i said to my daughters that things that we have done 50 years ago to change the culture in this town and also in the country. they laughed at me and said, daddy, it will change, it will come. isaid, no, it would never come if we didn t start it. not without me or who started it. i m trying to tell them that unless they fight for their own rights as a human being, they will never change culture. that is roy hackett, the civil is to rights campaigner that has died. a ban on using hosepipes and sprinklers is being imposed on people in parts of southern england as the country continues to receive little to no rainfall. service provider south east water says it has no choice but to impose the ban across the counties of kent and sussex and estimated to affect around 1 million people. it s due to come into force on 12th
evacuation order we d in a lot of trouble. did you ever advise to that to that effect during the inter agency process? did you warn about that possibility of drawing down so quickly before civilian evacuation was under way? yeah, but it s more complicated than that. the drawdown of the forces under miller, those guys are advisers. they are not the neo kind of guys. the neo troops are marine expeditionary unit and elements of the 82nd airborne division. that s what you need in order to do the neo. those are the plans that the secretary is referring to that were developed early on, and there are specific triggers required in the state department who calls the time of the neo. the secretary in fact on the 12th august started pushing forces and orders and on the 14th the ambassador, ambassador wills op, called the neo. should that have been called earlier? i think that s an open question
0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. but you didn t address the issue that you made if it was your plan, you acknowledge it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we got our civilians out. i mean, when in the history of this country have we ever had the u.s. military say and have a plan that we will take our military out first before we take our civilians? i can t imagine that. when you say civilians, are you are you talking. american citizens. american citizens, yeah. the american citizens would come out once a non-combatant evacuation is declared, and