love me but that was wrong. the bbc has attempted to contact vincent s wife but she has refused to speak to us. he said he will carry on his hunger strike through the olympics to show the world how japan is denying thousands of children their basic right to both their parents. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo. in afghanistan, ferocious fighting is taking place in lashkar gah in helmand province there are real fears it could be the first provincial capital to fall to the taliban. it looks like things are going to get worse with the departure of american, british and coalition forces. in the past 20 years, many afghan families have supported british and american troops as translators, guides and more. here s our diplomatic editor mark urban. in recent months, the insurgents have taken over large amounts
ground to extremists there maybe more troops from iraq heading in there. terry moran has more from iraq. ferocious fighting in northern iraq. iraqi soldiers desperately trying to hold off the jihadist onslaught sweeping down toward baghdad but the iraqi troops are losing. these incredible scenes posted on you-tube by the militants show thousands of iraqi soldiers who surrendered and are now prisoners, the militants claimed. they have wracked up victory after victory. vast territory, major cities falling under this black flag an these fighters threaten baghdad, 11 years after u.s. troops toppled saddam hussein. all of that is now crumbling. the triumphant fighters from the islamic state of iraq and syria, as they are called, isis. a track record of brutality, executions, mass beheadings, massacres. even al qaeda disavowed them. their goal, a new nation straddling two countries and pure islam as they define it,
need folks to leave. i ve been in there when planes have entered airspace and they told us to leave the capitol. during this instance, there was no such warning, there was no such direction from capitol police. it happened so quickly that the evacuation orders were given simply by word-of-mouth. by whatever office you were closest to. that was my experience just outside the senate chamber right above it. lisa with the latest from the capitol. wolf blitzer standing by for us in washington, d.c. wolf, i m sure you ll be talking about this in the situation room later today. we certainly will. it s an extraordinary and unusual situation. it hasn t just been in washington. it s been in virginia. it s been in maryland. up in new york, north carolina, ohio, michigan. they felt it all over the eastern part of the united states. the epicenter much closer to richmond, virginia. mineral, virginia. about 87 or so miles outside of washington, d.c. we re following what s going on very