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Out of kabul. meanwhile, president biden has said he stands "squarely" behind his decision to withdraw american troops from afghanistan, in a defiant speech a day after the taliban seized control of the country. joe biden said that the afghan government's collapse had happened a lot faster than expected, and placed the blame on the country's leaders and security forces. here, the foreign secretary says details of a new resettlement scheme for afghan refugees will be announced soon. the scheme will be aimed at helping those most in need, including women and girls. the home office says "it will ...

Likely to have an emphasis on women and girls and those most at risk from the taliban. what we don't know, though, is exactly the sort of timescale we might expect to see this scheme. downing street said we can expect a bit more detail in the coming days. it is quite likely the prime minister will want to give some kind of update about this when he faces questions from mps tomorrow in parliament. i know it is something a number of cross—party mps including his own conservative mps including his own conservative mps are planning to raise with him tomorrow. here is what the foreign secretary d...

Approach to afghan refugees and details should be announced in the coming days. what we know so far is it is likely to be quite similar to the 2014 syrian refugee resettlement programme, also likely to have an emphasis on women and girls and those considered most at risk by the taliban. we are not completely clear on the timescale for any scheme like this, downing street has said more detail will be announced in the coming days and we will expect the prime minister will want some kind of update because he is likely to face questions tomorrow when mps return to parliament to debate the situatio...

The criticism has absolutely been coming from within the conservative party as well for the government's handling all of this, former deputy prime minister damian green saying there are times and places we should be strict with applications and afghanistan is the opposite today. we have also heard from the chair of the defence select committee tobias ellwood. that's right. the criticism that has been coming from conservative mps falls into a number of camps. firstly there has been the initial criticism of the decision to withdraw troops, we have seen fierce criticism of that from people like t...

Resettlement of afghan refugees in the uk? i'm talking not about those afghans who have worked for britain, for example as interpreters, but other people who want to flee kabul, flee the country had come to the uk? that's right. as you say there are two schemes we are looking at, the one you mentioned about eligible afghans who have helped british forces and officials over the years in afghanistan who are currently being evacuated along with british nationals from the country. what we don't yet know is the timescale for this of the scheme that uk officials are working on at the moment, a refug...