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Should have been in afghanistan. were talking about what the government does right now to save tens of thousands of people specifically interpreters who we made a promise to and that promise is being broken. you have kids, stephanie, i have kids. imagine how bad things have to be for a mother to hand a baby over razor wire to a stranger. that is the realty that you are show on your network all week. but it is disconnected from the white house. why are they dragging their feet, why isnt every pla...

>> i think the white house is tone deaf. they are also, dana -- and you can speak to this from a communication standpoint, moving the goalpost. they are correct the majority of americans agree we should get out. but the way you get out matters. the fact we just decided to leave our men and women there and leave interpreters there and we had no strategy. that we allowed the taliban to take over one of our most qualified assets, the air base, bagram air base, why did we do that? there is a lot of ...

This was going to happen that fast. there are reports that the generals and the advisers, they all said this could happen. they didnt get the win right. the win happened really fast. nonetheless, to your point, they blew it they could have been doing this late spring early summer. but instead there are, what, 80,000 afghanis who want to get out? >> and, again, i mean, these are not random individuals. these are people who work for the u.s. whose paperwork is either in the pipeline or completed. ...

This is bbc news, imjoanna gosling. the headlines at 11... evacuations from afghanistan gather pace — as amnesty international accuses the taliban of torturing and killing nine men from afghanistans hazara minority last month. more pressure on the foreign secretary, dominic raab, as it emerges that a key call to afghan officials about evacuating interpreters from the country was never made at all. the home office is being urged to review accommodation for afghan refugees, after a 5—year—ol...

Really the inner lives of afghan women, side by sides of schools in kandahar in 2001, you know, versus 2010 when they were learning freely in the classroom, dramatic improvement in maternity wards when it comes to maternal health after the taliban fell. women voting, women becoming police officers, the list goes on. women wearing makeup, the list goes on and on and on. now that you see this fall, this rapid fall, how do you process it as you your self are working to get your own interpreters, pe...

Airport. john kirby says that he has no reports that american citizens have been harassed on their way to the airport but he acknowledges that his information is not perfect. there have been reports of afghan interpreters and their families, those who should be able to get on these flights, being harassed and beaten by the taliban. they say that they are trying to address shows issues with the taliban. meanwhile the big bottleneck here is the ability to process these afghans as quickly as possib...

Pace — as amnesty international accuses the taliban of torturing and killing nine men from afghanistans hazara minority last month. more pressure on the foreign secretary, dominic raab, as it emerges that a key call to afghan officials about evacuating interpreters from the country was never made at all. the home office is being urged to review accommodation for afghan refugees, after a 5—year—old boy fell to his death from a hotel window in sheffield. the board of the uks fourth biggest s...

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Also their family members. is it people who have already been -- you know, obviously theres a certain number of people who have gone through this process. this process has often taken years for people. its been very frustrating for people. you have special forces veterans who have served with interpreters vouching for people and it still takes a long time. would this just be people who have been already approved for -- a vees or just anybody in the pipeline because its an emergency situation wou...

Refugee charities are demanding a wider investigation into how families arriving in the uk are being treated. there are claims that some residents had concerns about windows. those claims may be part of the polices investigation. but while the home office says it was told of no safety concerns, it has moved all families to alternative accommodation. dominic casciani, bbc news. you are watching bbc news. lets remind you of our headlines today. evacuations from afghanistan gather pace — as amnes...