Police announce a new lead. And delayed by a year but athletes are hoping to shine the 2020 paralympics gets under way in tokyo. Good Evening And Welcome to the programme. With the united States Today refusing to budge from its deadline of August 31 for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan A G7 Virtual Summit shared by Boris Johnson appealed to the taliban to allow Safe Passage and beyond that date for anyone wants to leave. But in an hardening of tone the Taliban Today indicated they would not allow afghans to be evacuated in the us should stop encouraging afghans to go to the airport to be airlifted out. They also said that all international evacuations need to be completed by The End of the month. Lease to set reporting from kabul in the situation at the airport. Her report contained some distressing images. Stay calm, orders this taliban guard. There is no calm here. Not in a crowd too big to count, too big to control. But the days are numbered now before the us pulls its soldiers f
Of the Euro 2020 final. Flash floods in the American State Of Tennessee have claimed more than 20 lives with dozens of people still missing more than 15 inches of rain has fallen. Queuing to reach snowdon s summit walkers are urged to respect The Mountain as the number of visitors soars. The government says it will ask the united states to keep its soldiers at Kabul Airport beyond the current deadline of next tuesday. But the taliban say they are opposed to any extension. Borisjohnson will make the request at an Emergency Meeting of leaders from the g7 countries tomorrow. Us troops are due to leave Kabul Airport in just over week. A Taliban Spokesman, suhail shaheen, told the bbc that it would be a clear violation if foreign forces did not withdraw on august 31st. But several thousand people remain at the airport, desperate to flee the Country. 16,000 people have Left Kabul as part of us Evacuation Efforts in the past 2a hours. About 1,800 people have been flown out by the British Mili
Than 20 lives with dozens of people still missing more than 15 inches of rain has fallen. Queuing to reach snowdon s Summit Walkers are urged to respect The Mountain as the number of visitors soars. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. Britain and america have hours not weeks to evacuate people from afghanistan, according to the Defence Secretary. Pressures growing on us president Joe Biden to delay the withdrawal of american troops beyond his August 31 deadline. We will have continuing coverage now on the crisis in afghanistan. Welcome to a country turned upside down by this sudden and surprising turn of events, just one week ago here in kabul the taliban took over and one week on, they are still trying to consolidate their control across the city. Afghans across the country are still coming to terms with the country turned upside down and their lives turned inside out. We spent the last 2a hours at the international airport in kabul where some of these scenes are very surreal, the
The cost of severe covid new research shows that half of patients admitted to hospitals during the first wave developed at least one extra complication. The five main parties in Northern Ireland make clear their opposition to the Uk Governments plan to end all prosecutions for crimes committed during the troubles. The police and the cps are involved in a Blame Game over a drop in rape prosecutions, a new report finds. And four time 0lympic Medallist Sir Mo farah tells us he believes online racism against sportsmen and women is getting worse. He says Social Media Companies must do more. The Social Media Companies need to do a lot more. They have to be held accountable to what people get up to. Even myself, i have had some shocking ones. Hello, good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. More than 100 people are confirmed dead after some of the worst flooding in decades devastated parts of Northern Europe. Many hundreds more are injured or unaccounted for across germany, belgium and the nert
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