Or himself, is the world safer with nato . Are you safer . Is your Family Safer . I believe the american people know the answer to all those questions is yes. And i believe the american people understand that america is stronger stronger because of our alliances. I believe the american consensus from truman to reagan to me still holds Today America cannot retreat from the world. We must lead the world. Were an indispensable nation. President biden s speeches are being closely watched after concerns arose about his mental fitness after his performance at the recent president ial debate. He delivered a scripted remarks where he praised nato and the work being dOne but during questioning from reporters, he mistakenly misnamed his Vice President Kamala Harris. Reporter my question for you is how are you incorporating these developments into your decision to stay . And separately, what concerns do you have about Vice President harris s ability to beat Donald Trump if you were at the top of
Walk on by. Applause mary poppins. I have to say i have been issued with a very severe instructions from the bbc bosses that i have to hold it together right now but i do say, im going to push my luck a little bit tell you why your other family here at newsnight and beyond love you and admire you so very much. There are about A Million reasons why we think like that but im going to highlight three of them. In the first place what we saw in that film, you are a brilliant and a remarkable journalist. Your excitement every day as the excitement you would have had on the date you started in journalism. The second reason is that you have extraordinary Pastoral Care for young journalists. Every day that a young journalist starts on this programme, without fanfare, without fuss, kirsty will walk up and say, what are your interests, how are you doing, please keep in touch. You walk around this building and people say, do you work with kirsty wark, she has been so magnificent to me. The final t
Welcome into the Hudson Library historical societies live event with thomas hayter. Sshes here to discuss his fascinating new book electric city, the lost history of ford and edisons american utopia. Im kathy jones, one of the adult services librarians at the Hudson Library and we have quite a few exciting other programs coming up in june and you can register for them at Hudson Library. Org. Also im excited to say we will be offering live morning meditations, it and yoga classes by esarpaio this summe. Those classes will be up on our website this week if youd like to sign up. A reminder that if youre joining us on Zoom Tonight you can put your questions in the q and a bottom of the screen and if youre joining us on facebook but your questions in the chat and will get to as many as we have time for. One more thing, the learned owl our local independent bookstore is selling copies of Tonights Book and theres a link in the chat if youd like to purchase one but tonight i am delighted to we
The latest number, the latest 24 hour period, is that they got more than 21,000 people out. 21,000 people evacuated in one day. That means the u. S. Airlift Out Of Kabul Over Wall has removed more than 70,000 people from kabul since they started ten days ago, which is an astonishing number. With the President Planning to get u. S. Troops out entirely by the initial deadline he said which is next week, august 31st, the Evacuation Effort will necessarily start to have to ramp down. Troops will have to start to leave, it takes time to get them out safely. As of Today Troop numbers were already dropping at the kabul airport. What will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuation . And the orderliness of evacuations, and the commitment of every american an F Ally of american troops in american people out of, there we will have a live report on that situation, coming up including the news today, about the reported meeting between the director of the cia, william burns, in a senior taliban of
Hello and welcome I And Peter w are watching out to hear a live from headquarters here and also coming up afghans displaced from their homes as the taliban claims. A 6th provincial capital also ahead canada reopens its border to fully vaccinated americans. 16 months after closing and because of the pandemic, ah, top Story World leaders and environmentalists have reacted with alarm to a un scientific report on the scale of the global climate emergency. It says there is no longer any doubt, but human activity is warming, the planets, and warns but some of that impact is irreversible. The Un Secretary General is calling the study a code read for humanity or environment. Edison Nick Clark has more on that report now from man. Ive got in turkey where wildfires, of course widespread destruction. It is a bleak picture. This year alone has seen storms, floods, and wildfires. Now, according to sciences, it is unequivocal. The humans are largely to blame for woman the Oceans Land and not miss fa