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Obviously one of the biggest issues in haiti, the children, the orphaned children, this was a problem before the earthquake and it continues to be one. lets go to karl penhaul, hes in port-au-prince, haiti, with the latest developments in the case against ten americans who were trying to take a busload of haitian children to the dominican republic. karl? >> reporter: weve been doing a lot of digging on this, ali, trying to figure out what the real intentions obviously of the ten american baptist...

Republic even though the americans had no passports or any official exit permit from the haitian government. now, when i asked one of the interpreters if he believed this was a question of corrupt cop, trying to help the americans, he said, he did not know. but he did say that that policeman worked at the embassy of the dominican republic. when i asked him if he saw any money changing hands, if the americans may have paid for any help from this policeman, again, the interpreter said he did not k...

Type... how do you say, repression that will most resonate, but at the same time, there are going to be other people against whom the taliban will be exacting retribution. those who worked for the government, those who certainly work with united states military, they are in harm �*s way, and so those, together with the many people whose livelihood depends on there being a republic rather than an dictatorship. taste being a republic rather than an dictatorship-— being a republic rather than a...

And now all of a sudden, you know, sadly, im afraid afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm. is it a mistake? the withdrawal? i think it is. i think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad, and im sad. i spent a lot of time with afghan women, and they are scared, and i think about all the interpreters and people that helped, not only us troops but nato troops, and it seems like theyre just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people. mr bus...

How that society changed, from the brutality of the taliban, and now all of a sudden, you know, sadly, im afraid afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable farm. is it suffer unspeakable farm. is it a mistake? — suffer unspeakable farm. is it a mistake? the _ suffer unspeakable farm. is it a mistake? the withdrawal? i a mistake? the withdrawal? 1 think it is. ithink a mistake? the withdrawal? 1 think it is. i think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad, and im sad. i sp...

France has tightened restrictions on travel from the uk, to try to stop the spread of the india variant of coronavirus. new rules came into force at midnight, meaning british tourists will not be allowed in. france is currently listed as an amber destination by the uk government, which advises against travel there. hundreds of afghans who worked for the british military and at its embassy in kabul, will be rapidly relocated, with many expected to be resettled in the uk. the decision comes amid f...

We have got a rising china and -- and an aggressive russia. we have got domestic terrorism here at home that present a greater threat to american security than the taliban do, at this point. so i support what president biden has said and done. i hope we carry through on the obligation to bring those interpreters, those people who allied with us and aligned themselves with us and fought with us, bring them to the united states. we have that moral obligation. and i think president has made a right...

Secret that he thinks the does toigs withdraw the remaining forces from afghanistan is a mistake. that this was a relatively low cost, but significant benefit option for the united states. i think that view is widely shared within active duty military officers who like general petraeus have seen a lot of afghanistan over the two decades. i think the question that i focus on with general petraeus and we need to think about is how we keep faith with the afghans who work for us. who were interprete...

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End of may, that hes getting at least daily briefings heading into next week. we still dont know whos going to be in the room with president biden for this face-to-face. and that is an important question, youll remember, because we fond out when president trump had meetings, the only people in the room were in addition to those two leaders were the interpreters. heading into next week, ill tell you, the white house, theyre downplaying expectations for outcome, saying the real goal is to come out...