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i thank everyone involved, and i believe they can be very proud of what they have done. but hundreds of afghans eligible for relocation, and uk nationals, have been left behind, and the government has been criticised for having not done more sooner. president biden warns another attack on kabul airport is highly likely within the next 2a hours, as us forces prepare to leave. forecasters warn a storm approaching louisiana could be more powerful than hurricane katrina which devastated new orleans 16 years ago. dilemma for doctors. a severe shortage of test tubes in the uk means patients needing urgent blood tests could face delays. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, has paid tribute to the military and other personnel involved in the evacuation operation in afghanistan. mrjohnson described their efforts as heroic and said the uk departure from afghanistan was the culmination of a mission unlike any ....
the us embassy in afghanistan, is advising americans not to travel to kabul airport unless they ve been instructed to do so, because of potential security threats at the gates. thousands of people are still massed outside the perimeter, desperate to board flights out of the country. it comes as the taliban s co founder and head of its political wing, mullah abdul ghani baradar, arrived in kabulfor talks on forming a new afghan government. here s frankie mccamley. chaos consuming crowds near kabul airport. at the front, reports bodies are carried away from the crush, with others fighting for their lives. clear signs tension is mounting. this man threatening people with a whip. the us is now advising its citizens not to travel to the airport unless specifically told to, but even those can t get through. translation: we have got a legal |visa, many people who are coming | here don t have the right documents, but we have got the visa and they won t let us through. this morn ....
the us embassy in afghanistan, is advising americans not to travel to kabul airport, unless they ve been instructed to do so, because of potential security threats at the gates. thousands of people are still massed outside the perimeter, desperate to board flights out of the country. it comes as the taliban s co founder and head of its political wing, mullah abdul ghani baradar, arrived in kabul, for talks on forming a new afghan government. here s frankie mccamley. chaos of consuming clouds near kabul airport. at the front, reports bodies are carried away from the crush, with us fighting for their lives. clear signs of tension is mounting. this man threatening people with a whip. the us is now advising its citizens not to travel to the airport unless specifically told to, but even those can t get through. translation: we have got a legal |visa, many people who are coming | here don t have the right documents, but we have got the visa and they won t let s through. thi ....
in it she urges the government to step up the evacuation efforts from afghanistan and says there are safety concerns for people trying to leave the country. earlier my colleague ben boulos spoke to her. my office is in touch with hundreds of people at the moment, many of them filtered through labour mps but also coming directly to me through my inbox, through whatsapp, through friends in afghanistan. raising many of the issues that your report hasjust put out there. you know, the fact that people are being beaten, shot at, turned back at checkpoints. the fact that people are being asked to carry documentation that links them to the united kingdom in order to prove their eligibility but that is the documentation that makes them a target for the taliban who are checking those documents en route. there are no safe corridors to the airport, there are makeshift camps that have sprung up where people are being beaten, and even reports of rapes. and so i ve been asking the g ....
we re going to stay until we get them all out. he did not fully extend that same commitment to afghan nationals when he said that s the objective. it s unclear how many americans remain in afghanistan. yesterday u.s. officials gave differing answers. they said it was 5 to 10,000. yesterday afternoon jen psaki said it was in fact 11,000 and congressional aides were told by state department and pentagon officials the number was between 10 and 15,000 according to three sources familiar with those briefings. that is the number the president said tonight. he also answered questions about the execution of the pullout. sir, you don t think this could have been handled better in any way? no mistakes? no. i don t think it could have been handled in a way that there we re going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that happens. i don t know how that happened. so for you that ....