secunder kermani in _ these deadly attacks. secunder kermani in kabul, _ these deadly attacks.port on the bbc news channel: deal done — the former chelsea boss antonio conte is confirmed as tottenham's new manager a day after the sacking of nuno espirito sa nto. mps have called for a pause in the rollout of all—lane smart motorways, until the government can prove they�* re safe. they were designed to allow for more traffic by turning the hard shoulder into an extra lane. but safety campaigners say they've contributed to several deaths. here's our transport correspondent, caroline davies. marching through westminster yesterday, each coffin represents someone killed on a smart motorway. protesters want the hard shoulder to be brought back. more of england's roads are being turned into smart motorways, intended to ease congestion. some have had the hard shoulder removed to add an extra lane without having to use more land. if a car breaks down in a live lane, a red cross tells other drivers not to drive it. now a group of mps have said that they think no more should be built for y

secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul.d states will begin receiving coronavirus vaccinations as early as wednesday. the move comes after the us health regulator the centers for disease control, the cdc, signed off on the measure on tuesday. but there is a challenge regarding takeup — polls are showing a large proportion parents aren't prepared to let their child have the vaccine. dr ashistha is a us expert on the covid—19 vaccination and gave me his reaction to today's news. first and foremost it is great to see the fda and the cdc advisers voted unanimously so there is not much controversy about whether these vaccines are worth it for children. the poll suggests about one third of american parents will get their children vaccinated immediately and that includes me, it includes most doctors, by the way. my suspicion is that another a0—50% are going to go a little more slowly, they will talk to their doctors and paediatricians and over time i think they will be persuaded that the evidence here is that kids are much better o

secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul.average there were 40,068 new cases reported per day in the last week. there were 9,538 people in hospital with covid as of yesterday — the highest number since the first week of march. 293 deaths were recorded. that�*s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. but that figure includes some deaths in england that were not reported yesterday. on average in the past week, 162 covid—related deaths were recorded every day. and more than 8.3 million people have received their boosterjab. this includes third doses for those with certain health conditions. a state of emergency has been declared in ethiopia as a year—long war between government and rebel forces intensifies. residents in the capital, addis ababa, have been ordered to arm themselves and defend their neighbourhoods, amid fears the rebels from the northern tigray region are advancing on the city. tonight, the head of the united nations has said he�*s extremeley concerned by the escalation of violence and calle

secunder kermani, bbc news, zaranj.: the scientists meeting the challenge of producing tomato ketchup, in conditions that are out of this world. the bombastic establishment outsider donald trump has defied the pollsters to take the keys to the oval office. i feel great about the election results. i voted for him because i genuinely believe that he cares about the country. it's keeping the candidate's name always in the public. eye that counts. success or failure depends not only on public display - but on the local campaign l headquarters and the heavy routine work of their women volunteers. i berliners from both east and west linked hands and danced around their liberated territory. and with nobody to stop them, it wasn't long before the first attempts were made to destroy the structure itself. yasser arafat, who dominated the palestinian cause for so long, has died. palestinian authority has declared a state of mourning. after 17 years of discussion, the result was greeted with an outburst ofjoy, leaving ministers who

from kabul, our correspodent secunder kermani reports.side, a man tries to crawl to safety. inside, mothers and young children terrified. afghans had hoped scenes like this would come to an end now that the taliban are in power. instead, the fighters were amongst the victims of this attack, carried out by the local branch of the islamic state group, or daesh. the assault began with a suicide bombing, before gunmen tried to fight their way inside the military hospital. helicopters were used to drop taliban special forces into the site, according to the group. but outside this hospital, taliban members were anxiously awaiting news of injured colleagues — former insurgents now facing an insurgency themselves. "after the explosion, me and some of the other taliban were helping carry injured people into the hospital," says this member of the group, who was at the scene of the attack. "a daesh fighter pretended to help us too, but when we got inside, he took a pistol out and shot a talib who was next to me in the head." "the rest of us tried to

secunder kermani, bbc news, zaranj.ia to leave the country, as the un warns of a widening civil war in the country. the year—long conflict in northern ethiopia between the government and tigrayan forces has intensified in recent weeks. the un says 16 of its staff have been detained in the capital addis ababa. an international group of scientists has warned that the world is still heading for dangerously high global temperatures by the end of the century, even if countries honour the promises made in glasgow at the cop 26 summit. the aim is to keep the rise in global temperature below 1.5 degrees, but the researchers say it will be impossible to reach that goal based on the pledges made so far. from glasgow, here's our science editor david shukman. this is what the talks are all about, keeping the planet safe to live on. when astronaut tim peake filmed this view, he was really struck by what we keep adding to the air, and what that is doing to the climate, so, he's come to the conference in glasgow to spell out the dange

secunder kermani, bbc news.ger, and potentially deadlier, problem than coronavirus. sir patrick vallance says as with the pandemic, tackling global warming needs a combination of science — and people changing their behaviour. he's been speaking at the cop26 conference in glasgow of course coronavirus has been devastating and it's affecting people right the way across the globe but it will settle down and it will go back to being a seasonal disease of some sort, most likely. this is something that is getting worse over a very long period. and without concerted, long—term action, it will continue to get worse. sir patrick vallance. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle is at the conference in glasgow. rebecca, what reaction are you hearing to sir patrick �*s comments? they are really resonating here. walking around the conference you cannot forget that the problems of covid climate change are happening in tandem. today is about science and innovation, as sir patrick vallance said, science can be part of the so

secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul.e's flying straight into a political drama — it's the election for governor taking place in virginia. that's where democrat terry mcaullife, on the left, is trying to fend off a challenge from republican glenn youngkin, who's on the right. joe biden won virginia by ten points a year ago, so this race is being seen as a referendum on the first year of his presidency — and a preview of next year's mid term elections. let's talk to our north america correspondent david willis with the latest. there are actually a raft of elections at city and a few state level as well but tell me about, a, where we are we with virginia and why does it feel like it matters so much? the votes are still being counted there but the local media is giving glenn youngkin, the republican arrival of considerable lead at the moment over terry mcauliffe, the democratic candidate. this is significant because, as you said, it is seen as a referendum, a virginian gubernatorial election on the first year ofjoe biden in

secunder kermani, bbc news, zaranj.ers�* own picture tell a story of teamwork in the most just what they had achieved. the man they rescued was an experienced caver in his 40s. when he fell he broke bones in his leg and jaw, there was no way he could make his own way out. it�*s hard to fathom on the surface, but beneath us here are 37 miles worth of tunnels crisscrossing between the caves will there are only three ways in and out, and this tiny metal door is one of them. it was here that the caver entered as part of a group on saturday. they travelled around 500 metres when the cave investigator gave way on the road back was too narrow, so teams of rescuers had to carry him 3km towards the top entrance. manoeuvring the stretcher meant it took ten times longer than usual, clocking up 54 hours, the longest carry in uk caving history. if you can imagine lots of passages, some big, some small, chamber stacked on top of each other and overlapping each other. tom is one of the 300 volunteers who put in a shift and says one of

secunder kermani reporting from afghanistan.ed a record daily high of 833 covid—related deaths. from kyiv here s our correspondentjonah fisher. in ukraine's hospitals, the alarm bells are ringing. this latest record—breaking covid wave is filling the wards in ukraine's hospitals, the alarm bells are ringing. this latest record—breaking covid wave is filling the wards with patients, and the vast majority of them are unvaccinated. this doctor says she is fighting to save the life of a iio—year—old mother of three. three other members of her family are sick. all rejected the vaccine. fewer than one in five ukrainians are double jabbed — the product of deep—rooted scepticism of both doctors and the authorities. last week, hundreds gathered outside parliament to protest against vaccinations. vaccine is poison, it's poisoned. many people now died because they took vaccine. many people are alive now because they took the vaccine, too. no, it's not true, it's not true! you're a doctor. yes, i'm a doctor and neurologist. and you're again

secunder kermani, bbc news. direct aid to afghanistan after suspending financing when the taliban took over. on monday the world food programme warned that millions of people could face starvation within weeks, unless the world steps in to help. the bbc�*s world affairs editor, john simpson is in bamiyan, in central afghanistan. i think what we are seeing is a fairly elaborate dance between the international community and the government here, trying the outside world, the world bank, being the latest example, trying to force the taliban to be different in the way they govern, less extreme, less conservative. but the fact is it is like a dance where the music certainly caught up with things and it is going faster and faster. i suspect we are getting fairly close to some kind of... perhaps a change of attitude by the taliban. i don't have any information about age, it is very hard to get inside the taliban but there is a taliban delegation going to pakistan led tomorrow —— tomorrow led by its foreign minister and

our correspondent, secunder kermani, has sent us this report, from the capital, kabul.ey did declare a general amnesty for all those linked to the previous government. and it's certainly not the case that every single former policeman, former soldier has been targeted in this way or even that the vast majority of them have been targeted in this way. but this report looked at just four of afghanistan's 34 provinces and found there were credible allegations of more than 100 killings. now, former members of the security forces were meant to obtain letters of forgiveness from the taliban, was handing in their weapons. but according to human rights watch, the taliban at times used that as an opportunity to detain and then kill some of them at other times. human rights watch said the taliban were able to access employment records and use that information to target former members of the security forces in raids on their homes and on theirfamilies homes. now, the taliban have unsurprisingly rejected the findings of this report. they have created a commission, they say, to to ro

our correspondent secunder kermani has the latest from kabul. suicide bombing outside the gate to the military hospital in kabul, that was followed by gunfire and another explosion. it is not clear exactly how many attackers were involved, a taliban spokesperson telling us that four assailants were killed, one was arrested and the attack is now over, though in the last few minutes, i have heard sporadic gunfire from the direction which this incident was taking place. this attack targeted a military hospital, it previously treated soldiers from the afghan army, it now treated both members of the taliban and members of the previous government's army. this hospital has, in the past, been targeted by the islamic state group. in 2017, they killed more than 30 people there and all the suspicion will be that this is the work, yet again, of isk, because they have been responsible for a spate of suicide bombings in recent weeks, targeting both ordinary civilians and the taliban. real concern here that although is is as much less powerful than the taliban