RT News - August 21 2021 (12:00 MSK)

Evacuation flights resume at Kabul's main airport as tens of thousands of people desperately seek to flee Afghanistan, now under Taliban rule following the calamitous US withdrawal. Having abandoned Afghanistan to the Taliban in a chaotic pull-out, the western coalition also left a generous gift for the insurgents including advanced weaponry such as aircraft, armored vehicles and even biometric devices. In some US states people claim they are being refused potentially life-saving medical treatment if they haven't had a Covid vaccine even if their condition means they can't be inoculated. We debate the rights and wrongs surrounding the issue.