just one tablet an hour from manchester to london today instead of the usual three as an ava nti avanti workers ava nti workers refuse avanti workers refuse to work extra shifts. boiling over at the bridge. how it was the managers who were sent off in yesterday s fiery london derby between chelsea and tottenham in what proved a gripping encounter. coming to the end of the heatwave, through the week, temperatures will return to close to where they should be at the time of year and we are looking at some thunderstorms developing almost anywhere which could be torrential. it s monday the 15th of august. our main story. it s exactly a year since the taliban seized power in afghanistan, ending 20 years of us led military intervention. a turbulent 12 months in the country has seen an economic crisis and a huge reduction of women s rights, with girls largely banned from secondary schools. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has been to see how the afghan people have ad
the desperation is dangerous. there is panic and fear everywhere. gunfire. outside the gates, shots ring out. my siblings were calling me, saying, what do we do now? they were looking for me for answers, but i had no answers. but when my brother had the opportunity to leave, he called me what do i do? he only had two hours to make a decision. he had to pack his bag with his wife and newly born child, get a couple of bits and pieces, and go to the airport. and that was it. two of waheed s brothers fled to the united states, his sister and herfamily to sweden. my own journey of refugee is. sort of flashed in front of me again. my own journey of refugee is repeated in front of my eyes. that is heartbreaking for me. they re starting at zero. ..while his dad and his other sisters chose to stay at home in afghanistan.
team mate lewis ludlow after they completed a 350 mile cycle ride to raise funds for research into motor neurone disease. and the bafta winning actor anne marie duff will be here before nine to tell us about her role in a new comedy thriller called bad sisters. i have seen the first episode, it is funny and good, i am looking forward to it. ., ~ funny and good, i am looking forward to it. ., 4 i funny and good, i am looking forward to it. ., ., i do. as we ve been hearing, it s exactly a year since afghanistan fell to the taliban prompting tens of thousands of people to flee the country, and find safe haven wherever they could. dr waheed arian who came to the uk in the 19905 has been telling breakfast s abi smitton how his family has been split across the world since the events of last august and how they re still holding onto hope. my family has been disintegrated and devastated, like so many other families. i can t give up on hope, even though i can t see it. waheed arian
i do have that hope. i can t let go of that hope that s something that helped me survive conflict, displacement and as a humanitarian, i believe in humanity always. and i hope that that day will come, that there will be peace in afghanistan, we will be able to sit around the table or on the floor and to be able to just breathe that peace that people are so desperate for. doctor waheed speaking year after. captainjamie robson from the 2 para battle group was part of the operation to evacuate british nationals and eligible afghans from afghanistan last year. he joins us now from newcastle. good morning. thank you forjoining us. a year on, i am wondering, what are the key images, moments in your mind of that evacuation was good
as salamu alaykum. my parents especially my father was the one who was giving us hope. but now the roles have reversed in a way that i m trying to give him hope because he s run out of that. he s run out of the energy to fight, to run. every phone call i have with him, he cries. and his cry is actually notjust about his own family, but it s a lot about what he sees now people not having food, some people resolving to going to selling their kidneys, other people going to even sell their children. he s also hoping that the world shouldn t desert afghanistan, and should start helping, and that s the only hope he has. earlier this year, waheed was reunited with his sister and her family. he travelled to meet them in sweden, where they re trying to rebuild their lives. it was absolutely magical to be able to hug my sister, my nephews and nieces