Doing what you enjoy. And we celebrate with World War ii veteran Christian Lamb as she turns 104. Good morning all, Fridays Heat and humidity will be replaced as we go through the weekend with cooler, fresher conditions and even rain at times, but dont despair if you have plans, there will be dry weather the forecast and if you want all the details you will have to keep watching. Its saturday 20 july. Plane, train, Bank And Health services are still dealing with the aftermath of yesterdays global It Outage. A faulty Software Update caused cancellations and disruption around the world. Airlines, Gp Surgeries and pharmacies were some of the worst affected, and are now facing huge backlogs as a result. Our correspondent Vincent Mcaviney has this report. A day of worldwide it chaos, thanks to an update meant to protect systems, but which instead paralysed them with this blue screen. Train services and airports were badly affected with thousands of flights grounded all over the globe, from
Southern europe continues to bake, drop one of the hottest summers ever recorded. And in ann tarr care, a colossal iceberg almost as big as london is being monitored carefully by scientists. Hello and welcome. The united nations has urged afghanistan s neighbours to keep their borders open, potentially allowing tens of thousands of people fleeing fighting against the taliban to reach safety. Aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe, as the militants continue their sweeping advance across the country. The taliban have made rapid gains since july. The red areas show where they had control. A month later, more and more districts have fallen under their control, leaving the map looking like this. Latest reports suggest they now control another provincial capital, just 45 miles south of the capital, kabul, from where our correspondent has the very latest. The biggest taliban victory so far in their rapid march across the country. This is the centre of kandahar city, a politica
Another metoo moment? with me to discuss that, maria margaronis is a journalist and maker of radio documentaries, especially about greece. Stephanie baker writes for bloomberg, the us media group. With me in the studio, bbc presenter and foreign correspondent, clive myrie. Good to have you with me clive and stephanie and maria. Lovely to see you both again. Now. Now. The taliban are now in control in logar province, just 45 miles south of kabul, the capital. It is to the regional warlords and militia groups that president ashraf ghani has turned in afghanistan s hour of need. Evidence that his army 300 soldiers, trained and equipped by the now departed americans and their allies is inadequate to the fight against the taliban. One by one provincial capitals have fallen. Clive, when we look at the picture 234 afghanistan. James used to be the director of national intelligence and worked withjoe biden in the white house, said today it was inevitable. Once the american troops leave, it
They were talking about. And, a self portrait like no other, but who is the artist behind this ground breaking exhibition? hello, and thanks forjoining us. The question is, how much longer will the violence between israel and palestinian militants last? france is now trying its hand at calling for a un security council resolution in an effort to increase pressure for a ceasefire. The body has held its third meeting in a week, but the united states is still holding back, claiming a public pronouncement would not help calm the crisis. In the latest violence, three palestinians have been killed and many others injured in clashes between protesters and israeli security forces in the west bank. Israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeated his warning that the operation against hamas will take as long as needed to restore calm, as a barrage of rockets was fired into israel killing two thai workers and injuring seven others. Our middle east editor jeremy bowen reports now from jeru