good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. 0ur headlines today. president biden refuses to extend the deadline for the us withdrawal from afghanistan and confirms troops will leave by august the 31st. the sooner we can finish, the better. each day of operation brings added risk to our troops. a new lead in the case of missing chef claudia lawrence 12 years on, police start searching gravel pits near her home in york. a first medal for great britain at the paralympics cyclist dame sarah storey claims her 15th gold competing at her eighth games. # it s all right now, now, that is a gas tributes to the rolling stones drummer charlie watts, who s died aged 80. mickjagger simply posts a picture of his bandmate.
of its investment in regional towns and cities, who all benefit from new funding. in rhyl, they wait and wonder if the ripples from such schemes will wash beyond the seafront. michael buchanan, bbc news, rhyl. let s take a look at the front pages. two stories dominate today s headlines the latest on the afghanistan crisis and the death of the rolling stones drummer, charlie watts. joe s no to bojo . that s the headline in the metro. the paper says the us president snubbed the prime minister s plea to keep his troops in afghanistan beyond august the 31st. the times reports that britain is scrambling to airlift more than 4,000 uk nationals and afghan citizens out of afghanistan by the end of the week. most front pages carry photos of charlie watts, following his death at the age of 80. the sun splashes on the story describing watts as the rock behind the stones . and the guardian says that
and i think based on what we ve heard about in terms of the coordination, we don t know any of the details of this between the u.s. forces and the taliban leaders, i think that s exactly what we re going to see. and i think that was certainly part of the diplomatic discussions by mr. burns yesterday when he talked to the taliban leaders. it is how do we get out without embarrassing the taliban? no one cares about that truthfully, but it also helps them to allow us to get out without more problems with our withdrawal. the last day of this withdrawal, if it is august the 31st, will be sporty. i guarantee you of that because you re talking about either drawing in the perimeter or just taking off the middle of the night or perhaps and i ll throw this out there, i m not saying this will occur, but it could be a contested withdrawal as well. and what we re talking about there is the potential for conflict, fire fight, you know, whatever you might think may
time is quickly running out. those who are simply desperate to get on these final flights out of the country, including reports of some americans are increationly frustrated and terrorized by the taliban and and checkpoints despite all of that the president says the mission is on track to be completed by next week. although he did leave himself some wiggle room. we are currently on a pace to finish by august the 31st. the sooner we can finish the better. each day of operations brings added risk to our troops i have asked the state contempt to make contingency for the timeline if that becomes necessary. massachusetts democrat seth moulton and peter meijer actually flew into kabul. now, among the critics of their visit, house speaker nancy pelosi who issued this warning.
riskier all the time. talan from leaving the country, and one taliban spokesman told cbs roxana saberi that any attempt to extend the rescue mission would be considered a violation. so in light of that violation, it is up to our leadership to decide what to do. reporter: c.i.a. director william burns has been negotiating in kabul with the taliban s de facto leader, as the u.s. military picks up the pace, evacuating 20,000 people a day from kabul s airport, the flights taking off every 45 minutes. that brings the total number of evacuees since mid-month to more than 70,000. we are currently on a pace to finish by august the 31st. i ve asked the pentagon and state departor plans to adjust the timetable, should that become necessary.