i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines: there have been chaotic scenes outside kabul airport as governments rush to bring home their citizens as well as afghan colleagues. president biden has defended his decision to withdraw us troops from afghanistan, insisting there wasn't a way for them to leave "without chaos ensuing". well, one of the fears of the taliban's rule in afghanistan is that the militant group will reintroduce punishments in line with its strict interpretation of islam's legal system, sharia law, as they did in the country between 1996 and 2001. a senior taliban member has told reuters there'll be no democracy under taliban rule, and that an islamic council will decide on the future role of women. earlier i spoke to professor corri zoli, from syracuse university's forensics and national security institute in new york to find out what sharia law is.