Now its reversing that trend. From the pulpit to politics the Anti Vaxers who refuse to change their tune as the Delta Variant sweeps through americas south. India dominate england at lords on the first day of the second test. And Coming Up In Sportsday later in the hour on the Bbc News channel, theres a busy night of European Football ahead, Celticjust One of the british sides involved in Europa And Europa conference league qulaifying. Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. More than half A Million Gcse Students in england, wales and Northern Ireland have achieved another set of record results, with both the proportion of students getting top grades and those achieving pass rates rising slightly from last year. It follows a second year in which exams were replaced with the assessments of teachers. As with A Levels a couple of days ago the numbers offer new insights into secondary education. Girls moved further ahead of boys, with a third of them scoring top grades, while for
Of Teacher Assessed Results raises questions about regional differences and girls move further ahead of boys. The taliban is continuing its astonishing sweep across afghanistan, with more dramatic developments just today. In the past two hours weve heard that they have captured afghanistans third biggest city, herat, and appear poised to gain control of the second largest kandahar. If thats confirmed, this day will mark the most significant advance so far as one after another, tHe Countrys Provincial Capitals fall to the militants. With thousands of civilians fleeing the violence, a sense of humanitarian disaster is deepening. The bbc s Yogita Limaye is in kabul. Things are changing at an incredible speed here. We started the day talking about the fall of a City Hundred Miles South which is strategically important and now, just within a span of 12 hours, we are looking at cities which are even more significant. Herat in the west is close to the border and is an important economic and T