The us director of National Intelligence has rejected suggestions made by donald trump that official agencies may have leaked unconfirmed claims that russia had Compromising Material on him. In a statement, James Clapper said he had called the President Elect to say the leak had not come from the intelligence services. This morning, that was flatly denied by the President Elect himself. The kremlin said they hoped that donald trump and mr putin would give along and there would be more Mutual Respect between the two countries. Christian fraser reports. Eight days from now, donald trump goes into battle as the next commander in chief. Never before has an incoming president been warring on so many an incoming president been warring on so many fronts. Not you, not you. Your organisation is terrible. Your organisation is terrible. Lets go. Go ahead. Quiet. Quiet. He is in conflict with the press, the Ethics Committee, pharmaceutical and defence industries, some of his own senators, and of c
who played captain kirk in the cult tv show startrack. william shatner, 90 years old, will fly aboard blue origin s next crude rocket on october 12. michael ward is a senior writer with the astronomy magazine and i asked him what he made of it. yeah, it s newsworthy, it is something to talk about, i guess, right? that was a point of this announcement, i m sure. i mean, blue origin is getting some good publicity out of this and it s gonna be good advertisement for the product which is a, yeah, like a space tourism vehicle that can take people on brief trips to the suborbital frontier. and i get this idea of having a celebrity onboard on your earlierflights to get your publicity up and, of course, the star trek links, well, irresistible, isn t it? it s great. yeah. i want to put this delicately but he is 90 years old. are there any particular risks with being that age and doing this? yeah, well, you know, being 90,
where the us evacuation operation is drawing to a close. about five rockets flew over the afghan capital, before a us anti missile system stopped them. it isn t known who fired them. it comes as british ministers prepare to take part in international meetings aimed at defining a joint approach to the taliban in afghanistan. jon donnison has the details. back in britain. some of the final raf planes from kabul arriving at brize norton airbase in oxfordshire last night, carrying uk troops and officials. earlierflights had brought more afghan refugees, and the man who led the effort to bring them home, ambassador laurie bristow. one plane even landed with an extra passenger on board. baby girl havva was born during the flight. a new life heading for a new land. the evacuation marks the end of the uk s 20 year military involvement in afghanistan.
jon donnison has the details. back in britain. some of the final raf planes from kabul arriving at brize norton airbase in oxfordshire last night, carrying uk troops and officials. earlierflights had brought more afghan refugees, and the man who led the effort to bring them home, ambassador laurie bristow. one plane even landed with an extra passenger on board. baby girl havva was born during the flight. a new life heading for a new land. the evacuation marks the end of the uk s 20 year military involvement in afghanistan. in recent weeks, the raf scrambled to airlift 15,000 people, most of them afghan refugees, before the taliban deadline for foreign troops to withdraw by the end of august. but hundreds more remain stranded, both uk citizens and eligible refugees. the taliban has said they will be allowed to leave.
rights in afghanistan and to honour its promise of granting safe passage for those with permission to leave. the foreign secretary dominic raab will take part in a series of diplomatic meetings as the final uk troops return from kabul. jon donnison has the details. back in britain. some of the final raf planes from kabul arriving at brize norton airbase in oxfordshire last night, carrying uk troops and officials. earlierflights had brought more afghan refugees, and the man who led the effort to bring them home, ambassador laurie bristow. one plane even landed with an extra passenger on board. baby girl havva was born during the flight. a new life heading for a new land. the evacuation marks the end of the uk s 20 year military involvement in afghanistan. in recent weeks, the raf scrambled to airlift 15,000 people, most of them afghan refugees, before the taliban deadline