john healey, shadow defence secretary. _ safely as well. john healey, shadow defence secretary. you. - let's get more now on the us strike against a member of the isis—k group. asfandyar mir is from the center for international security and cooperation at stanford university. he told us there was some doubt about the target's status. we really don't know who this person is and at what level this person was involved and i thought that the us government in the last few years has killed hundreds of isis—k fighters, mid—level operatives, sometimes even senior leaders so this is not the first major strike against this particular group so the administration has to, i think, provide a lot more information to convince us that the person they have taken out as someone... there is, my concern, my fear is that in the short term it increases the risk of terrorist attack against the airport, against us personnel, against unarmed civilians who might be at the airport. look, this group is very hard to deter. it has been targeted a lot notjust by the us but by the... government as well as the f

course, overnight as well we saw by mistake by the americans against the plan for i0s and labour shadow defencer his reaction to that drone strike earlier. the strike overnight was part of the necessary steps that the us has been taking notjust to try and keep the airport safe in the us troops and civilians safe but the bits as well. we have only been able to do this evacuation because the us was willing to put in an extra 6,000 troops to secure the airport. so, when we are under attack and our personnel on the ground have been under attack in recent days and it has been dangerous, desperate, desperate mission under the most unimaginable circumstances, where necessary, it was important that they did that strike and i think our thoughts now as those last british military military planes and the last us planes leave, these are prime terrorist targets and we all want to see our british troops, every one of them, back home safely same and the us troops back home safely as well. how is that going to work with my how are people going to be safely got matter—macro and a son who didn't make it to the a

will let's discuss what was said because i'm joined by the shadow defence secretary.ng woman who now live safely in this country but has a lot of friends and family in afghanistan. horrifying stories of women and lots of different afghan cities and already told for example, you cannot go to work any more. you're not going to go to work. all of the rules that we saw the woman were abided by 20 years ago, your thoughts on the speed with which things are changing. infill thoughts on the speed with which things are changing.— thoughts on the speed with which things are changing. will be heard from that young — things are changing. will be heard from that young journalist - things are changing. will be heard from that young journalist that - things are changing. will be heard | from that young journalist that has been settled in britain was what we heard and the debate, comments doing the parliament doing itsjob heard and the debate, comments doing the parliament doing its job and so many of us giving voice to the fears of afghanistan people who have been in touch with us.

we have got and we've got the shadow defence armed forces minister and others included on this, a videoniting the whole of the community on that. it's about the broader context of discriminatory matters of family leave and universal credit and living conditions for the gurkhas. the barracks recently in the news for the poor refugees, the conditions in before that they were the gurkhas living accommodation. seriously things of this kind, the pay differentials, there's a whole history to clear up and is going to take more than the mod officials to do this. we are absolutely need to be assured that our government and politicians understand the mood of the british people, understand how serious this is and how exciting and potentially is for our even race relations getting this sorted out and right. it's different this time and right. it's different this time and i know we are going to succeed. the eyes of the world and all the people on the country are on this. thank you. hopefully there will be a little more friendship as a result of any deal that can be struck. back now to our top story

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shadow foreign secretary. _ nick eardley is our political correspondent at westminster — the pm hasn't said anything yet, but what's his defenceing number of tory mps who are expressing their frustration at the speed of the withdraw we have seen over the last few weeks and the speed with which the taliban has managed to take over some of those major areas in afghanistan. the chairs of the foreign and defence site committees at westminster both prominent 20 backbenchers have been raising their concerns saying they feel the rug has been pulled out from beneath our afghan allies in the conflict in their words. afghan allies in the conflict in theirwords. i afghan allies in the conflict in their words. i have to say the picture being painted by ministers this morning in london is a pretty bleak one, be have had the defence secretary ben wallace saying he thinks afghanistan could be on the brink of civil war, as well as a vastly increasing poverty in the country that could lead to the re—emergence of al-qaeda. in 2001 it was getting rid of al-qaeda in afghanistan was seen as a key justification for the invasion so the picture here