We start in afghanistan, where fierce fighting has been raging in several provincial capitals. The Afghan Army is fighting back in crowded neighbourhoods, and all this putting more and more civilians in danger. Herat in the west of the country is one of two provincial capitals being targetted by the militants theres been similar being targetted by the militants. Theres been similar intense fighting in Laskar Gar in the south, with large parts of that city under the talibans control. Local people say dead bodies are lying in the streets. We have exclusive pictures from Herat Inside One of the cities being besieged by the taliban. This footage is from the Photo Journalist Masood husseini, one of the few journalists still inside herat. These pictures were filmed in the last 48 hours. He and other media who are there have been told to evacuate as soon as they can. As the fighting escalates fears are growing of a massive humanitarian crisis. Lets talk to ryan crocker, former us ambassador T
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vaccine for every american byjuly. and 3,000 sticks of dynamite bring down donald trump s long doomed casino in atlantic city. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington. christian fraser is in london. the brutal winter storms across the south and east of the us have left millions without power, and more snow is on the way. nowhere has been hit harder than texas, where nearly three million people are facing their third day without light or heat. the state has its own electrical grid, and it s been unable to meet the increased demand for power. it s striking these power outages are happening in a state with such abundant energy resources. texas produces more electricity than any other us state, almost twice as much as florida, the next closest. but because it has isolated itself from the rest of the grid, it can t import any, and so there is a very public row under way over who is to blame the public private partnership that operates the grid or the state politicians who overs
people have crossed from france to the uk by boat this year compared to 2020. the women s tennis association says videos released by chinese media showing missing player peng shuai, including one at a tennis tournament, don t prove she s genuinely free. the taxi driver from the liverpool terror attack has released a statement saying it is a miracle he is alive and thanking the public that their amazing generosity. for their amazing generosity. welcome to bbc news. one of the biggestjobs in football management has become vacant. manchester united have sacked their manager ole gunar solskjaer this morning following yesterday s 4 1 defeat at watford. the club have suffered a string of poor results , and are currently 7th in the premier league table. we ll be live from old trafford in a moment but firstjoe lynskey looks back on solskjaer s time at manchester united. for manchester united, he was the coach with the connection. the playing icon who became manager. no one hoped t
ground troops enter. the united nations says there is nowhere safe to go for the 1.5 million palestinians sheltering in rafah. but speaking to abc, mr netanyahu defended the potential military offensive. the areas we have cleared north of rafah, patio areas there, but we are working out a detailed plan to do so and that s what we ve done up to now. we are not cavalier about it, it is part of our war effort to get civilians out of harm s away and part of the hamas effort to keep them and harm a s way but we have succeeded so far and we will succeeded so far and we will succeed again. those who say we should not enter rafah are basically saying lose the war, keep hamas their command their command hamas has promised to do the top of the seven massacre over and over and over again. rafah has become the last refuge for many palestinians fleeing bombardment elsewhere in israel s four month war against hamas, since the group s attack on october the 7th. hamas is designated a terrori