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to 14 will cover it. generally speaking, pretty much where we have been over the past few days, sunshine getting into northern ireland, the north west of england and scotland, with some sunshine up to 20, or if you don t down to 14 degrees. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for firing a spokesman from the foreign office as saying that due foreign secretary dominic raabjoined a meeting with us counterparts about the situation in afghanistan and emphasise the importance of like minded people to discuss arrangements for those people who are still in afghanistan and have not been rescued so far. he said that tell of that for the nationals and citizens with travel authorisations will be allowed to leave the country but mr rab also underlined that we have to judge them on their actions on whether people are allowed to spend safe passage to league. to leave. that is the latest on the afghanistan situation. the headline ....
airport in the last hour. but i understand there were no casualties, and the v ram system that stands for counter rocket and mortar system was deployed. that s the defensive system the u.s. has at bases that can detect incoming artillery or mortars. that was used effectively, i m told and the threat was mitigated. but all of this shows how dangerous the next coming days will be as the military completes its withdrawal from afghanistan. it began its retrograde earlier today. we reported on a u.s. drone strike that took out two suicide bomber who were in explosive latent vehicles 2 kilometers from the airport. that threat there are ongoing threat streams. biden was warned there could be an attack on the airport in 24-36 hours. we have seen that attack at least the five rockets. but again i m told from senior military officials that the threat stream continues and it will continue until the u.s. yous out on august 31. ashley: that will make it difficult for the around 30 ....
in modern military history for the united states of america. what was our mission? what was your mission? was it to get our troops out? we had to send more troops in. was our mission to get our american citizens out? they are stuck behind enemy lines right now. what was our mission? and how is this mission carried out. can anyone think of a single commander in chief or general who would pull military out before the citizens are pulled out? why was it done. then we re told there will be time for recriminations to review this, we need to act immediately. really? i have a piece from politico, the other day headline, white house to media, we want our props on afghanistan. they want their props? on afghanistan? really? why did see set august 31 as deadline and tell our enemies all over the region, if you want to attack us, hammer us hard before august 31. why did we create the alamo, kabul airport. we re huddle down, we have tremendously heroic troops, not our troops, i m ta ....
worker shortages caused by a perfect storm of issues including brexit changes and the pandemic, could threaten availability at christmas. the government is facing growing calls for a temporary visa scheme to try to fill the gap. our business correspondent katy austin reports. preparing these turkeys for christmas involves 100 extra workers who used to come in from eastern europe. because of brexit, we don t have that guaranteed labour that we ve had for the past 30 years. the bigger companies that supply all the supermarkets, they had made the decision to cut their production by between 20% and 25%, which is huge. so, there will absolutely be a shortage of quality british turkeys. other areas of food production are also having problems. a shortage of meat processors has caused a backlog of pigs on farms. the government is basically saying that furlough is coming to an end at the end of september, so you can have all of those people and that will resolve your issues. now ....
third consecutive title and her sixth paralympic crown. moments after this, imran fell 200 feet. we ll have the story of the daring operation to save him. and for most of us another dry day with some brightness or sunny spells but there is a little more detail than that. i will be back with all the details. it s sunday august the 29th. our top story: the uk s military involvement in afghanistan is over after nearly 20 years and the deaths of a57 british service personnel. troops, diplomats and officials left kabul last night but around a thousand people, including uk citizens and afghans who were eligible to seek refuge in britain, have been left behind. jon donnison has more. packing up and heading out. the last british shoulders and diplomats have now left afghanistan bringing to an end a military operation that lasted just shy of two decades. in recent days, more than 15,000 people have been evacuated by the raf. british nationals and afghans who had worked with the uk ....