20 years since the horror of 9/11. america remembers and reflects. let us be worthy of the selfless sacrifices. let us remember who we became on september 12th. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday i m kaitlan collins in for abby philips. an anniversary comes after america s longest war ended in afghanistan. yesterday the nation paused to reflect on 9/11 and remember when americans united in the face of tragedy. i saw millions of people instinctively grab for a neighbor s hand and rally to the cause of one another. that is the america i know. union is what makes us who we are. america at its best. to me that is the central lesson of september 11th. overnight the fbi declassified a 16-page documents regarding connections between the 9/11 hackers and the saudi government. some pretty big redactions and doesn t draw any definitive conclusions but does come after biden signed an executive order to
pressure with us at the moment. last night provisionally was the highest august air pressure ever recorded in the uk. but stuck underneath that we have lots of grey cloud for most of us. and you can see from the satellite and radar that we have a lot of clout right across the uk. some drizzle coming out of that cloud. the second picture from inverness shows a different story with clear skies across much of scotland. blue skies and just a bit of fairweather cloud. that is the picture for much of scotland for the rest of today but over the next few days we keep that cloudy theme for most areas. some drizzle around and a bit of sunshine around. sunshine is across much of scotland, some sunny spells for northern ireland and north west england. but still a bit of a breeze down the east coast for east anglia and the south east. temperatures in the mid teens but further west in the sunshine 23 degrees for the west of scotland for instance this afternoon. this evening and tonight clo
reporters, now. welcome to inside politics sunday i m kaitlan collins in today for abby. we start with breaking news out of afghanistan. taliban representatives are inside the presidential palace in kabul negotiating a peaceful surrender of the capital according to the taliban spokesman. the group s fighters are on stand by on the edge of the city. meanwhile, 5,000 u.s. troops are in or on the way to kabul to assist in a complete evacuation of the u.s. embassy. cnn s chief international correspondent is in kabul. what is going on given the conflicting reports we re hearing? is the afghan government still standing? reporter: well, define still standing, kaitlan. technically speaking i guess they are but the fact that you now have eight or nine according to our source taliban representatives from the doha contingency in the presidential palace hammering out a deal to come up with a sort of interim government if you will, some kind of peaceful power sharing agreement, tells
good afternoon. the cyclist laura kenny has become britain s most decorated female olympic athlete, after she and team mate katie archibald won the women s madison event in the velodrome. the pair dominated the 120 lap race, winning 10 of the 12 sprints. it means kenny has won gold in three consecutive olympic games, and archibald in two. elsewhere after their gold in rio, britain s hockey women have taken bronze in tokyo, with a narrow victory over india. and team gb s 18th gold medal of the games came from kate french in the women s moden pentathlon. and in the last few minutes, team gb s laura muir has won silver in the 1500m final. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. two more golds on day 1a of tokyo 2020 have taken team gb up to fourth in the overall medals table. the first of the two was a historic one for laura kenny. she has become the most decorated female olympian in british history. she and katie archibald were crowned the inaugral women s m