He also comes with a compelling resume a public school teacher, football coach and national guardsman before he entered politics. His political experience, representing a republican leaning district in congress and then later passing left wing policies as minnesota s governor, could have broad appeal at a time when american politics is so polarised. But in the intense scrutiny that comes with a presidential campaign, walz has faced repeated questions about embellishing his background. His wife, gwen walz, this week clarified that she did not undergo in vitro fertilization but used other fertility treatments after republicans pointed to multiple times her husband talked publicly about his family s reliance on ivf. Back in his home town of mankato many remember the democratic vice presidential candidate fondly, at the local high school, he helped secure the football team s first state championship. In addition to coaching football, tim walz was also a social studies teacher at the scho
President biden remains committed to a full withdrawal of troops from afghanistan by August 31st, so time is running out for the thousands of people who are still hoping to leave. The hard deadline is only days away. In recent days, the Evacuation Effort has ramped up. Planes out of the country are now reportedly leaving every a0 minutes. But its increasingly hard for afghan nationals, even those who have permits, to make it to the airport. Thats because the the taliban has said afghans should not head to the airport. Heres One British National whos stuck In Kabul. Getting to the airport is extremely difficult if not impossible. Thousands of people at the foregates of Kabul Airport, and someone with young children and elderly parents. Theres no way for us to get to the gates. And i know people who have attempted to three or four times and have gone back home. In spite of the challenges, the biden administration is emphasising the successes of the Evacuation Effort. Heres a tweet from t
Question time. Each week the house of commons is in session, we bring you prime Minister Boris Johnson taking questions from members of the house of commons live Wednesday Mornings here on cspan2. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. Before we move to prime Ministers Questions, id like to inform the house that its been just over 60 years since the first ever Pm Cruise which took place on the 18th of july, 1961. On that day the speaker at the time was harry Milton Foster who was the last speaker to die at post s so i hope not to [laughter] the prime minister, harold mcmillan, wassing willing to try this experiment for the remainder of the session. If that be the wish of the house that after 60 years, 12 prime ministers, Pm Cruise has become one of the most high profile events of the parliamentary i think we can say that the experiment has been a success depending on who was [laughter] but ive got to say today we mark its 60th anniversary. The prime minister will join t
1961. On that day the speaker at the time was harry Milton Foster who was the last speaker to die at post s so i hope not to [laughter] the prime minister, harold mcmillan, wassing willing to try this experiment for the remainder of the session. If that be the wish of the house that after 60 years, 12 prime ministers, Pm Cruise has become one of the most high profile events of the parliamentary i think we can say that the experiment has been a success depending on who was [laughter] but ive got to say today we mark its 60th anniversary. The prime minister will join the questions via Video Link for obvious reasons, demonstrating the prime ministers questions when we need to. Im sure that we will have a rebirth and hopefully shorten questions and answers. And finally, before we get i would like to point out the Sign Language Interpretation [inaudible] but, please, everyone have a good recess after tomorrow. We now come to [inaudible] mr. Speaker, thank you very much, and im delighted to