the american presidentjoe biden is under pressure not to withdraw his troops from kabul airport on the 31st of august as planned. downing street said borisjohnson and mr biden agreed in a call last night to continue working together to enable people to leave, including after the first phase of the evacuation. it didn t say if moving the date had been discussed. but the prime minister is expected to ask him for more time to allow more people to get out. the government has already said british troops will have to leave when the us does. the white house has so far not said whether it will extend the deadline or not. we are in talks with the taliban on a daily basis through both political and security channels. we believe that we have time between now and the 31st to get out any american who wants to get out. the g7 won tjust cover the situation at the airport. borisjohnson is expected to ask the other countries to match the uk s promises on sending aid and resettling refugees. the uk has
are still afraid of coming out of their homes, and unsure about how the situation will pan out. banks are still closed. that is a major issue for people. i have been speaking to a number of people in different provinces around afghanistan and they have been saying that schools in a number of places are open now, that girls are being allowed to go to school. universities remain closed across the country and schools in kabul remain closed also. and in some of those provinces teachers said that pupils were still afraid of coming in or their families were too afraid to send them in, but there is a gradual inching back to something like everyday life, although for many people it is still a period of deep uncertainty and anxiety. you touched there on other parts of the country. how difficult is it to get information about what life is like outside kabul at the moment?
will not be able to get everyone out of afghanistan, it is not thinkable that everybody would leave from afghanistan, the entire population. sorry to interrupt, contact with the taliban to try to ensure the future safe passage, others contact under way? we safe passage, others contact under wa ? ~ ., ., way? we are engaging with the taliban on way? we are engaging with the taliban on an way? we are engaging with the taliban on an operational - way? we are engaging with the taliban on an operational level| way? we are engaging with the l taliban on an operational level to make sure we can compete ongoing evacuations and can take care of all those people who need protection from the european union, and it is important to deliver our messages to the taliban and we hope they will not go to a situation where they will persecute everyone somehow related to the international community, we have operational contacts with the taliban to make sure the operations are completed but also to deli
our correspondent secunder kermani is in kabul this morning, and has been following the situation at the airport. there was a lot of confusion amongst the people at the airport, really. i don t think that level of information is filtering through. many of them don t even know what they need to do in order to get out of the country. many have just pitched upholding documents that they printed out proving that they or their close relatives worked with international troops, with foreign forces and they re trying to get to the front of this cloud, these huge crowds at times, where soldiers firing above their head just to try and weigh the documents on the faces of the soldiers. thing is, even if they manage to do that, then vast majority of them will not be allowed through to the airport because they ve not got the right permissions yet. they haven t gone through the process of being granted permission to board an evacuation
flight. very full view of those at the airport do have that. some do and they are also struggling to get through the clouds, of course, as well, but, really, it was mike a quite chaotic scene and people are. you know, every time i go there we arejust are. you know, every time i go there we are just inundated with people desperate for any kind of information showing their documents to me, asking if i can help, asking if i can tell them what they need to do. it s s. it s s very. it s s a heartbreaking situation, really, because there is very little we can tell them and what we can tell them is not what they want to hear. i saw very chaotic scenes on friday outside a british controlled date. there was no taliban there. the entire, many people were struggling to get through. people were in very dire conditions. that was nothing to do with the taliban, that was to do with the sheer volume of people there and the fact that the only way for someone to get three was to push their way to the f