as president is asking indigenous people for forgiveness for the abuses inflicted by spanish colonialists. as part of mexico's plans to mark the $500.00 anniversary the fall of the empire. hundreds of people watched a light show eliminating a replica off the deck temples. billions of indigenous mexicans died off the spanish invasion in the $1500.00. the conquest is still being debated. president lopez over door has called it and on mitigated failure. ah, on money insight into all the headlines on al jazeera crit, cities close to the afghan capital kabul have fallen to the taliban, which now controls $20.00 to $34.00 provincial capitals of to taking a sharif in the north. the country, the government has been reduced to the capital couple pods of the east,

and the taliban says it's now moving towards july about afghans. 5th largest city earlier president us rough connie pledged not to give up on gains made over the past 20 years. the u. s is sending thousands of its troops to afghanistan to support the ongoing pullouts and help evacuate american diplomatic personnel. as that tell about the valves continues. michaela has more back tells us that the bite in administration did not count on this happening. the message teller bomb advance . it was only 2 days ago that the initial band of reinforcements with announced some 3000 and forces to go into secure couple airport and help help with the evacuation. they are joining 1000 troops already there. but in addition, as well, we've now in the course of the day, another 1000 troops from the 82nd airborne division of being sent into couple that brings the total to 5000. all the 300 people have been killed and hazy after the

country was struck by a magnitude 7.2 quake. hundreds more injured or missing. the epicenter was about 160 kilometers west of the capital. hey seas. prime ministers declared a state of emergency therapy as opposition leader jose in day he dilemma has taken a lead and as 6 the time to become the countries president incumbent leader and gallagher is trailing off the voting. finished on friday with final results not expected until sunday. at the earliest and left on central bank governors, as no one is running the country, as he defended his decision to hold fuel subsidies. the bank had refused to use with funds to continue the subsidy, saying it would be illegal. the well, bank has described lebanon's economic crisis as the worst anywhere for 150 years. those are your headlines inside story coming up. next, news,

news, news, news, news available. it is taking control of more that's going to some, as opposed to good on the capital capital. the president says he won't allow 20 years against the law in the civil war. one can shop connie, do to stop the taliban the don't. this is inside doors. ah, ah hello, welcome to the program, i'm kim vanelle. the future of of gone on is topping most international agenda is this week with many fairing a returned to the taliban rule of 20 years ago. the group is continuing to make

strong advances across the country, taking control of major cities. it's also managed to release thousands of prisoners and looted military barracks, some of which were run until last month 5, you know, i think it's hundreds of thousands of africa and flee their homes trying to find safety elsewhere. president, i shall have connie is determined that the taliban will not win to an accident. i am not going to allow this imposed worn out nation to lead to more bloodshed and to losing the gains of our last 2 decades and damages to our public goods. and infrastructure because of this, i've carried out widespread comprehensive consultations with representatives of the people and leaders by hand without international partners in the consultation to be carried out in a speedy manner. and the united states who is sending 3000 troops to speed up the evacuation of its star from the embassy and cobble says it continues to support a political settlement going forward. we're going to do

a couple of things. we're going to make sure that a terrorist can't emanate from afghanistan again by maintaining robust over the horizon counterterrorism capabilities. and the reason and we're going to continue to support our afghan partners bilaterally, through maintenance support and financial support. and we're going to continue to, to want to see a stable figure f dentist. and the other thing i would say is that we want to continue to see that there's a negotiated political settlement here for governance going forward. will bring in, i guess, in just a moment. but 1st, this report from charlotte bellis, who is in the capital president ghani, has addressed the nation and a pre recorded address from the presidential palace in this address. he said that he was looking out for his people that he wish security was as well, that they needed to see improvement and coordination of the security forces. and he wanted any bloodshed to stop. the big question is,

how does he stop the blood shoot? and then the speech, he said that they were consultations ongoing with local and international partners . we understand that some of those negotiations do involve his own future. whether or not he will be able to stay on as president for negotiations with the taliban to continue and some type of political settlement to be reached. the telephone certainly has him under a lot of pressure. they had a leader from wisner going to son is male, hong who is very anti taliban. but when herat fell just a couple of days ago, he surrendered to the taliban and they sent him to cobb with a message to try to convince the government leaders to step away from gandhi, enjoying some type of political settlement with them. gone is also under a lot of pressure as a telephone. keep taking more and more provincial capitals and those provincial capitals get ever closer to cobble. they now control much of the south, much of the north and provinces, a province directly to the south of cobble,

and they are pressing on a province just to the west to cobble. also, a panic is growing in cobble. there has been a run on the banks ticket price and says lights out of cobble have skyrocketed, and a lot of people are becoming increasingly concerned. as the taliban come closer to cobble charlotte bellis the inside story. ah. okay, let's bring in, i guess. joining us from cobble chicago, a member of, i've got a sounds, national parliaments and chair woman of the parliamentary women caucus. and it's tumble how to me, assistant professor of lor at the american university. all i've gone on from london, said nick k, former u. k. a basket or 2 of us, tom, a very more welcome to you, or i'd like to start with you or he meet. what's your sense of what's happening in the country where all of this is heading is not headed toward a good place. the people i talked to underground the all express despair,

all the younger generation, the generation that was a product last 20 years of investment. i didn't feel like they have a place, enough honest on anymore. and everyone is looking for a way to leave those who can do leave. these are not people who are used to western values or these are not people want to live like american european peoples i've left to to caught up on war. and these are ordinary app on some of them, very conservative, very socially conservative, but they still, they even concluded that there's nothing to live for you to spot anymore. that's the state of how people feeling, the political situation you just reported on it just the there hold for add some form of deal that will be reached to save. cobble, make sure that the problems come under attack and some sort of publishing that will be reached and taught. it would not take militarily turning themselves into prya and making upon the sun into and operate the regime that we all remember from the

90. that's the only hope people have and not a lot of the hope about that either. but that's the only option. we have movie. senate k you do you agree with the assessment? what's your take on where this is headed? well, the telephone, bring the war to cobble. thank you very much indeed. and yes, i agree very much. we heard i was saying these are very difficult and incredibly concerning time. so i how it goes out to, to all african friends and colleagues who are facing of the dangers and the challenges that they are and must absolutely condemn as an international community . they the actions of the taliban up to now the reports of the war crimes potentially that they're committing horrendous. so at this stage, the really important thing is to take a pause. the taliban are heading at the moment, full speed. it seems to try a military, a sold to con, cobble and that would be a disaster would be a disaster. cup would be disaster from my draft can stand and it would be

a disaster for the tell about as well. so i think they need to apply the brakes weight, discuss, negotiate, and find what all parties have been looking for for some time. now really is a political settlement that is an inclusive political dispensation. not just the tele van, but a broad afghan interim administration is what is being talked about. now. shankar cocktail, i thought to bring you in. do you think the taliban will do that? will it take a pause before it had to cobble? because it has made rapid gains, it clearly has the upper hand militarily, at least outside of the capital. well, it's been difficult to predict what will happen tomorrow in funding this up. because even talking about what's if, if you didn't fight to, to, to why don't provinces, but i think unfortunately what, what was the reason behind that army and the police and citizens didn't

defend or like i just kind of under to taliban. and if it's not like a victory through proper classic was done, it's done. i'm not sure what happened, but the time to buy and i hopefully the thing guys should not make a military attack because the other place is up for a little more. got a mentor, nance, support, whatever it was they surrendered. are those? yes. so if you happen in calm, i think nobody wants control that insurgency or what is the topic? i think that's a cost to everyone for not to talk to b. b has a very bad experience and cannot progress was the people talk to i fact like some of me before i talked to them the mom just kind of thing if they happen to decide

to talk strong to me and i think this is what's expedius. i hope it didn't happen. it's a problem because some of i should understand this. it's not only time to find the price of the government, but most the 3rd group are also part of this in some of the countries. so many people are involved in this conflict. * or the nice prime go to mock? yes. one no, no, just different than 1st. i think there's not some and just from the regional countries, i guess, i think probably i think nobody will my like, i don't think they were like, really manage or control the disaster inside a couple of hopefully that understand on top a great to are literally rich students will be with us to, to go for a proper solution to a talk process if they really want to receive just concrete to, to save that. and so structure in the thank you to see if the private and public properties and also to reduce the pins and the pressure or death. the distress

which people are going to ok. i'll come back to you how to me, what do you make of what connie had to say today? some were expecting him to resign. obviously, that didn't happen. what was you will take away from what he had to say. he basically had nothing to say. you have to remember that the over the past 48 hours, a lot of territories has been lost. a 2 major cities of an honest and fell. and he did not say anything. he was a complete media black out from the arc and the presidential palace and people around 10. after 2 days he emerged and basically said nothing. the things he said really don't mean anything for the people on the ground. in my assessment, my view is not about present money anymore. i don't think he is the person to negotiate on behalf of the anti taliban. he's widely unpopular enough on a son in my, in my hometown herat. most people blame him for the fall of her. people believe

that he was the reason that the hot bell at the government for the fight. they believe he instructed them. i'm not saying it's true or not, but i think that the psychology underground you cannot have a person like that credibly negotiate on behalf of one cap. so it is vital for us to be able to preserve some sort of a compromise, some sort of a mix of the telephone views and the abuse of their opponents. it will be an credible person negotiating on behalf of the caller one camp. prison party is not that person, and i think the time is not on the president. any or the government side. the taliban. the government leverage is shrinking. the as you reported, there are heavy fighting and happening in bizarre. if, if missouri falls, it with the inferring cling of cobble get to the point that as, as was said, it now cobbled becomes a battleground of different facts and fighting, not even taller. but there are many a bad after the after you start fighting call. if that become the case,

the government loses all liberal telephone camp, which is all liberty to make any deal. ok, i think the president granted the sooner to resign and the more orderly that transition happened to traditional authority, the better the comfort. so nick, hey, do you agree with that assessment? does our sharp connie have the just to see, have the support of the people to be able to negotiate on behalf of the government? ah, i agree that there is an absolute need for a holy inclusive half scan republic negotiation team that has been established to lead by a doctor, abilene high peace and rec conciliation commission. and there is no doubt that in afghanistan, no one group can ever successfully rule and speak for the whole nation. it is a nation that is so diverse, strengthen its beauty, is a diversity of clarity. and that absolutely needs to be respected and represented

in, in whatever team and whatever negotiation takes place. but let me, let me just also pause a little bit. i'm old enough to be in the cobble in 1996 when the title of that arrived. and i met them 34 days after their arrival in cobble. now that happen very quickly and the end as well. and i think it would be a mistake for the taliban to repeat the same experience. now. they are running now . they've got the wind behind them. the rushing headlong down the hill, feeling very excited and feeling very victorious. but they are about to crash into a wall if they carry on like this. what is that wall? the wall that crash into is a divided nation, and it is divided. it's the wall. so be an isolated nation. if they take couple by force. and it's a nation facing incredible humanitarian challenges already. there are 5 and

a half 1000000 people food insecure before the offensive started. now that number is even higher in the number of i, v, p, and refugees, etc. so there, hurtling into potentially becoming responsible for a country that is in dire straits. they need to pause. they need to put on the brakes, and this needs to be properly managed it for the benefit and interest of all africans . and i would say the regional countries as well, whether they had a bond, whether the telephone threatened to that kind of advice i guess you could put it is another thing should cut ok. we're talking bear about the last time to ask on the phone was on the taliban role. what do you think a future i've gone on to taliban rule would look like. has the taliban learned any lessons of the past 20 years? would it look the same? was we actually were expecting government trying women not for kind of like challenge them. i've been asked them that if

a really change that you have to re open the school under the control under your, under your control. unfortunately, even go school will not open on some of the womans activity. we're going to be closed down. so this is the big concern of women are many times we had this concern and you were trying to convince the government on the international community to support. so have more women at that table of negotiation and women's rights issue should be the center of that discussion. but the target by telephone also try to escape on the also unfortunately going from right. the woman's right issues, not very much priority, demand partition of this country. so my concern is that why talking about, we're not able to clearly announce deposition of god or the policy to guarding woman's political future or social. i'm actually for 2 weeks, which woman has that i to do it. and they should like make sure the woman has equal

rights. that would, that would be not a strict on on them. and so this, this is what, why women pop guns and really have a counselor like this or how do you said that's why people are start to play the country because you are concerned about the future. k, sean are behind education and get worse. so that's why people think they do not change. you are the same on even some of the things which happens should be some of the crime happened during the last 2 weeks. people are like huge cancer. you want tell, been tried to deny maybe some other group did it, but no, because there was started by talking about everybody like live on that you get it or maybe you provide the ground for that discretion. so just a huge concern for women to focus on hopefully come by and realize this. so i'm, i'm give a positive response. we got, i think they have to change if you really want to have a political future in this country. because people off gas,

which is we're going to buy people expecting that the future government should be, should be also to the proper election. if i have that i talk to have the right to to, to can. so you cannot hear you. i can talk to you that to ask you, i mean you're a member of, i'm going to sounds national parliament, chairwoman of the parliamentary women caucus. are you worried at all about your own safety? right. definitely. that too, because, you know, women have a more liberal stand priority or woman is equal to, if you could do a woman wants to be considered as equals. each of this country goes like an advantage which we have, you know, what constitution you want to preserve that 112 extra like libraries which we had so far go should have access to education higher education. so i work with the men is, are, i didn't know. so what women i think and try

a woman partition or political actress and woman bridge extra. but everybody's just concerned not about them but also even about their families. because not what we're hoping to be that that, that the policy and position of tyler bond or garden regarding this i think there's a lot on helen's. there's a lot of unknowns. i don't know. he me un chief, antonia grotesque says seizing power through military force is losing proposition for the talent and that will lead to the complete isolation of afghanistan. do you think that is true and do you think that that will factor into the tele bonds calculations here? i mean, the, i believe about one different thing and all the things they want are contradictory . they want to re compose their old version of their market a, which would result in severe restrictions a woman. right. which would mean loss of the most of the gains of the past 20 years

. the life people have come to expect, feel like they deserve and want. that's what they want. they also want international recognition because i think they have the expense of the last government, at least their elders do the fighters underground. don't remember because many of them are young, that they realize it was impossible to govern and be a functioning state without international recognition. i think that they won the contradictory thing, how this contradiction is going to be result what trade off they are willing or will be able to make that that remains to be seen. but i would like to actually pick up what a lot of, instead of what international timothy progression. but i think we don't pay enough attention to domestic legitimacy if call upon or not recognize, but most people's, of an honest thought as related to the part of a legitimate government. they cannot be there legitimate government because they don't represent the entire country. if they cannot, it cannot be, if it was,

bobby recognized the part of a legitimate government that he come to power, true negotiation to a mechanism that includes everyone and they choose to take power by course they will faith, definitely a divided nation, a nation that does not that does not freedom as list them and that means they, they will be, i believe they come to brute force may be imposed the power, but they won't be able to get the education started. they will not be able to stimulate the economy and do many things that would help on actually live a good life. and for them to actually grow actually be a part of god governing of a on a thought, if not the entire, if you have it. because you can buy force, maybe punish be will maintain order, but it cannot stimulate an economy. you cannot help education grow. you cannot really help the culture grow. and all the things that healthy society will require a government that is seen as limits. but by all moving on to the next stage of governance, we're talking about the nic. i'd like to bring you back and also gone

a has in part at least blamed the americans for what we're seeing here. the u. s. troop withdrawal should the us except some blame here. i mean this event to ality must have been foreseen. yeah. before just that let me just touch on also the taliban. they've changed or, or not changed because i see very little indication. they have changed very much. but what has changed is the world and the world today is very, very different from the world, even of the late 90 ninety's. and one of the biggest differences is accountability, accountability for crimes against humanity for war crimes, accountability also for international and such as drug trafficking, etc. the there are far more mechanisms in place and far more ways in which people will be held accountable in a way they weren't in the ninety's and the taliban really do need to factor that

into. ready their equation and their thinking as well, but absolutely, i agree with room that it's a divided nation. they will, they will inherits if they carry on on this on this track. and that has no digits of the city. the people of africans that need to see themselves reflected in that government should be a mirror. and the taliban is not that mirror. but anyway, the us. yes. i mean, it is a mistake from my point of view. personal do is it was a mistake to withdraw comprehensively, militarily. a mistake for 2 reasons. first, because the training advice and assistance mission that was being take undertaken hadn't been completed. the armed forces was still a work in progress and they still needed that assistance. secondly, it was a mistake politically as well because it removed immediately the incentive for the taliban to negotiate in good faith and properly. my advocated for

a long time that should be no comprehensive military withdrawal without a comprehensive peace agreement. unfortunately, that has not come to pass. i mean that was part of the, the doha talks to her agreement that was in, it was part of the us withdrawal was that there would be interest afghan talks, which obviously have not come to fruition or not to a settlement anyway. we're heading towards the end of the program. i thought to come back to you should come okay. and just to sort of sum up all of this. how hopeful are you for the future of your country? how do you foresee all of this playing out? well, let's, as before, some to conclusion one work i want to share that destination is not divided, won't be divided because colorblind does not belong to one ethnic group, i think who are fighting in the north, east or west. but i think in the budget again, know how to come together,

how to get united that for short money. thankfully try to how divide this country, but i think they will not succeed. i think it back and run it is there will be a united nation to, to work towards to preserve what the achieve so far. i think you will have lots of political security, triple lenses in the coming days and future. but i think i've got people also realized that international community was like, i was the date location of not supporting i live in a different stage which that, that, that the piece talk to started by. how is that under the entered by them? i think i've done, we'll learn how to protect this country once more and hopefully can understand and realize how to govern at the future. how to make this country back united on what to what. okay, do you guys, did you patients and we have to realize that the department and meet up can is done

and cut your hands from time to do approximate discount. all right, well have to leave it every time. thank you very much to all of i guess you can cut . okay, hold on or he, me and nick k. and thank you too for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website. i'll just there dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page, that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter. handle is as a inside story for me, kim vanelle and the whole team here in terms of i finance the news news news

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