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in for erin burnett. diplomats warned in july they believed the country could rapidly deteriorate and they feared a catastrophe after u.s. troops pull out at the end of august. and tonight, there is chaos and dysfunction in afghanistan, as the u.s. struggles to get tens of thousands of people out of the country. officials today saying over the past five days, just 7,000 people have been flown to safety. these are some we are showing you of the lucky ones. the afghans able to board a flight. but they represent just a fraction of the tens of thousands whose lives are now in limbo. and as it stands tonight, we still don t know how many americans have left afghanistan, and how many remain. this is the u.s., this is afghan. i do not have a breakdown. i suspect over time, as our manifesting process gets more refined, we may be able to be there. but we don t have that specific breakdown. how many american citizens remain in afghanistan? i don t know. well, the 7,000 ....
the only problem last week was not a phone call to an afghan government that was melting away and had almost, or didn t have any leverage. the number one challenge at the end of last week was whether the airport would continue to fly, allow planes to fly out, and those people we were getting out, would they be allowed to get out? the largest survey of covid infection in the uk has found that both the pfizer and astrazeneca vaccines are still offering good protection against the delta variant. and coming up this hour, new research shows the bosses of britain s biggest companies earned 86 times the average full time wage last year. hello and welcome to bbc news. the uk is to deploy another company of soldiers to afghanistan to try to deal with the situation at kabul airport, where people are desperately trying to flee the country. twelve people have been killed around the airport since sunday. the taliban are urging people without the legal right to travel to go home. def ....
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and is granted a humanitarian visa. and talk about panda monium, we ll be going to live to the zoo that welcomed not one but two baby pandas into the world early this morning. hello and welcome. to people living in the usa and most of the eu, the uk suddenly feels much less further away. from today people arriving in this country from most of those two areas no longer have to self isolate for ten days if they re fully vaccinated. but strict rules still apply for those who ve been in france. our transport correspondent caroline davies has more. the dark and difficulty of the last few months, they have waited for this. figs few months, they have waited for this. , ,., ., few months, they have waited for this. x ., few months, they have waited for this. ~ , .,, ., few months, they have waited for this. a ., ., this. as soon as we got of the aemplane. this. as soon as we got of the aemplane. we this. as soon as we got of the aeroplane, we got this. as soon as we got of t ....
around the world. i m alison kosik and this is cnn newsroom. here is a snapshot of olympic medals awarded so far in tokyo. china the most at 9, the u.s. at 8. the u.s. leads with five gold medals, japan with three and team usa with two. coy wire is following the competition in tokyo. americans used their advantage in the swimming pool to get on the board today. tell me how they did it. reporter: since munich, team usa was shut out of medals on the opening day of competition at the summer olympics. things changed day two. american men finishing one and two in the 400 meter individual med lay. chase kalicz wins his first gold and the first for team usa at the games in tokyo. he won silver in rio. when he was 8-year-old he was on a ventilator and feeding tube for eight months as he fought an acute disorder of the nervous system. c k k kalisz says fell sps like the g.o.a.t. i don t know if everything has sunk in yet, not being in the water, not competing. a lot of emo ....