Fight, in decades. President biden says the much criticised Evacuation Effort from Kabul Airport is accelerating, with american troops expanding the perimeter around the site. In a televised speech at the white House Mr Biden said the taliban had cooperated with the move. Huge crowds of people desperate to get out are continuing to gather at the airport. Anisa kadri reports. Hoping, waiting to leave afghanistan, they gather outside Kabul Airport as gunshots i had. Witnesses said the taliban invited in the air to make people line up in orderly queues, but it is not yet if these shots were triggered in the same instance. These afghans are leaving everything they know to start from Scratch Stop America says it has evacuated 30,000 people in just over one week. Their president hopes they will be no need to extend the August 31 a deadline for a complete us withdrawal. My withdrawal. My Heart Aches for those people you see. We are proving that we can move though thousands of people out of ka
Tape, of course, everybody remembers the early years of Morning Joe when you and Mika At Times had to Duct Tape me to the chair. We did. On an occasion or two, everything worked out okay. It didnt interrupt you. While we were doing it, you were still going. Kept talking. We have the white House Reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire and we have Catty Kay. Something happened last night, like a haleys comet. The Red Sox won a game last night. I saw it. When Tampa Bay spotted us 19 runs going into the ninth inning it was hard not to blow it but we gave it the 617 chance. Didnt we . Blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while joe and we were able to get the win. We needed all 20 wins in the ninth we gave up more and more and more. We needed 20, they scored 7 or 8, i guess we missed the extra point. Lets be clear here, joe. These are dark times for the Boston Red sox. This is bad. The surging new York Yankees today playing in iowa, the field of Dreams Field where they will und
who died in december aged 90 was a hero of the anti apartheid movement in south africa. the bbc s andrew harding reflects on his tumultuous life. it s impossible to tell south africa s story without him. soft singing. in one of his last public appearances, desmond tutu sat in a wheelchair in st george s cathedral, cape town. you are the one who understood what it meant. too frail, at last, to take his usual place in the spotlight. but that warm, irreverent spirit was there till the end. and what a life it was. i want you to say, our march to freedom. crowd: our march to freedom. ..is unstoppable. crowd: ..is unstoppable. we are going to be free! do you agree? a life that helped to guide and shape a turbulent nation. this is god s world and he is in charge and, boy, it s going to be ok. but it s going to be ok after an exorbitant price has been paid, unnecessarily. in all seriousness, does the white south african government think that black people are human? i will myself
across the country. the weather has had a good word with itself and it feels like january, shock to the system this lunchtime, temperatures are only a degrees above freezing in spots and snow on the ground in places, particularly in the northern half of scotland, this was kingussie this afternoon. in northern scotland frequency no shadows combined with severe gale forth winds, making hazardous travel conditions and rough seas. we will see wintry flurries through northern ireland, wales, maybe the south west, the mild air across the south east is clearing away but not before turning into sleet before it departs. for those of you in the southeast who went to work with temperatures up to 9 degrees, it will feel subzero in many areas on the way home, 6 with the wind chill in northern scotland. staying windy across the north, further snow showers in places, a widespread frost into tomorrow morning. when you have the showers there is the chance of ice first thing. lots of crisp, w
a 15 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death a teenager in croydon in south london last thursday. there was another fatal stabbing that evening, when a 16 year old boy was killed in hillingdon in west london. it brings to 30 the number of teenage homicides in london in 2021, surpassing the peak of 29 in 2008. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds reports from hillingdon. in 2021 s final days, paramedics tried to save two young lives. a 15 year old stabbed in a park in croydon, south london, and in hillingdon, west london, a 16 year old with a single stab wound in this green space. two new murder investigations and a record high for the number of teenage murders in one year. children are carrying knives because they feel like they need to protect themselves. and i m putting the message out there to every child, please, you need to understand the pain of parents and siblings that have lost somebody to murder. violent crime is falling, bu