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asylum seekers to rwanda as he arrives there for a meeting of commonwealth heads of state. record waiting times for hospital treatment in wales for the 24th month in a row. and test cricket gets underway again at headingley the first england match since some claims of racism were upheld against yorkshire county cricket club. and coming up on the bbc news channel. the quarter finals are under at eastbourne, with both cameron norrie and harriet dart in action. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the taliban have appealed for international support after an earthquake in afghanistan caused devastation, killing at least 1,000 people, and injuring another 1,500. doctors there have told the bbc that many children have been killed. aid agencies are rushing to get shelter, food and medicine to the worst hit areas but the rescue efforts have been hampered by heavy rain and a lack of resources. the country s health system was facing near collapse before the ....
taliban officials in the afghan province was hit by an earthquake, thought to have killed over 1000 people, said the search for survivors in many areas has ended. borisjohnson is in rwanda for a meeting of the commonwealth heads of government. downing street said it is unlikely the uk s policy will come when he meets the prince of wales. the american artistic swimmer has been rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach after fainting following her routine at the world aquatics championships. hello. good afternoon. british airways staff at london s heathrow airport have voted to strike in a dispute about pay. members of the gmb union employed as ground staff and check in workers voted overwhelmingly for the industrial action. the move threatens to disrupt britain s busiest airport in the well, we can cross straight to heathrow and to our correspondent who is therefore eyes. first of all, what is this strike about? be enou~h, what is this strike about? ee: enough, it ....
handled the deaths of the four men murdered by stephen port. the waiting list for hospital treatment in wales reaches a new record level more than 700,000 patients were waiting for treatment in april. and it s day two of glastonbury. more than 200,000 festival goers will see headliners billie eilish, sir paul mccartney and kendrick lamar this weekend. just before we cover our top story the earthquake in afghanistan we re expecting to hear very shortly whether there will be further industrial action impacting travel here in the uk over the summer. a ballot has been held by heathrow based gmb union members, who are employed by british airways. the ballot closed at midday, with the result expected to be released very soon. if the workers vote in favour, it could mean a walkout during the summer holidays. we can cross straight to heathrow and our business correspondent, theo leggett. just remind us what the voters all about, what might happen here? well. about, what might h ....
August so the peak summer season. thank you. that is the situation there. as soon as we get the result we will be back at heathrow so as soon as the gmb tells us the result of that ballot, as you would expect, we will be back there at heathrow and we will see what awaits if indeed there is strike action voted for. and we will talk more a little later in the sapphire about the rail strike of course we are on day two of a national rail strike. we will have more on that in the next little while as well. until that result comes through to us we are of course going to talk about the story that has dominated the last 24 hour. the taliban have appealed for international support after an earthquake in afghanistan caused devastation, killing at least a thousand people, and injuring another 1,500. doctors there have told the bbc that many children have been killed. aid agencies are rushing to get ....
Caused devastation, killing at least 1,000 people, and injuring another 1,500. doctors there have told the bbc that many children have been killed. aid agencies are rushing to get shelter, food and medicine to the worst hit areas but the rescue efforts have been hampered by heavy rain and a lack of resources. the country s health system was facing near collapse before the disaster and the international community now faces questions about how far it will help a government run by ha rdline islamists. jon donnison has the latest. imagine living here, when the earthquake struck. much of the mudbrick housing in paktika province has been flattened. and the fear is that many more people could be buried under the rubble. this man shows where he was lying, when he felt the tremor. nothing is left here, our belongings ....