RT News - August 13 2021 (12:00 MSK)

US troops are back in Afghanistan this time to get their diplomats out as the Taliban makes rapid territorial gains. The State Department claims it's not a 'hasty evacuation', just a 'safe drawdown' of embassy staff. Meanwhile, the EUs 'open-door policy' seems to have slammed shut with the bloc 'split' over the migration of refugees from Afghanistan. Several states are insisting on 'their right to forcibly deport' people whose asylum cases have been rejected. Two dead and 17 injured after a powerful blast tears through a bus in the town of Voronezh in western Russia. Officials are yet to identify the cause. An eye witness says the explosion hit the vehicle extremely hard.