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travel rules. president biden has said that the drawdown of american forces in afghanistan is on schedule and its military mission there will end on 31 august. it s nearly 20 years since us and other foreign forces entered the country in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks on the united states attacks which were planned under taliban rule in afghanistan. two decades on, and a resurgent taliban continues to make rapid gains as nato forces leave. mr biden said that there was no sence in prolonging the us stay in afghanistan beyond the end of next month. in 2011, the nato allies and partners agreed that we would end our combat mission in 2014. in 2014, some argued one more year, so we kept fighting. and we kept taking casualties. in 2015, the same and on, and on. nearly 20 years of experience has shown us that the current security situation only confirms thatjust one more year fighting in afghanistan is not a solution, but a recipe for being there indefinitely. it s up ....
restrictions. hello, and welcome to bbc news. president biden has said that the drawdown of american forces in afghanistan is on schedule, and its military mission there will end on 31 august. it s nearly 20 years since us and other foreign forces entered the country in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks on the united states attacks which were planned under taliban rule in afghanistan. two decades on, and a resurgent taliban continues to make rapid gains as nato forces leave. mr biden said that there was no sense in prolonging the us stay in afghanistan beyond the end of next month. in 2011, the nato allies and partners agreed that we would end our combat mission in 2014. in 2014, some argued one more year, so we kept fighting. and we kept taking casualties. in 2015, the same and on and on. nearly 20 years of experience has shown us that the current security situation only confirms thatjust one more year fighting in afghanistan is not a solution, but a recipe for being t ....
welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. india prides itself on being the world s biggest democracy, but when it comes to those prerequisites of genuine democracy, freedom of expression and a free media, is india falling short? prime minister narendra modi understands the power of information, but is he using his own power to manipulate the flow of information? well, my guest is n ram, director of the hindu publishing group and an influential voice in the indian media. are cherished freedoms under threat? n ram in chennai, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure, mr sackur. it s a pleasure to have you on the programme. if i may say so, you are a leading member of india s media elite. you have been for years. so how would you characterise the freedom of the media in india today? what state is it in? there was a time, stephen, when i thought that india was in an enviable position, when it came to media freedom, independence and also the state of development of the media, cer ....
he considers the promotion of gay and lesbian relationships. these people have taken to the streets in budapest against that hungarian law and the eu can move to cut hungary s budget that it received from the eu. all spectators are now going to be banned from 0lympic events in tokyo. it is because the city is under a state of emergency because of a search of coronavirus infections. joe biden is about to speak about the us troop withdrawal from afghanistan. the uk already announced all of its troops left. ending nearly 20 years of military operations in afghanistan. in april, joe biden all us troops would leave afghanistan by september 11 when all foreign troops who make up the nato defence alliance will be gone. 2,500 us troops were left in afghanistan. many of them were stationed at the bagram airbase the key command centre for anti taliban operations. at the peak of us involvement over 100,000 us and nato troops passed through it. by friday the troops were gone. ....
hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents writing, blogging and broadcasting to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, a taxing question for the g20 making multinationals pay theirfair share, and is the head of the imf naming and shaming the g7 over vaccination? i am joined byjeffrey kaufman, a news anchor in both his native canada and the united states as well as a much travelled foreign correspondent. isabel hilton, newspaper columnist and broadcaster who founded china dialogue, an independent organisation trying to foster greater understanding of china and improve its environment. and you see him there, our bbc business editor simonjack, good to have you with me in the studio. welcome to isabel and jeffrey. lovely to see you again from distant parts. now, no taxation without representation the slogan of the american colonies after a sales tax imp ....