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watching in the uk or around the world. we start with breaking news. taliban fighters have reached the afghan capital, kabul. some reports say they ve begun entering the city. but a spokesman for the militants said they d been told to wait. the afghan presidential palace has tweeted that gunshots have been heard at a number of points around kabul. these pictures filmed by the bbc in kabul show people attempting to leave the city. the taliban says negotiations are taking place to ensure a peaceful transition of power. us and british troops have been arriving in afghanistan to evacuate diplomatic staff from their embassies. earlier, thousands of afghans in the capital were seen trying to withdraw their savings from atms as fear gripped the capital. overnight, the insurgents seized the eastern city of jalalabad. local leaders handed it over without a fight according to reports. it means the taliban can secure the roads that connect afghanistan to pakistan further consolidating ....
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate proctor, editor of politics home, and jonathan walker, political editor of the birmingham post and mail. let s bring you up to date on the front pages, and we have most of them in now. the guardian leads with borisjohnson facing mounting anger after he decided not to isolate despite a member of his team testing positive for covid 19 on his scotland trip. the daily mail accuses the government of more hypocricy as it calls for the mp alok sharma to quarantine in a hotel like everyone else, after he travelled to red list countries for work. the times leads with the headline no more lockdowns , as official figures show a clear fall in coronavirus cases. the dailly mirror celebrates team gb s haul of fame after laura kenny s fifth gold medal and the relay team s bronze. the sun adds that it was a stellar day for team gb s women, as they won the most medals in a single day ....
personnel and the white house is extending the existing travel ban saying international travel should be open in a, quote, safe and sustainable manner. on capitol hill, today congressman adam kinzinger is officially the second republican to accept house speaker nancy pelosi s invitation to join the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. that s just ahead of the panel s first hearing tomorrow, when it will hear from police officers who defended the capitol that day. i ll be talking to house majority leader stanley hoyer on all of this straight ahead. in this hour, tom barrack, long-time friend and chair of the former president s inaugural committee will be back inside a federal courtroom in book lin for an arraignment following his arraignment in los angeles, where he posted a $250 million bond. i ll be speaking with kerstin gillibrand about the infrastructure talks and about a lengthy and years battle to revolutionize how the military prosecutes ....
at ta ke take a dose of hardtalk before that. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. india prides itself on being the world s biggest democracy, but when it comes to those prerequisites of genuine democracy, freedom of expression and a free media, is india falling short? prime minister narendra modi understands the power of information, but is he using his own power to manipulate the flow of information? well, my guest is n ram, director of the hindu publishing group and an influential voice in the indian media. are cherished freedoms under threat? n ram in chennai, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure, mr sackur. it s a pleasure to have you on the programme. if i may say so, you are a leading member of india s media elite. you have been for years. so how would you characterise the freedom of the media in india today? what state is it in? there was a time, stephen, when i thought that india was in an enviable position, when it came to media freedom, independence and a ....
republican lawmakers here in washington say this move is an invasion of privacy and an infringement on civil liberties. it was on arizona congressman andy biggs tweeting today it s none of the government s business knowing who has or hasn t been vaccinated but hhs secretary hit back with this. listen. we should point out that the federal government has spent trillions of dollars to try to keep americans alive during this pandemic so it is the government s business continuing to spend money to try to keep people from contracting covid in helping reopen the economy. so now making moves hand in glove at the white house to clarify those remarks. jacqui heinrich joins us from 1600 pennsylvania avenue with the fallout in the strategy going forward on this. really trying to correct the record after the interview spark some backlash. he tweeted some comments i made today are being wildly taken out of context. to be clear, the government has no database tracking who was va ....