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ah hello very well. welcome to the new doll. it's 1 30 in the morning and cobble and we've been watching remarkable pitches emerging in the past couple of hours from the capital. we were looking at taliban fighters and exclusive algebra pitches inside the presidential palace and the desks that once belonged to the electorate. president ashura connie, he has fled the country and less than 12 hours after arriving on the outskirts of the city. beyond insurgent, say, they are back in control. a say thou, now, i'm a moderate force promising to respect women's rights, but the scenes unfolding incapable of causing worry and concern across the country . and in capitals around the world, with taliban leadership, surrounded by dozens of arms fighters address the media and the country seat of power, or the belie humanist appointed him miss mila rough manner of him. we have come to our victory. we'd like to assure our residence names have been given to us. we

would like to ensure security of the people. and one of the taliban co founders has congratulated his fighters and the people of cobble, la battle data posted this on social media. miss miller, my name nath mother who said you are not affiliated cutting to the whole muslim nation of 5 canister on. i'd like to congratulate you for this victory, especially the residence of coco. we were not expecting to get to where we are now at this speed. almighty god has given us this exemplary victory. arrogance is not going to lead someone to this kind of victory. we have a great responsibility and we're being tested now as to how we can serve on nation, the security, the livelihood. responsibility is how we can provide all of this in the same way that god has given us this victory will be able to provide security stability to

dance so that they can have a proper life. well, as the taliban sees power of the country, the exit is from afghanistan is also continuing. these are some of the chaos take scenes. the main international airport is by foreigners and afghans attempted to flee, and an official says the president joe biden has now authorized the 1000 us troops to go to campbell to evacuate thousands of us and afghan civilians. germany is one of the latest countries to send in plains to evacuate citizens from the capital as well. but the speed of the afghan government collapses. taken many by surprise. let's take a look at how we got here was an april that president joe biden out, his plan to withdraw. all us troops from afghanistan by september 11th, bringing an end to the country's longest war. in early major stays on us forces began leaving the taliban launched an offensive and southern hell man province. at the beginning of july, american troops were quickly pulled out of the main military posting by graham base

just an hour drive from cobble. by the beginning of august, the taliban seize control of its 1st provincial capital in years that ange, it then went on to control. more than half the country, the offensive continued a rapid pace taking control of side of paul a week ago. the 1st of 3 provincial capitals captured that, that day, including condos considered a major strategic prize on thursday captured another 3 provincial capitals in one day. but this time they rule major gains, places like right. the country, 3rd largest city gaffney, and then kandahar ki trading port by sunday most of august on is under the groups control with the capitol surrounded by taliban fighters. which are ballast has more now on developments earlier on a little after 20 years. it was a hostile departure for the united states from its cobble embassy. as the telephone

reached, the city limits helicopters very staff to cobble international airport those who remained bern sensitive documents. while black hawks and apache helicopters circled the capital monitoring for telephone fights on the ground. as they released flip over the green zone president shrug connie was recording what would be his final statement. he and his co team slate the country. shortly after that was, there is a clear need that the national dedicate security alongside the police and the gun army take responsibility for the security of all citizens. i have asked the difference minister and the minister to convey that message. anyone who disturbing the law and order of looting should be confronted with full force. the full gone list 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 fight who surrounded the capital, holding districts inside cobble province. so it is a popular uprising and all the prob, probably in his order with us. so they should understand and know the ground realities and the set in the to submit to the will of the people. there will be a government which will be acceptable to all our plans as the telephone prison still around the outskirts of cobble beyond groups. military commission sent this message to its fighters. smith land ref monterey. congratulations your room, but no one should in to cobble. you do not have permission to enter. if someone enters, you cannot plead ignorance. yet by sunset, the taliban flag was raised inside. cobbled city. tell

a bonfire who was seen driving around on motor bikes and pickup trucks and humvees greasing the people the afghanistan from terry ministry carried on. undeterred, stating it remains in charge of the city security. 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 in cobble, 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. mcbride is also in cobble with more on reaction amongst many people that to what's been happening. it has been an incredible day after what's been incredible,

a few weeks in the complete transformation of africa. this done, i mean the day began with the city basically being on the seeds your people knew that we were heading in that direction. since the fall of all of these provinces, we saw the build up of this mentor. as the taliban seem to get the support of the various factions, of which there are many in afghanistan, we saw them grabbing equipment hub and brand new humvees and vehicles. we saw them opening up prisons, but letting out taliban prisoners who then apparently joined the cause, joined by other people who seem to switch sides. so they get with this has been building on people here in cobbled. i've been watching all of this with growing on ease and that it's sort of culminated with a beginning of this sunday looking at the city under siege. and then report starting to emerge of taliban fight is actually coming into the city itself. and you could sense that kind of a palpable increase in the level of tension. we were out in the streets,

watching people drawing money out of atm that were empty or trying to get into banks and get money out. i didn't increase the amount of clamor to try to get hold of us dollars and that simply in most cases were non or people who are going out to stores to buy things. suddenly it increased their pay increase the whole attention level throughout the day and gradually into this evening. we have now seen taliban figures and characters out on the streets. whereas we have insurance at the start of this sunday that they would hold back. they would not come into cobble itself, but then on the pretext, right or wrong that there was looting going on. and it has been cases of looting in cobble. we see those taliban people on the streets taking over largely the jobs that had been until now done by ordinary policemen. in many cases, those policemen simply changing the uniforms for civilian clothes and drifting away at it's easy when we talk about the taliban to think of a big organization like a big army or a big civil service with different tiers and structures,

etc. and it isn't really like that, yes, there is a taliban leadership under command. but especially as you get down to more localized levels, it is more splinter than there are different groups, etc. so, you know, you have to look at it to the, what the taliban will do in one part of the country may be different to the taliban in a different, another part of the country. but it does seem to have different faces. and, you know, in other parts of afghanistan, there are reports during the, especially the past few weeks. and months of this increased up surgeon in violence of fighting between it and government forces of various trustees, human rights abuses, war crimes being carried out by some units of the taliban. i mean, that does pay appear to be the telephone evidence of that uploaded onto social media, which many human rights groups international organizations have said should be

investigated. and these war crimes should be investigated that the people held to account. i think we're probably going to see a different face of the taliban hearing terrible because of course this is a fumble, a public stage of these foam or public easily visible to the outside world that it was 20 years ago. thanks to communications and all the rest and so they will, i think there is a sense or an expectation we could of course be wrong with we've been so surprised by what's taking place thus far. but there is an expectation that they will be acting differently. they will be behaving if you like, because they will realize that this is more of a world stage. the world is watching them and seeing what administration they will create. sharing staff is the founder of kabul piece for him who has organize youth and art programs across afghanistan enjoys us from combo via skype. thank you so much. sorry for taking the time we, we do appreciate it. and, you know, i've been,

i've been speaking to afghans, they're in the country, they tell me many of them, many of them panicking. many of them are very fearful about what the future now holds. and we're seeing this play out in cobble as well, with many people rushing to the airport to try and leave the country. how would you describe the feeling there in cobble tonight? well, thank you very much. marianne. people have cobble, who belatedly safer than other provinces. and to last night, today when we woke up everyone, everyone was panicking and everyone was rushing to the airport to the same for places or houses since one or 2 to now as well. everyone wanted to go out to 2 areas to separate place. everyone wanted to get a visa to get out of the country like buying so or so. raj,

but today today was very different. well, the whole said there was silence. everyone was panic. and around noon that in this the, the top one group's people were rumored that answered the phone. and from noon on, well, where i lived, there were some gun fires that people really feel sort of the vast day that it's, it's kind of very, a strange feeling on the government that, and most of them support that are no more and the power. but still we are hoping for the best we just hope there is. there is no largest fraction. yeah. because that has been a share and this concern over the past few days. people i've been speaking to saying that what they didn't want was violence and called bullets. obviously it's

very densely populated city that could cause casualties and destruction. is there a sense that that scenario has been avoided? now i cannot completely agree to that because today we're getting gun fires all all over the city. and so people are afraid of seeing paula one back again on the streets of carlos. ready out time will food, that's the weather, violence will, will save and, and by coming this new form of said things and the government and by nothing is certain. yes. and people that you've been speaking to. i know that you, you obviously run an arts program in many parts of the country and then reports of taliban banding. things like music and television and placing restrictions on the

movement of women. and so you, speaking to people in other parts of the country who just haven't been able to, to work on those programs, everything's just that have stopped. well, mariam to people who eyes i speak they, they report that there has been some research and put on them. for example, i spoke to people and her out just yesterday and they were telling me that the girls are not allowed to enter university. this is kind of shocking, you know, after 20 years, so really little be them. well, we had this religious leads of freedom for the women and girls together as a case and now they can go to attend their classes or for example. and but

when i was talking with friends, they were afraid up their lives. well, because they reported to me that told on or after them and they were on their own. so these are the things you know that people are a seller. i believe that in some parts of the country under the governance of the taliban, there has been some very extreme research in spurts and artists and musicians on active us on girls and women. and one of those people's plans. what do they tell you? they just staying in doors, staying home or are they making plans if they can to, to try and leave the country over the past few days, people in rural parson programs as those who couldn't be or this,

this situation they used to come to college, but now they, well, they done that until that my spring carnival to those who can do those who have the means they, they, they are traveling to outside that those that have the means they're trying to obtain a visa any can be. and just because i was kind of some, for the time being by those who, who do not have those means they stay what they can do. what's hit like in kabul with many people having fled violence outside of the capitol in the provinces. now flooding into combo, we've been seeing these images of parks overcrowded with people there sleeping out in the open. there isn't enough food. i mean, many of these, many of these problems i've got install was, was suffering from before this wave of fighting. but obviously it's been exacerbated now. so what, what is the situation with the,

what is the humanitarian situation, particularly with those displaced people? well, maria, this is a humanitarian crisis. this is a crisis that needs attention only over the past few weeks as well. cobble has already around 5 or 5000000 population. but in the past few weeks, at least 2 more 1000000 people into into cobble, just to get their safer place. they live in parts, they live in garden state. they just live in the open air, or with, with no access to foods, no access to hygiene, cancer or whatever. they just tried to, to, to, to be say for also one more thing words which kind of, you know,

might seem very interesting at the rents. you know, the rate and the rents of houses and cargo. ringback has a skyrocket, that you could find a house to rent for 5000, and it's like like one man to go back, you can't even find one. but if you're lucky, you might find one where 3 times higher rate. so this is the current situation. thank you. thank you. sherry savvy, i appreciate you joining us. thank you. marian. well, us, secretary of state has been defending his country's role in the conflicts more on all of this might can joins us from washington. what so the u. s. government saying, mike, well, the government is busy rebutting criticism that it is an intelligence failure. what is happening and up, gone is done at present. president biden,

early on in the day held a video conference with his national security leaders. also, interestingly enough, with his representative in doha, have the white house released a photograph of the president in casual clothes at camp david, holding this video news conference. but there's been much criticism of the bite and administration and not necessarily just for the decision to pull out of upcoming dom that was a decision essentially that was made in an agreement reached by the previous president in may last year. but by the speed with which the situation has so incredibly deteriorated, the secretary of states has now pushing back on comparisons to what happened in 1975. when us forces had to practice an emergency evacuation from the u. s. embassy inside gone. but the secretary of state, tony blinking a denying that there's any similarity to what is happening now. let's take

a step back. this is manifestly not saigon. the fact the matter is this. we went to afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission in mind. and that was to deal with the people who attacked us on 911. and that mission has been successful. we brought a lot to justice a decade ago, al k to the group that attacked us has been vastly diminished. its capacity to attack us again from afghanistan has been right now, does not exist. and we're going to make sure that we keep in place in the region, the capacity, the forces necessary to see any reemergence of the terrorist threat and to be able to deal with it. so in terms of what we set out to do and f canister and we've done it and observe has been quick to point out a quote made by president by the back on july, the 1st in which he said, and i quote, the likelihood of the taliban overriding everything and taking over the country is exceedingly unlikely. so clearly that emphasizes exactly how badly the

administration misconstrue the situation. we've also heard from department of defense sources that an additional $1000.00 troops from 82nd airborne are being sent to couple that will bring the total of us troops in the african capital to in the region of 6000. now this is far more than the number of troops that have been, and i've gone, it's done in recent years. all right, thank you very much from washington d. c. mike hannah. or should he come down is for my dad, she's a senior advisor to present off connie. he is the founder and chairman of afghan anti corruption network or the leading network of civil society organizations that are fighting against corruption. jones is now from washington via skype. you obviously work closely with the now former president, sharp connie, who fled the country, something which at many afghans are unable to do. what is your reaction to that in the images that we've been seeing in kabul today of taliban fighters over running

the city and entering the presidential palace? i would say it's shameful. it's embarrassing people. she is abundant people. she's betrayed, especially by the president and you know, his close teeth. this shouldn't have happened. there was a plan for peace or transition of power from the president to either a 3rd party as an interim. go on them in transition development or to tolerate. but unfortunately, he choose not to do the peaceful transition, and once again, after so many years of efforts and so many of the investment he has, but the black doug mark in the history of democracy and i've done the escaping the can change, leaving the nation, abandoning his entire government and leaving them in uncertainty that sub and also it's unfortunate that he himself alon scape with his team. and he did not think,

and even he didn't have a sick and caught on millions of people who live in misery, who live in another county and who are lot now left behind without any government. and without need of law or any kind of, you know, assistance from anybody. i mean, obviously you are well aware of the taliban history, the way in which they ruled in the ninety's, the restrictions on women's rights, the harsh, a brutal oppression of minority groups. and just the, the non existent just the a bit, the freedom of people, not having the freedom to be able to work and live you concerned about that happening again? how are they going to govern now? somehow i'm concerned because, you know, living under taliban,

the gym. i took my sister 5 years just secret school every day. now she's a graduate from college and i don't want her to, you know, run around and call the city and do it. and my mother who teaches now hundreds of kids and girls and i asked her to leave in. she doesn't on of course it's of course your sister and your mother and you have family back and i've got some understand that this is very difficult time for you. and obviously you will be concerned about the well being and safety. i can i can understand that . you you okay to continue. yeah. as well. sure. yeah. so in other words you, you are worried that we could see the country returned to that the hush restrictions of taliban rule is what you were saying. yeah, but i still see some changes they keep with the changes because even in the area

that they control before the color of cobble they do have schools are correct and they repeatedly said that they would not abandon women. and so my expectation is, i hope they keep up with their promise, with their statement, but we have to see inaction. we have to see women from tomorrow going to school from tomorrow on. i want to see women. so the children's and teachers like my mothers to go to school and teach kit. so that's what i want. and that's what the words one. and that's a test for tyler bon to prove. if they have changed or not. do you, what do you envisage will happen over? see now we see the evacuation of foreign officials and western embassies. there will be a great deal of disillusionment with the way in which us forces have departed afghanistan. but nonetheless, is there anything the international community can do to alleviate the suffering of

the afghan people? yes, this is a war on global terror. so atkins, a wicked them. and despite either from the parliament sites or from the coalition international troops. so atkins deserve to have the protection off can deserve to live and peace and whether it's too much 20 years have been so long. i'm happy, at least right now we do have some of the thousands international troops and i've got a son and i do help these tubes stay there and i've got not to, you know, be an issue, another war or you engage in a diary pipe or the taliban and get us back all the be 20 years back. but a fit the live and they have to be that uncommon to ensure the power bomb has promise and capture that they will not make up. once again, safety for tourists. they will not allow gunnison to be used against the instability of any country around the world. so for that reason,

i think other than evacuating diplomats and some off guns were that the international troops have to be there for certain time, only to make sure the fallible keeping up with their promises. and until hopefully not, you know, to find that we have, we will have traditional or legitimate lewis from the true to preventative, of african people to decide on a future and the future government. and i think tolerable, also have this responsibility to have the legitimacy that cannot run the country without having a legitimacy. ledger guy, you know, just an additional tough can people into, for them to, to speak to african people have to decide what kind of government do they want. if i challenge taliban if they truly believe that they're not there for power, they're not there for government position. if they're truly there for the freedom of the country for the goodness and well being of the people that have to accept this challenge. they have to allow people to decide about the future and then not

let gamma sent to be a now she and chaos. and without any rule of law or government and of course they're right about it. but they have to have a kind of let me see that is accepted by doc and people 1st and an international community. they must not repeat the m r a that was before 2001. all right, well thank you very much fee and i do appreciate you taking the time to join us on this news out from london. thanks for having me. going to continue the conversation after a very short break, we're going to bring you more on what's been happening in combat in the implications of taliban rule. for minority groups covering other stories as well. there were hundreds gather there right next to the tank. god only knows what happened to them. and now the tragedy for 11 and thousands of people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion. and roger federer withdraws from the us open will tell you why.