We are hearing reports of a parent in california frustrated with the mask policy and his daughter s school assaulting a teacher. Our panelist danny by live to break down the science of masking in schools. A murder mystery in atlanta remains unsolved tonight despite a $20,000 reward. Who killed katie janice and her dog in piedmont park? we are covering the breaking news of a second murder in another park in atlanta. We begin with the mayhem in afghanistan and the american president who is responding to the crisis by taking a long weekend retreat. State department correspondent rich edson tracking the latest elements. Good evening, the alabama sweeping across afghanistan is the you united states sends thousands of troops to help evacuate american personnel from the capital. In washington, political fingerpointing over the ongoing u. S. Exit. The taliban is marching through afghanistan provincial capitals. United states marines are arriving in kabul, part of a porous of force of 3,000 to
Celebrations. Other people said, you know, this is really being overblown. They re following all the safety precautions. People are going to sporting events that are bigger than this. This is going to be safe. This is a sophisticated vaccinated crowd and this is just about optics, not about safety. The press taking a different approach when it comes to gop governors by directly blaming them for the spread of the new coronavirus strain. Greg abbott is in a race to be the worst possible governor in the country and the only one he has competition with right now is governor desantis in florida. Instead of the delta variant, why not call it the desantis variant. In florida we have a governor interested in playing politics than saving lives the desantis variant. I think it s great the president had a birthday party, good for him if you re vaccinated and want to have a party and invite people to your house, that s fine, but greg was this the most marine and two net thing we ve seen. I just wa
The week in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to the week in parliament. Going anywhere nice for your holidays this year? a health minister has some travel tips. Travelling is dangerous, and that is why we tell people, don t travel. Also in this programme: angry exchanges as labour accuse boris johnson of breaking the rules. Time and again, ministers act like the rules are for other people none more so than the prime minister himself. A charge rejected by ministers. It is based not on fact, but on speculation,. Innuendo and smear. And social care reform mps are warned it s not only needed for older people. You can fall down the stairs tomorrow and have a serious brain injury at 30 and need lots of care. All that to come, and more. But first, the battle against covid. The health secretary portrays it as a race between the virus and the vaccine. And, with the spread of what s known as the indian variant, it s not always been clear who s winning. The lifting of some covid restriction
After speculation over this competition footage. The united states and the eu have condemned the forced diversion of a passenger plane carrying a dissident belarusian journalist. He belarusianjournalist. Was he belarusian journalist. Was arrested he belarusianjournalist. Was arrested on he belarusian journalist. Was arrested on landing. The plane flying from greece to lithuania was diverted to minsk in belarus. The us secretary of state antony blinken called it a shocking act that endangered the lives of more than 120 passengers, while the president of the european commission ursula von der leyen described it as an illegal hijacking and said belarus would be punished. This bbc diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. This is not where flight fr4978 was supposed to be this afternoon, on the ground at minsk airport. The ryanair flight with about 170 people on board left athens this morning bound for vilnius. Butjust before the aircraft entered lithuanian airspace, it suddenly head
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello, i m martine croxall. Welcome to dateline london. My first time hosting the programme, which is very exciting! hold on to your hats. This week, we discuss the successes and failures of the worldwide vaccination programmes against covid 19, and the conflict between israel and hamas. Our guests are the french journalist agnes poirier of the magazine, l express, the american journalist and broadcasterjef mcallister. And with me, suitably distanced still in the studio, the bbc s science editor, david shukman. We re welcoming you, david, yourfirst time back in the building for over a year. Very strange feeling but very nice. And i hear your mum is an avid dateline viewer, so she will be especially pleased to see you here for the first time! she is a huge fan so i cannot make any mistakes. I can t make any mistakes. She will be so glad that you are here with me on the programme. In the uk and the us, the vaccination programmes against the pandemic has