Hello and welcome. Don t go to kabul airport. That s what americans hoping to leave afghanistan are being told, unless they re instructed to do so. The state department said it wanted to avoid creating large crowds and us defense officials have expressed concern about the possibility of attacks by islamic state militants. A week after the taliban seized power, their co founder, mullah abdul ghani baradar, is in the capital for talks on forming a new government. Our security correspondent, frank gardner, reports. Crowds, chaos, confusion: the scene at kabul airport grows ever more volatile as thousands of afghans clamour to leave the country. Gunfire. Taliban fighters are guarding the outside of the perimeter, but even some people with valid travel documents are not getting through. Translation: we ve got a legal visa. Many people who are coming here don t have the right documents, but we ve got the visa and they won t let us through. Britain s ambassador, sir laurie bristow, has been h
Has died at the age of 8a. Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. President biden will meet virtually with g7 leaders on tuesday to discuss continuing close coordination on afghanistan policy and the evacuation of citizens. The meeting was convened by borisjohnson, who has called on the international community to work together to prevent a humanitarian crisis. Nato officials say over the past week at least 20 people have died at kabul airport, where crowds of afghans have continued to gather in a desperate attempt to flee the country. The taliban has blamed the chaos on the united states. But the uk s armed forces minister, james heappey, said the situation at the airport was improving, and that the royal air force had flown out more than 1,700 people in the last 2a hours. Today the marshalling that the taliban are doing is making a big difference and so if people have had the instruction from the ministry of defence or the foreign office to come forward and to get on a flight, w
Our top story this hour, more than 50 million people across the northeastern u. S. Are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings right now. Hurricane henri has been building strength over the atlantic, and landfall is expected in the coming hours on either long island or southern new england. The national hurricane center has a stark warning, especially for those in areas under a storm surge warning, saying plainly, this is a lifethreatening situation. And we are already seeing signs of danger. As you can see, cnn just obtained this video of flooded streets in downtown new jersey. This is part of a rain system already hitting parts of the northeast. In connecticut, both mandatory and voluntary evacuations have been posted across several coastal cities. The state s governor is encouraging others to shelter in place. In fact, across the northeast, millions of residents have now been preparing for the storm for days. And emergency personnel and disaster response teams are on high alert a
Hurricane henri is closing in on the northeastern u. S. Right now with landfall expected in the coming hours on either long island or southern new england. More than to 50 million people are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings and states of emergency have been declared in long island and connecticut. Heavy rain are already pounded parts of the region. This is what it looked like in hoboken saturday night storm surge, coastal flooding and strong winds are expected in parts of the northeast. All right. Let s bring in meteorologist you ve been tracking this. What is the latest, tyler? we can now see the eye or the center of henri on radar imagery. About 150 miles to the south of rhode island. This band of rain to the north is about to swing into southampton. Southampton that rain you re dealing with in 45 minutes to an hour is directly related to henri. Eventually push into new york city which is now dry, finally. That rain has tapered off and pushed down to the south and west and
But we start with david spunt on the story on afghanistan. Reporter: thousands want to get out of afghanistan not only from kabul but this comes as the mixed messages seem to thrive. One day it seems okay to go to the airport. Then people are told not to go to the airport. The united kingdom defense forces reported seven people killed outside of a kabul airport. We hear those are afghan civilians. Families are desperate to leave. The kabul airport officials are reporting that the american officials are not even to get to the airport. We know small number that we know of. We know of sporadic cases where they are not being allowed. Harrassment is going on and some physical violence has occurred. Reporter: add that to the new threat of isis branch in afghanistan. Afghanistan known to house al qaeda. Isis a rival terror organization has a footprint in the country. There are reports this morning that the biden administration is weighing airstrikes on some of our equipment that the taliban s