British welcome to lead, you could join us the u. S. Decision to rapidly reduce the number of troops in afghanistan has set off alarm bells amongst those following events in the country. Some of trumps own military leadership, including the u. S. Commander responsible for the middle east, marine general frank mackenzie, have warned against too. He pull out from a country that has yet to see a stabilization of levels of violence in a deal agreed with the taliban. The u. S. Committed to a complete troop withdrawal by any next year. But the fear is the latest move to end americas longest running war could strengthen the hand of militant groups, including the taleban in the country. The sun could be setting on the u. S. Presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001 to help stabilize the country off to overthrowing the taliban. A mission thats cost more than 2000, u. S. Lives over time. U. S. Troop numbers have waned now. Outgoing president. Donald trump want
Good to have you with us. We begin tonight with the politics and the pandemic. Lawmakers here in berlin have voted to give the German Government new power. So while we get to introduce specific restrictions to tackle the coronavirus crisis, the measures have been signed into law by the president in germany from vulture, steinmeyer, and will come into force this coming thursday. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest today as politicians debated the legislation thank water cannon and pepper spray deployed by police to disperse the demonstrators. Thousands gathered near the German Parliament building many in the crowd, not wearing masks, or maintaining social distancing. They were protesting against coronavirus restrictions, which they see as a violation of their civil rights. In my opinion, the restrictions are disproportionate. Surely it should have been possible to come up with other measures that dont cause so much suffering. You still believe i am here for my chil
soon as we get that adds up we re gonna go to. it mike, i will start to the control room for second. we think the president is coming out now. all right. got it, as soon as he comes out it to. we do in a move on to the general six hearings. this hour we re taking an in-depth look at this weeks generous committee hearing. potentially the final one. members made it clear in this hearing, in case it wasn t, before this all boils down to one individual. the central cause of january 6th was one man. donald trump. who many others followed. that none of this would ve happened without him. he was personally substantially vault in all of it they laid out in meticulous detail a plan for the former president began long before january six, even long before election day 2020. . in the course of our investigation, we also interviewed brad parscale, president trump s former campaign manager. he told us he understood that president trump planned as early as july that he would say he won th
Day on tap. It will be sunny but cooler, so if you dont like the heat or the 90s well cool down but it will be quite warm this afternoon. Your extended forecast does include a cooldown through the week. Lets take a look. 60 in San Francisco, 58 oakland, 61 livermore and santa rosa 52 degrees. Theres a strong ridge of High Pressure over the coast coast, a system headed to the pacific northwest, that will break down but its still in control of our weather. No rain for us, a lot of fog along the coastline and well see that onshore breeze pick up thats going to cool us down as we continue through the week. But today nice and sunny. Take a look. Mild to hot around the bay area, above normal for this time of year. 78 San Francisco, cooler in Half Moon Bay at 70 but thats a good beach day, right . 84 san mateo, 89 san jose, livermore at 95 degrees. Rich month monday at 79 but temperatures will drop today 5 10 degrees compared to yesterday. So tomorrow shave off a few more degrees, wednesday y
Prodemocracy protesters to clear out of key areas by monday local time. And it seems many have complied. The size of the crowd outside the chief Executives Office has shrunk dramatically, and Government Employees are able to return to work. But in other parts of the city many activists continue to defy the deadline. Are the two sides heading toward a stalemate . Kyung lah joins me from hong kong. I asked you that question about 24 hours ago, kyung, and it looked like they would. 24 hours later how does it look like you to . Reporter its theres been a little progress. That might be the best way to put it, natalie. You can see that the road that im standing on is somewhat empty but this has generally been the pattern throughout the day. Roads have been a bit emptier and as the day has gone on its gotten busier. But its not completely empty. Take a look. As you swing this way, you can see that there are still plenty of people out here. This is the man thoroughfare here in hong kong. So fo