{"id":35406,"date":"2021-08-16T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/16\/uk-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-chokes-up-over-afghanistan-video"},"modified":"2021-08-16T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:29:59","slug":"some-wont-get-back-uk-defence-secretary-chokes-up-over-afghanistan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35406","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Some won&#8217;t get back&#8217;: UK defence secretary chokes up over Afghanistan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK defence secretary has admitted &#8216;some people will not get back&#8217; as Britain tries to evacuate Afghan allies from Kabul, along with its own citizens, with British forces aiming to repatriate more than 1,000 people a day. Ben Wallace appeared to hold back tears as he spoke to LBC radio about the effort to repatriate Britons and process visas for Afghan interpreters and other staff following the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Taliban takeover<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/some-afghan-allies-left-behind-uk-defence-secretary-concedes-afghanistan\">Some Afghan allies will be left behind, UK defence secretary concedes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Afghanistan live news: desperate crowds at Kabul airport<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/16\/uk-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-chokes-up-over-afghanistan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK defence secretary has admitted &#8216;some people will not get back&#8217; as Britain tries to evacuate Afghan allies from Kabul, along with its own citizens, with British forces aiming to repatriate more than 1,000 people a day. Ben Wallace appeared to hol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1808,938,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-military","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35406\/revisions\/35407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}