Page 473 - Interpreters News Today

0 welcome to msnbc on a busy friday afternoon. president biden giving an update on the chaotic situation, the evacuation of americans and afghans as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the crisis unfolding in afghanistan. the president says evacuation flights have resumed. that is of being paused for several hours. sources tell nbc news the flights stopped temporarily because qatar, the first batch of evacuees were taken, didnt have the capacity to take any more people. this ...

Evacuated out of kabul. pentagon not willing to go that far yesterday given the chaos on the ground. why the mixed message? we check in at the pentagon. briefing coming up in 20 minutes. an afghan translator canaryly escaped from the taliban fighting to save more interpreters back him in kabul. he joins news a moment on his story and theirs.

Identify the exact ramp number in kabul from your kitchen table in rhode island. this is how veterans back home are trying to get their interpreters out. this is not how this was supposed to go, right? this is not the might of the u.s. government. this is not the promise we made to the people like zak. it is not how we were supposed to be bringing him home. getting this wrong doesnt mean, oh, theyll hop the next flight out. the window is closing. getting this wrong means these people will get ki...

Spokesperson morgan ortagus will weigh in. >> bill: last month we -- thousands of other interpreters remain behind. >> he was a key advisor for me every day. he sat there with me making decisions. there is not enough time to get the paperwork right. the time is now. figure out the paperwork later. get them to a safe place. mm. [ clicks tongue ] i dont know. i think they look good, man. mm, smooth. uh, they are a little tight. like, too tight? might just need to break em in a little bit. you dont...

Particularly when you have a highly, highly transmissible virus in the form of the delta variant. and thats the reason why when you talk about the extra added degree of protection, even in a school system where you may have vaccinated teachers and some of the children may be vaccinated, you are want to wear a mask to protect the children so they could continue to be in school, in person, in classes so we dont get the deleterious effects on the child of again keeping them out of school. you want ...

Lifting, variable amounts of cloud around, bringing rain across northern ireland into south—west scotland and north—west england, the second following hot on its heels bringing further rain into northern ireland. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... chaos at kabul airport. even afghans with valid paperwork are struggling to get through, with checkpoints guarded by heavily armed militants. officials say 12 people have been killed in and around kabul airport since sunday. the taliban are ...

Embassy served this memo to antony blinken and another top official last month with specific warnings of rapid territorial gains by the taliban and the subsequent collapse, they believed, of the afghan security forces. the report said recommendations were offered on ways to mitigate the crisis. and speed up an evacuation. state department correspondent rich edson joins us live with the very latest. good evening, rich. >> good evening, bret. a source familiar with that memo says the secretary rea...

Secretary is going nowhere. are you going to resign, mr raab? no. but did he miss an opportunity to get people out of afghanistan sooner? while the taliban were advancing, dominic raab was on holiday here in crete. rather than lounging on the beach, were told he was working and making regular phone calls. last friday, officials here at the foreign office advised him to make one such call urgently, to the afghan foreign minister, for help in evacuating interpreters. but its understood the job was...

Citizens. >> now it is your time, our american friends, our american partners time, to help us and get us out of this crisis because the enemy are looking for the people who worked with american and who worked for the american mission, and to find them and kill them and kill their family. we cannot stay. yesterday one of our former interpreters in herat province, the taliban attacked, killed him. also in the future, maybe they target us and kill us. now please, president, its your time to help u...

Overnight and saying, look, if america is willing to stay at the airport for a bit longer, perhaps we will have a little bit longer to try and work out how we get out britons and work out how we get out britons and also those who worked for the british military, who now fearfor their lives. we have seen flights leaving every day with britons and interpreters and their families on, and every day that they are able to do that, the british government is going to continue to do that. here is ben wal...