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Im karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines: there have been chaotic scenes outside kabul airport as governments rush to bring home their citizens as well as afghan colleagues. president biden has defended his decision to withdraw us troops from afghanistan, insisting there wasnt a way for them to leave "without chaos ensuing". well, one of the fears of the talibans rule in afghanistan is that the militant group will reintroduce punishments in line with its strict interpretation of islams le...

Police service honours 15 women "pushing through misperceptions and gender expectation to create a voice for themselves in a male-dominated environment".

It in a different way than we are in real time? >> its never smart to begin to draw absolute lessones in the face of a crisis. the immediate task today is to deal with the crisis, so the crisis centers around evacuees and i would offer in addition to simply evacuating people who must be evacuated inflowing humanitarian assistance to other afghans not evacuated but in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. lets deal with the crisis. there will be plenty of time for us to do the forensics on w...

Well, one of the fears of the talibans rule in afghanistan is that the militant group will re—introduce punishments in line with its strict interpretation of islams legal system, sharia law, as they did in the country between 1996 and 2001. a senior taliban member has told reuters there will be no democracy under taliban rule, and that an islamic council will decide on the future role of women. to understand what this might mean — and what exactly sharia law is — im joined by professor cor...

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Should be given the same respect as anyone else that puts on the badge and goes to work every day. >> yeah. david, let me bring you in to talk to you about this in particular. youre petitioning to get jeffreys death reck nielzed as a line of duty death and pointing to a forensics report that connects the injuries to his state of mind afterwards. can you talk to me about that, please? >> sure. so in this circumstance, you have a d.c. law that says that in order to receive line of duty benefits, t...

>> yeah. i think its important to point out here, which i think people will be surprised that because he took his own life, his death has been not been recognized as in the line of duty death. what does that mean for you and your family? >> because its not classified as in line of duty, you dont receive any of the benefits that a police officers family would receive if it was in line of duty. the main thing is theyre not recognized. theyre not given the burial theyre deserved. theyre not given t...

His state of mind afterwards. can you talk to me about that, please? >> sure. so in this circumstance, you have a d.c. law that says that in order to receive line of duty benefits, that the officer could not have intended to create their own harm. and so in order to be able to look at what his mental intent is so what we teach in forensics is thats called mensraya. we need a forensic psychiatrist look at the chain of events that took place so we engaged an expert witness by the name of dr. sheeh...

Just trying to do modest things becomes a partisan fight. but what youre seeing a lot of action in and may dictate how things go is in the courts. the so-called climate kids suing for the right to a liveable planet, or who is accountable for this. can you use sort of forensics of tieing weather events to climate change and then oil and gas companies for their part in this and reports like this which is the definitive state of the science will go to both judges, juries an policymakers. >> and bil...

An expeditiously, but im not confident of that. i am hopeful the middle of the coming week? >> at some point did you enlist their help as well? >> we may, it depends how the investigation unfolds. i think as far as investigations or forensics, im very confident in the men and women that work for me, but we may use the lab at some point. >> and recurring theme the administration as a whole, a lot of it has been political in nature and motivation, how can you reassure folks who question whether or...