In the uk, a vigil has been held to remember the victims of thursday s mass shooting the country s worst since 2010. police have now named the victims. and much of southern europe continues to bake after one of the hottest summers ever recorded. the rapid advance of the taliban in afghanistan is accelerating. the militants now control a third of the country s regional capitals, including afghanistan s second largest city, kandahar. american officials say the taliban is trying to isolate the capital, kabul. and they ve acknowledged that the insurgents may be back in power much sooner than expected. meanwhile the united nations has warned a humanitarian catastrophe may be unfolding. our correspondent, yogita limaye reports from kabul. gunfire.
And to enable them to come to power in the nearfuture in afghanistan. ok, you say come to power in the nearfuture in afghanistan , do you think kabul is under real threat? absolutely. as you mentioned, one of your colleagues, that they are in logar, logar is a very short distance away from kabul, and if they surround kabul, which they are trying to do, they have taken logar, and the route to the north is blocked, kabul would starve, so to speak, because all the roads that lead to kabul would be blocked. sorry tojump in can that be stopped, is there something the international community can do now?
The span ofjust a week has taken people here, the government and its international partners by surprise. those who have the means are trying to get out of this country, flights from kabul are completely booked. but for a majority of the population, they re waiting to see how things will unfold with a mixture of fear, anger and resignation. many believe the government has let them down. i have had to flee from my hometown because the taliban captured it. they killed three of my brothers. afg han forces are not fighting, they are just handing over control, this man said. the fighting is less than an hourfrom kabul now, in the neighbouring logar province. many of the war wounded from there have been coming to this kabul hospital. this 14 year old boy was injured in an explosion, he s lost an eye and had his arm amputated.
To the north is blocked, kabul would starve, so to speak, because all the roads that lead to kabul would be blocked. so to kabulwould be blocked. so to kabulwould be blocked. so to to kabul would be blocked. so to sorry tojump in, can that be stopped, is there something the international community can do now? unfortunately at the moment, no. unless they really enter very forcefully and tell the taliban that if they don t stop there onslaught, there will be a serious consequences, and i hate to say, but unless they really go back and with really strong force, there is no way that they can save afghanistan. thank you very much for coming on the programme. thank you very much for coming on the programme. thank you for havin: on the programme. thank you for
The country s worst since 2010. police have now named the victims. and much of southern europe continues to bake bone dry, after one of the hottest summers ever recorded. hello and welcome to the programme. we to the programme. will start in afghanistan. the rapid advance of the taliban in afghanistan is accelerating. the militants now control a third of the country s regional capitals, including afg hanistan s second largest city kandahar. american officials say the taliban is trying to isolate the capital kabul, and they ve acknowledged that the insurgents may be back in power much sooner than expected. meanwhile, the united nations has warned a humanitarian catastrophe may be unfolding. our correspondent yogita limaye reports from kabul.