{"id":171840,"date":"2021-08-16T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/moment-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-chokes-up-as-he-warns-some-people-won-t-get-back-from-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-16T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:13:25","slug":"moment-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-chokes-up-as-he-warns-some-people-won-t-get-back-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/moment-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-chokes-up-as-he-warns-some-people-won-t-get-back-from-afghanistan","title":{"rendered":"Moment Defence Secretary Ben Wallace chokes up as he warns &#8216;some people won&#8217;t get back&#8217; from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Secretary Ben Wallace appeared to choke back tears this morning as he warned that some people will not make it back from Afghanistan.Asked on LBC about the government&#8217;s evacuation plan for British nationals and Afghan refugees after the Taliban seized control of the country following the withdrawal of US and UK troops, Wallace appeared emotional when he said that the government would not be able to save everyone.&#8220;A deep regret for me is some people won&#8217;t get back,&#8221; he said, his voice breaking. &#8220;Some people won&#8217;t get back and we will have to do our best in third countries to process those people.&#8221;Yesterday Taliban forces took control of capital city Kabul and remaining areas of the country, seizing it. President Ashraf Ghani fled the country &#8220;to avoid bloodshed&#8221; and said the Taliban had won the 20 year war in the region, in a statement.Around 4,000 British nationals and eligible Afghans are thought to be in the city and in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Secretary Ben Wallace appeared to choke back tears this morning as he warned that some people will not make it back from Afghanistan. Asked on LBC about the government&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[42,102],"class_list":["post-171840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-politics","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}