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hello. this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for firing rockets at kabul airport, where the us evacuation operation is drawing to a close. the rockets were intercepted by the american anti missile system. the bbc is told ten people from one family including six children were killed by a us drone attack in the afghan capital, kabul. the us says the target was an islamic state suicide bomber. how. sobbing. why they killed our family, our children. seven children. warnings of life threatening floods and dangerous storm surges as tropical storm ida churns its way along the coast of louisiana and mississippi states. new research suggests thousands of strokes and heart attacks could be prevented if people switched to a common salt subsitute. more paralympics success for great britain as lee pearson, andrew small and phoebe paterson pine claim golds. now let s return to the situation in afghanistan. over the la ....
major carrier to mandate employee vaccinations could it do the same for passengers and why now is the time to shop for a new credit card. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt hello, everyone great to be back from our coverage at the olympics, but returning, frankly, to a country that sadly looks a lot more like last winter when it comes to covid that s how much ground we ve lost in the fight against the pandemic as we re about to show you, in some parts of the country, hospitals themselves are on the critical list. available icu beds counted in single digits, or worse yet, patients turned away. as the danger of the delta variant becomes more apparent each day, more americans are getting vaccinated that number well above 166 million. finally edging above the 50% mark but the goalposts may be moving. the threshold for herd immunity now calculated to be well beyond 80%, according to a recent briefing by the infectious diseases society of america. ou ....
collapsed in miami. a british woman is among nearly 100 people still missing. and, the wales team trains in amsterdam for their match tomorrow while england prepare to meet germany next week. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel. disappointment for the defending women s champion simona halep, who s forced to pull out of wimbledon because of a calf injury. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the health secretary matt hancock has apologised and admitted he breached social distancing guidlines, after the sun newspaper published a photograph of him in an embrace with one his closest aides. the photo is said to have been taken in may, in mr hancock s whitehall office. in a statement in the last hour the health secretary said, i ve let people down and i m very sorry . he added, i remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter. our political correspondent b ....
new music from an unmistakable voice adele is back. good morning. racing to the top of the tennis charts cameron norrie will be the new british number one, after reaching the semi finals, in indian wells. he has now won more matches this year than novak djokovic. it isa it is a cold and in places frosty start for the northern half of the uk. things get milder and cloudier this weekend. good morning. it s friday, 15th october. our main story. foreign lorry drivers will be allowed to make more deliveries in the uk, under new government measures to ease the pressure on supply chains. currently, overseas workers can only make two trips to britain a week. under the new rules they will be allowed to make unlimited journeys in a two week period. meanwhile, 800 temporary visas for butchers and abattoir workers will also be granted to help with the backlog at pig farms. our political correspondent jonathan blake has more. thousands of extra visas have been offered to hgv dri ....
a week on sunday allowing travellers returning to england to take private lateral flow tests, instead of more expensive pcr tests. victims of alleged domestic abuse are seeing their cases dropped at a rapidly increasing rate, because prosecutors ran out of time to bring charges. and. adele is back herfirst new music for six years, released at midnight. hello. the queen has appeared to suggest she s irritated by a lack of action in tackling the climate crisis. her remarks were picked up in clips of a conversation filmed on a phone at the opening of the welsh parliament the senedd in cardiff and reported in this morning s daily mail. the queen was talking to the duchess of cornwall and the parliament s presiding officer, and seemed to be referring to the forthcoming cop26 climate conference. she can be heard saying she does not know who is coming to the event, which will begin in glasgow at the end of this month. let s take a look at the two clips. the queen s remarks c ....