the alarm on climate change. struggling to remember their letters: how india s school children have been hit hard by the covid pandemic. live from singapore, this is bbc news. hello and thanks forjoining us. our top story today: the taliban have announced an interim government. it comes more than three weeks after they ousted the afghan president and took control of most of the country. the head of the interim cabinet is this man mohammad hasan akhund who also happens to be on a un terror sanctions list. today hundreds of protesters, many of them women, took to the streets of the capital, kabul. they were met with warning shots from the taliban. secunder kermani reports from kabul. death to pakistan, the crowd chant. they re furious at what they believe is the country s support for the taliban, including, they allege, in taking over panjshir, the last province to be captured by the group. translation: pakistan has| directly attacked our country. we don t want pakistan t
which is my idea of a break. i know, i ve seen your instagram, you ve been hitting it hard! hmm. what have you been up to? i ve been exercising my brain, i ve been trying these, um, interactive puzzle books which i ve become a bit of a fan of. on each page there s some sort of weird puzzle here and once you ve worked out what s going on, you scan the qr code and it takes you to a website and tells you whether you re right or not. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is my idea of fun. goodness, and you must be cleverer than ever now? dangerously intelligent, that s me. but anyway, it s back to business now, and september means back to school. and hopefully the kids are going to get a whole year in the classroom. yeah, but because the last 18 months have been so disrupted, schools and kids now face a big challenge and that s the fact that every child has had a different level of schooling and has different gaps in their education. but, it looks like machine learning might be able
now on bbc news: the travel show. this week on the show, could ships like this be the future of more sustainable cruise holidays? it can be saving, on the energy, up to eight tonnes per day. we get a new view of an iconic skyscraper that celebrates its 90th birthday this year. welcome to new york city. ..why they can t wait to get the party started again in the bahamas. you are caught up in the rapture. - ..and we share the secret to making the perfect paella in spain. mm! magnifica! the golden age of sail, where tall ships ruled the seas and followed the prevailing trade winds around the world. it ended with the advent of steam and diesel power in the mid 19th and early 20th century. but now, could we be about to enter another age of sail? this is the golden horizon, the largest tall ship in the world and the biggest of its kind ever made, today is its maiden voyage. you can see them loading on the equipment and the provisions as i talk. now, it s a journey that begins here
first deputy prime minister, nadia calvino. is europe too divided, too inward looking, to shape the 21st century? deputy prime minister nadia calvino, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure to be here. i think i have to start by talking afghanistan. the us led withdrawal from the country it looked chaotic, it was very difficult. what lessons do you think the european union must learn from what happened? well, for months we ve been listening to the defence minister in spain warning us about the situation in afghanistan, but i think to all of us, it was a shock. frankly, it was quite unexpected, you know, that there would be such a fast development. because the americans hadn t consulted with european allies? well, i m not informed about the different consultations that may have taken place, but i think we were all surprised about the rhythm of these developments and the tragic developments. there are two things that i would highlight from the european response. the first one i