And today im on The shores of Italys Lake Como at The ambrosetti forum, an annual opportunity for politicians on both sides of The atlantic to gaTher and talk geopolitics, and this year, There is one dominant issue The us led Pull Out from afghanistan. Now that its done, how does america see itself and its global role . Well, my guest is influential american senator lindsey graham, a close confidant of Donald Trump. Is America First now a bipartisan consensus . Senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. America is sacrificing no more Blood And Treasure in afghanistan. Isnt that a source of profound relief to The American people . No, i think most americans are upset that we left our afghan allies behind. I think most americans are upset that we have american citizens behind enemy lines. I think a lot of americans wanted to wash Their hands of afghanistan its been 20 years. Thats what The polls say. Yeah, but. The polls say that The American public had had enough. But not n
I think a big chance. Theres a lot of players at the moment on top of their game, so i think we can definitely start pushing on to win things now. Nurtured by City Boss Pep guardiola, foden has emerged as a key man for both club and country. So how does he handle the growing expectation . I dont think you can feel the pressure too much, because it will affect your game. The team can change at any time, it only takes a couple of bad games, and theres great players on the Bench Waiting to play, so you just have to keep focused and keep performing, and thats all you can do, really. Foden s Attacking Flair has established him as a once in a Generation Talent ahead of a landmark summer. The goal now to deliver for both club and country. Dan roan, bbc news. Thats it. Now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. Have a very good night. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me arejohn rentoul, whos the chief political commentator from
Hello, and welcome to oUr look ahead to what the the papers wIll be brIngIng Us tomorrow. WIth me arejohn rentoUl, whos the chIef polItIcal commentator from the Independent, and lUcy fIsher, the DepUty PolItIcal EdItor from The Telegraph. Hello agaIn to both of yoU. A qUIck look throUgh those from pages, we wIll start wIth the metro whIch reports on the story that flIghts to belarUs have been groUnded by the Uk and aIrcraft dIverted from Its aIrspace after the coUntry was accUsed after the coUntry was accUsed of state sponsored pIracy. The move follows the detentIon of the belarUssIan OpposItIon JoUrnalIst Roman protasevIch whose flIght was dIverted to enable hIs arrest. The tImes reports that nearly 400,000 homes wIll be bUIlt on GreenfIeld SItes In the soUth of england over the next fIve years, accordIng to a new analysIs of plannIng polIcy. The I says DownIng Street Is braced for new claIms aboUt borIsjohnson S HandlIng of pandemIc callIng It the revenge of DomInIc CUmmIngs. The gUa
are also 30 mayoral contests taking place including in london, birmingham, and liverpool. you are watching bbc news. in a week voters across the country will cast their ballots in a series of interactions. there are local councils and mayoral elections across england and national elections in scotland and wales. tonight it will be there voters in wales to hear from the leaders of the main parties in the bbc rails debate. we will be building up to that debate which starts in just under half an hour time. let us take a more detailed look at the elections. it is the biggest elections. it is the biggest election day until the next general election. and because of the cancellation of last year at s local elections, i may the 6th, thousands of seats across the uk are up for grabs. in england, people will be voting in 143 local authorities. with about 5000 feet in contention. counsellors are in charge of many services from being connection for social care, sports facilities, and lib
levers it can right now. the pentagon says we have roughly 8,500 troops on heightened alert. president biden and our european allies have been communicating about countermeasures to any russian aggression. we re going to have more from the white house, more from the pentagon and ukraine in just a few moments. also, in just the last few hours, pfizer announced that it is testing a vaccine tailored specifically to protect against the omicron variant, and we re watching the markets very closely again this morning. right now, as you can see, the dow down once again, down almost 420 point, things once again quite volatile there on wall street raising a lot of questions. so stephanie ruhle is going to join to us try to help answer some of them. also this hour, our country s crisis of conscious. after january 6th laid bare this morning. you know capitol police officer eugene goodman right there, you ve seen the video. the man facing down the mob there on january 6th and you ve never