Newly released PolIce Bodycam Footage from last Weekends VIolence In LIverpool whIch saw more than 90 offIcers Injured. TonIght the streets are calm after eIght nIghts of protest and rIot. But what lIes behInd the vIolent dIsorder of the past week . And as Kamala HarrIs and her VIce PresIdent Ial PIck Head to mIchIgan has she overtaken Donald Trump In the presIdent Ial race . Hello and welcome to newsnIght the home of IntervIews and IllumInatIng InsIghts. If government Is as much about optIcs as actIon, a lot has changed In a week. VIolence and dIsorder have been replaced by yet another Cobra MeetIng chaIred by the PrIme MInIster and swIft and very vIsIble Court ActIon wIth sentencIng, unusually, televIsed. TonIght were lookIng at whats behInd what happened and what we can learn wIth our panel. The Former brexIt party mep, Presenter Alex phIlIps and marvIn rees, Former Labour Mayor of brIstol. Also here Is hannah rose, who researches extremIsm at the InstItute For StrategIc DIalogue. B
Still under government control. Now it is around one of 200 district centres Ta Ken by it is around one of 200 district centres taken by the taliban. At least 65 people have died in algeria as more than A Hundred wildfires tear across the country. And we catch up with the teens bringing skateboarding to the olympics and the streets of japan. Even our reporter goes for a spin live her from her live herfrom her studio in singapore. This is bbc news. It is newsday. Its 6am in singapore, and half past two in the morning in afghanistan where events are unfolding at a dizzying pace. As the taliban captured a ninth provincial capital, afghan president Ashraf Ghani fired his Army Chief. The government still remains in control in key urban centres, but their hold on many areas is fragile. Us officials say the taliban could reach the capital, kabul, within weeks. Our correspondent Yogita Limaye is in kabul, a city crammed with thousands of people whove desperately fled from other parts of the co
Used to it. Unlike the mountain west, which lives with forest fire, this kind of smoke has Felt Dystopian and new. In fact, its not just your imagination of it feels that way to you, if you live in that part of the country, the Air Quality Index in parts of Newark City yesterday was over 170, which is the worst it has never been in 14 years. When you think about that air quality, there is no way to escape it. No matter how much money you have, where you live, in The End, everyone has to prove the same air. Its a real wake up Call Yesterday for everyone in the parts of the country covered with the smoke. Breathing that same air that emanated from wildfires thousands of miles away in the west. Turns out, we share the same climate with them. Right now there are more than 80 fires burning across the 13 states, many more burning across canada. And as this incredible New York times Interactive Map shows the smoke from those fires is why the air is so hazy in these parts of the country. Here
The situation room. We begin this hour with americas covid19 emergency. Cnn national correspondent Erika Hill is following all the new developments. The aggressive Delta Variant is now more dominant than ever and rapidly infecting people who are unvaccinated. What can you tell us . Reporter thats absolutely right. The numbers here dont lie, jim. In fact, some 22 , nearly 73 Million people in this country, 22 of the population, live in a county thats considered to have high transmission. What we know is the lower the Vaccination Rate in many areas, the more we are going to see some of these surges fueled by the Delta Variant. That is prompting new cause for concern, new calls for new americans to get vaccinated and also more concern that maybe some americans may never get the shot. Dreams of a covid free Summer Turning to a nightmare. The Delta Variant now represents 83 of sequenced cases. This is a dramatic increase up from 50 the week of july 3rd. In some parts of the country, the per