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Every match has thrown a lot of challenges. i think coming here, when the tournament was announced last year that we were getting the crowds back, i was so excited. and then we went into lockdown again and i was so disappointed. but it is so fantastic to hear london cheering again for a snooker tournament. cheering and applause that's all the sport for now. changes to coronavirus restrictions in scotland, come in today, including lifting the limit of 500 people at big outdoor events like football and gigs. the restrictions had been in place since boxing day in response to the 0micron variant. ...

It is now 12:30, friday afternoon in kabul where chaotic rush to evacuate thousands of afghans, americans and others is growing more desperate by the hour. at times the crush of afghans outside the kabul airport grew so big and unpredictable that soldiers fired weapons in to the air to push the crowds back. u.s. president biden is expected to address the deepening crisis in the coming hours. this is a sign of just how bad things got on thursday, a soldier lifting a child over the airport wall. the pentagon says it is in daily communication with the taliban about letting people with proper docu...

To be changing a little around the airport. i've seen video of what looks like afghan special forces who are on the inside of that airport coming out and trying to push crowds back. and essentially creating a space between the gates and some people trying to get in. that i understand has enabled people to -- in fact one person i was speaking through a source about to get inside the base. so there appears to be the ability for afghans to get on to that particular base and there appears to be increasing numbers of individuals inside that base. so it is possibly beginning to become a numbers issu...

Police have used tear gas, pepper spray to push the crowds back. the methods seem to have been successful because a lot of people have left. i can't tell you that they've gone home though. my guess is they have pushed out into other areas of town and police are obviously going to be keeping tabs, close tabs on where everybody has gone. you can see these police, these officers over here surrounding one of their vehicles. i don't know really what they're doing at the moment, don. but obviously this is going to be a very long night and police had prepared for this. they knew this verdict was comi...

Many people are beginning to head home from work. it's not clear if the police perceive an increased threat or danger to the crowds from what they were discovering. but what we can see from down there, and we're still looking down towards westminster bridge where you've had another camera looking towards the activity there, the police vehicles there, the ambulances that are there. there's still a helicopter circling overhead. police at the moment, as much as they wanted to get the crowds back, they don't seem keyed as if there is an immediate threat, they seem like they merely wanted to locate...