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hello and welcome to bbc news. taliban leaders say they ve taken up positions inside kabul airport and are ready to take control as soon as the americans leave. the us insists it will keep evacuating afghans until the last moment, and that its forces are still in charge of the site. but it s thought they may be out in a matter of hours. reports now suggest as many as 170 people died in thursday s suicide bomb and gun attack on dense crowds at the airport gates. our correspondent in kabul, secunder kermani, has the latest. and a warning, his report contains distressing images. distraught relatives search kabul s morgues, looking for their loved ones. this baby you managed to save? but there s another baby? amongst those killed, mohammed niazi, a taxi driver from london who had travelled to kabul to try and help his family get inside the airport. his eldest daughter and youngest child are still missing. his wife was also killed. his brother was at the airport alongside hi ....
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the us has led an air strike against a member of the terrorist group isis k that was behind thursday s attack at kabul airport. in a statement, the us central command said that the unmanned airstrike occurred in the nangahar province of afghanistan. initial indications are that we killed the target. we know of no civilian casualties. nomia iqbal is in washington dc for us. i appreciate details are scant but what do we know?- i appreciate details are scant but what do we know? yes. they are scant at but what do we know? yes. they are scant at the but what do we know? yes. they are scant at the moment - but what do we know? yes. they are scant at the moment but - are scant at the moment but look, president biden about revenge and that very emotional and defiant press conference on thursday he said that isis k, the isis version in afghanistan, would be hunted down and made to pay for that deadly suicide b ....
british troops will begin their pull out this weekend. also on the programme. calls for eu citizens to be given work visas, to help plug gaps, in britian s food supply chain. this bank holiday weekend health officials urge festivalgoers not to ignore the risk of covid. welcome back to manchester! cristiano ronaldo and united agree a deal to return to old trafford. coming up on sportsday later in the hour bbc news, a much better day for india who still trail england but might yet salvage something from the third test at headingley. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the british operation to airlift thousands of afghan and uk citizens out of afghanistan is drawing to a close. the defence secretary, ben wallace, now admits not everyone eligible to leave can be airlifted out. he insisted the government would do whatever it could to help those left behind. it follows yesterday s suicide bomb attack in kabul airport closed 100 people are confirmed dead. it s als ....
thousands of years. for the jews, jerusalem is wear solomon built the holy temple. for christians, this is the place where jesus was crucified. for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. people who are said to have conquered the world swept through this city. no other individual changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. at a time of ottoman/islamic rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. the main case of the arabs is against the british government policy in palestine. we are the only people in the world homeless and stateless. for israelis, the creation of the state of israel is seen as a miracle. and of course for the palestinians, it s a great disaster. the history of jerusalem, a very complicated story. and if you don t know it in its complexity, it s very hard to understand what s going on there today. ....
a friend of the uk health secretary, matt hancock, says he won t comment on personal issues following publication of pictures of him in the sun newspaper with a close aide he hired last year during the pandemic. doctors say they are seeing record numbers of young children in accident and emergency departments across the uk with most suffering a mild fever which could be treated at home and learning more about the ancestors a new discovery that casts light on life before the neanderthals. and coming up this hour, we ll be in coventry as it celebrates the beginning of its year as the uk city of culture 2021 hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. leading figures in the british travel industry have expressed dismay and frustration at the uk government s easing of restrictions on foreign holidays, saying it does not go far enough. sixteen destinations have been added to the uk s green list. in europe, those include the spanish balearic islands of ....