and it s a golden start in tokyo for paralympics gb as cyclist dame sarah storey takes the 15th gold of her career in her eighth games. president biden has rejected british calls to extend the united states airlift from afghanistan beyond the 31st of august, saying it would be too dangerous. in a televised address from the white house last night, president biden said each day of operations brings added risk to our troops of an attack by extremists linked to the islamic state group. some us soldiers have already started to leave as the rescue effort enters its final phase. so far, 70,700 people have been evacuated
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about that, wasn t he? yes, dominic raab has come under a lot of fire for having been in crete on holiday with his family during the week that kabul fell. there are a couple of very specific incidents that were raised, this first idea that officials had asked him to come home on friday and that he had said that he had agreed and said he would come home on the sunday. he said that he was not asked by his officials to do that, when he was speaking to the bbc. there was also a suggestion that he had been asked to make a particular phone call to the then afghan foreign minister on the friday. he had delegated that to another minister, and it later emerged that the call was not made at all. that was put to mr raab earlier. the hindsight is the luxury of commentators, not politicians, but to address the points squarely, the afghan foreign minister, there was an opportunity for a call it is quite right in an emergency
this is bbc news these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. with thousands desperate to flee afghanistan, president biden refuses to extend the deadline for the us withdrawal. the sooner we can finish the better. each day of operations brings added risk to our troops. he spoke about the risk of isis k we will find out more about that in a few minutes. the foreign secretary says the uk is focused on evacuating as many people as possible before the deadline: we think it goes to the end of august but the military planners will firm up the details for the precise timeframe. and coming up we ll have a special report
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