as the organisation gives it official candidate status. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s six in the morning in singapore, and 2:30 in the morning in afghanistan where taliban officials say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south east of the country has ended. more than a thousand people are thought to have been killed in the remote part of the country. doctors say many children may be among the victims. relief efforts have been hampered by the destruction of already poor road and communication networks in paktika province , the worst hit area. entire villages have been destroyed with survivors saying they are finding it difficult to bury their dead. our afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani is there and has just sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in t
weapons in public. we can t just stand we can tjust stand by we can t just stand by and watch these people carry illegal firearms in public. ukraine is given official eu candidate status. and the coach who made a dramatic rescue after a swimmer fainted to the bottom of the pool at the world aquatics championships in budapest. ijust went as i just went as fast as i could to grab herand i just went as fast as i could to grab her and pull her up to the surface. once i pulled her up, my goal was only to make her breathe. her breathe. live from our studio in her breathe. live from our studio in singapore. - her breathe. live from our studio in singapore. this | her breathe. live from our| studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. taliban officials in afghanistan say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south east of the country has ended. more than 1,000 people are thought to have been killed in the re
Political correctness. Its available now wherever you get your podcasts. I hope you will join me as we aim to maybe rewrite, find a path in this world of modern rules. I hand you off to my friend and colleague back in action, katy tur. Teddy says hi and misses you. Tell him i said hey. Thanks, stef. Good afternoon. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In washington where were live on capitol hill. Just a few minutes away President Trump faces a number of difficult headlines that all told paints a complicated picture for his 2020 prospects including a slew of new National Polls that show the president s approval below 40 . Economic anxiety appears to be the main factor for those low numbers, but the president doesnt want you to believe those numbers and frankly why should he . National polls did not predict the eventual outcome of 2016. So let us instead consider whats happening in two key
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control, no scenario except a permanent expanded military presence that would have changed the trajectory. what is your message to the veterans, families of the fallen who may read that and wonder what was the point? the president said many times that the mission that we originally were sent in to afghanistan for was accomplished a long, long time ago. ordered in under president bush to avenge the 9/11 attacks and go osama bin laden and al-qaida, and over time, the president has talked about this, it morphed into something it was not intended to be. just because the mission changed over time under previous administration and leadership and scenarios does not mean anybody who served in afghanistan doesn t have something to be proud of. doesn t have sorry, doesn t