the headlines. the ministry of defence says the last british plane carrying armed forces personnel and diplomats has taken off from kabul airport, ending britain s 20 year military involvement in afghanistan. a57 british service personnel lost their lives during the conflict. president biden has warned that another attack on kabul airport is highly likely this weekend. as many as 170 people including 13 us service personnel were killed in the islamic state attack on thursday. two is members died in a retaliatory drone strike by the us. the president has also said that hurricane ida which is heading towards the gulf coast of the united states is turning into a very dangerous storm . winds of around 130 miles per hour are expected when it reaches land in lousiana on sunday. the mayor of baton rouge urged residents food producers are warning that
into kabul to get people out. us troops provided security for an unprecedented international rescue mission. the last british plane carrying civilians flew out of kabul this morning. this evening, news that the last soldiers and british diplomats have now left. in all, there were over 100 raf flights. the end of a 20 year campaign that was not supposed to finish like this. we ve done an extraordinaryjob to evacuate as many as we have, but i m afraid it s absolutely that heartbreaking that we can t bring everybody out, and that point has been made very strongly, certainly by the defence secretary and others over the last ten days or so. personally, i ve probably had over 100 messages from different afghans who i know in my long association with the country, and many of those, friends of mine, won t make it out. and for me, not a day passes without me having a bit of a tear in my eye about all of that. day after day, british personnel have been processing afghans desperate to escape. alt
this is bbc news, the headlines: the ministry of defence says the last british plane carrying armed forces personnel and diplomats has taken off from kabul airport, ending britain s 20 year military involvement in afghanistan. a57 british service personnel lost their lives during the conflict. president biden has warned that another attack on kabul airport is highly likely this weekend. as many as 170 people, including 13 us service personnel, were killed in the islamic state attack on thursday. two is members died in a retaliatory drone strike by the us. forecasters warn a storm approaching louisiana could be more powerful than hurricane katrina, which devastated new orleans 16 years ago. winds of around 130mph are expected when it reaches land later on sunday.
carrying armed forces personnel and diplomats has taken off from kabul airport, ending britain s 20 year military involvement in afghanistan. a57 british service personnel lost their lives during the conflict. president biden has warned that another attack on kabul airport is highly likely this weekend. as many as 170 people including 13 us service personnel were killed in the islamic state attack on thursday. two is members died in a retaliatory drone strike by the us. the president has also said that hurricane ida which is heading towards the gulf coast of the united states is turning into a very dangerous storm . winds of around 130 miles per hour are expected when it reaches land in lousiana on sunday. the mayor of baton rouge urged residents
of higher ground. further south across england and wales, you re more likely to see longer spells of sunshine on sunday. still quite a breeze across east anglia and the southeast, just taking the edge off the temperatures here. generally around 15 18 around that east coast, but further west, we re likely to see highs of about 22 degrees or so towards the cardiff region, for instance. into the evening hours, most of us end the day on a dry note. just one or two showers not far away from the southeast. there could be a bit more cloud pushing in here as well. most places dry once again as we head through into monday. not quite as cold as recent nights because of more cloud acting as a blanket, so just about staying in double figures as we head through into monday, which is a bank holiday across much of the uk. so, high pressure still with us as we head into monday. spot the difference here we ve got the winds coming in again from the north sea, so dragging in more cloud on monday, parti