the last 24 hours. the taliban is clearly calling the shots, dictating the terms and the deadline of august 31 now just eight days away on when they say we have to be gone. if the u.s. or the u.k. wanted to extend their 31st of august deadline in order to continue evacuations out of the country, would you agree that? no. why not? this is a red line. it will provoke a reaction. lara logan has been covering afghanistan for 20 years. ryan crocker is the former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and a number of surrounding countries. both are standing by. we begin with senator tom tillis that writes in an op-ed that says don t let the taliban dictate the terms. senator tillis, thanks for being here. you and your office are working around the clock to answer as many requests from people who are passing them along to you. i think we all thank you for the work that your office is doing right now. it is not necessarily something that falls upon senate offices to take that und
of the national in abu dhabi. ned temko, from the christian science monitor, was born in the united states but has spent much of his career reporting from the uk. with me in the studio, the british political commentator steve richards, who hosts the podcast rock n roll politics. welcome to you all. a pandemic of the un vaccinated . the phrase used by us presidentjoe biden on thursday illustrates a growing frustration among political leaders in countries fortunate enough to have stocks of covid vaccine that this hasn t been the escape hatch from pandemic they d hoped for. in france, president macron has told the unvaccinated they won t be allowed into restaurants. in the uk, they could be excluded from football stadia. president biden announced that employees of the federal government who decline to be vaccinated will have to wear masks, keep physically distanced from their colleagues and be tested once or twice a week. earlier, he d praised the republican governor of alaba
stability between europe and the u.s. after trump berated the allies including merkel and threatened to pull out of nato. with that and the backdrop of nato, there are shocking comments attributed to the chief of staff mark milley in a book by washington post reporters. in the excerpts from i, alone can fix it. obtained from nbc news, milley said that listening to trump was like reading orwell s 1884 that evil is good, and good is evil. but it was january 6th, he said, see you in d.c., he wrote to the followers, be there and it will be wild. but milley said that trump was stoking the unrest hoping to evoke the insurrectionist act, and then milley had a head s up from a former defense secretary that all ten living secretaries of defense had reached the same conclusion. he saw parallels between trump s rhetoric of election fraud and adolf hitler s insistence at the nuremberg s rally that he was the victim and their savior. and he said, this is the gol pel of the fuhrer, and
she s learned from school, something they ve been talking about, then she ll teach me. and a 24 year old student from glasgow survives the black chair, becoming the youngest ever winner of mastermind. the prime minister is coming under increasing pressure after several allegations over his personal conduct in office. today there are renewed questions, over who paid for the redecoration of his downing street flat. a spokesman has again declined to say whether boris johnson received a loan from the conservative party to cover the costs, but insisted he has fully complied with all guidance. the prime minister chaired a cabinet meeting this morning as he attempted to shift the focus away from personal controversies. here s our political correspondent, helen catt. the government is keen to dismiss a number of rows, including how borisjohnson funded a revamp of his home in downing street, asjust a bit of westminster curtain twitching that doesn t interest the world outside. this mo
hello i m olly foster and welcome to sportsday a crunch week for manchester city s treble hopes, we are ninety minutes away from their champions league semi final. george north says he s heartbroken, he s out of the lions tour with a serious knee injury. and injury might have ended her career but katie ormerod tells us how she can reach the top of the olympic podium in beijing next year. evening, what a game we ve got coming up in the champions league. manchester city taking on paris st germain in their semi final, the first leg is in paris. so many similarities between the two. since they were taken over by rival gulf states, both dominating their domestic leagues and cup competitions, but they have never cracked europe. in a moment we ll speak to a european cup finallist and star of french football back in the day but first here s adam wild on tonight s tie. all of the money in the world cannot always buy what you really want. for all the extravagant spending of paris and