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Congratulations, mr president. the question on everyones mind was with no political solution in sight, would the new president stick to the may one deadline to withdraw troops? meanwhile, in afghanistan, three television interpreters were killed in the capital jalalabad, the capital of nangarhar, which suffered the worst of the surge in targeted killings. within days of each other, three health workers, a doctor and a police officer were also killed. they were all women. nangarhar had already su...

Transitionaljustice and listening to the victims, and nothing like that is happening. a news channel in kabul. she is well known as an activist in helmand and has a social media campaign called myredline. she travelled the country asking people what they could and could not accept in a peace deal — their red lines. at the talks in doha, farahnaz interviewed a member of the taliban. attracted a lot of media attention.

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A dissidentjournalist? in northern italy, a cable car crashes to the ground, killing 14 people. and — a special report on the migrant children who arrive in america. thousands are being held in detention camps. good evening. people across the uk are being urged to take up the offer of both doses of a covid vaccine when offered, after a new study showed effectivesness against the b.i.617.2 or indian variant. the research also showed that a single dose of vaccine offered limited protection again...

Back in doha, the taliban and afghan government had started direct talks — one of the commitments in the us taliban deal. there is one priority for me as an afghan and that is really to see any effort through non—violent means that can end this current bloodshed and this current armed conflict. my personal view, not representing even my family because ijust dont want their life to be in danger. ijust have this problem even calling this process a peace process because its not a peace process,...

A push for people to get both covid vaccine doses — as a study shows high protection against the indian variant. as lockdown eases, the rise of the variant has been a worry. it is already the dominant strain of the virus in some areas. at the same time, ministers reject claims from a former downing street advisor of a "herd immunity" plan at the start of the pandemic. at the time of a crisis, when government is making very, very tough decisions, difficult decisions, we put public life and prot...

Died is 127,721. in the vaccine roll—out, just over 200,000 people have received a first vaccine dose in the last 2a hours. in total, almost 38 million people have now had their firstjab. thats 72% of the adult population. nearly 557,000 people had their second dose in the past 2a hours and takes the overall number in that group, to more than 22.6 million or 43% of the adult population. the former bbc journalist martin bashir, whos been found to have used lies and fake documents to secure his ...

By the rest of the population. and the chief scientific adviser, two days later. it is not possible to stop everybody getting it and it is also actually not desirable because you want some immunity in the population. we need to have immunity to protect ourselves from this in the future. today, the home secretary insisted herd immunity had never been the strategy. absolutely not. our policy from the outset, andrew, the policy and the strategy... so why is dominic cummings telling us that is true?...

To protect the corporations journalistic values. loads of the checks and balances put onto bbcjournalism didnt seem to have been, um, used in order to protect the bbc from experiencing what i call scoop frenzy. being a journalist involves trying to make the headlines. i have been very fortunate because ive made the headlines on several occasions. mr bashir had been understood to have been too unwell to answer questions about his behaviour, and neither he nor anyone from bbc management was availa...

Members of the british public but even around the world right now, watching what has happened, would clearly be asking the question is, where is the bbc, you know, the leadership of the bbc at this moment in time? the role of bbc news in holding the powerful to account and as a trusted media voice means it will always have its opponents, but the bashir revelations have left the corporation particularly vulnerable to attack and the director—general has said he will talk about what needs to happ...