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This mans life is under threat. terrified by the taliban, this mansjob as an interpreter in afghanistan made him a target. if i stayed, i would be, you know, tortured by taliban, and consequently get killed by them, because they perceived interpreters to be traitors. there were many incidents over afghan interpreters. they were tortured, they were killed, they were, you know, beheaded. to give a clear message to others to stop helping international forces. so, you and your family feared that, be...

Family travelled to the uk about a fortnight ago under the home office scheme to bring out interpreters and support staff whose lives obviously were at risk from the taliban. the home office has been struggling to find accommodation for afghan refugees, particularly large families like this one. i understand the hotel in sheffield, the metropolitan, had been used to house asylum seekers already but in recent days some of those asylum seekers had been moved out because of concerns over the safety...

Our allies, our interpreters come to the gate and give them a safe route to get themselves to the airport. i am talking with many interpreters at the kabul airport since the past couple nights theyre in the airport but they never get a chance to take themselves, get himself at the airport. >> dana: may i ask you something about the taliban? just a few moments ago they issued a statement saying theyre being cooperative -- theyre free to go. is that what you are hearing from interpreters there in ...

The afghan struggle. any better? you told our staff you spent nine hours trying to help. is today any better than tuesday? >> no. it has gotten worse, more chaotic. thank you for having me onto voice this. keep in mind i am one of thousands of veterans who are hearing from our afghan friends and allies. our interpreters, people who worked with us. there are thousands of us right now doing all that we can to connect our afghan friends with these evacuation flights. we are calling this the digital...

With the talibans last stint in power in the 90s. things are returning to normal, but still deep uncertainty. many people worried that despite taliban assurances, they may be targeted. it is hard to overstate how much of a presence the taliban have in this city. everywhere you go you see heavily armed fighters patrolling in vehicles seized from the security forces or wandering the streets. a very surreal. but this seems to be the new normal in afghanistan, at least for now. as we were saying ear...

Been very different from the way it played out and the way the president now admits he thought it would play out all along which is with chaos. >> ambassador newman, whats your reaction to whats unfolding, the scramble to get folks out of the u.s. government entity in afghanistan, to get that group out and chaos we see around the airport and on the streets and the fact that the president is saying theres no way to avoid that. >> well, thats a misstatement to be polite. the decision to leave is o...

Its embarrassing that the united states of america has an unconditional surrender to a terrorist organization and begging them to back off of our evacuation. that is a situation on the ground that were in right now. ive had thousands of vet trans contact the foreign affairs committee trying to get interpreters out, trying to get loved ones out and american citizens out. we cant process all of this. they got caught flat footed. we warned them to prepare, if youre going to do this, do it right, ha...

This is bbc news. the latest 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 urging people without the legal right to travel, to go home. president biden says us troops could remain in afghanistan beyond the end of august, passing his deadline for withdrawal. labour has accused the foreign se...

Before the fall of kabul to the taliban, were asking him to ring the then ministerfor taliban, were asking him to ring the then minister for foreign affairs, his opposite number, in the government in afghanistan or to talk about this very business of getting interpreters who have worked with british forces out of the country. now the foreign office say that mr raab was making lots of calls from his hotel room in crete that day, but he did not ring his afghan opposite number. here is ben wallace ...

Were following the story. it is certainly, the fact that intelligence reports are a judgment call. this is our best assessment. but the reason that the commander-in-chief is there is because its to make the decision. you have to make the decision. its a decision-making job, i think that when you add tension between intelligence community in the that is never good for anybody. >> former president trump, he came out and have a statement that said basically you get the equipment out, then you get t...