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BBC OS: 2021/08/31 16:06 GMT: Welcoming Afghanistan's refugees

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Welcoming Afghanistan's refugees

2021/08/31 16:06 GMT

2021/08/31 16:06 GMT: Welcoming Afghanistan's refugees

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Welcoming Afghanistan's refugees

After the last US troops left Afghanistan, we're live with London's Afghan community

We're live at a community centre with some of London's Afghans to reflect on the end of the US presence in Afghanistan. The final American troops left overnight, with celebratory gunfire from Taliban forces in Kabul shortly afterwards.

We'll find out how Afghans are supporting the many new arrivals who managed to get out of the country in the past couple of weeks. The group hosting us, the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association, was started by a man who himself left Afghanistan when the Taliban were last in power in the 1990s.

We'll also hear from two sisters who remain in Kabul, despite wanting to get out for their own safety. And we'll speak to people who served with international forces in Afghanistan to find out how they feel now about the mission of the past two decades.

(Photo:  A refugee from Afghanistan who arrived on a evacuation flight at London's Heathrow Airport Credit: Dominic Lipinski/Pool via REUTERS)

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