Tonight at ten taliban leaders make the most of their first day, in full control of afghanistan, following the us withdrawal. Taliban fighters posed with uniforms and weapons left behind by the americans, as the chaotic nature of the final withdrawal was laid bare. We report on the equipment, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, destroyed by the americans to try to thwart the taliban. Now it has ended in the worst of ways, and it will live long in memory, here in afghanistan, in america, and far beyond. The image of the last us soldier to leave kabul, is for many a symbol of humiliating defeat, but President Biden disagrees. We succeeded in what we set out to do in afghanistan over a decade ago. Then we stayed for another decade. It was time to end this war. Well have more on the forthright and detailed defence of the us withdrawal made by President Biden a short while ago. Also tonight. A shortage of Test Tubes means that gps in england and wales are facing difficult decisions about
Global nuclear watchdog raises the alarm believing North Korea has restarted operations that its main nuclear plant. Ah. Now as us evacuations approach, the final hours it winds down its 20 Year Mission enough can stand the pentagon announcing that 122000 people have been flown out in the biggest air left in us history as the last few flights take off from cobbled several rockets were 5 towards the airport early on monday, i saw affiliates in afghanistan says, is responsible at approximately 11 pm eastern time last night. As many as 5 rockets were fired at the cool airport. U. S. Military forces successfully employed our Force Protection measures to thwart that attack. Us forces retain the inherent right of self. Busy defense and are authorized to meet threats with a swift and forceful response. Us troops are among the last international forces to leave. And while huge numbers of afghans have been flown out, many who want to leave a stranded face and a looming humanitarian crisis, set
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We will keep you posted on any further updates, but lets hear from you and your thoughts on afghanistan. From texas, we have scott. Caller i would like to say that i really these people. The Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is the situation in afghanistan. The agenda is adopted. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. Members of the council have before them document s 2021 762. The resolution submitted by france, the United Kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and the United States of america. I shall put the Draft Resolution to the board now. Will those in favor of the Draft Resolution contained in the document please raise their hand . Those against. Abstentions. The result of the voting is as follows. 13 votes in favor. Zero votes against. Two abstentions. The Draft Resolution has been adopted. I now give the floor to those members of the council who wish to make statements after the vote.
I mean it is critical that the airport is properly secured. And the tragedy of the bombing of the Suicide Bombing at the airport was such a cool that into question. And apart from the 300 or more people killed and injured meant that the possibility of safe passage was severely disrupted. I think theres still an open question about how the airport secured and i know thats one of the questions that is on the discussion. So we dont have a particular view on how it should be done, but important that the airport is secure. And then in terms of the extension to extension, since you know, from Russia And China, of course, you really need to ask them for the reasons. But i think id say a couple of things. The 1st is that this was a short resolution. It was a response to the attack and as i say, captured the key points on count terrorism, humanitarian access, human rights and safe passage in particular. But what really struck me from the discussions we had to day in the council. And the discuss