the obama administration in exchange for the u.s. army sergeant bill bergdahl back in 2018. maybe they were picked up in afghanistan but they were picked up all over the world. they are terrorists and enemy combatants are not prisoners of war. greg: and so you have a catch and release game with maniacs, it s okay to let them go because they will come back. it s awfully insane. who is not gora gorgeous truth teller? then there s the taliban s new interior minister who was wanted by the fbi with a $10 million bounty on his head and he s said to be holding least one american hostage. and this, there was no hostage like situation stopping them from leaving. anthony lincoln is now changing his tune. as of now the taliban are not permitting the charter flights to the park. they claimed that some of the pastors do not have the required documentation. both whites need to be able to depart. we will work every day to make sure that they are able to do that. we will continue to pr
and i m laura jarrett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this morning a major shift in momentum for vaccine mandates. both california and new york city will soon require all government workers to be vaccinated or tested weekly. and the justice department now officially weighing in as well finding that no federal law prevents businesses or government agencies from mandating a covid vaccine. of course some state attorneys general may disagree, but mrk s doctors are on board. i really wish that more businesses would be doing this because otherwise it is hard for those of us for example who are parents of unvaccinated children if we re told that we have to come back to work in person and be sitting shoulder to shoulder with other people who are unvaccinated and we don t know whether they are carrying covid, that is dangerous for us. so this is about protecting people s health and safety. and these vaccine and testing mandates are the direct r
pan pandemic news. the u.s. coronavirus death toll has top ed topped 424,000 peopl. saying this is a national emergency, everything is on the table. let s begin with breaking news. evan perez is joining us. tell us, evan, about this department of homeland security warning about the threat by domestic extremists of violence. reporter: that s right, wolf. this is a relatively rare alert that we ve gotten from the homeland security department that has to do wholly with domestic extremists. and it has to do with the belief that perhaps extremists have been emboldened by the attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th. it talks about the continuing threat of violence following the inauguration of joe biden and the possibility that elected officials, government buildings will be targeted as part of a series of attacks. i ll read you just a part of what the dhs bulletin says. it says, quote, a heightened threat environment will persist in the weeks following the successful president
should any of these individuals ever travel outside russia, we will work with our international partners and take every possible step to detain them, and extradite them to face justice. and thousands more people flee the volcano that s erupted on the spanish island of la palma. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news. our top story. the prime minister has said the government will do what it can to protect consumers, following a spike in gas prices. speaking in new york, borisjohnson said people will not be short of food this winter. our political editor laura kuenssberg began by asking the pm what his government are doing about what is turning into a real crisis in energy. first of all everybody needs to understand what is going on, this is really being caused, the spikes in hydrocarbon prices in, gas prices are being caused by the world economy waking up after a long period of paralysis, it is unfreezing everywhere and that is causing supply chain problem, it is causing s
moment. we will talk to tom homan about that. sandra: alert to a city in mourning. a wake is underway for one of the two new york city police officers murdered in an ambush last weekend. and funerals for both officers are scheduled in the coming days. hello, sandra smith in new york. great to have you here. it s great to be with you, i m in for john roberts, a solemn site. fellow officers carrying the casket of 22-year-old jason rivera into st. patrick s cathedral this morning. he and his partner were ambushed inside an apartment last week after responding to a mother s call for help. as funeral services get underway, attention now turning to manhattan s far left d.a. and the soft on crime policies. now alvin bragg says he will attack gun violence at every angle. deadly and dangerous start for the nation s police officers. 24 have been shot and four killed since just january 1st. brian will kick things off outside st. patrick s cathedral. is the public allowed inside?