Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, August 24th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet with American President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders to try and salvage America's exit from Afghanistan.

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But an emergency G7 summit hosted by the UK's Boris Johnson, G7 leaders will urge US President Joe Biden to extend his timeline for the US led evacuation from Afghanistan.

The heads of state, meaning virtually, will also try to come up with a long-term approach to dealing with the Taliban.

And while the aim of the talks is to find a way to mitigate the debacle, our political editor George Parker says the world's leading democracies may end up in a weaker position.

The danger for the G7 here is that, you know, it makes all very well for the G7 to ask for longer to keep foreign troops in Kabul to carry out this evacuation.

But what happens if the Taliban says no, and the Taliban has already said no, it's a red line that foreign troops have to be out by August 31st.

And in a sense, that in nutshell captures the weakness of the West.

But we're basically having to go on our knees to the Taliban to beg for more time to get people out of Kabul.

It's a very unedifying spectacle.

Also this week, the UN Security Council is expected to meet.

And it will be a big moment as the US, France and the UK will have to work more closely with their strategic rivals, China and Russia.

The British government, for example, has already been speaking to the Chinese and hoping to speak to the Russians as well.

And the point about the UN really is that it's obviously with the five permanent members of the Security Council, France, the US, the UK, Russia and China.

It's maybe one incident where the five members can actually agree some kind of common approach because, frankly, it's an everyone's interest to have some kind of stability in Afghanistan.

So the resolution that France and Britain are trying to draw up, which they would need, of course, the unanimity on the Security Council, will cover things like the approach on human rights, the approach on aid and other factors like that, to bring everyone together and to come up with some kind of international approach to what's going on in Afghanistan.

That's the FT's political editor, George Parker.

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