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We’ve been speaking to the US Republican Congressman Mike Waltz, a former US Army green beret who served in Afghanistan. 

We spoke to the Afghan politician Fawzia Koofi, who is part of the Afghan delegation in talks with the Taliban in Doha. 

A United States negotiator has warned the Taliban that if they seize power in Afghanistan by force, they’ll be treated as international pariahs. 

Andrew Cuomo has resigned as governor of New York, after a report found he had sexually harassed 11 women.

Politicians in New York have begun discussing impeachment proceedings against the state’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. 

More than 200 former Afghan interpreters who worked alongside US forces have arrived at a military airbase near Washington DC, under a new visa scheme to help relocate them out of harm’s way.

In the United States, a special House of Representatives committee has begun its first hearings into the violent mob attack on the US Capitol on January 6, with testimony from four police officers who tried to fight off the rioters. 

President Biden is to pledge that the United States will end its military combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, as he meets the Iraqi prime minister at the White House.

A major wildfire has begun spreading from Northern California into Nevada, forcing residents in several communities to evacuate. Firefighters are battling to control the flames in temperatures soaring to 32 Celsius and high winds. There are more than 80 large wildfires burning across the Pacific Northwest of America. Almost 22,000 firefighters have been deployed to…

Forecasters in the United States say that dry and windy weather will continue to fuel wildfires.  

We spoke to Michael Wolff in his first UK interview on the book and I started by asking him why on earth Mr Trump allowed himself to be interviewed again in the wake of the capitol riots.

I spoke to Lindsay Meiman, a spokesperson for 350.org – an international environmental organisation that aims to end the era of fossil fuels.

The fossil fuel industry has spent millions of dollars promoting gas on Facebook and paying influencers on Instagram to champion it, Channel 4 News can reveal. 

ExxonMobil executives will be forced to testify in Congress after a “bombshell” video broadcast by Channel 4 News exposed the company’s lobbying tactics in the US, this programme has been told. 

Some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies have lobbied the UK government to support a gas “compromise” ahead of the COP26 UN conference, Channel 4 News can reveal.