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And old. you are a bronze star recipient, a veteran, you served our country and i respect you and parish you for that, as we all should. you went back into afghanistan under taliban rule to help these people get out. what is it like in there right now? >> well, chris, you know, when we went across it was just kind of to that bordering area. it wasnt a full-fledged assault into country. yes, you are taking that risk. yes, obviously, you are coordinate to go meet them at that area. i have a team m...

After the desperate scramble to flee afghanistan, thousands of afghan refugees are now adjusting to their new lives in the uk. but while 8,000 afghans were evacuated by the uk military, the question remains of what will happen to those left behind. joya, whose name we have changed, was an afghan special forces commander who worked alongside british forces, and was one of those rescued from kabul a few weeks ago. 0ur defence correspondent jonathan beale went to meet him. afghan special forces hav...

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See more severe thunderstorms developed. dryer in the sunshine tomorrow. still muggy and humid but temperatures will be down on today, 25 in the east, high teens in the west and we will see cooler and fresher conditions developing on friday and into the weekend. thank you. after weeks of evacuations, thousands of afghan refugees are now adjusting to their new lives in the uk, but the question still remains of what will happen to those left behind. joya, whose name we have changed, was an afghan ...

Now? >> well, chris, you know, when we went across it was just kind of to that bordering area. it wasnt a full-fledged assault into country. yes, you are taking that risk. yes, obviously, you are coordinate to go meet them at that area. i have a team member who is with us who is an amazing guy, speaks five languages, so he is able to actually talk with the taliban commanders and try to make these coordinating efforts. its not with me or our efforts. our whole team was really incredible with the ...

The uk military, the question remains of what will happen to those left behind. joya was one of those rescued from kabul a few weeks ago. jonathan beale went to meet him. afghan special forces have been fighting the taliban for years — and taking heavy casualties. joya was one of their commanders, hand picked and trained by elite troops from the parachute regiment. he was still fighting long after the british left helmand. this isjoya firing on taliban positions just one month ago. he said the...

Even i cant take it seriously [laughs] my friends brother produced the movie. [laughs] he is the one that starts 100,000 troops into afghanistan and he is the one that nation built. hes the one that trained the afghan army. he was the one who got hoodwinked by the pakistanis. that bin laden was just hiding there in plain sight. he was the one that told of some of this great progress there that was a mirage. he was the one that traded five taliban commanders for a deserter. in four of them are no...

Going to take off that had been approved but the state department wanted to "vet the manifest." whatever that means. if they would have been sitting there surrounded by taliban, they probably would have got the manifest quicker. what is happening now, the taliban has been holding on all of these planes, hamza, who reports back to the taliban leadership as being formed in kabul, was told not to have any planes or anything approved until a formal government of afghanistan is recognized. the idea t...

Uncertainty. so there are a few brave individuals who are out there trying to get that information out. but its not easy because the taliban shut down this kind of access. and i would say the other way that were going to learn more over time, and this has become apparent really in the past couple of hours, that last holdout against the taliban in the valley, we heard from their leader, speaking in a very long and eloquent message to afghans, saying, okay, now is the time to join a national resis...

Any women in positions and probably not former senior people in important positions either. the pakistan intelligence chief met with the taliban on saturday, pakistan sources have told us that the taliban sort of supreme leader, the commander of the faithful, will remain the chief. there is a dispute over who might run the defense ministry because there are several powerful faction al commanders who want that post. and also saying that dont expect a taliban minister who is under u.n. designation...