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say more than 1900 people have died following saturday s powerful earthquake. the plague is still a killer in parts of the world. now a new vaccine could consign it to history once and for all. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in kabul in afghanistan, where taliban leaders who ve never been seen in public before have been making theirfirst statements on afghan soil, to a world still shocked by their lightning victory. they hope to have calmed a worried nation and international community, with assurances that those afghans who assisted international forces would come to no harm, that media freedoms would be protected, and that women would be allowed to study and work, within islamic principles. with the story of how the taliban claims it will rule, here s our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. the republic has fallen. its leaders fled. tali ....
hey, good evening. welcome back to our cnn special presentation. tonight we re bringing you a presentation of all new documentary short films that reveal the search for community among diverse groups of americans. up next, we ll meet a pioneering group of black scuba divers seeking to find and honor the more than 1 is is 00 ships and lives that was lost in the slave trade. stay with us. it begins right now only on cnn. black ie dentsity, blackness has never been confined. has always been a movement. as good as the water that moves around you asry unusual as the water that moves around us. as deep and mysterious as our oceans. as complex. and yet, oftentimes what we are presented with are very flat and truncated history of africa in the african diaspora. we need complex histories. all the american public wants to hear is the american story of victory instead of the very complex history that made this country possible. the ex traction, the exploitation, the actually death ....
and fda said no booster is needed. let s go outfront . good evening. i m erin burnett. so much for defunding the police. president biden wants to takckl the spike in crime with more police officers and more funding for police departments. our strategy provides including funding for law enforcement through the american rescue plan for states, cities and to be able to hire police and pay them over time in order to advance community policing. funding law enforcement, hiring more officers. biden believes in that and thinks it s the winning message. look who he invited to the white house for his meeting in crime and police reform. a former nypd captain that won a crowded primary for new york city mayor by saying more officers are part of the solution, not the problem. we have some amazing officers. we re going to say i have your back. when i heard her hesitate on the answer will you take guns away from police officers while we re experiencing an uptick in gun violen ....
attack. get off! take that off! prosecutors say the man you see in the red jacket is a former marine and former new york city police officer. he is part of the violent mob rushing police officers and tackling them to the ground. so why are republicans still trying to pretend the rioters weren t a threat? plus, the supreme court upholding obama care for the third time protecting health care for millions of americans. and president joe biden signing a bill making juneteenth a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the united states. let s get to one of the people in the room today when the president signed the bill making juneteenth a federal holiday. that is congressman collin allred of texas. he joins me now. congressman, good evening and thank you. that is a big smile you have there. good to see you. you re from texas where juneteenth got its start. you stood there in the white house, a house built by slaves, where the first black female vp spoke be ....
the justice department releasing horrifying new body camera video of the january 6th attack. prosecutors say the man you see in the red jacket is a former marine and a former new york city police officer. he is part of the violent mob rushing police officers and tackling them to the ground. so why are republicans still trying to pretend the rioters weren t a threat? plus the supreme court upholding obamacare for the third time, protecting health care for millions of americans. and president joe biden signing a bill making juneteenth a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the united states. let s get to one of the people in the room today when the president signed the bill making juneteenth a federal holiday, and that s congressman colin allred of texas, and he joins me now. congressman, good evening. thank you. that s a big smile you have there, so it s good to see you. look, you re from texas where juneteenth got its start. you stood there in the ....