Of teacher assessed results raises questions about regional differences and girls move further ahead of boys. The taliban is continuing its astonishing sweep across afghanistan, with more dramatic developments just today. In the past two hours we ve heard that they have captured afghanistan s third biggest city, herat, and appear poised to gain control of the second largest kandahar. If that s confirmed, this day will mark the most significant advance so far as one after another, the country s provincial capitals fall to the militants. With thousands of civilians fleeing the violence, a sense of humanitarian disaster is deepening. The bbc s yogita limaye is in kabul. Things are changing at an incredible speed here. We started the day talking about the fall of a city hundred miles south which is strategically important and now, just within a span of 12 hours, we are looking at cities which are even more significant. Herat in the west is close to the border and is an important economic
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as several commuters are shot on a train during the morning rush hour. tonight with the context, from london, anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in a changing europe and democratic strategist mary anne marsh is in cape cod.. prime minister borisjohnson and the chancellor rishi sunak have been fined for breaking lockdown laws. the metropolitan police have confirmed that prime minister borisjohnson was fined for his participation in a gathering gfx in the cabinet room on his birthday which was onjune i9 2020. it s been reported about 30 people attended the party, organised as a surprise by carriejohnson who has also been fined. at that time gatherings of more than two people inside were banned by law. an exception was allowed if the gathering was reasonably necessary for work purposes. (biv)the fines suggest the police didn t think this event was such an exception. despite becoming the first prime minister to be fined for breaking the law, borisjohnson says he intend