Im kim blrunhuber. Were following Breaking News out of afghanistan where taliban fighters have claimed two of their biggest prizes yet, the countrys second largest City Kandahar and the capital of Helmand Province Lashkar gah. Cnn cant confirm this and you had then discity, but taliban fighters claim that they seized hundreds of weapons, vehicles and ammunition. Afghan forces appear to either surrender or flee. So the taliban now control 14 provincial capitals, harat, the third largest city fell on thursday. Meanwhile the u. S. Is deploying 3,000 additional troops to kabul to help evacuate american citizens. Lets bring in Nick Paton Walsh who is live in london. Nick, it is stunning since you and i spoke yesterday by my calculation four more provincial capitals have fallen, but the latest two Lashkar Gah, two huge prizes for the taliban. Speak to the significance of the lot of these cities. Reporter yeah, Kandahar Birth Place of the taliban under intense pressure over a matter of weeks
Around the world. And Dissent And Danger on the streets of Hong Kong, an artist reflects on the potential risks of pursuing Artistic Freedom. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Its 6am in singapore, and 2. 30 in the morning in afghanistan, where the taliban are sweeping through the country at an extraordinary pace. Theyve captured a third of the nations provincial capitals. Several of those cities, including afghanistans third biggest city, herat, fell to the insurgent fighters in the last few hours. And were now getting reports that the taliban say theyve captured the second largest city, kandahar. The speed of their advance means britain and the united states are sending more than three and a half thousand troops to help their civilians leave. Heres the latest from yogita limaye In Kabul. We woke up talking about the fall of ghazni which is about 100 miles south of kabul, and we are ending the day with multiple provincial capitals falling to the taliban
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster henry bonsu, and lord jones, who is a former trade minster. Just digby to us. Just looking forward to whats on the front pages. Lets start with the times it leads with multiple fatalities after plymouth mass shooting. The home secretary, priti patel, described the incident as shocking. In the financial times, the us and uk are sending troops to afghanistan to help evacuate Embassy Staff from the capital, kabul. The metro says the move follows a wave of attacks from the taliban, as it seized 11 of Afghanistans 3a provincial capitals. The telegraphs Sports Page covers Team Gb s Cj Ujah, who may lose his Silver Medal in Track And Field after being suspended for an alleged doping breach. The guardian says gcse results this year have revealed a Widening Performance Gap between pupils at selective schools and those from other State Schools. And finally, the i has the Title Britai
on craig robertson at his home in utah, just hours ahead of a planned visit to the state by mr biden. our north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, shared this latest update from washington dc. the details that we have so far is, as you mentioned there, the suspect s name was craig robertson. we understand he was 75 years old. and there was a criminal complaint that had already been filed in the district court of utah regarding serious concerns about him. so one of the charges that he was facing was threats against the president i ve got the criminal complaint in front of me but fbi agents conducted surveillance of his home back in march. they wanted to talk to him about his social media posts. he told them, according to the complaint, to come back with an arrest warrant which they did. now, when you look at the criminal complaint and the evidence that they had compiled against him, it included social media posts that he d put up. and they re very dark messages. they sh