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The fanfare accorded to previous leaders. his body was taken for burial at el—alia cemetery, where his predecessors and other independence fighters are also interred. mr bouteflika died on friday at the age of 84. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: canadians prepare to vote in mondays parliamentary elections, in a snap poll called by prime minister trudeau. benjohnson, the fastest man on earth, is flying home to canada in disgrace. all athletes should be clean going into the game. im jus...

Numbers like you see on the screen, look at the people. theyre staggering. tonight there are more than 12,000 migrants under or next to a bridge waiting to be processed by the u.s. border patrol and languishing in squalor there. a short time ago we learned that officials are racing to transfer migrants to go to haiti, thats in political shambles. rights activists say president biden is breaking the promise to grant political asylum than his predecessors. i want to bring in two guests. alice, wha...

That is harming americas health. >> but theres a reason why your predecessors didnt address it? >> perhaps. >> reporter: were used to hearing dr. rochelle walensky talk about the covid-19 pandemic. >> vaccine safety is a top priority. >> reporter: this is her first interview on americas epidemic of gun violence. >> one weekend in chicago we had 74 people shot. that same weekend a party in florida fives teenagers shot. that same weekend, a man in new york city in times square shot in the back and...

Donald trump than it is on mark milley. thank god you had a chairman of the joint chiefs of staff that was willing to take measures to make sure there were a few checks and balances in place so things didnt spiral out of control, something done by predecessors of his for decades if they were worried about a situation that could spiral into war, its his job to try to keep that in check, both to advise the commander in chief to be disciplined and thoughtful about his thinking when it comes to exer...

Think the government wants to have these conversations and debates because it resonates with some of its key voters. the key takeaway for many reshuffle is the prime minister is very powerful when he does one, you can only play this card every once in a while, not very often, but just because you have changed the faces and the people, the challenges that the government faces still remain the same. a lot of these new ministers will have to have conversations with the treasury, for example, about ...

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Of the presidents three predecessors would have done so. if we learned anything from our 20-year war in afghanistan, its easier to get into a war than to get out of one. however, given the amount of second guessing, arm chair quarterbacking that i have seen over the last month, i fear that we havent learned anything. we must encourage a policy that stops undefined military engagement before they can begin. i want to be sure americans at home understand the position president biden was placed in....

0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i dont know who youre talking to. but if youre talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if youre talking honestly ...

Think is ready to do what we need to do for the sake of protecting our right to vote and getting a measure done. you know, we start this segment acknowledging whats happened in texas. whats happened in georgia. its not just there. florida, iowa, so many other states that have attacked our fundamental right to vote as an outcome of a 2020 election that they themselves worked fine and so theyre being hypocritical. they cant have it both ways and well do what we need to do to protect the right to v...

Forces and refrain from threatening afghanistans major cities. the taliban continued guerrillas marginal remote outposts, checkpoints and villages, districts as well as major roads. by january 2021 the taliban was in the strongest military position it had been in since 9/11 and we have the smallest number of troops on the ground since 2001. as a result upon taking office, president biden immediately face the choice between ending the war or escalating it. had he not follow through on his predece...