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We see as desperate people in afghanistan try to get out, but the clock ticking with just a week now left in this airlift. the difficulty, i think, for european countries, the uk, borisjohnson chairing, is that they themselves have little power to achieve much and they don t want to have a big falling out i would guess with the us, but they do want to see the airlift extended. joe biden s administration have been very clear they don t think they want to see that drawn out any further and the taliban that ultimately it depends on also don t want to, so the uk today, the defence secretary saying, the last 2a hours, they have flown out another 2000, that is speeding up, but time is running out and they want to extend if possible. time matters more than anything. we have planned for the worst, the 315t of august, that is why we have flown in 1000 troops to access the system, to be there, to process these people, to make sure that we secure the airport. we flew them in through august. ....
Foreign secretary lisa nandy has been saying today, that there are ways that western powers can bring some influence to bear on the taliban. she said this is an important moment. borisjohnson chairing the g7, to try to get a common approach. the air bridge is about to close, on the 315t of august, and my office is in touch with hundreds of people still stuck in afghanistan who are eligible to come out on uk flights but simply cannot get onto them for lots of different reasons, so we have got to get an agreement at the g7 today that will make a common approach to the taliban to extend that deadline, and that relies on us support. it really does matter. there are few other options available to us, and the reality is, unless we get that agreement at the g7 today, many people will be left behind and face reprisals from the taliban. one interesting thing the uk government has said is that it is not putting on the table the idea of more sanctions on the taliban. perhaps that is a sign that ....
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