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concerns by accounts of mounting human rights violations against the women and girls of i've done is them fear to return to the darkest things. and the scramble defined as quick survivors before another national disaster strikes. hey t ah, i've got a strong marked, it's 1st full day under the rule of a reinvigorated taliban. and does that reality struck? it led to scenes of desperation at campbell airport. there were reports of injuries and at least to death, a huge numbers of people tried to board any flight in attempts to flee the country . runaways were chaotic of hundreds of people ran alongside a u. s. military aircraft, some clinging to the sides of the plain. as it tried to take off

us troops, han shots into the air, and an effort to stop people trying to board the jet. i'm just outside the airport . taliban fighters also open fire to control crowds rushing towards the atomic. many people tried scaling, was talked with bob, why the airport was secured by the us military on sunday, but all civilian and military flights in and out of cobbler airport now been halted . the pentagon says us troops working to re establish security challenges. here's robert bride to live in the capitol couples are robert extraordinary, couple of days a that's right and all the focus throughout monday's increasingly been upon cobble airport itself. we where we have seen unfolding these terrible scenes of chaos and also tried you the ways and increasingly desperate crowd of people. all of them seeking somehow to get on an aircraft to get out of cobble out of afghanistan that crop the commercial aircraft, at least at simply not flying. the taliban has been putting in place

a cordon across the terminal to try to stop the situation. getting any worse, they have been firing warning shots above people's heads. we hear sporadic guns, 5 drifting across from the airport occasionally. but we do know that people have still been trying to get in scaling very high walls, just adding to the pressure inside the at the airport and really creating what is turning out to be a nightmare for the us. as my colleague charlotte bellis now reports the us has hosted all evacuation flights and what one us official told me has been an absolute disaster of an evacuation. it has been scenes of chaos cobble international airport ever since president gonna go on a plane like on sunday afternoon, since been thousands of people have overwhelmed the airport, they have overwhelmed security. and they have made the way onto the runway. they

breached the thomas and the us has been unable to secure it seems african civilians . they've been chase to see 17 on the wrong way. they climbed onto the wing before the playing took off in another video, receive what appears to be a person falling from a playing. now the americans have been using a couple of apache helicopters to clear the wrong way to try make space for their planes. but they have decided to hold these evacuation flights. well, they tried to get the situation under control. they are using us running to the departure term. and we know that about 6000 us troops from america that have been trying to secure the at the time of the evaluation like can restart in the meantime on the political areas, the telephone say they are trying to secure the airport. they have been firing shortens into the air to try to disperse the crowd and yet people still climb the

fences and making their way onto the runway. the us under a load of pressure to get people out and get them out quickly. there are thousands of americans currently at cobble international airport waiting for these evacuation flights on military plains, not to mention thousands of other foreigners were also waiting to get out on military plains from their respective countries. but in the meantime, there are still thousands of africans on the tarmac and no claims can those charlotte bellis just 0 carbon. now the us have announced that they are committing more troops to once and for all secure the airport so that they can keep their evacuation exercise going continuously. in the meantime, of course, compared to the chaos in the airport, a stark contrast, the seams on the streets of cobble this monday have been relatively calm on the 1st

full day of the taliban in control. but it has to be said, it is a com, that is an extremely uneasy one. there are continuing and deep rooted doubts just about what a taliban rule here will look like about the kinds of freedoms. the taliban will allow rights for women and so on. especially for an older generation of people in cobble who remember some of them with horror about the last time that the taliban was in charge some 2 decades ago. but full all of cobble residents coming out to sea for the 1st time. the taliban at various checkpoints around cobble that has been an overriding sense of curiosity. in these newcomers. the city of cobble has experience so much upheaval for decades. and this is another change to get used to. and one that's far from easy to go. most of our customers because most of the got the situation for now, it's not,

no one can say what's happening or the people just lost and confused. in the space of one romantic day, life on the streets feels completely different. states is one of the most obvious signs of the transformation that taken place in literally overnight. the whole of the center of cobbled is protected by these 45 checkpoint concrete blocks barriers, normally gods carrying automatic weapons and armor humvees with heavy machine guns . on this morning, nothing people have been getting used to the novelty of a new force in charge. the subject of intense curiosity. as taliban take up checkpoint duties on the roads of a child to know yet i don't know the law or whatever used to fear us. they've now seen them. would you idea that we are from the soil? we don't want to get down to be destroyed. but there's widespread nervousness about what this view taliban rule will look like. on. many businesses and shops remain

closed that the raw signs of life returning to normal. and you heard about if this piece, then everyone will benefit the businesses of the workers. there are deep rooted fears about the erosion of basic rights in particular for women and girls, despite assurances from the taliban, and about to return to cruel punishments for certain crimes. but many still remember life under the previous taliban government being at least crime free for the most part of the modem with what everybody will be saying, nobody's kid will be kidnapped again around with a sudden collapse of the african government. the people have cobbled new leaders, have been thrown together faster than any had expected. now get together that feeling their way forward into their new reality. now as to the actual handover of power, we simply don't know too much at this stage. we are told that at various ministries,

responsibilities are being handed over to representatives of the taliban, the taliban. gradually, we're also seeing other visual changes which are quite noticeable. for example, on the government's television channel, we see now a nightly broadcast and nightly statement by taliban spokes, person sitting in front of a the taliban flag instead of the afghan national flag. but we were expecting this monday for a big news conference. we had been with hinted that when i was going to be a large news conference, all the major invited both local and international major of which obviously there was a quite a lot here in cobble at the moment where we were expecting to be have outlined maybe the way forward how the power was going to be handed over, what the new government here was going to look like. but that press conference never materialized. it does appear as though the taliban themselves to some respect

have been taken by surprise by the speed with which they have inherited this country. so the whole hand over it seems is still very much a work in progress. what brides? thank you very much indeed. united nations security council has called on the taliban to respect human rights and offer amnesty with the sex your general saying he is particularly concerned about the violation of the rights of women and girls. the international community must be united and utilized all available instruments to ensure the following. first, we must speak with one voice to oppose human rights. enough, god is done. i call upon the taliban and all parties to respect and protect international humanitarian law and rights and freedoms. of all persons receiving chilling reports of c, v, restrictions on human rights throughout the country. and i am particularly concerned by accounts of mounting human rights violations against the women and girls of afghanistan, who feared to return to the darkest days. i'd like to get it to james bass is at

the united nations with details of the security council statement. the statement calls for immediate cessation of how, how still it is, but it also calls for talks for, to reach and then we quote, a new government that is united, inclusive and representative, including the full equal a meaningful participation of women. so their calling for fresh negotiations, an african lead process leading to a new inclusive government. now will the taliban accept that? and what leverage do the security council have of the taliban? certainly with her to from the ambassador of pakistan. he wasn't invited to the security council meeting, became a brief reporters and many of chrome told us that he believes that the taliban are talking about some sort of inclusive government. and he thinks that that is definitely a possibility. what is clear is that there are some of the key political leaders

who were allied with the government in cobble, who are still that. i think the only leverage that the international community has of the taliban right now is the whole issue of recognition at the meeting of the security council. the african ambassador was the ambassador that was appointed by the government that no longer exists. the taliban, i'm sure would like to have the seat at the united nations and be recognized by all the countries of the world that i think is the only thing the international community have to try and convince the taliban to broaden government governance and bring in other figures was, was the un european leaders have been speaking out on the situation. jonah hall has been following events, joins me lives. what are the europeans be saying about this? we've heard in the last hour or so from the leaves of france and germany, the 2 sort of preeminent powers in the you will be at counseling merkel, is on her way out in an election at the end of next month. so we'll look at france 1st. president micron giving an address in which he warns rather bluntly that

islamist terrorists, he said we'll try to take advantage of the deteriorating situation and i've got to stand. he says, the country cannot again be allowed to become a safe haven for terrorists. as it once was, he says that france will work to bring russia into the fold to try and align russia with us if you interested a common approach, believing there is a common base of interest there. russia, of course, not involved in the nato mission for 20 years. it's gone its own way in the last few days. it's kept, it's embassy open. it's diplomatic presence. it is meeting the taliban on tuesday. so an increasingly important player in what comes next to chancellor merkel, she confined her comments are all the more to a domestic audience seeking to answer questions being asked in germany as they are being asked in so many other countries involved in afghanistan. what on earth has gone wrong here, and what was it all for? and the chancellor answering those questions in sort of characteristically straightforward fashion, simply saying no, it hasn't gone according to plan and he does will rather look as though it was in

vain. these are her comments. niema still from the dimension ferguson. we must never forget those people who paid for this mission with their lives. among them 59 germans. they've suffered physical and mental scars. that's why at the south, i'm thinking of their pain of their relatives and friends, especially now that everything appears to be in vain. and what about efforts to repatriate them these european citizens who are there and also some of the people who worked for the europeans during these 20 years. what's happening with that? absolutely. that desperate scenes, as you've seen a lot of already in the program at cobble airport over the last few days, you repeat governments in particular doing everything they can to get their people out. doing so in an ever dwindling sort of window of opportunity. they've been told by the us in the last 24 hours or so that they can only be sure of securing the perimeter of the airport for around the next 72 hours. perhaps they'll be updating those plans. but it is, this is a very finite window. and i think you're pictures you're looking at here with whom

yesterday these families, including young children boarding a role, therefore slight cobble. we know that for a lot of those 72 hours, no plains have actually been flying. and we're not talking about small numbers here . the u. k, saying up to 4000 people, they're hoping to airlift foreign nationals and africa support stuff, the germans talking about 10000 people of which 2 and a half 1000 on afghans. and on the one hand, you got comments like those made by the spanish foreign minister earlier today, vowing that no one would be left behind. on the other hand, on the poignantly and heartbreaking lay comments by the u. k. defense minister ben wallace earlier who broke down in tears in an interview, admitting that it was highly likely that some people would be left behind. turner, how thank you very much indeed of us and everyone is waiting to hear from is us president joe biden. he's due to speak in about 30 minutes and we'll come to that. as it happens, she returns, he joins us live from washington,

d. c. she have what we expect from button no regrets. i think it's going to be the message. we have a pretty good idea of what the administration line is. we've heard from jake sullivan, other administration officials over the course of the last several hours. we've also had leaks a sort of whitehouse talking points. so were released on capitol hill, which was a very good framework, i think for jo biden's, upcoming speech leading with he was not going to allow another decade of conflict. the surgeon thousands more troops to fight a civil war. and i've got a son with in which the africans themselves do not want to fight. i think the white house is attempting to use very rapid capitulation off the afghan forces. and the afghan government itself show, well look, this just proves are points that we should not be there because they don't want to fight. either we should remember that there is and has been overwhelming public

support for the, for the u. s. to withdraw from afghanistan consistently over the years. it's true to the matter in which this is taken place is, has been shocking. we've been reporting for a week or so that we knew that the fall of saigon and vietnam had been long on their mind. they didn't want an enduring image off us failure and us defeat to take holes off the public conscious as well. it looks like they already have it with some of the images we've been seeing over the last last several hours. but what we're going to hear from joe, but we think that is there was a stair choice. yes it was. it was a possibility that cobble would fall. it was never inevitable. but look, we have contingency plans in place to deal with that all there. as we've been hearing, it doesn't really look like that. that is the case, but that's the, that's the image. that's the message we're getting, is that we did have thousands of troops in the theater ready to be deployed off. they go now up to 6000 perhaps now in, in cargo. we're to hear about how indefinite was acceptable. and then the issue

of afghanistan being a haven for terrorists threats against the us in those talking points circulated on capitol hill. it was rather rather curious list, it says we have terrorist threats from syria, libya and yemen. but we don't have boots on the ground, but that's how we can, we can handle the terrorist threats not really take into account. of course of their, of us boots on the ground in syria, probably about a 1000 i think, which doesn't perhaps then give an almost confidence as to their understanding of the military footprints and then how they will always be over the horizon capabilities to deal with any terror threats, potentially emanating from afghanistan. of course, the argument have been that they were over the horizon military capabilities to prevent the full of cobble should that happen in a rapid amount of time. but what we kept on hearing back to the administration, they always, they were giving this message to people on capitol hill to members of congress. this was their intelligence estimate that it was a matter of weeks and certainly cobble could be held for as long as it would take

to get a political settlement of some kind that did not. that did not pass out. so even though he does have the fact of a very unpopular war on his side as he withdraws afghan troops the have to be very serious questions as to why they misjudged how cobble would for how they ended up getting that side gone moments in cobble despite by being so aware that that was a possibility. it is, it is rather rather stunning, actually to see. and it is because they really didn't understand that the 300000 ask on groups that they were often being told about onto the teeth. what state of the art equipment were not capable of fighting? in fact, we knew that already because in, at the end of 2019, we had the leak of the afghanistan papers to wash the washington place. very similar to the pentagon papers already or the vietnam war, which basically were internal cables, internal documents from the administration, from the reconstruction watchdog canister on saying everything,

just about everything we're telling the american people is not true about reconstruction and about the strengths of the armed forces, so those questions still remain? the question of the main question is, will you take any responsibility for the chaos that we're saying? even if this chaos may have an inevitable? because this is how a war is lost by the us. she returns the thank you. focused on is allowing some freight trucks through a key border crossing with afghanistan. the talk i'm crossing was closed on sunday to being seized by the taliban. rogers there. d 0 line, the white one. it's done from budget on. as you can see, the dollar bon flag now flying, where the flag was flying a few days ago. a few days ago, the national army said that they were defend this border crossing at all costs. but the dollar barn to get well redoubt fighting a chart. then a control, there's major logistical supply line and to have one is done. as we have seen that

a number of truck from the side have been allowed to cross over carrying fresh vegetables and fruit budgets on the trucks are also beginning to move. it is expected that within the next 48 hours, the border will be fully open. budget and had already said it had no favorite and honest on and will deal with anyone who kept able to the people. the buckets on the foreign minister had been meeting the one leaders stressing the importance of a peaceful resolution. 31 conflict. but this is indeed a historic moment. it is after 20 years that the taliban have been able to raise their flag at their gay border crossing. china has been vocal about the us, his role in the unfolding crisis. katrina, you has more from beijing. said media having a bit of a field day by saying that this is a complete failure of us policy, enough honest on many channels here are referring to the day that us troops fled

saigon at the end of the vietnam war and making comparisons to birth. incident now the chinese government has for many weeks being critical of the u. s. is hasty withdrawal from afghanistan, but today on monday, the woods from the foreign ministry, spokes person where more measured, she called on the taliban to protect the chinese people in chinese interest in afghanistan, the chinese embassy is still operating and functioning in full in cobble. and while most chinese nationals have fled the country, some are still remaining. the aging has also called an a gone is done and the telephone to build a peaceful, transitional government. and also it says that it's keeping close communication with the taliban during this very unpredictable time. now paging itself has been preparing for this moment. at the end of july, it welcomed a team of tale bon representatives to change and to meet with china's foreign

minister one e. and during that meeting, beijing repeated it's policy of non interference that encourage dialogue. it also encourage the taliban to pursue a moderate islamic policy and it said that it was willing to play a role in the reconstruction off of honest on. now it's not certain exactly what it means by this, but china is watching closely to see how the cards fall in the country where he's been out, who might, oh, keating, executive director of the european institute of peace, former un humanitarian coordinator. and former deputy envoy has experience dealing with tell about it late 900 ninety's jones is now from if you only buy by skype, thanks very much need for being with us. given your knowledge of how the taliban operate, what's your full cost? what's gonna happen next? given that the airport is the moment, not functioning, i think they will try and demonstrate the leadership level that prepared to cooperate with international organizations that are doing things that they

considered to be acceptable and that will include humanitarian aid. i'm not sure whether it'll include providing safe passage for people whom, whose jobs or roles they considered to be unacceptable. that remains to be seen. and i think there may soon be conversations starting once it becomes clear who on the side is in charge conversations about the restoration of very basic services like water like power, like policing. and i was encouraged to hear that the mayor of cobble has been asked to stay in place. so i think what they will do at the leadership level is try and demonstrate that, that being responsible. the question of course, is whether people on the ground will allow list to tell me about the, the humanitarian question. you mentioned that things like water and so on. but in the meantime, i suppose there are an awful lot of people who've been displaced, ready by the situation regardless of what happens in the end in cobble, what's,

what's happening to them, what kind of provisions are there for them? and well, you know, the looming humanitarian crisis is not unexpected. a combination of water shortages, food shortages, cove, it chronic poverty, economic contractions been on the horizon for a long time. the real concern is whether this is going to be intensified by by more fighting what you're seeing if you and the red cross and the big governmental organizations gearing up and engaging alabama for the good is that many of them have experience working with the taliban in the ninety's, as i mentioned, and i've heard from the head of the norwegian refugee council and others, that actually there are positive conversations already taking place with local taliban authorities. but you may, even if they are going to be cooperative, getting enough money and supplies and support in to meet the needs of the

population is going to be a huge task. especially when you look at the map of the world and the only other places in the world that are in desperate need of humanitarian systems. whether you know the haiti, the earthquake, yemen, the horn of africa, and so many other places. i mean, what about the, the difference in terms of the taliban seem to be? have i said in one hand with a doe hot talk so they didn't want to fight. and then they carried on and took over the country. it's all people on the ground prepared to believe what the voices from taliban say when they might see a different reality on the ground. no, i don't think. i think i'm very, very skeptical about what the taliban spoke. people are saying. the taliban have become quite adept saying things that the international community wants to hear, including by continuing with talks and doha, when i think history will suggest that actually they'd never put rags in that basket. really? you know, that main focus has been on the ground. one of the most interesting aspects of all

this is the taliban have just basically surface that haven't been large movement to color and troops around the country. they have been pre positioned around the country. they have surface, they demonstrate that they already have contacts with people. but i do not think that young particularly young women on the open population is going to believe what the taliban are saying. they are going to listen to what the parents relatives tell them about what happened in the ninety's. and i think they will be very alarmed by what is being picked up from social media about some of the worst aspects of behavior that is going on right now. and i told her off at a very, very bad examples of that behavior. and they will be you know, publicized through social media through word of mouth. like okay, thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk with their pleasure. so head

on the program, all changes ambia after winning an election at the attempt. nation's new president elect addresses if people for 1st time hospital treatment on the streets, desperate measures in the philippines as kobe was overwhelmed. ah hello, it's good to see. we got to talk about those wildfires that have erupt it through the mediterranean, some taking new to morocco rate. now we've got 160 firefighters. this is what they're up against and the heat was blasting here over the weekend. now temperatures have started to come down. america cash 41 just a few days ago. you're about 46. 47. temperatures are also starting decide as we look across iberia cordova, the $39.00 degrees. lisbon, $28.00 on tuesday,

and some good news here for turkey, the black sea coast, starting to dry out just a few scattered showers for that northeastern quarter, but by enlarge across the country, it will be drive to the northwest of europe, and we got to talk about some storms racing up here for the eastern portion of the baltic states. the good brand of rain through bella. ruth ukraine. and look at this pocket pretty much from ukraine. close to the border with poland. and it's all because we've got a weather disturbance parked over scandinavia, feeding white and windy conditions. so copenhagen, this will it impact you with a high of 15 degrees on tuesday when this one off? once again, back to africa. we've got some storms here through a burkina faso just shuffling to the southeast portion of molly on tuesday on the go a height of 29 degrees. that sure weather update season. the most people will never know what's beyond these. don't. the deafening silence of

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