ainsley: such a powerful moment at the rnc, former president trump making had first ap appearance since surviving an assassination attempt. watch this. if i had to start again, just my children and my wife. thank my lucky stars to be living here today. the flag still stands for freedom and they can t take that away. i m proud to be an american, where at least i know i m free. i won t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. because there ain t no doubts, i love this land. sing it. god bless the usa. lawrence: what a moment, former president met by roaring applause in milwaukee. his head still bandaged. steve: joining j.d. vance, embodies forgotten men and women. vance spoke about his history in the past with president trump. i was skeptical of donald trump in 2016, he changed the mind says mof me and a lot of americans. president trump did a good job. it is a good thing when you see somebod
and as tokyo sees off the paralympics with fireworks, it s been a fantastic games for great britain with 124 medals, including 41 golds. good afternoon. former girls aloud singer sarah harding has died of cancer aged 39. she was part of one of the most successful all girl bands this century, which was formed on the itv show popstars: the rivals. her mum marie announced her death on instagram, saying the 39 year old had been treated for cancer and slipped away peacefully this morning. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at sarah s life. the last member of the band is. after three months of competition, the moment her dream came true. ..sarah. cheering. but sarah harding could scarcely have imagined the success that would follow. every one of their first 16 singles a top ten hit, and thanks to a collection of irresistibly catchy songs they were soon selling thousands of singles. # sound of the underground.# and performing to sold out audiences. sarah brough
hello and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. topping our world lead this hour, president biden grappling with the fallout from the way the u.s. withdrew from afghanistan. a senior state department official telling cnn that the majority of afghans who worked for the u.s. and applied for those special immigrant visas or sivs, well, they were likely left behind. pentagon officials saying that the siv program was never meant to be used in a hurried evacuation. the siv program is obviously not designed to accommodate what we just did in evacuating over 100,000 people. and so perhaps this program should be looked at going forward. it is designed to be a slow process. indeed it has been a historically slow process, one that a former trump administration official claims that the trump administration, quote, sabotaged. but that said, president biden took office in january, and his administration failed to expedite the process to get these afghan allies out, despite months of
air strike, this time in kabul. officials say an imminent isis k threat has been stopped. hurricane ida makes landfall on the louisiana coast with wind speeds of up to 150 miles per hour, forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the last planes carrying uk troops home from afghanistan have started to land at raf brize norton in oxfordshire, in southeast england. their departure from kabul marked the end of 20 years of a british military presence in the country, during which a57 service personnel were killed. prime minister borisjohnson has warned the taliban that any future diplomatic relationship would depend on whether it allowed afghans who want to leave to do so and whether women s rights will be respected. here s our political correspondent iain watson. one of the last british flights from kabul landing in the uk this morning. the prime minister said we would not have wished to leave in this w
in the first wave of the pandemic while the south east was hardest hit in the second wave the heatwave across the uk has been continuing and this afternoon northern ireland has broken it s all time temperature record for the second time in 5 days. the gb women s football team off to a flying start at the tokyo olympics with a 2 nil win over chile good afternoon. we cannot go on as we are the words today of the brexit minister lord frost, demanding a rethink from the european union on britain s post brexit trading arrangements with northern ireland. the government has called for significant changes to the deal negotiated only last year but it s held back, for now, from the dramatic step of effectively suspending parts of the deal. the european commission vice president has flatly rejected the uk demand for a renegotiation of the northern ireland protocol a protocol which requires checks on goods coming in from mainland britain. chris page reports. northern irelan