managed to recapture the area around the airport, which had been briefly taken by the taliban. government forces there supported overnight by us air strikes and by militia forces led by a powerful veteran commander now in his 70s. it seems pretty clear that the taliban having already captured large amounts of rural territory in afghanistan are now really turning their focus to the country s cities. they haven t yet managed to capture one, but this fighting is of course displacing tens of thousands of people. many other afghans are planning, or at least considering, their options to leave the country. many people fear that come the end of august and the formal end of international military mission in afghanistan, the violence is only going to get even worse. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, has been speaking to the eu s envoy for afghanistan, tomas niklasson, in kabul, on how serious this moment is. the best realistic scenario
time of 10.61 seconds. medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called an oximeter, works less well for people with darker skin tones and borisjohnson and his wife carrie have announced they re expecting a second child. their son wilfred was born in april last year. an investigation has been launched after the body of a five year old boy was recovered from a river, in south wales. officers were called to the scene near pandy park in the village of sam, near bridgend at 5:45 this morning. police have appealed for information from anyone who was in the area at the time. afghan security forces are battling to defend three key cities from advances by the taliban. reports from herat, in western afghanistan, said the militants had broken through front lines but a local official said government forces were moving cautiously to try to avoid civilian casualties.
efforts are underway to contain 14 wildfires so there is a progress in a positive direction. more than 100 motorists have had to be rescued from a mountain canyon in colorado after a landslide swept across an interstate highway. around 75 people had to spend the night in their vehicles as emergency crews cut a path through the mud and debris to reach them. remarkably, there were no injuries. officials say heavy rain sent a torrent of mud and rocks cascading down slopes stripped bare by a wildfire last year. but they re doing everything possible to get the highway open again. we are sending a large number of tandem dumptrucks, bucket loaders, vat trucks, to clean out drain systems, drainage systems. we are also sending additional radios, we are trying to beef up on a temporary basis our cellular communication networks within the glenwood canyon area. so, it is all hands on deck. the uk telecommunications industry
fighting is also continuing in kandahar and lashkar gah in the south. hundreds of people are reported to be fleeing their homes. secunder kermani has just sent this update from kabul. fighting is taking place in and around a number of afghan cities. in lashkar gah, in the southern province of helmand, taliban forces came within one kilometre of the governor s office right in the centre of the city yesterday before being pushed back. the afghan army commander there saying his troops managed to inflict a high number of casualties on the militants, but we understand they remain at the mostjust a few kilometres away from the city centre. today in lashkar gah a hospital was badly damaged by government air strikes targeting taliban fighters in the area. i m told at least one security guard was killed and two doctors injured, though initial reports suggested that patients being treated at the hospital had already been evacuated. in the west of the country, in the city of herat, fighting is on
in darker skinned patients. when we consider the impact of this, this can contribute whether or not people come into hospital, how soon they come into hospital, what care is provided when they do come into hospital. the fact that if your oxygen readings are overestimated, that means you are likely to have a lower reading, are you receiving the oxygen that is necessary to adequately treat the patient at that time? if these patients are admitted to intensive care units, are they receiving the treatment that they require? of course this can have a significant impact on health outcomes. fortunately the pandemic has provided a suitable opening to further explore this area. the headlines on bbc news: )elaine thompson herah ofjamaica has won the women s 100 metre final at the tokyo games in a new 0lympic record