Hello, and welcome to the programme. The pentagon Is makIng plans for the fInal stages of the afghanIstan wIthdrawal, but on the ground the evacuatIon contInue apace. We got more Numbers Today 19,000 People have been flown out of kabul In the last 2a hours. In fact, there Is a flIght leavIng nearly every 39 mInutes from the HamId KarzaI aIrfIeld. And sInce 15 august, when the operatIon began, a total of 88,000 People have been extracted. But theres one Important fIgure we Cant PIn down and thats how many People, IncludIng amerIcans, stIll want to be evacuated or can be by next weeks deadlIne. In the last hour, the us secretary of State Anthony BlInken has been gIvIng some detaIls on the work beIng done to reach them. For the remaInIng roughly 1,000 contacts that we had, who may be amerIcans seekIng to leave afghanIstan, we are aggressIvely reachIng out to the multIple tImes a day through multIple Channels of communIcatIon phone, e maIl, Text MessagIng to determIne whether they stIll wa
this is bbc news. we will have the headline straight after her talk. welcome to hardtalk with me zeinab badawi from south africa where my guest has been described as one of the world s greatest living artists. he is william kentridge and this is a major exhibition of his work in cape town. william kentridge is versatile, hard hitting and his talents span many different genres. but how has south africa s violent and racist past influenced his work as a white artist? william kentridge injohannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. william kentridge injohannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. zeinab, thank you very much and welcome to the studio in johannesburg. you were born injohannesburg in 1955, the son of two prominent anti apartheid lawyers, wow did growing up under apartheid affect you? i think because my parents were both very much aware anti apartheid struggle, from a young age i was aware of how unnatural south africa was. there was always a slight disjunction between myself and say, o
and all the main news stories where my guest has been described as one of the world s greatest living artists. william kentridge is versatile, hard hitting and his talents span many different genres. the work is now being mark here at the royal academy in london. in 2020 and travelled to his studio injohannesburg. i asked him how far south africa s violent goat passes influences are. william kentridge injohannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. zeinab, thank you very much and welcome to the studio in johannesburg. you were born injohannesburg in 1955, the son of two prominent anti apartheid lawyers, wow did growing up under apartheid affect you? i think because my parents were both very much aware of and involved in legal questions around the anti apartheid struggle, from a young age i was aware of how unnatural south africa was. there was always a slight disjunction between myself and say, other people in the class whose parents took it as a natural. remember all white school, all
this is a government in chaos and confusion. we ll be looking in more detail at the conservative approach to social care in england, and what it could mean for the election campaign. also tonight. president trump starts his official trip to israel and expresses confidence about a peace deal with the palestinians. i ve heard it s one of the toughest deals of all, but i have a feeling we re going to get there, eventually. facebook insists that it is serious about monitoring offensive material posted on its pages. and two centuries of tradition injapanese art stealing the show at the british museum. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: david moyes resigns as sunderland manager afterjust one year in charge. the club ended the season bottom of the premier league. good evening. the prime minister stands accused of performing a hasty u turn on her plans to reform social care in england. just four days after publishing the conservative manifesto and following widespread controve