of the euro 2020 final. flash floods in the american state of tennessee have claimed more 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. the government says it will ask the united states to keep its soldiers at kabul airport beyond the current deadline of next tuesday. but the taliban say they are opposed to any extension. 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. a taliban spokesman, suhail shaheen, told the bbc that it would be a clear violation if foreign forces did not withdraw on august 31st. but several thousand people remain at the airport, desperate to flee the country. 16,000 people have left kabul as part of us evacuation efforts in the past 2a hours. about 1,800 people have been flown out by
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. pressure s growing on us presidentjoe 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
we will take you to mississippi were bars and restuarants can fully reopen. and poultry in motion, the policeman and the paramedic who found romance on a call out to a chicken shop. and then he took his body armour offand yeah, definitely caught my eye. hello i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. in his first major speech as secretary of state antony blinken today outlined the goals of the biden administration s foreign policy agenda. they include tackling the global pandemic, addressing climate change and engaging with china from a position of strength while selling it all to american workers too. listening to the address you couldn t help but think this was not a speech pitched to foreign capitols so much as to voters at home. they ve spent the last four years listening to a president vowing to put america first . and so in his comments secretary blinken set his list of global priorities in the context of how they might solve america s p
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