Our correspondent Daniel De Simone was at the Old Bailey Criminal Court and sent this update. They have been in the uk for between ten and 15 years, the three defendants are orlin roussev, bizer dzhambazov, and katrin ivanova. The latter two have been living as a couple in a series of suburban properties in london for about ten years. Orlin roussev arrived earlier in the uk, about 15 years ago, and he worked in financial services, a technical role in communications, and later moved on to, he claims, own a company that was involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications. The other two worked, were told, in health care jobs. Thats what they told neighbours. They did own a local community group, which supported bulgarian people who move to the uk with english language classes and other things. This investigation was, is by the met Police Counterterrorism team, which is response offer espionage investigations. It investigated them in february. Properties
now a seniorfigure in the national resistance front, amrullah saleh. is internal resistance viable when afghans are starving? theme music plays amrullah saleh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a year, mr saleh, since the taliban swept into kabul and toppled the government of which you were a part. would you acknowledge that this past year has been a year of failure from your point of view? for the taliban, it has been not only a year of failure but it has exposed their real intentions and face to the afghan people. they have brought disaster, starvation, displacement and they have basically pushed women into shadows. and all those people who were architect of the handover of afghanistan to the taliban, justifying that they have changed, are responsible for this catastrophe. you have chosen, in that answer, to focus on what you call the taliban s failings. i was actually thinking more about your own situation, because when you were forced to flee from kabul, you took to y
and the taliban, they are focused on snuffing out our position and putting in strict control on women and girls. my guest is the former first vice president, now a senior figure in the national resistance front. he is internal resistance viable when afghans are starving? amrullah saleh, welcome to hardtalk. it is a year since the taliban slipped into kabul and toppled the government of which you were a part of. will you acknowledge that this past year has been a year of failure from your point of view? for the taliban, from your point of view? for the taliban, it from your point of view? for the taliban, it has from your point of view? pr? the taliban, it has been not only a year of failure, but it has exposed their intentions in face to the afghan people and they have brought disaster, starvation, displacement and they have basically pushed the women into shadows and all of those people who were architects of the handover of afghanistan, the taliban, justifying that t
former advisor to hillary clinton. welcome to the programme. it s been one year since the taliban seized power in the afghan capital kabul. the world watched in shock, as the country s government collapsed. thousands of afghan citizens and foreigners fearing taliban rule descended onto kabul airport, hoping to leave, some clinging onto planes. for the taliban and its supporters, today is a national holiday and a day of celebration for them, but not for everyone. we know that for those left behind, the humanitarian situation is dire. 95% of the population do not have enough food to eat. and more than a million children under the age of five sufferfrom prolonged malnutrition. before the taliban takeover, international aid accounted for 80% of the afghan state budget. but countries don t want to legitimise taliban rule so that aid has been cut off. this is the un. we are talking about the chronically half of the population, 20 million people, in constant need of some sort