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coronavirus may still suffer symptoms months after infection. nicola sturgeon announces plans to introduce vaccine passports for nightclubs and larger live events in scotland later this month. colin pitchfork, who raped and murdered two schoolgirls in the 1980s, has been released from prison. the game changing anti cholesterol drug that could save 30,000 lives in a decade and may soon be offered on the nhs. itv is cleared by the media regulator over pier morgan s comments about the duchess of sussex. and the image of a bird at the us mexico border wall has won a prestigious photographic contest. we will be talking to the winning mexican photographer. but evening and welcome to bbc news. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, has insisted that the uk did not perform worse than other countries in its evacuation from kabul after the city fell to the taliban. he s been answering questions from mps about his response to the crisis in afghanistan this afternoon. mr raab said ....
hello. this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for firing rockets at kabul airport, where the us evacuation operation is drawing to a close. the rockets were intercepted by the american anti missile system. the bbc is told ten people from one family including six children were killed by a us drone attack in the afghan capital, kabul. the us says the target was an islamic state suicide bomber. how. sobbing. why they killed our family, our children. seven children. warnings of life threatening floods and dangerous storm surges as tropical storm ida churns its way along the coast of louisiana and mississippi states. new research suggests thousands of strokes and heart attacks could be prevented if people switched to a common salt subsitute. more paralympics success for great britain as lee pearson, andrew small and phoebe paterson pine claim golds. now let s return to the situation in afghanistan. over the la ....
this is just some of the destruction in louisiana, that s about an hour south of new orleans. in new orleans, the french quarter was hit hard with significant damage. still dark there but as the sun comes up we ll have a better feel for things. in all, more than 1 million people there are without electricity. the power outage could make the area for susceptible to extreme flooding like we see in this video from grand isle, along the coast. joining us now jay gray. good morning, the power is out in new orleans, what does it look like this morning? reporter: willie, it is a mess right now. once we get some sunshine i think we ll see more problems in new orleans. but a break in the conditions, the winds dropped off, the rain thankfully after 16 straight hours has stopped. we have a chance to look at some of the devastation. you can see the roof top behind me pulled from a building thrown into the french quarter, bringing with it an elevated street sign. you can see the b ....
and festivals over the bank holiday weekend. two world records for the british cycling couple, husband and wife lora and neil fachie, who are amongst seven gb paralympians to win gold today. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk s last evacuation flight purely for civilians has left the afghan capital, kabul. the head of the armed forces, general sir nick carter, said it s heartbreaking that british troops haven t been able to rescue everybody he said hundreds of eligible people have been left behind. the american led airlift of those trying to escape taliban rule is due to end on tuesday. and in the last few minutes, the us government has issued a statement saying a fresh attack on kabul airport is highly likely in the next 24 36 hours. here s our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley. the race to finish an unprecedented rescue mission is almost done. the pentagon says more than 110,000 people have been airlifted out of the c ....
the president promised to take action to in response to the attack that left 13 service members dead. this appears to be part of the effort, this is a drone strike near the border with pakistan targeting an individual referred to as an islamic state planner who was in the midst of preparing for future attacks. the details are some scarce on this and not clear if this person was involved in this week s bombing but a u.s. official says this individual was hit while in a vehicle with an associate in this follows to fords from the administration yesterday. with the president says we will hunt you down and make you pay, what does that look like, is he going to order a mission to kill the people responsible or will he be satisfied if the captured and processed. he made clear he does not want them to live on earth anymore. the airport in kabul meantime in the final few days of the u.s. control is on high alert for another possible attack. the evacuation is continuing i ....