on the air tonight. reports of a missile attack at thor bill international airport and reports of sirens sounding at the u.s. consulate nearby. what we know so far. and the news coming in from afghanistan tonight. more than 90% of american troops now out. the alarming images. the taliban already gaining ground. martha raddatz just back from afghanistan and what she s learned tonight. the coronavirus back here in the u.s. and the situation inside one american hospital. the alarming scene. worse than what they say over the winter. the delta variant taking hold. president biden late today short of his july 4th goal of 70% of adults with at least one shot, saying hesitant americans should think twice. and the new study tonight on the pfizer vaccine and just how effective is it against this variant? news tonight of an alleged shooting plot filed from a 12th floor chicago hotel room. police allegedly finding weapons and ambition in that room on ju francinery. we do have news
fiona hill was senior director for russia and europe at the national security council during the trump presidency, which means she had a terrifying front row seat to some of the weirdest things any u.s. president has ever tried to get away with. fiona hill is here tonight as there have bindramatic developments today about the informant who provided the central allegations at the heart of congressional republicans efforts to impeach president biden this year. this informant today was sent to jail indefinitely by a federal judge in california. he is in jail awaiting trial. prosecutors arrested and indicted him a week and a half ago, alleging his statements to law enforcement about president biden and his family not only were lies but this man had been fed lies and disinformation about president biden by russian intelligence. despite those ties to russian intelligence, a magistrate last week somewhat inexplicabley allowed the man to be released awaiting trial with an ankle monit
attacks targeting schoolgirls and in the past few weeks hundreds of girls have been hospitalised and aid agencies say they may have been singled out by religious groups. this is bbc news. now on bbc news witness history. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. i ll bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we re focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up: we hear how lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war inspired a groundbreaking film about trans sex workers. and the fight to use the word 0lympics for the very first gay games. but first to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones
this is bbc news. the headlines. a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh. the blaze in cox s bazar district has been brought under control. more than 2,000 shelters had been gutted, affecting around 12,000 people. no casualties have been reported so far. after more than a decade of negotiations, un member states have agreed to establish an international treaty to protect the high seas. environmental groups say it will help reverse marine biodiversity losses. military spending in china will increase by more than 7% this year. at the opening of congress, the premier, li keqiang, called for more soldiers to be trained under combat conditions. and prince harry describes writing his memoir as an act of service in the hope that sharing details will help others. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for witness history: lgbt special. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness
engulfed houses in the plumpang district of jakarta. now on bbc news, witness history. hello. i am hello. iam ben hello. i am ben boulos. hello. iam ben boulos. thank you forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this addition of witness history. i will bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we are focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up, we hear how lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war by the groundbreaking film about france sex workers. and the fight to use the word olympics for the very first gay games. but first, to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones was living there in the 1980s when a mysterious disease started killing his frien