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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20210816 19:11:00

To unveil in the next few days. it is going to be bespoke but it will be also loosely based on the syrian relocation scheme that was introduced by david cameron s government back in 2014. you might remember that that, over a period of about six years, we settled around 20,000 syrians who were seen to be in the most need in the uk. this is going to be considerably more complicated by the fact that the taliban have taken so much territory in afghanistan. but the government is working on the details of that scheme. no numbers being put on it at the moment. no specifics about when exactly that will come into play and exactly who it will focus on. but i d expect, when we do get those details, it will in particular have a focus on women and girls. there is a real concern in the uk government about the impact that the taliban s plans are going to have on some of the women and young women ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20210816 16:49:00

Potentially to come here. that includes british nationals, diplomatic staff, charity workers, people like interpreters who may be able to relocate if they are eligible under the government s relocation scheme, and that also includes people who are now part of the afghan special forces. the special forces were trained by the british and by the americans, that means they will be high on the target list for the taliban. the defence secretary ben wallace this morning put a two week timeline on getting those people out and i think people tonight will be questioning just how realistic that timeline actually is. so what carriers are going to be used? they re going to be voyageurs, c 17, hercules and atlas planes that have already left careful sub defence sources, they are already part in the region, ready to go. however, they cannot currently land. why? because kabul airport is in fact a commercial ....

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