In theIr respectIve cyclIng events. Hello and welcome If youre watchIng In the uk or around the world. The us mIlItary says Its carrIed out a Drone StrIke In western afghanIstan, targetIng what It saId was a planner for the IslamIc State Group known as IsIs k. The group Is thought to have carrIed out the attack On Thursday at Kabul AIrport, In whIch 170 people were kIlled, InludIng 13 AmerIcan servIce personnel. In a statement, us Central Command saId that. MeanwhIle, the last brItIsh flIghts carryIng cIvIlIan refugees out of afghanIstan are leavIng kabul today. ThIs report from graham satchell. The fInal flIghts leavIng Kabul AIrport. The brItIsh effort here Is all but done. It has been a mammoth logIstIcal operatIon. Injust two Weeks, more than 14,000 people aIrlIfted by the raf to safety In the uk. But the MInIstry Of Defence ackknowledges as many as 1,000 former Interpreters and other staff wIll left behInd. We are so worrIed about our future. I thInk Its not faIr. Its lIke a betra
The head of the Armed Forces has said the uk will end its evacuation of civilians out oF Afghanistan today leaving troops to return to britain in the Remaining aircraft. General Sir Nick carter said it was heartbreaking that they had not been able to rescue everybody who is eligible. A Mass Airlift has been under way at Kabul Airport since the taliban took control of the capital this month. 170 people were killed when the airport was targeted On Thursday by a suicide bomber. Heres our diplomatic Affairs Correspondent Caroline Hawley with the latest. At Raf Brize Norton This Morning British Military Personnel arriving back on uk soil. Around A Thousand was flown out to afghanistan to help in an unprecedented Rescue Mission which is now in its final hours. Weve done an extraordinaryjob to evacuate as many as we have, but im afraid its absently heartbreaking that we cant bring everybody out. And i think that point has been made very strongly, certainly by the Defence Secretary and others
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