run right through the middle east. they sing. government soldiers took us to the front line. marib has become the key battlefield of the war, but it s about more than yemenis fighting for strategic, oil rich territory. the houthis, the other side, started to push at the beginning of the year around here. it s really intensified since about september. gunfire. these were government forces later that evening. they re backed by saudi arabia, who hoped for a quick victory when they intervened in 2015. machine gun fire. ..and now can t find a way out. they re shooting at houthi fighters who believe they re winning, despite losing almost 15,000 dead sincejune. their big ally is iran. the strategic divide
probably, have been camped out for a number of days, trying to get inside, desperate to leave the country. many of them don t actually have visas or the necessary documentation. it is very unlikely they will be evacuated. but they are still willing to put up with these awful conditions. taliban members are firing into the air trying to control the crowd, at times using sticks and whips to push people back. elsewhere in the city, things seem to be a great deal calmer than they have been in the past few days. more shops, more restaurants are opening up than in previous days. more people are coming out and about. banks remain closed as the many government offices. for fewer women on the streets. you do see some. they are not necessarily wearing the all encompassing burqa most closely associated with the taliban s last stint in power in the 19905. taliban s last stint in power in the 1990s. things are returning to normal in a way but still a an airof normal in a way but still a an
to look at that in detail, at how the different vaccines compare, using these very, very large databases that we have in the uk, and i think it shows just what can be done if you can tap into the sort of resources that the office for national statistics has and to combine that with all of the work that been done in oxford on the vaccines. i think what it shows is that these two main vaccines being used, the pfizer biontech and the astrazeneca vaccine from oxford, seem to operate in a slightly different way, so the rna vaccine seems to deliver very rapid protection, but that doesn t maybe last as long as the protection which you can get against infection if you look at the results from the. so maybe it is inducing so different types of immunity. and with different characteristics, which is
delhi,. i had a normal check in and boarding, though we were delayed by an hour because there was a lot of movement in the airport. at that point, we did not realise it would be quite bad and the scenes we have seen on monday and onwards at the airport, desperation, where people are fleeing and running off to the aeroplanes, so i would say i was one of the lucky ones who were able to leave without much chaos, but i had a couple of colleagues who were stuck with a later flight and they are still in kabul and not able to find a way out. find a way out. you describe ourself find a way out. you describe yourself as find a way out. you describe yourself as lucky find a way out. you describe yourself as lucky to - find a way out. you describe yourself as lucky to get - find a way out. you describe yourself as lucky to get out | find a way out. you describe i yourself as lucky to get out and thatis yourself as lucky to get out and that is the word that many are using, but there is also t
air of deep uncertainty. many people still worried that they could be targeted. it is hard to overstate how much of a presence the taliban have in this city. everywhere you go you see heavily armed fighters patrolling in vehicles seized from the security forces or wandering the streets. very surreal. but this seems to be the new normal. at least for now. flights have gradually resumed. certainly the military evacuation once. some reports that some commercial flights have evacuation once. some reports that some commercialflights have been able to take off as well over the last day. the situation seems to be somewhat more under control compared to the very, very chaotic scenes we saw at the start of the week when people were, thousands of people made their way into the airport, trying to cling onto planes as they were taking off, some even staying tragically holding onto the landing gear after the plane was in the middle of the air and falling to