And run out of russia our Moscow Correspondent Sarah rainsford Files Herfinal Report from the country after Being laBelled a threat to national security. Good evening. Im Christian Fraser in london. Tonight, a hugely symbolic moment. The commander in chief, Joe Biden, addressing the nation to formally put an the end to the united states longest war. Last night, it was the pentagon that confirmed the details of the final withdrawal. The president preferring to put some space Between the operational details and the much bigger, more poignant Questions America is asking of itself and of their president. What was It For if the taliban are now back in power . By by the time i came to office, the taliban was in its Progress Military Position since 2001. Controlling or contesting nearly half of the country. We were left for a simple decision. Eitherfollow country. We were left for a simple decision. Either follow through on the agreement made by the last administration and leave afghanistan o
You re welcome. thank you. sad to watch. beheshta talking to us from a country outside afghanistan. hello there. there are some changes to the weather towards the end of this week, certainly through the second part of the weekend. but it looks like, for the time being, our area of high pressure is going to continue to bring a lot of dry, settled but rather cloudy, dull weather with occasional drizzle particularly across eastern areas. any sunny spells reserved for sheltered western areas. that s because this area of high pressure s parked itself across the north west of the uk,, allowing this cloud to stream in from the north northeast off the north sea. so, it s mainly central and eastern areas with the thickest of the cloud again tonight, maybe the odd spot of drizzle. a few clearer spells further south and west, could see some lengthy clear skies across central, western scotland. and it s here, could turn quite chilly again in one or two spots. otherwise, where you have the cloud ge
Fearing for her life. she is one of many afghan journalists who have left or are desperate to leave. the reassurances didn t add up to much. this was aghan television a few days ago. here is a reporter presenting his television programme surrounded by armed taliban gunmen, telling his viewers what the taliban want them to hear, that they come in peace, which is ironically the name of the studio he s broadcasting from, the peace studio. you can quite understand then why beheshta decided to leave. she s now out of the country in an undisclosed location, and shejoined me a little earlier for herfirst interview since leaving afghanistan. begheshta, when i spoke to you on tuesday, you told me you wanted to stay in kabul largely because you believed there were many young women in afghanistan who looked to you as an inspiration. so, what has changed?
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Of its longest war, and now it has endedin of its longest war, and now it has ended in the worst of ways, and it will live long in memory. here in afghanistan, america and far beyond. today, an airfield flooded by taliban. their urgent task, repairing the runways, so commercial airlines can fly again. translation: as you can see, these infidels destroyed the entire airports. they haven t left any machinery in good repair. we had a team ready to fix this mess ever since we came to kabul. now that the americans have left, we are ready to clean it up. all flights have stopped, but afghans still keep trying to get in to find a way out of this country. the taliban guards turned them away.