Has died at the age of 8a. Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. President biden will meet virtually with G7 Leaders on tuesday to discuss continuing close coordination on Afghanistan Policy and the evacuation of citizens. The meeting was convened by borisjohnson, who has called on the international community to work together to prevent a humanitarian crisis. Nato officials say over the past week at least 20 people have died at Kabul Airport, where crowds of afghans have continued to gather in a desperate attempt to flee the country. The taliban has blamed the chaos on the United States. But the uks armed Forces Minister, james heappey, said the situation at the airport was improving, and that the royal Air Force had flown out more than 1,700 people in the last 2a hours. Today the marshalling that the taliban are doing is making a big difference and so if people have had the instruction from the Ministry Of Defence or the Foreign Office to come forward and to get on a flight, we enc
To make landfall. Antibody tests are to be widely offered to Uk Adults for the first time to try to find out how much natural protection people have after getting coronavirus. And Don Everly who formed the everly Brothers Duo with his late brother, Phil Has died at the age of 8a. Hello, and welcome to Bbc News. Borisjohnson has said he will convene G7 Leaders On Tuesday for urgent talks on the situation in afghanistan. The Prime Minister called on the international community to work together to ensure safe evacuations, and prevent a humanitarian crisis. Nato officials say over the past week at least 20 people have died at Kabul Airport, where crowds of afghans have continued to gather in a desperate attempt to flee the country. The taliban blamed the chaos on the united states. But the uks armed Forces Minister, james heappey, said the situation at the airport was improving, and that the royal Air Force had flown out more than 1,700 people in the last 2a hours. Today the marshalling th
And defenders resigning and fort first time, were hearing from the other staffer, the former staffer who filed a criminal complaint. I know the truth. He knows the truth. What he did to me was a crime. Plus the Senatess Infrastructure Bill passing a crucial vote, setting it up for final passage within days. In just hours, details on the next step for that larger 3. 5 trillion bill, what the new key details mean for that Time Line ahead. Good morning, im Lindsay Reiser in for Hallie Jackson. Vaughn little Yard And Dr. Tom frieden, vaughn, well start with you in florida, that state is breaking all kinds of the wrong kinds of records with hospitalizations topping alltime pandemic records for seven straight days. Whats the situation like on the Ground Today . Reporter the latest posting out of florida, hospitalizations down to 14,000 floridians in florida hospitals with covid. This is a situation where records are being broken on a daily basis now consistently. Just this weekend, more than
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I will ask general david petraeus, who once commanded u. S. And allied troops in afghanistan. Also, thousands of cubans take to the streets, marking the most significant unrest there in decades. Cries for freedom rang out as did demands for regime change. Is that likely to happen after 60 years of castros and communism? i ll ask an expert. Then, surely you ve heard of president harry truman, but what about eddie jacobson? everybody knows of richard nixon, of course, but do they know of bebe rebozo. These unsung characters were the closest confidants of the man in the oval office. I ll talk to author gary ginsberg about his terrific new book, first friends. But first, here s my take. We re now a year and a half into the pandemic, which is enough time to start looking back and drawing real lessons, especially when comparing it to the last great jolt to the international system, the global financial crisis. Did we learn any lessons from 2008? have we handled this one any better? at first