dysfunctional and chaotic that s the damning verdict of a foreign office whistle blower on the way it handled the evacuation of people from afghanistan after the taliban took over in august. raphael marshall who resigned from hisjob in september has told mps it s clear some of those left behind have since been murdered by the taliban. he says thousands of emails pleading for british help went unread, and that the foreign secretary at the time dominic raab was slow to make decisions. mr raab has denied the claims. here s our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. this was kabul airport last summer, as thousands sought to flee the advancing taliban. amid chaotic scenes, britain and other western powers tried to evacuate those it could but according to a whistle blower, there was chaos in london too. the foreign office crisis centre was handling requests from afghans who were at risk because of their links to the uk. raphael marshall was a young
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government and senior officials have been defending the evacuation of people from afghanistan this summer as the taliban took over, after a whistle blower at the foreign office called it dysfunctional and chaotic . raphael marshall who resigned from hisjob in september told mps that it was clear some of those left behind had since been murdered by the taliban. he says thousands of emails pleading for british help went unread, and that the foreign secretary at the time dominic raab was slow to make decisions. mr raab has denied the claims. today the prime minister said the evacuation operation was one of the outstanding military achievements of the last 50 years or more . here s our diplomatic correspondent james landale. kabul airport last summer as thousands sought to flee the advancing taliban. amid chaotic scenes, britain and other western powers tried to
the biden administration says china is committing genocide against some of its own people muslim ethnic uighurs in xinjiang in the west. attention will now turn to other like minded nations, and will they follow suit? in the months leading up to this decision, one senior british government official intimately involved in forming policy towards china told me the uk ran the risk of being seen as a poodle if it simply followed american s lead on a boycott. china s biggest concern about hosting these games has been covid, but the prospect of like minded nations rallying around a boycott based on claims of genocide is not part of the story it is trying to tell at these games. robin brant, bbc news. the time is 13:16pm. our top story this lunchtime: a foreign office whistle blower describes the government s evacuation operation in afghanistan in august as dysfunctional and chaotic . i know what it s like to be a woman who is essentially