war is officially over. the war in afghanistan is officially over. as skwrep from said the last american airplanes of u.s. troops have left and tal boone in control of the airport. there are americans still there and the state department will work to get remaining americans out. we take this around our table, first. poet, have served. this must be filled with a lot of different emotions. yes, it s almost surreal to see that banner at the bottom right will. america ends war on n. afghanistan. setting aside all of the criticisms i and all others have i m very glad every one of our boys at this point is off of that airfield. off of that kill zone and that x. you can talk about what was miss man amed and the future. we will talk about that. people left behind, the legitimate terror state that is this. ultimately i tip my hat to the pentagon using a he will p-pt of surprise, moving earlier than many thepg they would and getting all of our boys back. it s not been a smooth proc
flying out to third party countries. and also looking for other places to fly some of these evacuees. that is what led to a pause. the white house described it as a brief pause. our clarissa ward and team on the ground in kabul described this as an eight-hour delay. hardly a brief pause. it gives you a sense of how difficult this process is to bring people in, fly them to the countries and process them. that caused a bit of a backup. a significant backup, actually, but the white house is saying that president biden will announce that the flights are resuming. they will resume. the order has been give ton start the flights up again. but the question here is is the state department, is this government bureaucracy working as fast as it needs to here? that s one thing on the minds of officials here at the white house as they ve been meeting with the president and others, trying to get some of this backlog unjammed, if you will. that s been a challenge of the morning. this is just
girl missing since leaving home to catch a school bus last thursday in east texas. chief correspondent jonathan hunt has got the late latest for us this evening jonathan, unfortunately bad news. 24 hours after he still hoped audrey cunningham would still be found live it fell to lyons to deliver the late breaking news. i announced audrey s body was located at the trinity river at the u.s. highway 59. my heartaches with this news and i express with my deepest sympathies and condolences to everyone who knew, who cared for and loved audrey. police have been questioning 42-year-old don steven macdougall as a person of interest in audrey s disappearance. macdougall has a long criminal record and lives in a camper van behind the home where audrey lived with her father. about an hour north of houston. police say macdougall admitted he left the property with audrey to take her school bus stop just before 7:00 a.m. last thursday. something he apparently had done on several previ
and breaking tonight, success is my vengeance, that from former president trump when he was asked about the perception that if he was elected again he would be for revenge against his opponents. senior national correspondent kevin corke has more on that and what trump had to say with his legal challenges. kevin good evening. reporter: plenty indeed my friend. evening to you. in a wide ranging town hall the former president covered an awful lot of ground including his ongoing legal dramas and the continued presidential run of south carolina governor nikki haley who he says actually wants to quit the race but doesn t know how. she s down by 30, 35 points, and everybody knows her. you re not supposed to lose your home state. shouldn t happen anyway and she s using it bigly. big. i mean i said bigly reporter: bigly. meantime the former president said his likely opponent in november, mr. biden, isn t all there despite having a compliant media attempt to hide his shortcomin
ahead with a new law aimed at restricting judges powers. the number of migrant crossings in the central mediterranean is up sharply according to the eu s border agency. we have the latest from italy. lets head to the bbc sport centre. thank you very much indeed. we know the identity of the first semifinalist at wimbledon, and it is marketer wondrous over, the unseeded czech player who has made the last four beating jessica pegula, the fourth seeded american in the last few moments. this is what transpired on court number one, withjessica pegula reaching the quarterfinals of wimbledon for the very first time, losing to wondrous over. this is the other match taking place, with a iga swiatek in trouble, the poland number one seed playing against elina svitolina, a former semifinalist at this competition, one that iga swiatek is not reach the quarterfinals of the poor, they are on serve though at the second set, having won the first set svitolina by seven games. they are on se