doctor leslie vinjamuri, thank you very i leslie vinjamuri, thank you very much.aher first arrived in this country as a refugee in 2001. he became a taxi driver and brought up a family in lincoln. thinking afghanistan was safe to return to live, he travelled there just as the taliban were fighting there way back in to power again. tonight he's back in britain after escaping the nightmare scenes in the afghan capital. jake zuckerman has his story. a country in chaos and a taxi driver from lincoln trapped into middle with his young family. a british citizen had been hoping to make a permanent return to the land of his birth. he was visiting kabul where his wife and children who were born in lincoln had set up home. but the return of the taliban sent them fleeing for their lives. at that time we all left our houses. we escape to our friends houses which nobody knows who we are. and we are hiding over there. how did it feel for you and your wife and kids hiding in a friend's house not knowing what can happen? very scary. very, very scary, terrible stuff. the family ha

let's get more on this and speak to dr leslie vinjamuri, director of the us programme at chatham housening. hello, thank you for having me on the - hello, good evening. hello, thank you for having me on the show. i hello, good evening. hello, thank. you for having me on the show. could ou have you for having me on the show. could you have your— you for having me on the show. could you have your expertise, _ you for having me on the show. could you have your expertise, because i hope you could hear the former secretary general of nato when he talks about how we have got here. he is clearly saying, in his opinion, there were mistakes by successive us administrations. is that what the history books will say, do you think? i history books will say, do you think? ~' , think? i think they will. unfortunately, - think? i think they will. unfortunately, because think? i think they will. i unfortunately, because of think? i think they will. - unfortunately, because of the nature, the execution of this decision to exit, they will be inordinate attention focused on president biden and his decisio