welcome to a bbc news special about afghanistan with me lyse doucet in kabul and philippa thomas in london. flights are still taking off from kabul airport, a day after two devastating bomb attacks there killed as many as 90 people. but for those who want to get out of afghanistan the chances of getting on them are growing slimmer and slimmer. and australia have already ended their evacuations british forces say they will only now evacuate people who are inside the airport. flights are taking off and thousands of afghans hoping to get to the airport. hoping against hope they can get one of the last military evacuation flights out of
in afghanistan facing harsh realities and a multilayered humanitarian crisis and the priority of the international community should be to ensure the continuity of essential services for the a0 million afghan people from health to water to access to education and this should be the focus today of what should be keeping us up at night for afghanistan. what should be keeping us up at night forafghanistan. but what should be keeping us up at night for afghanistan. what should be keeping us up at night for afghanistan. but as you know with the night for afghanistan. but as you know with the international - night for afghanistan. but as you l know with the international airport isn t open, if the runway isn t fixed, no aid will be able to get in by airand untilthe fixed, no aid will be able to get in by air and until the road of secured that will not be a route either. what is your sense of the logistics and the access? what is your sense of the logistics and the access? indeed, the chao
this is bbc news, i m lyse doucet live in kabul. you re watching a bbc news special on the crisis in afghanistan. the military operation to evacuate thousands of people from the country is entering its last few hours, but some afghans desperate to flee taliban rule will be left behind. kabul is still reeling from two explosions at the city s
moment in this operation. they won t say when the last flight is expected, only that by tonight, they expect to be at capacity at this airbase. so it is clear that we are into the final push to get people out. there are nowjust a handful of days before all us troops are scheduled to withdraw from afghanistan. we know the task on the ground is daunting. what we are working on right now is focused on getting as many people out of afghanistan as possible and bringing them to safe locations. what is the plan for the people who you can t get out? so, that s, that s a tough question and i. we are going to keep on advocating to get people out of afghanistan through our channels. but on this tarmac, there is relief. this is the final leg of their escape. a flight to the us and a new home. a world away from the one they fled. jean mckenzie, bbc news, ramstein air base, in germany.
out today. the final phase of this operation will be getting british troops out. in the rush, they will have to leave some of their equipment behind. they have already flown out nearly 15,000 people, though the defence secretary said with deep regret, some would be left behind. the hope now is that the rest may be able to escape by other means. even before this latest political crisis afghanistan was confronting a growing humanitarian crisis and after a drought there worse shortages of food and water in the world health organization is seeing medical supplies are running short