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Good evening. The united states says it is comforted that the last troops will be withdrawn before tomorrows deadline. Rockets have been fired towards Kabul Airport today. The pentagon as its investigating accounts that are us Drone Strike in Kabul Targeting is. Flames leap from a car after militants from the islamic State Group use it to launch rockets at Kabul Airport. They were intercepted by a missile defence system. But Planes Landing Today fired flares to try and protect themselves from further attack. Nearby, a family combs through the wreckage of a us Drone Strike launched yesterday. Relatives and neighbours are collecting remains of the victims to bury. They angrily reject american claims the vehicle targeted was being used by a Suicide Bomber from the islamic State Group. Translation if there was a bomb inside, the car would have been blown up. Amongst those killed, two year old sameya, 12 year old farzad, and these two twins, as well as narsa, who had previously worked alongside american forces. The family was hoping to be evacuated out of the country. My brother came from his work, wanted to park the car in here, and there were children in the car, on the time it was happening. And how many people from yourfamily died . Ten person has died in here. We lost ten person, including my daughter, who was dead. Two years old. What happened here appears to be an awful human tragedy. It also underlines the challenges the us is going to face in trying to target militants from afar and the terrible consequences ordinary afghans have to pay. The us has said its assessing and investigating reports of civilian casualties, but insists an imminent threat to the airport was disrupted. Nobody wants to see innocent life taken. We take it very, very seriously and when we know that we have caused innocent life to be lost in the conduct of our operations, we are transparent about it. We are investigating this, im not going to get ahead of it. The Evacuation Effort is now in its very final stages, with us soldiers being flown out ahead of tuesdays Withdrawal Deadline. Many afghans remain desperate to leave the country. At this Bus Stand in kabul, many are headed for the iranian border. Nearly all are hoping to be smuggled across. Passenger numbers have more than doubled in recent weeks. Translation the previous government only cared about getting rich themselves. Now the the taliban are here, there are no jobs, no work anywhere. I need to be able to feed my kids. Everything has become more expensive. We cant live here any more. A new era in afghanistan is about to begin. The taliban say they are bringing peace and ending corruption. But for those here, The Deep uncertainty that has accompanied their arrival is a Final Push towards a new life. Also in kabul is our chief international correspondent lyse doucet. Lyse, international meetings have been taking Place Today involving the un and the g7. What is the aim now as the Withdrawal Deadline nears . They really are stripping it down to the bare bones after what was a massive 20 year international engagement with lofty goals to transform this country. What they are talking about in a Draft Resolution is two main things. One is to make sure that all of those afghans who have the right documents and the desire, the absolute fear about staying in afghanistan, who want to leave, they should be given safe passage. They want the taliban guarantees for that, even though be military evacuations have all but ended. They also want the taliban to commit themselves to making sure that afghanistan doesnt become a base for terrorism again. We also heard from the secretary of state, the foreign secretary Dominic Raab talking about the international community, using its pressure to exert a moderating influence on the taliban. What does that mean and what does he mean by the international community . Some of the first acts the taliban did was to remove what they described as western values, western concepts of right, young men and women studying at university, winning taking certain roles in the civil service. When you talk about the international community, who do you mean . Neighbours, near neighbours like pakistan, china, russia . Their main concern is going to be security and stability. Perhaps they will make some progress with the taliban on that, and western powers will also want that. And so, i think going forward, the taliban leaders feel they won convincingly over the worlds mightiest army. There overriding goal is to establish an islamic emirate. They had been a government in waiting for many months and they know that their neighbours and near neighbours have more interest in working with them than setting up the kind of conditions the taliban arent able or willing to meet. Theres a warning of life threatening flooding in the Southern United States as Hurricane Ida moves from louisiana into mississippi. The storm brought winds of 150 miles an hour as it made landfall yesterday, ripping roofs off buildings. One man was killed when a falling Tree Hit his house. Flash floods have already affected residents of new orleans, despite defences being strengthened after Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago. 0ur Correspondent Neda tawfik is live there. Hurricane ida has left a trail of wreckage and destruction, hundreds of crews are working to rescue people trapped by the flooding in low lying areas. Almost this entire region is without power and water. This promised to be a historic hurricane and it is certainly one that people here will not soon forget. That people here will not soon foruet. ,. , that people here will not soon foruet. ,. ,. ,. That people here will not soon foruet. ,. ,. , that people here will not soon foruet. ,. ,. ,. ,. Forget. This was the force of idea as it mercilessly forget. This was the force of idea as it mercilessly pounded forget. This was the force of idea i as it mercilessly pounded louisiana with water. A Hospital Building filled with patients was no match for the storms theory. Part of the roof was lifted off with ease. This footage from a Fire Station captured the dramatic rush of water as the night went on. In new orleans, the storm raged outside and a Transmission Tower toppled into the mississippi. At this hotel, a Worker Mcclay workers struggle to get the generator running. All across southern louisiana, the painful task of surveying the damage is under way. Destruction is immense and the situation for some is desperate. In jefferson parish, Emergency Services have received 200 rescue calls. There the rising waters and intense wins left communities in tatters. Clarence has lived here for 50 years and says this is the worst storm hes lived through. Its terrifying. I mean, were in the bedroom, it started leaking, and then we come out the bedroom and go into another room it started leaking in that room. And then finally we came into the Living Room and the Dining Room here, this was the only room where it didnt really leak. It leaked, but it didnt leak that bad when the Sheet Rock fell in. Without proper shelter, power or water, he has no choice but to leave. His dilemma now where to go. Hurricane ida strengthened so rapidly that it gave people here very little time to prepare or evacuate. For those who stayed, the night was scary, but seeing fallout the morning after has been even harder. Along the roadways, closed and impassable in many areas, we found this Family Walking to find food. The storms strong winds ripped their trailer apart in the middle of the night. They took shelter at a neighbours house. Aint got nothing left. House is gone, cars gone. She sobs im sorry. Emergency crews are focused on rescue operations. The next Step Recovery will be long and difficult. The latest Uk Coronavirus figures show there were 26,476 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period, which means an average of more than 33,500 per day in the last week. Another 48 deaths have been recorded and that takes the average deaths per day over the last week to 115. 0n vaccinations, more than 88 of adults have now had theirfirstjab, and 78. 6 have had both doses. Within those figures the latest scottish data shows another 3,893 cases. Infections have almost doubled every week since restrictions eased. The first minister Nicola Sturgeon had been self isolating after being identified as a close contact of a positve case. Her Pcr Test has now come back as negative, which means, under the rules for those who are double vaccinated, she no longer has to isolate. Regulators in china have imposed restrictions on online gaming, limiting under 18s to three hours of play a week. It comes amid concern about addiction and the physical and Mental Health of young people. Companies have been told to ensure under 18s game only between 8pm and 9pm on fridays, saturdays and sundays, and public holidays. The legal system in england and wales needs major change and a technological transformation to save time and money. Thats the call from a senior Judge Sir Geoffrey vos, who says justice needs to be more easily accessed and some processes and disputes could be handled online. Chloe hayward reports. We need to create a Justice System that is accessible by real people. To say thatjustice has to be done by taking a pile of papers down to the local County Court and asking somebody to stamp them, that is not any longer necessary. The traditional legal system, headed byjudges, has been almost immune to technological innovation. But now the head of the civil judiciary, Sir Geoffrey vos, wants machines to do some of the work of the lawyers. Its time to make some serious changes. Admittedly, i may be a little ahead of the game, but we need to create a Justice System that is accessible, we need to put it online and we need to make it speedy and effective. With such grand ambitions, his First Focus is on creating a better system for payment disputes. Ronnie runs a Construction Company with 20 employees, but like so many small businesses she wastes thousands of pounds a year chasing payments. 40 of her clients do not pay on time. Probably 5 to 10 of our invoices may not be paid at all. Its significant. Weve worked really hard, weve delivered on the service, weve delivered on our Promise And Weve not been paid for the work, so it is demoralising, really. I want better legal support that is cost effective, quick and fit for purpose. And this is exactly what government backed initiative, lawtech uk, hopes to create a new portal that will log all disputes. The majority will then be settled online via Artificial Intelligence and on the a few will eventually be funnelled into the traditional court setting. Ebay uses a similar model to settle over 60 Million small disputes each year already. This is definitely just the beginning. The technology is absolutely there to be used within the legal system to make it better for everyone, to make it really easy, to take all the friction away. And we should be using it. We should be using it to help people, to help businesses. The potential in the Law Tech Sector is clearly huge, but there are concerns. Digital exclusion is one of them, whether from a Skills Perspective or physical access to the intranet. Or physical access to the internet. And there are concerns around Data Protection as well. But perhaps the biggest pushback comes from lawyers themselves. Some are concerned that moving online will water down the humane side ofjustice. But the master of the rolls does believe that the majority of law can be done by computers rather than lawyers. The idea that its not going to happen is fanciful. If i was going to go and buy a house in 20 years time, what should my experience be like . I think that the purchase of the property will be recorded on the block chain, and its entirely possible that the contract will be digitally undertaken. For ronnie, accessible legal support would be a welcome help, she says as long as it works and can be enforced. In tokyo, Jonnie Peacock has won a Bronze Medal in his 100 M Sprint final after being paralympic champion for the last two games. Elsewhere there have been three more golds for great britain for Wheelchair Racer Andrew small, Archer Phoebe Paterson pine and for Sir Lee Pearson in dressage. He is the third most successful british paralympian ever. From tokyo heres andy swiss. He couldnt do it again, could he . Jonnie peacock chasing a paralympic hat trick. Peacock has struggled with injury since the last games, but he roared out of the blocks. The rest were closing in, though, and the result was one of the most thrilling races in paralympic history. Felix streng, i think. Gold for germanys felix streng, but just look how tight it was. The first four within three hundredths of a second. Had peacock got a medal . Well, a Photo Couldnt separate him and johannes floors, so the pair shared the bronze. Peacock later said he probably should have won it, but in defeat he contributed to a dazzling spectacle. Well, what a dramatic Night Weve had here in tokyo

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