said he says she is scared. all she wants is a chance to live than a hood there. elisha zita balte now ask and family has been reunited in france for the 1st time in more than a decade after they were evacuation from cobble speaker that would broke down in tears when she saw her mother as well as for her siblings. she says her family no longer feel safe in afghanistan as one of her brothers who served in the army was killed by the taliban. ah, hello there, this is al jazeera, these all the headlines. there's a renewed agency to evacuate thousands of afghans off the thursday's attack. at least a 175 people were killed outside cobble at force. us forces are higher last and a warning of more attacks by eiffel. meanwhile, the pentagon says 5400 people are still waiting to be flown out of cold air force.

most western countries of already ended their operations, but the u. s. says it's ellis will continue right off until the august 31st deadline. what we want to do is preserve as much capability for as long as we can both in terms of the security footprint lives are still the priority and the lives of our troops. and of course, the lives of the viet vacuum ease and try to continue to get as many out as possible. so there will be a balance over the next few days as we continue to process through that transition as we continue to as what we call retro grade. and i can't give you a specific number on any given day. but i think you'll see us a just as necessary to make sure that we're achieving that proper balance. but we will be able to fly out a vacuum. he's right up until the last moment. that's going to be the goal has rarely prime minister enough tale. bennett has been holding talks with us president

joe biden at the white house. he says the us remains, israel's most reliable ally been at once to stop washington from returning to the nuclear deal with iran. dozens of school children have been freed in northern nigeria after being abducted from in lubbock 3 months ago now. more than 130 students were taken by government from the town of to gina 90. 3, have been released for them admitted to hospital or the number of people admitted to hospitals with cobra. 19 across the united states has passed 800000. that's a level not seen since january hospitals in the south of fuller than elsewhere, many states they're experiencing their west wave of infections. yes. well, those are the headlines. i'll be back with more news for you here on al jazeera after inside story. stay with us. news news, news,

news. news. douglas of people are killed in twin bombing outside cobble airport just as foreign leaders had been warning of an imminent threat. why i still case? could afghan a son? faith more attacks and is the taliban up to the security challenges? this is inside school. ah, ah, ah, hello, welcome to the program. i'm hasn't seek it more than a 100 people killed, including at least 13 u. s. military personnel. many more were also wounded by twin bombings outside cobbles, airport. the attacks claimed by an eye so off shoot, came as little surprise to many who had been warning of

a security threat in the area for days. despite that thousands of people still gathered outside the airport, waiting for the evacuation to be process will happen. close to the abbey gate entrance of cobble airport, and near the barren hotel, just a few days before the august 31st deadline for a complete u. s. military withdraw from the country. us president joe biden has resisted cause to extend that date until all americans and afghans that are listed are flown out. the president has vowed to strike back at the attackers to those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes america harm. no. this we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down to make you pay. how defend our interest in our people would every measure at my command. of the head of the us

central command said it is coordinating with the taliban to secure the airport. tawan condemned the attacks and said it is not responsible for the security failure . there's this attack. but then there's also the situation around the airport, the gatherings of tens of thousands of people around couple airports is a suitable location for these attackers. this is in fact a security mis handling a big error from their part. and a big mistake. we've warned the foreign forces several times of the repercussions of large gathering around the airport. a correspondent child stratford has more now from cobble. there are going questions being asked about the taliban is ability to deal with what analysts say is an increasing threat from iso in afghanistan. a threat that has been made worse, because during the time of bonds offensive towards cobble, they went into prisons open the doors in order to be able to free tale fighters.

but in that process, so suddenly say thousands of ice will fight as well. so fried the situation is be made worse because of the amount of weapons now available to groups like this weapons that fell into the hands of the taliban. that were common date from the a, the afghan national army, and us and nato forces. but some expert saying a lot of these weapons of also colon into the hands of i. so now the pentagon said that there has been cooperation between us and nato forces and the taliban during this evacuation operation. and the taliban has said that he will not allow either homegrown or foreign terror organizations to use this country as a base to attack foreign countries or course target inside afghanistan. but there are questions being asked as to whether that level of cooperation between the u. s. and the taliban that we've seen during this evacuation right evacuation operation will continue once nato forces leave. but one thing is for sure

that it is in both the us nato countries and the taliban interest to prevent an organization that not re presents a threat to this country. but the world shall stratford the inside story trouble. so what do we know about? i saw horse and also known as ice. ok, that's claimed responsibility for the attacks. while the arm group was formed in 2014 by breakaway fighters of the park. astonished taliban and fighters from afghanistan, who pledged allegiance to the late iso leader of a battle in bus. daddy, the name what a san refers to a historical region that included pots that would today be in iraq, afghanistan, and took medicine. i. so k has been responsible for some of the worst attacks enough janice done on pakistan in recent years. talking girl, schools, hospitals, and maternity ward. it is considered the most extreme and violent of all the

medicine groups in afghanistan. it has major differences with the taller bon accusing it of abandoning our struggle in favor of negotiating peace deals with washington. the last spring in august. now from cobble we have by the love, by hear a political analyst and a lecture of transitional justice at the american university of af canister. and from pittsburgh calling clock director of policy and research at the sou, find cooper, non partisan strategy center dedicated to global security issues and from the heart . so tom bought a carts director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the dell ha institute. thank you. all for joining us, all by dollar. let me start with you. obviously, a horrible situation in afghanistan. why now with the aftermath of this attack and lots of worries about what's going to happen next and security,

not just around the airport, but throughout, throughout, cobble in the country as a whole. what happened yesterday was a shock to all of us. the shock was that every one was talking about, there were reports, there were intelligence reports indicating something like that could happen. it was a very soft target. and it still happened the little a glimmer of hope that the youth enough on the spot had the educated youth was that despite everything that we had traded in this week. but that was a piece that the war was over. that the scale of the killing that used to happen every day and a fun fun wasn't going to be seen anymore. let's tend to call and clock in pittsburgh could, could an attack like this happen again? yeah, it could happen again, and that's what everybody is concerned about. i think tensions are high right now.

you know, the intelligence bells were, were ringing and they were right. you know, administration said an attack was eminent and we saw on we know that i s k has the capability, we know that they have the intent and they're very likely planning the next round of attacks. this could be the beginning of a sustained terrorist campaign. bias k and i've gotten so tom bought a car, is this a glimpse of more chaos to come? it's actually a reminder to the run that now that walked into your sponsibility. there is no way to secure the city without working with everyone else, whether the city, the city of 6000000 people, and on territory to them. and without a serious condition where the leader is on the ground. i think we like to see more of this kind of stuff is falling between the lines of mandate security

between probably been on the united states and this is i think that's happened. a small area ended up almost under no one's control as the subject to avoid the us forces. and now i think it's a very important reminder that they must get their act very quickly together, announced the government to the others, their hands to the others, to join you in running not just the city, but the whole country calling clock. how does this effect evacuation plans as they are right now? president biden, as of now, is sticking to that august 31st date for all of the evacuations to end. but if, if an attack like this, if there is a real possibility of an attack like this occurring again, how do you get people into the airport? i mean, what about the logistics of this and the security challenges? it's incredibly difficult and i think that's what, since yesterday's attack,

the military and the administration has been grappling but trying to figure out a different way of security. a way to introduce some white space between the airport, the military and the throngs of people that are descending on the airport. there's numerous vulnerable spots of soft targets, as we've seen. and we've got to figure out a way for the printer perimeter be pushed back and for individuals to be processed in screen before they get right up to the gate. the. the current situation and the current alignment is not sustainable. all but the line cobble. if i could turn back to you on this and still talking about the, the security challenges here, we now have a kind of curious situation. now, something that wouldn't have been dreamt of just a couple of years ago of the u. s. government trying to make common cause with the taller bond, the surgeons that it fought 20 years ago, against the, against

a shed enemy here and in ice. ok. what needs to be done to ensure security then for, for afghans? first off, we're hoping that the ice cave capacity, or capabilities aren't as large as what it looked like yesterday. the target bond with their own history of being an insurgent group in creating such destructions for the republic before them should have some level of experience of how to deal or understand the protocols and procedures of such organizations. and that's politics. i mean, they have on people have accepted their reality. those who aren't keeping the country are accepting the new reality that the same the bod, who are once an enemy for 2 decades, are now people who are running this country. and it's really important that there is an engagement and there is

a process for getting into the airport. your other guest mention the need for a humanitarian corridor or a buffer zone to make sure that everyone isn't standing at the gate yesterday. is incident, had everyone deflecting and pointing the responsibility at the other, even though it was a collective failure on everyone's part. there has to be a better administration off this. and that starts with creating a government that starts with creating a central address for the americans to negotiate and talk to but really hoping that all sites can get their acts together before such incidents become more common. so tom bought a cart some who supported this withdraw decision by president biden, will say that thursday's attack was only possible because the us troops were there in the 1st place. they weren't, they were such an easy target. but is, is that argument to easy? you think i believe the attack was us forces on the

seems to me was straight did to increase the chaos in the country and such even the counter, the g update of any coalition that may reach. so it's not just targeting. and just if i am shot, i was to go back to the issue of the coordination that had been careful coordination between the band ever since the 29th february 2021st job or contacting each other and jones on the ground, trudy and also more recently since the 15th of august, to avoid any crashes between their forces. and so it's not a matter of lack of coordination terms of avoiding each other is how would you physically stop deeper from moving away be back to racial plans,

have been announced largely to please people back home in the nice states and france and elsewhere have given the wrong impression to people that the gates are open to anyone who was wanting to be about to understand, to come to the airport. and that has really, they seemed pressure on their or that is 5 richards and has put anybody in the position. i think they're down there, they stop the people coming to the airport and they're down and they don't. and i think that situation should, should come on in. and ideally, those countries should have had an evacuation long, long ago, and organized to draw their stuff, their families and associates, and happened by names and phone numbers, text messages, whatever. but all of that pushy was not in place. and it could be because the of the speed in which things have up and that in fact, as you may know,

the actual entry of the planet about a couple was not planted for not by any, not by the, by the, by all the others. the plan was for them to stop on the outskirts of apple and president rodney to continue with the military and the police to secure the city while the americans take over the apples. but that was preempted by the departure of the printer, which was a surprise to to everyone. and then the other leaders calling on the tiny band to secure the city so that there is no chaos and there's no looting going on to the city. so they are there and one way or the other that was forced to enter and they were not prepared. the other side was not preferred. and we saw this house. but now with us there is a real pressure that they get their act together. calling clock,

i know that public opinion in the u. s. before this month was pretty much against oh rather in favor of, of this withdrawal and not wanting to, to be in afghanistan for much longer. but has that changed now because of this attack or does it both for some people, does it actually both to the argument that the us needs to get out? i think it's the, i think it's the ladder. i think for many americans, it's going to be proof that the united states has no place in afghanistan and should be leaving. you know, i do look at the polling data. i've been against the withdrawal from day one. and i think we also, as the other guys have acknowledged, have to recognize that there's a vacuum ration has been poorly planned. i know the administration is trying to put out positive news about how many people have been evacuated from the country. and that's great. but you know, there's been a lot of happ hazard and

a half hazard. nature of this evacuation and withdrawal essentially led in a direct line to what we saw yesterday. we lost 13 troops yesterday. this was a terrible day in the united states afghan us down last many, many citizens that were killed and moving innocent civilians including children. it's heartbreaking to watch this and i think we, you're right, there's immense pressure for the administration to get this right. they were caught off guard on a number of different scenarios. there's gotta be contingency planning. you've got to anticipate every possible scenario in a case like this when you're doing a non combatant evacuation operation. that should be war game doubt. we should have plans for every single possible scenario and it's clear that we didn't all buy dollar. where does the, what does the taliban go from here? not just in terms of providing security, adequate security, but just the day to day governing of cobble because we know that you know quite

a lot and thousands of afghans of left already many of them skilled people. people who are part of the previous government, is there a sense that they're actually many of them are actually needed to to, to help the taliban govern the country? before i move on to your question, just a quick comment on 1st off. i'd like to thank calling your guest for recognizing that they were up on who gave their lives up yesterday because the parents, the president by didn't, didn't notice. and you're a guest, but a car could very well be a speaker for the movement itself. he talks about the coordination agreements between the parlor bonds in the u. s. he really needs to go outside the airport off of lot of fun to see the impeccable nature off that coordination. these people don't speak the same language. there is no middle people and it's all extremely have hazard. that being said, with regards to where the pilot plan go from here. if the brain drain is

a real concern for the part about movement, there really have to come up with trust building measures with the fine people they upon ministries, even though not functional major. the yet have departments for engineers that have 2 remaining out of 20 engineers. this is not going to be a functional, sustainable system if it stays this way. so either the tal upon convince the people that are not true course and obviously they cannot hold educated populations hostage, but they need to convince them by establishing government inclusive, one as soon as possible, rolling out policies that ensure people safety matching their words with their actions with regard to the amnesty provided to or promised to people who worked with the government. and then in the long term actually try to get these people back. because again, most of the people that were on the claims were educated people, people that the country that they themselves had invested years on themselves. and

now they're not here. so the thought on really need to address that gap because governing is not an easy job. they are good at typing, we'll have to see if they can govern successfully or not. so tom bought a car if we talk a little bit more about ice ok now and what their objectives were in this attack. clearly in the short term, it was meant to, to so chaos and bring up a sense of a lack of security instability. but what's the, what's the ultimate goal is, are they looking for some sort of power the way the same way that they were trying to build this, that they did the i saw in iraq and syria was trying to build this careful what is their ultimate aim pressure on me just to come back to my colleague about being useful, especially i will, i will just over terribly nice. it is to me because i understand the pressure people are going on during campbell at the moment. but it is important to recognize

that the rational thinking and capital a person that has been missing for some time. and this is why people find themselves in this house at the moment. at the talks in doha, we're going on, then they go to interrupt it. and then as the back, we're making progress towards the capital, it became clear to everybody around the august 12th that the balance of our has just it was under bad. and the representatives of the president were talking to the tiny band about trying to transfer people an order to transfer our and that agreement was almost finalize. it was by and he left the country on the day when his delegation was getting to the, to the hot to the so i don't know what that is morning in addition that he energy of the situation that just happened. going back to ice chain,

a little is known about their actual engine that i've done as you know, these are people that were fleshed out, mostly from iraq and ended up in offense done. and they started activities after they were finished off in, in iraq. they have ah, breaking into programming to take you live to the white house press secretary jim saki is holding a press briefing. let's listening who the coordinator touched on during this briefing this morning. but for the rest of you who weren't a part of that, the report is nearly 1100000 shots and arms 1100000 is the highest single day total shots since july. 3rd, which is a good sign so far in august we have gotten 12500000 1st shots into arms. that's already 2000000. more 1st shots than in all of july was several days still left to go to add to that total. importantly, we've now had

a major milestone in our efforts to vaccinate adolescents that are particularly important time as people go back to school. 50 percent of 12 to 17 year old. now have at least their 1st shot, obviously more work to do. but a positive step forward also wanted to know that today the department of health and human services secretary, have you ever sarah announced $85000000.00 and funding to improve mental health services for our nation's children and youth? which is, of course, a priority for the buy inherited ministration. as a part of our push to get kids back to school safely and address the impact of the pandemic on them. specifically, he announced the health resources and services administration is making $24.00 awards totaling $10700000.00 and funds from the president's american rescue plan to expand pediatric mental health care access by integrating health services. for example, actions like technical assistance for pediatric care providers to diagnose, treat, and refer children and youth as mental health conditions and substance youth disorders. and this will also the substance abuse and mental health services.

ministration is also granting $29.00 awards totaling $74100000.00 to enhance mental health services, mental health services for school aged youth. so as an example of that project aware which stands for advancing wellness and resilience, education will use its funding to help raise awareness of mental health issues for young people on train for personnel also wanted to note that today we're announcing the president biden has directed the department of homeland security to serve as the lead federal agency coordinating across the federal government to relocate evacuated, afghans to the united states. already d adjusts has been working closely with agencies across government, including our military diplomats, intelligence, community, and law enforcement professionals, and many others to ensure that all afghans are screened and vetted prior to being allowed into the united states. additionally, all evacuees will continue to undergo extensive cover 19 and public health precautions, including immediate, covered 1900 testing,

and offered vaccines upon arrival. the us will also coordinate with numerous other federal agencies to ensure that relocated africans have access to medical care and sufficient support to enable their successful resettlement. in the united states, the president is grateful for the critical role, the dedicated workforces across the federal government, including our military service men and women. diplomats, our intelligence and law enforcement professionals, and many others are and implementing this efforts. finally this afternoon, the president and fume administrator, dan criswell will host a call with the governors of louisiana, alabama and mississippi to discuss ongoing preparations for tropical storm ida, which is expected to make landfall on the gulf coast as a major hurricane on sunday. as some of you may know, sunday is the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina, which caused widespread devastation, claimed more than 1800 lives and displaced so many families. the fema administrator was in louisiana yesterday. she met with the governor with governor of l. edwards and the state emergency management director to discuss how they are mobilizing to

prepare for what could be a very dangerous horn storm hitting a region that has been heavily impacted by the delta various and the president will be closely tracking this and receive updates through the course of the weekend with that statement, not too long or the question for the silver, which i believe is natural lightweight. i know you're limited, but is there any more specificity you can offer on what that is? and certainly what does it mean for you the install and anyway, also and changes that need to be made limit for the ability to continue or get as much done through august 31st. sure. well, i think many of you may have seen the statement. i put out this morning, but just to highlight the reference, i believe armor was making. what i,

what i would conveyed in the statement was that the national security team, the president, met with this morning advise the president, vice president, that another terror attack and cobble is likely. and they are taking maximum force protection measures at the cobble airport and surrounding areas with our forces. as a result, i will note that the department of defense also just gave a briefing this morning, and i will echo some of the descriptions that they offered. the threat is ongoing and it is active. it is our troops are still in danger. that continues to be the case every day that they are there. most. this is the most dangerous part of the mission. this is the retrograde period of the mission. and what that means is that this is the period of time when the military commanders on the ground and forces begin to move, not just troops home, but also equipment home. and that is often a very dangerous part of any mission, but in this case,

they're also doing that well, there is a, an ongoing and acute threat from isis k. so that is what they are facing. i would note, since you gave them the opportunity that the military may clear to the president that they are committed to continuing this mission to getting to saving lives, to evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing their mission by the 31st what it will also mean as they move to this retrograde phase is that there will be a reduction of numbers over the next couple of days. and we've been putting those numbers out to all of you twice a day so that you can see how that, how, how we are evacuating people out of the country. those numbers will go down in the next full of days. and you should anticipate that that is as a result of the retrograde process that needs to take place. but also i will note that of course force protection is front and center and it is vital to the mission . one more than 5 reporters in the mail office.