The Taliban have now seized eight provincial capitals

Afghanistan has 34 provinces in total. Reports say that thousands of civilians have been killed or wounded in fighting. Also on the programme: New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo resigns a week after the publication of an investigation which found that he had sexually harassed eleven women. And the interior minister of Latvia explains why her country has declared a state of emergency at its border with Belarus. (Picture: Internally displaced families take shelter in a public park in Kabul. Credit: Reuters/Stringer)