A Government Clampdown on Cowboy Behaviour by providers of covid tests, offering misleading prices to Holiday Makers. A new drive to get 16 and 17 year olds to have their covid jab. And giving it their all britains paralympians prepare for the start of competition in tokyo tomorrow. And coming up in the sport on the Bbc News channel, a Hammer Blow for the Foxes West Ham take the Lead And Leicester down to ten men. Well bring you all the news from the london stadium. Good evening. As desperate afghans continue their attempts to flee their country, the defence minister, ben wallace, has said the uk has hours, not weeks to airlift people out. As the deadline of August 31st looms for foreign troops to leave the country, borisjohnson is expected to use a virtual G7 Summit Tomorrow to urge President Biden to keep a Military Presence there beyond that date. But today the taliban appeared to rule out any delay to the withdrawal and to the current evacuation mission. The Prime Minister this evening spoke to President Biden about the ongoing efforts to get people out. Our first Report Tonight is from our afghanistan Correspondent Secunder kermani. Its crowded, filthy and baking hot. But desperate afghans keep coming to kabul airport. So many children in such a terrible place. This woman worked alongside german forces. Ive been here with my kids for the past five days, waiting for the soldiers to look at my papers, she says. But i cant even take two steps in this crowd. Everywhere we go, people Beg Us for help, Beg Us for information. Were being just surrounded by dozens and dozens of people who are desperate to leave, showing us their documents. This chap worked with the afghan security forces. A foreign airfield. Someone else who worked with foreign forces. Someone else has got other documents. Most of these people dont have permission to leave. Some of them do and still cant get through. Everyone is desperate to get out, everyone is totally confused as to what to do. Youve got an email saying that you should go . You should come here . Are you able to get through . No, no. With the deadline for international forces rapidly approaching, many are panicking, fearing this is their last chance to get out. Taliban officials say foreign forces must leave by The End of the month. If they extend behind the 31st Of August, that is a clear violation, one thing. Secondly, it is up to our leadership how to proceed and what kind of decision they take. That decision will be implemented. Elsewhere In Kabul, theres an uneasy sense of calm. Shops and some Government Offices are open, but the streets are still quieter than usual, whilst banks remain closed. The taliban forces have been gathering close to panjshir, The One province yet to be captured, where fighters calling themselves the resistance are based. For now, though, the focus is on the crisis around the airport. Some are managing to make it out. My family, my newborn baby. Last week, we filmed this former british Army Interpreter and his newborn baby. Yesterday, they arrived in the uk. It is fantastic, it is very good being in the uk, it is a very good feeling. Being in the uk, it is a very good feelina. �. , i. Being in the uk, it is a very good feelina. �. , being in the uk, it is a very good feelina. �. , i. , being in the uk, it is a very good feelin. �. , i. , feeling. But are you sad at the same time about having feeling. But are you sad at the same time about having to feeling. But are you sad at the same time about having to leave your time about having to leave your country . Time about having to leave your count . ~ ,. ,. , time about having to leave your count . ~ ,. , country . When you leave your sisters, country . When you leave your sisters. Your country . When you leave your sisters, your brothers, country . When you leave your sisters, your brothers, your i country . When you leave your sisters, your brothers, your mother, those things are sad, but now i am happy in the uk. Those things are sad, but now i am happy in the uk happy in the uk. A happy ending amidst so much happy in the uk. A happy ending amidst so much misery. Secunder kermani, Bbc News, kabul. We can get the latest from our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, In Kabul now. Lyse, one happy story there, but we have seen desperate scenes at the airport for days now, and time is Running Out. Airport for days now, and time is Running Out Running Out. Yes, and President Biden was Running Out. Yes, and President Biden was listening Running Out. Yes, and President Biden was listening to Running Out. Yes, and President Biden was listening to the Running Out. Yes, and president. Biden was listening to the loudest voices, the most desperate of all will be those thousands of afghans, some of them spending days trying to push forward towards that last little gate, that last barrier between an outside world here in afghanistan which is changing by the hour and an afghanistan which is changing by the hourand an Airfield Afghanistan which is changing by the hour and an airfield which gives them access to an Evacuation Flight and what they feel is their last chance to try to escape from such an uncertain and, for many of them, a terrifying future. Im just one person with one phone, and hour by hour, im getting these begging messages, please can you get access to the airport . I know a family, the Children Havent had water for days, two of my uncles were killed, we are desperate to leave, we are hiding, how can you get us to the airport . Please, i have documents but cannot get to the gate. And there are those who are saying, we have raised the funds to charter a plane, we want to take female journalists out of afghanistan. In some ways, it is reassuring that around The World people are opening their hearts and their homes to afghans, but in another way it is overwhelming, as if there was a 20 Year Project and now the project is over, the project is packing up. The people who paid for it are leaving, the people who benefited our leaving, the people who are part of it are leaving. But this is not a project, it is a country and a people, and while our focus is on this airport, millions of afghans have no way to leave. Millions want to stay, they support the taliban, and it is those people most of all who face this most uncertain future they know the foreign forces are leaving, but they dont know what lies ahead for them. Lyse, thank you, Lyse Doucet reporting for us from kabul. Well, borisjohnson will lead Tomorrows Emergency Gathering of g7 leaders to discuss the crisis in afghanistan. But its far from clear if the us, or the taliban, will agree to an extension to the Troops Withdrawal Date and what other options, if any, the uk might have to get people out. 0ur Political correspondent Alex Forsyth has more. Packed up and prepared to go these troops are poised to head to kabul, if needed, to help the Evacuation Effort. With them this morning, the Defence Secretary said its a race against time. It is fraught, we have a timetable, we dont know how long the united states are going to stay. He said the government would urge the us to stay in afghanistan beyond The End of this month to get people out. But he admitted without them, the uk could not go it alone. I dont think there is any likelihood on staying on after the united states if their timetable extends. Even by a day or two, then it will give us a day or two more to evacuate people, because we are now down to hours now, not weeks, and we have to exploit every minute to get people out. Outside the Home Office today, a reminder of whats at stake afghans in the uk urging the government not to abandon their friends and family who helped foreign forces and fear reprisals from the taliban. Their life is at risk at the moment. They can get killed any time, so before that moment, we are here to fight for our families. When World Leaders met at the g7 in cornwall, it was all smiles. That might not be the case at their virtual summit tomorrow. Tonight, the Prime Minister spoke with the president about the Evacuation Effort. Hes expected to press for more time in afghanistan, though the chances seem slim if the taliban dont consent. Someone warn staying without that could mean attempts to get people out turn violent. We would have to be prepared to leave the airport and fight the taliban to go and get these people. I just dont see that as a credible proposition. Secondly, if the taliban dont want our aeroplanes to use the airport, one mortar round, one missile, one burst of machine gun fire, and the evacuation is over. After the scramble to respond to events in afghanistan, ministers say the Evacuation Effort has stepped up, with more than 6,500 people brought out in the past ten days. But by its own admission, the uk is dependent on the us to keep that going, so beyond borisjohnsons diplomatic push, the options are limited, and people will be left behind. Labour says it didnt need to come to this. Theres no evidence that our government tried to influence the withdrawal plan, despite knowing it was happening for 18 months. Its important now the g7 display the international leadership which has been missing in recent months. The government says, even if this operation has to stop soon, there will be other routes for refugees through neighbouring countries. But the detail is scant and the difficulty obvious in a complex crisis that many simply didnt see coming. Alex forsyth, Bbc News. 0ur North America editor, Jon Sopel, is at the white house. We know the President And Borisjohnson spoke this evening did that Conversation Change Anything . Yeah, well, on the august to the sist yeah, well, on the august to the 31st Deadline for american troops to pull out, we have had a readout from downing street, a readout from the white house, a briefing from the national security adviser, the pentagon and the state department. The more they have spoken, it feels the less they have said, because it is still very unclear what us intentions are. They say they are taking it on a Day By day basis. I think the clear desire is that us troops should pull out on august the sist, troops should pull out on august the 31st, but of course that is dependent on the taliban, and we have also heard from administration sources, comments along the lines that they believe the taliban will allow flights to continue after the august to 31st Deadline, but how reassuring is that going to be if you are one of the people that needs to get out, if you are american, british, french or german, oryou have been a Translator Working for these governments . So that is kind of pretty blurry as well. So there is still so much that we dont know about, even though it is clear that borisjohnson and the french want that deadline extended. I Thinkjoe Biden is also very conscious of the simmering anger there is in britain and france about the lack of consultation there has been. Now, does that Meanjoe Biden will give borisjohnson an Assurance Tomorrow that he will extend the deadline . I wouldnt put my money on it. Come out 0k, jon, thank you, Jon Sopel reporting there. The latest Government Coronavirus figures show there were 31,914 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period, which means on average there were 32,981 new cases per day in the last week. The most recent figures show there were almost 6,500 people in hospital with the virus on thursday. A0 deaths were recorded in the past 2a hours, with an average of 100 deaths a day in the past week. 0n vaccinations, 87. 7 of adults in the uk have now had their firstjab, and 76. 9 have had two. Nearly 5,000 covid cases could have links to a Music And Surfing festival that took place earlier this month in cornwall, according to the local council. Around 50,000 people attended the Boardmasters Festival in and around newquay, which now has three neighbourhoods with the highest Infection Rates in england. Visitors to cumbria are being asked by the head of Public Health there to take a lateral Flow Test before going to the county. It follows a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus cases. In one district, its doubled per 100,000 people in a week. The government has agreed to buy a further 35 Million Pfizer Biontech Coronavirus vaccines. Theyre to be delivered from the second half of next year. The health secretary, sajid javid, said the deal would help to future proof the uks vaccine programme. Meanwhile, the government says its met its target of offering all 16 and 17 year olds in england a single dose of the covid jab. More than A Million young people became eligible earlier this month and the latest figures suggest around 360,000 have taken up the offer. A new Nhs Video has been launched, highlighting the effects of long covid. Heres our medical editor, fergus walsh. Hiya, are you ready for vaccination . Yeah. Every jab counts. These 16 and 17 year olds were getting their Vaccine Today at tipton in the west midlands. Almost 90 Million doses have now been administered in the uk. Yeah, it was quick and easy, keeping everyone safe. I want to keep my family safe and me safe, more importantly, so, yeah. As an A E doctor, ive seen a lot during this pandemic. But nothing has shocked me more than seeing younger people being admitted to our hospitals with covid 19. And as well as their age, many of them have one other thing in common they were unvaccinated. The Nhs Video urges young adults to get vaccinated and shares stories of several who were laid low by the virus. My lungs, out of nowhere, just kind of stopped. I struggled to breathe sitting, lying down, obviously sitting upright. I was then, sort of, attached to a ventilator machine. The younger you are, the lower your overall risk from covid, but people aged 18 34 now make up more than a fifth of those admitted to hospital with the virus. And there is the threat of long covid. Normally youd be able to go to bed, go to Sleep And Wake up kind of feeling ready to face the day, i could sleep for a week and still feel tired. If we look at Vaccine Uptake in adults in england, whereas over 90 of all of those aged 60 and over have had at least one dose, it falls to 63 for those aged 18 29. For 16 and 17 year olds, its estimated around 36 have had a jab in the three weeks since became eligible. The Sse Arena in belfast marked its final day as a Vaccination Centre on sunday, having administered more than 360,000 doses overfive months. The last recipient, this 17 year old. With covid cases and Hospital Admissions rising, the Immunisation Campaign remains as important as ever to ensure as many people as possible are protected. Fergus walsh, Bbc News. Theres to be a clampdown on Covid Test Providers whove been accused of taking advantage of Holiday Makers travelling abroad. More than 80 companies listed on the Government Website are to be warned over misleading prices. A further 57 firms are being removed from the website because they either dont provide the relevant tests or they no longer even exist. 0ur Transport Correspondent Caroline Davies has the details. If you travel, you test. And you pay for those tests. The governments own website has a list of providers, but booking through them isnt to guarantee things will go smoothly as Barbara Lowe found out coming from her holiday in portugal in june. We didnt get any Test Results at all. You couldnt get through to them on the phone, you couldnt contact them via the website. Well, to be honest, i think its quite farcical. Im annoyed, and im upset that ive lost my money and i havent got what i paid for, basically. The government lists companies with the cheapest at the top, but some firms have advertised tests at lower prices, only to charge more at checkout, or the tests arent available at all. Today, the government has said that 82 Test Providers will be given a warning about misleading pricing and could be removed altogether. 57 have already been removed from the list because they no longer exist or dont provide relevant testing services. Some Testing Companies hope this will help the industrys reputation. Over the last weeks, companies in the space, the industry, has received a bad reputation, not because of everybody, just from a select few, so now that those select few are removed, we think that, you know, the industry can now show its capability, focusing on quality of service as well as obviously trying to reduce the price at the same time. This provider has done over A Million tests, and its pleased to say it hasnt been getting a warning. This is where the pcr tests are first processed when they arrived. Testing for holidays has been going on for months, but complaints about some operators have been going on for almost the same amount of time. Its meant that there have been some questions about why the government is only taking action now. We are really talking about the most basic of checks we are talking about, does the company exist . Does the price it says its going to sell the test at, does that exist . There are lots of other problems behind us, so good news that the government is taking action, but my goodness, it really has taken a long time. The government has said it will do regular Spot Checks to ensure that prices are accurate and providers are legitimate. But the Summer Season has nearly come to an end, and for some testing has already left a nasty aftertaste. Caroline davies, Bbc News. Total of 828 migrates across the channel to arrive at the uk on saturday, a record for a single day. The previous record for people arriving in a single day was just under 600. Environmental Activists Extinction Rebellion have blocked roads in Central London at the start of what they say will be a fortnight of demonstrations. The group wants to force the government to stop all new investments in Fossil Fuels that are driving climate change. Police say a significant operation will be in place to manage the ongoing protests. When the Covid Crisis hit last year, there was concern at how prisons would cope, with calls from politicians for some inmates to be released early. The government resisted that and ordered a full lockdown of the Prison Estate in england and wales instead. Now the Ministry Ofjustice is looking back at the decision and its made some surprising discoveries. Our Home Editor Mark easton has been into Isis Prison in east london. It was predicted that prisons would be the perfect environment for covid to spread, making jails even more dangerous places. Here at Isis Prison in east london, as in everyjail, the Authorities Response was a strict regime of testing and isolation. You test on your tonsils, yeah . Inmates were locked in their cells for 23 and a half hours a day. Education classes, group activities and family visits were all cancelled. So its had a massive impact on the prisoners. Everything was completely locked down. Doing covid checks, welfare checks, well being checks, so staff were doing hourly checks on all of our prisoners. Prison governors were forced to think on their feet, introducing measures to counteract the loss of activities and long periods of solitary confinement. I have got an Induction Pack for you. Prisoners were given education packs to work in their cells. 0fficers organised Bingo Sessions and quizzes. 0ne Inmate used poetry to relieve the frustration. You feel your room is small until you get put in a cell. 23 hours locked up, all by yourself. And everyone forgot about you, and nobody� s sending you mail. As restrictions relaxed outside, rules slowly adjusted inside, with small groups allowed to attend classes or exercise. Things are a lot easier now that were back in the gym. Theres probably not going to be a huge amount of sympathy for people who are locked up, because everyone had to deal with covid. I understand that people havent really got sympathy for somebody thats broke the law, but at The End of the day you dont want these people to come out and be worse than they were when they went in. Incarceration has gone up and levels of association have gone down, but the consequences are not what many had anticipated. Applying lockdown to people locked up has seen falls in Violence And Self harm behind bars. Now the Ministry Ofjustice is looking to see whether changes forced upon them by covid could become part of a new normal in prisons. Its promoted safety. Its promoted less feelings of anxiety for the boys. Its been very beneficial. People being in a smaller bubble, it might have helped. Ive seen it helping people as well. Some people do feel confident being in a small bubble. This is the way forward for us now, and this has really helped sort of decrease the feelings of anxiety, feelings of Mental Health issues. How is the family . Prisons are moving cautiously to their new normal. Visits at isis have just restarted, but there is still no touching or hugging. The pandemic has thrown up many surprises, but few would have predicted that covid would result in prisons generally becoming safer. Mark easton, Bbc News, Isis Prison in east london. Isis prison in east london. Now, tomorrow the paralympics get under way in tokyo. The swimmer Ellie Simmonds and the Archerjohn Stubbs have been named as the Flag Bearers for Paralympics Gb in the Opening Ceremony. The team are hoping to build on the 147 medals won in rio five years ago. 0ur Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss is in tokyo. Raising the bar for paralympic sport. From powerlifting to fencing, from athletics to archery, the british team in tokyo has success in its sights. But for the games themselves, in the midst of a pandemic, simply getting to the start has been a struggle. The traditional torch relay, for example, has had to be scaled back. The athletes, though, can hardly wait including Ellie Simmonds. Just 13 when she made her name in beijing, now, 13 years later a Flag Bearer at tomorrows Opening Ceremony. To be honest, theres literally no words to describe it. For me, this is my fourth paralympics and ive never actually been to an Opening Ceremony im just so excited, really its going to be really cool. But many here dont share that excitement. Once again, there will be no fans in the venues. Since the olympics, covid cases injapan have hit a new high. But the head of the paralympics told me these Games Wont spread the virus. Of course, with one here and the other there, they will face a situation where their tests are going to return positive, and it is devastating. But then how we identify them and track and monitor and isolate them is the key to guarantee a safe games. So youre confident this will be a safe games . Im confident it will be a safe games, but safe games doesnt mean zero cases. Well, with a State Of Emergency still in place across tokyo these games will begin amid a subdued atmosphere. But the athletes here will be hoping they can change that, and for the british team, as ever, there are high hopes. Paralympicsgb have flourished at recent games. 120 medals in london, 147 in rio. Here, theyve been set a range of 100 to 140 because of the uncertainty that covid has caused. And one athlete has a chance of history. Swimmer turned Cyclist Dame Sarah storey could become britains most decorated paralympian after winning medals at the last seven games. I joined My First Swimming Club as a ten year old. I was told id started training too late to be any good at anything. So it almost feels like youre constantly trying to prove someone wrong. And britain, of course, has already enjoyed plenty of medals this summer after soaring to olympic success. But the paralympians could be even more glittering. Despite the shadow of the pandemic, its now their chance to shine. Andy swiss, Bbc News, tokyo. Finally, the changing of the guard has been performed at Buckingham Palace for the first time since the pandemic. The coldstream Guards Band played tunes including spandau ballets gold, whitney Houstons 0ne ballets gold, whitney houstons One Moment In Time in tribute to britain because my 0lympic successes. It was changed to one setting to avoid attracting crowds during lockdown. Thats it from us. Have a very good evening. Goodbye. Hes the first African American to win the president ial nomination of a major party. And he accepts exactly 45 years ago to the day, the Martin Luther King declared i have a dream. As darkness falls tonight, and unfamiliar light will appear in the southeastern sky. 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Lets have a look at the forecast for the evening hours and you can see plenty of clear skies. But eastern and central parts of the country tending to cloud over through the night. Thats because there is a wind blowing off the North Sea Dragging in some of that cloud. These are the temperatures at six oclock on tuesday, single figures in some spots but for most of us is around ten to 13 degrees. At the centre of the High Pressure is right over scotland during the course of tuesday. This is where we are expecting the best of the weather perhaps up to 25 degrees in glasgow. For most of us not quite so warm but certainly will be a good deal of bright weather around. This is Bbc News, the headlines the us says it hasnt ruled out keeping its forces In Kabul past the current deadline of the 31st Of August but is trying to complete it by that time. The taliban are hostile to an extension. Pfizers two Dose Covid nineteen vaccine has received full approvalfrom the us Food And Drug administration the firstjab to be licensed in the country. The vaccine had up to now, only been given Emergency Use authorisation. In germany, tighter restrictions have come into force to access a wide range of services. They will largely be restricted to those who have been vaccinated, tested negative or have recovered from the virus recently. Poland says itll begin erecting a fence along its border with belarus in response to a surge in migration that it says is organised by minsk. Belarus denies allegations its orchestrating the crisis in response to sanctions