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very briefly, lyse doucet. i have to talk very quickly. they are now pulling out. britain as well, to a very uncertain future for- afghanistan. it is not really on the news radar now but afghans - are really, really worried. america is ending its longest war, but the war is not - over for afghans. lyse doucet, ashis ray and steve richards, thank you as ever, very much. thank you for being with us on dateline london. back at the same time next weekend. goodbye! good morning. what a difference a day makes — that may well be the phrase that springs to mind when you wake up this bank holiday monday because it's turning increasingly wet and windy with this area of low pressure pushing from the atlantic. so the rain will be there first thing across northern ireland, into western fringes of scotland, wales and england, gradually pushing across the pennines, reaching east anglia and the south—east by the end of the afternoon. may welljust be a few scattered showers in the northern isles and the far north of scotland, but windy for all. gusts of wi

very briefly, lyse doucet. the us—led nato forces went in, _ they are now pulling out. britain as well, to a very uncertain - future for afghanistan. it is not really on the news radar now, but afghans . are really, really worried. america is ending its- longest war, but the war is not over for afghans. lyse doucet, ashis ray and steve richards, thank you and as ever, thank you for being with us on dateline: london. back at the same time next weekend, goodbye! most of saturday's showers have cleared out of the race of the cleared out of the race of the clear skies over the next few hours it is cold and going to get even colder yet. there was widespread frost around as start of sunday morning with temperatures widely getting down to between zero and —3 celsius. near coastal areas, degree or two above freezing, as mild as things will get overnight. sunday morning, i cold start with blue skies to start the day and plenty of sunshine. showers getting going across north—western areas first before becoming extensive

lyse doucet, bbc news, kabul.st ever female leader. a dramatic supreme court ruling monday looks to have cleared the way for fiame naomi mata'afa to make history after a rollercoaster year in the pacific nation's politics. it would also bring an end to the 23—year—premiership of the man she'll succeed. paradoxically — her rise to the top job was nearly scupperd by a system that was designed to help women in politics. kerryn baker, an expert on pacific politics at the australian national university, explains. so this is a huge shift in samoa politics. 0fficials notjust having a woman on the precipice of samoa's powers as a prime minister butjust in terms of a change in government the human rights party is been in power for almost four years. the prime minister has been in for over 20. the last election day 94% of the seats. just having a viable and credible opposition party let alone them being on the verge of winning office, this is quite unprecedented in its samoa politics. the case was around the appointment of

lyse doucet, bbc news kabul. let's catch up with all the sport now.ent in gothenburg, this was the post match press conference after they won the women's champions league for the first time in their history. all the goals were scored in the first 36 minutes as chelsea were thrashed 4—0. you can see how much barca's players enjoyed that, frustration though for the londoners who went behind in the first minute. they were extremely clinical. i think conceding so early, you have to remember one was an own goal, the second was a penalty, dating from there on and it was an uphill battle. it was too early in the game to concede. so it makes it difficult to impose yourself when a team has the momentum. next to the english premier league, where it looked like liverpool's hopes of realistically finishing in the top four were all but over — until in the 95th minute at west brom. alisson made history by becoming the first liverpool goalkeeper to score a competitive goal for the club. added emotion in a year where his father died. alisson�*s towering header from a

lyse doucet, bbc news, kabul.tnessed the immense pressure on staff and resources — at the height of the first wave. today, the hospital is treating just a few covid patients, and is shifting back to routine care — and dealing with its backlog of cancelled operations. but as our health editor hugh pym reports — it's also prepared for any future surges of the virus. an intensive care unit during the first covid peak in april last year. they had to get through another one in january. but today at the same hospital, addenbrooke's in cambridge, there are no covid patients here and just two recovering in other parts of the hospital. they can focus on the patients they would typically see before the pandemic, including some who've had organ transplants. jane works in critical care and says they're relieved to be getting back to normal, but they do worry about a possible future wave of covid cases. i think everybody is nervous — nervous, obviously, as we start to come out of lockdown and what might happen, and we're very

from kabul our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports. students slaughtered in last week's triple bombing at a high school in kabul. abdur wahid's love for his fiancee, 19—year—old shabana, now written in stone. at the school they are still writing the list of loss. more than 200 killed or injured. most of them girls. no group has said it did this, targeting schoolgirls in this minority hazara community. but they're fighting back. "i say to the enemies of education, if i had one dream for my life, now "i have ten," declares 17—year—old masooma. and suddenly a school ground that was filled with grief is transformed into a place of anger and protest, as political leaders come to visit to express support and solidarity. "you're saying you'll protect us now. "why didn't you protect us before? " shouts 16—year—old husna. she lost her little sister. her strength a symbol of what's changed here in two decades. but many fear could be at risk once all foreign forces leave. and they'll soon be out, before the 20th anniversary of the september 11th

for more on how the diplomacy is progressing here's lyse doucet in kabul.rnment delegation and the taliban, sat down in the gulf state of qatar. there have been some discussions, but it has gone very slowly. the taliban in fact decided to stay away for a long time, preferring to put their emphasis on gaining ground on the battlefield, to hopefully increase their advantage when they do get back to talks. we have heard in the last 2a hours that they will now try to have more genuine discussions in doha and there are talks of reviving the plan to have an international gathering in turkey. you hear about the talking, but you also hear about preparations on the ground and afghans are braced for a really fighting season of all fighting seasons, this summer. in south america, independent and opposition candidates have a won two—thirds of the seats in the body that will write a new constitution in chile. voters were asked to choose people to rewrite chile's constitution, which dates back to the military rule of general augusto pinochet. the constitutional conventio

our chief international correspondent lyse doucet — who has lived in afghanistan for years — gave us decades of international engagement. but afghanistan is still a country where 90% of the people live on less than $2 a day, and where the government budget, more than 75% is funded by donors. it's truly shocking. when you leave the capital, the urban areas of course have seen more of the aid and attention and more of the development. this report talks about how mothers have to make the decision sometimes, they can't afford a taxi to get to the hospital, they can't afford the health care, the medicines that government hospitals are having to charge for because their budgets are going down. so mothers are really faced with really invidious choices, such that many of them are giving birth at home. the human rights watch report talks about how afghanistan's ranking on all the key indicators of women and children's development are rapidly declining. the fear is that it will continue to decline, so now they are raising the flag and saying, the world should take note. now is not the time to

our chief international correspondent lyse doucet, who has lived in afghanistan for years, gave us herort talks about how mothers have to make the decision sometimes, they cannot afford a taxi to get to the hospital, they cannot afford the health care, the medicines that government hospitals more and more are having to transport because their budgets are going down. —— having to charge for. so mothers are really faced with really invidious choices such that many of them are giving birth at home and the human rights watch report talks about how afghanistan's ranking in all the key indicators of women and children's development are rapidly declining and the fear is that it will continue to decline. so now they are raising the flag and saying the world should take note. now is not the time to abandon afghanistan, including its vulnerable and children. a 25—year—old woman from mali has given birth to nine babies — nonuplets. two more than doctors expected. the babies were born premature, and weigh less than a kilogram each. here's tanya dendrinos. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, e

here's my colleague lyse doucet. every day kind of violence. without someone somewhere being targeted in the killing, whetherjudges or journalists or human rights activists, professors, politicians, police, poets, all of the kind of people who would be expected to play a role and to play a role now in trying to shape a different future for afghanistan. trying to shape a different future forafghanistan. even trying to shape a different future for afghanistan. even by the standards of this country, that very low bar, the triple bombing next to a school in a poor area of west kabul has been beyond compare. who would set off explosives next to classrooms where teenagers, some of them as young as nine years old had their books open and were simply studying for a better future. their books open and were simply studying for a betterfuture. the death toll has now gone up to 85 dead, more than 100 injured. afghans are reeling at the hilltop where they buried these little bodies a few days ago. there simply wasn't enough space

next — here's some analysis from our chief international correspondent lyse doucet.ly. and while donors and armies are saying were not going to abandon afghanistan, ouraid is going to continue, year on year for the last five years the aide has been steadily declining. and human rights watchers are raising the alarm bell, it uses the word precipitously. it says that once all the troops are gone once the military is no longer there in the same intensity that the aide will also sharply declined. donors are still giving but afghanistan as you know, is a country, one of the poorest of the world notjust with great needs but growing needs in the midst of a drought and a growing impoverishment. in the first 100 days ofjoe biden s presidency, the us has experienced a record number of migrants crossing into the southern border. most get expelled back to mexico, but some seeking asylum get to stay. many are being released into small rural towns with already limited resources along the border. the bbc s patricia sulbaran went to yuma, arizona and met some of those seeking asylum

lyse doucet, bbc news, kabul.as been in touch with benjamin netanyahu and i spent my own fly on the way to copenhagen, also talking with my counterpart in france and other places to de—escalate this violence. israel has the right to defend itself. there is no equivalent between a terrorist group indiscriminately firing rockets at civilians and the country defending its people from those attacks. and we call on hamas and other groups to end those attacks immediately. israel as a democracy has an extra burden to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, even as it defend itself. the avoid civilian casualties, even as it defend itself.— avoid civilian casualties, even as it defend itself. the us secretary of state antony _ it defend itself. the us secretary of state antony blinken. - it defend itself. the us secretary of state antony blinken. an - it defend itself. the us secretary l of state antony blinken. an update on our headlines. the prime minister urges people to remain cautious as coronavirus restr