifteen. He won the right livelihood. Award deadly disease has to be prevented and cute. Violence is not the right medicine. It does not cure the disease accused. The patient will listen to. War is first indispensable step in this direction to see our two thousand five interview with dr gino strada visit democracy now dot org and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the warring piece report i mean goodman with democracy now is ner means shea hi nermeen hi amy and welcome to listeners and viewers across the country and around the world. Today we spend the hour on ghanistan where protesters have taken to the streets for a second day in a row in defiance of the taliban which seized control of the country sunday protests have been held in kabul and other cities today tomorrow afghan independence day al zero reports to people died in the city of asadabad after the taliban opened fire on protesters waving the afghan national flag. This comes a day after. The taliban killed three protesters in jalalabad on wednesday ousted. Afghan president ashraf ghani spoke publicly for the first time since fleeing kabul he spoke from the united arab emirates. Ghani said he left to prevent more bloodshed. All my colleagues in the west told me that. If i don't leave things would be worse. I could have stayed and started to war. But i had a responsibility to my people. And i didn't want to start a bloodbath. Like in syria and yemen donny. Said if he had not left afghanistan quote the people of the country would have seen another president hanging on the news of cerium. This comes as president biden says. Us troops will stay in afghanistan until every americans evacuated even if that means staying beyond his august thirty first deadline evacuation. Flights are continuing from the kabul airport. But the taliban's preventing many afghans from reaching the airport with some being shot or whipped. A student in kabul told reuters. No women could be seen on the streets. After the taliban took control of the city are not a out. Theft of from homes. Dale items are two days. I i don't see Any negotiating the street state in. They are afraid that they are scared. Sullivan for more. We're joined by three afghan women who have fled their country. One left in two thousand seventeen one left last month but was planning to return and one left friday just for brief visit to the united states. Let's begin with nasseri nawa. She was in kabul until friday and joins us from lincoln nebraska where. She's a fulbright scholar at the university of nebraska. She's a former journalist with bbc. Persian based in kabul and her piece published monday in the washington. Post is titled. Taleban nightmare came true. I left but my sister couldn't in it. She writes quote since before. I left kabul a few days ago. I keep having the same nightmare. My sister running sweating bleeding followed by taliban fighters on the streets of kabul then. The nightmare came true now screen now while your sister is journalists like you tell us what happened to her on sunday after the taliban seized control and since then she was out of the house like so many other people in kabul because every mos- so to fight in the spirit to complete some official documents and apply for visas for in other countries. My sister was Bank to take some money but defined refused to to get their money almost two days before their take over that Bags didn't have enough money. So we we were actually facing with Difficult things that we were singing. Something bad is happening but not social satan than they get the power by my sister here that everyone is shouting of taliban came and you should run away so she starts running to a house and she cannot find her way out of that crowd and she's so scared and crying so finally. She finds her way to the apartment but at the house. Just my family is coming. They they will start killing people right now at Be something in easy comb so and they tried to call people to help my sister get out of the country ag- moments and it failed because light got cancelled. And can you talk about what her situation is. Now and all the other people you know of who are trying to leave a gobbled trying to leave lana son. They are totally hopeless in the stuck at their houses. They don't dare to go out Provoking something and the only hope is right. Now that the normal life resumed enough ghanistan the start number flights that everyone can use it because not everyone can get that emergency opportunity that the united states offer to offer to owner able people in afghanistan of my sister just told me an hour ago did receive guests from City in other province They hair that you can just go out by reaching to the airport but but it's not easy At our house and they cannot find their way to airport taliban. Don't allow anyone at it. It's it's just violence.
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Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Emerges in the UAE
"United Arab Emirates says it is accepted former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his family for humanitarian considerations. Ghani fled Afghanistan just as the Taliban approach Kabul Statement, carried by the U. S State run news agency did not say where Ghani was in the country.
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on Post Reports
"Making sure that they didn't get into the hands of the taliban women. The taliban has been taking some american weapons for years. So maybe they figured that was more of the same. But you're asking a really great question here which is you know. Why didn't he take steps to sort of make the pull out. Not as terrible as it became. You know. I think on one hand you know you saw the president trying to frankly paint a very rosy picture and offer an assessment about the likelihood that the afghan forces would stand up. That was very much not in keeping with the advice. He seems to have been getting at least from his intelligence agencies so when the president does that is he putting spin on things is he not understanding what he's hearing is he misleading the public. Because he doesn't want to you know kind of own the disaster or make it seem as dire. I dunno. i suspect we'll we'll find that out so now that the us is essentially going to be dealing with an afghanistan that is run by the taliban. How does that change our national security risks. As a country i think at arguably increases them significantly. I mean we are. The united states is putting a big bet on the taliban acting as i guess what we would call in relative terms a responsible actor which is to say not allowing afghanistan to become a safe haven for terrorist groups the way it was before the september eleventh attacks whether they will make good on that commitment remains be seen and i think that's really the big one big question we don't have a force nef ghanistan right now. We don't have an embassy in afghanistan right now which means we're not we don't have. Cia personnel on the ground running spies running agents. We're gonna have a really hard time collecting intelligence from within the country. We're going to have to rely on satellite imagery on communications intercepts. We're going to try and do this. Counter terrorism mission from afar. That's gonna be really hard so really the future of afghanistan and our security there. An intentional thrust us really rests with. I think what the taliban decides to do and how aggressive the united states is going to be encountering any threats like if we see terrorist camps rebuilding portions of afghanistan. Do we go in and take them out. We bomb them. Do we send in special operations forces to kind of get in and get out. I think you could expect that the administration would do that. And they're betting that the taliban knows they would and will potentially take steps to make sure that those terrorist groups don't set up base there but we're gonna have to see what happens. I also wanna talk a little bit more about the afghan president ashraf ghani who essentially fled the country over the weekend. Even hearing president biden. Talk about president ghani's departure. I feel like you could sense some animosity there or frustration or disappointment that this president did not stay in place to try to lead his country. And in fact that was part of biden's argument for you know. Look if the afghans are not going to do the work to try to keep their country intact like why are we gonna stay there but i wonder like what role does ghani playing this and also we're is he like. What do we know about the circumstances under which he fled and why he is not in the country. I'm not sure where he is right now. I believe i've seen reports that he's in a neighboring country Yeah the anger from president. Biden was palpable against you know ghani and by extension the political leadership of kenniston who he sees as essentially abandoning the country afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The afghan military collapsed sometime without trying to fight again. This is in the category of things that we really need to know more about. But i find it very telling that he left as quickly as he did. I mean it. Almost felts negotiated in a way. I'm not saying that it was but we've seen reports. I should say provincial. Officials striking deals with the taliban in advance them coming into their cities and basically just handing over the keys. This was really a question to for the white house. I mean the you know the leader to leader communication. Did we not understand that he was going to pack up and go or did we know if we had a sense that he was going to leave this quickly. That might have been a tell for us because once the president of afghanistan left. I mean that was the signal that effectively the the game was over that the taliban was going to face no real resistance and when they came into kabul. But i should say to. You know the this kind of dim view that president biden and others have of ashraf. Ghani i mean this really goes. I think for a lot of the political class afghanistan over the years. I mean you're talking about a government where corruption has been endemic. And i think you know. A generation of us officials have just been very clear light and skeptical about their ability to to maintain a country absent us presidents and assistance. So in that sense. I don't know that anybody had a lot of hopes that ghani was going to try. And you know hold down the ford fight to the bitter end. But what i also find. You know so remarkable about this moment is that it's almost like it's it's so hard for us as americans to believe that. An american president would knowingly walk away from a country understanding that it was just going to descend indicate loss and be overtaken by militant fundamentalists. But that's what happened. I mean he knew that this would occur. Think it's hard for a lot of americans to swallow this right now. The idea that knowing how likely it was that things would go very badly that he still made the decision to go. But he's been very frank about that in his comments and it's just it's it's so stunning for me to see. I think because it's so at odds with what three successive american presidents have told us there which is that you know. There were hopeful about the mission. You know we're trying to build stability. We're trying to get the government to a place where it can stand on its own. I mean what we're finding now. Is that free years. People have privately understood that that was not likely to be the case. And you know it's striking to hear an american president basically say you know. Come on quick hitting yourself like we're going and he is stuck by.
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"Afghan army is quickly losing ground throughout the country to the taliban now to bolster its flagging military. The government is arming militias to help in the fight and by the way it should be said. This was the expectation the expectation was that if the us left afghanistan and foreign troops also left that the taliban would do a takeover right. This isn't the surprising part. The surprising part is the speed. And that's what's caught everyone off guard. They started by taking a parental capital zaranj. Just over a week ago right. The taliban have captured the capital of afghanistan's nimruz province as they step up their across the country earlier in the day gunman shot and killed the head of the afghan government's media and inflammation and really taken almost every provincial capital since With kabul really the last main wanting to fall the situation on the ground in kabul rapidly deteriorates. Us forces there are rushing to evacuate all personnel from the embassy or images online. Coming out right now inside kabul the presidential palace overrun by the taliban as you noted. Us officials have confirmed to fox news that afghan president ashraf ghani fled the country. So at this point you've basically seen a complete collapse of the afghan military of afghan authority in just over a week or so. The blistering taliban gains have reportedly taken some us officials by surprise but many this week including president biden have kept the focus on the afghan governments. Need to defend itself. Gotta fight for themselves simply stunned everyone in the us and around the world and it is arguably already one of the most successful guerrilla urged campaigns in history. I mean think about it. You have a militant group that in a matter of days not only looks like it's going to depose a government but a government backed by a major foreign power. It's quite
POLITICO Dispatch
Afghanistan: The Taliban Has Gained Ground at Surprising Speed
"Afghan army is quickly losing ground throughout the country to the taliban now to bolster its flagging military. The government is arming militias to help in the fight and by the way it should be said. This was the expectation the expectation was that if the us left afghanistan and foreign troops also left that the taliban would do a takeover right. This isn't the surprising part. The surprising part is the speed. And that's what's caught everyone off guard. They started by taking a parental capital zaranj. Just over a week ago right. The taliban have captured the capital of afghanistan's nimruz province as they step up their across the country earlier in the day gunman shot and killed the head of the afghan government's media and inflammation and really taken almost every provincial capital since With kabul really the last main wanting to fall the situation on the ground in kabul rapidly deteriorates. Us forces there are rushing to evacuate all personnel from the embassy or images online. Coming out right now inside kabul the presidential palace overrun by the taliban as you noted. Us officials have confirmed to fox news that afghan president ashraf ghani fled the country. So at this point you've basically seen a complete collapse of the afghan military of afghan authority in just over a week or so. The blistering taliban gains have reportedly taken some us officials by surprise but many this week including president biden have kept the focus on the afghan governments. Need to defend itself. Gotta fight for themselves simply stunned everyone in the us and around the world and it is arguably already one of the most successful guerrilla urged campaigns in history. I mean think about it. You have a militant group that in a matter of days not only looks like it's going to depose a government but a government backed by a major foreign power. It's quite
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Afghanistan Conflict: As Kabul Falls, Biden Backlash Grows
"Departure of the U. S from Afghanistan has some making comparisons to the fall of Saigon in Vietnam back in 1975, as thousands are desperately trying to get on air lifts out of the country, hearing reports of U. S. C. 17 aircraft carrying hundreds of people These planes are meant for just around 100 paratroopers. They're fitting as many U. S personnel and US allies in these planes as possible, trying to very quickly get people out of harm's way. There are also reports of sporadic gun Fire around the airfield that in some cases will temporarily slowed down how many planes are able to take off? But this process will continue. We understand. Additionally, across Kabul there are Taliban fighters that have taken over key government buildings, including the presidential palace. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was inside before he fled the country for a jinxed reporting The Taliban moved in quickly this weekend took control of key strategic locations with relative ease. Leading to blame the Biden administration for underestimating the Taliban forces.
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"I'm amy held a month. Long taliban offensive has brought militants today to the gates of the afghan capital the seat of government power kabul is surrounded the associated press reports taliban negotiators at the presidential palace or working on a transfer of power. Npr's jackie northam has more taliban fighters moved into towards kabul after capturing the eastern city of jalalabad overnight and taking over a border post with pakistan president biden increase the number of us forces to help evacuate embassy personnel and other americans other countries also racing to protect their personnel. A taliban spokesman in doha told el-jazeera that militants are waiting for a deal for the peaceful transfer of kabul to their hands. But there's been a disconnect between the taliban political wing end its fighters afghan president ashraf ghani is holding emergency talks with top. Us in nato officials in the region. Jackie northam npr news. Washington rescue crews in. Haiti are still working on finding survivors. One day after a major earthquake devastated parts of the nation and overwhelmed hospitals. At least three hundred people are dead and hundreds of others are missing or hurt haiti's interior minister. Liz key tell describes the scale of the damage to the bbc. We have at least eleven cities in the new department that are affected by the earthquake. We have these crews nine hundred houses that have been destroyed and over seven hundred dollars in damage from the for assessment. A number of public offices like hospitals schools hotels and churches. I've been damaged or got destroyed adding to the hardships. Tropical storm is approaching. Haiti possibly bringing devastating rain and flooding by tomorrow. Us hospitals are getting overwhelmed by the unvaccinated as the highly contagious delta variant spreads largely in the south in texas governor and attorney general are digging in on a mask mandate ban but texas public. Radio's jerry clayton. Reports at the local level defiance is rising tortures attorney general. Ken paxton said in a late. Night tweet friday plans to take the mask. Mandate battle to the texas supreme court governor greg abbott ban on facemask mandates has been overridden in several cities and counties by local officials including san antonio or county district court. Judge issued a temporary restraining. Order blocking the governor's van that allowed local health officials to issue a mask mandate for schools. There many of which have returned to in-person learning paxton attempted to block the restraining order. Friday but the fourth quarter of appeals denied his request. Another appeals court also allowed cities and counties in the dallas area to require mask for returning school children. I'm jerry clayton and san antonio you're listening to. npr news. Torrential rain in western japan is leading to floods and mudslides and it's placing millions of residents under nonmandatory eventually evacuation instructions nearly two hundred municipalities are deemed high risk for floods or mudslides. Several people have had to be rescued while several others are missing in saga prefecture. Roads are already submerged and dozens of hospital. Patients were forced to evacuate to higher ground the secretive graffiti artists. Who goes by the name. Bank see has revelled in manipulating the media now. He's revealing something about his art. Vicki barker reports from london banks is confirming. He is behind several new works. Cropping up at english seaside resorts a giant stenciled. Seagull hovers over a real life dumpster. A spray painted rat relaxes in.
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Pope Francis Calls for Peace in Afghanistan
"The pope's prayers come as a Taliban enters Kabul, the Afghan capital, and is negotiating a takeover of the government. Taliban official says the group will soon declare the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace right in the capital that was the name of the country under the Taliban government ousted by US led forces after the 9 11 terrorist attacks Now the official did speak on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief media. Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has left the country. Meanwhile, Pope Francis also says his hope here is that the din of weapons ends and solutions can be found around a table of dialogue. The Department of
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"Here's can't covington. Speaking from the east room of the white house. President biden on wednesday made another pitch for what he calls his build back. Better agenda that he said starts with the roughly one trillion dollar infrastructure. Bill that the senate just passed. This is the ultimate blue-collar blueprint to rebuild america. We're going gonna do it without raising taxes by one cent on anyone making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year. that's why wouldn't even support a guest. Increased gas tax. Some republican holdouts argued that all americans will pay a price for the bill as it adds to the deficit and they say more spending could ultimately fuel more inflation. The labor department reported wednesday. That consumer prices are up more than five percent from this time last year but the president said americans should not worry we will keep a careful eye on inflation each month and trust the fed to take appropriate action if and when it's needed as for the infrastructure bill house speaker. Nancy pelosi against suggested that the house is not ready to considerate. I'm glad it passed. I'm glad it's bipartisan strongly. So but it is not the totality of the vision of joe biden and the congressional democrats democrats in the senate are now working on a separate three and a half trillion dollar spending bill. Pelosi wants to wait and consider both measures together. The taliban on wednesday raised its flag in three more provincial capitals in afghanistan and captured a local army headquarters that gives the extremist group control of two thirds of the nation has us in nato troops complete their withdrawal president biden said us forces are still providing limited support to the afghan military. But nothing more. I think they're beginning to realize they've got to come together politically at the top. And we're going to continue to keep our commitment. But i do not regret my decision. Afghan president ashraf ghani on wednesday replaced. His army chief of staff pakistan's foreign minister shabat mood. She said his country is doing all. It can to broker peace in afghanistan. Be having an interest.
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"afghan president ashraf ghani" Discussed on NPR News Now
"I'm lakshmi singh. Democratic new york governor andrew cuomo remains defined the wake of an independent pro that concludes. He sexually harassed multiple women. I want you to know directly from me that i never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate. Sexual advances cuomo responding for the first time. Since state attorney general latisha james announced today that over span of several months independent investigators uncovered evidence that the governor sexually harassed women. He met at public events as well. As current and former employees governor cuomo's administration fostered a toxic workplace that enabled harassment and created a hostile work environment. Where staffers did not feel comfortable coming forward with complaints about sexual harassment. Due to a climate of fear and given the power dynamics. The governor has been under pressure from members of his own party to resign so far he's shown no sign he will do so. An investigation is underway into a shooting near the pentagon that prompted a temporary lockdown. Today we have more from. Npr's joel rose just after eleven am local time. The pentagon force protection agency asked the public to avoid the area around the pentagon transit center in virginia about an hour later the agency said the scene was secure and that a lockdown at the pentagon was lifted arlington. Fire and ems said. It was responding to an active violence incident near the pentagon metro station and it had encountered multiple patients but gave no information about the patient's conditions. The pentagon transit center is a major transportation hub in northern. Virginia metro says it is diverting buses and trains away from the station during the investigation. Joel rose. npr news washington a powerful explosions gone off in the afghan capital near the city's heavily fortified green zone that houses government buildings and foreign embassies. The associated press is reporting that the taliban are advancing in southern afghanistan with all but one district in hell mons provincial capital now under taliban control residents told. Ap over telephone that. They're hunkered down inside their homes unable to venture out for basic supplies or escape fighting npr's michelle kellerman has reaction from washington secretary of state. Antony blinken wants to see peace negotiations speed up. He spoke by phone about this. With afghan president ashraf ghani and the state department says both men condemn the ongoing taliban attacks u. s. negotiators. I'll make khalilzad's as the situation is quote very concerning and the taliban are feeling emboldened by their recent military gains of this point. They're demanding that they the lion share power in the next government given the military situation as they see it feels odd. Says he's calling for pragmatism in realism michelle kellerman. Npr news washington. You're listening to. Npr news at the tokyo summer olympics. Jamaica's top sprinter pulled off a double. Npr's wrestle lewis reports. elaine thompson hair on the two hundred meter after winning the one hundred earlier at the games thompson. Harrow was wasn't a familiar position. Easily ahead of everyone else. She surged across the finish line at the olympic stadium. Her victory in the two hundred meters which set a personal best in new jamaican record along with her. One hundred wind completes a rare double double. She won the same events during the two thousand sixteen rio de janeiro olympics and is the first woman to do that in consecutive olympics. After her two hundred wins she said i'm so tired. My legs just need some rest. She'll compete in one more event the four by one hundred relay. Her dominance puts her in a league company joining another famous jamaican sprinter. You sane bolt russell lewis. Npr news. tokyo abella russsian. Olympic sprinter is seeking refuge in europe following her. Highly publicized clash with those in charge of her team at the tokyo. Summer games christina. Simone who sky says officials made it clear that she would face punishment if she returned home to belarus where alexander lukashenko's regime cracks down on dissent. Poland had granted simone who sky humanitarian visa. Yesterday at last check on wall street the dow jones industrial average was up more than two hundred points more than half a percent since. Gop thirty five thousand. Forty four yes. Mp's up twenty five points more than half. A percent nasdaq has risen thirty five points. This is npr news..
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"Or the lack of one. So we're out here. After Congress failed to extend the moratorium House speaker Nancy Pelosi and other democratic lawmakers urge President Biden to take executive action. But The White House claims its power is limited due to a recent Supreme Court ruling in which justice Kavanaugh said it was his view that congressional authorization would be necessary to extend the moratorium. We'll have more on the story later in the program with Congress member bush. The number of coronavirus hospitalizations in Florida has top 10,000 and the number of daily new infections has exceeded 21,000 for the first time since the pandemic began as the highly contagious delta variant continues to spread Florida accounts for about one in 5 COVID-19 cases nationwide. On Friday Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order making masks optional in public schools the United States is now averaging about 80,000 new cases a day about 6 times as many as a month ago. On Sunday top White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci spoke to ABC and warn the country is heading in the wrong direction. Things are going to get worse. If you look at the acceleration of the number of cases the 7 day average has gone up substantially. You know what we really need to do John we say it over and over again and it's the truth. We have a hundred million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not getting vaccinated. China is battling its largest COVID outbreak in over a year. More than 300 cases have been confirmed across 15 provinces. China suspended all flights trains and buses between Beijing and areas with confirmed cases. This comes as COVID cases continue to surge across Asia with Thailand and Malaysia reporting record infections. In Japan authorities reported over 4000 new COVID cases in Tokyo Saturday a new single day high in the Olympic host city. In Turkey at least 8 people have died as over 100 wildfires continue to burn. President aired one has declared parts of southwestern Turkey to be disaster areas. Thousands have been evacuated. Greece Italy and Spain are also battling fires fueled by intense heat and the latest sign of the climate emergency facing the world. Meanwhile in Bangladesh thousands of Rohingya refugees have been displaced after mass flooding in Cox's bazaar the world's largest refugee camp. At least 6 refugees have died many others lost all their belongings. The landslide fully damaged my house. Somehow my family members could evacuate. The mud that came down from the hill entered my home and it was totally covered with mud. All of our belongings inside are covered in mud. They were very few things I could retrieve. In Afghanistan dozens of people have died after flash floods and the Taliban controlled kamdesh district. The Taliban put the death toll as high as a 150. Meanwhile here in the United States there are now 91 large wildfires burning in the west. The New York Times reports the bootleg fire in Oregon has now burned an area the size of Portland Seattle Sacramento and New York City combined. Authorities warn the fire may not be fully contained until October. Newly released Justice Department documents show Donald Trump directly asked the acting attorney general for help to overturn the November election. According to notes taken during a conversation in December 27th Trump told Jeffrey Rosen quote just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me in the Republican congressman. Rosen refused. Ten days later Trump supporters stormed the U.S. capitol in a bid to stop the counting of electoral votes. Meanwhile House minority leader Kevin McCarthy is facing widespread criticism for a Marx he made about House speaker Nancy Pelosi during an event on Saturday the top Republican in the House talked about what would happen if the Republicans gain control of the House. McCarthy said quote I want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it. In response Pelosi spokesperson said quote a threat of violence to someone who is a target of a January 6th assassination attempt from your fellow Trump supporters is irresponsible and disgusting. McCarthy was speaking at a fundraiser of over a thousand people. In news from Afghanistan the Taliban has stepped up attacks on three provincial capitals. Kandahar Herat and Lashkar got. In response the U.S. Military launched air strikes against Taliban fighters. On Sunday at least three Taliban rockets hit Kandahar airport. And on Friday at least one person died after rocket propelled grenades and gunfire hit the main UN compound in her aunt. Earlier today Afghan president Ashraf Ghani presented a new security plan to a special session of parliament but details were not made public. Israel's blamed Iran after a deadly attack on an oil tanker with links to an Israeli billionaire two crew members died in the attack which took place off the coast of Oman. Iran has denied responsibility. Mexico Russia and Bolivia have sent shipments of food and medical supplies to Cuba over the past week. Cuba's in the midst of a public health and economic crisis on Sunday Cuba reported nearly 10,000 new COVID-19 cases the highest since the start of the pandemic. Miguel Diaz did I know so is Mexico's ambassador to Cuba. This awaited arrival together with other vessels. Other forms of assistance of cooperation represent one simple and great thing. They are proof of friendship of gratitude of solidarity. That's what president Obrador asked for. For Cuba have what it needs now and that is what is being shipped. This comes as the Biden administration continues to reject calls to lift the U.S. embargo on Cuba. On Friday the U.S. announced new sanctions on Cuba and President Biden Warren more sanctions might be coming. Over 700 refugees including a three month old baby were rescued off the coast of Libya and Malta over the weekend as they attempted to reach Europe the group SOS Mediterranean has carried out at least 6 separate rescue operations since Saturday. The group is searching for a safe location to disembark the asylum seekers. This comes as the number of refugees trying to reach European soil continues to grow due to worsening poverty violence and the climate crisis. Over 1100 refugees have perished crossing through dangerous sea routes so far this year. Meanwhile Greek authorities on the island of lesbos have drafted criminal charges against at least ten humanitarian aid workers accusing migrant rescue groups of human trafficking. New Zealand has apologized to Pacific islanders for the country's past racist anti migrant policies. In the 1970s New Zealand police routinely raided the homes of Pacific islanders in the middle of the night looking for residents who had overstayed their visas. New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Arden spoke Sunday. Today I stand on behalf of the New Zealand government to offer a formal and unreserved apology to Pacific communities for the discriminatory implementation of the immigration laws of the 1970s that lead to the events of the dawn raids..
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"You were all in support of the acting prime minister and then all of a sudden on saturday you and the other members of the core group came out in support of miserable. We are supporting the inclusive dialogue. That haiti's political actor undertaking themselves in news from peru socialist teacher and union leader. Pedro castillo has been officially declared the winner of the june six presidential election after the right wing presidential candidate. Keiko fujimori failed in her attempt. To overturn the results. Casteel won by about forty four thousand folks. He spoke to supporters monday. We will reject any pretensions of another country's model. We peruvians can we. Peruvians will manage true economic development guaranteeing legal and economic stability. I asked that kiko fujimori not police barriers in the way so that we move forward and make this of all ravines in iraq at least thirty five. People died monday in an explosion at a market in the southern city neighborhood of baghdad. The market was packed with shoppers preparing for the eat. A lot of the festival. More than sixty people were injured. Isis claimed responsibility and afghanistan. Three rockets landed near the presidential palace in kabul earlier today well afghan president ashraf ghani and other top officials taking part in outdoor eat prayers. The incident was aired live on television bomb. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The taliban denied responsibility for the blast. Ben and jerry's has announced it will stop selling its screaming and israeli settlements. In the occupied west bank saying it's quote inconsistent with our values supporters of ds. The boycott divestment and sanctions movement..
Bullseye
President Biden Hosts Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House
"President Biden has reassured his Afghan counterpart, Ashraf Ghani of America's continuing support for Afghanistan. After meeting at the White House. Mr Biden said American troops may be withdrawing but military, financial and political support for Afghanistan would be sustained.
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Afghan President Ghani to Meet Biden as Violence Surges
"On friday. Us president joe biden will meet. Afghan president ashraf ghani and the chairman of afghanistan's high council for national reconciliation abdullah abdullah at the white house. It will be their first in-person meeting at which they'll discuss. Us troop withdrawal. The talks come as fighting. Intensifies between gan forces and the taliban at least thirty districts have been seized by the taliban since the us announced in april that all us troops would withdraw before september. The eleventh such ongo hell is visiting teacher. The london school of economics and political science and joins me. Now good morning tucson on the agenda for this meeting well. Some of the key issues are to do with joe biden reiterating the intention to withdraw not just us troops but us contractors as well and they along with the military plates such an important role in providing security and assistance to of galveston the other aspect. Which is perhaps linked to be equally controversial. Is the pressure that will be put on. Ashraf ghani to restart negotiations with the taliban now the frustration that the government has had is that whatever talks they've had with the taliban the laws you have then been violated by the taliban through violence so there is going to be Some acrimony in the meeting it's a it's a situation that i have is not looking forward to and it was still hope Vain hope i would say in afghanistan that somehow joe biden will change his mind and cancelled the withdrawal. But i think that is very unlikely.
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Blinken in Afghanistan to Sell Biden Troop Withdrawal
"Administration is defending the plan to pull out remaining troops from Afghanistan. Always after President Biden's announcement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul, and he told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that the U. S remains committed to Afghanistan. We have a partnership is changing in Georgia President Ghani said He respects the United States decision. There is huge uncertainty about what the withdrawal means for Afghanistan, including speculation the Taliban might return to power in
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Defense secretary travels to Afghanistan as troop withdrawal deadline looms
"With the May 1st deadline for a U. S troop withdrawal, drawing near Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sat down with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani really wanted to listen to him and and to Understand what his concerns were. See, See the landscape through his eyes and Austin's. It's Austin's first trip to Afghanistan since his
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Pentagon uncertain of U.S. troop withdrawal in Afghanistan as deadline looms
"In an attempt to kick start the stalled peace process in Afghanistan, the Biden administration has presented a draft peace agreement to the warring parties. In addition, U S Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent a sternly worded letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The letter released by Afghanistan's Tollo TV reads. In part, I am making this clear to you so that you understand the urgency of my tone regarding collective work. Johnny has resisted US prodding for a new, inclusive government. In the letter, Lincoln says Ah Mei first deadline for final withdrawal of US troops as stipulated in the Taliban US deal last year is still on the
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US presents warring Afghan sides with draft peace agreement
"Hi Mike Rossi you're reporting the U. S. offers a draft peace agreement for Afghanistan the United States has presented an eight page draft peace plan to the government in Afghanistan adds to the Taliban the Biden administration wants the warring parties to meet in Turkey in the coming weeks according to both sides a draft obtained by the Associated Press outlines terms of the cease fire protection of the rights of women children and minorities and calls for a truth and reconciliation commission a spokesman for the Taliban says the draft has been received and is being reviewed there was no immediate comment from Afghan president Ashraf Ghani Mike Crossey up Washington
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How The Biden Administration Can Tackle America's Longest War
"Administration is reviewing its options in many areas of foreign policy, including Afghanistan. It is America's longest war and in a deal with the Taliban. Last year, the Trump Administration agreed to withdraw U. S troops by May, but The new administration says the Taliban is not keeping its end of the bargain, hinting that U. S troops will likely stay longer. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports a former U. S government and U. N expert on Afghanistan, Rina Amiri knows that Americans are tired of fighting endless wars. Now we're trying to win the peace. But she says the Trump administration left a complicated hand. Amiri, now with New York University, says the U. S emboldened the Taliban. By negotiating the withdrawal schedule and keeping to it even as violent spite and Afghan peace talks faltered. And now what we have the situation where the Taliban feels very much they have won this war that they're winning this war that the peace agreement is simply a cover for withdrawal for the U. S. The U. S still has 2500 troops in Afghanistan under the deal with the Taliban, they're supposed to be gone a few months from now. But Biden's national security advisor Jake Sullivan, says the administration is taking a hard look at whether the Taliban are meeting their commitments to break ties with terrorists, reduce violence and negotiate in a serious way with the Afghan government. And in that context, we make decisions and now our force posture and our diplomatic strategy going forward. That's welcome news to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. He told the Aspen Institute last week that he expects a U. S team in Kabul soon, and he's gotten good signals from Secretary of State Tony Blinken. A promised me robust diplomacy in the region. Full coordination with us in a focus on ending 40 years of violence, the bidet administration may be promising too much, though Laurel Miller of the International Crisis Group says it's signaling that it wants to keep some US troops in Afghanistan for counterterrorism purposes and wants a peace deal that protects the democratic and human rights gains of the past two decades. Those are all perfectly fine and understandable things to be saying Again in the very first days of the administration, but ultimately you can't have all of the above. Miller says The Biden administration will have to prioritize. There cannot be both a negotiated peace and keeping some troops even a small number in Afghanistan for counterterrorism or any other purposes Because the Taliban won't agree to that there can't be a negotiated peace and No change in the nature of the system of governance and and writes in Afghanistan. U. S officials have long said they would protect women's rights in Afghanistan. Rina Amiri says not following through on that could send the wrong signal to Islamist groups elsewhere, so she thinks the U. S needs to get the diplomacy, right. And she'd like to see a third party, perhaps from the U. N manage the peace process. It will also be more helpful for the U. S. Because right now, everything right on the U. S. You need a manager of this peace process Right now. We do not have a manager. A State Department spokesperson says the U. S will support the Afghan peace process with a quote senior and robust American diplomatic effort. Trump Administration's envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, remains on the job. Even a secretary Blinken builds out the team. Michele Kelemen. NPR NEWS Washington
Rush Limbaugh
14 rockets hit Kabul on Afghan Independence Day, 10 hurt
"Independence Day in Afghanistan and the fireworks are really as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was placing a wreath at a monument marking the founding of the country in 1919. Others had a different kind of celebration in mind, Officials now say. At least 14 rockets hit different parts of Kabul during the ceremonies with at least 10 people injured. Most of the Rockets reportedly hit civilian homes.
BBC World Service
Official says suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan kills 5
"The Taliban have claimed yet another deadly attack in Afghanistan at least five people were killed in an attack on a military base in the eastern province of Paktia on South Asia regional editor John the giving joins me now so Joe just tell us what happened in today's attack one official site there's a drive in a truck which is apparently full of explosives were approached the gates of the military compound it's not every weather facilities and also Medici court it sounded as though the god stopped the driver somebody opened fire and then that the drives a blue at the the truck up so most of the dead and injured were just local people who were milling around civilians also a few military personnel amongst the injured as you say the Taliban says they carried out the attack and they say it was a response to the announcement by the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani lace on Tuesday that they were going to return to offensive operations against militants including the Taliban and he made that announcement in response to an attack on a maternity hospital and suddenly the savagery of which Afghans are still trying to process absolutely I mean you know we used to reporting of death and destruction and blasts and someone from Afghanistan this was just a scale I think a lot of people are gonna be very how to process I think that's partly why am I struck down he felt that he needed to stand up and give a response even though the Taliban has said they distance themselves from that attack but was still hearing stories coming out about the I witness is talking about the government going from room to room through the hospital searching out the maternity unit and then opening fire at close range on pregnant women women who had recently given birth and even on your phone status there were two babies who were killed under the stories as well women now who knows that that they deserve died babies who have survived but are now motherless so I think that was something that the authority is very much needed to respond to but it's also lead to an unraveling all hopes of a growing peace process that seems not very distant thank you very much for that still recovering
Austin's Morning News
Afghans set to release 1,500 Taliban; US wants less violence
"News despite attacks on going in the Middle East the peace deal between the US and the terror group the Taliban seems to be holding up its end of the deal and could be an end to America's longest war securing America started withdrawing troops from Afghanistan part of a historic peace deal with the Taliban this is Afghan president Ashraf Ghani signals and openness to release five thousand prisoners on condition of less violence there might be a somewhat an offer from a president Ghani to provide some prisoner releases Kathryn Wheelbarger Assistant Secretary of defense for international security affairs said intra Afghan talks could soon get started but marine general Kenneth McKenzie because since the Taliban is still acting out those attacks are relatively low in scale they are not directed against coalition forces they are not occurring in city centers they're occurring in isolated checkpoints but those attacks are occurring and they're not consistent with the movement toward a negotiated settlement the U. S. Taliban deal calls for the reduction of U. S. troops eighty five hundred over the coming months in hopes of ending America's
Post Reports
Afghanistan - Rival 'presidents' hold two inaugurations
"What we saw in Kabul today was actually quite surreal to dueling presidential inaugurations. Afghan president. Ashraf Ghani lamely yard line for John and his rival Abdullah Abdullah associate upon corning. Both held presidential inauguration ceremonies at almost exactly the same time just a few yards apart from each other in these two different compounds in downtown Kabul and this came despite weeks of efforts to mediate between the two men to find some sort of compromise that could avoid the spectacle that played out today but in the end a compromise was not reached no one budged and both men declared themselves president of the country. I am Susannah George and I am the Afghanistan and Pakistan Bureau chief for The Washington Post
Weekend Edition Sunday
'We'll get through this': Mike Pence says 'no question' there will be more coronavirus cases, but 'we're ready'
"You it's been a dramatic few days of developments related to the corona virus Washington state announced several first yes date the first death of someone in the U. S. infected with the virus the first health worker to be infected and the first potential outbreak at a long term care facility outside Seattle more than fifty people are being tested for the corona virus the trump administration has also ramped up its response and here to bring us up to speed is NPR science reporter Selena Simmons Duffin high Selena hi Lisa so president trump held a press conference yesterday with members of the coronavirus task force what did we hear the president announced first of all that there had been the first U. S. death trump said the victim was a woman but authorities later confirmed it was actually a man in his fifties with underlying health conditions and he was in Kirkland Washington near Seattle vice president pence also announcing that press conference new travel restrictions in areas that have seen recent outbreaks are Ron and parts of South Korea and Italy up president trump also took a few questions and some of them referred to the fact that he used the word hoax in connection to corona virus on Friday he tried to clarify he was referring to Democrats criticism of the response not the virus itself so at the end of the week there were reports of a few positive cases that appear to be community spread in California Oregon meaning not connected to travel to Asia other affected areas the contracted rate here in the U. S. and now there are several more confirmed in Washington state potentially dozens more what's going on so the big change was that public health officials started looking for cases differently the medical director for infectious disease at the hospital evergreen health explained how it happened at a press conference yesterday he said that the guidelines about who should be tested changed last week you no longer need to travel history or close contact with somebody with corona virus so evergreen health looked at its patients and sought to with no travel history who are very sick with respiratory infections with the new guidelines they became candidates to test for crown of fight virus and both tested positive so one was the patient in his fifties who sadly died the other was a resident of this nursing home life care center in Kirkland local health officials realize that a health care worker from life care was sick as well she tested positive and that's what led officials to look into this possible outbreak so these might not be new cases then right exactly the remember the symptoms look a lot like the flu and it's flu season and health officials say most cases are mild so people might not be even going to the hospital for them so now that the new guidelines for food to test has changed and there are these new abilities for local labs around the country to do more testing we will likely see many more positive cases it's hard to know at this point how many more are out there a health official from Seattle king county said in yesterday's press briefing these newly confirmed cases are likely quote the tip of the iceberg but it's important to remember overall the risk to the American public is still low the important thing to do with the thoroughly washing your hands keeping away from sick people all of those method measures that you can take to protect yourself and prevent the spread the messages be vigilant but don't panic that's NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin thank you so much thank you the US has signed a deal with the Taliban that aims to end the eighteen year war in Afghanistan the longest in American history but there's already a glitch Afghan president Ashraf Ghani says he will free thousands of Taliban prisoners as yesterday's the deal called for joining us to talk about that is NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman he spent years in batting with US and Afghan forces good morning Tom Taylor so the agreement for less than a day old and there's already a problem how serious is it that on he says he won't release the prisoners well we don't know yet and I'm sure the U. S. and NATO officials will be reaching out quickly to Connie no the release of five thousand Taliban prisoners were supposed to be a precondition of the Taliban Afghan talks slate to begin soon Connie says he's not ready to release any prisoners before talks begin he said that prisoner release was not a promise the U. S. could make I I think it shows what many predicted the most difficult step was not a U. S. Taliban agreement but one between the Afghans and the Taliban so they're about twelve thousand US troops in Afghanistan what are they doing and and when will they begin to leave well right now they're training Afghan troops and also together with Afghan commandos going after terror groups like ISIS the U. S. troops will drop to eighty six hundred in the next several months but the military still says at that number the cans of both train Afghans in go after ISIS or other terrorist the agreement says all U. S. troops out in fourteen months no Layla that's faster told than some earlier plans to draw down in two years so either the Taliban pressed hard for a better deal or president trump just wanted the troops out faster so is it realistic than depends who you ask one official told me the time line is he called it optimistic and said the Taliban has to abide by the agreement to stop attacks break with al Qaeda and open talks with Afghan officials but here's the thing last September right when an earlier U. S. Taliban peace agreement was about to be signed the U. S. attacked in el Qaida cell in western Afghanistan and American officials told me when I was in Afghanistan at that time that the Taliban were also working with al Qaeda in the east near the Pakistan border so some question whether the Taliban will really break with al Qaeda so then how does the U. S. make sure that the Taliban is honoring the agreement well the U. S. in the Taliban will have some sort of a monitoring office in Qatar to make sure everyone abides by the agreement and yeah in in Afghanistan the U. S. and Taliban are communicating by phone or radio to report on what they're seeing on the ground the problem is U. S. troops are in small numbers in largely confined to bases and not out and about around the country like they were in past years you know patrolling with Afghans going into villages one retired general with years of experience in Afghanistan told me as a result there is no way the U. S. can effectively monitor this agreement on the ground or even witness if the Taliban are intimidating the population but the U. S. will stop the troop drawdown if the Taliban doesn't cooperate right that's what they said and it's likely even in the face of some television non compliance the U. S. will continue to draw down then military leaders have long said of course there's no military solution here only a political one resident trump wants to bring what he calls endless wars to a close no I'll be heading to Syria soon labels are check out the U. S. military mission against ISIS the president also is cutting back their their once about two thousand American soldiers in Syria now it's down to about five hundred or so that's NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman Tom
AP News Radio
Esper says Taliban deal is promising but not without risk
"A day after meeting with Afghan president Ashraf Ghani defense secretary mark as birds says a truce agreement between the United States and the Taliban looks very promising we have on the table right now a reduction in violence at the Munich security conference defense secretary mark asper says he's been consulting with Congress and only two allies on a proposed peace deal that would see a seven day hall to Taliban attacks I think there's general agreement it's my view as well that we have we have to give peace a chance that the the best if not only way forward in Afghanistan is through a political agreement and that that means taking some risk that's intended to lead to talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government president Ashraf Ghani has been a skeptic but that's process I think he is fully on board an agreement could lead to a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan Ben Thomas Washington
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
US and Taliban agree to truce in Afghanistan.
"United States and the Taliban have agreed to a temporary truce that if successful would open the way for a deal that would bring American troops home from Afghanistan and end eighteen years of war. The deal would call negotiations between Afghans on both sides of the conflict to start next month and eventual countrywide ceasefire and a commitment from the Taliban not to harbor terrorist groups like Al Qaeda while setting a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops. The Taliban have committed to a halt in roadside and suicide bombings as well as rocket attacks if the Taliban uphold their commitments a US Taliban peace agreement would be signed within ten days. The signing has been tentatively set for February twenty-ninth with the start of the Afghan talks planned for March tenth. A Taliban said the agreement would provide for the release of five thousand Taliban prisoners before the start of negotiations. The new developments came as secretary of state. Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Asper met yesterday with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the sidelines of an international security forum in Munich to make good on. Its promise to release. The Taliban prisoners Washington is going to need the cooperation of Ghani who has been critical of the way. Us envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has conducted the talks with the Taliban complaining about being kept in the dark. The United States has sufficient intelligence gathering assets to be able to determine within the seven day period whether the Taliban is making a good faith effort to reduce violence even if some limited violence persists Omni Secretary Ryan McCarthy on Friday called the US agreement a first step in the process