Than 20 lives with dozens of people still missing more than 15 inches of rain has fallen. Queuing to reach snowdon s Summit Walkers are urged to respect The Mountain as the number of visitors soars. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. Britain and america have hours not weeks to evacuate people from afghanistan, according to the Defence Secretary. Pressures growing on us president Joe Biden to delay the withdrawal of american troops beyond his August 31 deadline. We will have continuing coverage now on the crisis in afghanistan. Welcome to a country turned upside down by this sudden and surprising turn of events, just one week ago here in kabul the taliban took over and one week on, they are still trying to consolidate their control across the city. Afghans across the country are still coming to terms with the country turned upside down and their lives turned inside out. We spent the last 2a hours at the international airport in kabul where some of these scenes are very surreal, the
By a Fifth Wave of the virus. Hello and welcome to Bbc News. The taliban has captured three more provincial capitals, this time in northern afghanistan, as they intensify their offensive to seize power, following the withdrawal of western troops. The three cities appear to have largely fallen to the islamist militants within hours of Each Other. The biggest is kunduz, a city of more than a quarter of a million. The provincial capitals sar E Pul and taloqan are also largely in militant hands. But the government in kabul insists its forces are fighting back to retake lost ground. Heres our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams. Fire and confusion in the centre of kunduz. Taliban pictures appear to show yet another city falling under their control. This is their biggest prize so far a large city, economically and strategically important, and it seems to have fallen easily. Afraid of the fighting as much as the taliban, civilians are fleeing, some of them heading south for kabul. A Governme
about ten or ii degrees or so western areas but only about ten or 11 degrees and the east coast, bit more cloud in a breeze coming in of the north sea. heading to india monday, you are really crossing your fingers for a little bit of rain fell and we have got an area of low pressure approaching scotland that could well bring little showery rain, nothing particularly heavy in position to the day on monday, any chance that that could push a bit further south with one or two showers arriving in northern ireland, northern england, perhaps on into tuesday as well but temperatures turning a little bit cooler than we would expect for the time of year and things remaining predominantly dry, particularly at parts of england and wales with this temperature is just dipping parts of england and wales with this temperature isjust dipping down parts of england and wales with this temperature is just dipping down as we head through the course of next week but you can find more details on th
it s in both arabic and english. called the blue pool of questions, it s being performed on a barge on the regent s canal. kinda kurdi reports. somewhere in west london on regenfs somewhere in west london on regent s canal, the puppet barges hosting a new show. this 50 narrowboat has hosting place for a0 years. the play interweaves the english and arabic language to appeal to a multicultural and bilingual audience. translation: there are preconceived translation: there are preconceived ideas - translation: there arei preconceived ideas about translation: there are - preconceived ideas about the middle east and the arab speaking region, through dramatic artworks and public plays that contained the arabic language, we are able to break the stereotype and show the beauty of the language. singing. the performance uses shadow theatre principles with puppet design. shadow theatre principles with puppet design- shadow theatre principles with puppet design. speaks arabic. how do y