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Hello and welcome. We begin in afghanistan, where the us embassy in kabul is asking american citizens in the country not to travel to kabul airport. The warning came just moments after similar advice issued by the british foreign office, which included the warning of a high threat of a terrorist attack. The pentagon says about 10,000 people are currently at the airport, as the scramble to leave the country is gathering pace before the deadline for evacuation flights. Graham satchell has this report. Day after day for more than a week now distressing pictures of afghans that couple airport desperate to leave. Now a new warning from the american government is saying there is a high threat of attack here. The advice is don t travel to the airport which means a hugely difficult operation to get people out has just got worse. Latest figures from the ministry of defence show that more than 11,000 people have so far been evacuated to the uk. 0f far been evacuated to the uk. Of those, almost 7
Let s start here in the uk, where the pressure is mounting on the government to intervene after many leading firms across a number of industries have complained about supply chain disruption. The boss of the supermarket chain iceland has said the disruption could affect christmas supplies, and wants the government to address the lack of hgv drivers. According to the british retail consortium, the uk is currently facing a shortfall of 90 thousand hgv drivers. Logistic uk says brexit and covid 19 have exacerbated the situation. They estimate 25,000 eu drivers returned home during the pandemic and following the end of the brexit transition period. Some firms have taken action, last month tesco began offering lorry drivers a £1,000 joining bonus due to the shortage. Coral rose is chairman of the federation of wholesale distributors. Good morning. From your perspective, talk about how big a deal this is, where are we at in this crisis? in this crisis? good morning, this is impacting in
To harden their message to afghans seeking to flee saying that only foreigners can be evacuated. Also this evening. The disappearance of the chef claudia lawrence in york in 2009 police announce a new lead. Mcdonald s runs out of milkshakes and some bottled drinks at restaurants across britain. And the rolling stones drummer charlie watts has died at the age of 80. And coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. We ll have the latest from headingly ahead what promises to be a fiery third test bewteen england and india. Good evening. With the united states today refusing to budge from its deadline of august 31st for withdrawing its troops from afghanistan, a g7 virtual summit chaired by borisjohnson appealed to the taliban to allow safe passage beyond that date for anyone who wants to leave. But in a hardening of tone, the taliban today indicated they would not allow afghans to be evacuated, and the us should stop encouraging afghans to go to the airport to be