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international gathering, his teeth and cooperation becomes the scene of a horrible tragedy. arab terrorists, armed with sub machine guns, went to the headquarters of the israeli team and immediately killed one man. and that this will be the last time the sun life or worse fears realized to my they're all gone. how i witnesses experienced the terrible events and this, the world should not forget the law shuttle. the 1972 olympic massacre starts september, 3rd on d. w. o afghanistan, august 2021. this documentary unravels the dramatic end of a state hearing from people who experienced it up close
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with the taliban are seizing control of afghanistan. the eyes of the world are on the 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 to diaz new berlin campus. the time pressure was unbelievable and goblet quartz. i took that same
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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 of 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 con the line. will we be able to fly in less what a security lakeland we are in afghanistan, afghanistan. the taliban continue 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 puzzle 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 in afghanistan for the 2nd time. his flight is scheduled for august 15th,
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but it never comes to that. the german embassy is being evacuated in the summer, then foreign minister hi, co moss decided that i should go to doha and 1st and foremost, to try 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 the 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 advisor. one of us,
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ross danny's closest confidence away. he has bad news for the president. the afghan army has told him they cannot defend cobble. i had this hard 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. no. i was booked on a flight on sunday morning on the 15th. ah, to, to go to door. thanks. looked very normal. and officer opened the gates and
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he was tired. he could see in his eyes that he hadn't slept for long probably couple of nights. ah, he recognized me. he said, sir, you are going to dor ha ha. and he, i say 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. gov 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 duffy the taliban, agreed they would remain outside. cobble also have cob was sublime, good. and then li, yes,
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i make breaking news coming in now. so got me. the president of the bonus, that is our left of god. is that again, the stones president on israel gone, he was gone his left, the come free from has confirmed that the president, president, donnie of afghanistan, has left the country and then gone. it was gone at mid day on sunday. that's were awesome. well, the news surprised even his closest aids, including the foreign minister and his chief of staff. he only took his innermost circle with him. mm hm. this is martine beck is the president's chief of staff at the time i could the after lunch, i could hear the wife. but i didn't thought it's phillip kupta because that, that there was a lot of helicopter. but 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
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the panic was over. while the chief of staff is with others having lunch, the president pleased with his top security adviser. ready ready some of may have gone to lunch that wasn't understood who goes to lunch, that when the couple is about to collapse, but out from our understanding, do they do even those people have left so they are gone. and now i said every minute the situation changed. and anybody that was left old 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? when and they asked each other and yeah, are you going in now or are we got going on? 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
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previous agreement, jobs. but gandhi's decision to flee by had rendered that no one void is in influence. the ball. ah, the collapse of the government also leaves, sorry, forgot, sorry, in great danger. at the time she had the department in the afghan defense ministry, a former mayor, she's one of the country's 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 on 2016 yourself achievement them. because my certificates, my inver cease document. eve, what thing my a, what's even thing was there in every big cup. what? we're just going to bring these. i live at exclusive pictures,
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your breaking news slides. the presidential palace watts. you are looking at right now. is taliban fighters in the sites? the presidential power services, sir, these pictures expressive on al jazeera, of current last year was very clear collapse of their stay, immediate collapse. if they say, a toys it was hard, it was, it was, it was very, very hard. i saw all of them crumbled out in front of it brought me suddenly to that realization. but would i be an excited person?
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ah, lose kind of pictures. will you alive this for that then that that thousands of words cannot describe the saw how many people fleeing gown from their plates like barts that's. that's how african life is. how a nation was desperate because a nation was, was surrender to the wolf g in victoria. rushed in berlin officials are taken aback by the speed of these development cindy's as it's in the it's alice still doing everything we can to ensure german citizens and former local
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employees can leave. and our skies or to move you know, caffeine in will, meaning germans and local employees are to be flown out from cobble airport. cuffed hours of long b o. this is sammy jabari, one of those local employees. he worked for the german bonus for 4 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,
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while the day leave afghanistan, we were asking them that please evacuate 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 in robbery. according to the german crisis team, the situation and cobble is dramatic. taliban has effectively taken cobble. even while was checkpoints of tyler all the way to the airport with district points they were chick? inglewood arsenal. so and my face was a little bit more fabulous and may or lead the family members. so i had to hate what i did. i just i in
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r o as my husband to give me space at the between of his like fit at the down. oh, of the car. so i sit down and then you know, whenever there was a chick point, my husband had a bag. he was putting that back on. my hate i on my way when i was like, you know, i was with and saying the scenes happening to city. how tyler monarch beating pupil, treating pupil evil words style upon their flags. that that moments like all my family, evil, one like 9 percent sitting in the car, avery one was cry. even one from my younger brother to my mom and to my husband.
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that was really painful because what we struggled for, it was a beautiful, bright future. a beautiful bride to day. but what we are have a is just running away and keeping ah, tie tel off m a grand for you the only i dang t k. true can carry it. wow, the biggest evacuation operation ever mounted by the blindness 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 restart
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a german evacuation mission is underway, but it had a bumpy starch vehicle. did you tonight? the bundle fair was only able to fly 7 people out of cobble in its big cargo plan. league sniffed off. sometimes 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 long 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. boat is not what the reality was like on the ground does mostly arden bussey at us . according to the german crisis team, we will not be anywhere close to evacuating of the people. approximately 13000 that we have on our lists by august 31st. thousands of afghan employees want to leave
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for germany and many are waiting desperately at the airport. so i mean, jabari is there to the security forces. don't, don't let people, the glen ah, 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 pond is fail rate. and that's wrong, regular time that i've come in here. and i see there are more than 10000 people or so i think there and different cues of, of the go ahead that's really, really far. when he finally makes contact with the german soldiers, he's turned away despite the paperwork he has with while they
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sent me an especially evacuation letter and that the we took, the bus focuses on those. so 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 new, her 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, least of 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 hot discussion, the stack 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 this child, but no family hayden's and it's not what you can talk to the child has or not if
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it's an infant, as it's on. 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 peered woman zaps, who saw with own eyes. people arguing over children like the 2 men talking 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 coughing device . so in woodson, mit light to absorb, we witness these children crying on their arms practically being dislocated. little children, turning blue hubert visits me, desert klein, these are images will never forgets us and build events in michigan. 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
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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, said the us and nato was willing to pay. and the war wasn't going well. was costing the united states a lot. 40000000000 a year. that was too much, she believe. ah, vela bed wants to make a deal. we'll see if they want to make it feel it's gotta be a real deal, but we'll see some damage to her trump. donald trump wanted to end the war, didn't he wanted to bring his troops back counseling, as i said that to and bring back our, our boys,
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my son lobby's. there are 2 main things. the americans can be criticized for by phone to firstly that the afghan government was not included or, and secondly, that the allies weren't involved in whose name culture. zach was always negotiate a rather bizarre with bizarre. 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 cantavon. 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 ins. elsa. com
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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 it 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 planes? the german foreign ministry has qualms. afghan president, ashcroft gone, he has personally asked to michael's puzzle not to do so through my mother jaga. of
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course you don't do it with you. you don't send in charter plan. so this is the, until the, i mean, we were really worried that if we sent in charter plans and blew out local employees on mass fee, we have a responsibility towards there's 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 dozens hasn't gone yet. this is exactly what happens just months later and august by then the airport in cobble is a death drop. 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,
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a suicide bomber blows himself up outside of the gates, killing almost 200 people. ah ah, one day later german troops are back in germany after the 10 day operation. the bone despair 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.
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in the meantime, tommy jabari has managed to get out of afghanistan with the help of the german, foreign and history. he left the country by land via pakistan, me for a long journey followed vendor risk up to the story right now. luckily inside the airplane, me the i refill go far. a flight to germany via stumble here she tells her story while still trying to support women and afghan, a stand from afar. for sally, my so i'm
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a sell last. i'm so co my eyes. and so lockable to accept their will cease what's happening and make actually me afghan women have once again been ordered to wear a broker and public. i'd have hardly any rights. older girls are not allowed to attend school. millions of africans are going hungry. thousands of afghan employees who work for the german government are still stranded. ah, for my generation and my pupil, the people 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
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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 else could be written, fasting through divide, 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. hum flores in the flank urgent hardy body with us. and that came as something of a shock to me with his own eyes on silken. i hold us
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the 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 and could i as one prevented all. no. but do i feel responsible for somebody who worked with that? got somebody who engaged with the international partners. i feel 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're not very is living in exile and amsterdam unable to return to f, ganeth down the same goes for martin beck who fled to washington. hum della mo,
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he spends most of his time in london, macos pottsville, sped longer and, oh, how then, originally planned meeting the taliban as a german envoy, he shouldn't been appointed un deputies special representative for afghan controllers, but they have extensive control over the country. is 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 and own, and the taliban are back there. 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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