On the impact on afghan families settled in the uk who are desperate to help loved ones who they believe are stuck in limbo. New research suggests that the protection given by two doses of the pfizer and astrazeneca covid vaccines starts to wear off within six months. And it s a golden start in tokyo for paralympics gb as cyclist dame storey takes the 15th gold of her career in her eighth games a public consultation is getting under way to ask if beavers should be re introduced to england s rivers once widespread in britain they were hunted to extinction 400 years ago. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. President biden has rejected british calls to extend the united states airlift from afghanistan beyond the 31st of august saying it would be too dangerous. In a televised address from the white house last night, president biden said each day of operations brings added risk to our troops of an attack by extremists linked to the islamic state grou
Who went missing 12 years ago, says she s in utter shock over a new police search for her daughter. Extinction rebellion set up shop at oxford circus on the third day of a fortnight of protests across central london. The protesters have blocked the centre of oxford circus, about 2pm this afternoon, around 50 women, members of the extension rebellion women s group, came through, and a van pulled up, the doors opened and they took these pieces of pink lego out. And dame sarah storey wins the first british gold at the paralympics in tokyo the 15th gold of her career. Good evening. Welcome to the programme. The government has promised to use every hour left to help as many people as possible escape from afghanistan before us troops withdraw at the end of the month. Nearly 90,000 people in total have now left the country. Latest figures released by the ministry of defence show that more than 10,000 people have been airlifted out of kabul by uk forces since 13 august. Of that number, more
Hello, and welcome to the programme. The pentagon is making plans for the final stages of the afghanistan withdrawal, but on the ground the evacuation continue apace. We got more numbers today 19,000 people have been flown out of kabul in the last 2a hours. In fact, there is a flight leaving nearly every 39 minutes from the hamid karzai airfield. And since 15 august, when the operation began, a total of 88,000 people have been extracted. But there s one important figure we can t pin down and that s how many people, including americans, still want to be evacuated or can be by next week s deadline. In the last hour, the us secretary of state anthony blinken has been giving some details on the work being done to reach them. For the remaining roughly 1,000 contacts that we had, who may be americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we are aggressively reaching out to the multiple times a day through multiple channels of communication phone, e mail, text messaging to determine wheth
I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. That is just not who i am. And as records are broken at the olympics, are super shoes giving athletes an unfair advantage on the track? we start in afghanistan, where an attack on the home of the afghan defence minister has ended in the capital kabul, according to officials, with all the attackers killed. The first explosion occurred near the diplomatic quarters and a busy market square, where there are many government buildings. A powerful explosion, which you can see here, was fallowed by bursts of gunfire as armed men fought their way into the home of the defence minister, bismillah khan mohammadi our international correspondent lyse doucet is in the green zone in kabul. Tell us more about what we know about what happened to. You may still here the about what happened to. You may still here the constant about what happened to. You may still here the constant rat about what happened to. You may still he