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Prince Andrew has hired a well known celebrity lawyer to represent him in the court case against a woman who accuses him of sexual abuse. 

From Afghanistan to the US and across the world, the repercussions of the attacks 20 years ago reverberated then as they do now. 

Families of loved ones have described the ‘unbearable sorrow’ as they remember the terrible day 20 years ago, when almost 3000 lives were lost when hijacked planes smashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, into the Pentagon outside Washington, and a fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. 

In today’s episode, Jon Snow takes us back to that fateful, generation-defining day, and recounts his visit to Ground Zero in November 2001.

At least 46 people have been killed in extreme flash flooding and tornadoes, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the north-eastern US.

We spoke to David Petraeus, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, and began by asking what he thought of the way that the US troops withdrawal had been handled.

The justices of the US Supreme Court have voted not to halt a new law in Texas that will strip most women in the state of the right to an abortion. 

Record-shattering rainfall brought unprecedented flash flooding to New York City overnight, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the east coast of the US.

From Covid to climate change to running countries as democracies or autocracies, we all have to make choices for ourselves and for society.

After imperial Britain and the Soviet Union, Afghanistan has now seen off America, supposedly the world’s mightiest military.

Howling winds, driving rain and storm surges – Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana facing at least a month without power and in Mississippi a motorway has collapsed.

John Bolton was a military advisor to President George W Bush when the decision to invade Afghanistan was taken. 

Search and rescue teams have been deployed across southeast Louisiana, after the state was battered by Hurricane Ida, leaving a million people without power.

We were joined by Mary Beth Long, who was a US Assistant Secretary of Defence under George W Bush.

In the US, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to give an update on the evacuation.