Also, america publishes its assessment of the origins of Covid 19, but the results are inconclusive. Hello and welcome. Im martine croxall. Senior taliban officials say they have taken up positions inside Kabul Airport and are ready to take control as soon as the americans leave. The us insists it will keep evacuating afghans until the last moment and that its forces are still in charge of the site. But its thought they may be out in a matter of hours. Reports now suggest as many as 170 people died in Thursdays Suicide Bomb and Gun Attack on dense crowds at the airport gates. Lets hear this report now from our international correspondent lyse doucet. It seems in the same way the Taliban Fighters Stole A March Suddenly On Kabul last week, theyre doing the same tonight at the airport. For the past few hours, weve been watching on Social Media as senior officials among the taliban and their supporters are posting photographs with exclamations like, the foreign occupation has ended, the Is
cnn this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program president biden the state of, the union and america s role in the world i talked to susan glasser and ian bremmer, but great the middle east, then much more also cnn s jim sciutto on how close russia may have come to using nuclear weapons in ukraine. and how a new global nuclear arms race his apartment then allbirds, noah feldman on what it means to be a jew in this time of ever rising anti-semitism but first, here s my take as we ve watched the horrors of another war in the middle east, it s easy to get gloomy and depress. it seems that the region continues to be violent and unstable but that mrs. an important shift that has taken place in recent time, one that provides some cause for optimism about the future. the arab states that are now the middle east leaders are playing an important and
of scandal with jake tapper next sunday at nine on cnn. this is gps, the global public square, come to all of you in the united states and around the world i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york today on the program president biden a state of the union and america s role in the world i talked to susan glasser and ian bremmer, but ukraine the middle east then much more also cnn s jim sciutto on how close russia may have come to using nuclear weapons in ukraine. and how a new global nuclear arms race is upon us then allbirds, noah feldman, on what it means to be issue in this time of ever rising antisemitism but first, here s my take as we ve watched the horrors of another war in the middle east, it s easy to get gloomy and depress. it seems that the region continues to be violent and unstable, but that mrs. an important shift that has taken place in recent time one that provides some cause for optimal msm about the future. the arab states that are n
this is bbc news. the headlines. the un says it has started a conversation with north korea over missing american soldier travis king. we speak to a us hostage negotiator. it has been 100 days since the war in sudan started. aid agencies say up to 19 million people are facing hunger because of the fighting. climate activist greta thunberg is found guilty of disobeying a police order at a protest we get the latest. all of those stories in a moment, let s head to the bbc sport sender. brazil had a comfortable win in their opening match at the women s world cup, beating debutants, panama, four nil. ary borges was the star of the show scoring a hatrick. the pick of the four brazillian goals though was the third, scored by bia zaneratto, but the beautiful backheel to set it up came from borges. that puts them top of group f, ahead of france and jamaica who have a point apiece. germany began their world cup campaign in style, beating debutants morocco 6 0 in melbourne. alexandra
the leader of hamas, ismail haniyeh, has arrived in cairo for talks on a fresh ceasefire. israel s president has said his country is now ready for what he calls another humanitarian pause . nearly 20 thousand people are now reported to have been killed in gaza. 1,200 were killed and 240 taken hostage when hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october. the un security council is about to start discussing a new draft of a gaza resolution and a vote could take place any minute now. the white house has just said discussions for a humanitarian pause are quote very serious . it s all about the wording of the text. it s all about the wording. the draft is very long, but the key section talks of extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the gaza strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access . it remains to be seen if the wording is now acceptable to the united states. in the past half hour, the us secretary of state