was it worth it and for me at the moment, for many of my friends messaging me, i don t think it was. a minute s silence will be held in the uk at 11am, in memory of those killed in the plymouth shooting in haiti, the search for survivors in collapsed buildings, as the death toll from a huge earthquake rises to nearly 1,300. and double jabbed people in england and northern ireland will no longer have to isolate if they ve come into contact with someone with covid. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the taliban have seized control of afghanistan and declared the war over after their forces swept into the capital, kabul. that s triggered scenes of panic, as people desperately try to leave. just look at this video, filmed at the city s international airport. people are trying to get onto the plane climbing up the outside of the gantry, and force their way onto the boarding walkway. western countries are evacuating their staff and some other indi
weather is approaching some western parts of the uk, particularly the south west here through the night, this is showery rain, showery means on and off, one minute it is quiet, then heavy then quiet again, but the vast majority of the country early on tuesday morning, pretty clear, with some morning sunshine. now here is the problem with tomorrow. so, low pressure often brings strong winds but this is large and there is very little wind in it, and that is not necessarily a good thing, because with the strength of the sun all of the moisture, will see big showers forming inland. some will be thunderstorms, some will be downpours as well and there is very little wind to push this round, so where the storm forms it dumps that rainfall and that leads to flash flooding, but flash flooding the localised. sud, most of us don t get it. it will be in spots round the country. on wednesday there will be more of a breeze in the southern half of the uk and the centre of that low transfers
very, very hard to build up his law practice. lincoln was a great spinner of tales for juries. one time, he said, this reminds me of the little boy on the farm who comes running into his father and says, pa, pa, sister s in the barn, and she s got her pants down, and she s a-peein in the hey lost, and her friend, joe, has got his pants down and he s squatting to do the other thing. and his father says, boy, you ve got the facts straight, but you ve come to the wrong conclusions. then he would turn to the jurors and say, sometimes the facts don t give you the right conclusion. lincoln was honest abe, but he often cut his answers to serve his cause. there s a ten dency to say he s this moral paragon, or he s just a political animal. no. he s a hybrid. if you want to understand him, you ve got to understand both sides. by 1854, spain, france, and britain have abolished slavery, but it s very much alive in the united states. in may, president franklin pierce signs the kan
prevent trumpian authoritarianism? how do left and right come together and what compromises need to be made? i ll discuss and debate with never trumper author tom nichols. the chinese communist party s choreographed response to doubles tennis star peng shuai s sexual assault allegations. they may have back fired. we ll take a look at how she is igniting a new spark in china s me too movement. welcome to the show. ten days ago no one had ever heard of omicron. tonight the new covid variant is very much here in the united states. it is now being detected in at least 16 states across the country. some early data suggests the omicron variant might be more contagious than the delta variant. it so far reached 38 countries across the globe. here is the cdc director dr. rochelle walensky with what we know so far. we know it has many mutations, more mutations than prior variants. and many of the mutations have been associated with more transmissible variants, with evasion of some