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to 11,000 per day. today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. that s one big u.s. military cargo plane full of people every 39 minutes. the wall street journal is also reporting tonight and this confirms what we had from the a.p. a few days ago. they re confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where they re actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts in kabul. the pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hard-to-get places, but this further reporting tonight from the wall street journal that in many instances it s actually cia officers who are doing those dangerous missions and not ju ....
of that country. in recent days we have watched as the number of people being airlifted out of kabul climb from a few hundred per day to 2,000 per day to 5,000 per day to 11,000 per day. today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. that s one big u.s. military cargo plane full of people every 39 minutes. the wall street journal is also reporting tonight and this confirm as what we had from the a.p. a few days ago. they re confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where they re actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts in kabul. the pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hard-to-get p ....
before. i have never read about anything like this before happening in american politics, in government. as far as we know, nothing like this has ever happened before. but the new york times says tonight that it has, and the consequences remain to be seen. all right. let me spell this out. you may have read over the last couple of weeks newly reported revelations about the justice department under donald trump secretly obtaining the communications of a number of reporters, journalists from cnn, from the washington post, from the new york times. reporters communications seized by the trump justice department secretly. and those communications that the trump justice department went after, they were all from 2017. the trump administration was frantically trying to find out who the sources were for those reporters when they were writing stories about the early days of the trump administration and the 2016 campaign. now, the reason this has come out now, the reason al ....
see what kind of shape i m in. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. oh, you will get the vaccine, rachel. it s only a matter of time. especially, according to what the president said today. everyone is getting this vaccine eligible, for it, certainly, by the middle of may april. april. so i know. but but a matter of time is, like, the matter of time. exactly. like, i just feel like i feel like i m hanging by my fingernails. you know what it is? i m really, really ready. once you once you meet the qualifications, i have seen this with many people. the minute they meet the kboiskzs in their state, suddenly, it becomes the most urgent thing in their lives. and many of them, the week before, thought, i ll get it when i get it. and then, it was just instantly refresh, refresh, refresh, just like you say. i am telling you, i have become eligible in new york, apparently, tomorrow. i don t know what time tomorrow ....
a year on from the storming of capitol hill in america, president biden is to caution against political violence becoming the norm. and the social media phenomenon pinkpantheress wins the bbc s sound of 2022. and in sport: a five wicket haul for stuart broad is the only highlight for england down under as australia take control of the fourth ashes test. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. men s tennis world number one novak djokovic is in a dramatic stand off with the authorities in australia after having his visa revoked on his arrival in melbourne for the first grand slam tournament of the year. djokovic, who has said he is opposed to vaccination, gained a medical exemption by tennis australia from having to be double jabbed against covid. but it was rejected by federal authorities on his arrival there, and he now faces deportation following a huge backlash in the country over the original exemption. djokovic is currently in a government detention h ....