associates including a saudi arabian diplomat and government employee were in contact with the plane s hijackers and had other complexes to other terrorist plots against our country but the report claims it shows no clear evidence that the saudi government itself was directly complicit in the attacks but you know the families of 9/11 victims, they don t buy a word of that. alex hogan live here in new york city with the latest. alex. reporter: hi, eric. the white house releasing this formerly classified report yesterday afternoon two decades after 9/11. familiar his of the victims said that unless the administration declared and declassified the information, they didn t want president biden commemorating the events commemorating those killed in terror attacks. biden did so by executive order. loved ones and family members who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the kingdom of saudi arabia thanking the president, releasing a statement saying in part it provides a blueprint fo
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are olivia utley, assistant comment editor at the telegraph and richard duggan, editor of essex and cambridgeshire live. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. when the final us flights to leave the area those who helped western forces have been left behind. the taliban according saying that they re able to launch fresh air strikes against the islamic state in afghanistan and the remains of the vehicle hit by a drone strike in kabul makes the front page of the guardian. it is thought that seven children are amongst the dead. the time reports on leaks from the pentagon which shift blame towards uk forces for the deaths at the airport on thursday. the metro since the last us troops left kabul a minute before midnight local time to end 20 years of conflict there. that is the picture of both afghan refugees arriving on the front page of the ft. which also says that the eu is preparing
and the horrifying images that we ve seen as a result of yesterday s attack. we are learning a little bit more. two suicide bombers essentially targeted two different gates. one, abby gate, which is a major choke hold with thousands of people lining up, pushing to get into the airport. and the other one outside the barron hotel. this is where we were just about a week ago. this is where the british had been using as a standing operation, a place from where they do their processing, their evacuations. they have said now that evacuation operation is completely finished, but they hasten to add that this is not because of the attack. this was already on schedule and they have simply finished the evacuations they needed to do. but to give our viewers a little bit of a better sense of how this happened, just based on our experience, what you had was the taliban guarding the outer perimeter, and then the next line essentially were u.s. forces. while the taliban were doing sort of cu
we are prepared, we have the tools. we can do this. that s the next step. the president also announced requirements of vaccination and urging businesses and employers to step up and require this for employees. that s that tension between the government not being able to make that call in the united states, you can t mandate that as an executive action. he wants more employers to lead the way. the administration push reflects how america right now face this cross roads with the covid delta variant surging. the year 2020 is something many people do not want to relive in america with lockdowns and covid deaths driving a natural cultural conversation, was just about getting to 2021. 2020! i don t know about anybody else but i think i am kind of done, can we get to 2021 remember that? can we get to 2021? that energy of getting past 2020 was a reference of how tough covid was at the time of no cure and novak seens. daily covid cases were peaking as 2020 turned 20
as longtime conservator of her estate, seen a major victory for the singer. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe britain and the united states are sending troops back into afghanistan to help their nationals leave. the taliban continue their rapid advance across the country. it now appears that the militants have captured the country s second biggest city, kandahar giving them control of about a third of afghanistan s main cities, as well as much of the countryside. let s get the latest from kabul and our correspondent, yogita limaye. we woke up talking about the fall of city hundred miles north of campbell and we are now talking about many falling to the taliban. many of them significant cities for the afghan government. herat, fiercely contested between the two sides but the afghan government was not able to hold onto it. staring at defeat in kandahar, the second largest city in this country, lashkar gah the capital of the helmand province falling