Evacuations from Kabul speed up as Taliban promises peace – Live

Evacuations from Kabul speed up as Taliban promises women’s rights and media freedom in their first press conference.

Planes carrying hundreds of evacuees from Kabul arrived in the United Kingdom and Germany on Wednesday as Western nations stepped up evacuation efforts and the Taliban promised women’s rights, media freedom and amnesty for government officials in Afghanistan. A British Royal Air Force plane carrying British nationals and embassy staff landed at an air base in Oxfordshire, UK, while a German government chartered Lufthansa flight carrying 130 evacuees landed in Frankfurt in Germany. The United States said its military flights had evacuated 3,200 people from Kabul so far, including 1,100 on Tuesday alone.