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welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the world. in the next few minutes we will look at what the papers here in the uk are saying about afghanistan but first let s remind ourselves of what us presidentjoe biden had to say. we will respond with force and position at our time at the place we choose and a moment of our choosing. here s what you need to know. these isis terrorists will not win. we will rescue the americans there. we will rescue the americans there. we will get our afghan allies out and our mission will go on. america will not be intimidated and i have the utmost confidence in our brief service members will continue to execute this mission with courage and honour to save lives and americans are afghan allies out of afghanistan. well, we can speak now to adam weinstein who served with us forces in afghanistan and is now at the quincy institute, where he specialises in security, and rule of law in afghanistan and pakistan. thank you forjoining us and it ....
the completion by august 31st depends on the taliban continuing to cooperate, allowing access to the airport for those who were transporting out and no disruptions to our operations. in addition, i ve asked the pentagon and the state department for contingency plans to adjust the timetable should that become necessary. as for what would make that necessary to stay longer, the president did not elaborate. he did, however, warn that each day on the ground increases the risk to americans and american forces, including isis-k militants who are targeting the airport. he did not say that it was blocking afghans who wanted to flee from getting to the airport. nor did he do what lawmakers on both sides of the aisle wanted. he did not commit to stay until they all got out. he did not say how many remained, but instead said antony blinken would supply that information tomorrow. he additionally said that the number when the evacuation began was probably lower than most people be ....
better. each day of operations brings added risk to our troops. but the completion by august 31st depends on the taliban continuing to cooperate, and allow access to the airport for those who we re transporting out and no disruptions to our operations. in addition, i ve asked the pentagon and the state department for contingency plans to adjust the timetable should that become necessary. as for what would make that necessary to stay longer, the president did not elaborate. he did, however, warn that each day on the ground increases the risk to americans and american forces as well as civilians including from isis-k militants who he said are targeting the airport. i did not address the taliban blocking afghans who wanted to flee from getting to the airport, cutting o the road. nor did he do what a number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle wanted, he did not commit to staying until they could all get out. the president also chose not to say how many americans remai ....
thank you. sylvie? i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little bit more specific and tell us if you can rule out that the attackers were taliban? first. and i would like also to go back to the deadline, the french foreign minister said today that it s, quote, necessary to continue the evacuations beyond august 31st. cannot rule out who the hostile actor was in this shooting incident last night. i think, as you saw, central command statement referred to it as a hostile actor. we don t know more than that. and this just happened, so i don t know when we ll have more forensics on this. again, our focus was on making sure that we could maintain security at the airport. it was maintained. sadly it resulted in the life of one afghan soldier and wounded several others. so, i mean, obviously that s our focus right now. on the deadline, i can t speak for other nation states. i can only speak for the department of defense, and you he ....
tonight at ten. out of the shadows afghnistan s new rulers present a public face to the world. the taliban now control the streets, but say they won t harbour terrorists. translation: i reassurel all internationals, the un, all embassies, our neighbours, that we will not be allowing the soil of afghanistan to be used against anybody. there are guarantees girls can go to school, and women will be allowed to work. but many have already lost faith. as an afghan woman, i wouldn t trust them because they don t have a very good track record of keeping their promises or something like that. here, the government is to announce plans for a resettlement scheme for afghan refugees. also tonight. in haiti, a tropical storm hampers relief efforts as the number of dead from saturday s earthquake reaches 1,900. job vacancies hit one million, yet companies struggle to find workers. and a glimpse into deep space, explaining the mysteries, mysteries, of the stars. and coming up in the ....