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nearly 11,000 people in one day in the 24 hours from sunday to monday. today the pentagon says the latest number in the latest 24-hour period is they got more than 21,000 people out. 21,000 people evacuated in one day. that means the u.s. air lift out of kabul overall has removed more than 70,000 people from kabul since they started ten days ago which is an astonishing number. but with the president planning to get u.s. troops out entirely by the initial deadline he set which is next week, august 31st, the evacuation effort will necessarily have to start to ramp down. troops will have to start to leave. it takes time to get them out safely. as of today u.s. troop numbers are already dropping at the kabul airport. what will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuations and the orderliness of evacuations and the commitment to get every american and every afghan ally of american troops and the american people out of there, we re going to have a live report on that situation comi
police announce a new lead. and delayed by a year but athletes are hoping to shine the 2020 paralympics gets under way in tokyo. good evening and welcome to the programme. with the united states today refusing to budge from its deadline of august 31 for withdrawing troops from afghanistan a g7 virtual summit shared by boris johnson appealed to the taliban to allow safe passage and beyond that date for anyone wants to leave. but in an hardening of tone the taliban today indicated they would not allow afghans to be evacuated in the us should stop encouraging afghans to go to the airport to be airlifted out. they also said that all international evacuations need to be completed by the end of the month. lease to set reporting from kabul in the situation at the airport. her report contained some distressing images. stay calm, orders this taliban guard. there is no calm here. not in a crowd too big to count, too big to control. but the days are numbered now before the us pulls
and one of the rock and roll greats, the rolling stones drummer charlie watts dies at the age of 80. we ll look back at an extraordinary life. hello and welcome to the programme. this time next week the airlift from agfhanistan will be over. joe biden says he is sticking to his deadline, after consulting with national security officials, despite nato allies and many fellow democrats urging him today to stay and complete the mission. the upside for the president is that the evacuation is running at some pace. about a thousand people an hour are being flown out, 21,600 have left in the last 2a hours, and afghans with special immigration visas are again being admitted. but the taleban said today afghans should not be going to the airport and foreign countries should stop encouraging them to leave. all of which suggests that many thousands will be left behind. from kabul our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports and a warning her report does contains some distre
hello. despite the international criticism there has been of the us withdrawal from afghanistan, no one should question the professionalism or the resolve of the troops staging the evacuation. amid all the obvious dangers and chaos that surrounds the kabul airfield, they have evacuated over 40,000 people so far, 16,000 in the last 2a hours. that is impressive. but the uk defence secretary said today the operation will last only as long, as the americans stick with it. and ahead of tomorrow s g7 virtual summit, borisjohnson has signalled loudly that he would like president biden to extend the august 31st deadline so they can bring more people out. the taliban said today if there was such a delay there would be consequences. this morning, unidentified gunmen opened fire on the security cordon. us, german and afghan soldiers responded. 0ne afghan guard was killed. from kabul, here is secunder kermani. it s crowded, filthy and baking hot. but desperate afghans keep coming to kabu