the us state of louisiana hunkers down as hurricane ida makes landfall, threatening a catastrophic storm surge. seven more gold medals for great britain at the tokyo paralymics, including the third successive win for hannah cockroft. good evening. the last planes carrying uk troops home from afghanistan have been arriving at raf brize norton in oxfordshire today. more than 15,000 people, including over 2,000 children, have been evacuated by the uk over the past two weeks. britain says the taliban has promised to allow foreign nationals and afghan citizens to leave, if they have the authority to travel. 0urfirst report tonight is from our political correspondent iain watson.