The Rise of the Taliban
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We're back with an emergency episode on Afghanistan.
Chris sits in for Adam and chats with the BBC's Yalda Hakim about the situation in Kabul. Who are the Taliban and have they changed like they say they have?
And how difficult is it to get those at risk out of the country? Shabnam Nasimi, Director of Conservative Friends of Afghanistan, tell us how she is trying to do just that. This episode of Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with producer Alix Pickles. The Studio Director is Emma Crowe. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, you know what, we thought there wouldn't be another edition of Newscast until, well, pretty much the end of this month. |
| 0:11.6 | And then, in the last couple of days all of these events in |
| 0:15.7 | Afghanistan which we're all trying to process and understand and that's what we're |
| 0:20.0 | going to try and do on this emergency edition of newscast. |
| 0:23.4 | Taliban forces entered the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul today, the culmination of a |
| 0:29.1 | rapid advance and retaking of control. |
| 0:32.1 | I can't believe the world abandoned Afghanistan. |
| 0:35.0 | Our friends are going to get killed. |
| 0:38.0 | They're going to kill us. |
| 0:39.0 | The saddest part is that I didn't expect this, but now I might face consequences that I never even dreamed of. |
| 0:47.6 | Our God, our Quran says that woman is a very important part of our society. |
| 0:53.7 | We want to avoid bloodshed onto destruction. |
| 0:57.4 | People crowded around departing aircraft |
| 0:59.7 | and some even clung on as the planes took off. Several are reported to have been killed. |
| 1:04.4 | Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation building. |
| 1:08.0 | It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy. |
| 1:12.8 | We boast about global Britain, but where is global Britain on the streets of |
| 1:16.3 | Kabul? |
| 1:17.3 | We will judge this regime based on the choices it makes, and by its actions rather than by its words. |
| 1:25.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:27.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
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