Well have the latest live from washington on the us withdrawal. Also in the programme. The Paralympic Games open In Tokyo with over 4000 athletes from 160 countries taking part. And tributes to the rolling Stones Drummer Charlie watts, whos died at the age of 80. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Its six in the morning in singapore, and 6pm in washington, where us president Joe Biden has resisted pressure from g7 leaders to keep troops in afghanistan and continue Evacuation Efforts past the August 31 deadline. But Mr Biden says hes asked the pentagon for Contingency Plans should staying longer be necessary. The taliban, though, for a second day running, has made it clear the deadline stays. And in a News Conference, their spokesman said that The Americans would not be allowed to evacuate afghans. Heres a little of what President Biden had to say in the last hour. We are currently on a pace to finish by August The 31st. The sooners we can finish, the bett
Taking part. And tributes to the rolling Stones Drummer, Charlie Watts, whose died at the age of 80. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Its seven in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in washington, where us president Joe Biden has made clear that he intends to stick to next Tuesdays Deadline for the us to complete its Evacuation Mission in afghanistan. In a televised address from the white house, he said the longer us troops remained at Kabul Airport, there was growing risk of an attack by a Terrorist Group known as Isis K. The taliban has made it clear the deadline stays. Heres President Biden. We are currently on heres President Biden. We are currently on a heres President Biden. We are currently on a pace heres President Biden. We are currently on a pace to heres President Biden. We are currently on a pace to finish currently on a pace to finish by august the 31st. The sooner we can finish, the better. Each day of operations brings added risk to our tr
debate it was easier to shut down unwelcomed speech and write it all off as misinformation. they were trying to protect you, america. the only way we get passed misinformation is to be careful what we say and use the power we have to stop the spread of misinformation. my hope is facebook taking it personally, i m saying facebook is killing people, that they do something about the misinformation. relying on the social media giant to take down mistruths. hunter biden, this laptop that intelligence officials have warned is likely russian disinformation. raymond: the golden oldies. only much of what they were protecting you from during two election cycles turned out to be true. now the censorship squad has been exposed in a bombshell ruling on july 4th a federal judge in louisiana has blocked the federal government from contacting or meeting with social media giants. it turns out, the government has been targeting and censoring speech they disagree with for years. in a
his approval, the worst for a first-term president in the survey s history going all the way back to harry s. truman chlt only 36% ever voters say the president is doing a good job down by six points just since february. and with just a year and a half until the next presidential election, more than half of democrats say they want what you know i call anybody but biden. polling now shows the president getting trounced by both former president donald trump and florida governor ron desantis in a head-to-head match-up. donna brazil was the chair of the national committee when trump won the white house. she said her party should be worried. it kept me up and i thought they should wake up and look at those numbers. it is sober in the sense that the coalition that elected joe biden with the historic numbers that we saw in 2020, that coalition right now is fragmented. that should concern them. harris: a new op-ed is asking the tough question, do democrats need a nixon-like inter
independents only 36% want to see biden on the ticket. 58% say they want to see someone else. dana: if that s not enough of a warning sign, the same poll shows biden running six percentage points behind trump. five behind desantis. those kind of numbers have republicans pointing to a big problem for democrats. no president has ever had these kind of numbers and won in a second term. if i am the democratic i would be in a panic. those are dismal numbers, not just bad, they re dismal. it really shows that even democrats don t believe he has what it takes to go to a second term. bill: mark meredith leads a new hour live at the white house with more on this, if there is much reaction. good morning. there is reaction. good morning to you. the next presidential election is still 547 days away. but as you were just talking about with dana the latest polling shows the president has an uphill battle ahead of him including with his own party. the poll took a look at the preside