today i spent the day in the covid ward in the hospital where i was born in baton rouge, louisiana, except there s not really a covid ward. it s basically become a covid hospital since there are so many patients with the virus. they are struggling to breathe, they are struggling to live. the doctors and nurses are fighting to make it so. even though there is a vaccine that could have avoided all of it and they have a message for all of you. listen. louisiana has the worst covid case rates in the country. it s also near the top of the list when it comes to hospitalizations. i was born in louisiana in baton rouge at this very hospital. i came home to see what was happening for myself. baton rouge general mid city is bursting at the seams. we have more patients here with covid than without. that is correct. in general hospital in your lifetime, you haven t seen anything like this? i have never seen one illness occupy 90% of the resources and 90% of the beds. what s
the biden administration is scrambling in the face of this stunningly fast unexpected fall after the u.s. withdrawal. u.s. at this point now sending some 3,000 troops to help safely evacuate staff from the u.s. embassy in kabul. that is where cnn s clarissa ward is joining us from this morning. this is, this is something to behold how swiftly this is moving, clarissa. reporter: it truly is. i don t think anyone could have predicted this in their wild imagination. and the thing that is so striking here on the ground in kabul, brianna, is the deafening silence from the afghan government. we haven t heard any from them anything from them literally as this country is unraveling. you mentioned all these provincial capitals have fallen. kandahar, the second largest city in the country, a city with huge strategic significance, huge spiritual symbolism for the taliban. that used to be the capital of their islamic emirate, and yet we are not hearing anything from the governmen
we start in the us where wall street shares have closed at new record highs on hopes that soaring inflation has finally peaked. america s consumer price index rose 0.5 % injuly almost half the rate it rose injune. that s the biggest drop in monthly inflation in 15 months. why s that so important? well, it means the federal reserve may not be under such pressure to start removing stimulus measures. in other words, cheap money could be around for a good while longer. rapid increase in prices, i do think has peaked, and now with the delta variant slowing the economy to some degree, i think that acts almost as like a rate hike in some ways. but when you go out here in the west coast, it is busy, it is packed last weekend. so the economy is stilljust bursting at the seams, so very, very positive on economic growth. but i do think things like used vehicle prices and energy prices that have really driven inflation have probably peaked especially energy prices. so we never thou
towards her desk. beto o rourke tweeted this show of support. unlike the filibuster in the u.s. senate, the filibuster rules in the texas senate requires senatoring a have a al alvarado not able to eat, drink, use the restroom. we re with you. ultimately the senator s long-shot effort ended with this plea my friends, voter suppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. as we have drawn this sdougs an end it is my sincere hope that simple acts by everyday texans from the senate floor to the ballot box can help to shed the light on all important issues. what do we want our democracy to look like? do we want our state to be more or less inclusive instead of making it easier to vote? this bill makes it easier to intimidate. instead of making it harder to cheat, it makes it harder to vote. republicans true to their brazen commitment to rolling back access to the polls and totally impervious to the fact there was no fraud, ignored alvarado s plea and passed the res
for the reform of a levels after a record number of pupils were awarded the top grades. a british embassy worker in berlin is arrested suspected of spying for russia. wildfires rage across greece, we hearfrom british firefighters supporting their counterparts. a hero s welcome for lionel messi as fans celebrate his arrival at paris st germain after his departure from barcelona. and coming up: under threat seahorses off the coast of dorset. good evening and welcome to bbc news. after decades of conflict afghanistan is, once again, falling apart. and it is the taliban the hardline islamist group that once harboured osama bin laden which is gaining ground having already taken nine provincial capitals. a us led military coalition to oust the taliban first began in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks but now most of the foreign troops have pulled out. a54 british forces personnel or mod civilians lost their lives. nearly 2,300 us troops have been killed. and over 120 thousan