People dying for no reason, people torturing people dying for no reason, people torturing for no reason. Why? because torturing for no reason. Why? because they are human. Great britain because they are human. Great britain has a humanity. That s all i can say england lose the second test. It was a thrilling and dramatic day of cricket at lords, but india came out on top. Jodie comer tells us about her hollywood breakthrough, how she mastered an american accent and the time she got her mum s sunday dinners on set. Good morning. Today once again it is going to be fairly cloudy. The cloud thick enough for patchy light rain and drizzle. Limited sunshine. Details coming up. Good morning. It s tuesday, august 17th. Our top story. President biden has defended his decision to withdraw us troops from afghanistan. He admitted surprise at how quickly the taliban seized power, but blamed afghanistan s leaders for the defeat. Military planes are reported to have begun flying again from kab
Some of you will go off to college and study and explore things that we have not even discovered yet. You will become teachers and leaders, nurses, you will invent the technology that will help our nation compete and you will help lead our nation including as public servants no matter what you decide to do or where you go or no matter how many times you change your major if you go to college or your profession. We need you. We need you to be as kind as you are courageous. We need you to be as ambitious as you are curious. We need you to dream and we need you to do. That s what i call american aspiration. It is the capacity to think big and keep going. It lives in each and every one of you. As you cross the graduation stage in person or visrtually. As we emerge from this pandemic, please remember you are prepared. Remember you are not alone. Remember to inspire with ambition and graduates, always know president joe biden and i and your country believe in you. We are counting on you to l
Cohost of the five, juan williams. The daily mail reports that documents buried in a since dismissed 2015 discrimination case play microsoft is a place where women aren t ignored, abused, or degraded, with men broke down groping and their female coworkers. The lawsuit accused lawmakers of having a boys club atmosphere ripe with sexual harassment. One of the former employees who made allegations spoke out, telling the news outlet it was a culture of testing women poorly with impunity, and these revelations about gates have shown that to the world. It was a culture of lip service to diversity and inclusion but not supporting women and sexual assault claims or their career progression. The daily mail one of these allegations in that original lawsuit was one of rape by a male earn turn to another female intern. She reported it to her superiors and hr, requested a restraining order, and was told that if she followed through with it that she would be removed from the team now, the allege and
For my money he is reprehensible. Quickly because we know ther is a break coming up and this i light. We saw progress with north korea. This is such an opaque dictatorship. He force people into labor camp if they violated policies. Any quick last words? if you are going to start banning cultural items you may want to start banning things that people actually say it are in style. The younger generations have artie outlawed these things. There is no need to abandon now. Lets ease into this one. There are several hours difference between them and us. You see them and bringing in ai to the palestinians. They were hit in that something right off the top that we saw. I want to talk about this for a second before we go to a break. The world looks to us to be in a leadership role as an ally to israel. But i don t know if we ve yet seen as our administration. My prayers are with them but we aren t seeing an administration giving that support. There s a bit of irony with people on the ground we
enters its third day more than 100 firefighters have been trying to put out the flames since friday. and coming up this hour a new backdrop for the oscars. we ll go behind the scenes as la s union station prepares for a covid safe ceremony. hello and welcome to bbc news. india s prime minister says the surge in coronavirus cases across the country has shaken the nation. narendra modi was speaking after india registered a world record number of new coronavirus cases for the fourth day in a row. nearly 350,000 infections were reported in the latest daily figures, as well as more than 2,700 deaths. across the country, hospitals are being overwhelmed by the new cases and running out of oxygen to help them breathe. simonjones reports. patients continue to arrive at hospitals, struggling to breathe, needing urgent treatment. the health system is close to collapse. almost 350,000 new cases in the latest daily figures, another record. this man is desperate to find help for his si