serious and deliberative way. this will be absolutely at the forefront of his mind and his efforts. doctor leshe of his mind and his efforts. doctor leslie vinjamuri, of his mind and his efforts. doctor leslie vinjamuri, thank of his mind and his efforts. doctor leslie vinjamuri, thank you i of his mind and his efforts. doctor leslie vinjamuri, thank you very i leslie vinjamuri, thank you very much. a man who tricked the taliban to get his family on a british government plane out of kabul is now safely back in the uk. mohammad taher first arrived in this country as a refugee in 2001. he became a taxi driver and brought up a family in lincoln. thinking afghanistan was safe to return to live, he travelled there just as the taliban were fighting there way back in to power again. tonight he s back in britain after escaping the nightmare scenes in the afghan capital. jake zuckerman has his story. a country in chaos and a taxi driver from lincoln trapped into middle with his young family.
the government conceded again today that some who are eligible to come to the uk will be left behind. 0urfirst report comes from our afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani who is in kabul. it s crowded, filthy and baking hot. but desperate afghans keep coming to kabul airport. so many children in such a terrible place. this woman worked alongside german forces. she has documents proving it. but no permission to travel. i ve been here with my kids for the past five days waiting for the soldiers to look at my papers, she says. they can t even take two steps in this crowd. everywhere we go, people beg us for help, beg us for information. we re being surrounded by dozens and dozens of people who are desperate to leave, showing us their documents. this chap worked with
he was visiting kabul where his wife and children who were born in lincoln had set up home. but the return of the taliban sent them fleeing for their lives. at that time we all left our houses. we escape to our friends houses which nobody knows who we are. and we are hiding over there. how did it feel for you and your wife and kids hiding in a friend s house not knowing what can happen? very scary. very, very scary, terrible stuff. the family had to talk their way past taliban guards to reach the safety of the airport. they were so many people and shooting was all over. taliban was shooting so many people and surrounding the airport. the second thing we were there, we don t want to reveal our identity to the taliban in case they found out we are from uk, the british passports they must kill us immediately. you know? but once inside mohammed became
already been a violation if you like of that agreement. president biden originally set the target of the 11th of september as the deadline. so he can still meet that deadline if we go beyond the 31st of august. but i think the british government can probably evacuate most of the short term evacuees within that timetable at. after all, they have already evacuated over 6000 and there are only about another four or 5000 in this initial wave of evacuation is. so it should be possible to do that within eight days. possible to do that within eight da s. ~ ., ., ~ possible to do that within eight da s. ~ . ., ~ ., possible to do that within eight da s. ~ . ., days. what will it take, do you think, for days. what will it take, do you think, for the days. what will it take, do you think, for the taliban - days. what will it take, do you think, for the taliban to - days. what will it take, do you think, for the taliban to get i think, for the taliban to get recognition by the international co
have beach heads at. there s a guy i m talking to right now, i haven t told anybody this, talking to him privately one on one, because i needed to talk to somebody and i needed to hear from somebody inside taliban territory to hear what it was like for myself. i talked to him the night the taliban took over the city. he told me the next day, i told my wife matt called me and now we have hope because maybe you can help get us out. they have hope in the american people. i told him, brother, i don t know what s going to happen, i can t advise you, i only know that we have one airport in kabul that doesn t seem to be functioning at this point. it is now but wasn t then. i said i can t tell what you to do. he said i m going to have to think on it but i don t he said he still loved us, he was still proud of the service he did with us and he wouldn t change it and he thanked us for a good life. that guy is worth fighting for.