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Ambassador to the un linda thomas green field who has a busy week and she is in in new york and shejoins us now. welcome to the programme, and, president biden is calling for this new era of relentless diplomacy, is item one on the agenda repairing relations with the french who have accused america of stabbing them in the back because of your deal with the australians over submarines? the president was very clear in his speech to the un, that we will be focussing on rallyling all of our allies a...

They should and here is why. you know, about a month ago, what we were hearing from the governors office and all of his allies and democrats here in california is that there was real concern. this is an off year special election. democrats werent paying attention. they really werent engaged. similar to what you would see in the midterm except it was more extreme in california so the governor had to turn it around. how did he do that? he started focussing on his covid protocols. they leaned in on...

Voters in the state. >> how did we get here with larry elder. he was a defeat. the republicans defeated themselves with larry elder. how do they get to the point where larry elder is the leading candidate in california? >> he obviously gets in there. he does have name id. and hes the leader of the republicans in the state. and the problem is they were only focussing on the base of the party. what they -- the victory there -- >> thats a good message. >> there are democrats and independents signin...

Very focused on that and make sure that assistance can go through and that its monitored effectively, including by the agencies doing it. i spent sometime talking to the head of the united nationss effort on this, in terms of having a clear monitoring mechanism on this and to carry that forward. next, we will soon appoint at my direction a senior official responsible for focussing and marshaling our efforts on support for women, girls and minorities in afghanistan. its important that we have a f...

Good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has set out his autumn and winter plan to deal with covid in england. borisjohnson said the government will stick with its strategy of focussing on vaccines, but he warned that some measures will need to be kept in reserve in case the situation changes too much. borisjohnson said although cases were higher than at this point last year, the vaccines are working and theyre leading to a big fall in the number of deaths and serious disease. fr...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wa...

Has been focussing on those on the last many months, billions of dollars in the arp that were put toward testing, to help schools have testing in place so they could be ready for a fall were a reflection of that broader set of priority. the focus on masking has also been a piece of that. the recent announcement that the president made that we are going to be sending tests, millions of tests to food banks and to community health centers so people can access them free, also part of that effort. ye...

Plane. vice president harris will be here, shell say what happens tells us so much about the courage on board who gave everything, the resolve of the first responders who risked everything, the resilience of the american people. and im joined by army colonel wayland. your cousin was among those folks on that day that took a stand for freedom that cost their lives. >> truly an amazing moment. they democratically voted to take action together. and knowing that they probably wouldnt survive. and th...

I dont think any -- im not aware of any republican leading officials who are saying they can or will accept mandates. >> well, i mean, you see it when people are -- if someone is not wearing a mask and coughing on people or on an airplane. everyone else is getting get off the plane, shut up or in the store put on a mask or here we go again and there is one in every single bunch but no matter what biden does, are republicans going to be angry anyway when they are fueled by people like desantis an...

Memoir of 9/11". thank you for your time this morning. last hour we spoke with former homeland security secretary jeh johnson. in the years since he served in the obama administration, the threats to the nation have changed significantly. so where do things stand right now? how does covid play into all of this? lets ask the current secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas. he joins us now. thank you so much for being with us on this day. i want to start with what weve learned over th...