agency filippo grandi said he was shocked by images of the conditions beneath the concrete highway overpass in texas. more than ia,000 people have gathered there in recent days. willie garson, the actor best known for playing flamboyant talent agent stanford blatch in the original series of sex and the city, has died. he was 57. tributes have been paid to the actor who reprised his role recently on the hbo spin off series and just like that. the cause of his death has not been disclosed. a former marine s mission to bring rescue animals back to the uk, as the taliban took over afghanistan, is being examined by the charity commission. the regulator has told the bbc it is looking into the funding arrangements of pen farthing s campaign 0peration ark,
which raised more than 200 thousand pounds from supporters in days. the charity says it acted correctly. mark lobel has the story and joins me now. mark, remind us why this particular mission made the news to start with? last month, filling under threat from the advance of the taliban into kabul, the former royal marine pen farthing ran a forceful campaign to evacuate his animal shelterfrom forceful campaign to evacuate his animal shelter from kabul to get out families staff and 162 cats and dogs and it was called 0peration ark, and it was popular with the public but also there where the detractors, people fearful it was distracting from the most needy people who had to leave the country and who could forget those chaotic scenes at kabul airport, forget those chaotic scenes at kabulairport, people forget those chaotic scenes at kabul airport, people clinging to the plains. the uk defence secretary, ben wallace, even felt it was prioritise people over pets as he put it and it was sugges