When it comes to the west is likely to be dependent on what kind of government the taliban create and what laws it enforces. The us supreme court ignores appeals against a new law in texas banning 85 per cent of abortions. President biden says it s a blatant violation of constitutional rights. And in california emergency crews continue to battle a huge wildfire around lake tahoe. More than fifty thousand people are evacuated from the region. It s eight in the morning in singapore, eight in the evening in washington and 4. 30 in the morning in kabul, where the taliban is moving closer to establishing a government, now that the us exit from afghanistan is complete. A senior leader told the bbc the government would be inclusive. But against this backdrop the economy of afghanistan is close to collapse with little immediate prospect of the new islamist rulers gaining access to the country s foreign currency reserves held in the west. Prices of essential goods are soaring, the value
To curb childhood obesity. I want my life back, britney spears tells a us court, and astronomers find evidence of the cosmic dawn the moment when the first stars began to form. Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. Ministers are preparing to announce the latest update to england s traffic light system for travel abroad, and there s speculation that malta could be added to the so called green list, with no quarantine required on returning home. That s along with the spanish balearic islands of ibiza, majorca and minorca. The prime minister has hinted that in future, foreign travel without quarantine might be possible, for those who ve been double jabbed. Business leaders are hoping the government will relax restrictions on holidays, but any changes come amid rising concern, here and abroad, about the continuing spread, of the delta variant. Here s theo leggett. Summer is here. Travel companies and would be holiday makers are desperate for restrictions to be eased so people can g
america s southern border runs the gamut from entire families to children all alone. and now come out once again, larger packs traveling together. huge groups are coming in because they going to be let in. order agency it s not uncommon to encounter clusters of 20, 30, sometimes even group of more than 100 migrants wandering the desert and surrendering is the overall apprehension numbers keep takin up. we re between 701,000 today. that is a shortage of detention beds and space even a additional temporary overflow facilities are brought online. the washington post reports on facilities will be converted into large rapid style processing centers capable of moving people faster through th system the backlog is humongous. there is nowhere to put them. the ceo of greyhound bus lin asking the federal government for emergency funding to help cover migrant transportation cost and requesting a 100 percent assurance from the feds that passengers who test positive for covid wi
where does he stand in the list of all time sporting greats? time for a look at the weather. here s tomasz schafernaker. good afternoon. some of us are more than happy to brave the winter weather. nothing to it, for others, it is a little too cold and it does feel bitterly cold and that is how it will stay for the rest of the week. amber warnings in force from the met office for a couple of located areas around parts of eastern england and central scotland and the reason why they are local and the reason why they are local and the reason why they are local and the warnings is because the snow is driven on these lines or streams as we refer to them, the snow showers line themselves against the east, north easterly wind and you get a situation where there is no snow, snow, no snow, snow, so there is so much variation and showers sometimes keep coming and coming giving significant accumulations. whereas down the road, you just get a dusting. strong gale force winds around some c
every week on energy. some companies sayjob losses could come soon. wales keep their world cup dreams alive. a scrappy win in estonia keeps their hopes of at least a play off place in their own hands. good morning. some of us were lucky enough last night to see the northern lights, more especially across northern scotland and also the northern isles. this morning where we had clear skies it would be a chilly start. today will be mostly cloudy with spots of light rain and drizzle. the best of the sunshine in the west. the details later in the programme. it s tuesday 12th october. the government s early response to coronavirus has been described as one of the uk s worst public health failures by a cross party group of mps. the study by two commons committees found that both ministers and scientists waited too long to bring in lockdowns, costing many lives. but they did praise the speed of the vaccine rollout. 0ur health correspondent, jim reed, reports. we are still living thre