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They are planning to challenge the policy in the law courts was white hugh pym, many thanks. borisjohnson has rejected claims he personally authorised the airlift of animals to the uk from an afghan charity following the fall of kabul to the taliban. it comes after emails from officials suggested hed intervened to help. labour says hes been "caught out lying". heres our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. they were desperate days. british citizens, afghans whod worked with the british a...

Government has always denied. those emails yesterday were seen by some as evidence that the prime minister was in some way involved. they talk about the prime minister giving his authorisation for that air left at kabul airport of 150 or so animals to take place but this was boris johnsons response earlier today. this whole thing is total rhubarb. i was very proud of what our armed services did with 0p pitting, and it was an amazing thing to move 15,000 people out of kabul in the way that we did...

By the foreign affairs select committee seem to show that borisjohnson did personally authorise the evacuation from afghanistan of cats and dogs from an animal charity run by a former marine pen farthing in august last year. in the past the prime minister has categorically denied he gave the go ahead for such an operation and he dismissed claims that the government was effectively prioritising animals over people. more on that shortly but first heres our political correspondent jonathan blake. w...

This is bbc news. the headlines: borisjohnson says human beings were prioritised during the fall of kabul — after suggestions he was personally involved in rescuing animals from a charity in afghanistan. this whole thing is total rhubarb. i was very proud of what our armed services did with 0p pitting. and in the next half hour, well be speaking to the former international development secretary rory stewart. do stay with us for that. also this afternoon: campaign groups welcome the easing of c...

Prioritised human beings and that was quite right. and i think we should be incredibly proud of 0p pitting and what it achieved. that is the case for the defence, if you like, but we keep hearing these accusations from various people that the prime minister had a role in this process. his parliamentary private secretary is said to have been involved in a lot of the discussions. she has always said it was a constituency matter but some have claimed they said the prime minister was directly involv...

Armed services did with 0p pitting, and it was an amazing thing to move 15,000 people out of kabul in the way that we did. but an internal foreign office e—mail written at the time, leaked and released yesterday says... campaigners for for the charity said mrjohnson agreed its staff were under threat. the prime minister understood those arguments, accepted them and did put those people on the evacuation list, working with the home secretary and the foreign secretary to get the wheels of whiteh...

Mrjohnson has previously dismissed claims that he prioritised animals over people during the operation. the foreign affairs select committee has heard from an official who says the response to the situation in kabul was chaotic and has suggested that you yourself intervened to try and get the nowzad animals out, and they got priority over some afghan people. did you intervene in that way? no, that is complete nonsense. what i can tell you is that the operation, 0p pitting, to airlift 15,000 peop...

Those animals were evacuated. i think we can listen to what the prime minister said when he was asked about this last year. the foreign affairs select committee has heard from an official who says . the response to the situation in kabul was chaotic and has| suggested that you yourself - intervened to try and get the nowzad animals out, and they got priority over some afghan people. - did you intervene in that way? i no, that is complete nonsense. what i can tell you is that the operation, 0p pi...

Thank you very much. now, lets talk more about the prime ministers comments on afghanistan in the last couple of hours. he said the "overwhelming majority" of eligible people attempting to flee the taliban in afghanistan have been evacuated. with time running out ahead of the united states withdrawal deadline at the end of the month, borisjohnson has insisted the uk will do everything possible in the days left to help those who worked with western forces. he spoke while visiting troops in london...

I cant go into the details clearly, but we have to be mindful of the security of our personnel, but also of the afghan people who are trying to get out. but what i would stress is that were coming now towards at the end of this phase in any event, in the sense that we have already airlifted out of afghanistan a huge number of people, its the biggest operation of its kind in decades. i think everybody involved, the uk military, everybody involved at the airport, everybody who has been helping us,...