Being caused by hurricane ida. Millions of people remain without power. There is still heavy rain in mississippi which is causing a crevice to open up in one highway. Two people died in that. America s longest war is over. And on tuesday, millions of afghans woke up to a new reality. The taliban is in charge and all foreign forces have left the country. The taliban said its victory belonged to all afghans. But there s widespread concern about how they intend to govern after their brutal rule 20 years ago. More on that later, but first, the withdrawal. Late on monday night, minutes before the august 31st deadline, the last us military flight left kabul airport. The evacuation missions are 120,000 people airlifted out of afghanistan. It is america s top military commander in the region. The withdrawal signifies the end of the military component of the evacuation but also the end of the nearly 20 year mission that began in afghanistan shortly after september the 11th 2001. It s a mission
Days, so this is the story for thursday. Patchy, like rain coming to northern ireland, wales, western england. Ahead of that, a lot of dry weather, but still a lot of cloud so temperatures struggling to 17 to 21 celsius. 0n temperatures struggling to 17 to 21 celsius. On friday, another weather front coming in from the atlantic bringing rain towards northern ireland. The odd shower ahead of that may be brighter skies developing across parts of england and wales giving temperatures a boost to 23 degrees. First half of the weekend could get warm across the weekend could get warm across the midlands and particularly the south east of england. Temperatures could reach 26 degrees in the sunshine. It will be short lived because that warmth is coming ahead of that rain. The rain develops more widely overnight and into sunday across england and wales and it could be heavy and thundery. That s all from the bbc news at six. So it s goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams w
In our memories, and we start again. It may take all 380 games to discover whose name will be next etched on here. Laura scott, bbc news, brentford. Time for a look at the weather here s tomasz schafernaker. This weekend, a little bit of rain and showers, it is not going to be too bad, but not a perfect weekend, a fair bit of cloud on the way, and this is our weatherfor a fair bit of cloud on the way, and this is our weather for tomorrow, low pressure approaching and it is already visible in the forecast area here to the south west of us, bringing mild air, a lot of cloud, dribs and drabs of rain, coastal mouth. Whereas in scotland, a separate weather system has been bringing showers and will continue to do so through the course of this evening and overnight. A mile start to the day, 15 degrees, and is low pressure to the south west of ireland spreading westwards, and it will be far south enough to spare glasgow and edinburgh, so may be some sunshine around, whereas across the irish se
And look at where we are. Is this magical or what? welcome to the field of dreams. Hey, is this heaven? no. It s iowa. How exciting. It is amazing. The new york yankees, the chicago white sox. They surrounded by hollywood movie stars. Just a move set, field of dreams, they got to do that yesterday. And, of course, my boston red sox were playing out the end of the season yesterday. There were three grounds crew keepers there. The street preacher. An old hound dog. And that was it as we lost another game in miserable fashion. This game last night, this was special. I still remember back in 76 watching mark fuddridge pitch on monday night baseball. It was one of those moments in the middle of a long baseball season where everybody stopped and watched what was going on. It was a magical night. Last night, even though it didn t end up exactly how yankees fans would like it to end up, another magical night for major league baseball. It was. I was thinking the same thing watching it. There
Every single day, like i ve always done and always will. Meantime, the biden administration looking for ways to encourage more americans to get vaccinated, including pushing more companies to require employees to get the shot, this as a surge in cases linked to the delta variant continues to overwhelm hospitals, particularly in southern states. We re going to talk with a nurse on the front lines in arkansas later on in the program. And this hour president biden meeting with state, local and tribal officials from across the country to talk about what the bipartisan infrastructure bill means for their communities hours after he made another pitch for his build back better agenda. All of this as congress begins the work of putting together a $3. 5 trillion bill seeking to turn his plans into reality with senate majority leader chuck schumer making this promise. One, we are going to all come together to get something done, and, two, it will have every part of the biden plan in big in a big