Hamas denies it was there. Tte mac the Hamas Civil defence. We have at least 13 confirmed dead that have arrived at the hospital in and that will arise. The israeli defense forces say they were defending their targeting significant hamas terrorists and they have released the names of three people who describe as commanders or senior commanders of hamas who are intimately involved in the october seven assault on israel. For the civilians living here is a different story. They tell a story of huge explosions coming after midnight and ripping through this city. tent city. Thousands of families are sheltering here, living under Canvas And None of that would have provided any shelter at all from heavy munitions coming from the sky. Lets turn to the us because Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are preparing to go head to head in their first president ial debate later tonight. With the latest polls showing the race as still too close to call the primetime Television Event is being seen as crucia
this is bbc news these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. chaos at kabul airport even afghans with valid paperwork are struggling to get through, with checkpoints guarded by heavily armed militants. officials say 12 people have been killed in and around kabul airport since sunday the taliban are urging people without the legal right to travel, to go home. if you are linked to the international presence here, you are certainly going to be worried that in this chaotic situation, a taliban member will turn around to you and say, who are you, what did you do? and they may decide that you shouldn t be allowed to leave. president biden says us troops could remain in afghanistan beyond the end of august, passing his deadline for withdrawal. labour has accused the foreign secretary, dominic raab,
deadin demonstrators were reportedly shot dead in the eastern city of jalalabad after the taliban flag was lowered and the afghan trickle are raised in its place. and having promised a more inclusive approach to government, it is not clear what form that might take. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. our correspondent secunder kermani is in afghanistan s capital kabul and gave us this update on the situation there. we just heard a heavy burst of gunfire that seems to have gone quiet now. we are waiting for details as to what happened but it was heavier than anything we have heard over the past 2a hours from our location. today is a holy day for shia muslims and it could be related to that because there are crowds related to a festival taking place so potentially firing at the crowd, potentially attempts to disperse the crowd, we await those details. in the rest of the city, there are two different scenes.
lifting, variable amounts of cloud around, bringing rain across northern ireland into south west scotland and north west england, the second following hot on its heels bringing further rain into northern ireland. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. chaos at kabul airport. even afghans with valid paperwork are struggling to get through, with checkpoints guarded by heavily armed militants. officials say 12 people have been killed in and around kabul airport since sunday. the taliban are urging people without the legal right to travel to go home. president biden says us troops could remain in afghanistan beyond the end of august, passing his deadline for withdrawal. labour has accused the foreign secretary, dominic raab, of a dereliction of duty, after reports he declined to phone his afghan counterpart to seek help airlifting interpreters out of afghanistan. but the government has defended his actions.
that is why we were planning troop deployment, which we have now done. and no deployment, which we have now done. and no amount of phone calls to an afghan and no amount of phone calls to an afghan government at that moment in time would afghan government at that moment in time would have made any difference. what made time would have made any difference. what made a difference is what we are doing what made a difference is what we are doing now. that is why you are seeing are doing now. that is why you are seeing families coming out. and as we are seeing families coming out. and as we are on seeing families coming out. and as we are on the air, i think 119 afghan we are on the air, i think 119 afghan families and eligible people will he afghan families and eligible people will be flying out, followed by another will be flying out, followed by another few hundred, and nearly up to 1000 another few hundred, and nearly up to 1000 over the next 24 hours. that is what