The Indian-born British author, who was left fighting for his life after being attacked at the Chatauqua Institution in New York state, says it was good fortune that means he survived.
from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is. pakistan s prime minister says floods which have killed more than thousand people are the worst in the country s history. let s turn to afghanistan. the last us troops left afghanistan one year ago today, ending 20 years of military involvement. the final troops to leave were part of the effort to evacuate over 120,000 americans and afghan allies out of the country before the mission ended. general frank mckenzie oversaw the withdrawal from kabul. he s been speaking to my colleague yalda hakin. when you think back to the us withdrawal and what happened just before, when the fall of kabul took place on the 15th of august, what comes to mind? i don t think the fall of kabul was inevitable. we made a series of decisions that brought us to that point, the most significant of which was to actually go to zero, effectively, in afghanistan. and that was actually the fundamental decision that
her next mealfrom. yalda hakin reporting there on a story that has gripped all of our attention. we ll have more on afghanistan a little later on in newsdsay i ll be speaking to a representative of the international committee of the red cross so do stay with us for that. in other headlines, investigations are continuing into a bus crash that killed 46 people in western bulgaria. it s thought only seven people managed to escape alive from the vehicle. the passengers, including children, were travelling through bulgaria on their way back to north macedonia after a weekend trip to istanbul when the bus crashed. 0ur europe correspondent bethany bell has this report. a catastrophic crash. the bus rammed a barrier on a motorway south west of sofia. it tore away a 50 metre section and then burst into flames.
as a malnutrition patient herself, because he doesn t know where she is going to get the next mealfrom. yalda hakin reporting there on a story that has gripped all of our attention. we ll have more on afghanistan a little later on in newsdsay. we ll be hearing from a representative of the international committee of the red cross. so do stay tuned for that. in other headlines, investigations are continuing into a bus crash that killed 46 people in western bulgaria. it s thought only seven people managed to escape alive from the vehicle. the passengers, including children, were travelling through bulgaria on their way back to north macedonia after a weekend trip to istanbul when the bus crashed. 0ur europe correspondent bethany bell has this report. a catastrophic crash. the bus rammed a barrier on a motorway south west of sofia. it tore away a 50 metre section and then burst into flames. on board were tourists,