sir laurie bristow, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ee years ago, you were a key player in the chaotic western withdrawalfrom kabul. many people would choose to move on, to try to forget about it. you have chosen to write a book, to dig deep into your memories of that chaos, that desperate time. why? there are really two questions that people asked me when i got back from kabul in august 2021. one was, why did any of this happen? why did it happen after a 20—year campaign there, the expenditure of thousands of lives, the expenditure of trillions of dollars? how is it that this came to be back in the control of the taliban? the other question i was asked was just what was it like? what was the human element of this? what was it like dealing with desperate people trying to flee their country, you know, with their lives in a carrier bag? what was it like for the people on the ground? and what was it like for the soldiers who had invested so much for so little over that 20 years? you are very candid about the degree of trauma that you felt

sir laurie bristow, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.

sir laurie bristow, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.

i'm nowjoined by our asia pacific editor micky bristow. explain what they were discussing, here. are so many issues facing the chinese economy, it is hard to know where to start. what were they hoping to achieve in a meeting? were they hoping to achieve in a meetin: ? , , , meeting? this is held every five ears in meeting? this is held every five years in the _ meeting? this is held every five years in the communist - meeting? this is held every five years in the communist party i meeting? this is held every five i years in the communist party cycle and it is usually at this meeting of the communist party set out its major overall economic agenda for the coming years. so, broad brush ideas, essentially, that is what they were going to discuss. when you read the communique that they came out with after the meeting finished, you can see just how broad a brush that agenda was. it talks about fiscal policy, tax policy, foreign investment, even social control and maintaining social control in the country where there could be economic problems, so example, a run on a bank or real estat

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. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launchings a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community p

. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public