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thank youj very much for your time, general sir richard barrons, commander ofjoint richard barrons, commander international reaction to the rapid advance of the taliban. my colleague lewis vaughanjonesjoins me. so much has happened today. just run us through some of the developments. i'm going to start in the uk because just a few hours ago, an emergency meeting was called by the government and borisjohnson and the prime minister speaking afterwards giving an admission saying that shortly there will be a new government in kabul and if you take a moment to think about it, imagining british prime minister saying that a couple of weeks ago, a couple of days ago and even perhaps this morning, it is and even perhaps this morning, it is an extraordinary admission and talking about the priority being to stop the country becoming a breeding ground for terror. it is stop the country becoming a breeding ground for terror.— ground for terror. it is clear that there is going — ground for terror. it is clear that there is going to _ ground for terror. it is clear that there is going to be _ ground for ter

general sir richard barrons, a retired british general who served in afghanistan, said: "we would haved get these people. "i just don't see that as a credible proposition." tobias ellwood, a conservative mp and chair of the defence select committee in the house of commons — he had some scathing words for the us. it's astonishing, we had the g7 summit here in cornwall in the uk only a few months ago. the determination by the united states and britain and we signed a new charter that determine to give greater resolve to what the west stands for, what we believe in, and what we are waiting to defend and here we are belittled in disarray and having to negotiate and airports to remain open and critical it must because that air bridge is vital to get at risk afghans out of the country and i am really sorry that when i'm having to mop up so many poor decisions, a litany of mistakes both strategic and operational that were made unilaterally by the united states. eu member states are still working on their evacuation efforts. this plane carrying 2,000 french nationals and afghans landed in pari

and as this has all played out, the former head of uk joint forces command, general richard barrons, and injon's article, he thinks back to this moment in 2001, when then uk prime minister tony blair visited washington after the 9/11 attacks. in the months to come, he'd provide uk support for america's invasions of iraq and afghanistan. 20 years on, he's had this to say. many people, as a result - of what happened in afghanistan, are going to have a deep doubt - as to whether we can be relied upon. and that is not a good thing. and mr blair's fierce criticism of mr biden's withdrawal also raises a question about whether the uk can rely on the us. but when the uk foreign secretary, dominic raab, was asked today if the us refusal to extend that deadline meant the special relationship was over, he replied... and if that's the uk perspective, this is us state department spokesperson ned price last week. we certainly have an extraordinary partner in the british government. to back that up, mr price added... what i can say is that our coordination with the british government, with all of o

happened just now with this bombing by the barron or this explosion by the barron hotel, by that gate. >> so much anxiety. richard go to kelly o'donnell at the white house where the president is monitoring the situation. kelly, what are you hearing? >> officials tell me the president is right now in the situation room with his national security team. i can also tell you the pentagon spokesman says the kabul airport blast has resulted in an unknown number of casualties. they'll continue to update us. it's important to look at this warning about what has transpired today. the u.s. and partners have been saying there was a stream of intelligence that they deemed very credible. now borne out by events of potential for a terror attack. that was influencing the president's decision-making on the timeline for the evacuations and withdrawals. wanting to get out by august 31st in part to not have any difficulty and breakdown of communication with the taliban but also concerned about the amount of time on the ground being a greater risk for any kind of a terror strike. we don't know what group is behind this yet or the sco