this is bbc news. i'm rich preston. our top stories: at least301i people have died in a powerful earthquake in haiti — the prime minister says there is extensive damage. the government decided this morning to declare a state of emergency for one month following this disaster. as president biden defends his decision to pull out us troops from his understand, another city falls to the taliban. —— from afghanistan. tributes to the plymouth shooting victims as questions are asked of police about why a shotgun licence was returned to the man who killed 5 people. nearly two million people