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in the vicinity of the airport. now we're trying to get more clarification as to where that explosion happened. some reports are suggesting it was inside, some are suggesting outside john kirby. he's a spokes person for the pentagon in the us says, and we quote, we can confirm an explosion outside carville airport casualties or unclear. at this time, we will provide additional details when we can well for most of the day, we've been talking to our correspondence about the warnings being given by the us and nato allies. as the evacuation continues as a trying to get the staff and associates out of the country, there were strong indications, even according to the taliban, that such an imminent attack was pending. some were pointing the fingers ice sullen. we've been discussing whether eiffel had the capability of performing such an and it's so when and where it seems that over several

days, the taliban have also been concerned about i so infiltration into the capital car. but of course, it might say, has been a prime target for anybody that might want to disrupt those operations. thousands of people have been trying to leave the port as the 31st of august. the deadline continues and of course, when nato and the us are planning to take as many people out as they can, that have helped them through this 20 year process of trying to nation build in a country that seems to now, as we've seen in this last 2 weeks been taken over by the taliban. in the past 24 hours. the taliban made it very clear that only those that were either american or international passport holders or had the appropriate visas to leave the country would be allowed to do so. anybody else that didn't have the appropriate paperwork

has been pushed back from the airport? of course, the scenes that you're seeing now are of what, what 24 hours ago, where they many people were hoping that they may be able to get into the perimeter of the airport facility and tried to plead their case and, and get all those many of these flights that were heading either up north into the central asian republics, and passengers being diverted there into europe in north america, all by the middle east. and the whole and africa were hearing some african 40 or i didn't, you can to. and in cattle, where they're not being re pantry, to advise domestic flights into the u. s. the issue of whether this was any sort of attack has yet to be determined. no one is taking responsibility. let's join rob mcbride, all correspondent, in the capital of cobble rob these details. very sketchy. we have an idea from the pentagon that an explosion has occurred. what did you hear or what did,

what do we know about this explosion? where this happened a little and one hour ago and it was colleagues of ours in the bureau, which is a couple of columbia to from where we are here closer to the airport. actually heard it the other that's being confirmed by other sources as an explosion coming from the direction of the airport and that it has since been confirmed by the pentagon that they understand. this is an explosion that has gone off. there's no message, there's no word yet. about any casualties i did apparently happened. one of the, one of the centers close to the airport. i, we understand is one of the incumbents used by the contractors. different contractors have a different basis around this. they perimeter of the airport. it's apparently happened to one of that need to one of those incumbents. now,

we're waiting to see get confirmation that it is an explosion. but it comes at the end of a day of high intentions all around the apple. with these warnings of an imminent attack, a suicide attack from multiple sources i by islamic state, or at least the afghan offshoot of that organization. now, islamic state has been active here in afghanistan. they try to establish themselves, especially since the divisive in other parts, parts of the middle east. they try to take root here that was full back against by the military. the government had also with the support of the united states, and in fact, there was a real that was a real concerted effort by the lead, by the united states to try to drive them out of afghanistan. it resulted in a lot of series attacks in 2019. we seriously diminish their ability, but we know that they have still been active, especially in the east of the country with these small units. they have been

carrying out small attacks, especially in cobble and especially on some targets that said the taliban wouldn't, wouldn't attack targets that they deem to be justifiable. so they have been threatening to carry out some sort of attack because this evacuation has continued . we know that they tend to thrive upon disorder and chaos. and with everything that's going on at the airport, the mobile with the evacuation with thousands of people around there with foreigners. and people associated with our mission is probably get to the airport. it is an extremely vulnerable time. it is from an i yes, point of view, a prime target. so there have been these threat, these warnings that an attack was emitted. we have these warnings you out in the week, but the happy really reinforced in the past 24 hours or so confirmed by multiple sources and even the taliban themselves saying yes, there is likely to be an attack. and also warning that the fact that taliban fighters are just as much risk as anybody else that at the airport. and of course,

rob that was great concern in the lead up to you might see the sweeping victory of the taliban stake over the country. the various prisons and areas of incarceration where i saw the operatives were being held had been basically they've been let loose. the doors had been open, but nobody had actually taken any note of where these individuals were going. so the threat level was increased as soon as those jails were opened. that's right, and in fact there is one prison close to the bag room bass bag room was the base that was the home to us forces and also it nato allies. during the long run and campaign here, and there was a prison quite close to that, which how's the number of i so prisoners now that prison was opened and the gates were throwed open as with many other prisons throughout afghanistan, it was and it was assumed that a number of ice or prisoners could well have escaped than they. so he said they

have been responsible for some pretty old days, just pretty despicable attacks as far as western governments are concerned. and also the many people hear it african it's done and the government is concerned such as you know, attacking targets that the taliban would not deem to be a legitimate target. so they have been responsible for some quite serious attacks the taliban relationship with them remains somewhat ambiguous. at times officially the taliban says they have no dealings with with, with islamic states of will not have any dealings under the new administration with islamic state. they've made that extremely clay, and as they've re reiterated with these current threats that that taliban fighters are just as much risk as any soldiers from the us or the other. the coalition allies or people thronging around the 40 fact. if i don't think taliban would be war in the front line, they are more exposed if you like to some sort of

a suicide attack by islamic state. because of course that will be on the outside of the base. it's very difficult to see that they could have a penetrate the base and get close to western soldiers. so taliban would be just as much at risk. having said that, have been some occasions where the taliban has been, has they have been suspicions, the taliban, at least at some local levels, have been working in coordination with islamic states. but as i said, i thought a national level. taliban says it has nothing to do and we'll have nothing to do with that islamic state group. but we are still waiting to see if this was indeed an attack, an actual bombing at the airport, and indeed, what casualties that could be. of course, various contributors to al jazeera had said that there's no love lost between iso and the taliban. but the real test of the taliban control over the country is whether they can actually find out where this group or various members of this

group are actually operating. from whether they have the information network in place as they liked, perhaps the rest of the world to understand that they have this in place right now . whether it is actually effective in finding those that may be behind this attack called the apple because it be a test of that or 40 across the country. it will be extremely interesting to see the relationship and the attitude of the taliban now in government to, to islamic state. you know, as we, as we've said they've, they've had a thought the ambiguous relationship towards them. in the past, the previous government, as we said, made extraneous efforts to try to wipe them out back in 2019 and very nearly did. so you would have thought, if you were islamic state, you would be looking with relish what's happening. the withdrawal of us forces all of its allies, the collapse of the stress ghani, government,

and the taliban coming into into force. remember, of course that the taliban were extremely stressed. they made the points very strenuously a few days ago in all of their 1st brief things when they suddenly found that they were the government here. and they were running the country that they would not give any kind of haven to groups that were intends on bringing the fight to western governments. that of course, was wide. western government got involved all of those 20 years ago. that's the big fear that remains for the united states and its allies. and the taliban quite smartly, were very, very quick to lay those space. they saying that the new f kennedy down would not be a haven to any groups such as presumably islamic state. but it will be interesting to see what relationship they do have with at the time of state. will they be as robust as the previous government in trying to wipe them out and trying to push them out of afghanistan or from islamic state point of view. what will their

relationship be with the taliban way when we were considering the possible attack on the apple? remember of course you've got taliban fighters there. the thinking was that the islamic state, if they did launch in attack, they would want to be very careful that they target certainly westerners or western forces or any members of the u. s. military or its allies. it would in the collateral damage inevitably get passengers who or people who are trying to get on to flight out of the country. but if you're a lamp state, you could probably justify that. it as much as these people were effectively from islamic state, point of view, all this collaborating with foreign governments, and if that collateral damage then, so be it. but they will be very careful is i'm state not to touch any taliban in the collateral damage because they would know that if they want to stay in afghanistan, despite all of the assurances from the taliban,

that they're not going to give safe haven to any of these groups, they really have to stay under the radar, especially in the early days, early months to see how this all plays out with this new government coming into power here. robert bride, thanks very much. rob brought a correspondence course over to charlotte bellis josie. now on the phone from cobble and we managed to get a gist of what you said before charlotte about the lead up to this explosion. just let me explain as well that what we can see now i live pictures off from cobble apple. we can still see helicopters landing and we can still see planes taking also, the operation at the apple seems to be progressing as normal. but tell us what, you know. well, we're just leaving the scene now actually, and we heard ourselves in that explosion about an hour ago. we got through as close as we could get to the pool. we understand it took place at the gate. that's what witness is telling us. that is one of the points of entry for

these evacuation flight. so people trying to get on them. usually it's crowded. there's a lot of people that taliban outside that gate and have been been doing security around the area. but i've been down there in recent days, and americans have been overlooking that area. are standing on the line. so we understand an explosion took place and then with heavy gunfire afterwards, when we looked down the street towards it, it was heavy smoke. there were hundreds of people flying towards us and, and telephone 5 to be telling us to leave immediately because there was an explosion and an ongoing attack. a colleague of mine spoke to someone who was via, he said that they were lots of quote, wounded indeed. and he said that americans were shooting quite unclear this moment . who may have said this explosion off one telephone contact told me that they believed that the americans were destroying equipment at the time. in

contrast to that, we understand that the ice will 3 was quite high here. that's one of the reasons that many countries that they had stopped the rebecca ations. the americans also put out an alert the tele bomb saying today that no one can come near the airport because the ice will 3 too high because they are looking at doing specifically car bombings and then around the airport to inflict court maximum damage as a telephone contact told me today, so whether or not this is i cell or something else is still unclear, but it looks like the sidney casualties from this incident. i'll call hard to predict the future charlotte. but if this is an incident that has been perpetrated by i, so it seemed the old sides, we'll have to decide and reconfigure the plans. perhaps about the 31st of august. yes, i mean security, the security concerns have been growing here. we understand that for the most part,

these evacuation flights are starting to slower. they were getting dozens of every day. and now this, this certainly few flights taking off as they kind of ramping down and, and now looking to get their remaining military out who have been facilitating this, this operation. but i think that was due for the most part. it's full steam ahead on getting everyone out by the 31st, the tele bond is heated. it's fitting the red line that no one can stay there or not. the attack speed things off. it's hard to tell, of course we can see what military plane taking off from the airport as the sun sets across the african capital. it does beg the question about security across the city as well. in terms of how much of the city to taliban can control you. i think you spoke with earlier in the day of rob. but bry did and said that more forces web being brought into the capital from the regions television have bought in all the

most elite forces, even on day one. they both fell from the special forces when they took over the city. and then that being become a come increasingly organized as the days have gone on around the port permits and now they have a unit known as the bad degree 313, which are the most of the special forces from the taliban there. associated with connie network and they had been in control of the perimeter going down there. just yesterday i spoke with some of the commanders. they were from different from different areas, but they were trying the best to do crime control. but it was very much a soft target and you can see why i would target it because it was thousands of civilians. and the taliban were feeling overwhelmed. and the best attempt to control and push people back was shooting in the year. they were resorting to be seeing people, we drove through a cloud of tear gas at one point. it was k all sick and it has been and may, has been no improvement in the last 10 days in the management office. and there's

been a lot of blame to go around the telephone and we're controlling security. but why is this our problem? this is america's situation to sort out they should have been more organized and managing these people. and it seems like it's never really been resolved. there was a deal between the taliban in the us as far as security goes and who would manage was. but there's been so many loopholes. every side overwhelms. and everyone just pushing as hard as they can to the speed line to get as many people out and then pass it and the cards will fall as they, as they lie, shall lose, bring you up to speed with what we're getting in terms of why as we're getting a turkish defense ministry quote that saying that with 2 explosions outside cobble pull, no damage to any turkish units. and from the us, we're getting 3. the troops have been injured in, in the cobble blast,

but they can't tell us exactly where they were injured. so the turkish, the concert being certainly the blast and certainly injuries as well. injuries on one side, one has received that may be injury is all the civilian side to is most certainly, i mean to, i mean if the americans, the saying that 3 of the personnel were injured, that doesn't surprise me because when you go down to the gate to get in that way, there is a post overlooking the gate where there is a number of us soldiers stationed. i watched them myself the other day overlooking the crowds and then just a few meters from them. there is a tele bomb chick post and they watch each other all day. and then this, this doesn't the other day when we were there, the one hundreds of civilians packed like sardines banging at the gate hoping for a chance to get in. holding the papers up to the americans there, if there has been an explosion and as soon as see there are certainly americans posted above that will over looking everything and may have been caught up in this

. we heard this explosion at 5 40 pm local time, which is just over an hour ago. when we were there, we heard a 2nd explosion, which was not as strong. we also heard sirens coming from inside the course. and then the taliban had just pushed everyone back and they had appeared to force reinforcements, who were at least double the number of telephone fighters down there. guarding the entrance as they normally were. they were very tense. they were shooting in the year. i for them break camera from another journalist and they were very teeth and very concerned and shooting. frequently show that we're also getting more news from the americans that they suspect that this was a suicide attack. if that is the case that it does lead into the direction of i sold, doesn't it? yeah, i saw

a mo if you will in cobble is to do suicide bloss, that target civilians. usually they targets that she and minority and they have been called some threats in the back of everyone's minds in cobbled for some years . now, although it has been some time since they have pulled off any type of large attack, but they are very much enemies with the telephone. and that is one thing that the waste and the taliban have had in common. here is the neutral hatred for iso and i from pockets have been in the east, but they have tried to talk to them in previous years. and this is definitely on everyone's radar, that it would be easy for them to target the course. the telephone tried to push people back, but they were just so many people. there was no way to check the sags to pad people down as they entered the area. because the report itself is a big,

well they did was truth in the area and, and it appears it has not been enough sol about us in cobble. thanks very much for the update. of course, we'll continue to monitor what goes on. these are life pictures coming from cobble international. appleton called the sunset. it's early evening there now. it seems that the military operations to get people evacuated from the country continue and that the bomb blast that we've been hearing about haven't interrupted about sequence of events. however, everybody will be able to let, let's discuss with kimberly how get all white house correspondent in the us. of course the us just getting that news now and kimberly, we were getting various sourced information from the pentagon and about what they thought was behind these explosions. what are you hearing from them now officially? while we should point out that the pentagon is expected to brief and so we are watching for the latest official updates out of the pentagon and from the

department of defense folks person john kirby. but already the united states has confirmed that they suspect this was a suicide bomb. and as we have been reporting, there are potential casualties as well as injuries. we know there are injuries to at least 3 u. s. service members. the extent of those injuries is unclear. now here at the white house, things are changing very quickly. i can tell you that the u. s. president joe biden has been brief on the explosion that has occurred to cobble airport. i can also tell you that he already met with his top national security advisers. and in some ways, unfortunately, this was not unexpected. in fact, we know that the u. s. state department, as well as other american officials, had been cautioning americans, we know there are at least 1500 that are still awaiting evacuation. they were told not to go to the airport because of concerns of what has now transpired. and that

is some sort of explosion. what we are told is that this is potentially a suicide bomber that is behind that nation. now, given the fact that there was a warning in advance, it's not clear how many americans in addition to the service member, may potentially be affected by this. but again, this now begs the question about what is next. now the years president, up until today, had been very firm about the withdrawal of us troops to be completed by august 31st . but he said that with that being contingent on the continued evacuation of those that needed to get out prior to that withdrawal deadlines. he also said that he was drawing up contingency plans and had directed the pentagon to do so, but did not provide any details. so the question becomes whether or not the

president would now be exploring whether to exercise some of those contingency plans. and what exactly that means is there will be a delay of the withdraw date. that's something certainly that members of congress and members of his own democratic party happen urging, as well as the international community. these are the unanswered questions that are now percolating here at the white house. we will have an opportunity to hear from the us president. he is scheduled to meet with the israeli prime minister and tolley bennett that is coming up at $1530.00 gmc, we have not yet had word of whether or not that meeting will be delayed. we know that our gamma stand was one of the topics that would be discussed. it's very likely now that that will become a primary topic of discussion. and of course some of these issues i've raised are certain to be asked by the reporter who will be present for the initial part of that oval office meeting. just to bring you up to speed from the wise of the dropping here from reuters. kimberly no german troops injured in the explosion

outside the airport, the texas saying they haven't been injured in this though. they were 2 explosions. obviously, what would assume that the american president, all those of the pentagon will be speaking to that nato partners that have military personnel at the airport. and they'll also be talking, if you, if you're talking about these contingency plans about how they are going to work together in terms of either the 31st of august, or how to reevaluate the evacuation process. the pressure was already on joe biden. to extend this august 31st deadline to keep american troops in the country for at least a period of extended time to allow for the evacuation. there is no doubt that the pressure is going to be even more intense for him to become more flexible, potentially extend deadline. not only has there been domestic pressure on capitol hill, but also of course, as he met earlier with the g 7 leader,

they urged him to extend this august 31st deadline. so one can presume that that coordination is taking place. we as mentioned already know that there was a meeting in the situation room of the white house where the top security officials of the united states were briefing the president. we know since then he has been updated on this explosion. but again, we should remind our viewers that this is something that the white house was preparing for. given the fact that there had been indications and warnings that a suicide bombing or a bombing of some kind or disturbance of some kind could take place at the cobble airport. that is why americans were told not to go to the airport. and that's why the evacuation flight had slowed, and there had been some interruption in that effort. the white house, and that remains its highest priority. so these are questions that are being raised, we suspect at the white house right now. the contingency plans still not clear what those are, only that we can tell you. the pentagon had been directed to order those up. and

we're now watching very carefully to see what the defense department will say. moving forward, there is a pentagon briefing that a schedule, and there is no question that what is on the minds of so many reporters in that room is the very latest on what is happening at the cobble airport. for the i wouldn't take him because all white house correspondent, thanks very much. let's just bring it to speed on what we know so far. we all got to get taliban source. now saying that as many as 11 people have been killed at cobble airport, including foreigners, and also suggested that children may of also been injured. as kimberly, also concerned from us from the us. we are also getting the same from the pentagon, that 3 us personnel has also been injured in that blast, which happened just over an hour ago. the germans and the turks. nothing has happened to them though they were close or in the vicinity of the blast they seemed to be okay. let's cross over to charlie angelo in our london broadcast central,

the very fast moving story. charlie, as the sunsets that can stand the turks and the german saying there, okay, americans have 3 injured the taliban now saying that as many as 11 have been killed . of course, many phone calls, i'm sure going from european capitals to the us and vice versa. yes, well the one half in the u. k. defense ministry is that that's still trying to establish exactly what has happened, whether or not has it affected any of the personnel or the ask and they're trying to get out. and i remember there's still a large number of civil servants, including the you came back to the, to ask honest on inside the perimeter of the airport still processing visa applications. and they have said that they will remain that until the last minute. we know that the threat of these attacks, which the u. k on foreign minister was talking about this morning,

has brought forward the evacuation flights and ended the evacuation flight for many countries. the u. s. had warned countries to remove.