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First-hand accounts from two families who were caught up in the chaos of Kabul airport as they had to flee Afghanistan. Yusef had travelled to the UK in advance and was in quarantine when the Taliban seized control of the capital. His wife Sherbano was in shock when she saw them seize the police station and she was forced to leave their home and take their daughter Malalai and teenage nephew to the airport. Reports of crowd surges and deaths had already spread and she was terrified of what lay ahead. Nine-year-old Malalai also shares how they struggled to get through and saw Western military and Taliban forces face to face at the airport.

Afzal had not believed NATO forces would really withdraw from Afghanistan and was trying to get his passport on the day the capital was seized. His family were separated in the airport grounds and he shares his desperate struggle to unite with his pregnant wife and three children in the crowds and get them onto a flight before the deadline passed.

Presenter - Stuart Ramsay
Producer - Anne-Marie Bullock with Dominque van Heerden
Digital production - David Chipakupaku
Sound design - Will Chalk
Editor - Paul Stanworth

Seva learns that his friend is quitting his job as a lawyer to become a full-time soldier.
Returning by road from Belgium, Oksana dodges a series of air strikes.
Meanwhile, Ilyas reveals how he and fellow Ukrainians are combating the Russian disinformation war.

BACKGROUND

Seva, 40, is a company CEO and husband to Oksana. Before the war, he travelled across Europe for business. Now, he makes regular supply drops of medical aid and rations to Ukrainian troops on the front line in Eastern Ukraine. He’s originally from a small village near Dnipro.

Oksana, 35, works in overseas education. She lives with her husband, Seva, in an apartment complex in central Kyiv and has remained in the Ukrainian capital since the war started. 
Many of Oksana’s closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She’s determined to stay.
 
Ilyas is an IT specialist and married father who fled from Kyiv to Lviv shortly after the war started. His wife Natalia, and two young sons are taking refuge in Poland.
As of August 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv and working, in part, for the Ukrainian government on various projects.
 
Ukraine War Diaries uses first-person audio, recorded on the ground in Ukraine, to give an intimate day-to-day perspective of life in a war zone.

Week 18 diary entries were recorded using WhatsApp voice note.
 
From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.
 
Producer Rob Mulhern
Editing Paul Stanworth
Digital Promotion David Chipakupaku

Tory leadership rivals, former chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, faced some tough questions on Thursday evening - from Sky’s Kay Burley and an audience of undecided party members - on why they should be Britain’s next prime minister.

On the Sky News Daily podcast, Kamali Melbourne gets reaction from some of those involved in the special programme, plus analysis with Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates and our political correspondent Tamara Cohen.

Producer: Soila Apparicio
Podcast promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth

More people die from opioid abuse in the UK than anywhere else in Europe, and that number is on the rise. According to the Office of National Statistics, almost half of drug related deaths involved opioids.

On the Sky News Daily, Vanessa Baffoe talks to Sky’s health correspondent Ashish Joshi, who’s been speaking to users, and to people who’ve recovered, about why deaths may have increased. She also asks Siobhan Peters, from the drug support charity With You, about the work they do giving practical support to prevent overdose deaths.

This podcast includes references to drugs and drug use.

If you need help or advice on these issues...

Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/recreational-drugs-alcohol-and-addiction/support-for-drug-and-alcohol-problems/

With You: https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/help-and-advice/


Producers: Rosie Gillott, Mark Thompson
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Digital producer: David Chipakupaku

After the driest July in almost 90 years Southern Water and South Easter Water are imposing hosepipe bans in England for the first time in a decade. If dry summers are expected more often, is the UK prepared for more droughts?

On the Sky News Daily podcast Charlotte Lomas is joined by science correspondent Thomas Moore to examine how the UK’s infrastructure is coping with the lack of rainfall and Alison Hoyle of Southern Water breaks down the impacts of a hosepipe ban.

Plus, Alastair Chisholm, head of policy at the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, discusses measures to reduce water usage and wastage.

Producers: Emma Rae Woodhouse, Soila Apparicio
Podcast promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth

After 56 years of waiting, an English national football team has finally won a major competition. But now the Lionesses have their trophy, can the sport capitalise on their success?

On the Sky News Daily, Shingi Mararike - in for Niall Paterson - is joined by Sky Sports football commentator Jacqui Oatley, who took her 11-year-old daughter to the match, and Chelsea women’s manager Emma Hayes, who talks about the support players and professionals need. Plus Sky News sports correspondent Rob Harris, on what the FA is planning for women’s football.

Producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Paul Stanworth