by the people that we were with, was to run into the hills but we had seen wild boar as we were running, it was completely dark, obviously. or tojump into the swimming pool. we were literally googling what to do. my my colleague there explaining the situation she and her family found themselves in during those forest fires in the south of france. areas of haiti worst hit by saturday s devastating earthquake have been flooded by heavy rains brought by a tropical storm. aid workers had been rushing to the region before the storm hit. at least 1400 people are known to have died in the quake. almost 7,000 are injured in the quake and hospitals are struggling to care for them, as our correspondentjames clayton reports. many of these people were asleep when the earthquake hit, their homes caving in. it s hard enough to treat survivors
fearful and scared things will get worse. afghanistan is in fire. my family don t have water, food. they are sleeping on the road. i have kids. i am a mother. last night i couldn t sleep. people dying for no reason, people torturing for no reason. why? because they are human? i ask great britain to help them, to have the humanity. that s all i can say. the afghanistan and central asian association centre in feltham, west london. for 20 years, this organisation has offered support to the afghan community in the uk. most who come here have friends and family in a country in crisis. the speed at which the situation has changed has proved shocking. over the weekend the taliban reached kabul. there are kids suffering. there are old people,
now they know our name, ourface, ouraddress, our phone numbers, everything. fearing the future, many afghans are trying to leave in any way they can. their desperation evident in these scenes at kabul airport. the us says it has now secured the airport in order to evacuate americans and otherforeigners. yet some people are managing to get out. charities in the uk have urged the government to help refugees fleeing the taliban to settle in britain. ministers say that more than 3000 afghan interpreters and their families who worked with uk forces, have been resettled, and they re working to bring more to britain. but the situation for afghan women is particularly dangerous. the re orts is particularly dangerous. the reports we is particularly dangerous. the reports we are is particularly dangerous. tue: reports we are seeing is particularly dangerous. tte: reports we are seeing are worrying because there are girls who are
at 6am this morning i was updated that the situation has come to, there has been an increase in us and uk forces, including crowd control, because we have seen ordinary afghans heading for the exits given the taliban takeover, it is crucial be stabilising to allow the airport to operate functionally, both for afghans and british afghans who wish to leave and also the afghan translators and many other workers who served us loyally. so the situation is calmer, allowing us to mmp situation is calmer, allowing us to ramp up a number of flights and people that can come out. we expect 350 british nationals and those afghan workers to be able to leave in the next 2a hours, i suspect if and as the situation stabilises, those numbers will increase significantly. let s talk to our political