hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading commentators in the uk with the correspondents who write, broadcast and blog for audiences back home from the dateline: london. just one topic for us this week how 20 years of commitment to afghanistan dissolved in a matter of days and what the consequences may be for the people of afghanistan, its neighbours and the rest of the world. joining us are janet daley, columnist with the sunday telegraph, michael goldfarb, host of the podcast, the first rough draft of history, and with me in the studio, the guardian s china editor, vincent ni. welcome to all of you. it s good to have you with us. janet, let s begin with what this means, if we can, a little bit, for the uk. 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
hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together leading commentators in the uk with the correspondents who write, broadcast and blog for audiences back home from the dateline: london. just one topic for us this week: how 20 years of commitment to afghanistan dissolved in a matter of days and what the consequences may be for the people of afghanistan, its neighbours and the rest of the world. joining us are janet daley, columnist with the sunday telegraph; michael goldfarb, host of the podcast, the first rough draft of history, and with me in the studio, the guardian s china editor, vincent ni. welcome to all of you. it s good to have you with us. janet, let s begin with what this means, if we can, a little bit, for the uk. 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
hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together leading commentators in the uk with the correspondents who write, broadcast and blog for audiences back home from the dateline: london. just one topic for us this week how 20 years of commitment to afghanistan dissolved in a matter of days and what the consequences may be for the people of afghanistan, its neighbours and the rest of the world. joining us are janet daley, columnist with the sunday telegraph; michael goldfarb, host of the podcast, the first rough draft of history, and with me in the studio, the guardian s china editor, vincent ni. welcome to all of you. it s good to have you with us. janet, let s begin with what this means, if we can, a little bit, for the uk. 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
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,
be here with the bbc news at ten. now though it s time for newscast. hello, it s adam in the studio. and laura in the studio. and we are still two metres apart. even though legally we don t need to be any more. yes, but i think like lots of people are still taking precaution. lots of people are still wearing masks everywhere, on some forms of transport you re still expected to wear a mask too, so fascinating over the next few weeks to see the kinds of decisions people are taking. yeah. and it s the last episode of newscast before the summer holidays, because it s the last day of parliament before the summer holidays, so there is quite a louche atmosphere! what in our. ..there would never be a louche atmosphere in our newsroom, never, ever, ever. not allowed. unfortunately chris mason is on the louche, he s not here. so he s not in his cupboard. but we decided to replace him with two friends of the podcast. yes. restored to her rightful place on late night thursday political t