now it is ended and the worst of ways. rescue operations continue in louisiana as hurricane ida brings life threatening floods millions of people remain without power. and run out of russia. our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford files her final report from the country, after being labelled a threat to national security and from russia with love. our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford files her final report from the country, after being labelled a threat to national security. ata time at a time where russia is increasingly seeing enemies around, it seems i have been added to the list. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. president biden has praised the airlift of american citizens from afghanistan as an extraordinary success. mr biden insisted the us had achieved everything it set out to do in afghanistan, and no other country would have been able to fly out so many people. we have succeeded in what we set out to do in afgh
flight out of kabul, last service member. spin on the comes as the administration admits 100-200 americans who wanted out have been left behind. the president promised less than two weeks ago that u.s. troops would stay until every american was out, that did not happen, now the future of those left behind is in the hands of the taliban. john: we have this historic day covered for you, bret baier and martha maccallum for a full analysis allying with ari fleischer, michael mccaul, general jack keane and general tell-all. coverage right now, jacqui heinrich at the white house. sandra: but we begin with jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. to speak of last plane carrying u.s. troops took off at 3:29 yesterday, one minute before midnight local time. president biden s august 31st deadline, the top general overseeing the operation admitted some americans and afghans were left behind. there is a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure, we did not get
so, how are we safer now, with the taliban taking over? i m sick to my stomach. we ll bring you the latest on the evacuation from afghanistan. also this lunchtime. reporter: are you going to resign, mr raab? - labour accuses the foreign secretary of putting interpreters lives at risk, after he declined to make a phone call to get help evacuating them from afghanistan. the government has defended him. new research finds both the pfizer and the astrazeneca jabs are still offering good protection against the more transmissable delta variant of covid. and. yorkshire county cricket club has apologised to former player azeem rafiq after an investigation into allegations of racism. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel. the former manchester united and scotland striker denis law reveals he s been diagnosed with alzheimer s and vascular dementia at the age of 81. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the government says the uk will continue to help people lea
bothered to pay attention to it, though they are tasked as jurors. a maskless rand paul doodled squiggly lines on a white piece of paper as it played. the washington post reports senators rick scott, tom cotton and marco rubio studied papers on their laps instead of watching that video. now there was one mind changed. and that s significant because it shows that maybe opinions are not as rigid as some would have you believe. republican senator bill cassidy changed his previous position on the constitutionality of impeachment. he changed his vote largely because, he says, the former president s attorneys did such an awful job. president trump s team were disorganized. they did everything they could but to talk about the question at hand. and when they talked about it, they kind of glided over it, almost as if they were embarrassed of their arguments. now, i m an impartial juror. one side is doing a great job. the other is doing a terrible job. on the issue at hand, i m g
may not happen. expectation they ll get a vote. dana: then the 3.5 trillion what the democrats called human infrastructure. a huge monstrosity and why they are in a bit of a pickle. house leadership insisting today s infrastructure vote will go forward. progressives are refusing to support it. not without an agreement to pass a multi-trillion dollar welfare expansion to reshape america. bill: speaker pelosi working the phones at last night s congressional baseball game trying to get moderates and progressives on the same page. senator joe manchin the democrat from west virginia did her no favors yesterday. democrats cannot pass the biggest welfare expansion without manchin s vote. last night he is a firm no calling the bill the definition of fiscal insanity. bill: if you are confused jump on board. peter doocy leads the coverage on the north lawn. good morning, peter. officials have been working so hard and spending so much time to try to figure out what it is that