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Throughout this campaign in afghanistan, which is a ministerial lack of urgency, lack of understanding of the need to put as much effort as quickly as possible behind decision—making, behind gaining resources and support for the fighting. its crucial, in many cases, in battle, in a conflict situation. they expect our soldiers to do that yet somehow, very often, ministers themselves dont do the same thing. why do you think that is, colonel? is its something thats developed more recently or not?...

And explosive devices from afghanistan who has had a constant presence in the country since 1988, including the years when the taliban last ruled. thanks forjoining us. whats the situation now in terms of the presence there and how safe it is? 0utside presence there and how safe it is? outside of kabul, in many of the areas where we have been working, head act, kandahar, up in the north, the situation, certainly for a two and a half thousand staff is relatively safe and secure —— herat. 0ur ...

Of the afghan government, but secondly, there will now be accusations that the government took too long to act when it became clear that the taliban was taking over. nick eardley speaking there. that was a round—up of reaction today and that growing pressure on dominic raab. lets talk to the labour mp and shadow foreign office minister stephen kinnock. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. we heard they arejust a forjoining us on bbc news. we heard they are just a selection of some of they are ...

Whereas in previous generations, i think there were far more, given we had gone through two world wars, far more political leaders with military experience who had greater understanding of the sort of thing. colonel, im sure youve been watching things unfold over the weekend. you must have played through a scenario that you would have expected. what should have happened? well, my first point i think would be that we should not... president biden should not have made a decision to unconditionally...

A ministerial lack of urgency. it was a dire situation, it got even worse but there could have been assistance from the government in kabul to help the interpreters we wanted to move out and other people we wanted to move out. i think one thing that may be misunderstood in some quarters is that in particular if youre dealing with the afghans, and the same goes for many other countries in the region, they wont deal with someone at a lower level than them. its got to be the equivalent, its got to ...

The last thing moscow wants is for islamist fighters to move north . the last thing moscow wants is for islamist fighters to move north to| islamist fighters to move north to target _ islamist fighters to move north to target countries _ islamist fighters to move north to target countries like _ islamist fighters to move north to target countries like uzbekistan, i target countries like uzbekistan, kurdistan. — target countries like uzbekistan, kurdistan, and— target countries like uzbekista...

What those _ expecting many more people to come. what those peoples status will be in future, — what those peoples status will be in future, how long they can stay and what — in future, how long they can stay and what sort of certainty, security they will— and what sort of certainty, security they will have is a major question because, — they will have is a major question because, talking to some of that refugee — because, talking to some of that refugee population over the last two da...

Making the call in the first place, and i think there will be even more criticism now that we know that call didnt take place at all. a couple of questions the government will be asked. one, had mr raab agreed to make the call, would it have happened, would he have had enough priority to make sure that conversation with what was the then afghan government happen? and, secondly, why didnt he then returned from his holiday until the monday, if the government knew how rapidly deteriorating the situ...