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This is bbc news. the headlines: desperate scenes at kabul airport — a little girl is handed over to an american solider by people fleeing the taliban. britian pledges to remain, as long as the us controls the airport. none of our planes are leaving empty. i have seen reports, i cannot vouch for other nations, but our aeroplanes never leave empty. if we have spaces on them, we offer them up have spaces on them, we offer them up to other nations. british troops are helping control the crowds an...

A five—year—old boy from afghanistan who recently arrived in britain with with his familyjust a few days ago has died in an accident at a hotel in sheffield. the family had been staying there after fleeing the taliban. our correspondentjudith moritz is in sheffield for us tonight. what more do we know about this? this is a terribly sad story. little mohammed munib majeedi had only been in the uk for a short time, he fled the taliban with his parents and his four siblings and we understand th...

And of course if it was the judgment of the government last friday that the taliban was about to take over afghanistan, bringing a pretty difficult ending to a 20 year foreign—policy adventure, then the question for mr raabs critics, is what was he doing with his trotters up what was he doing with his trotters up on a beach in crete? chris mason in westminster. _ one of the uks most recent arrivals from afghanistan has told the bbc he faced the prospect of being killed if he stayed in his home...

Hello and welcome to bbc news. the uk is to deploy another company of soldiers to afghanistan to try to deal with the situation at kabul airport, where people are desperately trying to flee the country. twelve people have been killed around the airport since sunday. the taliban are urging people without the legal right to travel to go home. defence secretary ben wallace said the aim is to get about 6,000 people out, but the uk will remain only for as long as "us forces are running the airport". ...

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And like any other family my family and myself, im so worried about them, and its really scaring me to see what their future is going to look like, and, of course, there are so many people that are all scared. they are just trying to find a way to leave because they do not want to live under this government. >> do they have -- i mean, are they trying to get out of country? are they -- are they safe at least at the moment? >> the situation is unknown, you know. its just a little frustrating. its ...

Out to be surrounded by the taliban, call the marine that is near the checkpoint, or could maybe get to the checkpoint, get a picture of zacks exact location. keep texting that officer stop returning your messages. look at the 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 it was supposed to go, right? this is not the might of the u.s. government. this is not the promise that we made to zach....

I want to begin by talking about dominic raab and the report in the news today that he did not, when requested by his officials, call his counterpart in afghanistan to talk about the evacuation of interpreters. the defence secretary ben wallace defending the situation earlier said no amount of phone calls to an afghan government at that time, last friday we are talking about, would have made any difference. whats your response to that? i difference. whats your response to that? 4 ., . ., that? i...

And ministers go on holiday, but clearly someone in the foreign office is less than entirely happy at the workrate of the foreign secretary because the daily mail discovered whilst he was there, officials in the foreign office were asking him to call the now former afghan foreign minister to talk about the whole business of interpreters who had worked for the british army and needed to leave if the taliban took control of kabul and a couple of days later, that is precisely what happened. did dom...

His english was excellent. most of all, he was willing to go to sangin, which many interpreters avoided given the dangerous terrain. he said i immediately recognized that he was a special guy and i was very lucky to have him. marines in other platoons began to eye this new addition with envy, but major schueman had no intention of sharing him. the patrols were long and terrifying as the marines made their way through mined territory toward villages, often being ambushed in a campaign that killed...