On social media is something we also urgently need to look at, including the way that hostile states have been able to wrap this up systematically. There is a real need to be able to go after that capability urgently and have more resources to shut it down. Capability urgently and have more resources to shut it down. Thank you very much tim montgomerie. Coco khan and the uk director of more in common luke tryl. He was talking about hostile state involvement. Any insight into that, luke? it involvement. Any insight into that, luke? , m. ,. , luke? it is difficult to have insiaht luke? it is difficult to have insight and luke? it is difficult to have insight and others luke? it is difficult to have insight and others will luke? it is difficult to have l insight and others will know luke? it is difficult to have insight and others will know more than me insight and others will know more than me but there seems to be a recurring than me but there seems to be a recurring suggestion
Winner malala yousafzai she was shot in the head by the taliban when she was a school girl in pakistan and is now a global activist for girls education. In our other main news today, a one minute silence is held in plymouth, to remember the five people killed in last week s mass shooting. And double jabbed people in england and northern ireland will no longer have to isolate if they ve come into contact with someone with covid. Welcome to bbc news. There is chaos and panic at kabul airport as thousands of people have flocked there, desperate to board flights out of afghanistan after the taliban swept into the capital, putting them in control of the whole country. There ve been a number of deaths there today, where fear about the taliban s takeover has driven people to new depths of desperation. A us official has confirmed that american troops killed two armed afghans who were part of the crowd. Meanwhile, more than 60 countries, including the us and the uk, have signed a stateme
Government s role in supporting role. The key step has come at a dramatic time. It was super early this morning in the senate, 4:00 a. M. Eastern time there in washington on this crucial test vote for the democrats, $3. 5 trillion safety net plan. Biden add the democrats winning the party line vote. On this vote, the yas are 50. The nahs are 49. And the concurrent resolution as amended is agreed to. [ applause ] you can hear the smattering of unusual applause on the senate floor. The mix there of people being obviously quite tired, having pulled basically an all nighter to 4:00 a. M. But also some jubilation from the democrats who carried the vote. It comes hours after the senate passed something we reported on yesterday that is a big deal that would be a multiweek story by itself, something that didn t happen in the past four years, despite much talk about it. Joe biden getting an infrastructure bill and getting it on a bipartisan basis. Today the president saying this. In the past 24
leader of the house republicans kevin mccarthy. they have asked him for an interview that would be testimony, a big deal, as well as cooperation to provide information. and they also are signaling as they have in some of these dra other letters. the information they have already gathered. this new information has the committee asking about a very heated conversation with trump that took place during this insurrection. where according to this committee, this is their characterization on their screen, kevin mccarthy was urging trump to get help to the capitol. that s bad for donald trump if it speaks to the culpability he had and what he knew in realtime. it also notes that trump privately admitted to mccarthy, some degree of responsibility for this insurrection. that s a big deal as more detail its spill out. . and the request to meet with kevin mccarthy on february 3rd and 4th. now this is a bit unusual in interesting ways. mccarthy is the third lawmaker that this committee h
week was 0.4% cases. as the cases climb and the holidays collide with covid exha exhaustion. we are in a war now between the delta variant and omicron variant as to who will become king of the hill. how quickly is the virus doubling in terms of its proportion? with delta, it was doubling every couple weeks, this seems to be doubling every few days. it s pretty clearly more transmissible. there is a lot of moving parts to this very, very fast-moving epidemic here in the united states, and i think we have to take it very seriously. we re going to try to curtail the spread of omicron very seriously, and at the same time, we re trying to educate people that we re going to have to live with covid. there maybe other variants down the road and we ll have to adjust what we re doing along the way. we begin with our brand new cnn poll. the numbers are bleak, beyond bleak for the president and for his party as we now count the days to the midterm election year and the midterm