And one of the rock and roll greats, the rolling stones drummer charlie watts dies at the age of 80. We ll look back at an extraordinary life. Hello and welcome to the programme. This time next week the airlift from agfhanistan will be over. Joe biden says he is sticking to his deadline, after consulting with national security officials, despite nato allies and many fellow democrats urging him today to stay and complete the mission. The upside for the president is that the evacuation is running at some pace. About a thousand people an hour are being flown out, 21,600 have left in the last 2a hours, and afghans with special immigration visas are again being admitted. But the taleban said today afghans should not be going to the airport and foreign countries should stop encouraging them to leave. All of which suggests that many thousands will be left behind. From kabul our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports and a warning her report does contains some distressing images
thinking about what else she wants to control. if you rule the world, what one thing would you do? i think about that a lot. maria: i m sure she does. coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson on the economic impact of forced resignations from nurse, pilots, teachers, bordere agents, military men and women as they refuse to accept a forced vaccine and other communist moves of this cadministration. plus where are you going now? boston. how come? what s in boston? maria: my encounter with migrants at the southern border, where havoc is being thrown at texas farmers as got away illegals harass and threaten their land. i just got back from the border with a message from one of those farmers for president biden. i feel like he has abandoned us. he doesn t care for the people of this state, of this area and we re extremely disappointed in him and i think he should be ashamed of himself. maria: coming up, more from texas ranchers tim worth on why he can no longer leave
pressure is building on the biden administration to ease the impact of the supply chain crisis. the bottleneck of cargo ships continues to threaten the economy. this combined with a shortage of truckers to deliver goods to stores has many families fearing it may last into next year. i spoke with the executive the director of the port of long beach earlier today on fox news live. if we don t fix this going forward, again, it s a national crisis. it s not a global crisis. $1 trillion industry here in the united states, i m talking about the supply chain. so, obviously, again, everybody s impacted, business, consumers. and you go down that list. arthel: david spunt is live at the white house with more on how the biden administration s responding. david, he also had some encouraging things to say about the situation, so it s not completely all doom and gloom, but it is definitely dire at the moment. reporter: it is dire at the moment. good news he had some positive things t
people using a bow and arrow, was known to the police who say they d had concerns he d been radicalised. heavy gunfire in beirut at least 5 people are believed dead, following protests about the investigation into last year s massive port explosion. the government says it s doing everything it can to ease supply chain issues in the run up to christmas. the queen praises the spirit of the welsh people during the pandemic as she officially opens the new term of parliament, the senedd. and, chris martin tells us exclusively how coldplay are making their new world tour carbon neutral. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the increasing pressure on the nhs is underlined by new figures this afternoon which show a record number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment in england. 5.7 million people were waiting at the end of august for procedures such as hip replacements and cataract removals the highest since records began. waiting times in accident and emerge
welcome. president didn t buy it in chicago this hour. the home of united airlines, the first american carrier to impose a covid i9 vaccine mandate on its entire workforce. in august, only 80% of the cabin crew were fully vaccinated. today, the company says 99% proved since the white house that mandates work. there are still tens of millions of americans who have not been vaccinated but there is nothing evidence that biden and prosperous federal vaccine requirement for private sector employees, health care workers, and federal contractors is helping to lower the infection rate. a number of patients infection rate. a number of patients in us hospitals today, 68,760 is down 34% from the peak of the doubt to lower the infection rate. a number of patients in us hospitals today, 68,760 is down 34% from the peak of the delta leave earlier in september. , and it is misnamed. labor including the police unions as well as the firefighters stood up and endorsed me and because i kid wi