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We ll have the latest live from washington on the us withdrawal. Also in the programme. The paralympic games open in tokyo with over 4000 athletes from 160 countries taking part. And tributes to the rolling stones drummer charlie watts, who s died at the age of 80. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. It s newsday. It s six in the morning in singapore, and 6pm in washington, where us presidentjoe biden has resisted pressure from g7 leaders to keep troops in afghanistan and continue evacuation efforts past the august 31 deadline. But mr biden says he s asked the pentagon for contingency plans should staying longer be necessary. The taliban, though, for a second day running, has made it clear the deadline stays. And in a news conference, their spokesman said that the americans would not be allowed to evacuate afghans. Here s a little of what president biden had to say in the last hour. We are currently on a pace to finish by august the 31st. The sooners we can finish, t
Thousands continue to crowd the perimeter at kabul airport, desparate to escape the taliban. Greece has erected a aokm fence on its border with turkey amid wanings of many afghan civilians fleeing their country. A week after the earthquake in haiti victims in some of the hardest hit areas are still waiting for help. There have been clashes between police and anti lockdown demonstrators in sydney and melbourne. Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together leading commentators in the uk with the correspondents who write, to afghanistan dissolved in a matter michael goldfarb, host rough draft of history, the guardian s china welcome to all of you. Borisjohnson has been trying to develop an independent foreign policy. We know it s been pretty clear that this was not a decision that the british particularly wanted to take at this moment. What does this and what s happening in afghanistan tell us about britain s influence in washington, its milit
The guardian s china editor, vincent knee. Welcome to all of you. It s good to happy with us. Janet, let s begin with what this means that if we can come a little bit, from the uk. Brycejohnson has been trying to develop an independent foreign policy. We know it s been pretty clear that this was not a decision that the british particularly wanted to take at this moment. What is this and what s happening in afghanistan tell us about britain s influence in washington, its military capability and its ability to adopt a leadership role, do you think? well, it s not at all leadership role, do you think? well, it s not at all surprising leadership role, do you think? well, it s not at all surprising that leadership role, do you think? in it s not at all surprising that the foreign policies of the uk and us should be disparaging, because they are prominent members of nato, and nato has been an exact existence of a crisis ever since the cold war ended. It was devised, if we all remember, an
Deep in mind, the president has doubled our u. S. Military presence in afghanistan over th past several days to 6,000, could go to 7,000 according to some reports in an effort to ge us out of there. If got the tele band now in control at the presidential palace, the united states was forced to shut down the airport because we could not prevent what you see happening on the lefthand side of your screens here. We had to shut down the airport had to stop getting people removed from the country, now we re hearing that the tele ba is going doortodoor banging o doors to try to find anybody wh may have sided with the united states, with our allies, with the afghan government, and they are trying to identify who thos individuals are. It is a really frightening situation. Look at this picture. United states military service member takes the american flag out of the u. S. Embassy where i flew for almost 20 years after the september 11th attacks. It is a poignant in disturbing photo. Moments from