White house as soon as anyone steps out, we will show it to you. this is what we know. there have been two explosions on the perimeter of the airport. you can see from these pictures smoke rising above the airport, this is around 70 local time. last night there had been a us and uk warning an attack was imminent 7pm. these pictures were posted on social media of the scene moments after. some of the injured are being carried away in wheelbarrows. others are wearing bloodied bandages. and this is the scene outside kabul s main hospital. dozens are being treated. in the past hour the taliban has said between 13 and 20 people have died. journalist bilal sarwary who escaped afghanistan over the weekend posted these pictures on twitter of the scene before the attack. this is said to be a sewage canal
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Be followed by more attacks by isis k, going against the aircraft, so more than likely the defensive systems like the counter rocket and mortar systems are full up. what does this mean for the evacuation? i think it has come to a dead halt at this point, as people are running to the duck and cover positions and getting ready for more attacks. let s just hear from a former state department official, now president of the truman national security project, which is coordinating with other groups to try to coordinate what we call afghan allies but to evacuate them. what we call afghan allies but to evacuate them. what we call afghan allies but to evacuate them. what is unfolding in kabul ri . ht evacuate them. what is unfolding in kabul right now evacuate them. what is unfolding in kabul right now is what kabul right now is what we had long feared would be the case and indeed what the us embassy had warned was in fact imminent, so we know that there are casualties on the ground
Least ten military personnel have been killed, the pentagon has confirmed that for them has have lost their lives, but are bbc correspondent reporting that ten have lost their lives. the next is from the bbc s chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, who is in kabul. the fiat attack happened. into the hospital, that might be fiat attack happened. into the hospital, go the victims. this man was there. translation: i hospital, go the victims. this man was there. translation:- hospital, go the victims. this man was there. translation: i saw at least 400 people was there. translation: i saw at least 400 people there. was there. translation: i saw at least 400 people there. the - was there. translation: i saw at - least 400 people there. the exposure least a00 people there. the exposure was powerful, people held into the water, others outside. we currently wounded on stretchers here. my clothes are completely blooded. the wounded shoved into wheelbarrows. the afghans who were hop
Consequence of a flawed policy that began in february 2020, i am afraid. but given that you are unimpressed by the trump deal to which you refer, the deal between the trump administration and the taliban back in early 2020, given that boris johnson and his government was government was facing, was anything really he or anyone else could have donein really he or anyone else could have done in the immediate situation to reduce the risk that paid out today? not once they had abandoned the effort. i think the british government is entirely dependent on what to us policy is, so i use i lay blame at the us and station. i think the decision to close the air base was a monumental mistake. we have got mistakes compounding upon mistakes. i understand it only had enough troops to maintain one airport and they decided for kabul.