the scene to the bbc, saying it was like an earthquake. doctors at a nearby field hospital are reported to be struggling to cope with scores of casualties. let s hearfrom a displaced civilian who witnessed the attack. translation: we were sitting - in the tent nothing was happening. suddenly a rocket fell over us. children were in pieces. god is sufficient for us and he is the best guardian of our affairs. look at us, world, have some feeling! let s speak to our correspondent nick beake injerusalem. i have been listening to an israeli military official in the past 20 minutes. they were asked repeatedly about this. was it a designated safe soma families could expect to be safe? the official did not directly answer the question although he was asked a number of times. what he did say was that these hamas leaders had, in his words, cynically set up a compound in what was a civilian area and they bear responsibility for what might happen, inserting themselves into a place where t
him. he will be remembered the way for the way he made those around him stronger and kinder, and able to love deeply. riley mccallum from wyoming in the eyes of the big sister who loved him so much. there are 12 other names, 12 other heroes whose stories are, sadly, yet to come. we still believe there are credible threats. in fact, i d say, specific, credible threats. and we want to make sure we re prepared for those. specific, credible threats. that s pentagon spokesman john kirby preparing the public for possible new suicide attacks like yesterday s or other forms of attacks by isis-k fighters. it was a suicide bombing that killed 13 american service members, and at least 170 afghans outside kabul airport. today, in kabul, family members collected the remains of loved ones, many of whom died trying to get out of a country where they no longer felt safe. tonight, cnn s clarissa ward has an exclusive interview with an isis-k commander which she did before she and her cr
another one that was about two football fields long serving as a hotel for evacuees, including the americans before they make their way to the airport. you can see the footage shot by richard engel and his team days ago. there the abbey gate and the drainage canal, and the four blast walls that you can see there. this is what the area looked like before the suicide bombings. the information coming in is very fluid, and this is not unusual with the circumstances is like this. but the taliban say that 13 people are dead including children, and dozens more left badly injured and maimed and those numbers could blow. the pentagon is calling it a complex attack, and officials are calling it a strong indication here that it is caused by isis-k which is a break off of the isis group, and also an enemy of the taliban here in washington. here in washington, president biden is being briefed by the top military and officials who sit with him. and we are asking when and if we will hear fr
from kabul airport, we ll have the latest on president biden s remarks. also on the programme: who will help us? the people of haiti hit by a massive earthquake five days ago, say there s still no assistance. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it is newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 4.30 in the morning in afghanistan, where the taliban is strengthening its grip on power as pockets of unrest continue. in the eastern city of jalalabad, they violently put down an anti taliban demonstration, reportedly shooting dead a number of people. there have been more chaotic scenes outside the international airport in kabul, as thousands of afghans try to flee the country. the nation s ousted president has made his first public comments, saying his security team forced him to leave the country for the united arab emirates. our correspondent secunder kermani starts our coverage. outside the airport, chaos continues. thousands are still desperate to leave
fall-out from president biden s denial of any mistakes in the exit from afghanistan. cnn now learning that u.s. diplomats wrote an internal memo last night warning of a potential catastrophe in afghanistan. this hour i will get reaction from the president, the deputy national security adviser. he s standing by live. our experts are standing by as we cover this breaking story. we begin with cnn national security respondent over at the state department for us. this is major. what are you learning about this memo? reporter: wolf, what we re learning is that two dozen diplomats wrote this classified dissent memo to the saek tear of state tony blinken in july. they were urging the department to take more actions to prepare for what they saw as a massive evacuation effort that would be needed to get these afghans who would apply for these different visas and refugee status in the united states out of the country. the context in which they were making this suggestion is the fact t