Afghanistan s effective government. U. S. Military leaders say a decision to extend the withdraw dead line must be made by today. Because that would provide enough time to make plans for pulling out the 5800 troops on ground in kabul when the mission ends as well as to remove equipment and weapons. More than 21,000 people were evacuated from afghanistan in just the last 24 hours. And an unprecedented operation. 4500 people are now waiting for evacuation flights inside of kabul airport this morning. A little more calm than in recent days. Cnn s jeremy diamond is at the white house with more on the g7 meeting underway. I suppose the question is will white house officials bracing themselves for a bit of shilacking from their allies on this. Reporter: there is no question that they know that president biden is going to face tough questions and pressure from the allies. Especially the united kingdom and france who have been vocal about the need to extend the withdrawal deadline past august
Ten people are killed and many more missing after severe flooding. New york state declares an emergency, as tropical storm henri makes landfall along the atlantic coast, in rhode island. Hello and welcome to bbc news to viewers in the uk and around the world. Presidentjoe biden is expected to speak any moment now on the situation in afghanistan. He s already pledged to evacuate every american and eligible afghan who wants to leave, but is under pressure at home with polls suggesting that a large majority of americans believe he has handled the withdrawal of troops badly. Meanwhile borisjohnson will convene a meeting of the g7 group of leading nations this week to discuss afghanistan, in the wake of the us and allied troop withdrawal. We ll bring you president biden s address from the white house live as soon as it happens. But first let s get you up to date with the situation in kabul here s our correspondent, secunder kermani. When the taliban took over kabul, many residents were te
Dream. Dream. Dream, dream, dream. And, don everly, who had huge success with the everly brothers, has died aged 8a. Good evening. At least 20 people are known to have died in the chaos and panic in and around kabul airport in the week since the taliban seized control of afghanistan. As people continue to arrive at the airport, britain s ambassador to the country says more than 5,000 people have been helped to leave so far and the us has drafted commercial airlines to help with its evacuation effort. In the last hour, the us presidentjoe biden said there s still a long way to go and a lot could still go wrong but that he hoped the airlift will end by august 31st. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet is now airside at kabul airport and has witnessed thousands of people desperate to get onto a flight to leave their homeland: it hits you as soon as you put your foot on the tarmac of this airfield, the intensity and the urgency of this moment. Every direction we look at
Landfall in the state of rhode island. New zealand s pandemic strategy is thrown into doubt as the highly infectious delta variant takes hold. This is bbc news. It is newsday. Welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. We begin in the us, where president biden has said there will be no let up in the tempo of us evacuation efforts in afghanistan after a weekend in which 23 american military flights took off from kabul airport. There s been criticism of the decision to withdraw troops from afghanistan and the evacuation operation, but in the last few hours mr biden insisted there was no way to carry it out without causing pain and loss. He said nearly 28,000 people had been flown out since august 14th the day before the taliban seized power. We lifted approximately 11,000 people out of a bowl in less than 36 hours. It s an incredible operation. kabul. Let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful,
Dream, dream, dream. And don everly, who had huge success with the everly brothers, has died aged 8a. This is bbc news. Newsday. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. We begin in the us, where president biden has said there will be no let up in the tempo of us evacuation efforts in afghanistan after a weekend in which 23 american military flights took off from kabul airport. There s been criticism of the decision to withdraw troops from afghanistan and the evacuation operation, but in the last few hours mr biden has insisted there was no way to carry it out without causing pain and loss. He said nearly 28,000 people had been flown out since august 14th the day before the taliban seized power. We lifted approximately 11,000 people out of kabul in less than 36 hours. It s 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 we started or began. It would have been