The report indicates that over half of Afghanistan's 600 active media outlets have ceased operations and hundreds of journalists and media workers have left the country since the Taliban took power.
for some around the world and val, netanyahu s role is associated with strength and security. for others, it s a reminder of the criminal corruption cases against him and ongoing tension with palestinians, protests erupted today in jerusalem and tel aviv to speak out against the veteran israeli leader. i came because those are the last hours of israel, it s a democracy. the elections that brought netanyahu to power again were the fifth in less than four years for israeli voters. analysts warn this government could collapse due to infighting rather than a strong opposition. bret? bret: frey yingst live in jerusalem. thanks. up next our all-star panel to try to reach deal political term ohio on capitol hill plus president biden s year in review. beyond our borders tonight. a fire ignited by a highway crash kills five in south korea. dozens were injured when a freight truck collided with a bus sparking that blaze. investigators are working to
the first mission to thwart iran s efforts to develop a nuclear bomb arsenal that will threaten us and the entire world. netanyahu received congratulations about his victory from ambassadors and world leaders, including president biden, who called him a friend. adding that he looks forward to working with the prime minister. netanyahu s predecessor. outgoing prime minister la peep had a strong message for the leader. we are holding over to you a country in excellent condition with strong economy with improved desk abilities and strong deterrence with one of the international ever. try not to destroy it. we ll be back soon the will leader of the party was able to following campaign that focused levy-on security and economy. to reach the required 61-seat flesh hold in the israeli department. joined forces with far right religious parties to conservative government in israel s history.
bret: josh, where do you think this heads? obviously the majority for republicans in the house is very slim and kevin mccarthy as leader trying to be speaker is counting every head as everybody gets sworn in on tuesday. yeah. well, the one difference between santos and biden is that we don t know who this guy is. like almost every element of his biography is literally made up or has been falsified. so, and there is a big question about how he raised money. he raised quite a bit of money for his campaign. and there s some questions about where that came from. i think that s the next shoe to drop in this case. you know, the complicating factor for republicans in the house is they need george san toast s vote. kevin mccarthy needs his vote, in particular. to become speaker. it s a very narrow republican majority. so, i don t think you ll hear a lot from republicans in washington. at least until you have those leadership votes at the beginning of the year. that s what makes this very a
every year i do my ten best and worst columns. joe biden is the worst president of my lifetime but i did come up 10 things he did. he diverted a crippling rail strike. sent b-52s to to china. passed the first bipartisan gun legislation in decades. he secured the extradition of a terrorist behind panam 103 bombings, as i would 190 americans. killed ayman zawahiri the leader of isis in syria. he won support for finland and sweden to join the nato alliance. he said the u.s. would defend taiwan and he did save ukraine, unfortunately slow rolling that aid as you said. those are not small things. they don t outweigh the bad that he did. there s a lot of bad. but those are significant accomplishments that the president had this year. bret: josh, obviously, the white house sees some political