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In his first address to the body as president, joe biden called for countries to work together as never before. but the secretary general of the un used the gathering to highlight the issues that currently face the world — superpowers are at odds with each other, theres been a spike in violent seizures of power, and there is an unrelenting climate crisis. the bbc�*s barbara plett usher has been following the days events and starts our coverage. his excellency, joseph r bidenjunior, president...

Afghanistan, its going to get out of afghanistan. if it wants to do a deal with the nuclear submarines to take a poke at china and that anows the french, its going to do that. thats the way superpowers work. thats the way nations work. youre supposed to stand up for your own self-interests. is it a little surprising the degree to which the biden administration has had some collateral damage in both of those actions simply by not i forming allies, by calling them beforehand, giving them a heads u...

To the body as president, joe biden called for countries to work together as never before. but the secretary general of the un used the gathering to highlight the issues that currently face the world — superpowers are at odds with each other, theres been a spike in violent seizures of power, and there is an unrelenting climate crisis. the bbc�*s barbara plett usher has been following the days events and starts our coverage. his excellency, joseph r bidenjunior, president of the united states...

This action, even after any adverse judgment in australia. concorde had crossed the atlantic faster than any plane ever before, breaking the record by six minutes. this is newsday on the bbc. im karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines... president biden makes his debut in front of world leaders at the un, promising a new era of �*relentless diplomacy�* to replace relentless war. a busy day for president biden — while hosting the british prime minister at the white house — he outline...

Administration to reassure him that donald trump had no plans to attack china in an effort to remain in power and that the u.s. was not collapsing. yet despite his assurances, general milley was so concerned about trump that later that day he convened a meeting with top commanders to remind them that the procedures for launching a nuclear weapon called for his involvement in such a decision. the book also sheds light on just how close the u.s. came to a full-blown international crisis with china...

As the chairman get set to take his seat, will be starting in just a second. morgan, let me ask you this question. the president said in his speech in shanksville, pennsylvania, on saturday that you cant have u.s. military everywhere that there is al qaeda. basically said, are you kidding me, come on, man. clearly you can have troops everywhere there is an al qaeda cell. when you could make a credible and potentially compelling case, the place from which 9/11 was launched. if you cannot trust th...

Imean, i mean, could we expect or could we have expected warmer words? ~ ., could we have expected warmer words? ~ ~ ., , words? well, i think in many wa s words? well, i think in many ways the _ words? well, i think in many ways the most _ words? well, i think in many ways the most significant - words? well, i think in many. ways the most significant thing here was the conversation in itself, the fact that there was a phone call, the leaders of the worlds two biggest superpowers had not spoken ...

Shukria barakzai is a politician, journalist and a prominent muslim feminist from kabul and was the ambassador of afghanistan to norway up until 2019. she told my colleague victoria derbyshire a short time ago that yesterdays attack highlighted afghanistans vulnerabilities. u nfortu nately unfortunately with the sorrow and terror we should say the attack yesterday shows you how often afghanistan can be and how the international terrorism attack and kill innocent afghans and an example of how the...

26% the prove. 62% disapprove. do you think that would play an role in encouraging the white house encouraging the president to possibly change course or strategy with what they are doing now with the public pressure? >> i sure hope so. it is not too late to change course and make sure that we dont turn the mistakes weve made so far into absolute catastrophes. the notion that the united states would ask last taliban for permission to rescue our ow citizens is just ludicrous. superpowers dont say...

She has arrived and she is already pointing the finger at china? ., , , china? that is right. these words were _ china? that is right. these words were made - china? that is right. these words were made about i china? that is right. these words were made about an china? that is right. these - words were made about an hour and a half ago about a mile from here and there are very strong words and she said that chinas actions in the south chinas actions in the south china sea have been unlawful and...