here's - gary o'donoghue a human. - - again. gary o'donoghue a human. — — again., and then one injanuary after the storming of the capitol. he's been accused by all sorts of people of treasonous behaviour, of freelancing. he says these are perfectly normal discussions and he had significant intelligence he said the chinese were concerned that they were going to be attacked by america in that period, particularly after the january the 6th storming of the capitol. he wanted to reassure them that was not true, that he knew donald trump was not going to attack china, and that he had a duty to tell them that to avoid any misunderstanding between superpowers which will end up in huge conflagration. so, he defended himself robustly and said there were a number of people kept in the loop about those conversations and a number of people on the calls themselves. all of the outcomes were communicated to people in the white house too. we're going to turn to the uk, where the army has been put on standby to help with the fuel crisis which is now into its fifth day. a surge in

gary o'donoghue. _ huge risks this nation. gary o'donoghue, live _ huge risks this nation.as president bush's chief of staff 20 years ago and famously had to interrupt the commander in chief as he read to schoolchildren to tell them that a second plane had hit the twin towers. he's been speaking to our north america editor, jon sopel. i was standing at the door to the classroom — i was standing at the door to the classroom with the president and principal— classroom with the president and principal of the school won a navy captain _ principal of the school won a navy captain came up to the president and said, captain came up to the president and said. sir. _ captain came up to the president and said. sir. it— captain came up to the president and said, sir, it appears a small plane has crashed — said, sir, it appears a small plane has crashed into one of the towers in the _ has crashed into one of the towers in the world trade center in new york _ in the world trade center in new york the — in the world trade center in new york. the principal opened the door of the _ york. t

let's bring in gary o'donoghue from the white house. ext few minutes resident biden will be speaking. what do we know about the format of the address? gary: it will be a fairly substantial speech, as far as we understand it. maybe 35 to 40 minutes. it will pay tribute to those who have served and fought and lost their lives in afghanistan. and to the operation over the last couple of weeks. it's expected to justify his actions over the last seven months since he came into office. the timetable he said, the nature of the withdrawal, the hurried, shambolic nature of parts of it. this problem he has having made a promise to all americans and to those tens of thousands of afghans not to leave until they are all out, having apparently had to leave before all those promises were fulfilled. the state department is saying they will work on that from their new, sort of, pseudo-embassy in qatar. they will have none to implement that or make it happen. russ: help me understand the politics of this at the moment. is mr. biden's democratic party alig

gary o'donoghue in washington. _ areas of life.washington, thank you. - it is exactly a month since the taliban swept to power in afghanistan and declared the country an islamic emirate. as the international community grapples with the enormity of the change, how are things for afghans themselves? secunder kermani reports from afghanistan's fourth largest city, mazar—i—sharif, in the north. crossing into the islamic emirate, a cargo train from uzbekistan. this is now passport control. the taliban even have own stamps. an hour's drive away, the city of mazar—i—sharif. on the surface, life appears to be continuing as normal, though many are suffering with a shortage of cash in banks. this was the blue mosque, the city's cultural heart, shortly before the taliban takeover last month. now the group have allocated separate visiting times for men and women. some are still coming, but there seem significantly fewer than before. my host here is a leading local taliban figure. your critics would say you are killing off the cultural life in

gary o'donoghue - that is likely. gary, thanks as ever. gary o'donoghue live i that is likely. s in dc. every day on 0utside source, we bring you the biggest stories around the world. let's go to milan. 400 young campaigners have formally presented their proposals for action on climate change to ministers at the youth4climate meeting. borisjohnson, who appeared virtually at the event, said young people had every right to be angry about the state of climate change. he added the upcoming cop26 talks in glasgow in november could mark "the beginning of the end" of climate change. here's our science correspondent victoria gill. leaders came here to talk. but the criticism ringing in their ears is that when it comes to climate change, we've had far too much talk and nowhere near enough action. throughout this week's event, young climate activists — spearheaded by greta thunberg — moved from street protests to sharing the same room and the same stage with world leaders. there is no planet b, there is no planet blah. blah, blah, blah! today, they handed their proposals to those leaders,

gary o'donoghue has been following the hearing. is there a ctradiction here?nior officials clearly made recommendations to joe biden and formally president trump as well. the secretary ofefense confirmed that joe biden confirmed that advice. when he was asked by abc about this recommendation, there is a contradiction. they are focusing on the second part of the president's answer where he talked about the opinions being split. but he uttered the words, no one said that to me that i can recall. there is an issue here with him being as clear as he could have been with the american people. laura: do you think this is damaging to president biden? >> i think there is damage. there were differences not just on the advice which he is allowed to ignore. he is the commander-in-chief, but there are differences in terms of the nature of the withdrawal. they thought this may dame to america's reputation. looking on and seeing how resilient america was. that is something he did not agree with. you have those differences. a really downbeat assessment from the generals about

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anchor: gary o'donoghue has been following every single twist and turn and he joins us now from heregton. this looming government shutdown has been averted but that is not the end of that story, is it? correspondent: here weere again, another shutdown, another year, but that has been averted with a few hours to spare. the bigger crisis looming on the horizon in terms of government finances is the debt ceiling. in u.s. law there is a debt ceiling, a specific number, $28.4 trillion, and if the government needs to keep on borrowing, issuing bonds it needs to go through that. it will go through that on october the 18th. there is a real risk if that is not sorted out the government could default on its debts and that would send a financial tsunami through the world markets. everyone thinks it is unlikely, but both sides are not backing down at the moment. anchor: why is president biden finding it so incredibly difficult to unite his party behind his domestic agenda? correspondent: i think there are 2 things. one is the narrowness of his control of congress. if you think about the house, j

anchor: for the latest on this trend atlantic row we are joined by gary o'donoghue.nch are clearly absolutely furious. i is that being felt in washington tonight? guest: one particular way it is being felt is they canceled a major gala and a visit to mark the battle of the capes, which meet preceded george washington's victory at georgetown when the french took on the british chesapeake bay. that is gone because they believe this is an example of american perfidy and they are talking about america as an unreliable ally. anchor: i know that there have been high-level meetings in washington today between the u.s. and australian officials, but this is atrategic gamble for the australians going all in with the americans against china. guest: it is definitely a generational decision. it will last for decades the consequences of this decision and it is clearly one they have taken on the deteriorating relationships -- relations with beijing. america has seen an opportunity, and wants to share the burden of threats and the indo pacific, this is an important way it can do tha

. >> for more on today's hearing, here's our correspondent, gary o'donoghue. >> yeah, they have beenaking a lot about that, about whether joe biden was telling the truth about the advice he was given over the numbers of troops that ought to be left behind. that has been a persistent theme. the question of china has come up again and again, as you would expect. general milley really setting out today the ways in which he believed he wasn't acting rogue or as a traitor as some republicans have called him, pointing out exactly who knew what he was doing and how many people were in the loop. it's still a lot of questions remaining unanswered about the nature of the sort of, the collapse in the evacuation, the chaos of all that. i think some of the big questions that remain unresolved, and there wasn't a really up the message on this from the generals, was how is america going to keep an eye on what al qaeda and other isis affiliates are doing in afghanistan from now on? how are they going to prevent them from rebuilding, reconstructing, reforming, launching fresh attacks? they were not a

our correspondent gary o'donoghue is in washington.fered horrific abuse as we know, but the system also didn't protect them. simone biles made it clear that her recent difficulties at the tokyo olympics, where she had to really draw from a number of events, those things were still haunting her now in trying to deal with the abuse. ! still haunting her now in trying to deal with the abuse.— deal with the abuse. i don't want another young — deal with the abuse. i don't want another young gymnast - deal with the abuse. i don't want another young gymnast or - deal with the abuse. i don't want another young gymnast or any i another young gymnast or any individuat— another young gymnast or any individual to experience the horror that i_ individual to experience the horror that i and — individual to experience the horror that i and hundreds of or have adored — that i and hundreds of or have adored -- _ that i and hundreds of or have adored —— endured. in the wake of the larry nassar abuse. to be clear, i the larry nassar abuse. to be clear, i

let's get the very - latest on this from gary o'donoghue. pts at french there, let's talk about this agreement now between emmanuel macron and president biden. bring us up—to—date. macron and president biden. bring us u-to-date. ~ macron and president biden. bring us up-to-date-— up-to-date. well, this call was initiated, _ up-to-date. well, this call was initiated, we _ up-to-date. well, this call was initiated, we are _ up-to-date. well, this call was initiated, we are told _ up-to-date. well, this call was initiated, we are told in - up-to-date. well, this call was initiated, we are told in the - initiated, we are told in the statement, byjoe biden this morning. in other words, the french will have probably insisted on that, we didn't call them, they called us. and they issued a joint statement, which is unusual in these circumstances. norma each side issues a readout of these because according to their own lights. and i think one of the key lines in it is the acknowledgement that the decision could've benefited from more open consultation

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boris johnson and joe biden- — i'm joined now by our north america correspondent, gary o'donoghue, whohave you on newsday. on that irish border, president biden has repeatedly warned that the uk not damage the peace process amid continuing issues over the northern ireland protocol. what do you make of the latest comments from the two? i think it's interesting, joe biden chose that moment in the oval office. he knows that is an issue on which borisjohnson is having some difficulty with the european union over the border down the irish sea. joe biden does care very much about it. he's often described himself as irish, and he said in the past, he would be very upset if anything would be very upset if anything would sign that could recut —— disrupt the peace agreements and lead to a hard border. i'm not surprised he's raised this. this is one of the things where the british will listen to what the americans say, and they know he means it in this case. having said all that, there are a number of wins boris johnson can take away from this. we see the extra money on climate change. we've seen

, take you very much. —— gary o'donoghue.pposition labour party, sir keir starmer, has made a stinging attack on the prime minister, calling him "a trickster" and "a showman with nothing left to show". in a keynote speech to his party's annual party conference, mr starmer accused borisjohnson of having no plan for tackling the country's problems. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. a blast of fresh air? that's how keir starmer wants you to see him. labour's week's been bumpy. and he had to show today that he really is in charge, impatient for the chance. i've waited 17 months, 25 days and two hours to appear in front of you in this hall as leader of our great party. choosing first to confront the party's crushing defeat at the election, of the project he was part of, too. to those labour voters who said their grandparents would turn in their graves, but they couldn't trust us with high office, to those that reluctantly chose the tories, i say these simple but powerful words — we will never, under my leadership, go i

yourjoint out by gary o'donoghue in washington.damant they had got this right. they even described it as righteous. they even described it as righteous. they were adamant they had got it right. they described it as an imminent threat and they said they knew they had killed a member of isis kate and they were totally convinced. they did conduct an investigation and it now seems they were really badly wrong and this is a huge mistake for the american military. it seems that they had lots of circumstantial intelligence that indicated that eight toyota corolla it would be used for an attack on the airport and they followed a car around and they assumed that this was it when they saw things being loaded into the boot of the car. and they now believe that that was not explosives but really bottles of water. they also set at the time that a secondary explosion when the hellfire missile hit the car indicated there were explosives there than i believe that was a propane tank, sort of fuel tank in the driveway of the building the aid worker

gary o'donoghue. _ back in power in afghanistan. gary 0'donoghue, thank you very much. biden and the first lady are currently at shanksville. they will be departing, as gary said, heading to the pentagon. we can speak now to sir christopher meyer, uk ambassador to the us at time of the attacks. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. it has been a very emotional day for many, very raw and also in education for loss of people who don't know the story and who don't know the history. can you take us back to 9/112001, know the history. can you take us back to 9/11 2001, please, know the history. can you take us back to 9/112001, please, just know the history. can you take us back to 9/11 2001, please, just tell us what you were doing and how you heard that news? 93�*11 us what you were doing and how you heard that news?— us what you were doing and how you heard that news? 9/11 came as a bolt from the blue- _ heard that news? 9/11 came as a bolt from the blue. it _ heard that news? 9/11 came as a bolt from the blue. it was _ heard that news? 9/11 came as a bolt from the bl

let's cross live to washington and our correspondent gary o'donoghue. soa so a tragic mistake.ave we learned in the last hour or so about what actually happened? weill. about what actually happened? well, the aeneral about what actually happened? well, the general did _ about what actually happened? well, the general did try _ about what actually happened? well, the general did try and _ about what actually happened? well, the general did try and go through a bunch _ the general did try and go through a bunch of— the general did try and go through a bunch of the sort of background to it. obviously he won't tell us everything because it's because of the flight information but he said had had — the flight information but he said had had to be from —— intelligence the particular model of car, a white toyota _ the particular model of car, a white toyota corolla, will be used by isis k to attack— toyota corolla, will be used by isis k to attack kabul airport. they said they tracked this particular white corolla for eight hours and it had been _ corolla for eight hours and it had bee

our north america correspondent gary o'donoghue has the latest.ing, joe biden_ i think it's interesting, joe biden chose _ i think it's interesting, joe biden chose that - i think it's interesting, joe biden chose that moment| i think it's interesting, joe l biden chose that moment in i think it's interesting, joe - biden chose that moment in the oval_ biden chose that moment in the oval office _ biden chose that moment in the oval office. he'll— biden chose that moment in the oval office. he'll know- biden chose that moment in the oval office. he'll know that - oval office. he'll know that will have _ oval office. he'll know that will have gotten _ oval office. he'll know that will have gotten a - oval office. he'll know that will have gotten a lot - oval office. he'll know that will have gotten a lot of - oval office. he'll know that . will have gotten a lot of focus and that — will have gotten a lot of focus and that is _ will have gotten a lot of focus and that is an _ will have gotten a lot of focus and that is an issue _ will have gotten a l

our correspondent gary o'donoghue is in washington.difficulties at the tokyo olympics, where she had to really draw from a number of events, those things were still haunting her now in trying to deal with the abuse. —— had to withdraw. i don't want another young gymnast or any individual to experience the horror that i and hundreds of others have endured... ..in the wake of the larry nassar abuse. to be clear, i blame larry nassar, and i also blame... ..an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuuse. that system she's referring to hasn't prosecuted anyone for the failings in the investigation. one fbi agent lost theirjob and another was allowed to retire. the director of the fbi said he was deeply sorry for the way the fbi had treated the victims. he said the conduct of the bureau had been inexcusable. the athletics coach alberto salazar has had his four—year suspension upheld by the court of arbitration for sport. the 63—year—old was banned two years ago for a series of doping violations by the us anti—doping agency but appe

let us hear from gary o'donoghue. into effect from november. let us hearfrom gary o'donoghue.the g7 meeting but it didn't happen. they have been talking ever since. now they have come to an agreement. from november if you are double vaccinated in the uk you will need to take a test within three days of travel. you will be able to travel to the us and will not need to quarantine. fora us to the us and will not need to quarantine. for a us citizen who has not been vaccinated, the restrictions are being tightened for you if you are outside this country. you will need to test within one day of travelling back home to the us and a test when you get here. the other thing uk travellers will need to do is give up their mobile phone numbers and e—mails for contact tracing as the cdc will institute some contact tracing method. i presume that is about dangers of new variants. the good news for families who have been separated and the tourism industry, airlines have been crying out for this, and business which has wanted things to open up and has been lobbying hard. finally the americans

in terms of the successes we were just hanging from gary - were just hanging from gary o'donoghue ourlimate finance. well, arain, joe in regard to climate finance. well, again, joe biden's _ in regard to climate finance. -ii again, joe biden's announcement that the americans are going to double their contribution up to $11 billion is certainly welcome, as part of trying to reach this $100 billion goal by november's glasgow summit, borisjohnson as the leader of that summit is going to try to claim credit, but i think, again, we need a little bit of reality to complement the presentations. the first is what do we actually see in coordinated action, notjust between the us and uk, but with countries like china, the european union, with other countries in africa, latin america, so that the developing nations are part of this effort. that is where the rubber hits the road, as it were. that leads to a second complication that has taken place in the last week. with, for example, the headline of an australian— uk — us submarine deal, biden and johnson have not advanced the cause of an alliance

i'm joined now by gary o'donoghue in washingotn.y much looking forward to my invite. i am i am very much looking forward to my invite. iam not i am very much looking forward to my invite. i am not the only one, because i have a statement from british airways who say in the last few hours that has been a 700% jump in searches for holidays to key us destinations compared to this time last week. i destinations compared to this time last week. . ., , , , ., last week. i am not surprised about that at all- — last week. i am not surprised about that at all. obviously _ last week. i am not surprised about that at all. obviously the _ last week. i am not surprised about that at all. obviously the spare - that at all. obviously the spare room is made up for you, it is there waiting for you in washington, dc. i wrote a blog this morning saying with great prescience that this is an urgent but nothing much is going to happen on, because i think it came completely out of the blue. i got inundated with people telling me at their heart—rending sto

let's speak to our correspondent in washington, gary o'donoghue. a surprise move?because we had heard - a surprise move? i think it is, because we had heard quite i a surprise move? i think it is, because we had heard quite a | a surprise move? i think it is, - because we had heard quite a while around the time of the g7 about the hopes of european leaders and at the british prime minister, boris johnson, that was going to see some changes to the travel restrictions. that did not happen. they set up a sort of consultation group. not much has come out of that. so i think it has come out of that. so i think it has come out of that. so i think it has come out of the blue somewhat. it is a tricky situation, because in some ways it can look like you are sort of going a bit soft on covid restrictions to lift all these travel bans in one go. i think in some sense this is partly a political decision in thatjoe biden needed to do something to placate particularly his european allies who are incredibly upset about a whole range of things recently, not recently but all proces