BBC Evacuates a Third of Its Staff and Their Families From Afghanistan

variety.com:

BBC has evacuated a third of its staff and their families from Afghanistan with the help of U.K. government and military.The hundreds of evacuees are now being supported by the corporation and government in the U.K., where they are being processed as refugees.A senior BBC source told Variety last week that the corporation’s focus is on the urgent evacuation of its Afghan reporters. “We’ve got a number of them out, but there’s still a ways to go,” said the executive, whose expression conveyed that the situation could be grave for the local-language team.The corporation is now looking at what options are available to them in terms of the employees who are still left in Afghanistan and wish to leave.