and endangered species kenya conducts its first ever wildlife census. hello and welcome. president biden has been speaking about the crisis in afghanistan. he said the united states has made clear to the taliban that any attack on the evacuation mission from kabul would be met by a swift and forceful response. mr biden said he was in constant contact with the taliban about the mission and that 13 thousand people had been evacuated from the country since the 14th of august. let s hear some of what he said. we are going to do everything, everything we can to provide safe evacuation for our afghan allies, partners and afghans who might be
it s a case study in what happens when religion and politics clash with science. as we ve been reporting this week: the number of covid infections are surging in the united states as a result of the delta variant. but it s where that s happening that s most interesting. health professionals are calling it an epidemic of the unvaccinated. there was an average of 113 thousand cases per day in the us over the last week. but the sharp increase in hospitalisations and deaths is nearly all concentrated in strongly republican and religious southern states where vaccine take up has been virtually half the national average. 0ur north america editor, jon sopel is in louisiana and has been travelling across the deep south to find out why. the life tabernacle church in louisiana. congregation thousands. influence in the state considerable. a message don t get vaccinated. pastor spell estimates fewer than i% of his churchgoers have been. vaccinations keep them alive. they will not, that
police say they will act against those responsible for this collapse. yogita limaye, bbc news. a bbc investigation has revealed that at least 13 thousand sex offences by under 18 year olds were reported to police in england and wales every year from 2018 to 2020. around a thousand of them took place on school premises. it comes as the school s watchdog ofsted found that nine in ten girls experience some form of sexual harrassment from their peers with students often not reporting the abuse. our education editor branwenjeffreys reports. every day in every place, girls are facing sexual pressure being touched, asked to share nude photos, their bodies rated and shared on social media. we are pressured to send nude pictures or we are pressured to just accept this sexual harassment that we deal with. it s become so normalised that we don t. . .we just disregard it and we don t speak
paper, the strongest team they will come up against in group d and they know that they will have to hit the ground running. know that they will have to hit the ground running. thank you for that u date. wales are making their preprations more than 3 thousand miles away in azerbaijan. they face switzerland in their group a opener on saturday. and our correspondent hywell griffiths joins us live now from baku. we ve been talking about scottish fans and english fans to be cheering them on. in azerbaijan, ifeel it will be quite quiet for wells. cast our mind will be quite quiet for wells. cast your mind back will be quite quiet for wells. (i zt your mind back five years will be quite quiet for wells. ( 3t your mind back five years ago will be quite quiet for wells. (1 3t your mind back five years ago and having washed fans tasting the tournament football for a long time, it was travelling to france following all the way to the semifinals. covid 19 means that can happen. azerbaijan is an
ukrainian government. since then, more than 13 thousand people have been killed, and over a million uprooted from their homes. the conflict has had a devastating impact on elderly people, many of whom were trapped during fighting in the regions of donetsk and luhansk. our special correspondent fergal keane has reported on the war for the bbc since it began, and he s followed the stories of some of those directly affected. the war is in its seventh year. translation: everything is ruined or burned. - only the chimneys are left standing. our house burned down. there is no roof. there are more than 13,000 dead. translation: even though seven years have passed, . i still feel like they re next to me. gunshots living on this