president biden travels to all three sites where the attacks took place in new york, pennsylvania and the pentagon. tennis has a new teen titan emma raducanu becomes the first british woman to win a major in more than a0 years. and prince andrew s legal team says it s questioning whether court papers, alleging sexual abuse, have been filed properly. ceremonies have been taking place in the united states to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the september 11 attacks. in new york, a minute s silence marked the exact time that the first hijacked plane hit the north tower of the world trade centre in 2001. president biden travelled to pay his respects at all three attack sites in new york, pennsylvania, and at the pentagon in virginia. that is a live shot there of the world trade center right now. as september 11th draws to a close in the us, our north america editor jon sopel looks back on the day s events. drumbeat on this stunning clear september morning, they gathered
we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing, president biden is taking the fight against covid to the workplace. the spread of the delta variant has hit the economic recovery, stalling job creation and battering consumer confidence. now, the president is ordering all federal government employees to get vaccinated and businesses with more than 100 staff will have to ensure they are either vaccinated or tested weekly. my message to unvaccinated americans is this what more is there to wait for? what more do you need to see? we have made the vaccine free, safe and convenient. the vaccine has fda approval. over 200 million americans hav gotten at least one shot. over 200 million americans have gotten at least one shot. we have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us so, please, do the right thing. butjust don t take it from me. listen to the voices of unvaccinated americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final brea
with the winner announced in may as coventry s year in the spotlight comes to an end. colin paterson, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. this month has been a cloudy month but like yesterday although it is cloudy for most of us again today there are some breaks in the cloud but example in the derbyshire peak district but today s weather is driven by low pressure to the west of the uk. you can see the thick cloud in the west starting to dry outbreaks of rain into northern ireland but ahead of the main band of rain you can see some patches of rain moving into southern wales at the moment so it is going to continue to be quite damp peer over the next few hours. the best chance of seeing breaks in the cloud, northern scotland not doing too badly, but otherwise it stays put pretty cloudy. overnight rain continues to push northwards and eastwards. there will be heavy bursts and probably mist and fog soaring over the higher ground particularly in south west wales and over t
the airport in kabul is the only way to leave the country by air and thousands of foreign nationals and afghans are trying to do that. this gives you some sense of the desperation. a toddler being handed over to soldiers at the airport. and this woman is being helped over the wall by soldiers. but even getting this close to the airport is difficult. the taliban control the checkpoints on the route to the airport. kim sangupta is the defence editor for the independent and he s in kabul. there is no guarantee that if you go past one checkpoint that you will pass the other. the taliban have got every single checkpoint from the city centre up centre up to the airport. they ve also got that checkpoint which then veers right into the military airport. and, really, that chances of getting through these checkpoints depends to a large extent on the type of fighters there are manning them. some have been ok, but then again, you ve got others where fighters are extremely aggressive