They will resonate for years. Will the president s next words . Were covering this remarkable moment from every angle with our team of reporters and experts standing by. I want to start with the white house. Jeff zeleny is there. How did the president spend his morning preparing and any insight into what he might say . Reporter we know the President And Vice president spent at least part of the morning with their advisers getting the final briefing on the final day of americas longest War In Afghanistan, getting operational briefings and hearing about the final flights that took off Yesterday Afternoon here in washington time. At midnight in afghanistan. We know the president is going to lay out a series of what led him to this decision. We know this is a decision that President Biden has long wanted to make. It goes back to a trip he took six days before he became Vice President in january of 2009. As a senator as Vice President elect he went to afghanistan on a Fact Finding Mission f
I just this is such a symbolic moment for this White House. And for this president. Obviously you hit it at the biggest point here. The president has delivered on a Campaign Promise to get the united states out of its longest war despite concerns about what the fallout would be. Despite concerns about repercussions. That has happened. We saw the last flight leave. And now the president has to talk about what happens next. Before he does that, i think he needs to answer several key questions im told will be a key component of the speech today. That is what The American presence or efforts in afghanistan are going forward particularly giveren the fact there are still more than 100 american citizens that want to leave the country that are still on the ground. There are hundreds if not thousands of afghan allies who wanted to leave the country who are on the ground. We heard from the secretary of state. Tony blinken laying out the diplomatic efforts and process the u. S. Is launching and g
With conservative christians . Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Obviously we want your reaction to the brexit vote delay. What do you want to happen next . Plenty of you have already been in touch on twitter. David booth says forget the whole sorry mess, withdraw article 50 and get on with sorting out the eu to make it more people friendly. Neil dance says the narrative needs to turn to the leave campaign. They promised the unachievable, didnt consider the implementation, were over optimistic and failed to consider key issues. We cannot have what they promised. And john wratten says i want the pm to resign. I want a second ref. I want to remain. I want a labour government. If you want to get in touch, then please do. By the way we are in the top ten of most tweeted about bbc shows of 2018. Heres Joanna Gosling with a summary of the days news. Good morning. Theresa may has begun a whistlestop tour of the eu in a bid to rescue her brexit deal. Shell meet
the times adds this, it s not yet clear whether omicron causes more disease than other version of the coronavirus. we have about 90,000 new cases a day here in the united states and right now 99.9% of them are still are the delta variant. it may be that omicron is ail to out compete delta. we have not seen any symptoms that are unique to omicron, symptoms that are presenting are similar symptoms we have seen with delta. the problem is according to the cdc director, covid cases are rising right along with hospitalizations, we ll talk to an er doctor who s witnessing this firsthand. there is also news tonight concerning the capitol riot investigating january 6th. a former trump justice official will not give deposition but will appear on the 16th. jeffery clark s postponement was due to medical. clark who the committee says trying to get the doj to act on trump s big lie and deny the biden presidency signalled he intended to plea the fifth. members voted to refer him of con
the times adds this. it is not clear whether omicron causes more severe disease than other versions of the coronavirus. tonight the cdc director said the variant could eventually change the nature of this pandemic in our country. we have about 90,000 new cases a day here in the united states and right now 99.9% of them still are the delta variant. it may very well be that omicron is able to out-compete delta. we haven t yet seen symptoms that are unique to omicron. the symptoms that are presenting are the very similar symptoms that we have seen with delta. problem is, according to the cdc director, covid cases in all are rising. right along with hospitalizations. we will talk to an e who is witnessing this firsthand. also news concerning the capitol riot. the house committee investigating january 6th says a former trump justice department official will not give a deposition tomorrow as expected, but will appear in person on the 16th of december. the chair of the 1/6 com