Thanks so much for joining me im Fredricka Whitfield and we begin this hour with Breaking News Evacuations are underway in parts of florida as residents prepare for what it seemed to become her hurricane debby, debbie is now a tropical storm, but is expected to intensify into a hurricane as early as tonight before making Landfall Tomorrow Morning near the big Bend Region of the state levy franklin. What Cola And Dixie counties all currently under mandatory Evacuation Orders with many other counties urging people in low lying areas to leave voluntarily. An earlier today, President Biden approved a Disaster Declaration for florida. Lets get right to it with Meteorologist Derek Van dam, who is tracking the very latest oh boy, Here We Go Again and we are entering what would become the most active part of the hurricane season, right . Were heading into the peak of hurricane season, no doubt. So the threats that we have ahead of us in florida in the southeast, not only the extreme winds whil
Debut in the West End. In afghanistan, in a major escalation of the talibans offensive the militants have captured a Provincial Capital, zaranj, close to the border with iran, and assassinated a close aide of the president s. Theyve made sweeping gains since foreign forces started withdrawing from the country. The united nations Special Envoy has warned the country is facing a possible catastrophe and called on the taliban to halt the violence and take part in meaningful peace talks. Our world Affairs Correspondent Richard Galpin has more. In the heart of the afghan capital, another assassination taliban Gunmen Opening Fire on this car, killing the head of the governments media information centre, dawa khan menapal. Theyd warned officials would be targeted in response to Air Strikes by afghan and us forces. The war now increasingly spilling into the capital. But the taliban are also now targeting other key cities in this, their latest offensive. They claim to have captured the city of
Jobs have been created, and hes been criticised for nepotism, including giving jobs to his family. Hes about to take on the presidency of the southern african development community, but can malawis president even honour the promises he made to his own country . Lazarus chakwera, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Now, lets start with the situation as regards covid, because there are currently 11,000 active cases reported in your country. Thereve been 1500 deaths, but that will be underreported. Whats your assessment of the situation at the moment . You know, it is possible that it is underreported, but we go by what we have officially. And if you look at the figures, this Third Wave has pushed us to that level. Because even Positivity Rate had come back down to almost 0. 5 , and now that rate has gone all the way to 26, 25 . And there are some specific places where more positive cases have been indicated, like the blantyre city. Now, one has to understand that for a country like