that the risk of blood clots from catching covid is nearly nine times than from having the vaccine. scotland records the highest number of new covid cases in a 2k hour period since the start of the pandemic. a world record and a third gold medal for paralympics gb s kadeena cox after a stunning ride in the velodrome. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the defence secretary has said that british forces have entered the final stages of flying people out of kabul. large crowds have again gathered at the airport despite yesterday s suicide bomb attack. 90 people were killed in the attack including 13 us military personnel. most of the dead were afghan civilians. speaking to the american people president biden had a message for the attackers saying, we will hunt you down, and make you pay. the uk says the kabul bombings will not affect the the uk forces airlift timetable. so far nearly 111,000 british nationals and eligible afghans have been airlifted out. but there s
about 20,000 people remain at the chaotic kabul airport. more people keep coming. the evacuations of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began. there s no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss and heartbreaking images you see on television. it s just a fact. u.s. defense officials tell cnn the military is establishing alternative groups to kabul because of the threat posed by a self-proclaimed isis affiliate called isis-k. the threat is real. it s acute. it s persistence. it s something that we are focussed on with every tool in our arsenal. we re working hard with our intention community to try to isolate and determine where an attack might come from. we re placing pair month priority on stopping or disrupting and we ll do everything we can for as long as we re on the ground to keep that from happening. but we re taking it absolutely deadly seriously. our international security editor nick
beaten by the taliban, a direct contradiction to what the commander-in-chief had said just a short time earlier. and that wasn t the only contradiction from the president s remarks this afternoon. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has the latest from the north lawn. good evening, jackie. good evening, bret. the biggest news as the president remarked he extended the commitment to evacuate stranded americans to afghan refugees to allies. but it was incredibly unclear by what means he intends to do that and if it will involve american troops. president biden said he is considering rescue operations to recover americans and afghan allies stuck behind taliban checkpoints and seemed to open the door to using american troops. this evacuation mission is dangerous and involves risks to armed forces. i cannot promise what the final outcome will be and what it will be-that it will be without risk of loss. but as commander-in-chief, i can assure you that i will mobilize eve
than 9900 points. now it s down more than 900 points again. it s been bouncing around but it s looked bad all day. the delta variant is spooking investor who threaten it could worry u.s. recovery. one calls it the most serious virus most unvaccinated people will face in their lives. right now every state in the u.s. is seeing a rise in coronavirus cases. for the first time since mid-may, the u.s. is averaging more than 30,000 cases a day. that s a 66% jump from last week. 145% increase from two weeks ago. hospitalizations are up 50% from two weeks ago. deaths are on the rise too. averaging about 260 per day. up 13% from last week. only 48.6% of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated. they are calling on all stientss over the age of two years old to wear masks this coming school year even if they are vaccinated. that s different than what the cdc recommends. let s turn to jason carol. explain why pediatricians are urging now that masks stay in place at school? i think t
towers was in the background but no more. giving search and rescue crews more access and less worry has the death toll is climbing. at 10:30 sunday night all that was left of the champlain condos south came to the ground. it was shifting. this ended a day and a half pause for the search and rescue operation which is very important to families who want to have proper funerals for lost loved ones. they tell us, even though you lost a loved one, thank you for being away from your families and risking your life to help us. bringing that building down in a controlled manner was critical. the search and rescue operation was back to full speed. they found three more bodies bringing the confirmed dead to 27 and 118 residents still missing. the county searched under beds and closets for pets so any 4 legged survivors did not come down with the remaining building. we went to great lengths to take every step we could at great risk to our first responders that no pets were left i