time tojoin samira ahmed time to join samira ahmed for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch. and welcome to newswatch with me samira ahmed. coming upjournalists in afghanistan have been working in very difficult circumstances but has the bbc done enough to help its former staff leave the country? and what happened to local news reports over breakfast over the summer? welcome back to newswatch. and like the traditional august news low the past month has seen journalist being confronted with major international crisis as us forces pulled out of afghanistan and the taliban to took control of the country. it's led to some powerful and emotional broadcasting. foreign nationals and some afghans are being evacuated. the huge crowds gathered after rumours even those without geezers could travel. 0utside without geezers could travel. outside the airport even more chaos. 0utside the airport even more chaos. tele— outside the airport even more chaos. tele— band members firing in the air to assert their authority, trying to keep keep control. it’s to assert their authority, trying to kee

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hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.evangelist normalising their views. we speak to a reporter in afghanistan about dealing with the taliban and how safe she feels reporting from there. borisjohnson went feels reporting from there. boris johnson went to feels reporting from there. borisjohnson went to the bbc this week and so did laura kuenssberg. he personally briefed the journalists on his plane. 0n briefed the journalists on his plane. on arrival in new york, she spoke to him and she asked him about the impact of energy price rises back home. if him about the impact of energy price rises back home.- price rises back home. if you look at our — price rises back home. if you look at our ten _ price rises back home. if you look at our ten point - price rises back home. if you look at our ten point plan... | look at our ten point plan... forgive me prime minister, i think at the moment people would like to know how they are going to put food on the table in the next few weeks and months, ratherthan in the next few weeks an

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time now for newswatch with samira ahmed. hello and welcome to newswatch. applause that is really strange, hi, me. super weird, isn't it? michael here, just wanted to wish you the biggest i of loves and to say. that i'm going to miss you on that sofa one of the only things that could get me - through getting up so blooming early it was knowing _ i was going to see your face. it was all too much for this person who e—mailed... butjulie edwards spoke for many when she wrote... now, on the 31st of august, sarah rainsford returned to the uk, seemingly for the last time from moscow where she'd been reporting for the bbc for more than 20 years. on that evening's bulletins she looked back on what had led up to her departure. this was the moment i discovered i was being expelled from russia. according to a specific law, i've been designated a threat to national security, and as such, i am not allowed into the country. at passport control, i was told the fsb security service had banned me for life. i recorded the conversation. i was returning from belarus where i ha

hello, and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.te to the work of bbc staff making reports such as those, with brian price awarding top marks to secunder kermani for his broadcasts from afghanistan. and in the view of andrew south: some viewers have expressed concern, though, for the safety of those staff, and also that of afghan journalists who worked at the bbc in the past. a group of the latter are still hiding from the taliban in kabul, and they have accused the corporation and the uk government of ignoring their cries for help. in response, the bbc stresses it is making every possible effort to get both current and former staff out of the country, but that it can only work within the permitted government frameworks. a bbc spokesperson said: that statement didn't satisfy this caller to our phone line. i believe the corporation's official response is ethically, let's say, highly questionable and troubling, and so i am leaving this message in support of the calls for help by ex—bbc journalists and presenters. the bbc does have res