And one of the rock and roll greats, the rolling stones drummer charlie watts dies at the age of 80. We ll look back at an extraordinary life. Hello and welcome to the programme. This time next week the airlift from agfhanistan will be over. Joe biden says he is sticking to his deadline, after consulting with national security officials, despite nato allies and many fellow democrats urging him today to stay and complete the mission. The upside for the president is that the evacuation is running at some pace. About a thousand people an hour are being flown out, 21,600 have left in the last 2a hours, and afghans with special immigration visas are again being admitted. But the taleban said today afghans should not be going to the airport and foreign countries should stop encouraging them to leave. All of which suggests that many thousands will be left behind. From kabul our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports and a warning her report does contains some distressing images
State fire marshal saying crews are using hightech tools, battling conditions made tougher by mother nature. Rain creates challenges, lightning creates challenges. Shifting in the rubble creates challenges. If the rubble shifts we have to stop because you can t take chances with people s lives below. We have people waiting and waiting and waiting for news. That is excruciating. We have them coping with the news that they might not have their loved ones come out alive and still hope against hope that they will. They re learning that some of their loved ones will come on out as body parts. This is the kind of information that is just excruciating for everyone. In april, two months ago, the president of the tower association sent a letter to residents warning the building was in need of repairs. The letter urged residents to pay the $15 million in assessments needed to fix structural problems in the building. The condo board president wrote the concrete damage to the building would all th
Family attorney, including former d. C. Police chief ramsey who will talk about deadly force. We want to start with daunte wright was killed, brooklyn center, minnesota, a town that has seen four straight nights of protests and arrests. Miguel marquez is there. What are you seeing right now, miguel? reporter: yeah, it very much does look like it s going to be a fifth night of protests. People are out here rallying in support of daunte wright. They certainly want to see justice for him and changes to the police force as well and to the way policing is done. They are handing out umbrellas. They re handing out eye protection. They are clearly preparing for a night of making a very emphatic point to the police of the changes they want to see to the entire system. The police for their side have put in extra barriers and fencing all the way up and down the station itself and even on some of the side streets here. So both sides sort of getting ready for another night here. But i got to tell y
now on bbc news click. this week, vaccine passports. how will they work? and will they work? plus, teaching a gorilla to talk. making a fox fly. and walking a dog on the beach from the sofa. good boy! welcome to click. we re into the second year of the sofa shows now so it s time to mix it up a bit! can you see anything different? can you? can you, lara? i can t see anything. is it your hair again? no, it s not the hair the hair is always changing. no, keep looking. keep looking. what can it be? i will, but what i do know is that you ve been having all of the fun this week. i certainly have! i ve been walking a dog! now, do you know, during lockdown, everyone seems to have bought a dog, right? i know. i actually signed up to the borrowmydoggie app, where you can look after someone else s, but no one replied to my messages. seriously? what on earth did you write? well, i think the problem may have been that i was too focused on this will be great fun for my eight year old
the death of prince philip as a huge void in her life. mark easton reports on how the queen and the duke of edinburgh have been a remarkable team in the story of the monarchy. liverpool gives a true lancashire welcome to princess elizabeth. in spring 1949, a young couple went to liverpool s anglican cathedral at the end of hope street and drew a lover s knot on the third pier of the nave. the entwined e and p remains carved into the fabric of the building to this day, the physical embodiment of a marriage that was to last more than 73 years. among the choirboys attending that day was jeff holliday, now in his 80s. he recently lost his wife helen after almost 50 years of marriage and feels for the queen as she bids a final farewell to her husband. i would say that the queen is feeling this tremendously at the moment. even though you re prepared in a way for such an event, i feel for her, actually. i have a lot of respect for the duke as well. i thought he was a great guy. ijus