women s rights. that pr campaign is met with lots of skepticism. here the white house is struggling to contain the fall-out of the collapse on president biden s watch. one white house official privately admits, and i m quoting now, our confidence is being questioned. our correspondents are covering it all from the white house to the pentagon to the afghan capital. let s go to our chief correspondent clarissa ward. she s joining us from kabul. there are thousands and thousands of americans and afghans. they are hoping to flee the country but are so fearful of being attacked by taliban fighters on their way to the airport. the taliban just promised what they re calling safe passage to anyone who wants to evacuate. but is that happening? well, what the taliban says it s trying to do, wolf, is present these chaotic scenes that we have seen at the airport where you just have a crush of humanity storming the premises, flooding the runway. but certainly their activities are being
have feared the most s total failure, total failure of the hospital system. if we track back a week or so and we look at the case positivity rate, the number of new positives that we re seeing, the rate of the testing positive and the rate of hospitalizations based on what we are seeing, if we continue that trajectory within the next five, to 7 to 10 days, we re gonna see failure of the hospital system in mississippi. hospitals are full from memphis to meridian, everything is full. if there were schools opening back, a bus of kids, we would not be able to take care of all those kids at this hospital. we re in a pretty serious situation. we see federal teams come in, it needs to open peoples eyes to the fact that this is a serious situation. so we re hopeful that we can get people to wear masks and get vaccinated, and stay way from each other. and that this rapid rate of rise that we are seeing will peak or plateau pretty quickly here, so that we don t get into a situation whe
arrhythmia, or cardiac arrhythmia due to his atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease. denmark becomes the first country in europe denmark becomes the first country in europe to denmark becomes the first country in europe to abandon the use of the coronavirus europe to abandon the use of the coronavirus vaccine from astrazeneca. even though they see the benefits outweigh the risks. british the benefits outweigh the risks. british mps reject opposition calls for prom inquiry into the former prime minister david cameron s attempts to gain government contracts for a business which has collapsed. in a few minutesjoe biden will formally announce the withdrawal of us forces from afghanistan 20 years after they first went in following the 9 11 attacks. he is expcted to say the us will no longer support afghanistan militarily, but will continue diplomatic and humanitarian work. the united states has spent around two trillion dollars and lost more than 2,000 service mem
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sienna rodgers, editor of labourlist and tom newton dunn, chief political commentator at times radio. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the mirror for a second day leads with borisjohnson and reports of christmas parties in downing street during last year s lockdown. the paper says attendees enjoyed, food, drink and games until past midnight despite curbs. the prime minster has insisted no covid rules were broken. the times reports the government aims to offer a fourth covid shot to fight against new variants as it makes a two yearjab deal with suppliers. the daily telegraph has more details on that story two more jabs per person, under the agreement, which will provide 114 million more doses. the daily mail tells minister s to stop being christmas killjoys , after one advised against kissing underneath the mistletoe. the daily express has a more upbeat tone it s not a
ahmaud arbery. that is what a jury delivered today. that s according to the prosecutor in the high-profile case. the three men who chased down and killed the 25-year-old, ahmaud arbery, as he was jogging, today found guilty of murder. travis mcmichael, his father gregory mcmichael, and their neighbor william roddy bryan stood showing little emotion as the jury s decision was read. guilty on 23 of the 27 total counts. let me just say that, again. 23 times, they read out the words guilty today. the only not guilty verdicts were malice murder for greg mcmichael. as for brian, not guilty of one count felony murder and one count aggravated assault but 23 guilties and outside the courthouse, there was relief as the jury s decision was read. now, i want to note that it it was a decision that took the jury time. they deliberated. they went through the details. more than 11 hours to reach it. there were eight days of testimony. there were 23 witnesses and the guilty verdicts, though