You re watching bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. As we go to air, there are growing fears of region wide conflict in the middle east. The un security council has wrapped up an emergency session in new york. Wrapped up an emergency the secretary general is warning of a dangerous escalation. And israel s prime minister says his country has challenging days ahead. All this follows the killing of senior leaders from two iranian backed groups hamas and hezbollah both considered terrorist organisations by the uk and us governments. 62 year old ismail haniyeh was the political leader of hamas the group that runs gaza. He was killed in an air strike in tehran while visiting the iranian capital. Hamas blame israel for the killing, but israel hasn t responded. Iran has vowed to avenge his death. His death came just hours after israel said it had attacked a building in beirut, killing fuad shukr a senior commander of the hamas supporting group, hezbollah.
Ghani relinquished just hours ago. He fled his country after the taliban advanced into kabul. He posted a statement on facebook saying he thought it was best to, quote, get out. President biden and vice president harris are monitoring developments by the hour, both were briefed by the national security team this morning. Biden remains at camp david tonight. But hundreds have gathered outside the white house, hoping to convince the u. S. Government not to abandon the afghan allies who played a critical role in the fight against the taliban. We have also learned the pentagon is sending an additional 1,000 troops to help with the deteriorating situation on the ground there and to help evacuate u. S. Personnel and allies. It means a total of 6,000 u. S. Troops are in or on their way to kabul. Nbc news has confirmed there has not been any contact between u. S. Troops and the taliban, nor has there been confrontation between u. S. Troops and the taliban. Over the koerx of the next two hours,
Talk about how creepy governor cuomo is. This country could not get better. A lot more on that. First tonight welcome to tucker carlson tonight coming to you from budapest, hungary. Last summer as the covid pandemic raged throughout the united states people who read the new york times noticed something strange. Hundreds of articles going back decades disappeared. The new york times considers itself a living historical record and maintained searchable archives going back before the civil wars but articles disappeared. What was in those articles. Every one was a propaganda piece paid for by the chinese communist party. You are seeing one on your screen right now. Why would the new york times, america s paper of record, print propaganda from this regime and pretend it was a news article? for money. Financial filings show the new york times made more than $100,000 a month from this garbage. Those payments were not disclosed. They were hidden from new york times readers and only uncovered b
All people talk about how creepy governor cuomo is. This country has more to say. Last summer as i covered pandemic raged throughout the united states people still created the new york at times begin to notice something strange happening at the paper. Hundreds of articles appear to going back a decade suddenly vanished, disappeared. The new york times andd. Considers itself very selfconsciously a living historical record. They maintained meticulous searchable archives going back k to before world war i. Yet last august a huge number of articles just disappeared. So what was in those articles? we know the answer because of his a handful of history readers preserve them. Every member was a propaganda piece paid for by the chinese communist party. They all looked like ms. Articles. The ou islands belong to china. That s a headline. P now why would the new york times, america s paper of record, print propaganda from a totalitarian regime and pretend it s a news article? it for. Financial f
that s it for me. now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. no one would pretend the world was a perfectly happy place before the covid pandemic, but the virus has undoubtedly worsened the mental health of many of us. lockdown isolation, economic insecurity, the absence of family, friends and intimacy, all are taking their toll. increasingly, it seems, we are rethinking what it means to be happy. my guest is laurie santos, a psychologist at yale university, whose work on the science of happiness has reached millions thanks to her podcast and free online courses. can we, even now, be taught to be happy? professor laurie santos in new haven, connecticut, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you. would it be right for me to say that you have made it your mission, particularly in this time of covid, your mission to teach us all how to be happier? yeah, i think that s one way to put it. one of the things we le