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nobody wants afghanistan once again to be a breeding ground for terror. new guidelines on gun licences are to be introduced in the wake of the mass shooting in plymouth. good morning. changes to the rules on self isolation. if you are pinged by the nhs app. it could meand an end to the pingdemic for hospitality friends like this one. and i ve got an exclusive interview with olympic champion tom daley. he tells me why he s taking time out before deciding whether to continue diving and i even got to try on that olympic cardigan. good morning. this week is looking fairly quiet weather wise. at times there will be a lot of cloud, some patchy light rain and drizzle. and there is no sign of the summer heat. details coming up. good morning. it s monday, 16th august. our top story. the taliban have seized control of afghanistan and declared that the war in the country is over, after their forces took the capital, kabul. president ashraf ghani has fled the country. there ve been chaot ....
tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word, where the great ali velshi s influence tonight. good evening rachel, i just want to say to you, you ve been back for a few days. so i just want to tell you that you are our north star. you are revered and respected, and i am not alone in saying that i speak for my colleagues when i say, i appreciate you. a simple as that. you re going to make me cry without explaining why? that s it. that s. it just wanted to tell you that we appreciate you. i know that your viewers do because when you are absent from that chair for a few weeks, they wanted me to make sure you knew that. and i wanted to tell you on my behalf that i share that view. you are very, very kind. i have to go now. thank. you will see tomorrow my friend. thank. sally how does this all? and the republican party is on the precipice. folder indulge walk off a cliff into oblivion, or pull back and find a way to be a functioning political party once agai ....
okay, kids, don t wear masks. then you find out retrospectively that this virus in a strange and unusual way is really hitting kids really hard but hopefully this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn t have a negative lasting impact on them. robert redfield echoing dr. fauci on the transmission of the delta variant but he is pushing for kids to get back into schools. redfield noted there are few cdc studies that involve children wearing masks in a classroom setting. these policies should be grounded in data as opposed to opinion. this as florida governor ron de santis announcing the florida board of education may withhold the salaries of school officials who choose to require masks in schools against his executive order. six counties are rejecting the governor s mandate and requiring masks or of have made them optional and in texas the dallas school board voting to require masks in defiance of governor greg abbott s executive order. lloyd ....
sport that they say anyone can try, we will see about that! as fires rage in greece, a landmark study on climate change is expected to deliver a massive wake up call on the state of the planet. i m so excited to go clubbing, i cannot wait! and the dancing re starts in scotland, as almost all of the final coronavirus restrictions are lifted. speu spell another day of bright and sunny spells of showers which could be heavy and thundery, although perhaps a less prolific than the weekend. by midweek, something dry and a bit warmer comes our way. it s monday 9th of august. our top story. the last of the british olympic athletes arrive home from tokyo later today, after team gb enjoyed one of its most successful games in history. after two weeks of action, yesterday s closing ceremony brought an end to an olympics like no other as ben croucher reports. the show had to go on. an olympic games like no other finishing how it started a stunning spectacle. but no spectators. ....
get out of the airport. spirit airlines leaving the chaos, facing a six day mass cancellation after calling off more than a 1700 flights this week, almost half of the spirit s flights were canceled yesterday. they called up over hundreds more today. the company s ceo making the rounds on morning shows, trying to clean up the mess. there will still be cancellations over the next few days, but we can build back to full operations, and then build from the takeaways we get from this last week. up until then, it s heart-wrenching. it s a terrible experience and we are doing our best. a major pilot union coming out against the airlines. the system is collapsing on the passenger s eight agents and pilots, and people having their plans tossed aside are at the end of their rope. this line i ve never seen this in my life. this has been a horrible experience, horrible. take, take, take, nobody s got no money like that! we ve been through a hard year! [cheers and applause] ....