lyse doucet, bbc news, firozkoh in ghor province. bbc news online — that's bbc.co.uk/news — and by using the bbc news app. now a look at some other stories making the news today... a new emergency warning system allowing text alerts to be sent direct to your mobile phone will go live in october. the home office says the technology will warn up to 85% of the population of severe weather and other life—threatening events. the alerts — which will look like this — have recently been tested in east suffolk. here's our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds. the two extremes of our changing climate. fires this summer made it hard to remember the floods of autumn and winter. the government believes using social media to warn us of a risk to life is too hit or miss, so it has tested this new alert system. it looks like this and sounds like this. these warnings are different because they're sent directly to phone masts, and from there to every smartphone capable of receiving them — an estimated 85% of the population. that's where the atmosph

a people who've renamed their provincial capital, not chaghcharan, eaters of dry straw, but firozkoh,e afghan economy looks like. the un development programme estimates the country's gdp contracted by 20—percent since the taliban's takeover. (00v) per capita income has plummeted... while prices of essentials are up by 35%. and an estimated 700,000 jobs have been lost since this date a year ago, with women's participation in the labour market dropping by 16%. for more on this, let's go live to new york. kanni wignaraja is asia—pacific director of the united nations' development program. thank you forjoining us here on the programme. it has been a year since the taliban took over. we have just read some statistics there and the impact on the economy. ijust want your reflections and observations? well, you're very right. in six months, the first six months of the taliban takeover, we saw an economic crash that we haven't seen anywhere in the world. in syria, it took six years for that level of crash to be seen. so, when you see almost all afghans getting rapidly poorer, we are stuck with

a people who've renamed their provincial capital, not chaghcharan, eaters of dry straw, but firozkoh, 67 million followers — holland said he finds life online to be "overwhelming". here's some of what he had to say. i have taken a break from social media for my mental health, because i find media for my mental health, because ifind instagram and media for my mental health, because i find instagram and twitter to be over stimulating, to be overwhelming. i get caught up and i spiral when i read things about me online and, ultimately, it's very dead detrimental to my mental state so i decided to take a step back and repeat might delete the app. ——so i decided to take a step back and delete the app. in that video, tom holland also referenced stem four — a charity that supports positive mental health in teenagers. and i'm nowjoined by doctor nihara krause — who's the ceo. (os what you make of what he has had to say? what you make of what he has had to sa ? ~ ., what you make of what he has had to sa ? . . . , what you make of what he has had to sa ? ~ . ., , ., what you make of what he has