RT News - May 01 2021 (12:00 MSK)

A truck bomb in Afghanistan claims at least 30 lives, with scores more injured a day before the Taliban's deadline for US troops to leave the country. Meanwhile local translators who worked for coalition forces, claim they are being abandoned. Plumes of smoke rise from countless funeral pyres as crematoriums work around the clock in India to keep up with demand. That's as the country is in the eye of the world's Covid storm. Washington's ramping up pressure on Europe over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russia. However, local officials say it should keep its nose out of Europe's affairs.