us quiz show? after the departure of the executive producer, over allegations of past offensive comments. and 007 is back the final trailerfor the much delayed james bond film no time to die is on release ahead of the world premiere. president biden has delivered a strident defence of the us evacuation mission from afghanistan labelling it an extraordinary success. the president struck a defiant tone, in his televised address from the white house, the day after america s 20 year presence in the country came to an end. he described the operation to fly more than 120 thousand people out of kabul in recent weeks as one of the biggest airlifts in history. and said the decision to leave now was on the unanimous recommendation of all his advisers. we succeeded in what we set out to do in afghanistan over a decade ago and we stayed for another decade. it was time to end this war. this is a new world. the terror threat has metastasised across the world. we were left with
governor. the transfer of power took place at 12:01 a.m. the question is what s her first order of business? it s way too early for this. good morning, and welcome to way too early. show that is proud to see another glass ceiling shattered. on this tuesday, august the 24th, we will start with the news. with an august the 31st deadline now just one week away, president biden is facing mounting pressure to extend the evacuation mission in afghanistan. # at a virtual meeting with g7 leaders later this morning, some of america s top allies will reportedly press the president to keep u.s. troops at the kabul airport past august. two u.s. officials tell nbc news that president biden is expected to make a decision later today on whether to extend that deadline. the u.s. military has informed the white house that it ll take three to four days to get the roughly-6,000 troops and remaining embassy staff out of kabul. that would mean the u.s. would need to start moving troops out by
this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles an hour
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. first: we re drawing to the end of a seismic week for the people of afghanistan, and those who have served there during america s 20 year military involvement. evacuation flights are continuing from the international airport at kabul, with nato officials saying that 18,000 people have now been airlifted out since the taliban took over. many more are trying desperately to escape. 0ur afghanistan correspondent, secunder kermani and camera operator malik mudassir, have this report from kabul. yelling. get back! panic and chaos close to kabul airport. british soldiers guarding a secure compound for those being evacuated. british passport holders in the crowd, desperately trying to get through. this is my british passport! like this uber driver from west london. he s got kids. we ve been waiting. bow long have you been here waiting? how long have you been ere waiting? i came morning, five o clock. still, i m waiting
now they re ready to go again. we re drawing to the end of a seismic week for the people of afghanistan, and those who have served there during america s 20 year military involvement. evacuation flights are continuing from the international airport at kabul, with nato officials saying that 18,000 people have now been airlifted out since the taliban took over. many more are trying desperately to escape. 0ur afghanistan correspondent, secunder kermani and camera operator malik mudassir, have this report from kabul. soldier yelling: get the (bleep) back! - get back! panic and chaos close to kabul airport. no, no, no! british soldiers guarding a secure compound for those being evacuated. british passport holders in the crowd, desperately trying to get through. this is my british passport. like this uber driver from west london. he s got kids. we are been waiting, itryand . how long have you been here waiting? i came morning, five o clock, to still i m waiting here. in the last th