Now, that is a gas its all right, jumping Jack Flash is a gas, gas, gas. Tributes to the rolling Stones Drummer Charlie watts, whos died aged 80. Mickjagger simply posts a picture of his bandmate. As competition gets under way at the paralympics, british Cyclist Dame Sarah storey breaks her own World Record in qualifying she has the chance of gold within the hour. Good morning, temperatures reached just over 26 in parts of scotland. You could see similar here again today but like yesterday areas of cloud floating around and the best of The Sunshine in the west. All the details in 25 minutes. President Joe Biden says he intends to stick to next Tuesdays Deadline for the us to complete its evacuation in afghanistan rejecting borisjohnson s appeal for an extension. Speaking at a Press Conference last night, he said the mission was under growing threat of an attack by extremists linked to the islamic state group. Nomia iqbal reports from washington. Up to 6,000 us troops are on the ground
Depends upon the taliban continuing to let us sxrat No Disruptions to our operations. The longer we stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a Terrorist Group known as Isis K, we know that Isis K is seeking to target the Airport And Attack both u. S. And allied forces and innocent civilians. Those remarks came nearly five hours after the original scheduled Air Time which was noon today. The president add, hes asked the State Department and the pentagon to draw up Contingency Plans as they do in case there was a Need Address the timetable here. Biden said he gave our European Allies and the g7 the very same message. Le wanted the president to extend the mission past 31 august. They have asked to step up evacuations. Today just today about 12,000 people were flown out. Since the 14th of august, over 70,000 have been evacuated. There is still some question about the number of americans still in the country. Biden has asked Secretary Of State Antony Blinken to have an
The latest number, the latest 24 hour period, is that they got more than 21,000 people out. 21,000 people evacuated in one day. That means the u. S. Airlift Out Of Kabul Over Wall has removed more than 70,000 people from kabul since they started ten days ago, which is an astonishing number. With the President Planning to get u. S. Troops out entirely by the initial deadline he said which is next week, august 31st, the Evacuation Effort will necessarily start to have to ramp down. Troops will have to start to leave, it takes time to get them out safely. As of Today Troop numbers were already dropping at the kabul airport. What will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuation . And the orderliness of evacuations, and the commitment of every american an F Ally of american troops in american people out of, there we will have a live report on that situation, coming up including the news today, about the reported meeting between the director of the cia, william burns, in a senior taliban of
Farewell speech today, which if you came in late, if you missed the part where he attacked the State Attorney General. You would think it was a Campaign Speech for his campaign for governor, which he has 18 Million to finance if he chooses to run for governor next year. Which as of now, he can do. We have the the chair of the state Democratic Party joining us at The End of the hour. Thats going to be one question. Is Andrew Cuomo running for governor . Among many others. Lawrence, do you know offhand or will this come up in the interview, i guess, if he decided to try to play Kingmaker And Shunt that 18 Million over to some other candidacy that he then blessed. Does he have the ability to do that . Or would that count as or would that be treated as like a campaign donation, you are not allowed to move it between candidates . The place where he could move that much money is to the state Democratic Party. And im going to ask the chair if Andrew Cuomo should do that. He cannot move it to