of this academic year. good morning. paralympics gb win gold number 2a in tokyo. wheelchair racer andrew small claims a 100 metre title, with team mate harri jenkins winning bronze. good morning. today once again is going to be a fairly cloudy day, that cloud thick enough especially in the east and south east for some drizzle. brighterskies in the east and south east for some drizzle. brighter skies will be in parts of the west. all the details and about 25 minutes. good morning. it s monday the 30th of august. our top story. the uk will reach out to other countries today to exert pressure on the taliban to respect human rights in afghanistan and to honour its promise of granting safe passage for those with permission to leave. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, will take part in a series of diplomatic meetings as the final uk troops return from kabul. jon donnison has the details. back in britain. some of the final raf planes from kabul arriving at brize norton airbase i
story very frustrating at the minute but there is some sunshine to be had today and it is probably feeling a bit warmer with lighter winds. the best of the sunshine to eastern scotland and north east england and down to the midlands. the cloud thick enough for some drizzle add to the west and that is likely to linger for much of the afternoon. for many it is the wind direction that the issue, still a north westerly across scotland and a lighter westerly elsewhere driving in that cloud. temperatures further west more subdued this afternoon. 14, 19 west more subdued this afternoon. 1a, 19 degrees. through this evening we keep the cloud going and it will turn quite mistaken on the west facing coasts and hills. more drizzle as well. a relatively mild start to thursday morning and once again a great start. there could be some window of fine weather into northern ireland and just the north of england ahead of some showers developing in the afternoon. it really is going to be a frus
the perfect day. mohamed salah s become the first player to score on the opening weekend in five consecutive premier league season s, he had a hand in all of liverpool s goals as they eased to a 3 0 win over norwich at carrow road. virgil van dijk back in the starting line up for the first time since october. it was diegojota opened the scoring for liverpooljust before the half hour mark. roberto firmino came off the bench to double their advantage before salah capped off a great performance with this finish from just inside the box. disappointment for norwich on their return but including brentford last night, six of the first seven premier league matches this season have all been home wins. our reporterjoe lynskeyjoins me now to talk through the rest of the day s action, on the whole it s been a good day for home supporters? so many emotions for those returning fans this afternoon back in premier league stadiums after so long away. it s been 18 months of waiting for most of
measuring 7.2 magnitude. at least 29 people have been killed. in the uk, there are questions for police about why it chose to return a shotgun licence to the man who killed five people in the uk s worst mass shooting since 2010. now on bbc news, ahead of cop 26, the un s flagship climate conference, global questions looks at the resilience of smaller nation states like barbados in the caribbean. hello and welcome to this second edition of global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from barbados. the caribbean is the region in the world that s most vulnerable to natural disasters such as hurricanes. these have become stronger and more frequent as temperatures and sea levels rise, causing coastal erosion and damage to marine life and ecosystems. the government here in barbados says that climate change is the biggest threat to the caribbean, and is urging strong action at the national, regional and global level. are the right steps being taken, and is the world listening? that s g
to return a shotgun licence to the man who killed five people in the uk s worst mass shooting since 2010. hello and welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the world. in afghanistan, the taliban have continued to seize yet more territory and are now in control of more regional capitals than the government. it s been reported that mazar e sharif, the northern city that was the afghan government s last northern stronghold, has also now fallen to taliban fighters. provincial authorities say security forces abandoned weapons and fled to the uzbekistan border. the city of sharan, in paktika province, and asadabad, in kunar province, also fell to the militants on saturday. meanwhile, the afghan president, ashraf ghani, has addressed the nation for the first time since the taliban advance, saying his focus was to prevent further instability. translation: our dear country, afghanistan, is in serious - danger of instability due to the war imposed upon us. i am aware of the situati