Human rights record, also faces fresh scrutiny and an eye in the sky to record waters on the rise, a new tool in the fight against Global Warming is launched into space. A complete program. I still says it was behind rocket attacks in afghanistans capital, kabul that killed at least 8 people and injured dozens more. The attack happened just hours before the u. S. Secretary of state might be on peo, was jus told, talks with the Afghan Government and taliban negotiators in cata. The us earlier this week said that it planned to pull out 2000 troops from afghanistan. Video contre free has more from the Afghan Capital kabul schoolgirls running for their lives after a rocket lands near their school. Part of a coordinated attack on the capital, kabul. The more than 20 rockets landed in residential areas near the green zone, where many embassies are based. It was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the Afghan Capital for the next 10 minutes, it felt like kabul was
Europe is no wrestling with coronavirus all over again and hoping to defeat it without shutting down public life entirely. Earlier we spoke to the chair of the global outbreak alert and Response Network at the w. H. O. Dale fisher and we asked him how prepared countries are for a possible winter spike in coverage 1000. 00 cases its a funny question to be asking in september is and. Its really quite disappointing i guess to have these sort of numbers going into the colder months and as youve just pointed out that there really need to be some things done to bring these numbers down or else youre going to be right back where where you were. In in much and. Theres nothing fancy its all the same things that weve known about for a long time its a solution of cases and strict quarantining of of contacts we should be able to do much more efficient contact try saying different mechanisms and the other thing which we we didnt know at the beginning of this outbreak was the effectiveness of mosque
A new zealand recorded 0 new code 1000 infections on tuesday there are now only 61. 00 registered active cases in the country. If youre just joining us youre watching to debut new special coverage as we track the opening of the general debate at the u. N. General Assembly Meeting in new york and we have some live pictures of whats happening at the moment coming up in the next 15 to 20 minutes were expecting the head of the state head of state of the host country of course u. S. President donald trump who will be delivering a video message President Trump is a harsh critic of the United Nations so bill will be watching to see what he has to say this is a very different u. N. General assembly this year around the World Leaders to live delivering their message via video because of coronavirus restrictions as we said we will return to the u. N. When it is time for President Trumps speech. That was the one from london with a chair of the European Parliament Justice Committee meanwhile the r
Labour senior backbencher Stephen Timms will fill us in on what their what to look out for from their Conference Liverpool next conference in liverpool next week. Taking the week. And ill be taking the temperature of the party with a special people panel this week live the tory members and live with the tory members and im going to be joined by my colleague at the telegraph, the papers papers Political Editor, Ben Riley Smith. Hes not got a great new book out which spills the on the last years the beans on the last 13 years of rule and hell be of tory rule and hell be revealing all to me later. First of though, lets run of all, though, lets run through those front pages as you can imagine, the conference does dominate in a number of key cabinet ministers have out dominate in a number of key cabiabout nisters have out dominate in a number of key cabiabout basedi have out dominate in a number of key cabiabout based hinckley out dominate in a number of key cabiabout based hinckley talking
Friend and supporter of jeremy corbyn, the puppet of tony blair, or the mouth piece of Just Stop Oil for all we do know is that he has broken every single leadership pledge and flip flopped almost 60 times in just three years. This is a man who will literally say anything that suits him at that time. His comments came just hours after the Prime Minister refused to commit to tax cuts. Rishi sunak said his focus is on halving inflation because it impacts the poorest the most. On a visit to burnley, the pm insisted his approach is deeply conservative, saying its a thatcherite policy. Thatcherite policy. The best tax cut that we can deliver right now is to halve inflation. And thats something that im deeply committed to. Its the first of my five priorities. Why because thats how help people with the how we can help people with the cost we just want cost of living. We just want to put money in peoples put more money in peoples pockets. And best way pockets. And the best way to do that right