tony brown, thank ou what their plans are. tony brown, thank you very — what their plans are.lans are. tony brown, thank you very much indeed for i thank you very much indeed for speaking with us. we wish you and your team all the best as you head up your team all the best as you head up to greece. reports from northern afghanistan say there's heavy fighting in the city of kunduz, where government forces are trying to push back taliban militants. a taliban spokesman said their fighters had already captured some districts and were inching towards the centre of the city. on saturday, us central command said it had intensified air strikes in support of the afghan government. earlier, the taliban said they had taken control of sheberghaan — the second provincial capital to have fallen in two days. lay down se four reynaud messi has made a tearful farewell to barcelona, the club hejoined made a tearful farewell to barcelona, the club he joined at the age of 13. —— we know messy. he has helped them when 3a trophies. barcelona said it was letting him go because i could not afford to

tony brown is one of them.e civil protection to supplement their firefighting effort. we have a number of experts within the team who are wildfire experts who are european and world trained and we've got a team of 21 firefighters there to assist. what we're going to do tomorrow and this evening is fit in to the tactics, and that's myjob, to understand how we're going to fit into their plan and whether that plan, from our point of view, is considered and safe for our firefighters, so we will be working that out and we'll be working the language and communication out. most of us, especially the management team who are with the team are trained in the civil protection for european disasters and we understand how, you know, we communicate. british firefighter tony brown. officials in california say three firefighters have been injured tackling a huge wildfire in the north of the state. five people are missing after the dixie fire, swept through two towns, destroying more than 180 thousand hectares in four counties.

tony brown is one of them.ave a number of experts within the team who are wildfire experts who are european and well trained and we got a team of 21 firefighters there to assist. what we're going to do tomorrow and this evening is fit in to the tactics and thatis evening is fit in to the tactics and that is myjob to understand how we're going to fit into their plan and whether that plan, from our point of view, is considered unsafe for our firefighters, point of view, is considered unsafe for ourfirefighters, so point of view, is considered unsafe for our firefighters, so we will be working that out and will be working with the language and communication out. most of us, especially the management team, are with the team and are trained in the civil protection for european disasters and we understand how, you know, we communicate. and we understand how, you know, we communicate-— people fully vaccinated against coronavirus can now visit france without quarantining on their return to the uk. it's one of several c

. >> i'm tony brown. >> so the president started in 2009, so, as he gets to know me more and he gets, well, wait a minute, so you guys have been together for, you know, whatever it was. 15, 17 years and so, why haven't you gotten married? >> president obama pushes everybody to get married. he loves love stories. >> michelle was on the trip, and we are sitting in the conference room and he is just like, not letting it go. and he is turning to michelle and saying can you believe that pete won't ask patty to marry him, and that's when he brought up, we'll do the wedding in the rose garden and i'll officiate. and i remember i said, no, i don't want to do that. and he said, what? the rose garden is not good enough for you? ♪ ♪ ♪ come hold my hand and i'll be your biggest fan ♪ ♪ oh, ah-oh ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the most interesting part of my job was that i saw him and all these different compartments of his life. i saw him as a dad. i saw how he behaved with his children. i watched his family grow up, essentially. i think sasha and malia did such a great job under the lime light. it's such a test ten

tony brown from merseyside fire and rescue service, and tracy doyle from london fire brigade.ing. so take us through. you are called - so take us through. you are called up, this is something you have done before, to go out there, what is the scene that you first see? this before, to go out there, what is the scene that you first see?— scene that you first see? this was m first scene that you first see? this was my first deployment _ scene that you first see? this was my first deployment for _ scene that you first see? this was my first deployment for uk - scene that you first see? this was my first deployment for uk frs, i my first deployment for uk frs, flying in on the plane into athens before we were landing, you could see on the horizon that there was to smoke everywhere. you could see pockets of fire below. the closer we got to athens, you could smell the smoke on the plane. and then it went to a complete blackout, you could just not see anything, just a grey smoke everywhere. brute just not see anything, 'ust a grey smoke everywhere._ just not see anything, 'ust a grey

tony brown from merseyside fire and rescue service is leading the team out there and joins us now.will be doing? t2: we have worked harder overnight after arriving in athens to understand where the position is with the greek civil protection and the authorities and we have had a number of briefings throughout the night. we have devised a collaborative plan where we can be most effective and we are on our way to the peloponnese area, to particular places, then we are going to assess the area and assist in their mechanism and their system to help fight the fires. iathl’hat their mechanism and their system to help fight the fires.— help fight the fires. what is the british contribution? _ help fight the fires. what is the british contribution? how- help fight the fires. what is the british contribution? how many help fight the fires. what is the i british contribution? how many of you either and have you taken kit as well or is itjust bodies? tote you either and have you taken kit as well or is itjust bodies?— well or is it 'ust bodies? we have taken well or is itjust bodies? we have

parliament, we only have one former prime minister, gordon brown, david cameron, they are not in parliament, and i think it's a good thing that tonyoliticians involved in the moment were not in parliament when this intervention happened, so i think having some grey hairs involved in this definitely helps a better debate.— involved in this definitely helps a better debate. ,, , ., , , better debate. sebastien, to pick up on that, better debate. sebastien, to pick up on that. since _ better debate. sebastien, to pick up on that, since you _ better debate. sebastien, to pick up on that, since you mentioned - better debate. sebastien, to pick up on that, since you mentioned it, - on that, since you mentioned it, there are quite a lot of noise in there are quite a lot of noise in the saturday papers suggesting an unease about dominic brah's roll at the foreign office among tory mps. the night before, saying that the government was overdue a reshuffle, and that this these events and covid had demonstrated a lack of depth among senior ministers. is that you just among the overlooked and the dispossessed, as it were, on the backbenches, a

that pain that you are talking about, >> brown: unexpected pairings such as carlos fonseca and rose styron. to think that faulkner led to garcia marquez and to toniovely, right? >> two things happen which has been very gratifying. one is to see the camaraderie among the writers themselves. every week, writers all chip in to that column of chat that you see on the right of the screen when you do one of these things and they are asking questions of one another and applauding one another. and that i never saw before because writers, well you know are not a group. they're usually mavericks or hermits or worse the general audience then latches on to what is being read. if there is sadness in something autobiographical, there's beauty in a poem, if there's something about honor or there's something about loneliness, they latch onto it and they comment. >>rown: there's a clear play on the word ¡write' w-r-i-t-e and the word ¡right' r-i-g-h-t. >> and as you say it, i start to and the whole idea of it was a kind of, i guess, a sort of bad pun on the idea of making america right. that is not ¡right wing' and not that there was one view of¡ right'. but maki

tony. intense is the word that keeps coming to mind as we have been here in austin, texas. right now opponents say the new restrictions would hurt people with disabilities, and people in black and brown communities that live here in texas. they were voting on drive-through voting and overnight voting. something put in place during the pandemic and predominantly used by voters of color. democrats are still hopeful that they will be able to attach amendments to the bill before it passes here at the capitol. ♪ the fight over voting rights in texas has been one of the most contentious in the country. more than 50 democratic lawmakers fled the state last month, breaking quorum to block gop-backed bills they deem voter suppression. does it feel like then anything was accomplished by breaking quorum? >> yeah, something was accomplished because it raised the awareness. >> reporter: representative garnet coleman's district includes a portion of houston. why was it important for you to come back last week? >> i don't think we were gaining anything by being away. at some point we have to fight on the floor and actually represent our constituents in that way. >> reporter: the bill bans drive-thr