for the world service, we have maintained a lifeline services and some iranian language services but they are mainly been supported by staff in london. do you think you will have to pull out bbcjournalists? that is an impossible question to answer, we very much wish to retain a small staff in afghanistan that enables us to tell this absolutely vital story for our international audiences. if it becomes prohibitively dangerous of course to both throw all our journalists but along with other international broadcasters we believe it is vital for the interests of licence repairs in the uk and a global audience to get the benefit of the bbc services and our footprint there need only be as large as is safe, we will not have huge numbers of staff there in the near future just for the sake of it. thank you. bbc news last sunday covered extensively the death of the singer sarah harding