help folks escape and the oklahoma mother of 11 helped the group of afghan girls did just that and what our allies are really thinking despite the president s best efforts to say no one is criticizing. we begin at the pentagon where we await that briefing. reporter: 30 minutes from that briefing to get the latest on afghanistan and what the us embassy in kabul was warning when it instructed americans not to go to the airport, quote, because of potential security threats outside the gates of the couple airports we advise citizens to avoid traveling to the afforded of what airport gates at this time as you are receiving individual instructions from us government representative to do so. yesterday president biden said the evacuation is going well and americans were having a problem. no indication that they haven t gotten through the airport. we need an agreement with them, allowed them to go through so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are caring american pa
let s cross now to the scotland first minister nicola sturgeon who is making a virtual statement to msps she is set to reveal whether her government will lift most legal covid restrictions. i will set out a number of mitigation conditions. i will summarise the key points from new guidance being published today on arrangements for the start of the new school year. let me start by summarising today s statistics. the total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 1016 which is 8.1% of all tests. there are 406 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving host tokyo and 61 people receiving intensive care which has won more than yesterday. sadly nine further deaths were reported over the last 24 hours taking the total number of registered is death and the daily definition to 7952. as always i want to convey my sincere condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one. i can also report that 4,014,000 212 people have now received a f
but not everyone is celebrating. all: six, five, four, three. the moment they ve been waiting for for over a year. cheering. we speak to people who are immunosuppressed about how they view what some are calling freedom day. and, the uk and the eu have accused china of carrying out a major cyber attack earlier this year. the final stage of unlocking in england, with social distancing rules dropped. 1,000 people packed into this club in central london. no testing, contact tracing details orjabs required, with many more lining up outside. they ve waited 16 months. what s a little longer? there s so many people there, and we re just so, good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. so pumped to get in there. it s been a year and a half, and now 16 months after they were introduced, most legal restrictions we re alljust ready to dance. on social contact have been i ve had my vaccines. lifted in england. i want to have a good time, hun! there are now no limits on how many so excited. so
and that it would carefully consider any issues raised by the programme. darragh macintyre, bbc news. you can see panorama: the dark side of horse racing on bbc one tonight at 8.30pm. time for a look at the weather here s susan powell. the whole team is a sleep deprived in these temperatures, it is tricky. pretty unbearable now. today the heat has built again as the sun has come up and we will continue with the story of heat humidity and sunshine for a few days yet. look at the map closely. even with a high pressure there is a little bit of blue flag there. a little bit of blue flag there. a little bit of instability higher up in our atmosphere that could spark of isolated. slow moving, could be a lot of rain in a short space of time. the majority, though committees blue skies, the sunshine, some patchy cloud for the north west of scotland. these showers if they do get going could rumble on into the smaller hours of tuesday. i am afraid tonight does not look like will be ve
evening. across eastern england there could be some intense showers and some localised flooding. gusty wind as well. petering out into the small hours on wednesday. the high is with us again to the week. the chance of some showers wednesday afternoon. thursday sunshine and again the heat still the major story. if it is getting too much for you when is it going to turn fresher? it looks like friday and into the weekend, low pressure pushing up from the south west pulling in cool airfrom pushing up from the south west pulling in cool air from the atlantic but also accompanied by some hefty showers. all change by the end of the week. that is all from the bbc news at six and we joined the bbc news team is where you are. goodbye. hello, welcome to sportsday i m austin halewood. coming up this evening. it s almost time. the olympics are just four days away, but cases in tokyo continue to rise some of them, inside the athlete s village. cases continue to rise here in england, bu