{"id":35590,"date":"2021-08-18T22:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/18\/emotional-wounds-have-been-torn-open-says-afghanistan-veteran-tom-tugendhat-mp-video"},"modified":"2021-08-18T22:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:59:35","slug":"emotional-wounds-have-been-torn-open-says-afghanistan-veteran-tom-tugendhat-mp-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35590","title":{"rendered":"Emotional wounds have been &#8216;torn open&#8217;, says Afghanistan veteran Tom Tugendhat MP \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an impassioned Commons speech during the debate on Afghanistan, the Conservative MP speaks about the impact of the Taliban takeover on veterans. He criticises Joe Biden&#8217;s assertion that the Afghan army did not adequately resist the Taliban<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/boris-johnson-defends-uk-afghanistan-policy-in-emergency-debate\">UK troops could not have remained in Afghanistan, PM tells MPs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-live-news-updates-taliban-kabul-airport-deaths-afghan-crisis?page=with:block-611cdf998f08c9892006f1cf#block-611cdf998f08c9892006f1cf\">Follow the latest developments on the situation in Afghanistan on our live blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/18\/emotional-wounds-have-been-torn-open-says-afghanistan-veteran-tom-tugendhat-mp-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an impassioned Commons speech during the debate on Afghanistan, the Conservative MP speaks about the impact of the Taliban takeover on veterans. He criticises Joe Biden&#8217;s assertion that the Afghan army did not adequately resist the TalibanUK troops &#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":[46,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/35590","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=35590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35591,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590\/revisions\/35591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}