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This is bbc news, the latest headlines. president biden has insisted the kabul airlift will continue despite two attacks killing more than 60 people near the airport. the us president described the 13 americans who lost their lives as �*heroes' and promised the perpetrators would pay for their actions. and let's stay with that story now on events in the afghan capital. i spoke with a retired colonel, an author and foreign policy analyst who served in afghanistan. this is what he had to say about the latest attack. it had to say about the latest attack. , . , had to say about the latest attac...

Streams against the airfield. we want to make sure we've taken the steps to take to protect ourselves there. we believe it is their desire to continue those attacks and we expect those attacks to continue and are doing everything we can to be prepared for those attacks. >> reporter: as obviously they've been talking, sam, about more specific threats, maybe not just from isis-k, but other jihadist groups and of course now the fear is that the longer the u.s. troops are on the ground, the higher the probability of another attack against them. look, yesterday's bombings was the deadliest day for ...

>> >> steven avery and his supporters have been hoping for good news and they couldn't know it, yet but help was just around the corner. >> he's very gentle and very loving. >> sandy is avery's longtime friend and one-time fiancée. convinced of his innocence, she said she searched for years to find the right attorney to take on his complicated case. during a call from prison, a re-told her to watch dateline. >> he heard there was going to be this right in ferguson case on dateline, and he told me to watch it just to see the lawyer. >> that dateline program, from august 2011, told a story of r...

Confident about 2020. he's not just going to talk about how strong the economy. and when he does, if you look at the clip that we just saw from new hampshire, that sort of sounded like a threat and not an actual talking about fundamental strengths of the economy. so the fact that now we see indications that things are not going so well in the future and that we might see a recession coming up, it kind of means that his playbook is running out here. there's a reason that democrats are talking with more confidence about the economy. but they're not willing a recession. that's something that the ...

Below 50%, it was time to really start worrying for presidents obviously it's -- it's become a much tougher road to hoe even though the last three have been re-elected. my question, how worried should trump and his team be with this 40% re-elect number and secondly, especially because it's much lower in the states that matter the most. but secondly, how is barack obama faring at this same time? i mean he had a pretty rough stretch in 2011, did he not? >> yeah. remember at about this time in 2011 you had the failure for barack obama of that supposed grand bargain with john boehner with republic...