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Tobias Ellwood: Britain's Afghanistan exit

US and British troops are scrambling to complete a humiliating evacuation from Kabul. It looks like an historic defeat for western powers. How damaging could the consequences be?

HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to British Conservative MP and former soldier Tobias Ellwood. Two decades after they were expelled from Kabul the hard-line Islamists are back. US and British troops are scrambling to complete a humiliating evacuation. It looks like an historic defeat for western powers. How damaging could the consequences be?

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Wed 18 Aug 202121:06GMT
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