this is bbc news. the headlines at a. the final uk flight to evacuate civilians from afghanistan has left kabul. the ministry of defence says further flights will bring home uk diplomatic staff and military personnel. the us military says one of its drones has taken out an islamic state group planner, following thursday s attack which killed as many as 170 people at kabul airport. members of the scottish greens have backed a deal that could see its leaders in government for the first time. britain s lorry driver shortage the business secretary has rejected a temporary loosening of immigration rules and told companies to employ uk based staff. two world records for the british cycling couple, husband and wife lora and neil fachie, who are amongst seven gb paralympians to win gold today.
combined with 34 coalition aircraft, an additional 2800 personnel left kabulfor various an additional 2800 personnel left kabul for various intermediate staging bases. 66 flights left out of kabul yesterday with 6800 evacuees. today i can report an updated total evacuation that is more than 117,000. the vast majority of which are afghans. 0f more than 117,000. the vast majority of which are afghans. of this total number, approximately 5400 are american citizens. this is an incredible number of people who are now safer thanks to the heroism of the young men and women putting their lives on the line each day to evacuate american and vulnerable afghans. 0ut evacuate american and vulnerable afghans. out of kabul. the rest of our forces into this operation remain real and significant. i m sure you can appreciate that. as our
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the assessments and information flowed over time we were able to recognise that another was killed as well. and one wounded. battle damage assessment as you know sometimes takes time, information comes in. as we had more clarity we wanted to be transparent about that. does we had more clarity we wanted to be transparent about that. transparent about that. does that mean they were transparent about that. does that mean they were involved - transparent about that. does that mean they were involved directly| transparent about that. does that i mean they were involved directly in the kabul mean they were involved directly in the kabul attack? they mean they were involved directly in the kabul attack? the kabul attack? they were is-k lanners the kabul attack? they were is-k planners and the kabul attack? they were is-k planners and facilitators - the kabul attack? they were is-k planners and facilitators and - the kabul attack? they were is-k planners and facilitators and that| plann
underground? you can t target the city itself with air strikes.- city itself with air strikes. we are watchin: city itself with air strikes. we are watching the city itself with air strikes. we are watching the threat city itself with air strikes. we are watching the threat very - city itself with air strikes. we are l watching the threat very carefully. clearly they have the ability to operate inside campbell and we are mindful of that and we are watching it as closely as we can inside kabul. we are trying to make sure that we have available to us as much information and context is possible to prepare for any future attacks and certainly we have to assume those could come from or be planned out of places that they might have established themselves in kabul. i think that is as far as we can go right now. when are we handing the airport over to the taliban? will they be running the airport or will they be running the airport or will they be running it with qatar and