control of afghanistan s capital, with a dramatic picture of helicopters air lifting us embassy staff to safety. the financial times writes that washington s two decade military project ended in chaos as afghanistan s president fled the country. the daily telegraph says thousands of britons and americans are scrambling to flee the country after islamist forces walked into kabul virtually unopposed. the sun also leads with the escape from kabul, adding that the taliban s lightning offensive surprised the uk and the us. the i writes that the taliban is back in power 20 years after being overthrown by us and british forces. and the guardian adds that the militant group started the day so confident of victory that its fighters surrounded the capital, then ordered them to stay outside the city and wait. let s start. all the front pages pretty much have something of these momentous events that we have been watching unfold over the last few days, culminating in the fall of kabul t
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also in the programme: an explosion at a chemical plant in western germany kills at least one person. several others are missing. and simone biles withdraws from the team gymnastics at the tokyo olympics. the world s most watched athlete said she suffered a little injury to her pride after stumbling on landing. she comes in with pressure from so many directions. she comes in during the mantle of, you know, america s sweetheart, the big olympic star. bearing the mantle. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. onjanuary 6, hundreds of donald trump supporters launched an attack on the us capitol. seven months on, the first full congressional investigation into what exactly happened that day has now begun. the first witnesses to be called were four men who had been on duty that day. two capitol hill and two washington, dc police officers gave evidence about the violence and hatred they experienced. here s what the very first witness had to say. sadly,
scheme which allows people to test daily, but i think it s far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules. and feelings run high in tokyo, with protests against the olympic games as athletes and staff test positive for covid. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. i m martine croxall. the german chancellor says the world must hurry in the battle against global warming. after visiting some of the areas worst hit by last week s deadly flash floods, she also expressed shock at what she called surreal destruction . more heavy rain has caused further flooding in southern germany and austria. our europe correspondent jenny hill reports. we really need help here, she says. and outside the village shop, you can see why. as in so many other parts of western germany, people in bad munstereifel still can t quite believe what happened. we met gertrude here. volunteers have brought food, water. she told us she spent the night alone, upstairs, as wate
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