Attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do know it does seem as though a large number of civilians once again have been caught up in a battle between taliban and Coalition Forces and a number include colluding many women and children this comes of course as afghanistan is preparing for its president ial election in the coming saturday the last couple of days have been generally quiet here in afghanistan but we have seen generally a surge in the number of attacks taking place both by the taliban who have threatened to disrupt t
Say after seeing a fellow protester news. And fellow hong kong is committing suicide to protest against the stay with us on bbc news. Extradition bill, seeing other friends issued, injured and families its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Scared, i say that i am ready for welcome to hardtalk, all the consequences that may come with the fight we are now in stop im stephen sackur. In hong kong, Extraordinary Events it almost sounds like some people on have become the norm in the last three months. The front lines are now ready for the territory has become a cockpit martyrdom. Well, mr sackur, if you of political protest and sporadic violence as many thousands continue to demand democratic reform. Put yourself in the protesters position, particularly this my my guest is closer to the centre of generation of hong kong people, who the storm. Have never known life under the British Colonial rule, theyve only ever known life under the chinese rule, to see every day their anson chan was the chief
A deep division among the Democratic Party in the United States right now and thats one of the things that voters will have to decide on whether or not they want sort of some of the canvas to represent the further left wing of the Democratic Party the progressives or some of the more moderate centrist typically what you would see of the Democratic Party in recent years so this is the fissure that was exposed but it was very heated very passionate sort of on the issue of race on the issue of Border Security on the issue of the war in afghanistan there were some real policy differences very passionate debate and we expect that combative nature to continue in the 2nd round this evening yeah as you say kimberly we have round 2 which starts in a few hours time joe biden of course were trying to fend off camera as cory booker so just talk us through what we can expect in some nights debate. Yeah well 1st of all the way theyre standing on the stage may be a little bit difficult for joe biden
Financing for terrorism. From the American Enterprise institute, this is 50 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Sorry for the brief delay, but i think you will find this is a conversation that you will find extraordinarily interesting. We are delighted to welcome today his excellency abdullah bin nasser bin khalifa al thani, excuse my pronunciation. Hes the deputy Prime Minister as of 2017. Alls responsible for ministry of fairness for his issues, including planning, implement a Foreign Policy and he is here for a series of highlevel conversations with the department of defense, department of state and the white house. We looking forward to hearing all of the details. So, whats going to happen today. The minister will join us at the podium for a brief statement and then he will sit down on the stage with our resident visiting fellow excuse me, im getting your title wrong, the easier one. The visiting scholar, andrew, for a conversation, which
Talk about tensions in the gulf region and his countrys relationship with the u. S. The American Enterprise institute hosted this event. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Sorry for the brief delay but i think youll find that this is a conversation that youre going to find extraordinarily interesting. We are delighted to welcome today his excellency Sheikh Mohammad bin bethani, excuse my pronunciation, appointed minister of Foreign Affairs of qatar in 2016, and the deputy Prime Minister in 2017. He is responsible for all of the ministry of Foreign Affairs issues including planning, implementing Foreign Policy, and hes here for a series of highlevel conversations with the department of defense, the department of state, and the white house that we are looking forward to hearing all of the details of. Whats going to happen today, the minister will join us at the podium for a brief statement, then hes going to sit down on the stage with our resident or v