hospital near norwich. the first international passenger flight takes off from kabul airport since the taliban took control of afghanistan it has around 200 foreign nationals on board. migrant boats crossing the channel could be turned back at sea but the french authorities say it would be dangerous and illegal. hospital waiting lists in england are now the worst since records began, with 5.5 million people waiting for routine treatment. and emma raducanu s fairy tale in new york the teenager reaches the semifinals of the us open, the first british woman to do so for nearly a0 years. hello, good evening. the scottish parliament votes this evening on whether or not to bring in vaccine passports for people who want to get into nightclubs, major sporting events, festivals and concerts. deputy first ministerjohn swinney said it would be a proportionate response to the risks of covid. but opposition parties have raised concerns about how the scheme would work, and both labour an
in afghanistan, a development many people feared, and many predicted. violence is on the rise since the us military withdrew from bagram airfield last week, the taliban have seized more districts. this map from a us defence research think thank shows the areas now in taliban control they are in dark grey, contested areas are in red and areas controlled by the afghan government in light grey. the claims about territory, are for the moment, impossible to verify. the taliban says it has captured 150 out of 369 districts in the past two months of fighting. afg hanistan s interior ministry neither confirm or deny the claim saying, that though the taliban claim the districts, it does not mean all of them have completely fallen . and as the taliban gains territory, there is little if any apparent resistance from afghan troops. tajikistan says more than 1,000 afghan government soldiers have fled across the border after clashes with the insurgents. the bbc s security correspo
the swedish pop group other have released their first album in almost 40 years, called voyage and next year there will be a concert in london but the group will not appear in person. there will be digital versions of the stars instead, their own version of avatars. colin paterson has been getting to know them. benny and bjorn in abba s home town. the good thing about living in stockholm is that people don t bother you. not in the 70s, not in the 80s, not now. they come up now and they re all happy and say, wow, i m so happy that you made a couple of new songs. # promise me you can. the idea of making a whole album was not part of the original plan. abba had only gone back into the studio to record a couple of new tracks for next year s live show, which will feature digital recreations of the band in concert, looking like they did in 1979. we had two songs. we enjoyed those. we thought they were really good so we said, maybe we should do a couple more. this is a big deal
i m buckling up more on flights before. you didn t buckle up? always. tighter. on a flight. yeah. well, you know, i mean, this is a big problem. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. we have to talk about another alarming close call at one of america s biggest airports between a private jet and a jetblue flight coming in for a landing. that makes five close calls in just two months. that s way too many. i don t think it s normal. we re going to check. the faa have a serious problem on their hands? we ll break it down. also to chicago and the mayoral race there. chicago s mayor lori lightfoot lost re-election. didn t even advance to the runoff. rising crime a dominant issue. what does her defeat mean big picture? and a rare bipartisanship in washington. the new house select committee on china is vowing to investigate beijing s threat to america. is it all talk? can they deliver action here? we ll talk to af de democrat ont committee. lots to co
and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. we are following breaking news this hour out of greece. a train full of passengers colliding head on with a freight train. so far at least 36 people have been confirmed dead. we are hearing harrowing stories from survivors who say that the train cars quickly filled with smoke and with flames. worried that the death toll could go up. one of america s prominent mayors, lori lightfoot, defeated. and the price of insulin, that is just moments away. we begin with that devastating train crash that we were talking about in greece. it has killed more than 36 people and injured dozens of others. you can see the images here of the aftermath. it s a passenger train. it was carrying about 350 people at least. it collided head on with a freight train. multiple cars derailed and several caught fire north of athens where this happened. it it left carriages and heaps of debris in the wake. both were traveling on th