and we have got so many billions of people not vaccinated at all. it has been saddening and it is a good argument, if there is that much access vaccine, perhaps we would be better off, all of us would be better off, all of us would be better off, all of us would be better off, if we used that vaccine to get more people vaccinated in other parts of the world. john swartzberg, professor the world. john swartzberg, professor emeritus - the world. john swartzberg, professor emeritus at - professor emeritus at university of california, berkeley, thank you very much, fascinating to talk to you. thank you. this is bbc news: the headlines: following the assassination of haiti s president and the unrest that followed the country s senate nominates an interim successor. the taliban are rapidly retaking land across afghanistan as the us led mission withdraws the last of its troops. residents of california are bracing for a weekend of record setting temperatures as heat continues to build on
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. days after the assassination of its president, haiti looks to be heading into a deeper political crisis. there are reports the country s lawmakers have nominated the head of the senatejoseph lambert to be interim president in a move that a rival political faction including acting interim prime minister claudejoseph says is unconstitutional. it s notjust politics looking uncertain the us says it has no plans reports.
there a pair can be sd printed that should fit you perfectly. welcome to bbc news. i m rich preston. our top stories: haiti s call for help as unrest continues following the killing of the president. the government asks the us to send in troops. and the country s senate has nominated a successor. an interim successor. the taliban are rapidly retaking land across afghanistan as the us led mission withdraws the last of its troops. if the taliban push for a military solution, the outcome is likely to be a long war. california braces itself for a weekend of record setting temperatures as the heat continues to rise on the west coast. and a comeback on wheels mark cavendish equals the record of stage wins in the tour de france.
could happen, even with this guy who was really not an effective executive or leader of his country. but now, of course, they cannot rely onjovenel to sort of shepherd through a seeming election and now they re stuck and they don t know what to do, so that s gonna be hard for the us and the international community in general the un, the organization of american states, et cetera. you mentioned the un this request has gone to the un for security forces to be deployed to haiti. do we expect to see international foreign troops on the street of port au prince? well, i don t know obviously but i think the un is thoroughly sick of haiti. they had a 13 year peacekeeping force there that got in a lot of trouble in a lot of ways the last thing being the cholera epidemic, which the peacekeeping forces want to get entangled again. i think most outside forces don t want to get militarily amy wilentz.
a constitutional crisis, with no president or working parliament. claudejoseph, the interim prime minister, is in charge for the time being. this is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere with a raft of problems spiralling inflation, intense poverty and gang violence. but why a foreign hit squad would be deployed peter bowes, bbc news. a short time ago, i spoke to amy wilentz a journalist who focusses on haiti. she told me that much of the international community has grown fatigued of assisting haiti. i think we ve just heard so far basically law enforcement, intelligence, fbi personnel. i don t think the united states has yet committed any troops to haiti i don t see why it would at this point. i have not seen in listening to people and looking at videos on the ground, i have not seen a kind of chaotic unrest that even compares to what there was before jovenel moise