now a seniorfigure in the national resistance front, amrullah saleh. is internal resistance viable when afghans are starving? theme music plays amrullah saleh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a year, mr saleh, since the taliban swept into kabul and toppled the government of which you were a part. would you acknowledge that this past year has been a year of failure from your point of view? for the taliban, it has been not only a year of failure but it has exposed their real intentions and face to the afghan people. they have brought disaster, starvation, displacement and they have basically pushed women into shadows. and all those people who were architect of the handover of afghanistan to the taliban, justifying that they have changed, are responsible for this catastrophe. you have chosen, in that answer, to focus on what you call the taliban s failings. i was actually thinking more about your own situation, because when you were forced to flee from kabul, you took to y
and at a turbocharged pace, qatar s hopes, dreams and buildings have risen high above the desert sands. since this small but mighty gulf nation won the right to host the fifa world cup back in 2010, it has spent billions on state of the art stadia and infrastructure. and with the first match set to kick off this november, all eyes will be on qatar as it makes history, becoming the first ever middle eastern country to host the world cup. and i am here to meet some real players, both on and off the pitch. i asked someone here how much each of these were worth, and his answer was priceless . this is the perspective that players will have as they walk out onto the game for the first match of the tournament here at the al bayt stadium. and this may be historic, but for some it is also a controversial world cup. what we sometimes suffer from as a country, that people actually would makejudgements without actually listening to the other side, or actually try to search for the truth
the last a0 years. and scientists in china are tracking a new animal based virus that s infected at least several dozen people, but say there s no need to worry. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore and 8:00 in the evening in washington where the us attorney general, merrick garland, has defended thejustice department s decision to seek a search warrant for donald trump s residence at mar a lago earlier this week. mr garland said he had personally approved the move, noting that upholding the rule of law meant applying the law evenly without fear or favour. he said the department ofjustice would make the warrant public, because of the substantial public interest. let me address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the fbi and justice department agents and prosecutors. i will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked. the men and women of the fbi and thejustice department are dedicated, patr
during the past four decades over the entire arctic circle. here in the uk, accident and emergency departments in england had one of their worst months injuly according to nhs figures. record numbers of patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted. sponsor times for ambulances dealing with emergency cases were also much longer than the target time. our health editor hugh pym has this report. james is in training for the great north run. he s had his heart valve operation but only after going private. he felt he had to do that after repeated delays in the nhs system, including last minute postponements. get yourself prepped, you re starving yourself, you wake up the next morning, they shave your chest, get you all gowned up, get you on the bed, and then the nurse turns up and says, sorry, it s not happening today. then your emotions just go. and the first time that happened was really tough, the second time, not quite as tough because you have kind of done it, and the t
artist and drinker. welcome to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world. we begin in the us, where the reasons behind monday s fbi s search on the florida home of former president, donald trump, and a list of items seized during the raid, could be released to the public. that s after the us department ofjustice broke with custom to ask a court in florida to unseal the documents. the former president has until friday afternoon to object to the release which was requested by the us attorney general, merrick garland. i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such decision lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. a search warrant was authorised by a federal court upon the required finding of operable cause. the property receipt is a document that federal law requires law e