Secretary, Dominic Raab, of a Dereliction Of Duty, after reports he declined to phone his afghan counterpart to seek Help Airlifting interpreters out of afghanistan. But the government has defended his actions. The only problem last week was not a Phone Call to an Afghan Government that was melting away and had almost, or didnt have any leverage. The Number One challenge at the end of last week was whether the airport would continue to fly, allow planes to fly out, and those people we were getting out, would they be allowed to get out . Survivors in haiti ask when is help coming, after Saturdays Earthquake killed almost 2,000 people. The largest survey of Covid Infection in the uk has found that both the Pfizer And Astrazeneca vaccines are still offering good protection against the Delta Variant. And coming up this hour, as the paralympics get under way next week, One Campaign will light up Uk Landmarks to raise awareness of global disability discrimination. Hello and welcome if youre
As western countries ramp up their evacuations from Kabul Airport, well have the latest on President Biden s remarks. Also on the programme. Who will help us . The people of haiti hit by a massive earthquake five days ago say theres still no assistance. Five from our studio in singapore, This is Bbc News. Alive. Its newsday. Its 7 in the morning in singapore, and 3. 30 in the morning in afghanistan, where the taliban is strengthening its grip on power, as pockets of unrest continue. In the eastern city of jalalabad, they violently put down an anti taliban demonstration, reportedly shooting dead a number of people. There have been more chaotic scenes outside the international airport In Kabul, as thousands of afghans try to flee the country. The nations ousted president has made his first public comments, saying his Security Team forced him to leave the country for the united arab emirates. Our Correspondent Secunder Kermani starts our coverage. Outside the airport, chaos continues. Th
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are grace blakeley, political commentator and columnist, and sam lister, deputy Political Editor of the daily express. Tomorrows Front Pages. Lets start with the metro the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary come under attack from mps on all sides over their handling of the crisis in afghanistan during an Emergency Debate in the house of commons. The guardian says that the Prime Minister faced a Wall Of Fury from the conservative party, with more than 30 tory mps speaking against the government, and only a handful voicing support for its actions. According to the mail, the Foreign Secretary failed to make a crucial Phone Call While On Holiday to seek urgent help airliting translators out of afghanistan. In the the telegraph, mps and the head of the Armed Forces unite to biden administration over afghanistan, fuelling concerns about the uk us special relationship. And in the i, a Parachute
Reminiscent of the retreat from Saigon With would be refugees hanging to helicopter skids. And woke up this morning and realized it was much, much worse. As we saw images of the bodies of would be refugees falling from the wheel well of c17s leaving kabul airport. Lets just take a moment and realize that over the past year, we have talked about and debated how oppressive this great country is while we watched people literally cling to the opportunity to be american. But from president Joe Biden, silence. Silence until today. In one breath in a speech before the nation, biden told us that he planned for every contingency and then in the next breath, he explained why he quickly and suddenly sending thousands of marines to secure the airport. We were cleareyed about the risk. We planned for every contingency authorize and i did 6,000 u. S. Troops to dally no afghanistan. For the purpose of assisting in the departure of u. S. And allied perSonnel from afghanistan and to evacuate our afghan
To get a covid vaccine, nearly four weeks after they were added to the rollout. And a major us study says july was the worlds hottest month ever recorded. A powerful 7. 2 earthquake has hit haiti and authorities say at least 29 people have been killed. Prime Minister Ariel Henry said the quake had caused huge damage across the south of the country. He described the situation as dramatic and appealed for the spirit of solidarity of all haitians. The Us Geological Survey says the quake, which struck the South West of the country, could result in thousands of fatalities and injuries. Pictures on Social Media show collapsed buildings and damaged roads in several cities. The earthquake triggered a Tsunami Warning in the region, which has since been lifted. In 2010, a magnitude seven quake near the capital, port Au Prince, killed an estimated 200,000 people. That was in 2010, in terms of deaths in todays that is saturdays earthquake at 7 pop 2, so far reports of 29 people dead earthquake at