yogita limaye, bbc news, jalalabad.rs that would prefer to ignore what is currently happening in afghanistan. there are no votes in revisiting what went wrong. but in election season there is still some value in apportioning blame for the withdrawal. today the republicans on the house foreign affairs committee issued a sharply critical report into the us withdrawal in 2021, putting the blame squarely on president biden�*s shoulders. the democrats have hit back, calling the report biased, noting that it was former president donald trump who negotiated the withdrawal with the taliban and at the exclusion of the then government. but the withdrawal led to desperate scenes and violence, including the suicide attacks at kabul airport which killed 170 afghans and 13 us soldiers. republicans said the chaos was "preventable" and that the white house was guilty of a "dereliction of duty". we can speak now to douglas lute. he's a retired us army lieutenant general, who served as the us ambassador to nato between 2013 and 2017 and

this is what an average morning looks like at jalalabad's main hospital.rong every corner, every passage, as extreme poverty pushes more children into disease each day. zara, 13 months old, one of three million malnourished children in the country. under five are malnourished, with the delivery of aid becoming much harder since the taliban took control in 2021. the bbc�*s yogita limaye, camera journalist sanjay ganguly, and producer imogen anderson have been in the country for the last two weeks, chronicling the disaster. and a warning — their report shows images of children in distress. this is what an average morning looks like at jalalabad's main hospital. hundreds throng every corner, every passage, as extreme poverty pushes more children into disease each day. zara, 13 months old, one of three million malnourished children in the country. a disease that's ravaging afghanistan's youngest. nasiba has lost four children. and now she watches as her baby girl asma struggles for life. her tiny body racked with multiple infections. by the time she was brough

help identity our nation, which is the most important issue, is damascus, the city of love, and jalalabad is also a narrative of a part of the bravery of the defenders of the shrine . in that it is extremely romantic, extremely mystical and actually a combination of love and war, feelings and anxiety, which means that you could see everything in this life, the most beautiful life that ended too short and the whole life of this martyr was spent in jihad. jalalabad is a book that sets a beautiful example for today's generation, a generation that is very similar they fell away from the era of holy defense and me at least. for the first time, i saw on my shoulders that i want to pass this on to our next generation, which is our 8th generation. my tongue was stuck to the roof of my mouth and he wanted to drag my body to the ground when abul fazl's hands came to my aid. in the past year, 60 audio books have been produced and published in the field of sacred defense. five of these works are about women in holy defense, which are very rich works. and they are different, so that some of these work

this is what an average morning looks like at jalalabad's main hospital.dreds throng every corner, every passage, as extreme poverty pushes more children into disease each day. zara, 13 months old, one of 3 million malnourished zara, 13 months old, one of three million malnourished children in the country. a disease that's ravaging afghanistan's youngest. for every child here who's made it to a tiny bit of space in critical care, four others have not. at seven months, bibi hajra looks like a newborn. her mother, amina, has already lost six children. "it's like doomsday for me. my children are dying because we have nothing to feed them," she told us. sharing the same bed is three—year—old sana. her mother died while giving birth to her baby sister a few months ago. this is ilham. he's three, suffering from malnutrition and pneumonia. his sister died of the same diseases at the age of two. in this one room, there were dozens of stories of death. nasiba has lost four children. and now she watches as her baby girl asma struggles for life. her tiny body racked

this is what an average morning looks like at jalalabad's main hospital. passage, as extreme poverty pushes more children into disease each day. zara, 13 months old, one of 3 million malnourished children in the country. a disease that's ravaging afghanistan's youngest. for every child here who's made it to a tiny bit of space in critical care, four others have not. at seven months, bibi hajra looks like a newborn. her mother, amina, has already lost six children. "it's like doomsday for me. my children are dying because we have nothing to feed them," she told us. sharing the same bed is three—year—old sana. her mother died while giving birth to her baby sister a few months ago. this is ilham. he's three, suffering from malnutrition and pneumonia. his sister died of the same diseases at the age of two. in this one room, there were dozens of stories of death. nasiba has lost four children. and now she watches as her baby girl asma struggles for life. her tiny body racked with multiple infections. by the time she was brought here, asma was already in a serio

this is what an average morning looks like at jalalabad's main hospital.ry corner, every passage, as extreme poverty pushes more children into disease each day. zara, 13 months old, one of 3 million malnourished children in the country. a disease that's ravaging afghanistan's youngest. for every child here who's made it to a tiny bit of space in critical care, four others have not. at seven months, bibi hajra looks like a newborn. her mother, amina, has already lost six children. "it's like doomsday for me. "my children are dying because we have nothing "to feed them," she told us. sharing the same bed is three—year—old sana. her mother died while giving birth to her baby sister a few months ago. this is ilham. he's three — suffering from malnutrition and pneumonia. his sister died of the same diseases at the age of two. in this one room, there were dozens of stories of death. nasiba has lost four children. and now she watches as her baby girl asma struggles for life. her tiny body racked with multiple infections. by the time she was brought here, asma was

yogita limaye, bbc news, jalalabad.omar samad, a former afghan ambassador to france and canada — and now senior fellow at the atlantic council think tank. thank you so much for being here on the programme. every elements of that report was generally horrifying. why do think now it is so catastrophic in afghanistan?— think now it is so catastrophic in afghanistan? well, matthew, es, in afghanistan? well, matthew, yes, distressing, _ in afghanistan? well, matthew, yes, distressing, depressing - yes, distressing, depressing and for me as an afghan, of course, iam and for me as an afghan, of course, i am shocked but not surprised because we have been hearing for the past year or two at least about the dire condition of people in afghanistan, men, women, children. this is one case, and i'm glad the bbc got the story out, of more than 3 million children are facing malnourishment and death, even in death. this is very shocking. but we need to look at the big picture and then we need to look at what needs to be done. knowing th

yogita limaye, bbc news, jalalabad.major unions are also calling on the government to reverse their plans. no 10 faces a potential rebellion in parliament this week, when mps vote on the decision to axe the payment for all but the poorest pensioners. let's go to our chief political correspondent, henry zeffman, who is at westminster. rachel reeves, the chancellor, is meeting backbench mps later today, there is no suggestion that the government would lose this vote but it is coming in for a lot of criticism, including from some unions? absolutely right. the government is going to win this vote. the winterfuel government is going to win this vote. the winter fuel payments is going to be withdrawn for millions of pensioners. the only question is, at what cost for this new prime minister's authority among his own mps? because the unease among labour mps, many of them elected for the first time just a couple of months ago, is really striking. rachel reeves, as you say, is going to address labour mps, a meeting of the parliam

. >> this is what an average morning looks like at jalalabad's main hospital.from every corner, every passage, as extreme poverty pushes more children into disease each day. zara, 13 months old, one of 3 million malnourished children in the country. a disease that is ravaging afghanistan's youngest. for every child here who has made it to a tiny bit of space in critical care, four others have not. at sevenonths, bibi looks like a newborn. her mother ameena has already lost six children. it is like doomsday for me. my cldren are dying because we had nothing to feed them, she told us. sharing the same bed is three-year-old sanaa. her mother died while giving birth to her baby sister a few months ago. he is three, suffering from malnutrition and pneumonia. his sister died of the same diseases at the age of two. in this one room, there were dozens of stories of death. naseeba has lost four children. now she watches as her baby girl struggles for life. her tiny body wracked with multiple infections. by the time she was brought here, asmal was already in a serious co

we will bring you a special report from jalalabad. says she will now be making a gradual return to official duties.

first draft i started writing the entire process getting the military flight, kuwait into out to jalalabad and then up met long and multiday process. stand by on military flights which is a thing unto itself and it kind of makes you wonder how you could fight a war when it was so hard to get people on flights and move them around theater. but it took me days of ridiculousness to finally get out out to this remote base of something like 70 army troops on a hillside, very exposed raised in this village. and i sort of looked around at that point and within minutes of getting out there, i said, there's no way thing is going to work. there's no way this whole enterprise of this country into a democracy with, equality for everyone, and building these institutions is going work. people who went into kabul saw kind of a thriving metropolis of sorts, busy shop people out in the streets. but when you get into rural afghanistan and you see villages with no electric and people who have had general rations of no education and, illiteracy, and thinking that somehow this is going to be transformed, it ju