Administration, they are cooperating with the u. S. So far. So much so the Biden National Security labeled the taliban Quote Business like and professional. Meantime it has been two decades without a conviction for the accused architect of the attacks. He and four others are involved in pretrial hearings this week at Guantanamo Bay, cuba Military Prison known as gitmo. A prison that now four administrations have said they would eventually close. It has not closed and gitmo is where Pentagon Reporter Lucas Tomlinson is tonight, good evening, lucas. Good evening, bret. 20 years after 9 11, there has still not been a trial for those accused of planning it including Mastermind Khalid Sheikh mohammed pretrial hearings dragging on near a l. A. Decade at the u. S. Death Penalty Case held exexclusively here at Guantanamo Bay, cuba. Granted access inside the maximum Security Courtroom along 10 Family Members of 9 11 victims, all sitting behind thick reinforced glass. 15 years ago Asm And Dozen
Right now the Texas Legislature in texas is in session. The republicanled house and the republicanled senate in texas, theyre trying to pass legislation that would make It T significantly harder to vote in texas in a State where it is e already not that easy to vote. The ways they are trying to change the Voting Laws in texass would disproportionately affect voters of color and poor voters and with disabilities in particular, and so texas democrats have bolted from the State. They left texas entirely tonight in a Lastditch Effort to try to stop this Bill from becoming law. Now, those two planes i mentioned carrying texas democrats, those two planes have just landed at Dulles Airport just outside washington, d. C. Theyve landed just in the last hour. Si it is 51 democrats from the Texas State House onboard the two planes. We are told at least seven other texas democrats are making their way to d. C. As well separately. E if this sounds at all familiar to do, texas democrats pulling a bi
including in other countries. uk ministers are due to unveil further measures to help thousands of people living in buildings deemed unsafe since the grenfell tower disaster. six republican senators join democrats in voting to push ahead with donald trump s impeachment trial. and coming up this hour the perils of the zoom call a forlorn texas lawyer tells thejudge i am not a cat , as he s defeated by a kitten filter. good morning and welcome to bbc news. england s deputy chief medical officer says it s really worrying that there s lower take up of the coronavirus vaccine among ethnic minorities in the uk. in the past hour, professorjonathan van tam, has been answering audience questions about about vaccines and covid misinformation here on bbc news, and the asian network. it comes amid hesitancy in black and asian communities about vaccine uptake. i have concerns that uptake in the minority ethnic groups is not going to be as rapid or as high as in the indigenous white
two big stories, the cdc saying it s okay to open schools in america. it s a big deal with a teachers unions in major cities saying they don t want to do it. dana: what biden s chief of staff said last night at odds. bill: a huge part of the first covid bill that has about $130 billion in schools in america. you wonder what sort of leverage the unions and white house are working on? dana: at some points the parents will say enough. we also have the issue of three weeks from the capitol hill riots and getting a little bit more information, not enough. but we had the capitol hill police explaining yesterday along with a briefing from the army and the general from the national guard explaining why they were not prepared. bill: the major headline that they knew there could be a problem two days before the riots happened. dana: one of the things they didn t want to do is create a perception that they had had in the summer and that led to a really bad situation. bill: w