Police announce a new lead. And delayed by a year but athletes are hoping to shine the 2020 paralympics gets under way in tokyo. Good Evening And Welcome to the programme. With the united States Today refusing to budge from its deadline of August 31 for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan A G7 Virtual Summit shared by Boris Johnson appealed to the taliban to allow Safe Passage and beyond that date for anyone wants to leave. But in an hardening of tone the Taliban Today indicated they would not allow afghans to be evacuated in the us should stop encouraging afghans to go to the airport to be airlifted out. They also said that all international evacuations need to be completed by The End of the month. Lease to set reporting from kabul in the situation at the airport. Her report contained some distressing images. Stay calm, orders this taliban guard. There is no calm here. Not in a crowd too big to count, too big to control. But the days are numbered now before the us pulls its soldiers f
People killed in shootings in Ballymurphy In Belfast in 1971 were entirely innocent. A School Shooting in russia. Seven pupils and a teacher are dead after an attack by a teenage gunman. A 21 year old man appears in court, charged with the murder of Police Community support officerjulia james. Police investigating the disappearance of mary bastholm, who was feared murdered by Serial Killer fred west, Search A Cafe in gloucester. Covid rules in most of scotland will be relaxed from next monday, with pubs reopening to customers indoors and people able to hug again. And its the brits tonight, in front of thousands of music fans, as part of an experiment on getting audiences back into venues. Here At Westminster, the queen has delivered her speech, setting out the governments programme for the coming Session Of Parliament. In a Covid Secure Ceremony in the house of lords, the queen said that the governments priority is to deliver a National Recovery from the pandemic that makes the United
In paris, workers are finally preparing to begin the huge Restoration Project. This is one of the thousand oak trees that have been specially selected for notre dame. Smaller tree trunks will be used to rebuild the medieval rafters. Big ones like this will go to reconstruct the spire. And while the coronavirus pandemic has kept most of us locked down its given the animal world loads more freedom. We thought that animals for example, penguins in south africa have survived perfectly well, we think. But in fact, when we retreated we discovered that the penguins actually normally would be doing very much better than they have been doing for decades. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The number of people waiting to start Hospital Treatment in england has reached a record high of 4. 7 Million People. The figure, from the end of february, is the highest since records began in 2007. There were also nearly 388,000 patients waiting more than a year for non urgent surgery compared with 1,60