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house correspondent, phil mattingly, and cnn senior international security editor, nick paton walsh. let me start with you. 17 capitals now, at least 17, this is happening remarkably fast. in a week. and if you cast your mind back, victor, to literally how the last 20 years have often been about stalemates over a village in the middle of nowhere, an intense amount of u.s. military power, the speed of this reversal is utterly staggering, faster frankly than when the u.s. swept in, in 2001. the second and third largest cities in taliban s hands. kandahar fell overnight. it feels like a couple of days ago now, remarkable that they have that hugely symbolic birthplace of their movement now in their hands. the question, what of kabul next? yes, there s mazari in the north, possibly the east, but it s very clear they have their target set on kabul, but do they want a lengthy and bitter street fight for a city of 6 million to 7 million people? many doubt that. they could pos ....
how safe is america s critical infrastructure? the world s largest meat processing company was forced to shut down operations due to a cyber attack. and america s last great wilderness. president biden blocks drilling for oil and gas in a wildlife refuge, in alaska. this administration still has a lot to do. this administration still has a lot to do. but this administration still has a lot to do, but this is a good first many step in to do, but this is a good first many step in that to do, but this is a good first many step in that direction. hello, wherever you are in the world, thank you forjoining us on bbc news. today we begin in israel. opposition parties have reached an agreement to form a new government that would end benjamin netanyahu s 12 year tenure as prime minister. just before a midnight deadline, yair lapid, leader of the centrist yesh atid party, has told the new israeli president an eight party coalition had been formed. under a rotation arrangeme ....
hello, i m katty kay in washington, david eades is in london. is this the moment israel bids farewell to its prime minister of the last twelve years and ushers in a new coalition including an arab party for the first time? there is, officially, one more hour to go for this potential coalition of eight opposition parties stretching across the political spectrum to strike the deal that will take benjamin netanyahu out of government after four elections in just two yea rs. extraordinary enough that it brings together such an ideological hotch potch of parties and that it could be headed initially by the leader of the right wing yamina party, naftali bennet, who once served under netanyahu. throw the united arab list or raam party into the mix and it really would be a coalition of unknown quantity. anyone but bibi might be their slogan. let s cross to jerusalem now and speak to our correspondent yolande knell we do sojust we do so just as they re pointing out a li ....
alert to force the plane to land in minsk. the journalist was immediately detained at the airport. this past thursday, two women, both of them journalists, were giving two-year prison sentences for covering a protest. in the past six months, more than 400 journalists have been detained throughout belarus. democracies across the globe are responding, outrages over the authoritarian actions. the house foreign affairs committee a short time ago saying in a statement, lukashenko s violence oppression of the pro democracy opposition and independent media knows no bounds. to arrest an activist for simply exposing the truth of the regime sanctioned police brutality against anti-government protests in belarus is abhorrent. more now from nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. yeah, alicia, this is the reason why people still refer to belarus as europe s last dictatorship. it s led by alexander lukashenko, and he s been running the country with an iron fist since the m ....
crump. reverend al will be giving the eulogy. benjamin crump will be speaking as well as family members. we see this solemn procession into the church, what the family is calling a celebration of life of andrew brown jr., as we say, we are awaiting answers, they are awaiting answers and there are north carolina laws that require them wait. there, of course, is the casket. they have to wait for a judge s order. we do not know the circumstances and the full circumstances, no one does outside of the police, the sheriff and the a judge is supposeded to be reviewing all of this, i believe, within a month. the family s only seen 20 seconds of that video, hardly enough to understand exactly why he was shot and killed. you can see there are some photographers outside as the casket is going in. joining me now, nbc s priscilla thompson, elizabeth city, north carolina and mark morial, president of the urban league. we expect to hear from benjamin crump and from reverend al sharpto ....