but i just don t want to pay it any attention. the more attention you pay it, the more it consumes your life, and i don t want it to consume my life. i ve got kids, i ve got family. a big problem for the big screen? box office takings remain down. can james bond canjames bond save cinema? it s a happy return to european football for the hammers. west ham start their europa league campaign off with victory in croatia, the only british team to win last night. she made history with her us open victory. new tennis superstar emma raducanu willjoin us at eight o clock to tell us how her life has changed. a lot of dry and warm weather particularly in central and eastern parts but some rain moving in from the west. all the details right here on bbc breakfast. it s friday, the 17th of september. changes to international travel are expected to be announced by the government later. scrapping pcr tests for double jabbed people, and simplifying the traffic light system could be amongst th
all happening at the same time, the fallout from afghanistan which gets rougher by the day it seems and the fallout from all the flooding and damage that now has claimed close to 60 lives. questions about how it happened and how we could have known better. first to the fallout half a world away because it continues and growing continues and so what if anything can the united states do about it? let s go to david spunt with the president in wilmington, delaware, david. david, hi, neil it s been almost a week that people want today get out as safely as they can. it s been almost a week since u.s. forces completely withdraw. there are still many people including americans that are in afghanistan that want to get out. the united states said to be in contact with members of the taliban to exit at some point. secretary of state antony blinken says that not getting into specifics about some of those discussions with taliban leaders. we do know that president biden is getting updates
afghanistan is over. the last american troop boarded an aircraft shortly before midnight in kabul last night, marking the end of a chaotic and deadly exit from the country. in total the state department says more than 122,000 people were evacuated since late july. including more than 6,000 americans. but officials estimate between one and 200 u.s. citizens have been left behind. look, there s a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure. we did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out. i think if we stayed another ten days we wouldn t have gotten everybody out that wanted to get out and there still would be people disappointed with that. it s a tough situation. i want to emphasize again that because we have left that doesn t mean the opportunities for both americans that are in afghanistan that want to leave and afghans who want to leave, they will not be denied that opportunity. the united states leaves afghanistan in the same position as when the mission st
hello and welcome to the programme. with temperatures in the high 40s, advancing wildfires on the greek island of evia have forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents. thousands of locals and tourists have also been evacuated from athens northern suburbs and others have had to abandon their homes elsewhere. the greek army has been deployed to help fight the blazes and several countries including britain and germany have sent emergency aid teams to help. helena wilkinson has the latest. this is grace s second august ireland, evia. are devastating. wildfires are continuing to break out on this island. dozens of residents have had to leave their homes. i residents have had to leave their homes. . .,, residents have had to leave their homes. . ., ., , , homes. i closed all the windows but the ut homes. i closed all the windows but they put their homes. i closed all the windows but they put their water homes. i closed all the windows but they put their water around -
restrictions have come into force. and thousands take to the streets of amsterdam as the city marks the 25th anniversary of its first gay pride parade. hello and welcome. reports from northern afghanistan say there s heavy fighting in the city of kunduz, where government forces are trying to push back taliban militants. in the city of kunduz, where government forces are trying to push back taliban militants. a taliban spokesman said their fighters had already captured some districts and were inching towards the centre of the city. fierce fighting is also reported in the centre of another afghan provincial capital, sar e pol. earlier, the taliban said they had taken control of sheberghaan the second provincial capital to have fallen in two days. on saturday us central command said it had intensified air strikes richard galpin reports. in this fast moving offensive the taliban are claiming a second province, sheberghaan, is in their hands. here video film for the fighters app