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capital airport. were desperate scenes unfold over the course of 2 weeks. general eons out is in charge of airborne brigade, one in germany, and responsible for evacuations. he's tasked with organizing and evacuation mission in afghanistan with hardly any lead time. so i thought it was fridays until august, 13th and north because i got a phone call that made it clear the initial plan had to be ready by mid day the next day. and he asked me really calling because the time pressure was unbelievable . and goblins, quartz i took that same day. however, germany's foreign intelligence service, the b and d reports. taliban leadership currently has no interest in military takeover of

cobble take over cobble before september. 11th, rather unlikely. the bond is fad. germany's armed forces is facing its largest ever evacuation mission to fly out germans and also afghans who are at risk come the line, which will we be able to fly in was what a security light on we are. in afghanistan, afghanistan, the taliban continued to advance on cobbled, cobble with enough guns in afghanistan. the taliban are on the verge of seizing power in berlin, it's becoming clear. the situation has been deeply misjudged. macos pazzano is asked to return from his summer vacation. he's germany special representative for afghanistan, few german diplomats know the country as well as he does. he's to become germany's ambassador and afghanistan for the 2nd time. his flight is scheduled for august 15th, but it never comes to that. the german embassy is being evacuated. the minister in

some way, then foreign minister hi, co moss decided that i should go to doha. and 1st and foremost, i tried to talk with the taliban, whom i already knew, jeff, when the goal was to talk about the prospects of leaving the country, especially for our local employees. the afghans who have for years worked for german organizations are now in danger. wherever the taliban is seizing control talks with a taliban are now critical to save them. when cobble wakes up on the morning of august 15th 2021. the taliban are at the gates of the city president ashcroft. connie had vowed to defend cobble to the very end. we started the morning, not thinking that this is going to be the last day in cobble comed. alamo him is national security adviser, one of our trav counties closest confidence. he has bad news for the president. the afghan army has told him they cannot defend cobble. i had this heart to heart

discussion with the military leaders. it was clear they didn't believe that was possible. the president didn't know that's what his military leaders were thinking . the problem was nobody wanted to sound weak because if any military leader was heard to say or any political leader was heard to say that this was not doable, it would immediately collapse. but there is one final plan to avoid chaos and bloodshed. now they're not every one of the afghan government's top negotiators is scheduled to meet the taliban in doha. i was booked on a flight on sunday morning on the 15th. ah, to, to go to doctor. thanks, looked very normal. an officer opened the gates and he was tired.

he could see in his eyes that he of and slept for long probably couple of nights. ah, he recognized me. he said, sir, you're going to dora. uh huh. and he, i, he said this too much. we have lost a lot. can you please find a way can you please find a way to end us? behind the scenes, the afghan government and the us are talking to the taliban hoping to strike a last minute deal. as well as god would, it appears there really was a plan to have a 14 day transitional phase in which connie would remain in the presidential palace and arrange for an orderly transfer of power in doing duffy, the taliban, agreed they would remain outside. cobble. you also have cobb was from liability. and then suddenly, yes, i make breaking news coming in. i should have gone in the president about about an hour left. i've got a ton of stones president done for i've gone, he was gone,

his left will become free from, has confirmed that the president, president, donnie of afghanistan, has left the country and then gone. he was gone at mid day on sunday. well, that's were awesome. well, the news surprised even his closest aids, his including the foreign minister and his chief of staff. he only took his innermost circle with him. mm hm. this is martin beck, the president's chief of staff at the time. i could go after lunch, i could hear the wife, but i didn't talk with philip kupta because that, that there was a lot of helicopter minister of foreign affairs. he called me, he asked me, where is the president i to imprison was with us. he went home, he said no, he done away. and i couldn't believe him. i had no reason to believe because the on nicholas over while the chief of staff is with others having lunch. the

president flees with his top security adviser. ready some of may have gone to lunch that wasn't understood who goes to lunch at the when the couple in about to collapse. but out from our understanding though, they don't even those people have left. so they're gone. and now i said every minute the situation changed. and anybody that was left bold came with the president does. suddenly there was this power back, yoga and the americans and the taliban asked themselves, so what do we do now? went and they asked each other. yeah. are you going in now or are we got new? and the americans presumably said we're going to the airport now. we're not going into the palace. and from what i've heard, the americans probably agreed that the taliban could enter cobweb contrary to the previous agreement. but gandhi's decision to flee by had rendered that null and void his in infancy. the ball ah

the collapse of the government also leaves a refill ga ferry in great danger. at the time she had the department in the afghan defense ministry, a former mayor. she's one of the countries, few female politicians, and one of the youngest. she has been risking her life so that other women in her country are in power to shape their own lives and futures. now she finds herself having to flee. ah. i left my 2016 yourself achievement down. because my certificates my invoice cease document. eve, what thing my a watts, even thing was they're in a very big coupler. we're just going to bring you these. i live out exclusive. your breaking news inside the presidential palace watts. you are looking at right now.

is taliban fighters in the sides? the presidential palace services this pictures explosive on al jazeera of current analysis, very clear collapse of their stay, immediate collapse of they say. and then it was it was art that was, it was, it was very, very hard. i saw all of them crumble down in front of it brought me suddenly to that realization. but when i be an exact person

ah news planet pictures. will you alive this for the thing that, that thousands of war cannot describe me so how many people vo fleeing gown from their plates like barts that's. that's how african life of how a nation was desperate. because a nation was, was surrender to the wolf to in vic loan of ashley and berlin officials are taken aback by the speed of these development cindy's, as it's in the, it's alice doing everything we can to ensure german citizens and former local employees can leave an hours riser, to a move. caffeine in meaning,

germany and local employees are to be flown out from cobble airport cuffed, oscar flooring. the attic. oh, this is some im jabari, one of those local employees. he worked for the german bonus there for years. it was his job to make the mission of the international troops more popular among the afghan people. to encourage them to fight against the taliban. he also accompanied afghan security forces on missions. when the taliban begins taking one afghan province after the other in summer 2021, he realizes he's in great danger. he's counting on the help of the germans to get him and his family out of the country. bundeswehr did very, but at the beginning they were ignoring us. however, in the beginning, while the day leave afghanistan, we were asking them that please, or parkway does but this plea goes unheard when the german armed forces

end their years long. mission in afghanistan and june 2021. they leave behind the majority of their local employees, including some injure barry. according to the german crisis team, the situation and cobble is dramatic. taliban has effectively taken cobble. if it was chick point self tied up on all the way to the airport with district points. they were chicken goliad arsenal. so and my face was a little bit more fabulous. and may i lead the family members so i had to hide what i did. i just, i in r o as my husband to give me space at the between of his like fit at the down.

oh, of the call. so i sit down and then you know, whenever there was a chick mine, my husband had a bag. he was putting that back on my head right . on my way when i was like, you know, i was witness saying the scenes happening to the city. how tyler one are beating pupil treating pupil evil words style live on their flags. that that moments like all my family, evil, one a 9 percent sitting in the car. every one was cry. even one from my younger brother to my mom and to my husband. that was really painful because what we struggled for, it was a beautiful,

bright future. a beautiful by to day. but what we are have a is just running away and keeping, ah, tie to love. m a grand for you. the only identity k through can curry at. wow. the biggest evacuation operation ever mounted by the buddhist via does not get off to a smooth start. pictures like this go around the world. the americans manage to transport hundreds of people in one plane, putting the germans under pressure. but the us only give the german armed forces a very small window. you don't, you had to was like a german evacuation mission is underway, but it had a bumpy start faculty tonight. the bundle fair was only able to fly 7 people out of

cobble in its big cargo plan. league sniffed. oftentimes, the discussion was a bit irritating in parts and i've given the time that we had the conditions we faced us when we only had 30 minutes on the ground. so the clock was ticking as we landed like 30 minutes. then we had to be out, or else it didn't work, since the circumstances were very difficult and untrue. the dots on the situation changes on later flights than the bonus there is able to fill its planes code as we i think it's important to remember. one thing of how this operation was depicted bought is not what the reality was like on the ground. does falsely r dornen bussey at us? according to the german crisis team, we will not be anywhere close to evacuating of the people approximately $13000.00 that we have on our lists by august 30. first. thousands of afghan employees want to leave for germany and many are waiting desperately at the airport. so i mean, jabari is there to the security forces them don't let people to.

here you are hearing the voice of the weapon and it's impossible to go. and this is really hard and he keeps on trying to make his way through to the german troops to no avail, even though he has documents with them, including emails from the bonus fail rate, a regular crime that i've come in here. i see there are more than 10000 people or so i think there and different cues and possible to go. and it's really, really hard when he finally makes contact with the german soldiers. he's turned away despite the paperwork he has with while they sent me an especially evacuation letter and that the we took,

the bus took us and also we got inside the airport and our german soldier kicked us out with my wife and go to sons. back that this the, he was saying that you are, your name is not on the list. the mood outside the airport is turning uglier by the minute with kicking and shoving, and families being torn apart. once thoughts on keys. and these people were effectively fighting for the lives. i'll put it that way based on martin. and as a result, a fight of the survival of the fittest emerged in an increasingly ugly fashion at the airport as each day went by to discuss the stag on. oh, room kinda of infant children were being passed from the back to the front of the crowd. i was young. so now here was the child, but no family. hayden wins, and it's not what you can talk to, the child has will not have it's an infant in as it's ok. so we try to re unite families and set up a meeting point. so together with other countries, i'm very difficult. who cutty freely. i,

a woman zaps who saw with her own eyes, people arguing over children as 2 men tugging at either side of a child's arms because they each want to use him as a kind of entry tickets into the airport. to garner sympathy and flu call from device. so knutson, mit light, to absorb, we witness these children crying on their arms. practically being dislocated. little children, turning blue hubbard, visits me, desert klein, these are images will never forgets us and build events in each ferguson. ah, how could it come to this such chaotic scenes after 20 years of military engagement in afghanistan? the seeds for this disastrous development were sown in doha. here in katara capital talks were intended to smooth the way towards ending the united states longest war top afghan american diplomats zelma colonial side was negotiating with the taliban

for then us president donald trump. well, he had come to a judgement like president obama had before him, that there was no military solution for afghanistan at their price that the us and nato was willing to pay. and the war wasn't going well. i was costing the united states a lot 40000000000 a year. that was too much, she believe. ah, taliban wants to make a deal. we'll see if they want to make if he has got to be a real deal, but we'll see some damage to her from donald trump wanted to end the war. didn't he wanted to bring his troops back home going? as i did, he said that to and bring back our all our boys, my son lobby's. there are 2 main things. the americans can be criticized ports by phone to firstly that the afghan government was not included or. and secondly,

that the allies weren't involved in whose name color zak was always negotiate a rather bizarre with saw in the end, the u. s. agrees to withdraw all troops. the taliban commits to almost nothing in return. apart from peace talks with the afghan government. i think when they had signed a do a deal with the americans and they had no interest to negotiate with us. it did just have to talk with us for the sake of talk to mark the the the boxes off the door had these oh they're talking with african donavon. the taliban have a date. they know exactly when we're pulling out. so they'll sit tight and then take over the country. that's how it happened in the end that's in sales over. com talks to not start between the afghan government and the taliban until september

2020 the negotiations. and doha, go on for months, but no peace deal emerges. in the meantime, there's a new president in the white house, but he too just wants out. timed and america's longest war. it's time for american troops to come home. suddenly it becomes clear that germany too, will need to pull out its troops very soon. in berlin, the ministries are at loggerheads. every one knows that local employees are essentially trapped. but how many are there? and how can they get v says the ministry of the interior is digging his heels in should the german government quickly dispatch charter plains? the german foreign ministry has qualms. afghan president, ashcroft gone, he has personally asked to michael's puzzle not to do so. through jim, i'm of the yoga, of course you don't do it with you. you don't send in charter plan, so that is the unfolding. i mean, we were really worried that if we sent in charter plans and blew out local

employees on massey who have a responsibility towards there is no question about that than anyone who wanted to leave afghanistan would rush to the airport in a bed to do just that and on the sunset hasn't gone yet. this is exactly what happens just months later and august by then the airport in cobble is a death trap. the german crisis team, alerts warning and attack will be carried out in the next 36 hours. we knew something would happen that day. we just didn't know where august 26th turns out to be the final day of the german evacuation operation and cobble on that day, thousands flocked to the airport again. the window of opportunity is closing against that backdrop. a suicide bomber blows himself up outside of the gates,

killing almost 200 people. ah, mm mm. one day later german troops are back in germany after the 10 day operation. the bundeswehr says it flew out $5347.00 people within that time, but it's just a small fraction of those that they wanted to get out. mm hm. the last u. s. troops left the country on august 30th under the cover of darkness, practically fleeing after 20 years. the war is over for the west, at least. but many victims remain and many open questions.

in the meantime, tommy jabari has managed to get out of gardner. stan with the help of the german foreign ministry, he left the country by land via pakistan. me for a long journey. follow vendor risk. follow back to the story. right now. luckily aside the airplane. ah, ah, i refill go far. i fled to germany via a stumble wall here she tells her story while still trying to support women in afghanistan from afar. for sally, my so i'm a sell last i'm so my eyes and so lockable to

accept their will cease. what's happening in my can't really me afghan women have once again been ordered to wear a barker on public. i have hardly any rights. older girls are not allowed to attend school. millions of afghans are going hungry. thousands of afghan employees who work for the german government are still stranded. for my generation and my pupil, the pupil of my age, the builder was our self. and then when it was the time to enjoy our, our watching men, our struggle even gone. with the taliban controls cobble, once again, was that really inevitable?

in berlin? a parliamentary committee has been set up to investigate the failure of the afghanistan mission and its dramatic conclusion. this type c o. it's something you want to know, especially if you've spent a long time in that country working or training. and suddenly you see this as much is what happened buffy. why did the security infrastructure collapse so quickly? and what about the forces that were trained? what i was given at on fasting feet of i involved what they lacked was the confidence, the willingness to fight and the motivation that comes by itself. and what about soon am the security forces basically surrendered the country to the taliban without a fight. i'm flores in the land urgent have you been with us? and that came as something of a shock to me with his own eyes on so can i hold us african politician responsible. the world came after $911.00. there was so much

resources, so much willingness. but what we did we afghans or i mean, we have to come, we can just blame others. could i as one preventive? all no. but do i feel responsible for somebody who worked with that government? somebody who engaged with the international partners i still yes. history will judge all of us. and i think what happens is a disgrace. the fall of cobble has uprooted counseling afghans including former senior politicians. now they are not very is living in exile in amsterdam unable to return to f. ganeth down the same goes for martin beck, who fled to washington, hummed, alamo. he spends most of his time in london. marcus puts

a sped longer window than originally planned meeting the taliban as a dream and on void should he shouldn't been appointed un deputies special representative for afghan controllers, but they have extensive control over the country more so than any other government . in the last 40 years, so we recognize that reality and are trying to stabilize the system so that people can live there and not die the theme of the by so that they can survive. but of course, that's a balancing act. that much is clear to the the god vandal. the taliban are back. they're not internationally recognized, but they're more powerful than ever. 20 years of war. only for the taliban to return to power once again in

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