[siren blaring] police officer: i need traffic stopped, southbound 10. Steve pyne: fire has been on earth as long as plants have been on land. Police officer: follow me! follow me! steve pyne: but we get a big shift when a species arrives who can start fire at will. Police officer: go, go, go, go! go south! steve pyne: i think humans have been changing the earth for a long time. Police officer: come down this way! come down this way! steve pyne: we ve lost the ability to understand how fire works and how it can be used to our advantage. Police officer: [indistinct] the fire has jumped the road. This is bad. Steve pyne: we ve mismanaged fire. Now we get fires that are really off the scale, shouldn t be here, shouldn t be behaving in this way. And now we re left with these monsters. And it is remaking the world. Police officer: (voice breaking) it s all bad up here, brother. It s all bad. Oh, my god. [thunder crackling] welcome to violent earth. I m liev schreiber. Scientists say wildfir
Kamala harris more than doubles the amount raised by donald trump last month. I am honored to be the presented democratic nominee for president of the united states. Nancy: the cbs evening news begins now. Good evening. I m nancy cordes in for norah o donnell. She s done it. Vice president kamala harris has secured the democratic nomination for president, becoming the first woman of color at the top of a major party ticket. She crossed the threshold this afternoon, picking up the majority of democratic delegates in a virtual roll call vote. Now, harris turns her full focus to making her pick for vice president, and it could be among the most consequential decisions of her political career. She has to make that decision within the next couple of days. Cbs s robert costa reports on the vice president s busy weekend schedule. Reporter: vice president kamala harris clinched the nomination in an online roll call, and immediately started rallying supporters. We are going to win this election
Lead cnn, if you ever miss so the lead, you can listen to the show whence you get your podcasts all two hours, just sitting there and likely ripe peach. The news continues on cnn the nato summit kicks off in washington today, with support for ukraine and its path to membership. Top of the agenda. While in ukraine, a day of deadly strikes with russia launching attacks across the country, leaving dozens dead and reducing partovi children it s hospital to rubble live from atlanta. This is cnn newsroom with rosemarie church appreciate you joining us. While president joe biden s physician is trying to come fears about the commanderin chief neurological health after reports that a parkinson s disease specialist has visited the white house eight times in the past year dr. Kevin o connor released a letter late monday saying many military personnel who serve at the white house experience neurological issues and a neurologist visits regularly. O connor says the president has not seen a neurologi
Hello, welcome to the media share. In a moment we are going to talk about channel 4, its new headquarters in leeds have just opened and the government consultation on whether to privatise it is into the final straight. We will hear the case for privatisation from a former channel five ceo and if you re wondering whether any of this has anything to do with the telly watch we will unpack that, too. First, though, let s talk to jack thorne who is an acclaimed screenwriter who has worked on his dark materials, shameless and skins among many others. And at this year s edinburgh tv festival he gave taggart lecture which is one of the most high profile moments for the tv industry and in that, he was blunt, telling the audience tv has failed disabled people at the and totally. Welcome to the media show. Can you explain to us in more detail why you came to that stark conclusion about the state of the tv industry? primarily because it is true. And i think that the argument must be broken down in
Now on bbc news, with rare interviews and archive, yalda hakim examines the rise of the taliban after the soviet occupation of afghanistan. Backin back in control. After nearly 20 years of conflict, thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent, the taliban has seen of the us nato and their afghan allies. A stunning success for them and another superpower humbled in the streets and fields of afghanistan. But to understand these events and the origins of these events and the origins of the taliban, we need to go back to the cold war. The body aftermath of the soviet occupation set the ground for a new force to emerge. Ground for a new force to emerge ground for a new force to emerge. Ground for a new force to emerue. ,. , , , emerge. They were really seen as angels. emerge. They were really seen as angels, these emerge. They were really seen as angels, these young emerge. They were really seen as angels, these young angels| as angels, these young angels who had arrived to