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thank you very much for being with us here on bbc news. president biden has championed the efforts to bring more people out of afghanistan, saying around 11,000 were flown to safety over the course of the weekend. he said that meant 28,000 had been evacuated since last saturday. making his third televised addressed to americans since the taliban takeover, mr biden also pointed to the possibility of extending the deadline of august 31st for completing the evacuation operation. but he also acknowledged the significant risks in carrying out the flights. we lifted approximately 11,000 people out of kabul in less than 36 hours. it is an incredible operation. let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful, no matter when it started, when we began. it would have been true if we had started a month ago or a month from now. there is no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss, of heartbreaking images you see on tel ....
lockdown as the premier warns of difficult months ahead . hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the afghan city of jalalabad has fallen to the taliban. it was the only significant city outside the capital, kabul, still in government hands. meanwhile the united states has begun evacuating staff from its embassy in kabul. latest reports indicate the taliban are closing in on the capital. before jalalabad fell in the east, militants captured mazar i sharif, an important trading hub near the border with uzbekistan. our correspondent secunder kermani has more from kabul. this is the very centre of kabul. thousands who have fled fighting across the north now live in these miserable conditions. this family escaped the violence, but say they still don t feel safe. translation: we re thirsty. we re hungry. we have no home. other makeshift camps are even bigger. but this, in the heart of the city, shows how quickly the country is unravelling. we don ....
reporters, now. welcome to inside politics sunday i m kaitlan collins in today for abby. we start with breaking news out of afghanistan. taliban representatives are inside the presidential palace in kabul negotiating a peaceful surrender of the capital according to the taliban spokesman. the group s fighters are on stand by on the edge of the city. meanwhile, 5,000 u.s. troops are in or on the way to kabul to assist in a complete evacuation of the u.s. embassy. cnn s chief international correspondent is in kabul. what is going on given the conflicting reports we re hearing? is the afghan government still standing? reporter: well, define still standing, kaitlan. technically speaking i guess they are but the fact that you now have eight or nine according to our source taliban representatives from the doha contingency in the presidential palace hammering out a deal to come up with a sort of interim government if you will, some kind of peaceful power sharing agreement, ....
week. this reflects between some republicans are waking up to biden s popularity. a break between those republicans and the rest of the maga base who continues not to only oppose. one major political party continually lies about and defend the attack of the government. there are real world impacts. that brings us to the top story tonight because we are seeing news that it is sad and disturbing and you need to know about, a new government bulletin warning of racially and ethically motivated violent extremists who are pushed by conspiracy theory election fraud as well as alleged reinstate of donald trump. that s from the u.s. homeland security department. it is non partisan and that term there, perceived election fraud is sort of clinical. dhs by the way don t love putting out politically related bulletins, they do it when it hits the bar of u.s. national homeland security being pushed by politics, in this case, prominent republicans. we are seeing reports on the ground s ....
triumphs in the velodrome taking the olympics medal tally to 50. a wild fire that has raged for eight days in turkey reaches a thermal power plant on the aegean coast. the government has defended the way donations are handled by the conservative party, saying there was nothing wrong with people giving money to political parties. and, uk adults spent more than a third of their waking hours watching tv and online video last year, because of the pandemic. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. british holiday makers who are fully vaccinated can more easily travel to france this summer, as part of significant changes to the covid travel rules that will come into force in the early hours of sunday. france will be brought into line with other amber list countries, so anyone who s had both doses of a vaccine will no longer have to quarantine when arriving in england, scotland or northern ireland. wales is due to make a decision shortly. india, bahrain, qatar and the united arab em ....