cabinet it s time to focus on the issues they were elected on, a day after winning a confidence vote. uber teams up with the united nations, by using its ride hailing app to deliver emergency food and water to ukraine. and revealed to the world after three centuries, the shipwreck of a historic gallion, carrying billions of dollars of sunken treasure. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. three weeks after the school shooting in texas, there are signs that some, very limited, gun control measures could be adopted by congress. the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell says he hopes for a deal addressing mental health and school security. in regard to the ongoing issue about violence, the senator is representing our side in discussions with senator murphy and we are hoping to actually get an outcome that will make a difference in areas of mental health, school safety and things that are related to the incidents
to absorb indefinite isolation to re impose their orthodoxy. but is that a sustainable strategy? my guest is fawzia koofi, former deputy speaker of the afghan parliament, now a democracy activist in exile. is there any glimmer of light in afghanistan s darkness? fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s good to be with you. well, it s great to have you in this studio. i m sure you wish you were speaking to me from kabul, from afghanistan, but you have been in exile since the taliban returned to power. how difficult for you is that separation from your country? extremely difficult. i never actually wished, i never hoped, to leave the country that gave me the identity, a country that i did not only invest my time, but i invested my blood to make it a better country for everyone. it has been a very difficult decision for me to leave afghanistan. i actually was in kabulfor a few weeks after the taliban takeover with the hope that things will get to a situation where we c
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Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, the headlines: as us politicians consider new laws in the wake of the texas shooting actor matthew mcconaughey makes an appeal at the white house. can both sides rise above. can both sides see beyond the political problem at hand and admit that we have a life preservation problem on our hands. i preservation problem on our hands. , ., , , hands. i promise you. every teari hands. i promise you. every tear i cry hands. i promise you. every tear i cry will hands. i promise you. every tear i cry will be hands. i promise you. every tear i cry will be fuel for - tear i cry will be fuel for action the united states and south korea hold military exercises amid warnings of a nuclear test by the north. borisjohnson tells his