13 people are injured after a mezzanine floor collapses at a pub in east london. and people in switzerland have voted in favour of tightening the country s tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of tobacco products. the prime minister of pakistan, imran khan, has warned that lynchings will be dealt with the full severity of the law after a man accused of blasphemy was beaten to death. the man was killed on saturday after accusations of desecrating the islamic holy book, the quran. it comes two months after another incident in which a sri lankan man accused of blasphemy was killed in pakistan, sparking protests. 0ur south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan has more on the latest incident. there were hundreds of people, according to local media reports, in the district of khanewal, and there was an announcement that one particular individual that desecrated the holy koran, he set fire to some pages, that was the accusation,
home in nagaland after mistaking them for militants. angry villagers have set fire to vehicles belonging to security forces following the incident. 0ur south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan gave us more details. on saturday evening, a group of coal miners were returning from the northeastern indian state of nagaland which borders myanmar, and the indian army says it was acting on a specific intelligence input and they asked a van to stop, but they did not stop till they opened fire. they later realised there were six civilians killed in the incident. angry civilians then targeted army camps. that resulted in the further loss of blood they ordered an inquiry in this incident will be investigated.
0ur south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan joins us from delhi. afirm a firm uk ambassador to the united nations. how would you describe the conjured from the taliban that press conference this afternoon? . ., ~ ., , afternoon? outcome i think what they said was relatively afternoon? outcome i think what they said was relatively reassuring. - said was relatively reassuring. 0bviously deliberately so. but i think they said something that both the domestic audience but also the international community would have liked to have heard. they said that they were not going to be the same as they were 20 years ago when they were in power, that they didn t want any problems with the international community. they weren t going to allow foreign fighters to operate out of afghanistan. they weren t going to target those who had worked forforeign going to target those who had worked for foreign governments. going to target those who had worked forforeign governments. there going to target thos
are now being handed over to the taliban, following local deals with the security forces. that may be the only way to avoid even more suffering in kabul, too, but would mean an end to life here as residents know it. secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul. let s speak to our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan. what is the latest? in the last hour or so. what is the latest? in the last hour or so, the what is the latest? in the last hour or so, the taliban - what is the latest? in the last hour or so, the taliban say . hour or so, the taliban say that they have captured the eastern city of jalalabad and they have captured the whole province and one resident said the local official, the local governor made a deal, and basically surrendered the entire city to the taliban without a fight. this is another significant blow for the government because this came just about ten hours after the taliban walked into the
american troops have flown into the afghan capital to help evacuate embassy personnel and other civilians stranded in kabul. britain and several other western nations are also sending troops as resistance from afghan government forces crumbles. the taliban also claims to have captured territory in two other provinces overnight. as the taliban military advances, reports out of washington suggest the taliban may take control of kabul in the next 90 days. other predictions are offering it to happen even sooner than that. here s our asia editor anbarasan ethirajan, with more on that estimate. these assessments they keep changing, especially those coming out of the us, initially, they re expecting it to be six months to a year. but what happened in the past one week has been staggering and it has taken every intelligence on military by surprise, that they have captured almost half the provincial