
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.
(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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- Tue 31 Aug 202115:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa




