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a taliban takeover. a talent sportsman tells l 0. those who worked with the government found the military will be offered. i'm the c and another use rescue teams and hastings to survivors after powerful earthquake kills was $700.00 people plus the fury and lebanon after dozen killed in a few tanker exclusion. oh well we begin with the fast moving developments from ghana stand. the president has left the country as taliban fighters pushed deeper into the capital, kabul, the group says, since they're stopped looting, maintain order fighters and i confirmed to be in the sides. the presidential palace,

the 3 states, but talks to form a transitional authority. well, the taliban is offering be assurances, but the kind of governments it says it will leads and says women's rights will be respected and it's so for the i'm the state to those who works with the governments or for foreign forces. the u. s. embassy, carbo. meanwhile, is issued a security alerts after reports that the airports is taking fire, their instructing citizens to seek safety for magic missions have been evacuating their staff. charlotte bellis begins, are coverage from cobble after 20 years. it was a hostile departure for the united states from its cargo embassy. as the telephone reached, the city limits helicopters varied staff to cobble international airport. those who remained burned sensitive documents or black hawks and apache helicopters, circled the capital monitoring for telephone fighters on the ground

as they released, he plays over the green zone president. ash connie was recording what would be his final statement. he and his co team flipped the country shortly after it was, there is a clear need that the national director of security alongside the police and i've gone army, take responsibility for the security of all citizens. i have asked the difference minister and then to the minister to convey that message. anyone who disturbing the law in order or things of looting should be confronted with full force. the full gone lift cobble. the afghan government had been negotiating with the taliban for a political settlement, but its leverage had weakened with every loss on the battlefield. way. in just 9 days, the telephone took control of every major city except cobble. by sunday morning, its fighters surrounded the capital,

holding districts inside cobble province. so it is a popular uprising and all the prob, probably his order with. so they should understand and know the ground realities and the set in the to submit to the well of the people. there will be a government which will be acceptable to all as the telephone prison still around the outskirts of cobble beyond groups. military commission sent this message to its fighters. smith, landra, monterey. congratulations to your room, but no one should into cobble. you do not have permission to enter. if someone enters, you cannot plead ignorance. yet by sunset, the telephone flag was raised inside cobbled city tele bonsai who was seen driving around on motor bikes and pickup trucks and humvees greasing the people the afghanistan from carry a ministry carried on. undeterred,

stating it remains in charge of the city security guard. the security of the city is guaranteed and it is not going to be attacked. the agreement is that there is going to be a peaceful transfer of power to a transitional. government do not be influenced by any propaganda. couple is safe, rest assured that will not be any problem and cobbled yet. but after the tele bonds rapid march across afghan stone, that was not a chance for us. or it would seem. president ghani was willing to take charlotte bellis al jazeera cobble. we're just going to bring you these live and exclusive pictures here from inside the presidential palace. once you are looking at right now, is taliban fighters in the sites? the presidential power service? so sir, these pictures exclusive on our 0 the we've been watching them for

a few moments now milling around and see the lush on the wrongs of the presidential palace. i'm not sure if they're making an announcement yet, but the camera has been trailing those faces as they make their way through the holes of the african presidential palace wandering up through the building. jack, it's finery. of course this, after the african presidents fled the capital at some taking the way through the marbles holes of the presidential palace showing one of our arabic co leads to is basically showing you a quick show and tell around the presidential palace would. of course, many taliban fi suits are accompanying him with weapons flung over their arms. a

very grand building, a building of course that played host to many chick new trees. and of course, where the afghan presidents was the one time a ruler of the lands. i'm not entirely sure which desk they are sitting behind, but there it's almost like a family full to show the taliban fighters sitting behind the very grand desk in the middle of the presidential palace. let's say, let's bring in our correspondence in a couple, rob mcbride, he's the al jazeera bureau. when we get a translation, of course, we'll try and bring that up for i wrote, we're just showing our viewers these fairly stoning exclusive pictures. i also have to add from al jazeera of telephone faces, placing their guns on the desk, sitting behind the desk of resume. that is the desk of the,

the african presidents, a fairly stoning turn runs of events in carbo. you started the day certainly with the news that the taliban faces were surrounding the city. neither inside the presidential palace. absolutely, i mean this has been a remarkable day of fast changing events and it continues into this sunday evening. yes, we saw earlier on the sunday evening, in fact, still images of taliban vices inside the palace. now we have moving images and we also have been seeing images of taliban vices outside the palace posing for sell fees with the fellow fighters, et cetera. so very much this has been a day that yes began. 2 with the circle months the siege of cobbled

pulling the noose tighter. if you like, around the city, the call the nation of course of weeks of games by the taliban across afghan. it's done. taking probably instruct providence gradually forces falling back as provinces fell and all of the focus, all of the attention, all of this great momentum that the taliban built up then being focused and directed towards cobble itself that so this was the last remaining hold out of this government as well as a couple of adjoining provinces and cities, but all the focus has been on cobble. and then at the start of the day, we started to get reports that fighters were not only on the edge of the city, but were actually entering parts of the city which really did raise the, the level of ease, the whole tension level. you could have it's quite palpable. you could really feel

that the presence of the taliban was very close. and now we have had, despite an order earlier on sunday that taliban fighters should not go into the city. they should hold back of that. we heard that they should risk to be restrained, that they have were reports of looting. we know that as soldiers withdrew as some of the police officers, we know, got rid of the uniforms and put on civilian clothes. there were reports of various acts of looting around the city. we know that one university was broken into a so that seemed to coincide with this, with this move by the taliban to direct its fighters to actually go into the city offensively, to stop the looting. that's at least what they said to maintain lower in order counter man to get seems that that earlier order to do so. so. so that's what we've seen. and in fact,

on the streets we see now where they used to be soldiers. that weather used to be police actual taliban figures now taking over, taking over simple duties like directing traffic or stuffing vehicles to do vehicle checks to check with who the inside where those people are going. but very distinctly wearing that. so the, the, the gab, the, the, the clothing of taliban fighters, just where we are here in cobbled, just behind me. this is the green zone. this is a heavily fortified area. i'll cobble it's blast walls because it's around here that you have government offices and embassies. and so normally you would have lots of army with humvees mounting a very big and very heavy machine guns. they all seem to have disappeared. and instead, you have taliban on the streets, basically taking over those ga duties. ok, robust matthew talking. so we're continuing to assure years these live and

exclusive pictures from inside the presidential palace. and there are forms being passed between the, between the fighters still trying to get a translation for you, but just to get a sense of what's happening. but we are, we are sorry to confirm to taliban our insights. the presidential palace in cobb, who guns on the desks, certainly pools embarrass, seems for a family for 2 and 9 men of some time today. it will certainly come as, as a great shock rolled to too many in afghanistan over the last few weeks. people have been reaction with surprise certainly to the speeds of the takeover and this seems to be a complete takeover. no. does it not that there? brandishing a bullhorn in order to make some kind of announcement debit. this is,

this is certainly a takeover. we have been hearing from the taliban earlier that they would not, and so carpool, they were wanting a peaceful transition of power for peaceful is its own, the streets of kabul right now. good question. it changes by, by the hour here it has been fairly, i can say it's been a certain tension throughout the day. we've had reports, for example, the, the burst of gunfire that was reported through the u. s. embassy with that message that us citizens should take shelter. now apart from that message, we heard nothing more about that particular incident that everybody very excited for a while, but then we heard nothing more about that. having said that, just in the last half hour or so, in fact, just half and about 25 minutes ago, we did hear a series of explosions, 3 explosions,

just over behind us towards the u. s. embassy and just as we came on air, in fact, there was a force explosion again in roughly the same direction. and we have at the moment, absolutely no idea what those explosions were. if it was coming from the direction of the embassy, we can only speculate that maybe it was something to do with the evacuation of the embassy because that's been going on all day here. we know that parts of the embassy being cleared out completely. we know that the files have been destroyed that are being fires in that to destroy files and so on. we or it may have been those explosions to do with somebody setting explosives from outside. we have been checking social media as much as we can. what are the problems here is that normally we would get police reports about these things, but of course, in many respects we don't actually have a police force at the moment. i mean, the, the very good question here at the moment is, who actually is in control of cobble with the the taliban

extensively taking over and establishing trying to establish lower order. it would seem that in the streets, at least they would be in charge. they are the people who are at the corner of the roundabouts, directing traffic, et cetera. but there's nobody actually for us to contact to say what was that explosion. so we are sort of in the dark, so to speak. but that have been so there are troubling signs as we get into the night time. i was here of sunday and monday morning. it is slightly uneasy. there are things happening that we don't quite know about. and we just have to feel our way as we go. but it is interesting that the changes that you have seen on the streets. that's where we once had the army in the pillow boxes and with having machine guns, guarding all of this area, which is the screens which would, which has been traditionally over many years, a real target for car bama,

for suicide bombers. all of those forces seem to have simply melted away, being replaced by the taliban. people on the streets doing those kinds of duties. it's interesting also, some of the other statements coming out of the taliban this sunday about the change in direction. we've gone, gone. we had been talking about some sort of transitional government, some sort of change of power. that in theory ref ghani was talking with his, his close confidence about what kind of deal they could propose that would see a peaceful transition of power. obviously it would not include mr. stuff, gandhi, being part of that that was always accepted. i think that he could never be a part of a new government. the taliban would never accept that. but we had been expecting that it would be some sort of form of woods that would go to the negotiators in doha, that maybe they could ratify that may might lead to some sort of transitional government

or kind of a can take a government that might, might then call, say, a lawyer, joe, one of these big gatherings of people being brought in from all over afghanistan to discuss the shape and form of a new government. all that seems to have evaporated very quickly. we, we now left wondering what exact the, of what type of new government were facing. and as far as some officials, taliban officials are concerned, they are just talking about a straight handover of power. why do they need to share power with anybody that doesn't seem inferior, at least anybody to share with so that it seems to be what they are talking in terms of now, it was a straight handover of power. and this evening, at least we do seem to be saying that, you know, in reality as a straight physical, a grabbing of power, if you like, with taliban fighters, wandering around the corridors of the presidential palace and dejan since very talk

hard to talk about power sharing when we we see the power being held specifically in the hands of those who are, who are sitting in the presidential palace, keeping on the story all day. you've been on the street. you've been talking to people and people have been clearly very, very anxious about the, the rapidly unfolding events that have been happening just as we're, we're still trying to start this translation for year for you and for a few years here. but just give us a sense of what people in afghanistan has been, have been saying to you on the team, as these events have been unfolding. yeah, there is a lot of unease here about the taliban coming back and taking over immediate berries from place to place in the in the past,

students stronghold of the south of afghanistan, they have a different view. if you like about the taliban, they will view it very differently in cosmopolitan areas such as here in cobble which has been transformed dramatically in the 20 years since the taliban were last empower. and they will have a very different view again, i mean that have been as ash ref, johnny himself said in his speech just yesterday. i think it was that that have been a remarkable gains that have been made in the past 2 decades or so. when you do see that it is very much, much more a cosmopolitan place that has been transformed into, you've had all of these influences from abroad. people are far more international far more worldly outlook. so there is an awful lot of worry concern fear in some, in some cases about having a return of this regime. and you will meet people of a certain age who do not have very nice memories. the toll of when the taliban was lost in charge here from the mid ninety's until 200-2001. so there are,

there are concerns. and yet there is when we've been talking to people who last week or so a gradual acceptance as they see the taliban sweep up these different provinces and gradually worked further towards cobble itself acceptance that the taliban is coming back in some shape or form. and they have been talking to a saying, well baby, it's okay, we could have some sort of joint government, some power sharing government. and of course, or in the last day or so, all of that is changed, as we just said. i mean, it's sharing with whom they look like the taliban does have to share with anyone. let me just 1st very quickly. they do have to change then just just to jump and we're getting more information about these live pictures which were so broadcasting to our viewers. for those watching this on television, the chap in the seats in the western style suits, we understand. he is

a palace official of the african presidential palace. and he is saying that this essentially is them handing over power peacefully to the taliban. so this is the we see a sorted taliban fighters there. i'm assuming that fighters, because they're all brandishing while they're large guns. but the palace official has just been speaking on al jazeera, saying that this is now the palace peacefully handing over power to the taliban. so this is, these are the images that we are showing our viewers now. certainly we're still struggling to get that translation for you, but it's very dramatic scenes that we are showing you life from the presidential palace in kabul. the palace where of course, presidents,

the former president, sha connie was i beg your pardon, i just be just a small correction there. this was a handover of the palace and not the power. so there's still some confusion, this error, but that power is sufficient, was handing over the palace to the taliban and over the palace to the taliban. so there's still some confusion about the balance of power who is in charge of afghanistan, but certainly with recent events unfolding the way they have the chaos continues. that certainly very arresting images for you. taliban faces unofficial speaking exclusively to i'll just the or arabic. we have had the palace official hands over the presidential palace to those taliban fighters.

remember of course that i think i'm correct and believing that a few hours earlier we had to record statements from asha connie. he was reassuring after civilians that they would be safe and cobble would not fall, presumably recorded inside the walls of that house where we now have i'm being told we have translation. let's listen and hear what's being said inside the presidential palace and cobble so we're just we're, we're child. you have entered. ringback into the, via the previous stomach now from the oregon to share power with others as well. or is that the commission for the stomach emulate that they have for

a political committee which is engaging with other committees. they are carrying out consultations and leading to go the arrangement for the future of us. can you tell us when are your eaters coming to uninstall up in south bay? sure. hello at the law on there all day. going to come tough. kinda center. not low brother. he's heading to political commission based and it might

come, you are not fully aware as to when he's going to come home and checked it. but that is i'm gonna stop his deputy, a low mob. they also went the secret, just financial, then they will also come ok,

they've just stopped talking for the moments. there's a bit of a delay in between because we're working with several different languages here. there's a delay between the, the translations, but the gist of what we heard they were asking about officials. taliban officials who, of course, happy negotiating in doha and cutter, asking where they are. will they be coming back to our trying to sign and, and the response there was that once the security is fully assured than those taliban officials who have been doing the negotiating over several weeks and months,

they will be coming back to afghanistan just waiting to get to get more of a sense from our translators as to what's happening for years. just joining us now . you're watching live pictures from inside the the africa and the presidential palace in kabul. remarkable scenes really. we have a hand over earlier from a palace official. he was in a western states and shorter hair, he was handling over the palace to the taliban, who are speaking exclusively with al jazeera right now, just trying to sort out another translation for you. let me just check back in with mcbride's he is. he's live for

us from cobbler from the bureau. rob these pictures are failing, astonishing, given the situation that you've been covering over the last several, several days in afghanistan just took us through what this means. the fact that the, the presidential palace is now the seats of the taliban. it looks like, i mean it's pretty extra. the one thing you have to say with the taliban is that the great media and social media. and we've seen that the previous weeks as they have advanced steadily around the different provinces around that kind of stuff. they have been very good, very quick at uploading clips and very, very, very deft it that of the use of social media. and one of the things you see constantly and you keep on getting mixed up of which provincial capital with which

the one of the places they had for is the governor's resident's that's always seen as the seat of power and all of these provinces. and you, that's one of the images you look out for, is that indication of yes. okay. the, the taliban will often exaggerate that claims of what they have achieved. but that is one of the, the telling indicators of when they have somebody with a large weapon sitting behind a grand desk and what was the full, the governor's office. so, you know, they're very good at that and this is, i guess, you know, this is, this is the race car that we've seen. all that the governor's office is now seems to be the president's office. so again, they're very good at uploading these images that promoting these images. it's worth pointing out. i mean, i think there are different faces of the taliban. and i think the face of the taliban, that we're seeing hearing cobble a gaze rather different to the face of the color that we've seen in other parts of africa. it's done. you know, there are claims of. 3 war crimes of atrocities that have been committed,

that have been a calls from various bodies, human rights organizations to investigate actions by the taliban in other parts in maybe more remote provinces. i think we're going to see a different side to the taliban hearing. cobble because they are very much, this is a very much a public, a world stage if you like. and they want to show, show to afghanistan, to the people here who are understandably very nervous about having the taliban back, but also to the why international community. but this is a different a taliban. this is tyler bond that has legitimacy. it can be trusted, he's responsible. and this is going to be a responsible government that can deal with its neighbors. can deal with powers like china. we like russia and we've seen envoys from the taliban go to those places that can be accepted by the international community. okay, thank you very much. and these backend. so the.