{"id":35986,"date":"2021-08-27T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/27\/we-werent-able-to-bring-everyone-jacinda-ardern-ends-new-zealand-flights-from-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-27T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:50:23","slug":"we-werent-able-to-bring-everyone-jacinda-ardern-ends-new-zealand-flights-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35986","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We weren&#8217;t able to bring everyone&#8217;: Jacinda Ardern ends New Zealand flights from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced New Zealand was ending further flights into Kabul, due to the continuing threat of terrorist attacks. The announcement followed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/26\/afghanistan-large-explosion-hits-entry-gate-kabul-airport\">an attack at the airport<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday that killed&nbsp;least 60 Afghans and 13 US soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern said she did not know how many visa holders from Afghanistan remained in the country, nor how many of those registered on SafeTravel managed to get out, but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/total-betrayal-afghan-interpreters-shocked-as-new-zealand-ends-kabul-evacuation\">said New Zealand had not given up on trying to bring visa-holders home<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/total-betrayal-afghan-interpreters-shocked-as-new-zealand-ends-kabul-evacuation\">\u2018Total betrayal\u2019: Afghan interpreters shocked as New Zealand ends Kabul evacuation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/27\/we-werent-able-to-bring-everyone-jacinda-ardern-ends-new-zealand-flights-from-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced New Zealand was ending further flights into Kabul, due to the continuing threat of terrorist attacks. The announcement followed&nbsp;an attack at the airport&nbsp;on Thursday that killed&nbsp;least 60 Afghans and&#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":[46,41,56,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-taliban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35986","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=35986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35987,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35986\/revisions\/35987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}