on the ground is very different to what its leaders claim. warnings of life—threatening floods and dangerous storm surges as tropical storm ida churns its way along the coast of louisiana and mississippi. more paralympics success for great britain as lee pearson, andrew small and phoebe paterson pine claim golds. good afternoon. 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.