tapper: for a country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy, we sure do love a strongman, and from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality tv president, nowhere produces more of them than the empire state. and i get it. in an age where congress approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. that was eliot spitzer to a t. but when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor s mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. this will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so there s this honest po
prince andrew s legal team says it s questioning whether court papers alleging sexual abuse have been filed properly. ceremonies have been taking place in the united states to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. in new york, a minute s silence marked the exact time that the first hijacked plane hit the north tower of the world trade center in 2001. president biden travelled to pay his respects at all three attack sites in new york, pennsylvania, and at the pentagon in virginia. with more on the day s events, here s our north america editorjon sopel. drumbeat on this stunning clear september morning, they gathered in solemnity and sadness in lower manhattan. # 0h, say, can you see by the dawn s early light.# the weather identical to that fateful tuesday morning 20 years ago, but everything else was different. # and the rockets red glare. at 8:46 this morning, the tolling of a bell. bell rings the moment the first plane struck the twin towers.
only two icu rooms, in the state of alabama are unoccupied. here s the front page today in rome, georgia. the beaumont, texas rome news tribune. room scares for covid-19 patients. as covid cases rise, the influx of patients is stressing local hospitals. here in the left pride of your screen is beaumont texas. covid stretching the hospitals. mourners is needed. on the right side here screen, that s waco, texas, virus deaths and hospitalizations grow. look at this from melbourne florida today, the newspaper florida today. very dramatic front page from them today. it says we are on the precipice. that s their front page. look at that. our hospitals are overrun with covid patients. again that s melbourne, florida today. if you know, this i wanted to show you not the articles, but the whole front page of what they look like, because as big as the covid crisis is, all of those dire front page covid stories today, shared space with the news out of afghanistan, and the taliban take
so how many afghans will britain take? how many should we take? also tonight. rebuilding after the pandemic the latest official figures show record job vacancies as the uk economy rebounds. the plague is still a killer in parts of the world, now a new vaccine developed here could consign it to history once and for all. a glimpse of deep space as we ve never seen it before astronomers learn more abouth the birth and destruction of the stars. and coming up on the bbc news channel. england captainjoe root admits his side need to get better following their final day defeat to india at lord s as they look for a way back in the series. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. twenty years after they were driven out of afghanistan, the taliban s leaders are back in the country they once ruled with such brutality. in their first public statements on afghan soil the taliban say their territory will no longer be used to export terror. remember, that was the reason the inter
hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. saturday saw the first full day of action in the tokyo 0lympics.eleven gold medals have been up for grabs on day one, including in cycling, weightlifting and fencing. but, it was in thejudo competition, where the host nation, japan, won its first medals. earlier, japanese spectators defied coronavirus advice to watch the men s cycling road race one of the few events where they could see the competitors in action. it was won by richard carapaz, who timed to perfection a tactical final descent after a tough 234 kilometre course to give ecuador only its second ever gold medal in an olympics. some of the leading tennis players are calling on the organisers to delay the start times of the matches, after a number of competitors struggled in the tokyo heat and humidity on the opening day of the tournament. world number one, novak djokovic, eased through his first round in straight sets but said the playin