29th August News Today

The details shortly. Its tuesday, the 27th of august. Our main story. The Prime Minister will promise to reverse a Decade Of Decline when he delivers a speech from Downing Street later. Hell also say his government will Root Out 1a Years Of Rot under the conservatives. The tories have dismissed the speech as a Performative Attempt to distract the public from promises sir keir starmer never had any intention of keeping. Our Political Correspondent ben wright has more. Sir keir starmer will say th...

Mile away from a fracking side were exploratory drilling is about to begin. Site. Nearly £30 billion in mis sold Ppi Compensation has been paid out by british banks, and theres still much more to come. Ill be taking a look at when it will ever end. In sport, englands women ease into the Quarter Finals of the European Championship, with victory over portugal but for scotland its a case of so near, yet so far. And theres confusion at the races as a 50 1 winner turns out to be completely the wrong...

To have union bosses beat me up. he said things like do it, if we find more, well strike them. of course this was after he said of the isis-k leaders, we will hunt you down. he said, go get em. hes been equally silent, take nothing responsibility for the strike on innocent civilians including children that was in part caused by my view his insecure need to appear tough and just let you take the blame, general mckenzie. but what i really worry about is the aircrews who actually were pressured int...

After the first strike. he understand threatened to have union bosses beat me up. he said just do it. if we find more, well strike them. this is after he said of the isis-k leaders, we will hunt you down. he talks tough. i also noticed hes been equally silent, taking no responsibility for the strike on innocent civilians, including children, that was caused by his insecure need to appear tough. he just led you take the blame, general mckenzie. but what i really worry about is the air crews who a...

In the tragic 29th august strike was set up to fail by an administration that wanted a political victory more than they wanted an american victory. have you reached out to the air crew to make sure they understand it is not their fault that there were seven children killed? >> i have not. as you probably know, i have directed a three-star review of this incident. general mckenzie did an initial investigation. i have directed a three star review. i wont make any comments. >> you know, there certa...

0 why wasnt action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. youre right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, presiden...

0 retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of t...

0 >> thank you, senator. youre right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created ...