What its leaders claim. Warnings of life threatening floods in dangerous Storm Surges as tropical Storm Ida turns its way along the coast of louisiana and mississippi. More Paralympic Success for Great Britain as Andrew Small and Phoebe Pattison claimed gold. Good Afternoon And Welcome to bbc news. The us says it is taking reports of civilian deaths from a Drone Strike it carried out in kabul very seriously. It comes after the so called islamic State Group said it was behind a Missile Attack on the us forces remaining at the airport in kabul. The missiles were intercepted by the us defence systems and no us or afghan casualties were reported. Meanwhile, british ministers and officials are taking part in a number of international meetings aimed at defining a joint approach to the taliban in afghanistan. Rajini Vaidya Nathan reports. The aftermath of a Rocket Attack Close to Kabul Airport. Eyewitnesses say the missiles were launched from a car this morning. Us officials have been warning another Terror Attack is highly likely, as the countrys troops prepare to depart afghanistan. Last night the pentagon launched a Drone Strike on a car packed with explosives close to the airport, saying it had thwarted a plot by islamic state. A family living close to the airport say they lost ten members in the Drone Strike including six children. The us says its now investigating. Translation we live in this neighbourhood. | a rocket came and hit a house, we know that people died. I have nothing to say, were distraught. Despite security concerns, america says its continuing Evacuation Flights up until tuesdays deadline. The uks already wrapped up its operations, but there are still many eligible for resettlement in the uk who are left behind. I talked to a man who couldnt get on his flight to britain because of the crowds at the airport. Now hes in fear of the taliban, and is moving to a different Safe House almost every day. Nowadays, if there is a knock on the door, your heart stops beating because youre worried its the taliban. What would your message be to the Uk Government right now . We are fighting to stay alive. Its not a matter of hours, not a matter of days its a matter of seconds. The Uk Government says the end of the mission makes evacuations much harder, but says its working with allies to find a way to get people out through other means. We will not end our Repatriation And Evacuation effortjust because Kabul Airport has fallen, although we have to understand that losing that as an Exit Route severely limits and has severely limited our ability to evacuate people. Those left behind dont have much hope to hold onto. Many are in fear, others displaced, struggling to find food. Tomorrow marks the end of americas longest war. Its legacy is uncertain as the future of afghanistan. Rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news. As weve been hearing, the us launched a Drone Strike on suspected militants planning a Suicide Bombing near the airport. Well a resident of Kabul Resident Ramin yousufi has been telling us his cousin returned from work and went outside with his children when the Drone Strike happened killing 10 of his relatives including the cousin, and six of the children. A warning that some of what you hear may be distressing. He was the head of our family. He had a0 years and he was engineer in a charity organisation. The other one, from the youngest, he was 30 years and he was an officer of international army. And the other was 19 and he was a student. And the seven others, they have four, five, two and i2, and 11 years. They were all children. But they have killed them in this attack in kabul. How would a person who is an engineer and who works, who hasjobs, charity organisation, they serve about two decades for the poor people, for those people that they. The North Part of our country in kabul, how can he be part of a daesh or a Suicide Attack . It is not possible. We see how, in our lives. Sobbing we gather with our parts of our members of our. How. Why they killed our family, our children . Seven children. They are all gone now. They cannot find. Face. Their bodies. Our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet said the accounts of the people who lost Family Members in the strike were heartbreaking. You cannot listen to the accounts of the Family Members whove lost ten members of theirfamily the Family Members whove lost ten members of their family and minutes. Including seven children. Just as they were waiting to go to the airport with us visa is to start a new life in america. They are cut down by an american Drone Strike. Viewers may have already seen on the Channel Today that hearts so to eight heart stopping, heartbreaking interviews with a relative who cannot understand, how is it possible at this hour that his family which is work for the us military, work for international charities, childrens whose faces were so burned he says they couldnt recognise them. No one expected this pain at this hour. There havent been that many political reactions. This is such a painful, personal and human moment. And they tell them now of course just affirms their view tele band. The foreign occupation of afghanistan has to end as soon as possible. You may hear in the skies above me the warplanes, us warplanes constantly circling overhead. Its been like that all day. Providing coverfor been like that all day. Providing cover for the last us military flights to leave afghanistan, closing this chapter of the afghan war. Right up until the last minute. There is peril, there is a risk of Terror Attacks and the risk of response to that. Terror attacks and the risk of response to that. Terror attacks and the risk of resonse to that. ,. ,. , response to that. How can you begin to convey the response to that. How can you begin to convey the enormity, response to that. How can you begin to convey the enormity, the to convey the enormity, the intensity, the hurt, the horror of this moment . Of usa 20 years intensity, the hurt, the horror of this moment . Of usa 20 years ago and the us led Invasion Led to the ousting of the taliban at the end of this unprecedented international engagement in afghanistan would not be the best of days but the worst of days. You wouldve been inc. Two accused of being cynical, too pessimistic, do. Dark, too gloomy. Afghans are reeling from what is happening. 0f afghans are reeling from what is happening. Of course i still get messages and im only one person, im sure the countless people receiving messages in britain, afghanistan and around the world, Help Me, Help Me im trapped. My boss was stopped at the airport, the taliban wont let me leave, im so scared for my life. But tens of millions of afghans on September One which will work to eight marked the first day without us presence will get up and live the life they have been living in what is one of the poorest countries in the world. A country which is still reeling from a drought. A country where people still find it hard to get enough food to eat. And their lives will not have changed a jot. They will hope against hope that the international community and the promises that are also made in london that the world will not take it si off afghanistan and that the humanitarian aid will still keep coming no matter who is in power. Those are what they cling onto in these final hours. The pentagon press secretary, said the united states is investigating whether there were any civilian casualties in that us Drone Strike targeting a suspected Suicide Bomber from islamic state. We are assessing and we are investigating. Look, make no mistake. Investigating. Look, make no mistake, no military on the face of the earth mistake, no military on the face of the earth were started to avoid civilian the earth were started to avoid civilian casualties the United Stetes civilian casualties the united states military. And nobody wants to see innocent life taken. We take it very. See innocent life taken. We take it very. Very see innocent life taken. We take it very, very seriously. And when we know very, very seriously. And when we know that very, very seriously. And when we know that we have caused innocent life to know that we have caused innocent life to be know that we have caused innocent life to be lost in the conduct of our operations, we are transparent about it. Our operations, we are transparent about it. We our operations, we are transparent about it. We are investigating this, not about it. We are investigating this, Hot To about it. We are investigating this, Hot To get about it. We are investigating this, not to get ahead of it. But if we have verifiable information that we did in have verifiable information that we did in fact have verifiable information that we did in fact take innocent life here then did in fact take innocent life here then we did in fact take innocent life here then we will be transparent about that too then we will be transparent about that too. Nobody wants to see that happeh that too. Nobody wants to see that happen. But you know what else we didht happen. But you know what else we didnt want happen. But you know what else we didnt want to see happen . We didnt want to didnt want to see happen . We didnt want to see didnt want to see happen . We didnt want to see happen what we believed to be a want to see happen what we believed to be a very want to see happen what we believed to be a very real, a very specific and a to be a very real, a very specific and a very to be a very real, a very specific and a very eminent threat to the International Airport and to our troops International Airport and to our troops operating at that airport as well as troops operating at that airport as well as civilians around it and in it. Well as civilians around it and in it and well as civilians around it and in it and It Well as civilians around it and in it. And it was another thing that we were very. It. And it was another thing that we were very, very concerned about. A number of international meetings have been convened, to try and agree a joint approach to dealing with the taliban. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been meeting his counterparts from the g7 nations, nato, qatar and turkey, emphasising the importance of working together on safe Passage And Exit arrangements for eligible afghans remaining in the country. Earlier i spoke to Sir Mark Lyall grant, whos a former Uk Ambassador to the un, who said that while the taliban cant be trusted, it is worth noting that they have allowed more than One Hundred Thousand afghans to leave the country. They have kept their word and not attacking foreign forces and they have kept their word in allowing foreigners and those who work for foreigners and those who work for foreign governments to leave the country. So thats a relatively good start. But of course one cant entirely trust what they say and we have to wait and see what they will do. It have to wait and see what they will do. ,. , do. If then the intention is to get more peeple do. If then the intention is to get more people out do. If then the intention is to get more people out of do. If then the intention is to get more people out of afghanistan | do. If then the intention is to get more people out of afghanistan where they are eligible, who are the key nations here who are likely to bring some Influence Or Pressure to bear on the taliban . On the taliban . There are some countries that on the taliban . There are some countries that have on the taliban . There are some countries that have an on the taliban . There are some countries that have an influence with the taliban. The fund 23 countries that recognise the first Element Government back in the 19905 Pakistan One of the key neighbours, Saudi Arabia and the uae. You can add to that list turkey, whove been operating at the airport and have some links with the taliban will stop catarrh who have hosted the political office of the taliban over the last few years. Political office of the taliban over the last few years. Qatar. Al5o china and some Degree Russia and iran. We are talking here of the neighbouring countries and some of the islamic countries that have had traditional link5 the islamic countries that have had traditional links with the taliban. And if britain, america and the west want to influence events on the ground it is very difficult and virtually impossible for them to do so directly and they will need to do so directly and they will need to do so vicariously through these other countries that do have direct links with the taliban. So countries that do have direct links with the taliban. With the taliban. So how then will the un security with the taliban. So how then will the un Security Council with the taliban. So how then will the un Security Council play with the taliban. So how then will the un Security Council play a with the taliban. So how then will. The un Security Council play a part . The un Security Council hasnt played much of a part of the last two weeks. The last time they i55ued any statement was on the 3rd Of August which sort of condemned this augu5t which sort of condemned this growing violence in the country. Of course growing violence in the country. Of course since then its been completely overtaken by events. But i think the permanent members of the Security Council, the so called p5 of russia, china, the united states, france and the uk are meeting later today as you mentioned. And they do have at least a degree of Overlapping Interest in afghanistan. And that is on the counterterrori5m agenda. Because all those countries which normally have very different objectives and indeed look at afghanistan at a very different way, none of them want afghanistan to be a crucible for terrorism externally. All have reasons to fear if the Taliban Allawi says, alqaeda and other Extremist Terrorist groups to operate in afghanistan. Alqaeda. That gives a basis for a degree of understanding between the five countries. Since they took control of afghanistan two weeks ago, the taliban have sought to portray an image more moderate than when they seized power in the 19905. The group has said it is not going after people who worked for Western Militaries or the previous administration. But there is growing evidence that the reality on ground is different than whats announced by taliban leaders. The bbc has investigated cases of Revenge Killings of Police Personnel and soldiers, and spoken to multiple people, some in hiding, who strongly refute taliban claims of amnesty. A warning you may find some of the details and images in yogita limayes di5tresssing. The telegram back of the streets backin the telegram back of the streets back in control. People willing to take extreme ri5k back in control. People willing to take extreme risk for a chance to leave the country. Its more dangerous they believed to stay behind. Taliban assurances of amnesty for everyone were announced from the chair of a Government 5pokesper5on killed by the group a few weeks ago and justified as punishment for his deed5. Even since the pledge of parting others have been killed. Thi5 parting others have been killed. This band was the Security Director of east providence. He was executed by the Taliban Ju5t of east providence. He was executed by the taliban just over a week ago. Multiple sources have told the bbc. As well as this man, Security Head for a province. We spoke to a soldierfrom afghan for a province. We spoke to a soldier from afghan Special Forces who is in hiding with his family. Weve heard similar accounts from other Soldiers A5 Weve heard similar accounts from other soldiers as well. It also spoke to a high Ranking Police Official who said the taliban was searching for him and his family. Yesterday the taliban came asking for your chief . Yesterday the taliban came asking Foryour Chief . Really yesterday the taliban came asking for your chief . Really bad situation for your chief . Really bad situation for me. Now my children are with me. If you were to come Face To face with the taliban, what do you think would happen . Many have fled after threat5 many have fled after threats from the taliban. She was Afghanistan First Female mayor. Governing bordering kabul. She says herfather was killed by the taliban last year and now they are looking for her. Taliban took my car away. A took my garden took the weapon away. And then they were searching for me. Taliban or searching for me. Especially those taliban who came from gladbeck province. From gladbeck province. Forced to leave her country from gladbeck province. Forced to leave her country she from gladbeck province. Forced to leave her country she is from gladbeck province. Forced to leave her country she is now from gladbeck province. Forced to leave her country she is now in leave her country she is now in germany. Leave her country she is now in germany leave her country she is now in german. ,. , germany. Taliban did this to me. I did nothing germany. Taliban did this to me. I did nothing to germany. Taliban did this to me. I did nothing to them, germany. Taliban did this to me. I did nothing to them, i germany. Taliban did this to me. I did nothing to them, i was germany. Taliban did this to me. I did nothing to them, i was not did nothing to them, i was not part of their war. But they destroyed my everything. And more importantly they may be to leave the country which was more important in my home to me always. She which was more important in my home to me always to me always. She was a Police Woman. To me always. She was a Police Woman out to me always. She was a Police Woman. Out of to me always. She was a Police Woman. Out of afghanistan to me always. She was a police| woman. Out of afghanistan and to me always. She was a Police Woman. Out of afghanistan and now she says shes still being threatened by the taliban and her colleagues back home had told her similar stories. Some believe retaliation could be the result of a gap between the thinking of taliban leaders and theirfoot 5oldiers. But thinking of taliban leaders and their foot 5oldiers. But if the group does not react to mounting evidence of reprisal5 it will damage the moderate face the taliban have been trying to project. Theres a warning of life threatening flooding in the southern united States A5 Hurricane ida moves from louisiana into mi55issippi. The storm brought winds of 150 miles an hour when it made landfall yesterday, ripping moves from buildings and killing a man whose house was hit by a falling tree. There are reports that Fla5h Flooding has trapped residents in their homes there, where defences were strengthened following Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago. President biden has declared a major disaster in louisiana releasing extra resources for Rescue And Recovery efforts. Nada tawfik reports from New Orleans. This is the destructive power of ida. Oh, my gosh easily lifting the roof clear off this hospital in cut off louisiana. The5e coastal areas have been the hardest hit so far. Besides ferocious winds, there have been Tidal 5urge5 as high as 16 feet, and flash flooding. Thi5 Fire Station in delacroix, louisiana, posted footage before and after the storm, as water rushed in. 0fficials warned some of the most affected parts may be uninhabitable for weeks. In comparison, much of New Orleans is protected by the levees and flood walls of a newly built hurricane defence 5y5tem. That is being put to the test now. In the iconic french quarter, debris such as this roof and fallen tree Branches Litter the streets. And at nightfall, power went out across the entire city. Just as New Orleans was plunged into darkness, Hurricane Ida was downgraded to a category three hurricane, Tracking North West of New Orleans with wind5 at 115mph. In washington, President Biden received a briefing on ida at the federal emergency management agency, or fema. He made an appeal to people in the region. I want to emphasise again this is going to be a devastating, a devastating hurricane, a life threatening storm. So please, all you folks in mississippi and louisiana, and god knows, maybe even further east, take precautions. Li5ten, take it seriously. Really, very seriously. Fema is sending 2,000 Emergency Workers to assist local authorities. For now, though, residents are on their own for the duration of the storm. Nada tawfik, bbc news, New Orleans. The Sun Newspaper has paid damages to england cricketer, Ben Stokes and his mother, after the paper published a story in September 2019 that detailed a family tragedy. Deborah stoke5 took legal action over the article, saying it expo5ed private information, that was not in the public interest. The sun initially defended its front Page Story but today apologised to the family for causing great distress. It paid the pair damages and their legal costs, and admitted that it should not have published the article. A5 Afghan Refugees have been arriving in the uk, communities and organisations across the country have been offering to help. Among those is the afghanistan and Central Asian a55ociation in feltham, West London. 0ur Correspondent Zoe Conway has been speaking to some of the people there. Here in feltham, which isju5t a couple of miles away from heathrow airport, theyve been gathering donations to help the more than 1000 Afghan Refugees who are in quarantine in the hotels just by heathrow airport, and has been the most astonishing response. All morning, donations have been arriving. This is nothing compared to what theyve been receiving over the last three or four days. The generosity is quite staggering and theyre incredibly grateful, the association says, for all thats been arriving clothing, nappies, pushchairs. It really is a very moving thing to see, but thats not all that the association is doing. Theyre also helping british afghan5 who are worried about their Family Members in afghanistan. This is a community in West London of some 100,000 british afghans, and people are coming here to try and get help, to get advice. What can they do to help Family Members back in kabul . You have Family Members in kabul. Youre very worried about them, but also, your family has suffered terrible lo55e5 just in the last few days. Ye5, yes, we had the terrible news of losing my cousin in a Bomb Blast which happened near the airport at abby gate. It was really horrendous moment for everyone in afghanistan and especially for my family that we lost them. I am in fear that we are losing, my otherfamily lost them. I am in fear that we are losing, my other family movies. Members are doing at the moment. Im so worried about them that they are such danger at the moment. Teiiii so worried about them that they are such danger at the moment. Tell me about our such danger at the moment. Tell me about your first such danger at the moment. Tell me about your first cousin such danger at the moment. Tell me about your first cousin who such danger at the moment. Tell me about your first cousin who you about your first cousin who you lost. , about your first cousin who you lost. , ,. , lost. He was there with his Family Helinu lost. He was there with his family helping his lost. He was there with his family helping his young lost. He was there with his family helping his young girls lost. He was there with his family helping his young girls and lost. He was there with his family helping his young girls and in ill l helping his young girls and in ill child to move across to safety so they can be safe. He sacrificed himself, his bear with another two young cousins and the rest of over 200 afghan people whos been there and then killed their without mercy. Its very devastating for all of us, for all afghans. And for myself personally its been very, very bad situation. I wasjust personally its been very, very bad situation. I was just talking to her one night before and i have his Voice Mail in my Phone And Thinking he is no more. He was a good man, he was a godparent, hes been helping everyone, familie5 was a godparent, hes been helping everyone, families and other people in the country. I really dont know how to help them. And now i fear the thrust of my family who are there, what will happen to them . What will be in their situations . They are in hiding as well. Its too much. I cant explain how theyre feeling and im feeling here. Because the first day when this happened, for a few minutes i was in shock how can some innocent person die like that onlyjust some innocent person die like that only just wanted to some innocent person die like that onlyjust wanted to have his family be safe . Im sorry. Onlyjust wanted to have his family be safe . Im sorry. Thank you for talkin to be safe . Im sorry. Thank you for talking to us be safe . Im sorry. Thank you for talking to us. You be safe . Im sorry. Thank you for talking to us. You also be safe . Im sorry. Thank you for talking to us. You also are talking to us. You also are very worried about your family. Your mother, your brother, your grandmother, tell me what is happening to them, what are they having to do . Mr; happening to them, what are they having to do . Happening to them, what are they havin to do . G ,. ,. , having to do . My mum, she is a widow and she is a teacher. Having to do . My mum, she is a widow and she is a teacher. She having to do . My mum, she is a widow and she is a teacher. She also has and she is a teacher. She also has participated in elections for presidency and she has been an Activist Presidency and she has been an activist woman who is always a fight for womens rights and for Girls Rights for womens rights and for Girls Rights because she has been working with them rights because she has been working with them. My brother is a journalist to an he has been working as welt journalist to an he has been working as welt so journalist to an he has been working as well. So they are all terrified at the as well. So they are all terrified at the moment because my mum got threaten at the moment because my mum got threaten from taliban and they are moving threaten from taliban and they are moving from house is two houses. For my cousirrs moving from house is two houses. For my cousins who are moving from houses my cousins who are moving from houses to my cousins who are moving from houses to houses. For my cousins to other houses to houses. For my cousins to other families. Houses to houses. For my cousins to otherfamilies. My houses to houses. For my cousins to other families. My cousin is in rnititary other families. My cousin is in military afghan and he is hiding at the moment. And the other cousin, he has got the moment. And the other cousin, he has got four the moment. And the other cousin, he has got four young daughters which are Journalist Student and teacher. The other are Journalist Student and teacher. The other one she is working in a hospitat~ the other one she is working in a hospital. They are all terrifying. What hospital. They are all terrifying. What do hospital. They are all terrifying. What do they say to you when you speak to them on the phone, youre speaking to them often . What do they say about what their life is like now . ,. ,. ,. ,. , now . They are literally at home hidinu. Now . They are literally at Home Hiding they now . They are literally at Home Hiding. They cannot now . They are literally at Home Hiding. They cannot go now . They are literally at Home Hiding. They cannot go out now . They are literally at Home Hiding. They cannot go out for. Now . They are literally at home i hiding. They cannot go out for that my mum hiding. They cannot go out for that my mum especially, she cannot go out and work my mum especially, she cannot go out and work. Because she is the only source and work. Because she is the only source of and work. Because she is the only source of income in the house. No onem source of income in the house. No onem she source of income in the house. No one. She has not got support from any other one. She has not got support from any other person. Even the other families any other person. Even the other families. They are there. And i have lost my families. They are there. And i have lost my dad families. They are there. And i have lost my dad was up so i dont want to lose lost my dad was up so i dont want to lose my lost my dad was up so i dont want to lose my mum. I dont want to lose my brother to lose my mum. I dont want to lose my brother. He is very young. My mum my brother. He is very young. My mum. She my brother. He is very young. My mum. She is my brother. He is very young. My mum, she is very young and i dont want mum, she is very young and i dont want them mum, she is very young and i dont want them to mum, she is very young and i dont want them to suffer any more. At the afghan and social centre in at the afghan and social shortly, viewers on Bbc One willjoin us for a Round Up of the news with mishal husain. But first, a look at the weather with darren. Belgium. Hello there. Sunshine has been in shorter Supply Today and well have a blanket of cloud covering much of england and wales through this evening and overnight. The cloud a little Bit Thinner in scotland and northern ireland. Temperatures here could dip away to seven or eight degrees. Under the cloud in england and wales, 11 14, and there could still be a little drizzle across some Eastern Parts of england. That will continue in some areas during tuesday. But towards the southeast, it may well brighten up a bit. Hint of some sunshine around here. Northern ireland, central and western parts of scotland should see some sunshine, too. For many, though, there will be cloudy skies, and with the wind coming in off the north sea, the East Coast of England And Scotland not very warm once again. Yet some sunshine further west and temperatures could reach 20 degrees or so. Similar sort of picture, i think, on wednesday. Again, generally dry, a lot of cloud around, especially for england and wales. Maybe a bit more Sunshine Scotland and northern ireland, and also the far northwest of england, with temperatures in the sunshine up to 21 celsius. Evacuation flights from afghanistan are in theirfinal hours. Evacuation flights from afghanistan are in their final hours. Rockets have been fired towards Kabul Airport. The us is facing questions over a Drone Strike in kabul as eyewitnesses say civilians, including children, were killed. Brute including children, were killed. We lost m including children, were killed. Lost my daughter. She was two years old. ,. , � , lost my daughter. She was two years old. ,. , � , old. The pentagons as it was investigating. Old. The pentagons as it was investigating. Also old. The pentagons as it was investigating. Also on old. The pentagons as it was investigating. Also on the investigating. Also on the programme. Warnings of life threatening floods in the Southern United States as Hurricane Ida hits. In tokyo, Lee Pearson wins another gold. The 14th of his career