Rugby players shows that after just one season, they suffer a loss of blood flow to the brain and cognitive function. And it s the same old story dame sarah wins yet another gold at the tokyo paralympics. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. It may be the same old story but one we are delighted to celebrate. More on the paralympics later this hour. The taliban have taken control of kabul airport, after the united states pulled the last of its troops out of afghanistan. The final evacuation flight left at a minute to midnight last night. It brings to an end to the longest war in american history, in which more than 2,000 us servicemen and women lost their lives. The taliban are back in power, as they were 20 years ago. They ve declared victory and have been celebrating on the streets. 0ur correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports. Heading into a new and uncertain era. Taliban militia now in control of kabul airport and afghanistan. Just weeks ago, this tarmac was packed with afgh
I thought we d start off by looking at the weather in europe. Massive thunderstorms hitting the same kind of areas, the heaviest of the rain was to the south west of bonn. Across parts of western germany we saw up to 158 millimetres of rain, that looks to be about three times the amount of rainfall we d normally expect in the whole ofjuly, falling in one day. It s been extreme rainfall. You seem catastrophic damage and flooding as a result, partly caused by this upper low pressure. In the uk we are under the rich part of the jet stream and what that does is it bill s area of high pressure. Here is our high and in the next few days that will be with us through the rest of the week, the weekend and will influence the weather into next week as well. Today, we ve got the sunshine out in full force across northern parts of the uk. That s where the best of the sunshine has been. Across central and eastern england some areas of cloud but it s pretty thin, so i m pretty hopeful that we should
of the israel gaza war. iam in i am in north yorkshire, where police say they were staggered to find an 11 year old boy behind the wheel of a car towing a suspected stolen caravan. and get me to the train on time one couple s rather unusual wedding day. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. it could be a championship winning weekend for unbeaten ireland. we will be at twickenham ahead of their six nations match against england. good evening. his actions cost more lives than they saved that s the conclusion of a report into a british spy who operated at the highest levels of the ira during northern ireland s troubles. violent conflict lasted for 30 years between loyalists, who wanted to remain part of the uk, and republicans, who wanted a united ireland. the ira killed people suspected of leaking secrets to the security forces. the troubles ended with the good friday agreement in 1998. today s report is about freddie scappaticci codenamed stakeknife
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