for the reform of a levels after a record number of pupils were awarded the top grades. a british embassy worker in berlin is arrested suspected of spying for russia. wildfires rage across greece, we hearfrom british firefighters supporting their counterparts. a hero s welcome for lionel messi as fans celebrate his arrival at paris st germain after his departure from barcelona. and coming up: under threat seahorses off the coast of dorset. good evening and welcome to bbc news. after decades of conflict afghanistan is, once again, falling apart. and it is the taliban the hardline islamist group that once harboured osama bin laden which is gaining ground having already taken nine provincial capitals. a us led military coalition to oust the taliban first began in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks but now most of the foreign troops have pulled out. a54 british forces personnel or mod civilians lost their lives. nearly 2,300 us troops have been killed. and over 120 thousan
chancellor would like to see as much distance as possible and quarantining as possible to avoid what is for the moment in france. france do not want to see the delta variant and more people die from that to stop what esther, angela merkel is coming to this country next weekend we ll be going through all the tests that benedicte is talking about with the g7. she will be coming to see borisjohnson, will be coming to see borisjohnson, lunch at chequers and all that. do you get any sense that there is an attempt going on at the moment to rebuild relations between the eu and london? we saw a bit of flavour with the british irish council meeting this week, first time in two years, when the irish were saying, look, i think the british and eu need to talk to each other and are talking to each other. there is a sense of an attempt to improve the atmosphere. i an attempt to improve the atmosphere. an attempt to improve the atmosphere. an attempt to improve the atmoshere. ~ , ., ,.,
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