insists it s committed to supporting students of all backgrounds. under threat the seahorse species off the english coast, but there are hopes environmentally friendly moorings could help save the vital seabed. and we ll hear live from lionel messi shortly, as he speaks to the media for the first time after his move to paris saint germain. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us president, joe biden, has called on afghanistan s leaders to unite and fight , as the taliban claim to have captured nine out of 3a provincial capitals. the militants say they ve taken the north eastern city of faizabad. but afghan officials say air strikes and commando attacks have left dozens of taliban militants dead in other parts of the country. the washington post is reporting that us intelligence officials believe kabul could fall within ninety days. at a news conference overnight, president biden said he did not regret his decision to withdraw us troops. w
thousands have arrived in afghanistan s capital kabul in the past few days, where they face an uncertain future. people have been coming in from different parts of the country, as more and more provincial capitals, more and more cities are being taken over by the taliban. also in the programme: the latest on the huge wildfires affecting greece and other countries. on the greek island of evia, crews from britain, france and the czech republic have joined efforts to try to stop more fires breaking out. and the bbc uncovers evidence of suspected war crimes carried out in libya by russian mercenaries. we have an exclusive report on their activities. several developments in afghanistan. first, the government is replacing its army chief as the taliban continues their rapid advance. events on the ground are fast moving. nine provincial capitals are now in the hands of the militants, and efforts are under way to boost morale among those fighting for the afghan government. this is the
less than an hour away from officially introducing him. we ll go live to paris for that. and tropical storm fred forms in the caribbean and barrels toward florida. the latest forecast just ahead. good to have you with us. president biden is taking his covid vaccination campaign to business leaders, he will meet with a group of them later today to discuss strategies for getting more americans vaccinated. the meeting comes as three major u.s. airlines have announced they will not require employees to get vaccinated. delta, southwest and american airlines say they are encouraging employee vaccinations but won t mandate them. but uhe nited says its employee need to get vaccinated by late october or risk getting fired. right now more than a half million americans are getting their shots each day, highest since june, but about 30% of eligible americans are still unprotected and that is a big concern as millions of children head back to the classroom. many not yet eligible to get
survey show parents strongly favor masks. nearly two-thirds want masks required for all unvaccinated students and staff. parents are more closely divided over mandating shots. 58% say they don t want their schools to require vaccination, 42% are in favor. public health experts not divided. they say every student who can be vaccinated should be vaccinated and other politicians who are politicizing the important debate should just stay out of it. extraordinary to think that we have governors that aren t putting needs of school kids first and this is something that i think every voter and everybody in the country should be very focused on. let s get our kids vaccinated and for those who aren t or can t be, they should be wearing a mask. this is not a political issue. one of the officials who is making it a political issue though is text goas governor ab, judges blocking his ban on mask mandates. and meanwhile the surge overwhelming texas hospital resources, governor abbo
their way east out into the sea, but if we look in the atlantic we have a band of cloud that will bring rain in from the west tomorrow, but today the sun is out across many parts of the sun is out across many parts of the country and we have much drier weather around as well and the winds are quite light and it feels warm as well. not without one or two showers across england and wales, mainly focus to the north east of england and the bulk of the heavy and developing thundery showers will developing thundery showers will develop in the north east of scotland and we have more cloud coming in, butahead of scotland and we have more cloud coming in, but ahead of the cloud in the sunshine, temperature is higher today, 20 and the central belt of scotland and 23 is the high across eastern parts of england. still a few sharp showers during the evening and they will push away and then we look at all of the cloud coming in from the atlantic, and here it is overnight, thickening up in