Than 20 lives with dozens of people still missing more than 15 inches of rain has fallen. Queuing to reach snowdon s Summit Walkers are urged to respect The Mountain as the number of visitors soars. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. Britain and america have hours not weeks to evacuate people from afghanistan, according to the Defence Secretary. Pressures growing on us president Joe Biden to delay the withdrawal of american troops beyond his August 31 deadline. We will have continuing coverage now on the crisis in afghanistan. Welcome to a country turned upside down by this sudden and surprising turn of events, just one week ago here in kabul the taliban took over and one week on, they are still trying to consolidate their control across the city. Afghans across the country are still coming to terms with the country turned upside down and their lives turned inside out. We spent the last 2a hours at the international airport in kabul where some of these scenes are very surreal, the
Reminiscent of the retreat from Saigon With would be refugees hanging to helicopter skids. And woke up this morning and realized it was much, much worse. As we saw images of the bodies of would be refugees falling from the wheel well of c17s leaving kabul airport. Lets just take a moment and realize that over the past year, we have talked about and debated how oppressive this great country is while we watched people literally cling to the opportunity to be american. But from president Joe Biden, silence. Silence until today. In one breath in a speech before the nation, biden told us that he planned for every contingency and then in the next breath, he explained why he quickly and suddenly sending thousands of marines to secure the airport. We were cleareyed about the risk. We planned for every contingency authorize and i did 6,000 u. S. Troops to dally no afghanistan. For the purpose of assisting in the departure of u. S. And allied perSonnel from afghanistan and to evacuate our afghan
Former senator John James. We salute him with our civilian mines. Good to see you come everybody. Republicans in another of states pushing forward bills, basic, will post election integrity, but President Biden, again, going after their move in a fiery speech, accusing republicans of attacking the foundation of our country. President biden the 21st Century jim Crow Assault is real. Its unrelenting. We are going to challenge it vigorously. Are you on the side of truth or lies, fact or fiction, justice or injustice, Democracy Or Autocracy . Thats what its coming down to. Stand up, for gods sake, and help prevent this concerted effort to undermine our elections. [applause] have you know shame . We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. Harris John James, your take. Sen. James i think its rich for Joe Biden to talk about this when he was elected for senate in 1972 and advocated for busing. Come see where Separate But Equal is employed, in detroit. South
Itsjust after 1 30 in the morning and now on bbc news, click. This week, were shooting for the stars. We are playing the biggest games in town, literally. And shhh there is a comedian trying to sleep welcome to click hope you are doing 0k Welcome to click hope you are doing ok this week were going to be talking a lot about taking photos so lara, you know we have all been looking for new hobbies to help fill the time during lockdown, yeah . Ive been busy colouring in with my eight year old. Lovely you have yours and Colouring Book and she has hers and you sit next to each other . I only do the childrens one because i think the grown up ones are too fiddly anyway, what have you been doing . Let me tell you. What have you been doing . Let me tell you, you know those amazing photos of the stars in the Night Sky that you can get by taking a long Exposure Photo . Ive kind have been getting into that and it turns out that astronomy as a whole become a much bigger deal in the last year. I supp
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me arejessica elgot, the deputy Political Editor at the guardian, and sebastian payne, Whitehall Editor at the financial times. Tomorrow because s front pages. Tomorrows front pages. Lets start with the times, and it leads with the news that travellers arriving into england who lie on their Passenger Locator forms about visiting a red list country face a fine of £10,000 or up to ten years injail. The same story makes the front page of the metro. The newspaper calls the new rules for International Arrivals a travel crackdown. The telegraph says theres criticism of the new measures among some senior conservative mps and travel bosses. The new travel rules are also covered in the guardian, but the newspaper also reports on the start of Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial. A different story in the mirror. It reports that a Hospital Trust is charging staff more than £500 a year to park. Parking c