Aid agencies condemn bombing

Refugees: threatened more by bombing or the Taleban?

As thousands of refugees begin fleeing Afghanistan, a row breaks out between the British government and aid agencies calling for a break in the bombing campaign..

The International Development Secretary Clare Short has accused relief organisations of using spin to press their case.

Clare Short criticises aid agency 'spin doctors'

The UN World Food Programme and Oxfam tell us that the Afghan people need food aid quickly if they are to avoid starvation.

However the relief organisations have differing views on the impact of military strikes. The WFP's Khaled Mansour tells the World at One they are able to continue distributing supplies despite the bombing.

But Oxfam's policy director Justin Forsyth, who wants a stop to the military strikes, tells us the WFP have been "influenced by their political masters".

Amongst opponents of the bombing campaign is the newly-formed "Labour Against The War" campaign, made up of Labour backbench MPs. We speak to its organiser, Alan Simpson MP.

Also, the UNHCR's Fatumata Kaba tells the World at One that intense strikes on targets in and around Kandahar have prompted "about 3500" panicked refugees, mostly women and children, to flee across the Pakistan border.

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