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now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london. i m martine croxall. this week, we discuss the unfolding tragedy in afghanistan and we ask do extinction rebellion s two weeks of disruptive demonstrations here in london help or hinder the response to the climate crisis? our guests, the french journalist and commentator marc roche, the north american broadcaster and writer jeffrey kofman and with me in the studio, still suitably distance, is the bbc s chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt. now, justin covered afghanistan for almost four years of course as the bbc s south asia correspondent. he was in a mortar attack by the taliban, so he is well placed to talk to us about the events of this week. welcome to all of you. and so let s start with that then, shall we? on thursday, a suicide bomb attack at kabul airport targeted people desperate to flee the country after the taliban takeover. 90 people were killed, mostly afghan civilians, and 1 ....
oh my god. bill: that s the first of many pictures throughout the day. that s southwest of new orleans. ida tearing the roof off the top of the building. dana: one person confirmed dead. millions of people without power and that includes the entire city of new orleans. bill: ida moving over mississippi. it has weakened to a tropical storm. officials saying the threat level remains quite high. dana: team fox coverage. senior meteorologist janet dean is tracking the storm. jeff paul is live in new orleans and where are you now? we re in downtown. as the sun comes up here in new orleans we re starting to get a better idea of the damage caused by hurricane ida. this building here knocked down by the powerful winds of that storm sending bricks all over onto the ground. you see metal and pieces of wood on the nearby buildings in downtown, new orleans. something we re seeing throughout the area. we saw another building in the french quarter with its roof ripped off ....
hello and welcome to dateline london. i m martine croxall. this week, we discuss the unfolding tragedy in afghanistan and we ask do extinction rebellion s two weeks of disruptive demonstrations here in london help or hinder the response to the climate crisis? our guests, the french journalist and commentator marc roche, the north american broadcaster and writer jeffrey kofman and with me in the studio, still suitably distance, is the bbc s chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt. now, justin covered afghanistan for almost four years of course as the bbc s south asia correspondent. he was in a mortar attack by the taliban, so he is well placed to talk to us about the events of this week. welcome to all of you. and so let s start with that then, shall we? on thursday, a suicide bomb attack at kabul airport targeted people desperate to flee the country after the taliban takeover. 90 people were killed, mostly afghan civilians, and 13 us military personnel. a local br ....
to dateline london. i m martine croxall. this week, we discuss the unfolding tragedy in afghanistan and we ask do extinction rebellion s two weeks of disruptive demonstrations here in london help or hinder the response to the climate crisis? our guests, the frenchjournalist and commentator marc roche, the north american broadcaster and writerjeffrey kofman and with me in the studio, still suitably distance, is the bbc s chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt. now, justin covered afghanistan for almost four years of course as the bbc s south asia correspondent. he was in a mortar attack by the taliban, so he is well placed to talk to us about the events of this week. welcome to all of you. and so let s start with that then, shall we? on thursday, a suicide bomb attack at kabul airport targeted people desperate to flee the country after the taliban takeover. 90 people were killed, mostly afghan civilians, and 13 us military personnel. a local branch of islamic stat ....
after the taliban takeover. 90 people were killed, mostly afghan civilians, and 13 us military personnel. a local branch of islamic state called is k or isis k said they carried out that attack. throughout the week, about 100,000 people were evacuated but thousands more have been left behind. there is a huge refugee crisis in the making and a possible humanitarian disaster in afghanistan as money runs out and food disappears. it couldn t be much worse, or could it? justin, let s start with you. you know afghanistan well. you used to be in contact regular with the taliban. they are a highly organised group of people but to what extent was it inevitable that afghanistan would fall to them and fall so quickly? well, when i was covering afghanistan, the government held most of the urban centres and the taliban held most of the countryside. so if you just looked at the area of the country controlled by the taliban, it controlled more than the government. and this was in the ....