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that the risk of blood clots from catching covid is nearly nine times than from having the vaccine. scotland records the highest number of new covid cases in a 2k hour period since the start of the pandemic. a world record and a third gold medal for paralympics gb s kadeena cox after a stunning ride in the velodrome. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the defence secretary has said that british forces have entered the final stages of flying people out of kabul. large crowds have again gathered at the airport despite yesterday s suicide bomb attack. 90 people were killed in the attack including 13 us military personnel. most of the dead were afghan civilians. speaking to the american people president biden had a message for the attackers saying, we will hunt you down, and make you pay. the uk says the kabul bombings will not affect the the uk forces airlift timetable. so far nearly 111,000 british nationals and eligible afghans have been airlifted out. but t ....
a widow tells the bbc how her husband took his own life after relapsing into a gambling addiction. as all 16 and 17 year olds are offered their first coronavirus vaccine, a campaign is launched to encourage teenagers to getjabbed warning of the effects long covid. are you a young person suffering with long covid? tell me what it s been like for you by tweeting me or using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. and the boxing olympic silver medallist ben whittaker achieves his dream becoming mayor of wolverhampton for a day. hello and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister is expected to ask president biden to delay withdrawing the last american forces from afghanistan to allow more time for the evacuation effort at kabul international airport. borisjohnson will make the request at an emergency meeting of leaders from the g7 countries tomorrow. us troops are due to leave kabul airport in just over week, but several thousand people remain there, desperate to flee the countr ....
around the world and our allies. as had the general, i keep calling him a general, but my secretary of defence. the fact of the matter is, i have not seen that. the exact opposite. i ve got the exact opposite. i ve got the exact opposite. acting with dispatch, committing to what i said i would do. let s put this thing in perspective your. what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al-qaeda gone? we went to afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al-qaeda and afghanistan as well as getting osama bin laden. and we did. imagine, just imagine if the attack, if bin laden had decided with al-qaeda to launch an attack from yemen, would we of every gone to afghanistan? with the be any reason we begin afghanistan prismatic control from the taliban, what is the national interest of the united states in that circumstance? we went and did the mission. you ve known my position for a long, long time. it is time to end this war. the estimates of the cost of thi ....
counterparts throughout the world and our allies, as has the general or, excuse me, i keep calling him a general but my secretary of defense. the fact of the matter is, i have not seen that. as a matter of fact, the exact opposite, i ve gotten. the exact opposite thing. we re acting with dispatch. we re committing to what we said we would do. look, let s put this thing in perspective here. what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone? we went to afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al qaeda in afghanistan as well as getting osama bin laden, and we did. imagine just imagine if that attack if bin laden had decided, with al qaeda, to launch an attack from yemen. would we have gone to afghanistan? would there ever be any reason we would be in afghanistan? controlled by the taliban? what is the national interest of the united states in that circumstance? we went and did the mission. you ve known my position for a long, long ti ....
checkpoints, and now u.s. embassy as alert say the gates may open or closed without notice in that americans should use their best judgment when traveling emphasizing the u.s. government cannot ensure safe passage. we have team box coverage retired four-star general jack keane. we begin with jennifer griffin life at the pentagon with the latest ahead of the president. we have just received news that an american commander has just ordered plates resumed fro kabul after a nine hour pause. fox news has also confirmed the u.s. military does not have permission to leave the airport in carry out rescue operations even though british and french paratroopers are doing so great no american transport planes ha taken off in the past nine hour due to a logistical bottleneck red foxes learn the u.s. military does not have permission from the white house to play people directly to the u.s. despite preparations being made at three american bases. many of the afghans who have bee ....