exodus from evia. there are long queues at the port. people are waiting to get on ferries to the mainland. holiday makers and some locals are leaving, after villages and parts of the north of the island were evacuated. chris, who works on evia as a singer, says the wildfires are spreading and the authorities aren t doing enough. the most people see that we don t have any help until yesterday and they could save everybody and it wasn t true. the people don t know where to go. the big problem is that we feel that they let us burn. this is what they re fleeing from. wildfires have been blazing out of control for almost a week now. siren wails. houses and forests have been destroyed.
it isjust increasing. there is no doubt that the record breaking haul of medals forjapan has bought realjoy to the host nation, as the roadshow leaves town, the olympic host city has been left facing a medical crisis. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo. if you want to look back at any of the best moments from the closing ceremony and the last two weeks then remember you can head to the bbc news website, bbc.com/news and follow the links through to our full coverage of the olympics and of course of the upcoming paralympics which starts on tuesday august 2a hundreds more people have been forced to leave their homes in parts of greece, as wildfires continue to blaze out of control. the country s most intense heatwave in 30 years has made woodland tinder dry, creating perfect conditions, for the fires to burn. the region north of athens, and evia, greece s second largest island,
no one knows if this village will be spared. it s now up to the gods of the winds and the weather. bethany bell, bbc news, evia. the world is getting dangerously close to running out of time to avert catastrophic climate change. that s the warning from alok sharma, the minister in charge of november s climate change conference in glasgow. it comes as the un is set to publish a landmark report on the science of climate change tomorrow. our science editor david shukman is here. this announcement tomorrow a pretty big moment in the science of climate change itself. big moment in the science of climate change itself- change itself. that is right. i think of all change itself. that is right. i think of all the change itself. that is right. i think of all the reports - change itself. that is right. i think of all the reports this | change itself. that is right. i l think of all the reports this un climate panel has produced over the last 30 years, the one tomorrow will pack the bigges
tonight, evia is still burning and the flames are spreading towards one of the island s largest towns. the afghan government says american b52 bombers have killed more than 200 taliban fighters in a series of air strikes in the city of sheberghan where the insurgents claim to have taken control. shebhergan is the stronghold of former afghan vice president abdul rashid dostum, whose supporters fight against the taliban. it comes after the militants said they d captured zaranj in nimroz, close to the border with iran, in a major escalation of their offensive. they ve made sweeping gains since foreign forces started withdrawing from the country. the us and the uk have asked their citizens in afghanistan to leave the country immediately because of the worsening security situation. richard galpin reports. in this fast moving offensive, the taliban are claiming a second provincial capital, sheberghan, is in their hands.
from his phone. the fibre through a vast area of pine forests stop only the sea could stop it. tonight, evia is still burning and the flames are spreading towards one of the island s largest towns. the afghan government says american b52 bombers have killed more than 200 taliban fighters in a series of air strikes in the city of sheberghan, where the insurgents claim to have taken control. shebhergan is the stronghold of former afghan vice president abdul rashid dostum, whose supporters fight against the taliban. it comes after the militants said they d captured zaranj in nimroz, close to the border with iran, in a major escalation of their offensive. they ve made sweeping gains since foreign forces started withdrawing from the country. the us and the uk have asked their citizens in afghanistan to leave the country immediately because of the worsening security situation. richard galpin reports.