The number of new covid cases reported in scotland has hit another Record High of more than Seven Thousand in the last 2a hours. It comes as the scottish Health Secretary warned that the nhs was facing a Perfect Storm of pressure. The latest Uk Coronavirus figures from the Government Show there were 33,196 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period, which means on average there were 34,361 new cases per day in the last week. 61 deaths were recorded in the past 2a hours, with an average of 114 deaths a day in the past week. On vaccinations, 88. 3 of adults in the uk, have now had their firstjab and 78. 1; have had both doses now. Now its time for a look at the weather with darren bett. Hello there. For many parts of the country, it has been a cloudy sunday and overnight there will still be a lot of cloud coming in from off the North Sea once again. We are likely to find some clearer skies flung across wales and the South West where we saw The Sunshine today, temperatures could
Thousands of people left their homes ahead of its arrival. This is going to be a devastating hurricane, a life threatening storm. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Us defence officials say theyve carried out an Air Strike On a vehicle in the afghan capital to prevent another Bomb Attack by the islamic state group. A spokesman said the target was a Car Bomb that had posed an imminent threat to kabul s internatiOnal airport. Our chief internatiOnal CorrespOndent Lyse Doucet reports. A House On Fire in a fast burning crisis, said to be a Rocket Attack streets away from kabul airport. It may have been the target. The us says it unleashed a drOne strike, too hitting a vehicle of Suicide Bombers heading to the airport. And next to the airfield, gunfire. This a likely salvo from taliban guards struggling to cOntrol the crowds. Today, military flights are still taking off but britains airlift has ended. Not lOng now before america packs up, too. In a fleeting t
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Sport for now- sport for now. thank you, mark. let s return to our top story and the withdrawal from afghanistan. peter spiegel is us managing editor of the financial times he reported on afghanistan as defence correspondent from 1999 to 2006. he s found the unfolding events tragic and disappointing to watch. the last 72 hours have been hard to watch. the attack on us forces, the suicide bombing on thursday killing 11 marines and special forces operative and that was a huge incident. it has been visiting to watch the last a8 hours with the ability of the us to pinpoint specific isis members in kabul with these aerial attacks and what it tells me is that there actually is, perhaps from their experience on the ground over the last 18 months, they have pretty good intelligence on what is going on within isis k, not only being able to award the public
The end of britain s presents within afghanistan. borisjohnson also afghanistan. boris johnson also spoke afghanistan. borisjohnson also spoke earlier. he warned the taliban that if they wanted a diplomatic relationship in the future, they had to guarantee that any afghans who wanted to leave should be allowed to do so. women s rights should also be respected and just to remind you that during that campaign following 9/11 in the country, britain lost 457 9/11 in the country, britain lost a57 service personnel. so that is one of the latest flights taxiing at brize norton in the south east of england is in the county of oxfordshire. a residential skyscraper in milan has been engulfed in fire. emergency services say the blaze is now under control but smoke can still be seen rising from many floors of the block.