Good morning, welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and jon kay. 0ur headlines today: soldier yelling: get back, get back! chaos and panic in kabul as thousands crowd the airport, desperate to leave afghanistan. facing a firestorm of criticism, president biden says it s one of the largest, most difficult airlifts in history and makes a pledge to us citizens. let me be clear any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. welfare rules for dogs imported to the uk are to be tightened amid a rise in puppy smuggling. the snp and the scottish greens have agreed to work in a formal partnership at holyrood, putting the greens into power for the first time in the uk.
Night, what did you make of it? he is absolutely sticking to this, isn t he? no hint of an apology or an admission that anything is wrong. well, we have to remember who president biden is and how he has felt about this war. we do know that he has certainly authorised the war in both afghanistan and iraq after 9/11, but after the killing of 0sama bin laden, vice president biden thought it was time for the united states to leave. he did not support the surge at the time when he was vice president and he ran on ending this war in afghanistan, and that is something he did. it is also important to know that back in april 75% of americans believe that the united states needed to get out of afghanistan. what we re seeing here is a president following through his campaign promise. even though right now his approval rating is falling, this is something we are certainly
British soldiers trying to keep the crowd back. this is a scene of total and utter chaos, many of the people here don t have any permission to board an evacuation flight but they re so desperate that they ve just turned up here anyway. that s making it extremely difficult for those who had been told to come here by the british embassy, to get through. my family, my newborn baby. amongst those trapped by the crowd, this former british army interpreter. his wife gave birth just two weeks ago and he s deeply worried about the baby. maybe i lose my kid and maybe she is not good. she s not good, my wife. you can t stay here. i can t stay here, look at the situation, look at the dirt on the floor here. and nobody until now, i m here since morning, i came here, taliban lashed me on the back. most of the people here are in
And in sport. georgia has victory on her mind. former champion georgia hall leads the women s open at the halfway stage. and we get a bit of everything thrown and we get a bit of everything thrown at us this weekend with some pretty thrown at us this weekend with some pretty unsettled weather to come for some pretty unsettled weather to come for some of pretty unsettled weather to come for some of us pretty unsettled weather to come for some of us today, but something brighter some of us today, but something brighter on offer tomorrow. i ll be back with brighter on offer tomorrow. i ll be back with all the details. it s saturday 21st august. our top story: there have been more scenes of chaos at kabul airport as crowds gather in the hope of fleeing taliban controlled afghanistan. at least 2,400 people have been flown back to the uk so far most of them uk nationals or those who had assisted british efforts in afghanistan. the government says it s working through the logistic
Now they re ready to go again. we re drawing to the end of a seismic week for the people of afghanistan, and those who have served there during america s 20 year military involvement. evacuation flights are continuing from the international airport at kabul, with nato officials saying that 18,000 people have now been airlifted out since the taliban took over. many more are trying desperately to escape. 0ur afghanistan correspondent, secunder kermani and camera operator malik mudassir, have this report from kabul. soldier yelling: get the (bleep) back! - get back! panic and chaos close to kabul airport. no, no, no!