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Are closed. it is not possible or, you know, it does not seem to be possible, according to people who are on the ground and trying to get in, to get past those gates at this time. now, that does make sense when you think of where we are in this u.s. evacuation, which are the very final hours essentially. this is the most sensitive time. this is where america is sort of takes its perimeter, brings it in, starts to destroy equipment it can't take, load the equipment it can take. so it's in some ways the most vulnerable part of the entire evacuation operation. given what we have seen at kabul air...

With a storm like this the impact can take a great deal of time and of course an issue right now is we don't know the extent of the damage. a lot of people right now aren't able to communicate, power is out throughout the city, emergency lines are shut down and so we are still trying to assess exactly how bad the damage is, how many people are in danger, as are emergency managers. the headlines on bbc news: american anti—missile systems have intercepted rockets fired towards kabul airport — where the us evacuation operation is drawing to a close. the uk government seeks international suppo...

Where the us evacuation operation is drawing to a close. about five rockets flew over the afghan capital, before a us anti—missile system stopped them. it isn't known who fired them. it comes as british ministers prepare to take part in international meetings aimed at defining a joint approach to the taliban in afghanistan. jon donnison has the details. back in britain. some of the final raf planes from kabul arriving at brize norton airbase in oxfordshire last night, carrying uk troops and officials. earlierflights had brought more afghan refugees, and the man who led the effort to bring th...

Starr at the pentagon for us. who was in the briefing. this is a particularly dangerous time, something that i wrote down of what john kirby as well as general taylor were saying about the tail end of this evacuation operation. what did you hear that stuck out to you? >> well i think they are going minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour until this is over. because of the dangerous situation they -- john kirby also talked about an active threat presumably from isis-k still ongoing. i want to endorse what jeff zeleny just said, the pentagon often has tense days. this is one of them. people are very much...

Us counterparts about the situation in afghanistan and emphasise the importance of like—minded people to discuss arrangements for those people who are still in afghanistan and have not been rescued so far. he said that tell of that for the nationals and citizens with travel authorisations will be allowed to leave the country but mr rab also underlined that we have to judge them on their actions on whether people are allowed to spend safe passage to league. —— to leave. that is the latest on the afghanistan situation. the headlines... the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for...