a race linked to military interests, a race linked to political and military. christie, but also linked to men, financial resources, and adventure full of hardships, dangers and death. my jillions journey around the world. starting september 7th on d. w. o afghan has done august 2021. this documentary unravels the dramatic end of estate hearing from people who experienced it up close with the taliban are seizing control of afghanistan. the eyes of the world are on the capital airport. we're 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 and afghanistan with hardly any lead time. so i thought it was fridays until august, 13th and unorthodox. i got a phone call that made it clear the initial plan had to be ready by mid day the next day when he asked me, well, it was the time pressure was unbelievable. and goblet courts. 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 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 come the line is will we be able to fly in less what a security lakeland 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 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 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 and minister and some then foreign minister hi,

co moss decided that i should go to doha and 1st and foremost and 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 ghani 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 palms. alamo him is national security adviser, one of us, rav connie's 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 in no, 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 doha. 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 dor ha ha. and he, i, he said it is 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 doing duffy, the taliban agreed they would remain outside cobbler. i was, i have cobb was from liability. and then suddenly, yes, i made 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, it was gone. he's left, the country has confirmed that the president, president,

donny of afghanistan has left the country and then gunny was gone on at mid day on sunday. well, that's what 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. this is martin 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 still a cop to it that, that there was a lot of helicopter minister of foreign affairs. he called me, he asked me, where is the president? i told him person 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 nicholas 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 when the couple is about to collapse. but out from our understanding, do they do even those people have left to their 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? when and they asked each other, and yet are you going in now or are we? 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 no one void since infant as the bond. ah.

the collapse of the government also leaves serif jeffery 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 2016 yourself achievement them. because my certificates my invoice cease document. eve, what thing my a watts, even thing was there in every big cup. what? we're just going to bring you these. i live at exclusive. you choose your breaking news inside the presidential palace watts. you are looking at right now. is taliban fighters in the sides?

the presidential power services, sir, these pictures explosive on al jazeera, i'm of current and last year was 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, lose kind of pictures. will you alive? this for the thing that that thousands of world cannot describe me. so how many people fleeing gown from their plates like barts that's, that's how african life is. how a nationwide desperate because a nation was, was surrender to, to walk to in victoria rushed in. berlin officials are taken aback by the speed of these development cindy, because it's in the, it's alice still doing everything we can to ensure german citizens and former local employees can leave an hour size or to move caffeine in remaining germans and local employees are to be flown out from cobble airport, cuffed hours of long

b. o. this is some im 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, i them that please evacuate does. but this plea goes unheard. when the g, an armed forces and their years long mission in afghanistan and june 2021,

they leave behind the majority of their local employees, including some in jabari. 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 of, oh 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 point, my husband had

a bag. he was putting that back on my heat on my way, when i was like, you know, i was witness saying the scenes happening to the city. how tyler mon 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 having

is just running away and keeping, ah, tie to love. m a grand for you. the only identity catcher can curry it. wow. the biggest evacuation operation ever mounted by the buddhist here 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 quantity tonight, the bundle fair was only able to fly 7 people out of cobble in its big cargo plant . league sniffed. 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 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, 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 grounds. thus mostly our 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. don't, don't let people, the glen ah,

as 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 him, including emails from the bond, is fail rate and then song, regular crime that i'm coming here. i see there are more than 10000 people or so i think there and different queues. and both of us to go and that's really, really hard when he finally makes contact with the german soldiers. he's turned away despite the paperwork he has with them while they sent me an as special evacuation letter. and that the we took the bus talk 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 as turning uglier by the minute with kicking and shoving, and families being torn apart. once thoughts, i'm kids and these people were effectively fighting for the lives. i'll put it that way based us 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 discretion to stack a room kinda of infant children were being passed from the back to the front of the crowd. i was young to know he 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 as it's on. so we try to reunite 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 on 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, so that's why we witnessed these children crying on their arms practically being dislocated. little children turning blue hubert visits me dessert class. these are images will never forgets us in below. 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 cutters, capital talks were intended to smooth the way towards ending the united states. longest war top afghan american diplomats, zelma colonial zod was negotiating with the taliban for then us president donald trump. well, he had come to a judgment 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 crossing 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 if he has got to be a real deal. but we'll see some odd dollars from 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 all our boys were spun lobby. 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 zak was always negotiate

a rather bizarre. let's awesome. good 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 the do a deal with the americans. and they had no interest to negotiate with us. dad did just had 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 to toddy. bon, 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 themselves of a. 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 to dest ponce 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 b says the ministry of the interior is digging his heels in should the german government quickly dispatched charter planes? the german foreign ministry has qualms. afghan president, ashcroft gone, he has personally asked marcus puzzle not to do so through. yeah. must the yeah, 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 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 and a bit to do just that and on doesn't sound as in boy, 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. an 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. i

am 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 afghanistan with the help of the german foreign mystery. he left the country by land via pakistan,

me for a long journey manager, full of risk. but the story right now, like i said, 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 in afghanistan from afar. for sally. my so i'm a sill last i'm so my eyes and so lockable to accept their will cease what's happening and make actually me ask women

have once again been ordered to wear a berker on public. i'd 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, we build our ward, our self. and then when it was the time to enjoy our, our why cheese man, 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 most is what happened to buffy. why did the security infrastructure collapse so quickly? and what about the forces that were trained not always given at on fasting to your device involved what they lacked was the confidence, the willingness to fight and the motivation that comes by itself and would be but 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 maybe 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 are friends 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 actually yes, history will judge all of us. and i think what happens is a disgrace. the fall of cobble has uprooted countless afghans, including former senior politicians. now they are 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, hummed, alamo. he spends most of his time in london, macos pachel spent 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 instead. 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 in 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, one on 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 ah,

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