RT News - May 01 2021 (17:00 MSK)

A truck bomb in Afghanistan claims at least 30 lives, with many 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 thousands die by the day, in a horrific Covid wave now sweeping India. Washington ramps up pressure on the EU to scrap the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russia. But officials in Germany say it's got nothing to do with the US.