we begin in afghanistan, where the us embassy in kabul is asking american citizens in the country not to travel to kabul airport. the warning came just moments after similar advice issued by the british foreign office, which included warned of a high threat of a terrorist attack . the pentagon says about 10,000 people are currently at the airport, as the scramble to leave the country is gathering pace. secunder kermani sent this report from kabul. shame on them! they ve been through so much already. now wading through sewage in the hope of somehow being able to leave this country. huge crowds are still flocking to kabul airport, under the watch of american and british soldiers. despite the dirt, the dust, the gunshots and the chaos, people are still coming here, and they re coming here in their thousands. here, a makeshift camp has sprung up. most of the people gathered don t have permission to board an evacuation flight. the few that do are struggling to make their way insi
hello. despite the international criticism there has been of the us withdrawal from afghanistan, no one should question the professionalism or the resolve of the troops staging the evacuation. amid all the obvious dangers and chaos that surrounds the kabul airfield, they have evacuated over 40,000 people so far, 16,000 in the last 2a hours. that is impressive. but the uk defence secretary said today the operation will last only as long, as the americans stick with it. and ahead of tomorrow s g7 virtual summit, borisjohnson has signalled loudly that he would like president biden to extend the august 31st deadline so they can bring more people out. the taliban said today if there was such a delay there would be consequences. this morning, unidentified gunmen opened fire on the security cordon. us, german and afghan soldiers responded. 0ne afghan guard was killed. from kabul, here is secunder kermani. it s crowded, filthy and baking hot. but desperate afghans keep coming to kabu
scheme for vulnerable afghans we are working on that very carefully, we ve always been a big hearted nation, you ve got a home secretary and foreign secretary who know what that means from our own personal history. new zealand announces a snap lockdown after the country detected its first case of locally transmitted covid 19 since february. haiti suffers further. after the death toll in saturday s earthquake passes 1,400 a tropical storm makes landfall on the island. bob dylan is being sued by a woman who says he sexually abused her in 1965 when she was 12 years old. he denies the allegations. the taliban has urged government officials in afghanistan to return to work. it has offered them a general amnesty and, in a statement, said it wanted people to start routine life with full confidence. at kabul s airport, military flights have resumed after yesterday s chaotic scenes, when hundreds of afghans tried to board aircraft. those scenes at the airport have been highlighted b
their way east out into the sea, but if we look in the atlantic we have a band of cloud that will bring rain in from the west tomorrow, but today the sun is out across many parts of the sun is out across many parts of the country and we have much drier weather around as well and the winds are quite light and it feels warm as well. not without one or two showers across england and wales, mainly focus to the north east of england and the bulk of the heavy and developing thundery showers will developing thundery showers will develop in the north east of scotland and we have more cloud coming in, butahead of scotland and we have more cloud coming in, but ahead of the cloud in the sunshine, temperature is higher today, 20 and the central belt of scotland and 23 is the high across eastern parts of england. still a few sharp showers during the evening and they will push away and then we look at all of the cloud coming in from the atlantic, and here it is overnight, thickening up in