From Bob Woodward called peril in which he lays out the panic behind the scenes as the protesters moved to the capitol in a near insurrection ensued. Reports that mark milley took action to secretly prevent things from totally unraveling not only during and after the Capitol Event but weeks before it. At issue, the president s behavior following his loss to Joe Biden and what General Milley described as the president s erratic behavior. Milley reportedly concerned that thent could go rogue and his obsession with questioning the election hit a fever pitch. He told his top chiefs to watch everything all the time. His fear is that President Trump could do something unpredictable. Milley assuring his chinese counterpart that they need not be concerned about any surprise attacks that no hostile moves were coming from the United States. But the worry was plainly there. Both in china and here. Milley said there was no certainty that the military could control or trust trump and believed it wa
Good evening, bret. Once again republicans called on the Secretary Of State to resign but in a shift from yesterdays house hearing, he wasnt getting much love from democrats either. Doing the right thing in the wrong way ends up being the wrong thing. Democratic chairman of the senate foreign Relations Committee Robert menendez Set The Tone for what turned out to be three hours of intense Questioning And Scolding of Secretary Of State Antony Blinken over the withdrawal from afghanistan. We realize this is a complete debacle. This Sant Failure of intelligence. This is a failure of policy and planning. This is a Puppeteer Act if you would and we need to know who is in charge and who is making these decisions. Committee democrats deflected, letting the secretary explain how we got here over the last 20 years. And pointed fingers at the trump administration. Republicans handled the interrogating. Senator Rand Paul who has been pushing for years to leave afghanistan took issue with reports
that s outfront. good evening, i m aaron burnett. putin responds. russia s president has now replied to america s written response to putin s demands. now, the state department tonight is tight-lipped. they are saying they won t publicly discuss what putin has put in writing. but as putin delivered his response, we learned something important, that as he was doing that he was pumping up his military forces on the ukraine border. according to the biden administration, putin is now ramping up his presence on the border adding 30,000 more troops. that s the plan they say or the next coming weeks that. brings it to 160,000 troops on the ukranian border. these are actions that speak as loudly as russia s u.n. ambassador did today when moscow tried to blame the u.s. for russia s mass military buildup. it was during a security council meeting that russia tried to derail t.failed to cancel it. russia s ambassador said they brought pure nazis to power in kyiv telling the u.n. ambass
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in cyprus, where a spanish charity ship carrying vital supplies is preparing to set sail for gaza, along a new maritime aid corridor. it s been loaded with around 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies. but, without a working port, it s not clear yet where the ship will actually dock or how its cargo will be distributed inside gaza. 0ur middle east correspondent quentin somerville is in the port city of larnaca in cyprus and sent us this report. it s a drop in the ocean of gaza s need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. the spanish ship the open arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. it has a long journey ahead of it. the barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials rice, flour and pre prepared meals. this has taken months in planning. the cargo was loaded all weekend. the final security clearances from israel came th
so much to shape the world of today? sathnam sanghera, welcome to hardtalk. it s nice to be back. it s great to have you back, and you are back with a new book, which i have here empireworld. it s your take on just how massive the impact of the british empire was and still is on the world. you certainly don t undersell your idea, it s subtitled how british imperialism has shaped the globe. i really do believe that. i think the british empire explains so much about people s daily lives around the world, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the bbc world service used to be known as the bbc empire service. it explains so much about our daily news. you vejust come back from guyana there s a border dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, there s a gap between the way in which britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to r