trying to renew passports and get legalvisas, of course. elsewhere trying to renew passports and get legal visas, of course. elsewhere in the country where fighting is taking place, things are substantially worse. 20,000 people had been displaced from an eastern province and in how manned local sources have been telling me there was heavy fighting. in helmand. fighting on the outskirts of kandahar city as well. the theories come the end of august and a formal and of the international mission in afghanistan, things will only deteriorate. stay with us on bbc news. still to come. why one of hollywood s best paid stars, is suing walt disney over her latest movie.
let s check in with the markets. the asian markets have been dropping down. china very much sapping some of the strength from asia. us futures also slate on amazon. they share down about 7% on what was in pretty good results, but actually, an expectation that things will slow down and that the boom in online shopping is starting to fade. scotland s health secretary, humza yousaf, has admitted that the country s latest drug death statistics are likely to be challenging. scotland has suffered from the worst drug death rate in europe in recent years. reports this week have suggested the number is set to rise above the 1264 lives lost in 2019. latest figures will be released this morning. we still have challenges. that is
from many parts of the country not too much of a feature. but still the potential for those 40 to 50 mph gusts in southern and coastal counties. temperatures today disappointed for late july. counties. temperatures today disappointed for latejuly. high disappointed for late july. high teens, disappointed for latejuly. high teens, low 20s. coolest weather in the most persistent. this evening and overnight that area of low pressure that brought the strong winds pushes into the near continent and opens the door to more northerly airflow. a few showers pushing down on that. the heaviest towards the north west of bingen. south west. temperatures ten to 15 degrees. as we go into the weekend, what was storm ever to pushing into denmark and scandinavia. to the west of it we have got the winds coming down from the north. it sets us up for a cool weekend across the uk. a few showers. some heavy infantry. also some sunny spells. far from a weekend was had. 0n
yet barely 50% of the population here is fully vaccinated. and that leaves about 19 million americans who are eligible for a vaccine but have so far chosen not to get one. and today, president biden expressed a measure of frustration, a measure of desperation. he said this was not a political issue there was nothing political about this and he blamed misinformation, social media and other platforms, for the reasons for a lot of people not getting theirjabs. he announced new requirements for federal government workers to either get vaccinated or undergo regular testing, and he pushed, as well, for cash incentives to be made available to those who are in areas of the country where vaccination rates are low. to sort of incentivise them to get a jab. this is what he said about that.
and abide by the lockdown. the united states is beginning to evacuate large numbers of afghan interpreters and their families, because of fears that their work could put their lives at risk. concern over their fate has increased as the us completes its military withdrawal from the country. let s speak now to our correspondent secunder kermani, who s in kabul. how dangerous is it for those who aided americans over the last two decades? . , aided americans over the last two decades? ., , , ., ., ., decades? certainly there is a lot of fear amongst decades? certainly there is a lot of fear amongst the decades? certainly there is a lot of fear amongst the interpreter - fear amongst the interpreter community, as the taliban has been advancing, the group is now in control of affable territory in the country. they are fighting on the outskirts of a number of cities and have encircled others. the first group of afghan interpreters who have worked with us military forces would be arriving i