Live reporting by Alix Culbertson and Emily MeeConservative MP hits out at 'shameful' decision to withdraw
"UK ministers and the prime minister will be very careful about underplaying the impacts this will have in Afghanistan but also on the service community and also on this country," he said.Beauty salons paint over pictures of women Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told Sky News:"It's extremely good news that the prime minister has decided that he is coming to the House of Commons.
Earlier, acting interior minister Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal told the nation in a televised address that a peaceful transition would take place. An unpredictable force with a lethal track record is closing in. Time is running out to get them to safety. He said on Sunday:"We need parliament recalled so the government can update MPs on how it plans to work with allies to avoid a humanitarian crisis and a return to the days of Afghanistan being a base for extremists whose purpose will be to threaten our interests, values and national security."
The Taliban have already opened many of the prisons and thousands of people are flooding out of them. Many of them will be, of course, Taliban prisoners.Bagram was where the firepower that held the Taliban at bay was. When the Americans pulled out, they took some of the helicopters and the planes with them.
He added it wasn't clear whether the group were Taliban militants or simply supporters who live in the city.Analysis by Tim Marshall, foreign affairs expertThe American intelligent reports told him what would happen, the American military said the Taliban would take over - although I didn't think it would be this quick for Kabul.This is a man who has been vice president for eight years and he's a foreign policy expert so naivety is the second of those choices.
"It's been an abject defeat and the UK and the United States has been routed. It's been stunning, frankly. "Every time we've seen Islamic fundamentalist movements with weaponry and territory, we end up seeing foreign terrorism... It looks extremely likely we're going to see it again in Afghanistan."We're hearing this from our deputy political editor Sam Coates, who says the government is not keen to bring back MPs.
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