Killed at miami beach while protecting his baby. Dustin wakefield pleaded with the gunman not to shoot saying, quote, is he only a boy. Biden s popularity has never been lower, so let joe biden come out here and praise the wonderful job gavin newsom has done. Even living in my acadieux toast people are fed up. Ainsley: the u. S. Telling americans to leave the kabul airport immediately as the warns of a terrorist threat within hours. Brian: where do they go up to 1500 americans. We ballpark everything. No reason to get down to actual names stranded in afghanistan now. Just five day until the u. S. Chose to withdraw. Steve: this photography is jawdropping it shows a plane as you can see there looks like it s leaving kabul nearly empty flying evacuees. Ainsley: unbelievable. Steve: began da. Kitty logan is live with the very latest. It sound like they are saying get away from the airport because there is a threat at three different gates of car bombs. That s right. This is a very specific
Firmly in control of kandahar, the second largest city in afghanistan. The militants expanding their territory in the south, north and the west. Where they seized the historic city of herat, and waits military commander. In this taliban propaganda video, the man who fought the taliban in 2001, says he hopes the militants will bring peace, stability and security. The lightning fast takeover has shocked the world. The militant group took its first provincial capital one week ago today. Now, their territory looks like this, closing in on kabul. The pentagon scrambling to send 3000 troops to the kabul airport, most arriving by the end of this weekend, a temporary mission to get embassy staff out safely. The deteriorating conditions are a factor, a big factor in why the president has approved this mission. As the u. S. Embassy is ordering staff to destroy sanctity of documents and computers, according to a memo obtained by npr. Nbc news has confirmed that half of afghanistan s provincial ca
Afghanistan s second largest city, kandahar. The militants consolidating their territory in the south, the north and the west. Where they seize the historic city and its famed military commander. In this taliban video, he fought the taliban in 2001 said he hopes the militants will bring peace, security and stability. The lightning fast taliban take over has shocked the world. The militant group took its first capitol one week ago today. Now, their territory looks like this. Closing in on kabul, now, they are sending troops to the kabul airport, a temporary mission to get embassy staff out safely. The deteriorating conditions are a factor, a big factor in why the president has approved this mission. Reporter: as the u. S. Embassy is ordering staff to destroy sensitive documents and computers. According to a memo obtained by npr. Nbc news has confirmed that half of the capitols are controlled by the taliban tonight and there s reports of heavy fighting on kabul s doorstep, ryan in logar
Let s cross now to the scotland first minister nicola sturgeon who is making a virtual statement to msps she is set to reveal whether her government will lift most legal covid restrictions. I will set out a number of mitigation conditions. I will summarise the key points from new guidance being published today on arrangements for the start of the new school year. Let me start by summarising today s statistics. The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 1016 which is 8. 1% of all tests. There are 406 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving intensive care which has won more than yesterday. Sadly nine further deaths were reported over the last 24 hours taking the total number of registered is death and the daily definition to 7952. As always i want to convey my sincere condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one. I can also report that 4,014,000 212 people have now received a first dose
Major music festival gets under way in the north of england. Hello, and a very warm welcome to bbc news. The first gold medal of the tokyo olympics has been awarded to the chinese air rifle shooter yang chean. Ten others are being contested on the first day in action, including fencing, judo and weightlifting. Organisers hope that the sporting and drama will spark enthusiasm among the japanese public and dispel some of the anxiety about holding the games in the midst of the pandemic stop. The first champion of the olympic games, winning arrival. It was a dramatic finish as the russian anastasio geller sheena was ahead, but she has scuppered herfinal shot and geller sheena was ahead, but she has scuppered her final shot and that allowed the chinese athlete to take advantage to win the first gold of the games. The action as well and truly under way this saturday. We have the men s road race going, that started at mount fuji and is winding its way around the streets of tokyo and beyond. I