Lebanon turns to iran to help with an acute shortage of fuel, as the country continues to spiral from one crisis to another. Para badminton and india s rising badminton star, palak kohli both prepare to make their debut, at the tokyo paralympics. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Officials in the united states say president biden will make a decision in the next 2a hours on whether to keep troops in afghanistan beyond the end of august. Mr biden is under growing pressure from his allies to allow more time for afghan civilians to be evacuated from kabul airport. The matter will be the main point of discussion at a virtual g7 summit on tuesday. The taliban say there will be consequences if the current deadline is missed. This report from kabul is by secunder kermani. It s crowded, filthy and baking hot. But desperate afghans keep coming to kabul airport. So many children in such a terrible place. This woman worked alongside german forces. She has documents
And we meet the visually impaired cycling world record holder hoping to pedal his way to a paralympics gold medal. Everyone says, you are very talented. I am everyone says, you are very talented. Iam not, may be everyone says, you are very talented. I am not, may be my talented. I am not, may be my talent is i can focus on something and block everything else out. Maybe the tunnel vision eyesight helps with that? hello and welcome to the programme. Officials in the united states say president biden will decide within the next 2a hours whether to maintain a military presence in afghanistan beyond the end of august. Mr biden is coming under growing pressure from his allies not to withdraw us troops from kabul airport and thus allow more afghan civilians to be evacuated. The issue will be the main point of discussion at a virtual g7 summit later on tuesday. The taliban have warned there will be consequences if the united states tries to remain in afghanistan beyond next week. We ll hav
Taliban leaders. The most significant meeting between the demonstration in th taliban since it took control o afghanistan nearly two weeks ago. Thousands of afghans at this hour are flooding the kabul airport in a desperate plea to leave the country. The humanitarian crisis, in the chaos unfolding there angry in our u. S. Who met today with biden mutually for a g7 conference. General jack all standing by with first the white house correspondent with a very lates from 1600 pennsylvania. Good afternoon to you, guys. We have learned that president biden will keep the august 31st withdrawal deadline according t u. S. Officials who spoke with our lucas thomason at the pentagon. For that to happen, they say that the military withdrawal will have to begin by this friday in order to meet that deadline just one week from today. Making it pretty unclear who will protect the last americans who are making their way out al the way up until that deadline as well as afghan refugees able to get on pla
Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news, it is newsday. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. President biden has defended the us operation at kabul airport. Addressing the american people for the third time in a week, he said the us had flown out 28,000 people since last saturday. Mr biden insisted there was no way to carry it out without causing pain and loss. We lifted approximately 11,000 people out of kabul in less than 46 hours. This is an incredible operation. Let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful, no matter when it started, when it began. It would have been true if we had started a month ago or a month from now. There is no way we can evacuate this many people without pain and heartache. It is just a fact. I had without pain and heartache. It isjust a fact. I had eggs without pain and heartache. It is just a fact. I had eggs for those people you see. We re proving we c
Thank you very much for being with us here on bbc news. President biden has championed the efforts to bring more people out of afghanistan, saying around 11,000 were flown to safety over the course of the weekend. He said that meant 28,000 had been evacuated since last saturday. Making his third televised addressed to americans since the taliban takeover, mr biden also pointed to the possibility of extending the deadline of august 31st for completing the evacuation operation. But he also acknowledged the significant risks in carrying out the flights. We lifted approximately 11,000 people out of kabul in less than 36 hours. It is an incredible operation. Let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful, no matter when it started, when we began. It would have been true if we had started a month ago or a month from now. There is no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss, of heartbreaking images you see on television. It is j