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a ton of bond spokesman tells al jazeera, those who worked with the government and military will be offered amnesty and of the news rescue. teams and hazy look to survive is also a powerful earthquake kills almost 1300 people. ah, it's been a day off. extraordinary themes and fast moving developments in afghanistan. the government supported nurtured by the united states and other western countries for nearly 2 decades has collapsed. in a matter of days. it is a combination of a week that saw the taliban take one provincial capital off to another. moving with increasing speed. and as night fell in the afghan capital taliban fighters entered the presidential palace, rolling up the national flag and posing for pictures behind president astro,

connie's desk. hello, human upon that i didn't miss mila rough, monterey. we have come to our victory. we'd like to assure our residence names have been given to us. we would like to ensure the security of the people that god himself flew that fled the country. a few hours earlier flying to neighboring is becca stone and his statements. he said he left despair, the country father bloodshed with halliburton on now in effective control of the capital and virtually the entire country or the u. s. and all the foreign forces are still at cobble efforts working to evacuate both phone citizens and afghans who have supported them. charlotte, bennett's begins coverage from couple after 20 years, it was a hostile departure for the united states from its cobble embassy. as the taliban 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 flights on the ground as they released place over the green zone, president shrug connie was recording what would be his final statement. he and his cool team flayed the country shortly after. that was that, is it clear need that the national director of security alongside the police and the gun army take responsibility for the security of all citizens. i have asked a different minister and the minister to convey that message. anyone who's disturbing the law and 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 fight who surrounded the capital, holding districts inside cobble province. so it is a popular uprising, and all the prob, probably tis all with. so they should understand and know the ground realities and the set in the to submit the sell to 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 land ref 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 taliban flag was raised inside. cobbled city. tell a bonfire whose was seen driving around on motor bikes and pickup trucks and

humvees greasing the people the afghanistan and 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 and rest assured they 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. rob mcbride is in cobble with more on the reaction to the taliban takeover. it has been an incredible day after what's been incredible, a few weeks in the complete transformation of afghanistan. and i mean, the day began with the city basically being on the siege. 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 momentum as, as the taliban seem to get the support of the various factions, of which there are many in afghanistan, we saw them at 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 it with david. this has been building and people here in cobble they'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 on the siege. and then report starting to emerge of taliban fight is actually coming into the city itself. and you could sense a 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 we're on or people who are going out to stores to buy things. suddenly it increase their pay. so we increase the whole attention level throughout the day and gradually into this evening. we have now seen taliban figures and characters out on the street. can you tell correspond my kind of who joins a fly from washington d. c. mike, a lot of questions being asked now about how the u. s. were taken by surprise and how quickly the taliban took over the capitol in the country. was this a failure of intelligence or logistics? what is the view from the white house right now? what about administration continues to insist that it was put in this position by the p still that the former president did with the taliban back in may last year. then the donald trump agreed to withdraw his forces by the end of may. this year when president biden took over, he extended that line to the end of august,

but still, president biden himself says he does not regret his decision to go ahead with the withdrawal members. office administration arguing very strongly that they do. it was not an intelligence failure. they did expect at some stage that the taliban was going to come back strongly, but clearly they never expect to be that which taliban would over the country president by did himself saying that that scenario was unlikely just a month ago. so there is mixed messages to a degree from the administration, whether it continues to insist that all is going according to plan, even despite the taliban taking over the entire country. now we have just received a statement from the department of defense and state department saying that the process of securing the airport in a couple is ongoing. that will be some $6000.00 troops in place in coming out as

that statement says that over the next 48 hours, it will be moving out personnel and also afghans who work for the us forces or the us contingent within a nissan. so state department appearing to put a timeline on the evacuation, putting it at 48 hours, which doesn't seem and in order that amount of time, in addition to those $6000.00 troops in couple though i must mention, there is a quick reaction force which is now being boasted by another 2000. so there's some 4000 troops on stand by in kuwait to move in. should the situation in couple get even worse than it is at present? funny, thanks for that mike hannah, their 1st live in washington, dc or earlier my colleague mariam newman, a spoke to shuffle, come down. he's a former member of president estrada connie staff. he says the tell about needs to prove that they will protect women people. she is abandoned,

people feels betrayed, especially by the president than you know, his close teeth. this shouldn't have happened. there was a plan for peaceful transition of power from the president to either a 3rd party of the interim. go on them in transition development of the taliban. but unfortunately he choose not to do the peaceful transition. and once again, after so many years of effort and so many of the investment he has, but the black, dark mark in the history of democracy. and he himself, along with his team, and he did not think and even he didn't have a 2nd caught on millions of people who live in misery, who live in answer county and who are lot now left behind living under color bungee my took my sister 5 years 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, we teach it now, hundreds of kids and girls. and i asked her to leave in. she doesn't on 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 and you you okay to continue. yeah. as well. yeah. so in other words you, you are worried that we could see the country returned to 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 for 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 world one. and that's a test for tyler bond to prove if they have changed or not. still ahead on al jazeera got us dawn has defined the create an entire generation of the american ministry. after the break, we'll talk to a representative of a veterans organization about how some days events are being seen by americans. that helped bring more than a 1000000 people onto the streets of hong kong 2 years ago. now a leading pro democracy group is disbanding. ah,

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the a watching out. just a reminder, top stories this hour, the taliban has taken over the presidential palace in the garden capital kabul. it comes at the end of the surprising, a quick offensive during which the fight just took the most. if the country, the taliban says it wants a peaceful transfer of power. president connie has fled the country and they were chaos exceeds that combo f. as all this also tried to leave us and the nation still have forces, they're working to evacuate, the citizens and afghans who have the the taliban says it's holding talks

to for what it calls an open, inclusive islamic government spokesman says the group will respect women's rights allowing them to work and get an education as long as they wear a job. of a u. s. actually stay, anthony blinking says his country has achieved its mission in afghanistan and rejects comparisons to the full of saigon and 975 in what was found vietnam. 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 the deal with the people who attacked us on 911. and that mission has been successful. we brought a lot to justice a decade ago. our cater, 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 re emergence of a 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. so how are us veterans who served in afghanistan, looking at the events in campbell? my seller is co founder of the non profit organization, no one left behind an advisory board chair. if the association of more time allies enjoyed the psalms guide for who now in new york, many thanks for your time. you are a veteran. you are deployed in afghanistan in 2008 where you are embedded with the afghan national army. what is your reaction to the news that the taliban is now essentially in control of? i've got this done. i now know what the non veteran feels like. i know it feels like from my country to betray and fundamental promise that people like me looked are afghan war time allies in the i and made you know, the team that i represent. we have been trying to warn the, by the ministration about this coming disaster for months and no one listen to us.

you go on our social media and my social media. you can see it basically all i posted about going back to, to january. we have been desperate to sound the alarm. we knew that the disaster was coming. no one, listen to us. and now what is terrifying as the taliban are going to begin this? there the islamic effort of afghans. dan now has more black hawk helicopters than a $166.00 nations on the planet taliban. 2.0 is going to be so much worse than the taliban of the ninety's, and they were the ones who help alti to perpetrate 911. this is a disaster, epic proportions, and that's not even taking into account now the hundreds of thousands of afghans who are going to be hunted down and systematically murdered by the taliban because they supported our efforts there for the last 20 years. i am deeply ashamed of my country. what i am proud of is of my people because despite of our government's failure, we're still trying to mount the largest evacuation that we can muster. that's been a lot of finger pointing at the afghan forces who melted so quickly in the face of

the taliban. someone who served alongside them. we surprised at how fast they went down. no, not at all. i knew that they were going to lose when i served there in 2008. i knew the moment i met my 1st taliban fighter. we had just beaten his unit in a battle. he was the only ones still. busy alive and i got a chance to sit down and talk to him before he was taken away to the detention facility for i know he just got released today. i asked him why he was fighting us and he made, or i made a case that basically he couldn't beat us on the battlefield. that our military might was just too too powerful. and he pointed at my watch and he says, you americans have all the watches we have all the time. i knew them that their strategy was to out bleed us. i never knew what our strategy was for victory in afghanistan, and that's been the fundamental problem this whole time has pretty powerful what you're saying that you also worked on the humanitarian front enough chemist on

recent years. how do you feel about the people who have been left behind? so now live under the taliban? when i came home from my tour of duty, i had the luxury and privilege of coming home to what i considered to be the greatest country and the face of the earth, the freest and the most secure. and the one that i feel most station, my brothers and sisters, and again, this day i went on to the next unit in the next mission over and over and over again. and as far as i'm concerned, they're more of an american veteran that i am and that's why the taliban are now going to kill them. we owe them a fundamental promise. they are still alive, they're not dead yet. we need to be doing everything we possibly can to secure them . the president, the united states, jo by that must order the u. s. military. that is now uncommon to secure the airport entirely. we then must open up a secure corridor so that we can begin evacuating our afghan war time allies out of afghanistan. not just from cobb, but from every city where they still reside there over 44000 who are outside of

kabul and other cities. the reports from them now are heretic. there are public executions going on in kandahar in the stadium. women have been told that they cannot leave their homes in herat and in missouri sharif. they're going door to door looking for anybody who worked with us military, which is by the way, a report that we're hearing city wide, including and cobble. if we don't rescue these people, there is going to be mass murder on a scale we have not seen since probably rwanda. and that is going to be on us because we could have saved these people and that's what we've been waiting for for months. we still can, it's just gonna take probably doing it at the barrel end of a gun. and i hope that we do that because that's what we owe it to these people. when you look back on your time and i've kind of st on, do you feel like your sacrifice was wasted? because i understand a lot of veterans feel that way. no, i'll tell you. i am the gentleman who saved my life, janice in war and the day after day of my life,

we sat down and had breakfast and i asked him, why did he kill the 2 taliban fighters who are about to kill me? and he said, you know, you're a guest in my country, i take the bullet here and i said, we are a hell of a shot. why are you on our side? and he said, oh, it's simple. my mom forbid me from joining the tower that said your mother forbade you from during the taliban. why did they let you know? why did everybody else on the other side of yesterday's battle? have their moms permission to be there? but your mom said no. and he said, oh, that's simple. my mom can read. she knows what the taliban preaches, not islam because she's read the koran for herself. and then he looked me in the eye and he got very serious. he said, why do you think it is that they burned down? girls schools is because they don't want an afghanistan filled with mothers like mine because then their movement dies because their moms will tell their son, you can't join them. my hope is for the afghan women, i hope that they can somehow overcome this. i hope that we can support them because we hack a lot of a heck of

a lot of them to read. and they're now expecting and demanding the life that they were promised, and that is a life that is worth fighting for if we're truly a country that cares about defending human rights and democracy, let's be clear. the islamic emory of afghanistan is not a legitimate government. they were not democratically elected, they just over through the democratically elected government of afghanistan. and now they are systematically violating its citizens human rights and they need to be held accountable and stopped. montana is so powerful to hear what you have to say, co founder, a fee, non profit organization, no one left behind. also on the advisory board chair of the association of war time allies, he served in afghanistan, 2008. many thanks for your time. thanks for having me. let's take a look at some of the days of a nice, hazy government says the death toll from saturday that quake has now risen to almost 1300. hospitals. overwhelmed and rescue teams are desperately trying to search for survivors. katya lopez, her young,

has the latest in mountains of rubble, patients look for survivors within moments, businesses, homes and lives all shattered by the magnitude 7.2. earthquakes. the damage is devastating, especially in a country that's already suffered so much from the last earthquake in 2010. and its recent political and security breakdowns with hospitals overwhelmed and hearted cities, legitimate in the key. some victims were taken to the capital, puerto prints for medical assistance rescue team c. there has been unforeseen challenges. a landslide triggered by the earthquake bogged me to roots and humanitarian work received gang activity. just one of the capital is also complicating efforts by that asset. a lot of damage was caused by the earthquake people in the capital. don't know what is happening in the city of la k is

devastate exactly. the lady is still struggling to come to terms with the assassination of his president last month and a worsening cove in $1000.00 pandemic. the prime minister says he is rushing aid to the affected areas of the, the city where cooling for a lot of solidarity. but it needs to be highly structured, so that won't be experienced in 2010 is not repeated. more than 200000 people were killed in the 2010 earthquake. and now more than a decade later, saturday's tremor, his bringing back painful memories. the god i was leaving my business and i felt the movement. it felt like the earth was moving. i saw that everything was fooling when i got home. i saw the extent of the damage. the government has declared a 11 state of emergency as a tries to find out the extent of the damage. castillo bissell. again, al jazeera,

a pro man coalition of pro democracy groups. and hong kong is disbanding. the civil human rights france helped organize huge rallies 2 years ago and a statement, as lisa said, beijing sweeping, crackdown on descent in the city, had left them these that with little future i'm the scene financial says it's a warning sign and the other groups will likely follow tom grundy is edison, chief and found of hong kong, free press, and independent publication. he says the disbandment comes after months of prussia . the civil front said that there is a point in that statement today. they said that they want other groups to keep their beliefs. remember their original intentions and supports or society, but that there was, society does appear to be crumbling, appears to be the domino effect and coalitions like the civil runs and dissolving. this comes just 5 days after the biggest union, 48 year old. the hong kong professionals, teachers union, also crumbled and the pressure. but we've had some months of questions over whether

the civil front was never even a legal organization. it hadn't registered, seemingly the authority, say the society. it's been for the meat grinder of the statement press, which is usually the 1st sign of trouble in recent months for these queries. and on friday, the police chief told the state newspaper that they may be liable for their proto, under security law. and of course, the old thing about that is that the security was inactive last june and the, the civil fund hadn't organized any protest. and then the chief executive lamb actually told us that this law would not be retrospective. so it's going to be curious to see what the alternatives will lay against the civil front. just now defunct group. the edinburgh festival has made a return, as galleries and exhibition space is reopened in the scottish capital. the current of ours and i make full festivals to cancel across the country. jenna hall looks at the roll off, and artists have played as cave in 1900 spread across the globe. when frederick

douglas fled for his life from the deep south. it was across the atlantic in edinburgh that he found sanctuary. 11 days and a half gone and i have cross 3000 miles of the perilous name. instead of the bright blue sky of america, i'm covered with soft gray fog. at the city's festival of art lessons of the hour of film by isaac, julian tells the story of the former slave and abolitionist. i think the thing that most striking about the, about the work is in some ways it's very much based on the words of frederick douglas that were written in the 1800s. but what is so powerful is the way that those words ring home to us today that there's still the ongoing fight for justice for equality. the theme of minority rights continues at the talbot rice gallery,

where the normal features works by 12 artists based on events during the pandemic, the artist and show really reflected the political social, the environmental surroundings that they found themselves within. and the work that they created respond to the situation and the communities that the, the part of the one explores what the un described as the hidden pandemic of sexual abuse. and as a timely reminder that the black plague stayed with us in one form or another for 1500 years last seen in 2017. there was some confusion earlier this year as to exactly why prime minister boris johnson gave president joe biden, a framed photograph of this mural of frederick douglas as a gift at the g 7 summit. but don't seem clear is that douglas is re emergence out of the cities, passed into popular art, is a moment for edinburgh and cities like it to reflect on what made them great. and

how much of it was built on the back slaves the o. and as it considers the past, edinburgh must also look to the future, the mm. between the old legs 9 echoes round the bones, monuments sung in all the languages of the european union, a work by nigerian artist ymca opa. it's an ode to unity and a meditation for the city that might one day be the capital of an independent scotland jona whole al jazeera, edinburgh. ah, i mean side into hall with the headlines on al jazeera, the taliban has taken over the presidential palace in the afghan capital campbell.

it comes at an end of a surprisingly quick offensive during which the.