a spokesman, captain bill irvin, adds there were significant secondary explosions from the vehicle which indicated a presence of a substantial amount of explosives. this official said there were no indications of civilian casualties at this time but that assessment could change, we re told. the air strike took place in a crowded kabul neighborhood outside the airport. we re told the u.s. military used this over-the-horizon capability and unmanned drone which means the drone likely flew from a military base in the gulf like the one on friday. i think it s notable the timing of this military strike, it was just as the president chairman of the joint chiefs general mark mille and defense secretary lloyd austin met with families of the fallen at the dover air force base. we re getting more details but right now we can confirm it was a drone strike in the kabul neighborhood and the threat was imminent. howie: the early reports was that it was an explosion near the airport. we didn
who are still there valiantly carrying on in a horrible situation. here is what the president of the united states said about this shameful tragedy. these american service members who gave their lives, it s an over used word but totally appropriate here were heroes. the lives we lost today were lives given in the service of liberty, the service of security, the service of others. to those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this, we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down. and make you pay. we will not be deterred by terrorists. we will not let them stop our mission. we will continue the evacuation. but how will it be changed to reduce the risk that this happens again? now, not since a chopper crash in 2011 have we seen death on this scale of our own. 13 dead. 18 others injured, some very badly. 60 afghans may have been killed. more than 100 afghans injured as well. we don t know the real numbers because we do
because there is nowhere to receive them. i ll talk about just bottlenecks and i think i talked about that earlier. as we those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases within u com or cent com aor, we are ensuring that we place evacuees in one of the 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck sos that our increased through-put, increase that number that they re able to hold there, cent come and u com are continuing to coordinate together and with the joints staff in trans com of where to put those evacuees to allow flights to leave kabul. those on kabul, there is no constraint of allowing flights to leave today. we expect the through-put that we saw in the last two days to be able to continue with no bottleneck and others. we continue to manage that on an hourly, minute basis to ensure in a we know where to fly people to. do you have enough people in the airport compound now in kabul i don t have the exact number. but there are evacuees on kabul right now being p
hello. i m catherine byaruhanga, welcome to the programme. we start with the situation in gaza. and a ship carrying humanitarian aid is expected to set sail to the territory from cyprus this weekend, as part of a planned maritime aid corridor. it s a joint operation between the eu, us, uk, and united arab emirates aiming to bring supplies from cyprus to the coast of gaza. the un says a quarter of gaza s population is on the brink of famine, and children there are starving to death. organisers hope the plan could allow large amounts of extra aid, but say it will be complex and continue to press israel to allow more deliveries by road. the eu s ambassador to the us told the bbc a little more about the plans for the maritime corridor. hopefully the pilot, the first to try to get aid happening over the weekend, but it takes some time to make sure that it s not only once in a time, but it is sustainable way to provide aid for the people in gaza and palestine to make sure that we a
the united nations says children and adults are now starving to death, and that more than 500,000 palestinians are on the brink of famine. ceasefire talks between israel and hamas have stalled, making it unlikely a deal will be reached by the start of ramadan this weekend. reports have emerged that five palestinians were killed friday after being hit by an air dropped aid package that failed to deploy its parachute. the bbc has not been able to independently verify the claims of civilian casualties. however, this social media footage, verified by the bbc, shows aid being dropped on friday, and a number of parachutes failing to open. the us is among countries air dropping meals to gaza. the pentagon says it delivered more than 11,000 meals on friday by air. us central command released this statement in the last couple of hours: we are aware of reports of civilians killed as a result of humanitarian airdrops. we express sympathies to the families of those who were killed.