personnel and a senior health official in kabul says at least 60 people in total had died. in washington pay pentagon briefing says it s not working with the taliban and that they share a common purpose between now and the end of the month. it also says we continue the month. it also says we continue the mission. christian fraser will be with you in a moment to continue our coverage. bear in mind we have a number of reports from kabul that another explosion has been heard. you can also follow the story through the bbc s live page which you can find it bbc .com/ news. we call a friend spread southward right across the uk that introduce fresher air. right across the uk that introduce fresherair. quite right across the uk that introduce fresher air. quite a bit of cloud in central and eastern sums on the best of the sunshine out west. for friday it s a similar story. a lot of dry
140 mac have been injured. also the pentagon has confirmed that 12 us troops had died. the pentagon says there were two separate attacks, one happened close to the airports navigate for them in a briefing it was confirmed that was a suicide attack. the other was at a nearby aaron hotel. in the briefing they did not give confirmation of the nature of that attack. we know that some western countries have used a hotel as a staging point for evacuation since this airlift began, since the taliban takeover 11 days ago. if you look closely in the centre of the smoke rising above the airport. this is round 7pm local time. last night there had been warnings from both the uk and the us that in attack was imminent as indeed has come to pass was up these pictures were posted on social media. this is the scene in the moments after the attack. some of the injured are being carried away
desperate people, thousands and thousands of them are still there, still trying to get in. there are multiple reports of interpreters who worked with british forces desperate to get in, unable to get into the airport. so far we know yesterday members of parliament, around 200 people had a briefing with the defence secretary here and they were to tell you jing him with cases that have been brought to them of desperate people. academics and others inside kabul. so there are many, many who have not been brought out despite what the british government says. and the prime minister there for saying that they are now looking towards the next phase which is when this winds down, is the travel ban allowing people out of the country so that they can try to be brought to safety caliban. from neighbouring states. but that is still going to be a very
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