Good afternoon. This is bbc news with victoria derbyshire. The headlines: commentator: the chance of a shot. England and tottenham footballing legend jimmy greaves has died at the age of 81. In later years he was a tv pundit alongside former liverpool striker ian stjohn in saint and greavsie. The british government says it s confident there s no risk to energy supplies for customers amid soaring gas prices and warnings more companies could go bust. We are not being complacent about this at all, but i think the clear message that i want to give to people is that we do not see risks of supplies right now and prices are being protected. The foreign secretary has defended the uk s security pact with the us and australia, despite a diplomatic row with france. The first non professional space crew ever launched into orbit has returned safely after their three day mission. Now on bbc news, the travel show with mike corey. This week, on the travel show. I am in argentina, exploring an amazin
Rioters that stormed the capitol as the democraticly president. I was more scared to work that day than any other day in my time in iraq. He shouted that i was a traitor and that i, a veteran police officer, should be executed. The rioters attempting to breach the capital were yelling trump sent us. I heard officers screaming in agony and in pain. I didn t know at the time it was office hodges who is here with us today. I recall thinking to myself, this is how i m going to die. I ended up on my hands and knees and blind. The medical mask i was wearing at the time to protect myself from coronavirus was pulled over my eyed. I braced myself against the impact of their flows. Directory in front of me a man ceased the opportunity to use my gas mask to slam my head against the wall. I remember him foaming at the mouth. He put his cell phone in his mouth so he had both hands free to assault me. They yelled no, man, this is hour house. President trump invited us here. We re here to start this
Martha: we re expected to hear questions about that today and the full context of what that conversation was. My next guest knows what it s like to sit across a negotiation table with leadership of the taliban. Chris galinda has fought the taliban as a commander in afghanistan. He s sat down at the table in an effort to try to find a way forward for the country. He serves multiple tours in afghanistan and an advisinger to our top generals there. He s the author of zero sum victory, what we re getting wrong about war. He joins me now. Great to have you with us today, colonel. Obviously you have so much experience in country and dealing with this issue. So i think one of the things that i want to begin with based on your history of trying to solve this problem starting in 2017, 18, when you see the coordination that the pentagon and the military was telling us about, how hurt so many people were by it in terms of what was going on at the airport, seeing the united states saying well, we
Terrorism has spread around the world and the need for us to focus on other parts of the world that could create an even greater danger of an operation like al qaeda beginning can t be ignored. We are a number of places where we re doing that without permanent basing of american forces there. So i think when this is over the american people have a clear understanding of what i did, why we did it, but look. That is the job. My job is to make judgments. My job is to make judgments no one else can or will make. I made them. I m convinced i am absolutely correct and not deciding to send more young women and men to war for a war that in fact is no longer warranted. Still, the situation potentially complicating what could be among the most consequential weeks of the biden presidency as nancy pelosi and the house return tomorrow to begin work on the trillion dollars infrastructure package, the $3. 5 trillion reconciliation package, and a voting rights bill. The big question facing the adminis
Help folks escape and the oklahoma mother of 11 helped the group of afghan girls did just that and what our allies are really thinking despite the president s best efforts to say no one is criticizing. We begin at the pentagon where we await that briefing. Reporter: 30 minutes from that briefing to get the latest on afghanistan and what the us embassy in kabul was warning when it instructed americans not to go to the airport, quote, because of potential security threats outside the gates of the couple airports we advise citizens to avoid traveling to the afforded of what airport gates at this time as you are receiving individual instructions from us government representative to do so. Yesterday president biden said the evacuation is going well and americans were having a problem. No indication that they haven t gotten through the airport. We need an agreement with them, allowed them to go through so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are caring american passports to get