which suddenly finds itself back in power is going to try to form a government. what is also interesting as there has been some surprising twists in the sense we were told the health minister has been asked to stay on for the moment, and the mayor of kabul has also been asked to stay on for the moment and the female television presenters at the most popular afghan television channel are notjust on tv, they re interviewing taliban on the television screens. it is early days yet to give any kind of sense of whether this is going to be literally the new face of the taliban but i think we have to watch closely and afghans are watching very closely and as we have seen from those images yesterday, watching and fleeing with a great amount of fear. bhd watching and fleeing with a great amount of fear. watching and fleeing with a great amount of fear. and on that point, with the latest amount of fear. and on that point, with the latest statement - amount of fear. and on that point, with the
allowed to live in peace. to which afghan said, we didn t do anything wrong, we were simply working. and so it was a message meant to reassure but actually it rattled people. not to forget the horrible, horrible stories about people being beheaded, people being killed. i think the taliban are very anxious will stop the one thing that has changed from their rule of the 1990s is that they are very much aware of international opinion, they very much don t want to be a pariah state, but they also emphasise what matters most of all is the establishment of what they call a pure islamic system. everything else is secondary. pure islamic system. everything else is secondary- pure islamic system. everything else is secondary. lyse doucet, thank you very much. is secondary. lyse doucet, thank you very much. in is secondary. lyse doucet, thank you very much, in dubai is secondary. lyse doucet, thank you very much, in dubai for is secondary. lyse doucet, thank you very much, in dubai for u
conservative backbench mps have been calling for specific numbers but also more clarity on the safe routes that will be provided for those seeking asylum micro labour. labour have been criticising today the way in which the evacuation of eligible afghans and british nationals has been handled. this is what a labour s shadow foreign office minister stephen kinnock had to say about that this morning. our ability to deliver on promises like that has been on promises to date has been sorely lacking up to now, so it is crucial the british government does not build up expectations that cannot be delivered on, but we also need to see the british government being ready to do far more to secure safe passage for those people to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, and i m afraid the chaotic and shambolic scenes coming out of kabul, it is a very dark day for us.
shops, medicine shops, there was more traffic than the previous few days and people are getting used to the new reality. the prominent news channel assumed april cursed with a female anchor and she interviewed a taliban representative, which was history in the making, they would not have allowed this 20 years ago, so the situation is improving inside kabul with more taliban militants having checkpoints and patrolling the streets, and evacuations have resumed at the airport. with regards to what the taliban hope to do in the coming hours is to assert their authority within kabul and the country. for example i spoke to a member of the taliban yesterday at one of the things he spoke about was the formation of a government, he said they wanted an inclusive
it has offered them a general amnesty and, in a statement, said it wanted people to start routine life with full confidence. at kabul s airport, military flights have resumed after yesterday s chaotic scenes, when hundreds of afghans tried to board aircraft. those scenes at the airport have been highlighted by newly released satellite pictures showing just how many people were on the runway. and this extraordinary image shows more than 640 afghan evacuees crowded on board a us military transport plane which took off from kabul on sunday that s believed to be among the largest number of people ever flown in such an aircraft. overnight, evacuations by the military restarted this footage shows the french air force preparing to fly its citizens out of kabul. president biden has said he stands squarely behind his decision to withdraw american troops from afghanistan, in a defiant speech a day after the taliban seized