Disabled and vulnerable adults in england are facing steep rises in care charges, a bbc report finds. Are you or your relatives facing big increases in your care bills? we d like to hear from you. Get in touch with me at @annita mcveigh hash bbcyourquestions bbcyourquestions despite concerns about covid, and a one year delay, the tokyo paralympics get under way today. Us officials say president biden will decide within the next 2a hours whether to defy the taliban and keep american troops in afghanistan beyond the end of this month. The prime minister is to urge world leaders to step up support for refugees fleeing the taliban in afghanistan when he chairs a virtual g7 meeting later. It s expected that france and germany willjoin the uk in pushing president biden to delay the withdrawal of american troops at the moment, us troops depart in a week s time even though evacuations from kabul s main airport may not be completed by then. The us has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation
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
And one of the rock and roll greats, the rolling stones drummer charlie watts dies at the age of 80. We ll look back at an extraordinary life. Hello and welcome to the programme. This time next week the airlift from agfhanistan will be over. Joe biden says he is sticking to his deadline, after consulting with national security officials, despite nato allies and many fellow democrats urging him today to stay and complete the mission. The upside for the president is that the evacuation is running at some pace. About a thousand people an hour are being flown out, 21,600 have left in the last 2a hours, and afghans with special immigration visas are again being admitted. But the taleban said today afghans should not be going to the airport and foreign countries should stop encouraging them to leave. All of which suggests that many thousands will be left behind. From kabul our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports and a warning her report does contains some distressing images
now in custody and on suicide watch after killing three of his fellow students and injuring, badly injuring eight other people tuesday afternoon. the three who died, teenagers, hannah saint juliana, tate meyer, died in a deputy s car on the way to the hospital. traumatized students now coping with something no young person should have to experience. we heard two gunshots. and then after that my teacher ran to the room, locked it, we barricaded, and then we covered the windows and hid. the very first thing in my head was, this is actually happening. i m going to text my family, say i love them just in case if i were to die. the students were trained for this. they were trained for the worst, and they jumped into action quickly within minutes. that one student there telling anderson cooper that they armed themselves with calculators and scissors, anything they could find in the midst of this terrifying experience. footage from one freshman on lockdown shows how sheriff s de
he s not the only one in wisconsin who was let onto the streets on low bail. todd: confusing how that happens in the digital age. you are watching fox and friends first . carley: chris cuomo, cnn intimately suspended after bombshell evidence in the new york attorney general s report. reporter: cnn taking action against its star anchor after learning he played a much larger role in his brother official misconduct defense than he previously admitted. the network extending anderson cooper s show by an hour to cover cuomo s timeslot. cooper mentioned cuomo was suspended indefinitely pending an investigation. cnn s statement saying in part, quote, these documents point to a greater level involvement in his brother s efforts than previously knew. the move comes after top talent including jake tapper pressured the network to push cuomo off the are after scathing exhibits were released by the new york attorney general s office. one exchange with andrew cuomo s top aid reveals chri