And using it to Sound The Alarm on climate change. The british Prime Minister announces one of the largest Tax Rises in decades, saying it will pay for delays in the national Health Service and fund long awaited reforms to elderly care. And struggling to remember their letters how indias School Children have been hit hard by the Covid Pandemic. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Hello and thanks Forjoining Us. The taliban have announced an interim government. It comes more than three weeks after they ousted the afghan president and took control of most of the country. The head of the interim cabinet is this man mohammad Hasan Akhund Who also happens to be on a un terror sanctions list. Today, hundreds of protesters, many of them women, took to the streets of the capital, kabul. They were met with Warning Shots from the taliban. The bbc s Secunder Kermani reports from kabul. Death to pakistan, the crowd chant. Theyre furious at what they believe is the cou
sending all of those wedding invitations. pardon everyone from himself to his administration officials to joe exotic if he has to because you see from the radical left a blood lust that will only be quenched if they come after the people who worked so hard to animate the trump administration with the policies and the vigor and the effectiveness that delivered for the american people. yeah. so i think the president ought to wield that pardon power effectively and robustly. yeah. snl just got more material for this weekend s show. that was republican congressman matt gaetz in november of last year, saying then president trump should pardon just about everyone. well, this morning there s new reporting that gaetz wanted one of those pardons for himself. you know, we ll get to that in a second. willie, you know, i m not prone to overstatement when it comes to sports, but we had another great night in sports last night. and again, not i m not saying that i hear thin
them wintry in scotland. as we head towards the end of the week it is going to turn much milder. all the details later. good morning. it s monday, the 12th of february. israel says two hostages have been rescued during a raid by special forces in the city of rafah in southern gaza. more than 20 people are reported to have been killed by israeli air strikes, with dozens more injured. israel has been warning that it intends to start a ground offensive to destroy hamas battalions in the city. our correspondent barbara plett usher is injerusalem. barbara, what more do we know? well, these two hostages have been rescued. they are two older men. fernando simon marmon, 60, and louis harve, 70. an israeli military spokesman said they came from a kibbutz where there had been captured in the october the 7th attacks. they were found in a residential building in rafah on the second floor. the military said they had been watching it for quite a long time and this operation was a joint ope
from a night out in nottingham have been named as barnaby webber and grace kumar. they were both 19. a man in his 50s was also stabbed to death and his van was then driven into another group of people, leaving one critically injured. a 31 year old man is being held on suspicion of murder. our reporterjo black is in nottingham. two teenagers killed with no real understanding as to why. barnaby webber and grace kumar were both students at nottingham university. they died in the attack along with a third man in his 50s. the city mourns together, unable to comprehend what s happened. i ve lived here all my life and i ve got a connection with the city and ijust. i kind of want to be, i don t know, here with other people my age. vigils have been held overnight for those killed. right now, our hearts, thoughts, prayers go out to those especially who have lost loved ones. in a statement, nottingham university said it was shocked and devastated and that its thoughts were with those af