Hello and welcome. Britain and the united states are sending troops back into afghanistan to help their nationals leave. The taliban are rapidly advancing across the country. It now appears that the militants have captured the country s second biggest city, kandahar giving them control of about a third of afghanistan s main cities, as well as much of the countryside. Ramzan karmali reports. Another day of taliban advances sawthe militants move into the third largest city. And another city less than 100 kilometres from the capital. The taliban have taken control of 11 provincial capitals. They also claim to have taken kandahar. The us and other foreign troops withdrew after 20 years of military operations, but now the us is sending 3000 soldiers back to help evacuate a significant amount of embassy staff. This is a temporary mission with a narrow focus. As with all deployments of our troops into harms way, our commanders have the inherent right of self defence and any attack on them c
and she has a long and very stellar academic trail, having graduated from harvard and harvard law school. then clerked on the supreme court. then was in private practice for a few years and then as i said became a maybe i didn t say, became a public defender. which is very important because biden has stressed that he wants to have a diversity, not just of demographics but of experience. and she represented indigent defendants accused of crimes, several of the members of the court are former prosecutors, but i don t think there has been anybody that has represented people that were accused of crimes since thurgood marshall and that s a long time ago. he was the first african american justice on the supreme court. so the other leading contender is leondra kruger. and she is a justice on the california supreme court. like ketanji brown jackson, she has stellar legal credentials. interestingly, she was hired by the republican solicitor general of the united states to be an assi
postseason hitters ever? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that has a policy to always leave for rome as soon as possible. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, october 28th. we ll start with the news. president biden is expected to make an appearance at this morning s house democratic caucus meeting. before leaving for europe, the president will push for the house to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. two people familiar with the news say they re using it as leverage to get the larger social spending bill passed, but progress is slow, and the white house wants a win to tally overseas. the meeting could push back the president s flight to europe, but white house press secretary jen psaki said, quote, there was lots of flexibility built into the president s schedule. his first stop tomorrow is with pope francis followed by french president emmanuel macron. he met with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema for two hours y
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important new data from the uk shows that one in six of those most critically ill with covid 19 are pregnant women who ve not received a vaccine. and captain kirk takes a real life journey into space the 90 year old actor william shatner explains why. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and 2am in istanbul, where turkish authorities have boosted security on their border with iran and warned they won t accept an influx of migrants and refugees fleeing the taliban in afghanistan. many afghans make the journey through iran to turkey hoping to travel onwards to other european countries. turkey already has the world s largest refugee population of around 4 million people. our international correspondent orla guerin has been to the turkish border province of van and sent this report. turkey is cracking down on those who sneak across the border. even those in this smuggler s safe house, who may have fled in fear f