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of jabs compulsory. no more e5, it s all about e10 you re not alone if you re confused about what you ll be putting into your petrol tank. a 30th gold for paralympicsgb david smith was trailing 2 0 in the boccia final, before a stunning recovery. and coming up on the bbc news channel. scotland resume their world cup qualifying campaign with a tough test in copenhagen as they face the group leaders, denmark. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the taliban have mounted a victory parade complete with the us military hardware they ve inherited. it was pure theatre but, we re also beginning to see the reality of what a taliban government would look like. in an interview with the bbc a senior leader continued to insist that afghans with the right documents could leave the country despite concerns they will be prevented from doing so. and whilst the group insists women will be allowed to continue working it s becoming clear they will not be given top roles ....
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 ....
needed later this month to visit nightclubs and to attend larger live events. and why the shortage of some beers at wetherspoons is being blamed on brexit and on the pandemic. and coming up in the sport, on the bbc news channel, dan evans equals his best performance at a us open he s into the third round after beating american marcos giron. good evening. a new afghan government composed of senior taliban figures could be announced as early as tomorrow. a taliban spokesman told the bbc today it will be an inclusive government, with some roles for women, but none in the highest positions. he also insisted that afghans with the right documents would be allowed to leave the country but there s still deep concern about the fate of countless afghans wanting to flee. during the day, the taliban staged a victory parade, featuring some of the military equipment left behind by the americans, as our correspondent secunder kermani reports from kabul. the taliban are in firm con ....
it is likely to be dependent on what kind of government the taliban create and what laws it enforces. in california, emergency crews continue to battle a huge wildfire around lake tahoe, over fifty thousand people are evacuated from the region. and the us supreme court ignores appeals against a new law in texas banning 85 per cent of abortions. president biden says it s a blatant violation of constitutional rights. it s six in the morning in singapore, six in the evening in washington and 2.30 in the morning in kabul, where the taliban is moving closer to establishing a government, now that the us exit from afghanistan is complete. a senior leader told the bbc the government would be inclusive. but against this backdrop the economy of afghanistan is close to collapse with little immediate prospect of the new islamist rulers gaining access to the country s foreign currency reserves held in the west. prices of essential goods are soaring, the value of the currency is fallin ....
after hurricane katrina. and hospitals across the south are now running out of oxygen as people who still are not vaccinated push icus to the limits. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we begin this hour with breaking news in our world lead hours before the u.s. is due to leave afghanistan completely, there are still some 250 american citizens in the country who want to leave and have not been able to. that is according to a senior state department official. the 20-year-long war in afghanistan, america s longest war, does appear almost over. it is now august 31st in kabul, and the massive evacuation operation is coming to a close. the pentagon claims that the u.s. has evacuated or aided in the evacuation of more than 116,000 people from afghanistan since august 14th. a huge number. but the danger there remains very real. the u.s. carried out a drone strike in kabul to eliminate an imminent threat believed to be a suicide bomber. the strike inadvertently k ....