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than 20 lives with dozens of people still missing more than 15 inches of rain has fallen. queuing to reach snowdon s summit walkers are urged to respect the mountain as the number of visitors soars. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. britain and america have hours not weeks to evacuate people from afghanistan, according to the defence secretary. pressure s growing on us presidentjoe biden to delay the withdrawal of american troops beyond his august 31 deadline. we will have continuing coverage now on the crisis in afghanistan. welcome to a country turned upside down by this sudden and surprising turn of events, just one week ago here in kabul the taliban took over and one week on, they are still trying to consolidate their control across the city. afghans across the country are still coming to terms with the country turned upside down and their lives turned inside out. we spent the last 2a hours at the international airport in kabul where some of these scen ....
in the uk, all 16 and17 year olds have been offered their first coronavirus vaccine, as a campaign is launched to encourage teenagers to getjabbed warning of the effects of long covid. are you a young person suffering with long covid? tell me what it s been like for you by tweeting me, using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. in an emotional interview, a widow tells the bbc how her husband took his own life after relapsing into a gambling addiction i looked out of the window and. two policemen got out the car and the way they walked in, i knew what they were going to say. the tokyo paralympics starts tomorrow. we ll be speaking to a sports psychologist who s been helping athletes prepare ahead of the games. and the british boxing olympic silver medallist ben whittaker achieves his dream becoming mayor of wolverhampton for a day. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a member of the afghan security forces has been killed in an exchange of f ....
island for us. chris. reporter: fred, good to be working for you today. we re in east hampton on the southern shore of long island right off new york. we re here because this was the fear of concern path early on, a beach front community, reminiscent of super storm sandy. did not happen, not going to happen. that was a hurricane that bounced off new jersey and then came here. new york will not be directly impacted by this. there will be flooding. we do have some power outages. now it s about time, this storm. as fred was laying out to you, there is a stall. why? because when storms go over land, they slow down and can change direction. henri has been the storm, if you re going to characterize it, as the storm that couldn t make up its mind. it s been changing paths. it hitting rhode island and newport is very different from where it originally made landfall which is the tiny island of block island. a thousand san, maybe 2,500 people in season, a beautiful place. it s ....
nights in the bando pyrex whipping. so he s saying, i m making all this money and if you want to make this money, here s how you do it. my name is kaf okpattah and i m investigating what happens when fraud goes viral. there is one crime that is the most commonly experienced of all fraud. it makes up 40% of all criminal activity in the uk. during the pandemic, it boomed, costing us all more than £2 billion in a year. for many, the crime begins with a dodgy text. i ve found out where some of the messages like these are coming from. earlier this year, emmeline hartley was fooled by a text from fraudsters. well, there was a text, first of all, from the royal mail. it said on the text delivery failed you need to pay £2.99 additional postage paid. and i ve paid that before. and it kept directing me to the royal mail website. and then, i clicked back and scrolled around and then i entered my details. and then, i got a phone call the next day, which was on my birthday, from ....
of the days news. first, the media show hello. i do finally in a position to make some money out of social media? well, the big name companies do very nicely, thank you, out of what you post on what you share, but have the tables turned in favour of the individual? can we all make cash with our latest musical composition or the recipe we lovingly demonstrate if we are a little bit smart about it? well, websites like patreon offer fans the ability to pay their favourite artists and writers directly. tiktok and facebook have started offering cash to the most popular creators. so is there money to be made in the so called creative economy, and help we meet at the big beasts, facebook, youtube, tiktok, about the competition and he was moderating all of this online? let me introduce you to our guests. the co founder and now the chief technical officer of patreon and in a few sentences, sam, give us a brief flavour of what patreon is and what it does. thanks for havin: patreo ....