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people killed after a large earthquake hits west of haiti's capital. and we continued to follow the harrowing journey of migrants to ascend from the us. the mexico fend for themselves . ah, events are moving quickly enough can stand what taliban fighters have been seen entering the capital cobble from all sides. it follows the rapid fall of provincial capitals which left cobble as the only big city still held by the government. charlotte bellis joins us now. live from chicago. so charlotte, as i said, reports now talking about the tyler bon entering cobble city. not just cobbled province. what can you confirm for us? well, the taliban say that they have entered cobble city. they say that they are in police district 5, which is in the south of the city. there was one photo circulating online of them

in a park with various weapons. one of my colleagues, families actually in that area. he said that he hasn't that his family and no one in the neighbourhood has seen any telephone 5. others say they also haven't seen any telephone 5 years. so there was a lot of confusion. but at the same time, the associated press is closing the ministry of the interior spokesmen, who says that the taliban having to cobble and from all sides. now i just spoke with a telephone context. who said that guess we are in cobble? he said that the leadership is asking everybody to become that they come with a message of peace. he said, we have no intention of fighting that government buildings are safe and that they have been instructed that if anybody does want to leave the city that they should be given safe passage to do so. and also that women should hit to protected areas. and as i understand that there is

a leadership meeting with the telephone happening at this moment. so there is some confusion about what is going on. a lot of it. this is only just happened in the last half an hour or so. but i have just heard hit the gunfire coming from the airport direction. all of this happening, mind you over my shoulder is the u. s. embassy and every 5 to 10 minutes, there is a helicopter taking off of embassy stuff evacuating towards the airport. so there is a lot going on in carbon says you get the moment, the city itself has been under a lot of pressure, but essentially in the last 24 hours has become completely surrounded by the taliban. they've taken provinces in the south logo on friday. they took water back to the west today also to the east overnight. they took july about manga province no problem. so they've been pushing in before they say they came into cobble city. they claim to have into districts from the x. so their fight is moving from the

east towards cobbled city. we understand i also have sleeper cells within the city that they may or may not have activated. and there's a lot of questions about what happens next. what is the in game? do they intend on sticking around or is this just to show a force in order to pressure the government to act and perhaps come to a political settlement that the taliban would agree with. charlotte, you mention that the ministry of interior is being quoted in statements. are they saying, what kind of posture the government forces are taking security forces taking you mentioned gunfire at the airport is that indicated a tool of what is happening to the security posture. the ministry of and terry spokesmen. i called them a number of times before this. he was not picking up. it's very unclear what the security forces position is at the moment. i mean the special forces a very loyal they. yes,

they do not like to quit. and they do not like to roll over the telephone, but at this point that there's a lot of the decisions that are being made are happening at a political level. a lot of these problems is that a falling of falling because the governors doing deal, the telephone and then the chile, the special forces and, and all the government security forces i have to comply. and we saw that i wanted to get we, if we just turn the camera around, we have a helicopter, we have multiple helicopters, they're dropping, they've just dropped a lot of smaller garbage center a couple they heading towards the u. s. embassy. look, charlotte, like learning coming from the that is that what we was seeing on the why does it look like? i mean, i don't want to dramatic, but obviously a lot of people with 5 on 75, they would they would begin days and we had to smoke. i don't know if you can see

the camera. yeah. we can. it's just happened. well, we've been on to, to give you some context geographically, where we are, we are in the central power right next to the green sword that smoke is on a road that leads to was, those helicopters were heading towards the u. s. embassy as they are flowing in, they have trucks. some type of me is i would say there was little yellow chutes coming off the bottom of the helicopter, that there was no explosion. after that, i hear sirens and there are people running towards the greens are now there was heavy gun fire as we were coming on towards the airport, but that stopped at this moment. and the helicopter landing at the u. s. embassy. now now those helicopters have been taking off on and off all morning shuttling people to the airport. it's not unusual that normally how they transfer from the embassy to the vehicle is by year. but they certainly ramp that off. is they trying

to get this stuff out? of here or yeah, we can hear you and be can you tell us what's going on? yeah, i mean yeah. there are a lot of sirens. it's interesting because talking to the telephone, right. before we came on, they said our position is, we come with a message of peaks, essentially. i mean how it's been working so far. at least in the last couple of days is that they've been coming into provinces doing deals on the, on the side with elders and the governor. and because we can surely walk into town and people lay down their weapons and they sit in the governor's house, entering the couple of tea and say, i'm the new governor. and you can go with m the state and whether or not that's what they thought was going to happen in cobble. also, it is unclear early today they seem to make hobble isn't in play, and

a number of hours later. now it seems it most certainly is charlotte. first of all, are you in a safe position for us to continue that we can continue. yes. all right. give us an idea of what you can see around you right now. we've heard sirens have seen helicopters. is there any sign of fighting, any sign of maybe a clash or conflict taking place involving taliban? what you think? well this, this quite a lot of smoke in the air coming from different directions. earlier about an hour or 2 ago there was, i was on the phone with a frames in it was in sherry now which is about a couple of kilometers away. and it was heavy machine gunfire while we were on the floor and we like to found out that was because there's been a run on banks. people panicking the started yesterday, and banks essentially running out of money. 3rd, we understand that the cues and the depression from everybody was just too much and

the, the run on banks essentially, but the security got overwhelmed and they decided to start shooting into the air. so we understand that that's what happened earlier. it kind of goes to the amount of pressure people are feeling here, hot temps, it is. and it's also unclear with this type of thing happening. is it related to the taliban? or is it people panicking and turning to kind of gunfire or what have you thinking that something is a threat when it might not actually be maybe it could we ask you if you could, you know, moments ago we saw what looked like smoke near the us and maybe get the camera man to pull out a little bit and show us, what is the situation look like now we have an across and it is still burning. is it possible to say, well, i think close. yeah, i mean, it's not possible to say what's burning,

but it is close to a major roundabout, which is where i mean, if you leave the u. s. embassy and the greens are and you can go out that direction through the round about and it takes you on your way to the airport and it's usually very congested. and i tell you the number with the number of displaced people that have been coming to cobble in the last 2 weeks of tens of thousands of people have been flooding in the traffic here has never been worse. it is absolute gridlock the last couple of days. and where that smoke is, is, is one of the main terry of routes. so there's, there's a lot of traffic that's been at a standstill around that area. those 2 helicopters that we saw fly in just a short time ago. they have not taken of years. they have been taking off all morning every kind of 5 to 10 minutes or so or ferrying people

back and forth. but i can still hear the erosion going, at least, but they have not taken off again, but definitely a lot of smoke in the air. but the sirens have stopped at lakes. and from my vantage point, i can't see anyone at least running for, for the streets like they were earlier. ok, let me tell you what i've thought here. charlotte on line is just dropped on john's on quoting economy bonds, both saying that the taliban fighters have been instructed to remain at the gates of cobble and not and to the city. you know, obviously that slightly different line from what a p was quoting, the interior ministry is saying that actually the taliban had entered from all sides. right. but this is, this is how fluid i guess confusing the situation is yes . i know that when,

when we were talking to residents earlier and we said that the taliban say that they are in police district 5. we found it very difficult to stand that resident saying, well i don't see them. so that would go to the comment of that, been instructed to say the gates of the city and saying that, i mean they do have sleep itself in cobbled city. so whether or not, you know, they have people living inside the city. so whether or not they were activated internally, i know that they have they have an intelligence committee that looks at a targeted killings and we saw them activated a couple of weeks ago when they tried to assassinate the defense minister. they have other people on the list and they said one about strategy going forward is going to be targeting specific individuals, such as the defense minister people waiting to be an enemy to essentially people

who have killed the telephone and have targeted them. they said that would be a strategy that they would deploy within cobble through car bombs through various other shootings. so that has been something that they have looked at with the sleeper cells inside cobble, whether or not that's what we're actually looking at today, is that they've decided to target from specific individuals to really up the pressure on the governments. they really won't gone gone as part of this. and yesterday he spoke, but he did not step down every one cool that he might but he did not sit down at that time. and he said that, you know, will carry on. but negotiations continue and we believe negotiations involve his future and if he will stay on as president, but the tell about not leaving their foot off the throttle. and whether or not it's that they have entered on mass to cobble which seems difficult to stand up, even though they say they're in the south of the city, or whether it's not activated sleeper cells and stuff to just carry out some

targeted killings here this afternoon. all right, we're going to come back to you later. just spring view is up to speed. what we've been seeing so far and we saw pictures of quite a bit of smoke from an area we think is close to the u. s. embassy and car. we saw helicopters flying out, flying around the area, different reports, some talking, a quoting. the interior ministry is saying that the taliban have entered the city of cobble. other reports, quoting the tiny bon spokesperson, the saying, they've ordered their forces not to enter the city, but the remainder of the gates are clearly fluid situation. will come back to our report to shawl about and try and clarify what's going on. but we can stay in cobble now and talk to a former translator for the u. s. army waiting to be evacuated. we're not identifying the translator for our own security and safety at this point.

let me start by asking you what arrangements are being made for people like you and not to be. i'm really well in montana. we don't know how little mental folder to suit them or i don't think that's the translator that we're trying to do. interviews, i may try again and see if you can hear me if you can. you know. ok, great. so i'm wondering what kind of arrangements are us authorities making for people like you who've worked with the u. s. military. thank you for your question. the situation again its diane goods from birth worth. and we don't see any action from you government invite and as has been promised stuff that

was due, the evacuation end of july, what does this was for those who read it to get out of here. but just after waiting for approval on to cases that are viewed and found out, they don't have the bill of waiting in the day. this is what because that's what the fee for them just with the fashion we are. but the main thing is, security is not good here, and the country is already fallen and the all the interest and call the cd. so i don't see any action from the embassy or from any other authority. a now, and why the question is why they're not paying attention to asking lives who help them to put their lives in the huge rates right now at this moment we're not so i know we feel secure, even i'm not able, i may not be even even evacuation i may not be able to get a fax, you get to the airport who take all these responsibility right now. i'm just back

in the home. i just dropped my doers into. so i just happened. discounting to how i would die. i am speechless at this moment. we have kind of a quiz thing. we are part of all the work raising the vices, but no one listen to us are and what good, the embassy this you have to bear on the 2 months and the staff to, to place what become do this emergency evacuation for their on the p months at this moment and it all is cute. a we ask, am i life real? i didn't really strike now. we are concerned about our lives and it's not the matter of my sos and my kids. there's thousands and thousands of students who are waiting for me and they have no tries to wait and watch when it's clear that you, you fear indeed for your life and the safety of your children, right? as the reports talk about the being at the gates or maybe having even entered the

city. yes sir, the time is running out. so please monopoly. you're asking allies divided administration. i am has a female, has an ad can get, has an ask him ally to help you guys who's helped us. d to place your mission and get this done on all the other on life who help you now. now it is time for you guys to help us not. please do not trust me. i would say it did not harm did not checked. no one can guarantee our lives and i'm sure there would be no social media up there and we would have no internet right now. so i have no internet before i was able to talk with you guys to do it online or something. but right now, even i don't have internet, it's all disconnected. no one would be able to deport, to report all the allies that have not have visor, not in the system. now see you, i've, can i start dying? who g for this?

there would be no media, there would be no internet and nothing we have really limited time is still is there are times for that. i've got a life and standing on the words and, and i am and i haven't and i can get and i can, i'm the chris thing them we might have like, somehow or maybe 24 hours, maybe less than that, maybe become do something. but why not? because i have an air for them once have a request from other countries to emergency evacuation because identify us by our names about email. so i know what i can use. i am able to open my unions. but the did comes that i may not be able to open my email. i really don't need that either . if i'm dire or on what i do at all the, the law question and their clients and build, i'm kind of these move. the problem is, where is the promise right now? they're already close to my house right now i'm,

i'm living for the past month on cobblins problem. i cannot situation. thank you for talking to austin, explaining or predicament. let's take our view as back through the live pictures coming in from cobble. charlotte bellis is there. charlotte? we're still looking at pictures of smoke rising above the city. the capital of afghan. the sun. is it any clearer what's going on and what's producing that smoke? it's not any clara once producing that smoke, but i can tell you that we've had a number of helicopters circling over where we for the last few minutes. the day these helicopters had been ferrying people back and forth from the u. s embassy to the airport. they have now changed the direction and circling. okay, we've got one coming into the u. s. embassy now, solar again, if i get cell, everything can you pan across to get to the helicopter coming in?

so this is coming in from. it's just on some loops around the territory of the high altitude and now it's coming into land at the us embassy earlier we had to help. and there's another one taking off my list if we just had over here. and we say. so charlotte want to see evacuation process going, going that what we're looking at in terms of helicopters, is that right? yeah. what you're looking at, we're just head to more helicopters take off from the us. seem to see and this is how they fearing people back and forth. and then we have, i can see for in total, these ones heading directly for the airport now. and more coming in and other ones coming in now over here. coming in to land at the same thing. so yeah, different after that where they had that explosion, what we believe to be an explosion and heavy gunfire. the helicopter movement

starts coming in and out of the embassy who were coming in to land at that time. they dropped what we believe to be hate slave to stop any kind of ground to missiles heading these helicopters. and then with that started up and moving very quickly now. so they come in and they come behind this building and they land. what was the us military base, and now, what is the u. s. embassy? trying to get all of their stuff out. we know that thousands of special forces have been brought in. the majority of them are based at the international airport. they're trying not to come in here to the embassy instead of getting the people from the embassy to the airport in order to transport them out of country. so just piecing together what you said. charlotte were looking at the process of the us military helicopters, evacuation the us personnel from the embassy toward the apple to get them out of the country. let's, let's thank charlotte for now. we're going to come back to you in a moment, sharp,

to give you, perhaps a moment to try and get to terms with everything that's happening very, very fluid situation in the capital. let's go to come on hider. ok, he's going to join us now from a slum abaddon. of course they've been posting developments on the pakistani african board to come out the fall of total and the fall of july. the bad really started the count down on the government wife in cobble right. because that's the main, all 3 for supplies and connection all the way from pakistan to cobble. absolutely . and what we have heard from the board is that, that dollar bond toko, that door come cross thing late, not last night. there tender medication duty of one border where lee had read the national army that they were vacate those border positions ad that dollar bond game

in. they're greeted jarda. we have video that we've been able to demo quite relax or short a board that the boarded boy dad be noise. didn't know while in the fact that this particular border crossing, although demand logistical hobby into a runners dawn had been closed also because of restrictions. but at some point the taliban of graduated negotiating with the buckets on the site in order to reopen the borderline data. when, while doug, this is a key supply line and any closure of the border could lead to a humanitarian crisis and not one s dawn because of large data college bod. major city, then the fact that did it fighting, but did it? no, it's a pride in the most of the people have lived under taliban road. what we've been heading in that is no panic like you'd be in cardboard. and the fact that the

dollar bond had been able to take over most of the positions be fully. all right, thanks so much. come on. hi there, updating. awesome. this ration on the border. very key border crossing on the lifeline for the government in kabul. let's go back to the afghan capital. now those are the live pictures we've been watching. we've seen helicopters ferrying where we understand to be ferrying american personnel towards the apple to evacuate them out of the country. we've seen plumes of smoke wafting over the afghan capital . i think charlotte bellis is with us in charlotte. let me just bring you up to speed with a line that's dropped here. forwarding to reuters, quoting the afghan president's office saying they've been firing at several points around. cobble that security forces. have the situation under control. do we know anything about this firing one who is firing and that who

well, we did hear gunfire earlier this morning. there was heavy machine gun fire in central cobble that was actually attributed to chaos at a bank because people have been running on banks and it stopped them right before we came on, which would be about 20 minutes ago. now. it was actually heavy gunfire towards the direction of the airport that lasted a probably about 5 minutes. and then it is calm down. since i have to say this is why we just got a statement from the taliban. i've just had it translated in it. the leadership said, we want everybody to be calm, we have no intention of fighting. they say that they are trying to avoid casualties and that they are still in negotiations with the government. and therefore they have no intentions of committing bloodshed. so we do know that there negotiation

going on behind the scenes where between the taliban and the governments. and most of it seem touring around cobble that essentially got cobbles around that they've been picking up provinces in the south today in the 8th today, in the west, pressuring the government. now the government has very little leverage and the taliban making a play at this point. to see if they can get a political settlement across the line. that would be essentially where they get the lion's share of power. so it's unclear this in the last hour. exactly. what has happened from the taliban perspective? if they were actually trying to take the city, it appears not that seems that they were some faxes in the city, but not on a grand scale. we've talked to lots of people in areas where they said they were and they didn't see anybody. but it's a distinct possibility that they have activated sleeper south,

which we know that they have income level to execute well, to commit some targeted killings. and that is a strategy they announced about 2 weeks ago when they tried to assassinate the defense minister and a complex attack. they put out a statement at that time saying he will not be the last person. they are going to target multiple government leaders. people that they believe have been targeting beam, and then we've seen this heavy gunfire earlier, and then this, what looks to be an explosion. we've got another helicopter now taking off from the u. s embassy and hating for the airport. they have been moving like this morning, but they do have hundreds of people that they need to get out of the embassy and i'm sure, with the heavy gun fire and explosion and the talk of cobble of fighters arriving and cobbled that they were moving at some speed now to get everybody out. charlotte,

you've quoted to us natal bond, the saying how we hearing anything from afghan officials. whereas the afghans, president, can officials, giving any instructions to the population, any updates to keep people informed as to what's going on. and if there is a transition plan in place, what it looks like, we have not the i was trying to speak with the interior ministry spokes person earlier. he's not picking up his phone. and yesterday was the 1st time was heard from president asher. of ghani, the telephone started taking these 3 central capitals about 9 days ago. it was to be frank underwhelming because everybody believes that he would be alluding to his future. we don't know what he was going to say. he was going to stay on as president or not, that had been the conversation with sources within the palace. he did not go that far. we understand that there is still conversations about whether he will continue

on. okay, we have another call coming in here, very quickly get us us operation out to get these people out is moving at some space with multiple helicopters coming in and out of the embassy which would fit with this sort of scenario about either at the gates or perhaps have even entered the outskirts of call. that makes sense, right? the american do expect fund evacuation and it's quite subjective as well because it's not like you can picture an army of taliban walking down the main highway and saying, well, we're going to be in charge now. it doesn't quite work like that. they might come in looking like normal residence a couple and just drive in and congregate once they're inside. and then when you've got the sleeper cells.