This is bbc news, the headlines. the 20 year us military operation in afghanistan, described as america s longest war, has come to an end. washington s ambassador to kabul was on the final evacuation flight. the us says it has flown out nearly 80,000 civilians in the last few weeks. taliban fighters have now taken over kabul airport. footage shows hangers with abandon helicopters. earlier taliban forces fired their guns in the air and let off fireworks to celebrate the us completing its withdrawal. a huge rescue operation is taking place in louisiana which was struck by hurricane ida. the storm is thought to have killed at least two people, but many more are feared to have lost their lives. most of the state s southeast is without power. a number of councils
The headlines. the 20 year us military operation in afghanistan, described as america s longest war, has come to an end. washington s ambassador to kabul was on the final evacuation flight. the us says it has flown out nearly 80,000 civilians in the last few weeks. taliban fighters have now taken over kabul airport. footage shows hangers with abandon helicopters. earlier taliban forces fired their guns in the air and let off fireworks to celebrate the us completing its withdrawal. a huge rescue operation is taking place in louisiana which was struck by hurricane ida. the storm is thought to have killed at least two people, but many more are feared to have lost their lives. most of the state s southeast is without power. a number of councils
To them it s an american conspiracy. what they say sounds fanciful. what matters is they believe it. they kid familiar mullahs and take them far away. i have seen americans on television putting needles into the chest of people and coming out the other side. that s what they re doing to mullahs. like children the world over, these boys like to play with toy guns. war here is no game. the enemy is the united states, and they believe god is on their side. stan grant, cnn, kabul. amazing developments going on over there. ten years into the u.s. military operation in afghanistan, thousands of lives lost. nearly a trillion dollars spent. that s what s going on right now. we re watching the story. we re also learning some chilling new details about alleged terror plots that never came to fruition. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is back with new details on this part of the
Were hearing that had become a goal and objective to recruit non-arab males to make sure they could get past any sort of screening protocols we may have. plan after plan. these wikileaks, the documents from that, also reveal that in its zeal to stop the attacks, the u.s. government sent plenty of innocent man to guantanamo, like a 70-year-old senile man from afghanistan. they found out when they looked at him, he was diagnosed with ghens yeah, had absolutely no contact with terrorists whatsoever. they couldn t explain a reason why he had been sent to guantanamo bay. thanks very much. rape victims blasting the u.s. peace corps on capitol hill. they say the organization made their plight even worse.
Gingrich and some of the other candidates, the new way of how they announce their candidacy for president by tweeting. i m not in favor of that, could you tell? i think we need speeches and talk about issues and not just say read my tweet. cat s out of the bag. thanks guys. young people being taught bin laden s message of terror. a rare look inside one islamic school in afghanistan. pakistan s army uncomfortably the spotlight in the wake of bin laden s death. why there s growing embarrassment in the town where he was living.