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deadin demonstrators were reportedly shot dead in the eastern city of jalalabad after the taliban flag was lowered and the afghan trickle are raised in its place. and having promised a more inclusive approach to government, it is not clear what form that might take. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. our correspondent secunder kermani is in afghanistan s capital kabul and gave us this update on the situation there. we just heard a heavy burst of gunfire that seems to have gone quiet now. we are waiting for details as to what happened but it was heavier than anything we have heard over the past 2a hours from our location. today is a holy day for shia muslims and it could be related to that because there are crowds related to a festival taking place so potentially firing at the crowd, potentially attempts to disperse the crowd, we await those details. in the rest of the city, there are two different scenes.
lifting, variable amounts of cloud around, bringing rain across northern ireland into south west scotland and north west england, the second following hot on its heels bringing further rain into northern ireland. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. chaos at kabul airport. even afghans with valid paperwork are struggling to get through, with checkpoints guarded by heavily armed militants. officials say 12 people have been killed in and around kabul airport since sunday. the taliban are urging people without the legal right to travel to go home. president biden says us troops could remain in afghanistan beyond the end of august, passing his deadline for withdrawal. labour has accused the foreign secretary, dominic raab, of a dereliction of duty, after reports he declined to phone his afghan counterpart to seek help airlifting interpreters out of afghanistan. but the government has defended his actions.