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showing civilians being killed by the taliban in afghanistan. and after her dazzling triumph in new york, emma raducanu s marketing potential is being measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel, everton look to keep up their unbeaten start to the premier league season against burnley. can they move into the top four with victory? good evening. after weeks of deliberation among medical experts, it s been decided that three million children aged from 12 to 15 should be offered a single dose of the pfizer covid vaccine, with the roll out starting as soon as next week. the chief medical officers responsible for england, wales, scotland and northern ireland said one of the key reasons for going ahead was to help children s education. earlier this month, a different body, the vaccines watchdog, had advised against the policy, saying the likely health benefits were too small. but ministers in all parts of the uk are now expected ....
and surfing china style. we ll reveal why catching a wave there has never been so popular. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s news day. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and midnight in geneva where, at an emergency aid conference, more than $1 billion has been pledged to help afghanistan. the country is facing a major humanitarian crisis, with the impact of fighting and drought made worse by instability following the taliban s takeover last month. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, said its people faced perhaps their most perilous hour, with one in three afghans not knowing where their next meal would come from. the people of afghanistan need a lifeline. after decades of war, suffering and insecurity, they face perhaps their most perilous hour. now is the time for the international community to stand with them, and let us be clear, this conference is not simply about what we will give to the people of afghanistan. it is about wha ....
too many, never even found. to never forget who did it. who could forget? i am haunted still every time i look at the sky downtown. i still see the collapse. i feel what went through my body as the towers came crashing down. being covered in pulverized powder. what filled my eyes, ears, overwhelmed all my senses. it was a day that you could never forget. in fact, to kind of remember it i keep some of it. actually forgot it tonight but i keep some of it right next to my desk. my senior producer tyrese just handed it to me. i keep it because not just simply to remember but because of what is in here, of what it meant. what it meant about us, about the people i would never find, the people i would never see again, the people i would never forget. i remember it all. so many of us do. but never forget the call was for more than what was lost. we would have never forgotten what was found. and this reminder is so important right now that it is worth discussing because i ll tel ....
mm-hmm, san francisco area, the east bay. are you surprised by this california recall of governor newsom? no. the thing about california ballot stuff is that in my sentient life as a california resident, even growing up as a kid who didn t care much about politics, it was clear to me that the stupidest stuff imaginable could get on the ballot with nobody exerting any real effort to get it there. once stuff s on the ballot, anything can happen. direct democracy can be cray. tax policy made by ballot initiative, when i was in elementary school, that stuff was absolutely nuts. and california ballot measures, people like direct democracy write stuff on the ballot there. it s always been a complete, umm, swear word. a complete swear word. this is a great way to transition you into a nice weekend, i hope. thank you, rachel. thank you, jonathan. all right. this isn t a game. that s how president biden scolded republicans who are outraged over his new efforts to com ....
day, and before you know it, three weeks later, i am in the final, and i cannot actually believe it. good evening and welcome to bbc news. we start with a warning from the head of m15, who says there is no doubt that recent events in afghanistan, and the rise of the taliban, are likely to have emboldened so called lone wolf terrorists. ken mccallum told bbc news that 31 late stage attack plots have been foiled in the uk in the last four years. the taliban has promised that afghanistan would never again be a base for terrorists after taking over the country last month. the m15 warning comes on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. we ll have more that in a moment, but first here s our security correspondent gordon corera on ken mccallum s comments. for 20 years, surveillance and security have become ever more entwined in our lives a sign of a threat that has not gone away, as the head of m15 told the bbc today. we do face a consistent global struggle t ....