Rugby players shows that after just one season, they suffer a loss of Blood Flow to the braIn and cognItIve functIon. And Its the same old Story Dame Sarah wIns yet another gold at the tokyo paralympIcs. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. It may Be the same old story but one we are delIghted to celebrate. More on the paralympIcs later thIs hour. The talIban have taken control of Kabul AIrport, after the unIted states pulled the last of Its troops out of afghanIstan. The fInal EvacuatIon FlIght left at a mInute to mIdnIght Last NIght. It brIngs to an end to the longest war In amerIcan hIstory, In whIch more than 2,000 us servIcemen and women lost theIr lIves. The talIban are back In Power, as they were 20 years ago. Theyve declared vIctory and have Been celebratIng on the streets. 0ur Correspondent RajInI vaIdyanathan reports. HeadIng Into a new and uncertaIn era. TalIban mIlItIa now In control of Kabul AIrport and afghanIstan. Just weeks ago, thIs tarmac was packed wIth afghans de
Labour calls the latest revelations shameful. They are treating the public with contempt. The Prime Minister needs to step up, accept what happened, and apologized. Unfortunately we have but a Prime Minister who is socially distanced from the truth. The government defends itself after a Whistle Blower claims its evacuation of people from afghanistan was chaotic and dysfunctional. Of course, sometimes decisions took hours longer than we wanted to, but you know you have to be careful about how you do it. But it was still an astonishing thing to get 15,000 people good evening and welcome. Itv news has obtained Footage Tonight of senior Downing Street aides apparentlyjoking about the christmas gathering at the centre of a row over whether Downing Street staff broke lockdown rules last year. The footage was reportedly filmed as part of preparations for televised briefings which were subsequently abandoned. The Labour Leader kier starmer this evening called the latest developments shameful
complainant, but the call did not go throug later, one e mail, and the bbc weeks later, one e mail, and the bbc says there was no further communication until a month later. we have gone from june to we have gone from the 6th ofjune to the 6th ofjuly when the bbc is informed by the sun of this allegation allegations and its intention to publish. also on that day, tim davie is made aware. this is the first time that a conversation is sad with the presenter at centre of these presenter at the centre of these allegations. that ll all happens the day before the sun publishes its story on the 7th ofjuly. this is the story that then played out over the story that then played out over the weekend. it is on this day, 7th ofjuly, that the bbc contacted the complainant again and managed to get through on that occasion. the same date the bbc had contact with the police and according to the bbc the complainant the next day sent some relating to materials to the bbc relating to these alleg
before we move on to events in ukraine, the importance of that meeting injeddah. it is the first time in more than a decade that the syrian president is in attendance. these are pictures coming to us for a few minutes ago. president bashar al assad, who was frozen out of the regional body 12 years ago in relation to that war, the civil war that engulfed the country. these pictures are of him meeting with the saudi crown prince, mohamed bin salman, who is hosting this event in jeddah. this in itself is a very important moment. he was suspended from the regional body 12 years ago after the devastation caused by the civil war in his country. we are expecting to hear from the syrian president a little later. we will also hear from the president a little later. we will also hearfrom the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, who has made that trip tojeddah. two very important speeches and very important moments that we will bring to you live here on bbc news. but we will return
what is the purpose of a deal which at best only delays iran s nuclear deal for a short time? we ask what trump s repudiation of the iran nuclear deal means for iran, the us and the world. also: vikings, the first heroes who slashed into their own bodies and drank their own blood. we look into the life of the punk poet kathy acker with her new biographer, chris kraus. i think happiness is greatly overrated. happiness has become the neoliberal aspiration. hello. the revelations from so many women about harvey weinstein have been a shock to the hollywood system. the police in london and new york are now investigating. but it goes beyond the man himself. amazon studio s chief, roy price, has been put on leave there is a sexual harassment allegation against him, and he is accused of taking no action when an actress told him of her rape by harvey weinstein. there s been shock this week at the extent of weinstein s sexual aggression, but above all, at the fact that so many indivi