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l. y. money site live from doha. without there is continuing coverage of the fall. moving developments out of i've got this done. also coming up. adjusted in haiti from saturdays, devastating earthquake rises to almost 1300. with a tropical storm and threatening rescue efforts. the operations in dumbbell opposition need a hockey and he to lemme with a closely contested presidential inspection. ah, we'd begin, and i've got a stone where millions of people awaking up to morning, fraught with uncertainty about the future of the nation in less than 24 hours. that elected government has fallen and their capital has been taken over the telephone.

the alms group has taken control of an abandon presidential palace with extraordinary scenes of fy, says rolling up the national flag and posing for pictures behind president, obstruct gone his desk. but taliban says it's committed to peaceful transition of power and is open to talks to for what it calls an open, inclusive islamic government. it's also pledge to respect the rights of women as long as they wear the hit job or the below human to show point of view. miss miller, her rough mind that we have come to our victory. we'd like to assure our residents names have been given to us. we would like to ensure the security of the people. as a taliban took over the capitol present an abstract, connie fled the country flying to neighboring is like a stone. in a statement gone, he said he left to spare the country, father bloodshed, and put the onus of protecting. i've got to stand on the taliban of cobble international airport. there were scenes of panic and desperation,

as thousands of people rushed to leave the country. a pentagon official says us president joe biden has authorised another 1000 us troops to go to couple to evacuate thousands of us an afghan civilians. germany is one of the latest countries to send in plains to evacuate it. citizens from the capital solid palace begins our coverage with this report 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 fighters on the ground as they released, he lives over the green zone president. our trust 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's disturbing the law and order 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 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, landra, monterey. congratulations to 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 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. and that's why the u. s. and other countries are racing against time to evacuate. the stuff from couple my kind of is live in washington dc to tell us more. mike, so what are you hearing about us efforts to get the best off out of the country? well, the secretary of state has held a series of phone conversations during the day with foreign ministers from a number of allies, germany, norway, obviously coordinating attempts to evacuate nationals from the area,

not state department has confirmed that there is only a skeleton staff now at the embassy, the vast bulk of people who at the embassy have all be moved to the airport, including the ambassador, as well as, of course, the embassy flag has been taken down and is, says the state department in the care of embassy workers. so certainly us crating ahead with its attempts to evacuate national that not only us nationals, but also a large number of guns who worked for the u. s. while the us forces were in country . so ongoing efforts to get this evacuation going, state department says to that, over the next 48 hours, these evacuations will be carried out. the troop presence at couple airport has been significantly boasted with another 1000 troops from 82nd brigade moving into the theatre. that means that there are some 6000 us troops now a guarding that particular airport. mike,

clearly the scenes that we've seen up the airport prove that what happened over the course of tonights and in recent weeks had taken the americans by surprise. a lot of questions now being asked about whether this was a failure of intelligence off logistics. what is the view from the white house right now? while it was just over a month ago on july, the 8th that president biden said that the likelihood of taliban taking over the country within quick succession is exceedingly unlikely. he said now that is clearly what he was told by his intelligence experts now abide and has been on the record as saying that he did expect that taliban would come back. but certainly the speed with which they had bonds has taken the americans completely by surprise. hence, you seeing this mess of last ditch evacuation with thousands of troops being sent

in the administration to is trying to brush your criticism, particularly with any comparison to what happened inside. gone back in 1975. when there was an emergency evacuation from the us embassy in saigon during that war and north vietnam, the secretary of state, trying to banish touch comparisons. this is what tony blinking at to say. 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 in loudon 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. well, president biden is that can david, he was due to spend the rest of the week there. in the course of the day, the white house released a tweet to the photograph of president by then talking, holding a video conference with the number of people, including the head of the joint chiefs, the stop his vice president, as well as the representative in doha, qatar so president bright and apparently will be staying out of washington for the next few days. if he goes ahead with his holiday plans at camp david. but certainly there's going to be great political criticism still coming in the days ahead. many thanks for that, mike hannah, there for us in washington dc. well, be events in cobble have been closely watched in the united states for many it's an unexpected outcome to the countries longest as a war particle. hey, looks back at the 20 years of us boots on the ground and the several presidents who

said that most people will likely remember why it started off the arrow of a demand and held in turnover of some good norton and alco unanswered a few weeks later the a massive bombing campaign, along with a small force of around $1000.00 special forces, soldiers and agents combined with the northern alliance in afghanistan and the taliban fell within months. the u. s. along with its allies turned to nation building with big promises of lessons learned. we know this from not only intelligence, but from the history of military conflict in afghan stan, it's been one of initial success followed by long years of floundering and ultimate failure. we're not gonna repeat that mistake critic say that's exactly

what happened as the us turned more attention to the war in iraq. the us announced an end to major combat operations in afghanistan in 2003. a constitution was written elections followed. a new president, new legislature with women taking positions of power. but as the years past cracks from the coalition and as detailed and fall back and civilian casualties mounted along that of the armed forces, opinion turned, a new us president had to make a decision, go bigger or go home. or overarching goal remains the same. use president brock obama decided to send an additional $17000.00 troops. then 30000 more by 2010. around 100000 us troops would be enough. kenneth stands in may of 2011. some of the law was found and killed in pakistan. but the war continued. obama promised, bring most us troops home by the end of 2016. and then

a new us president took over. a hasty withdraw. would create a vacuum. the terrorists, including ices and al qaeda, would instantly fail. president trump announced an open ended deployment, but eventually signed a deal with the taliban. if they promised to keep out terrorist groups and not attack us troops, a full withdraw. what happened by may of 2021. but then, yet another new us president was sworn in, and president joe biden decided to keep the deal and leave only a small true presence. he said the talent would not immediately take over. he was wrong, sunday and more than $5000.00 troops to hastily evacuate the embassy. now growing questions of what will happen to the women and girls of afghan stamp, 20 years of bloodshed and battles, of promises and unimaginable pain of encouraging signs and set back q decades of

war and still questions of what was one amid so much that was law pettigrew hain alpha 0, washington. lincoln metro is a political analyst and scholar at columbia university saltzman institute of war and peace studies. he joins us by skype from new york. many thanks for joining us on algebra. it seems inevitable now that a taliban government is going to be in charge of 5. i've got install. is there any way else to look at this than a catastrophic failure of us foreign policy? it is a failure of us for foreign policy, but it's not a failure of the u. s. foreign policy over the last several months. it's a failure of us policy going back for 20 years now and it is a failure. you don't, i don't know that the only way you could say it's not catastrophic is that the united states did find in kilo some have been lying. and we have not had any terrorist attacks on our soil since september 11th, but of 2001. but the project of building the afghan state and the african military

is a complete failure. i spoke to a u. s. veteran an earlier who was scathing about president biden and how he's handled the pull out of troops and so on. and he is not alone. how will tonight's events reflect on president by them politically? how badly as the misjudged? the entire situation is too early to tell clearly his words that the taliban wants, we've been quickly, we're wrong and that was it. frankly, a dumb thing for him to have said, the bigger picture picture impact isn't clear yet. remember, a couple of things. the united states and american voters always care more about domestic policy than foreign policy. secondly, there's so much going on in the united states 3 days from now. when you know the governor of florida or the governor of texas, decide that everyone who has a vaccine must pay a fine or something that will take over the news. so i'm not sure the staying power of this story is clearly another thing that conservative critics of the president will, will hit the draw about the republican base will be upset about. but it's not a,

we don't know yet if it will move on the swing voters. one thing to watch for is that in the last few days, the democratic leadership, the democratic party leadership has pretty supportive a bite. if that begins to change, if you begin to hear influential democrats speaking critically about this at these actions and this decision then by might be in real trouble. it's interesting because today we have been seeing images of the taliban driving off in u. s. humvees taking control of all the african military sophisticated american weapons we're hearing about prison is i still prisoners being set free. how concerned will people be about the threats afghanistan now poses to them to the international community? it's hard to know yet because unless something the united states, the last 20 years, the leadership particular republican party has told americans that everything proposed is a threat that somebody that might happen 10000 miles away and threaten the american

people are kind of tired of hearing that i don't want to blame this on donald trump, but i do want to mention trump for a reason. trump one, the republican primary in 2016 in no small part because he was, he was so outspoken against these us military interventions. joe biden, a democratic president, very much part of the party establishment comes in and continues to withdraw from afghanistan. and that tells me that the american people from both parties are not necessarily agreeing with this view. that everything is a threat and everything must be addressed by us action, and particularly u. s. military action. and as that grows in both parties, the damage of this politically, the biden, may be muted somewhat. a lot of questions about how the u. s. mis judged how quickly the taliban would take over afghanistan. whether this was an intelligence failure, whether they were guessing the rights information from the cia and so on. what do you think of how it went down?

well, another issue here is that, and this is the numbers i'm seeing since 2001 since we started this war about $80000000000.00. we've invested in building the african military. that's an enormous investment. of course, it's been an investment over many years over about 20 years. part of the reason we underestimate how quickly the taliban would take over is because united states and our intelligence ages, in particular, military wanted to believe that our work there had been productive that we had gotten something for $80000000000.00. turns out we didn't. and for me, that is evidence that biden made the right decision. if, after 20 years, we built an african military that could stand up for, you know, a few days against the taliban. then it was time to go because we were accomplishing nothing. and by staying we were just putting off the inevitable, the human rights. i mean, this is a, this is terrible, it's happening. it's terrible for the people there who helped the americans and thought they were going to be taken care of. it's certainly terrible for many women and girls and i'm going to stand and many others. the taliban is not popular in

afghanistan, but to some extent, either the u. s. had to commit to being there forever. or it had to eventually do something like this. and 20 years was long enough to wait. and a lot of american voters feel that way. when you go out and talk to american voters in the next few days, they're going to be talking about vaccines and school by friday. not about this money. thanks for your time. lincoln mitchell, political analysts and scholar at columbia university, saltzman institute, who peace studies. thank you. for your time, thank you for having the books head on al jazeera. i'm in basra, be in greece, where residents of the island are coming to terms with the environmental as well as the economic impact of the worst wildfires. the country i've seen in decades. ah. when a military coup overthrew chili's marxist president, when stadiums became prisoners and the hunters sole objective was absolute control,

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ah, you're watching out as a reminder, stories out the taliban has taken over the presidential palace in the gun cabinet a couple face came at the end of a surprisingly quick offensive during which the budget to go that most of the country. taliban says it wants a peaceful transfer of power the president obstruct. connie has fled the country. i know a kale to feel that couple others also tried to leave the us and the nation still have forces back working to evacuate. best citizens, afghans who have supported the zombie, an opposition leader hockey, and had dilemma has defended, defeated, incumbent president edgarland in its presidential election. the electoral

commission has just announced the results after delays and vote counting that will partly due to massive turn out and complaints about on verified results. let's go straight to her. tough in the capital lusaka. talk through what's been happening on what the reaction has been, where you are. well, president elect has a claim. i want an out ride majority more than 50 percent of the vote, which means they will be in no run north. most people who voted young people under the age of about 65. and they said, this is a prototype. quotes a potent for hope, a protest, the change is it was about the economy tied by the poor, say the point me, the rising cost of living high inflation, high unemployment. and that's why they chose to change the government who the business man has promised to turn around the economy. he's promised to tackle that

be as high dates and also to tackle issues such as corruption. president loon good came out a few days ago saying that he felt that the selection was not free, and they at least some of the provinces that some of supporters were intimidated by the opposition. and he said, at least one person was killed. and he said that voting was disrupted in areas that were his opposition strongholds. international observers have said that generally voting was generally like the piece for the issue was in the campaign period where they for that the low to stick to the campaign, they couldn't access certain areas and they couldn't actually stay media. so what happens makes people waiting for the, you know, grayson, it could be pretty soon perhaps in a couple of days and in the real work start for my he now has to tackle the stag with the economy. try and secure a lot from the i may try to lay of the fear of investors who want the money,

the loan that has to pay back tonight. that means they'd be a prison for everyone. not just for those who voted for him money. thanks for the update. heard a tough for us in new sucka. hey t government says the death toll from south res quake has risen to almost 1300. hospitals are overwhelmed and rescue. teams are desperately trying to search for survivors. cut lopez huda young, has the latest in mountains of rubble, patients look for survivors. within moments, businesses, homes and live 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 breakdown with hospitals

overwhelmed and hearted cities, legitimacy in the key. some victims were taken to the capital. puerto prints for medical assistance rescue team say there has been unforeseen challenges. a landslide triggered by the earthquake blog, major roads, and humanitarian workers. a gang activity, just west of the capital, is also complicating effort an asset. a lot of damage was caused by this earthquake, people in the capital don't know what is happening in the city of la k. it is devastate. i know exactly. the lady is still struggling to come to terms with the assassination of his president last month and a worsening covered. 19 pandemic. the prime minister says he is rushing aid to the affected areas of 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 is bringing back painful memories. i was leaving my business and i felt the movement. it felt like the earth was moving. i saw that everything was falling. when i got home i saw the extent of the damage. the government has declared a one month state of emergency as a trying to find out the extent of the damage. castillo priscilla young al jazeera, as great as west wildfires and decades. the brought under control. the scale of that environmental and economic impact is becoming clearer, saying bizarre ivy has been speaking to residents trying to come to terms with the destruction on the island of eva. the after 2 weeks of apocalyptic scenes, fires in greece, still burning, and environmental and economic reckoning on a national scale. now begins. during the early days of the crisis,

a mayor in the attic, a basin in north happens, describe the devastation from fires as incalculable. greece as prime minister has since promised to put things back the way they were. i'm really sorry to break the bad news, but this is our life from now on. and we still have to do everything possible because if it gets worse, this is going to get completely out of control. the united nations are mentioning and extension point for humanity if we reach a certain point of temperature rise. so it's dangerous, it's complicated, it's not going to go back to whatever normal we thought we had some decades ago. this is a new normal, but we still have a lot of things to do on the prevention of the patient and mitigation of the issue . fire damage, property loss, entire communities displaced serious immediate effects. but in the long run, this will be the new normal, increasingly intense summer wildfires. it spells disaster for the countries vital

tourism sector just starting to recover from the corona virus pandemic. the effects of the wildfires on via are being felt all over the island as well as on the mainland. once pristine beaches were for weeks surrounded by smoke clouds and falling ash. and now those beaches are visibly polluted. on social media visitors, post videos of beatrice, covered in silt and debris, from the fires on the island. one person said the water taste of charcoal. it's really sad. situation is a very bad situation. a hotel operator on your island said the fires have kept tourists away and decimated small businesses that relied on the forest. before we had recovered, we as low now in our work. now. usually in 15 of august, which is a big effect for greece. usually we had 100 percent food. there were there was

a way to fall in 100 percent. now we have 0 percent access to the island has also been limited to firefighters and essential personnel only also bad for business, environmental expert, se world leaders knew better and failed to take action that the scientific community has been screaming about climate change for years. for the global ecosystem, there is no going back. climate threat is now a cost of doing business. that is here to stay. zane basra b o 0 on greece's area island. ah, this is al jazeera, these all you top stories. the africa government has fallen on the capital has been taken over by the taliban. the group has taken control of and abandoned presidential palace with extraordinary scenes of it's fighters, rolling up the national flag and posing for pictures behind president struck on his

desk. the taliban says it committed to peaceful transition of power.