at a time when the delta variant was spreading. one hundred and a0 thousand people are being asked to take part in nhs trials of a revolutionary new blood test that detects more than 50 types of cancer, before the patient has any symptoms. the bbc obtains new evidence that the taliban are killing civilians in afghanistan. nicola sturgeon says the success of other small european countries shows that independence could work for scotland as well. and emma raducanu reflects on her victory at the us open saying she s ready for anything as british tennis legends offer their own advice to the teen tennis sensation. the uk s chief medical officers have said all children aged between 12 and 15 should receive one dose of a covid vaccine. explaning the decision, england s chief medical officer professor chris whitty said the benefits of having one dose of the pfizerjab outweighs the risk to a sufficient degree. the decision took into account the impact the pandemic has had on a child
this is load off from the secretary of defense been a resounding success. of course if you subtract the 13 dead americans, the two dozen trapped school children, the afghans falling off airplanes, or the fact that we armed the taliban with $90 billion worth of automatic weapons and helicopters, it s been great. they are saying this so often, however, that it may not be propaganda. it is starting to seem like everyone in the biden administration actually believes they just won. that might explain why they are promoting jennifer rubin columns from the washington post and walking away from reporters without taking any questions. they don t have to explain themselves. it s obvious this is a victory. watching all of that should worry you. there are only two explanations for it. either every senior government official in washington has been chugging i waltzed out and departed from reality on the early train, and that s possible. or on some deeper level, may be they are actually t
with overnight lows perhaps staying into mid teens for some. it will be a quiet start to tuesday, but once again, a rather grey and gloomy one. the high pressure keeping things very quiet, but again, that breeze just coming in off the north sea, and a few more isobars, so the breeze picking up, and the cloud will continue to sit across the country for much of the day. favoured spots for any brighter, sunnier spells perhaps into northern ireland and western fringes of scotland once again, but those temperatures are going to be a little bit more subdued. again, we re looking at maybe around 15 19 celsius at the very best. wednesday is the beginning of september. the high pressure is still with us, little in the way of significant change to the weather story. so, i suppose the good news is you will be able to plan ahead. there s going to be a lot of dry weather to look out for. and maybe on wednesday, more sunshine coming through scotland, northern england and northern ireland.
in their respective cycling events. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us military says it s carried out a drone strike in western afghanistan, targeting what it said was a planner for the islamic state group known as isis k. the group is thought to have carried out the attack on thursday at kabul airport, in which 170 people were killed, inluding 13 american service personnel. in a statement, us central command said that. meanwhile, the last british flights carrying civilian refugees out of afghanistan are leaving kabul today. this report from graham satchell. the final flights leaving kabul airport. the british effort here is all but done. it has been a mammoth logistical operation. injust two weeks, more than 14,000 people airlifted by the raf to safety in the uk. but the ministry of defence ackknowledges as many as 1,000 former interpreters and other staff will left behind. we are so worried about our future. i think it s not fair. it