Polls for snap elections. A tight race with justin trudeau hoping his handling of the pandemic will keep him in power. Although the taliban are showing increasing signs of repressive government, some women are not backing down. A group of brave activists protesting outside what used to be the ministry on sunday. The taliban closed it and replaced it with their feared ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. The protests come after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. Translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them as well as by not allowing them to go to school. You cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. Now, a private preschool opened on sunday in kabul with both boys and girls attending. That s a rare sight. The taliban insist that public secondary school for girls will be allowed, but they say they have to set up what they call safe transportation first. Well, for
Slowly but surely the 1970s are disappearing. The 1980s will be upon us. What a decade it is coming up. Happy new year. As you begin the 80s in the television world the landscape was in the evening 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. Social critics are mystified by its success. What is it? it s television prime time potboiler, dallas. It ll ruin our family name. I assure you a thought like that never crossed my mind. Brother or no brother, whatever it takes i ll stop you from destroying in oil. Dallas literally captivated america for 13 years. Dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, jr ewing as a pop fe phenomenon. He was such a delicious villain, everyone was completely enamored by this character. At this point so many people were watching television that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. Who s there? the national obsession in 1980
They know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. Goodbye to the 80s in ten, nine, eight, eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we are starting to see a lot of experimentation. Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. And the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. Tv respects me. It laughs with me. Not at me. You re stupid. Doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a warm, safe, humor. I love you guys. The kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. And i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. We were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. Which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. Did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. The father strangling the child. Why you little we are go
Are home after their historic threeday mission. A warning from the cia came too late to stop a u. S. Air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. According to three sources, the intelligence agency warned that there were likely civilians in the area and possibly children just seconds before the missile found its target. The military hit the toyota following a suicide bombing that killed 13 u. S. Troops and scores of afghans at the kabul airport, but the pentagon now admits no one in the car was linked to isisk and up to seven people killed in the air strike were chil children. Cnn s alex marquardt has mar on what we re learning from washington. On the heels of the pentagon dmigt o admitting on friday to a tragic mistake, we are now learning in the final seconds before the h h hellfire missile tore through the car of an aide worker, the cia issued a warning that civilians were likely in the area, including possibly children inside the vehicle. That s according to three source
Plus, the met gala is known for its stunning outfits, sporting outfits by influencers. So why is everyone freaking out about aoc s dress? and one person that wasn t in attendance at this year s gala was artist nicki minaj due to vaccine requirements. But things quickly spiralled out of control after she posted a string of tweets that included virus and vaccine misinformation. We re going to break down what happened, and the conversation surrounding celebrity accountability. I m ayman mohyeldin. Let s get started. All right. T. So the anticipated rightwing rally in washington, d. C. , clearly did not go as planned. I mean, the number one rule in any good movie, obviously, is do not return to the scene of the crime, folks. Today, just a fewhundred demonstrators showed up to support the more than 600 people charged in connection to the january6th insurrection and those in attendance appeared to be outnumbered by the media and a heavy police presence. Now, of course, this lack of a turnout