paul murphy, bbc news, on the east yorkshire coast.t wales being treated for covid, a leading consultant there says staff are under as much pressure — if not more — than at any point health ccorrespondent 0wain clarke reports. make deep breaths and your please. i now through your nose. 0k? learning how to breathe again. this is what the third covered wave looks like an intensive care hospital. west wales and parts of mid wales escaped the worst of the first and second waves, the area's lead critical care doctor says the pressure now as is intense as ever. across our health board, we are have funding for 22 critical care beds and 11 patients are now covid positive patients and being treated for covid. so it's probably more than what we had throughout the period when it was difficult, you know, in the first two waves. it's probably the same or sometimes even a little bit higher. as covid cases have surged locally, the health board has had to close wards that some hospitals and suspend some surgery to cope. high vaccination rates to help

paul murphy, bbc look north. about his handling of the crisis in afghanistan. he'll be in front of the foreign affairs committee at 2. 0ur political correspondent damien grammaticas is at westminster iona, what sort of time is he going to have on this committee? he is certainly going — to have on this committee? he is certainly going to _ to have on this committee? he is certainly going to have _ to have on this committee? he is certainly going to have a - certainly going to have a challenging time. this is the first and had been ready in scrutinise about all the ongoing questions as the price is continuous. we have been talking a lot today about the uk is now in conversation with the taliban about further evacuations for people still wanting to leave the country so i think they're's going to be a number of different categories, really, that the question facing dominic marble volunteer. there will be questions, undoubtedly, about the handling so far, holding him to account us in the key things that have happened

paul live in new orleans. thank you. the northeast death toll from the remnants of hurricane ida rising to 51 with people still unaccounted for. new jersey governor phil murphys he will ask president biden for continued federal support when he visits the region on tuesday. brian llenas is live in new jersey with more on that. in new jersey is going to need that federal support it wasn't just historic floodwaters and flash flooding it was tornadoes this was a single-family home with an ef tornado, ef three tornado with 150-mile hour winds completely demolished. if we walk over here we know that entire family into children, a husband and a pregnant woman survived this tornado because they were in this basement down here, they were right below the kitchen that was demolished. these are the types of survivals were hearing and where hurricane ida made landfall in louisiana. governor phil murphy of new jersey says we need to start getting used to extreme weather and he talked about how they need to prepare for the next event. >> we screamed loud and clear, tornado warnings, flood warning's, flash flood warnings and we beg people to get off the road and we have rai

and as paul told me when i spoke to him for the book, abstraction allows for diversity of viewpoints while still expressing something fundamental. you still need a level of specificity. michael murphy, who designed the memorial for peace and justice. he talked to me about this and expressed that he thought -- and i agree -- one of the issues with the memorial in berlin is that there are not any names. there is no level of specificity to show what it is being memorialized. all three of these projects have lists of names. i thought that was really compelling to hear the stories behind them and i think one thing all of these projects share is they are physically ingrained in the minds of those who experience them. you can't not go to one of the sites and not be completely moved. in an ideal way, transformed as a person. the sites are portals. you don't leave out the other side. the same way you came in. >> wonderful observations. let me ask a couple of questions. we have gone a little long but that is important and intentional. i think we wanted everyone not to be too rushed to give the story of each of their states. when we do some logistical things and you can do a bit of a speed ro

and chris murphy, one of the senator on the panel discuss, the extraordinary success of an air lift operation that did evacuate more than 130,000 people. now the questioning continues. rand paul questioning now. want to perhaps in fact i think the only republican on this panel who supported the idea of withdrawing from afghanistan. so we'll see what more we learn as the afternoon continues. >> and admiral, having read the troops and knowing so much about what the ground truth is, you can understand the frustration on all sides over a 20-year war and goals not being met. what is your assessment of the way the questions are being asked and the issues being raised? >> i think he's got it right which is to say that it's different tonal environment in the senate having testified dozens of times over the years. it's a very different structure. but in both cases, these are hard questions and secretary of state blinken, who i know well, very smooth, very capable, very study in a situation like this, but boy, he's got a tough hand of cards and he's got, andrea, three big things he's got to be able to respond to. tactically, the real question is how are we going to get the rest of the

murphy. i want to start with the cnn from anna coren looking into the drone strike in kabul just hours before the u.s. finally withdrew from afghanistan. secretary blinken told your colleague senator rand paulthe target of the strike was indeed an isis operative or if it was an aid worker, which also seems possible. don't you find it alarming that the u.s. government, the biden administration does not know? >> i do, and i wish that this was unrepresentative of our drone campaign in afghanistan, pakistan, yemen, parts of africa over the course of the last 20 years. studies of our drone strikes have suggested that maybe eight out of ten times we are hitting the wrong target, we have killed thousands of civilians. and a bunch of good research suggests that in places where we utilize drones in order to target terrorists, we end up recruiting more terrorists than we kill because all of the bad publicity that comes from the united states killing civilians from the sky ends up as bullets as material for many of these terrorist groups. i have not received a briefing from the administration about what they know from this particular strike. but, unfortunately, it would be par for the course if there