doctor harris, you are in kabul, i'm in i harris, you are in kabul, i'm in kabul, it is visible all over incredibly desperate the afghan people are. it is all over this country. i was in kandahar. we see the same picture. how bad do you think things are going to get? tote think things are going to get? we fear thati million think things are going to get? we fear that 1 million children could die before a christmas, and when people _ die before a christmas, and when people are — die before a christmas, and when people are sitting with their families around their christmas dinner— families around their christmas dinner i— families around their christmas dinner i really would like them to think— dinner i really would like them to think about that, everyone. these children— think about that, everyone. these children should not be dying, and these _ children should not be dying, and these children are our future. chitdren— these children are our future. children around the world are our future _ children around the world are our future so— children around the world are our future so it _ chil

we had worked out a route to get through kabul airport.the day they were due to go through kabul airport is when the suicide bomber happened. causalities rushed yet again into kabul's emergency hospital. the afghans who were hoping to be on an aeroplane today flying out to a safer place. they were literally 15 minutes away from getting to the holding area. so potentially could've been, uh, killed at that point. that meant then i had to think of a different route. and we started calling upon every contact, every source we had to find out if we could do that. it involved dangerous and unconventional means to move the family through taliban territory and across the border. we're not revealing details to protect others. it meant tim doing things his navy bosses wouldn't like. his 24—year career in the service was now on the line. it's a sacrifice i knew was worth taking, because i can't live with myself if i don't help people as best as i can, and we claim to be humanitarian, part of humankind, well humankind seems a bit of an oxymoron at time

now on bbc news, it's spotlight: escape from kabul.he story of an interpreter�*s family who fled afghanistan and are settling in ireland. just to let you know, some of the footage and details in the programme are upsetting. in august, the world watched in horror as desperate afghan citizens tried to flee as the taliban swept back into control across the country. many feared a return to the brutal regime they knew from two decades ago. one of those watching was a royal navy officer from bangor whose life was about to take a dramatic turn because of events unfolding in kabul. i first spoke to him on good morning ulster as the taliban seized power. a bangor man who served in the armed forces in helmand province in 2012 says it's now a race against time to save the family of his afghan interpreter. what do you think you can do about this? we have to be clear about this, the threats are there 7 they are going to murder innocent civilians. the people the taliban were threatening to murder were the family of tim mccullough's afghan interprete

now on bbc news, it's spotlight: escape from kabul.he story of an interpreter�*s family who fled afghanistan and are settling in ireland. in august, the world watched in in august, the world watched in horror as desperate afghan citizens tried to flee as the taliban and swept back into control across the country. many feared our return to the brutal regime they knew from two decades ago. i first ifirst spoke to i first spoke to him and good morning, as the taliban seized power. morning, as the taliban seized ower. ., , power. the men who served in the armed _ power. the men who served in the armed forces _ power. the men who served in the armed forces in _ power. the men who served in the armed forces in the - the armed forces in the province in 2012 says it's now a race against time to save the family of his afghan interpreter. what do you think you can do about this? we have to be clear about this the threats are there 7 they are going to murder innocent civilians. the people the taliban were threatning to murder were the family of t

john simpson, bbc news, kabul.securing a playoff place with a a 2—0 win in moldova. england are on the verge of qualification after beating albania 5—0. natalie pirks was watching. # 0 flower of scotland... belting it out like their lives depended on it, scotland's mission was simple — beat moldova and the travelling tartan army would be guaranteed a play—off spot for their first world cup since 1998. but it wasn't all one—way traffic. scotland, though, were by far the better side and finally broke the deadlock before half—time. an exquisite backheel set up in scotland for the cushion they craved. and craig gordon's penalty save was the icing on the play—off cake. the tartan army in raptures — the dream is still alive. england's match with albania began with a moment of reflection. last post plays. what followed was a stroll in the park. harry maguire got the first, harry kane's head got the second. the goals kept coming — jordan henderson made it three, kane's left foot made it four. and the perfect hat—trick wasn

let's talk about kabul, _ them get vaccinated. let's talk about kabul, if— them get vaccinated.et vaccinated. let's talk about kabul, if that is - them get vaccinated. let's talk about kabul, if that is ok. - them get vaccinated. let's talk about kabul, if that is ok. you | them get vaccinated. let's talk . about kabul, if that is ok. you are there looking at the health services, tell us more about the work you are doing there and what theissues work you are doing there and what the issues are. $5 work you are doing there and what the issues are.— work you are doing there and what the issues are. as you no, after the taliban takeover _ the issues are. as you no, after the taliban takeover in _ the issues are. as you no, after the taliban takeover in august, - taliban takeover in august, essentially what was a very donor— based and a— economy and community, it is without financial support financial support and the banking systems are struggling to pay anyone. all the hospitals and health facilities, people have not been paid for months, supplies are not there. we are the who and

from kabul, our correspodent secunder kermani reports.side, a man tries to crawl to safety. inside, mothers and young children terrified. afghans had hoped scenes like this would come to an end now that the taliban are in power. instead, the fighters were amongst the victims of this attack, carried out by the local branch of the islamic state group, or daesh. the assault began with a suicide bombing, before gunmen tried to fight their way inside the military hospital. helicopters were used to drop taliban special forces into the site, according to the group. but outside this hospital, taliban members were anxiously awaiting news of injured colleagues — former insurgents now facing an insurgency themselves. "after the explosion, me and some of the other taliban were helping carry injured people into the hospital," says this member of the group, who was at the scene of the attack. "a daesh fighter pretended to help us too, but when we got inside, he took a pistol out and shot a talib who was next to me in the head." "the rest of us tried to

we have reports from kabul.police sirens] reporter: 1:00 in central kabul and tele been security forces run towards the side of an explosion. smoke leads them toward the military hospital across the road from the now abandoned u.s. embassy. one device was detonated at the hospital entrance. allowing attackers to move in. minutes later, a second explosion inside the compound. this man filmed from inside the hospital. repeating, god have mercy on us, as he watched the attack take place. people sheltered where they can come as -- they can. many reached the back of the hospital compound. they washed walls meant to keep them safe inside, now the biggest obstacle to escape. above, helicopters circled, flown by pilots from the previous government that are now part of the taliban defense. the tele been sent special forces after the first explosion to the site and created a large corridor around where the attack has been taken place. the gunfire has continued throughout the afternoon. >> there were two explosions and six

secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul.average there were 40,068 new cases reported per day in the last week. there were 9,538 people in hospital with covid as of yesterday — the highest number since the first week of march. 293 deaths were recorded. that�*s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. but that figure includes some deaths in england that were not reported yesterday. on average in the past week, 162 covid—related deaths were recorded every day. and more than 8.3 million people have received their boosterjab. this includes third doses for those with certain health conditions. a state of emergency has been declared in ethiopia as a year—long war between government and rebel forces intensifies. residents in the capital, addis ababa, have been ordered to arm themselves and defend their neighbourhoods, amid fears the rebels from the northern tigray region are advancing on the city. tonight, the head of the united nations has said he�*s extremeley concerned by the escalation of violence and calle

brian mckeon: well, senator, the people who volunteer to go to kabul kabul or worked during the crisis i think felt they did the best they could and managed to save a lot of lives, but i know a lot of people who came back from kabul airport who are undergoing an emotional toll about the experience they went through. i think many people in the department served in afghanistan over 20 years, so there's an array of emotions about what was invested and what was lost. sen. young: how can we possibly say that we are better face -- equipped to base diplomatic challenges? brian mckeon: we are investing substantial sums in human resources both at the defense department and usaid which in some respects was an opportunity cost. i remember in the obama administration in which i served, president obama constantly asking the question, what am i getting for $20 billion to $40 billion a year and what is the opportunity cost of that? ultimately the strategic shift away from afghanistan allowing us to focus on the priority you started with, the response to china will be to our benefit. sen. menendez: se

i am around. >> and with the fall of kabul. those afghan security forces seen the us leaving then so do you think the chaotic final withdrawal of troops is inevitable? were that these evacuations started earlier they were taken for what we saw at the summer? >> that's an excellent question i don't havees the answer and that is what we are trying to do. and that's why it's important. and what is anything we do with it. it's all hypothetical. and then october 1st and that information was relayed back to washington in january. what do they do with that information that's obviously important. that's what we're trying to do. >> and with that caveat? >> i hate to start gaze in afghanistan. i think it was napoleon who said don't assume nefarious motives for what my a be explained by confidence. and it may turn out if i was a predictor and i will take a risk it may turn out that like everything in the government you don't have 100 percent certainty about the new information you are getting or inadequate information i'm guessing we make

secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul.e's flying straight into a political drama — it's the election for governor taking place in virginia. that's where democrat terry mcaullife, on the left, is trying to fend off a challenge from republican glenn youngkin, who's on the right. joe biden won virginia by ten points a year ago, so this race is being seen as a referendum on the first year of his presidency — and a preview of next year's mid term elections. let's talk to our north america correspondent david willis with the latest. there are actually a raft of elections at city and a few state level as well but tell me about, a, where we are we with virginia and why does it feel like it matters so much? the votes are still being counted there but the local media is giving glenn youngkin, the republican arrival of considerable lead at the moment over terry mcauliffe, the democratic candidate. this is significant because, as you said, it is seen as a referendum, a virginian gubernatorial election on the first year ofjoe biden in

ironically, it was released, by sheer quinces, right before kabul fell. the seven key lessons we identified and which i'm happy to expand upon in the question time are instructed not only for denniston but it's an horton for anywhere else we may try to undertake a similar project again. that forms the basis of the ongoing work answering the restrooms from congress. while sigar has identified these key lessons, there is without question much more to be learned as we dig into what happened in washington and kabul during the months, weeks, days and hours before ghani fled and the taliban walked into his palace. i sincerely hope we will have cooperation from every corner of the u.s. government as we undertake this work. i dare anyone to say that these matters are no longer important. sigar's twitter content was accessed 2.2 million times in august. i believe that demonstrates that the american taxpayer not only deserves answers, they want answers and they demand them as do their representatives in congress. we also owe it to the families of the over 2400 amer

their mother was killed during the attack on the kabul airport in late august as they tried to flee. she says the situation was horrible and tries not to remember it. the children came to houston in early september, the same airport where their cousin dave ali arrived at a refugee at age 13. >> at first it was not easy for us because i didn't know the culture or the language. i was just like them. >> reporter: ali and his siblings now paying it forward to the next generation. you don't have children yourself? >> no, i don't. >> reporter: so suddenly you have four. >> yes, i have four big ones. >> reporter: the children arrived with just a few belongings. >> everything in here is new. >> yeah. >> reporter: new experiences. >> wow. >> reporter: from makeovers and a first laptop to school, a first for hajar, who didn't go in afghanistan. new classes in a new language. what's your favorite? >> i like math. >> reporter: math? >> yeah. >> reporter: gnat ran is learning english and now spanish too. >> adios. >> reporter: fitting for a country that dave ali describes as a melting pot. >> i h

secunder kermani in kabul, _ these deadly attacks. secunder kermani in kabul, thank you.e — the former chelsea boss antonio conte is confirmed as tottenham's new manager a day after the sacking of nuno espirito sa nto. mps have called for a pause in the rollout of all—lane smart motorways, until the government can prove they�* re safe. they were designed to allow for more traffic by turning the hard shoulder into an extra lane. but safety campaigners say they've contributed to several deaths. here's our transport correspondent, caroline davies. marching through westminster yesterday, each coffin represents someone killed on a smart motorway. protesters want the hard shoulder to be brought back. more of england's roads are being turned into smart motorways, intended to ease congestion. some have had the hard shoulder removed to add an extra lane without having to use more land. if a car breaks down in a live lane, a red cross tells other drivers not to drive it. now a group of mps have said that they think no more should be built for years until there is more data to prove

i reopened our embassy in kabul the first week of january 2002. as it happens, it was secretary armitage who sent me there to do that. we never had a doubt about why we were there with that embassy. it was about america's security in its homeland. that never again would any kind of element be able to form in afghanistan that could strike us as we were struck on 9/11. that was the case then, that was the case when i returned as ambassador in 2011/2012. so i don't think there was ever really a serious question as to why we were there. what was our goal? what was our end that we sought? the differences came over how to do it, what are the means and ways? when i arrived, 800,000 students in afghan schools, all of them boys. when i left in 2012, the number was roughly 8 million, some 35% girls. was that a means to our end? yes, to have an educated population, both genders, growing up, coming of age in a free -- an environment of free speech and media access. these things take a long time for fruition. and here i would just jump ahead to -- you think ou

. >> at this food distribution center in kabul, the hungry wait.on the brink of salvation and for aid agencies it is a race against time. she has arrived with her disabled son, pleading for help. [speaking foreign language] >> the world food program says they are doing everything they can, but it is not enough. [speaking foreign language] >> she tells me she is desperate. [speaking foreign language] >> the taliban says the world is to act. the international community has a head in that because they have proposed sanctions which have led to a humanitarian crisis. >> these are the phases of the crisis. we have come to the endura gonda children's hospital -- endura gandhi children's hospital. she is three, so weak she can barely open her eyes. she is nearly one. [speaking foreign language] >> it is not just patients suffering. health care staff of dump and pa for months. -- staff have not been paid for months. >> they can't pay for their ticket to come here, they can't pay for the food here and she was saying something -- someda the-- someday they may

gates: well, particularly the events surrounding the kabul airport really left me feeling pretty low. two different presidents, one republican and one democrat, made the decision, elected by the american people, and be the decision it was time to leave. we can argue about whether leaving 3500 or a few more soldiers in kabul or in afghanistan for a protracted time might or might not have been the right policy for us to follow, but you have two presidents of different parties who made this decision. what was unnecessary, in my view, was the way it turned out. it did not have to end that way. beginning with president trump's decision or deal with the taliban in february of 2020, the planning for an evacuation not just of the americans but of the afghans you helped us should have begun right then in terms of making contact with these people, getting their contact information, perhaps getting biometrics on them, getting visas prepared, and figuring out contingency plans ready to have multiple evacuation points so we were not limited to the airport. there was a lot of time where planning sh

marine over walls at the kabul airport as afghanistan fell. months later, my visit with the finally reunited right here in arizona. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. across america reporting tonight from phoenix. >> good evening from phoenix, the last stop in our journey across america. a city that sits on the cross roads of so many major issues impacting this country. we'll dig into that shortly. but, first, will they

in the span following the takeover of kabul, our troops on the ground secured the contested territory. in just 17 days, they evacuated the largest air left in history. the president both in scope and scale enabling moreor than 120,0 u.s. citizens, permanent residents, third-party nationals, afghan partners including those eligible for special immigrant visas and state departments locally employed staff and other vulnerable afghans at risk. no other military on earth could have accomplished that and we as americans should be immensely proud. the diligent contingency following the april announcement of the withdrawal from afghanistant the department ofpr defense went to work to ensure the drawdown for the accomplishment responsibly. though we did not imagine a situation in which the government and security forces would collapse in a matter of days prior to the conclusion of the retrograde they began the scenario including the possibility of the contested evacuation and in the spring of 2021. in june they sent the carrier strike group to cover the withdrawal. in august as the conditions

when you go to major government ministries in the huge buildings inth kabul, most are empty.. are not people here running the country.. added to that is the fact that even if they were here they wouldn't be able toe pay their salaries, and they're only going to come under prior pressure from the public as people face extreme economic hardships and famine. they are also struggling to really build an internationalti entity for themselves, or at least to be accepted internationally. they very much so want to bebe taken seriously diplomatically. however, their moves, since taking over the government heret have not made that easy for the international community.ty banning girls from school from a certain age, teenage girls are not allowed to go to school, university, you know, forming a government that doesn't represent the various ethnicities in the government, in the country across afghanistan, many of these moves have been seen as isolating them even further from diplomatic communities, and that only cuts them off from the likelihood of aid and finances even further. >> woodruff

of chaos in kabul, with the taliban victory. we will continue to conduct oversight with that withdrawal. but there is no oversight in the weight unless it also evaluates the years that got us there. what's allow us to transform, was supposed to be a counter insurgency strategy, -- [inaudible] and a possible machine. i want to make a final observation based on the testimony submitted today. i want to ask mr. crocker talking about the fact that there was no provisional capital that was targeted by the taliban. yet there is 70% of the country that is still being [inaudible] by the taliban for that period of time. and he also stated that our angle for afghanistan was always clear, and specific. and that was for military for the united states. and then the closing statement was,'s [inaudible] and for the women of afghanistan. so, to me, it is a clear manifestation of competing interests, and the lack of [inaudible] to deal with those interests, whether we are talking about counter-terrorism, or women's rights, or women's education, o

defensive side a pentagon probe has found no misconduct or negligence in the botched us drones strike on kabul earlier this year. the attack left 10 civilians dead including 7 children u. s. medicines watchdog backs and pfizer, despite a whistleblower report and the british medical journal, alleging serious flaws in the company's coven vaccine testing. and us democrats suffer a surprising defeat and a pivotal governor's election in virginia. it's widely considered to be a major task for biden's presidency. ah, broadcasting live from russia to the world. this is r t international. my name is donald quarter. welcome to the program. b, u. s. defense department, pro pass found no, misconduct or negligence, and the mistaken us drones strike on kabul earlier this year. the strike left 10 civilians dead including 7 children. the investigation found no violation of law including the law of war. did find execution errors confirmed by confirmation or a combined with confirmation bias and communication break. the breakdowns to regrettably lead to civilian casualties earlier or senior corresponded moron g

yalda hakim, bbc news, kabul.a and india, are releasing oil from their reserves to try to lower the global price. the cost of crude oil has risen by more than 50% so far this year. the man convicted of the murder of the british student meredith kercher in italy has been released early from jail. 34—year old rudy guede, from ivory coast, was jailed in 2007 for sexually assaulting and murdering the 21 year old. he was due to be freed injanuary. meredith kercher�*s american flatmate amanda knox and her italian boyfriend were also initially convicted. their case ran through the courts for years before they were eventually acquitted on appeal. the motorist suspected of a deadly attack at a traditional christmas parade in wisconsin has appeared in court for the first time. 39—year—old darrell brooks is accused of deliberately driving an suv through police barricades on sunday and into the city of waukesha's annual parade. he's charged with with five counts of first degree intentional homicide. two men have been arrested

in his decades on the ground in kabul, dr. cairo has never seen such widespread desperation. >> definitely people should not waste time. afghanistan must be helped now. the rest will come later, but now, especially at the beginning of the winter. something must be done. hospitals are running without drugs. people have no salary. people have no food. every day i receive so many patients coming, and after the physical rehabilitation they come and say ¡please help me, because i have nothing at all. i lost my job, i don't have any future in front of me'. so this is something that the international community should look at now, forget the rest. >> reporter: while afghanistan continues to struggle to cope with the collapse of its government and the international isolation of living under taliban rule, desperate efforts to keep millions from the worst suffering continue. both afghans and those remaining international professionals continue to fight on, in the face of enormous challenges. how do you keep going, despite the setbacks he

al jazeera kabul. fill out for you on the program. the livelihoods of millions and trying op around late chad is decades of drought and climate change wreak havoc also. i'm john hendern. in puerto, praying for fuel is stairs in the gang ger hijacking truck. ah hello there. let's start in australia. we've had warnings out for severe storms across southern parts of australia that thanks we're cold front that's pushing its way towards the southeast. it's going to knock a lot of the warmth out here we are going to see temperatures come down in melbourne for example, the temperature touching into the high teens, but it will recover by the time we get into friday now for sydney remains fine and dry. but the wet weather will arrive this weekend and it's fun. enjoy. of course many of the central and northern areas, a lot of heat coming through for darwin, the temperature touching into the high thirty's, it clears up my sleep. perth, with some sunshine pushing through the cloud. some of those showers affecting western parts of australia. now a

he is in kabul currently, and gave his thoughts about life under the new regime.airport is a kind of sense that nothing very much has changed, and then you look a little bit more carefully and you realise that everything has changed. i suppose the two major differences are firstly the men are guarding the check points and standing on duty of the roads are the very people that the previous regime was trying to keep out of the city and trying to capture and kill if they possibly could. that is quite a big change. going into one of the big hotels in the centre of kabul, we were checked by a sniffer dog. i remember very well being checked by the same sniffer dog who was there to catch taliban bobmbers, now he's working the taliban he and his handler. so you can see that there are those kinds of changes and there is another very important change. we drove around for about half an hour, and our, this morning, we drove around for about half an hour, and hour, this morning, and i only counted nine men and on the streets in otherwise quite crowded circumstances. so, women

secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul.d states will begin receiving coronavirus vaccinations as early as wednesday. the move comes after the us health regulator the centers for disease control, the cdc, signed off on the measure on tuesday. but there is a challenge regarding takeup — polls are showing a large proportion parents aren't prepared to let their child have the vaccine. dr ashistha is a us expert on the covid—19 vaccination and gave me his reaction to today's news. first and foremost it is great to see the fda and the cdc advisers voted unanimously so there is not much controversy about whether these vaccines are worth it for children. the poll suggests about one third of american parents will get their children vaccinated immediately and that includes me, it includes most doctors, by the way. my suspicion is that another a0—50% are going to go a little more slowly, they will talk to their doctors and paediatricians and over time i think they will be persuaded that the evidence here is that kids are much better o

reporter: kabul, like the rest of the country, is sinking into poverty. a member of this clan died of starvation last week. >> [speaking foreign-language] reporter: three months ago, nearly 200 families displaced by the conflict began living on this empty plot. since, then since -- since then, they have been struggling to feed themselves. >> [speaking foreign-language] >> [speaking foreign language] reporter: almost a third of the population is already facing insecurity. in the markets, stalls are stocked at customers are scarce. winter drought has pushed up prices. >> [speaking foreign language] reporter: since the taliban took over the country, international development aid remains blocked. the new government instituted a program for food in the largest cities, including kabul. >> [speaking foreign-language] reporter: u.n., many families will not eat incoming months. wassim: here in france, a regional training running between the northern cities of calais and dunkirk, struck a group of migrants. one of them was killed. there has been an increase in chan

we conducted an independent review and investigation into the august 29 airstrike in kabul , the airstrike that tragically killed 10 innocent civilians including seven children. i asked that special operations command to come back with me with their plans or how to implement the findings and implementations. i am working my way through the recommendations. none we are also looking for rigorous outside thinking. i think you know that we will soon be releasing a civilian harm study of iran that congress ordered out of the defense authorization act of 2020. there is another iran study on civilian casualties in syria that is working its way throughout special security review. i look forward to reading these studies and benefiting from them as we conduct operations going forward. the american people deserve to know that we take this issue very seriously. and that we are committed to protecting civilians and getting this right, both in terms of how we execute missions on their behalf, and how we talk about them afterward. we have more work to do in that regard, clearly. and i recognize that we a

checkpoint at kabul international airport. killing 11 marines, one navy, if i was obama i would say corpses man, sheehan he is an idiot, corpsmen. the fallen heroes range in age from 20 to 31 years old, join me in a moment, remembering their souls and honoring their sacrifice. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i want to ask you, there are now in the room tonight, the families of some of the 13 that died that day. i'ming into them, i met them, said hello to a number of them. i want you to know this "fox nation" family, we love you, we are praying for you, we are broken hearted over your loss. this should never have happened. and if we activer help you in anyway, this big large extended family wants you to know we love you, we pray for you of day, can you please stand. [applause] may god be with all of you and angels surround you at all-time, and grant you peace, and mercy and understanding. they gave the ultimate sacrifice, our love and prayers are with you, fox nation, i love you, god bless you all tonight. [applause] >> when we come back. the modern

retired green bray scott mann help rescue hundred it is from afghanistan when kabul fell. are esm award dan sat down with him for a professional interview and scott mann is our hero of the week. dan: i do a lot of interviews but it is a real honor gave an award not that long ago at the patriot wavereds awards to my man, friend scott here your story is to moving i want to turn this segment over to you but a little bit what about you used to do greene buret and got into what you're doing now and why this matters. dges green buret what makes us different in the field. >> that is all right. they drop us into areas that are low, and high steak and our job to build relationship to mobilize people to stand up on their own and all over the place. dan: you saw what happened unfolding disaster in afghanistan which bothered me and you if not as much or more. you decided to do something about it. >> it happens in a high stake situation it was to help one friend. it was a friend of mine named madon special forces and afghan commando who i had served with and he isn't me a text after ka

the bbc�*s yalda hakim is in kabul.e food distribution centre in south—east kabul, the hungry way to. this is a nation on the brink of starvation. for aid agencies, it's a race against time. emotions begin to run hi. this woman has arrived with her disabled son, pleading for help. the world food programme says they are doing everything they can, but it's not enough. she tells me that she is desperate. the taliban says the world needs to act.— the taliban says the world needs to act. ., ., ., needs to act. the international community _ needs to act. the international community has _ needs to act. the international community has a _ needs to act. the international community has a hand - needs to act. the international community has a hand in - needs to act. the international community has a hand in that. community has a hand in that because they have imposed sanctions and other steps which has led to the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. i think the international community and other countries were speaking about human r

some cloud and rain there, just gathering around kabul. you notice further south it does stay dry, it stays.

and to service kabul airport. we have some flights expected to go this week.there are several dozen americans. >> several dozen? when do you believe all americans who want to leave afghanistan will be evacuated? >> so the number, as i said, of those ready to depart is 200. at the current pace, depending on if we continue to have success with these charter flights, i think all of these people, they say they are ready to depart. they'll have the opportunity to depart in the next couple of weeks. >> so we have americans still trapped in afghanistan, what actions has this administration taken to ensure the well-being of these americans? >> we are talking to the taliban indo about their commitment to permit freedom to travel, particularly with -- american assistance. >> -- they have agents who are checking the manifest and seeing if the planes have the right documents. our task force led by ambassador west jones is -- >> the taliban has taken over afghanistan. there are a foreign terrorist organization. en overthere is increased insec, threats posed to civilians. a

we just saw the chaos at kabul airport, and we know what happened. we know the story.s one of thee deadliest days fr the u.s. military in the last decade in this 20 year war in afghanistan. the previous 18 months, we hadn't lost one single american in afghanistan. isis terrorists we know bombed the u.s. checkpoint at kabul international airport, killing 11 marines, one navy -- if i was obama i would say corpse men, he is an idiot -- core man. one soldier, 18 other u.s. troops were injured in the blast. the fallen heroes range in age from 20 to 31 years old. please join me for a moment, remembering those souls and honoring their sacrifice. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i want to now ask you if they are in the room tonight, the families of some of the 13 that died that day. i'm going to ask them, i met them, i went over and said hello to them, a number of them, i want you to know that this fox nation family, we love you, we are praying for you, we are brokenhearted over your loss. this should never have happened. and if we can ever help you in any way, this large, extendedy family wants yo

yalda hakim, bbc news, kabul.are meeting in brussels to discuss coordinating their response to the increasing number of covid cases on the continent. governments have reintroduced restrictions and urged more people to get vaccinated, sparking protests. austria is the first eu country to re—introduce a nationwide lockdown. 0ur correspondent bethany bell has this report from vienna. vienna is cold and quiet. austria is back in lockdown after record numbers of new coronavirus infections. nonessential shops and restaurants are closed. the city's famous christmas markets were open last week. but now they're all boarded up. the government says the restrictions will last forjust under three weeks. after that, vaccinated austrians will be allowed to go out again, but the lockdown for the unvaccinated will continue. and there are even tougher measures to come. austria has announced plans to make covid jabs compulsory by february. austria's leader alexander schallenberg told us the move was necessary because of the country'

and yalda joins us now from kabul.ing what is the taliban and's plan to address the many practical and humanitarian problems that your hybrid —— that you are highlighting? that your hybrid -- that you are highlighting?— that your hybrid -- that you are highlighting? that your hybrid -- that you are hiuuuhlihtin? ., , , highlighting? that is something this entire nation _ highlighting? that is something this entire nation is _ highlighting? that is something this entire nation is wondering _ highlighting? that is something this entire nation is wondering and - entire nation is wondering and waiting to hear. in fact, the entire international community is waiting to hear how the taliban and plans to deal with this humanitarian crisis, with this economic crisis to avoid a potential collapse in this country. i was speaking earlier to some people from this region who say that whatever happens in afghanistan won't remain just in this country — it will spill over to the region, to places like pakistan, is pakistan. and notjust

ahead of the world food programme, visiting kabul a head of the world food programme, visiting kabulnext six months are going to be catastrophic, it is going to be hell on earth. we reach bamiyan, an agriculture centre hit by drought. like many other parts of afghanistan. and of course, there was an infamous taliban crime here. a couple of hundred yards along the cliff from the place where the statues of the buddhas used to stand, until the taliban destroyed them, a woman called fatima lives. she is a widow, raising her seven frondly intelligent children on her own. before the taliban took over, she got by with occasional food aid and the money she and her eldest boy earned from weeding the fields and herding sheep. but the drought has put an end to that and food aid doesn't reach here, within weeks they could be starving. some women sell their daughters for marriage, i say would she? if it was absolutely necessary to keep everyone alive she answers but she would hate it. listening to all this it was hard not think of your own family. that is a response which david beasley of the wor