Saigon in 1975. How do you explain getting this so wrong . First, savannah, to be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years. But you know its not the helicopter. Its not the mechanism. No, no, its the Lastminute Scramble. You know that. Its the Lastminute Scramble when the assurances from the president himself were this is not what we were going to see. It is certainly the case that the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the afghans, including many of the analysts who looked hard at this problem. And part of the reason for that, is because at the end of the day, despite the fact that we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the afghan National Security forces, we could not give them the will. The scenes at the Citys Airport Today are staggering. Thousands of afghans desperate to flee as thousands of
we begin this hour with candidates sending in the hawkeye state of iowa is to begin to heat up in the 2024 presidential race with the former president donald trump sharing the stage with opponent the first time this cycle hunge correspondent ashley strohmeyer is now with the latest. hey, ash hunger. the first time the republica primary nearly all the candidates were in the same roo in the early caucus state of iowa. hawkeye state voters got to hea from the team republican potential candidates tonight at the iowa gop annual lincoln day dinner his with the leading candidates had to say. if i were not running, i d have nobody coming after me. or if i was losing by a lot i would have nobody coming after me. in my white house there will be no cooking allowed in the white house. and, look, my son is only five years old, so he s not going to be learning his pockets with money from foreign governments. joe biden and the radical left, he is attacking the value that made as pos
an epidemic of drug driving. senior offers say some motorists seem to view drug driving as more acceptable than drink driving. our transport correspondent katy austin reports. 9am on a tuesday morning and merseyside police are out in central liverpool. today, they re particularly looking out for drink and drug driving. officers have been pulling over any vehicles that look like they re unsafe in some way or are being driven in an unsafe manner. and already, within half an hour this morning, they ve made three arrests after positive roadside drug tests. 927. those tests, called drug wipes, indicated the presence of cannabis, that gets them arrested and taken to the station for a forensic blood test. and the result of that dictates whether any further action is taken. how prevalent do you think drug driving actually is? so we ve seen quite a lot, it s really prevalent. over the last few years, we ve seen year on year increases of the number of people that were arrested for dr
the humanitarian situation in gaza. it s particularly acute in northern gaza, which has received little aid in recent weeks and food and animal feed has run out. aid agencies say hunger and disease are spreading, with children particularly at risk. the war also continues to have an impact on other countries around the world. in a moment, we ll take a look at the fallout of the gaza ceasefire vote in the house of commons. first though, a uk funded consignment of medicines, fuel and food has been air dropped by thejordanian air force to the area, close to the tal al hawa hospital. our correspondent quentin sommerville who s in amman was on board the flight which dropped aid into gaza. it s not a long flight over gaza. we were in a c130 hercules cargo plane flying with they have been on the situation for some time. you know, the circumstances are pitiful where people are going without food, without water, without proper medical care. and they ve been in that situation for some
Off alarms. police in riverside saying he i responsible for more than 70 burglaries at various businesse in the area. but because of california law, namely. speaker47: and assembly bill 109, he is literally not eligible for any prison because he didn t physically hurt an anyone. however, business owners who lost countless dollars say this isn t justice, and it sends the wrong message to others may be considering committing similar crimes. what s going to stop him from escalating things, breaking int somebody s house, and hurting somebody like my wife and i or my little daughter? i asked flyout, who is responsible for this? the riverside county da said that receive lenient sentence i a product, again, of california law. the snake burglar was eventuall sentenced to serve just seven months in jail. not prison. however he is said to be released into another californi law, kevin, daycares county jai inmates credit for their time i custody. kevin he s unbelievable.