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Things will be tough. This is going to be a devastating, devastating hurricane. A life threatening storm. Live from our studio in singapore. This is Bbc News. Its newsday. Welcome to Bbc News, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. Its 6am in singapore, and 2. 30am in the morning in afghanistan where us defence officials say they carried out an Air Strike on a vehicle in the afghan capital to prevent another Bomb Attack by the islamic state group. A spokesman said the target was a Car Bomb that had posed an imminent threat to the International Airport. Our chief international Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports. A House On Fire in a fast burning crisis, said to be a Rocket Attack streets away from kabul airport. It may have been the target. The us says it unleashed a drone strike, too hitting a vehicle of Suicide Bombers heading to the airport. And next to the airfield, gunfire. This a likely salvo from taliban guards struggling to control the crowds. Today, military fli
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Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. In the end, it wasnt about Fire Power or troop numbers. In afghanistan, the taliban had a vital asset, which the us and her allies lacked strategic patience. Two decades after they were expelled from kabul, the islamists are back in power. Us and british troops are scrambling to complete a humiliating evacuation. My guest is British Conservative mp and former soldier tobias ellwood. This looks like an historic defeat for western power. How damaging could the consequences be . Tobias ellwood, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. I am sure that you, like the rest of us, have been watching the scenes of chaos, of fear in kabul over the last few hours and days fear particularly seen at kabul airport. When you watch those scenes, what are your feelings . Well, personally, i had a journey of discovery with afghanistan. Back in 2002, my brother was killed in the Bali Bombing and i really couldnt understand what happened, that why somebody
A humiliating evacuation. My guest is British Conservative mp and former soldier tobias ellwood. This looks like an historic defeat for western power. How damaging could the consequences be . Tobias ellwood, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. I am sure that you, like the rest of us, have been watching the scenes of chaos, of fear in kabul over the last few hours and days fear particularly seen at kabul airport. When you watch those scenes, what are your feelings . Well, personally, i had a journey of discovery with afghanistan. Back in 2002, my brother was killed in the Bali Bombing and i really couldnt understand what happened, that why somebody like my brother, who was a teacher out there, was targeted and killed, and i then tried to understand, Go To Afghanistan and see what we were doing, following the invasion, to target the terrorists, to deal with those and to rebuild the country. I must have visited afghanistan about a dozen times, and amazed to see the military enga