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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 norfolk, i got a phone call that made it clear the initial plan had to be ready by mid day the next day or 2. and he asked me really when was the time pressure was unbelievable. and globally, 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 of cobbled before september 11th. rather unlikely. the bond is fair. germany's armed forces is facing its largest ever evacuation mission to fly out germans and also afghans who are at risk combi line, which will we be able to fly in less what a security light lawn we are. in afghanistan, afghanistan, the taliban continue to advance on cobbled fabulous 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,

but it never comes to that. the german embassy is being evacuated and minister some then foreign minister hi co mos 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 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. danny had vowed to defend cobble to the very end. we started the morning, not thinking that this was going to be the last day in cobble. honda. alamo, hip is national security advisor,

one of us rough connie's closest confidence. 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 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 hurt to say that this was not doable. it would immediately cala. but there is one final plan to avoid chaos and bloodshed. now they are now jerry, 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. 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 so 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 after i've gone in the president of god on his own left. i've got a ton of ghana stones president. i have gone, he was gone, he's left the country has confirmed that the president president connie, of afghan, his dad 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 emphasis on this is martin beck is the president's chief of staff at the time. i could after lunch, i could hear the weiss, but i didn't thought it's phillip kupta because that that there was a lot of helicopter minister of foreign affairs. he called me, he asked me where as a prison, i told him prison 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 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 when the couple is about to collapse. but out from our understanding, do they do 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? 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 cobwebs. contrary to the

previous agreement, but gone east decision to flee by had rendered that no one void since infant as the bond. ah. the collapse of the government also leaves a refill gallery 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 when i left my 2016 yourself achievement them because my certificates my invoice cease document. eve, what thing my a was even thing was there in every pick up what? we're just going to bring you these. i live at exclusive pictures,

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 explosive on the out 0 mm. of current last year was very clear. collapse of their stay, immediate collapse of they say. and then it was it was our, it 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, move kind of pictures. will you allies this through the thing that, that thousands of war cannot describe me so how many people fleeing gown from their plates like barts that's, that's how african life is. how a nation will desperate because a nation was, was surrender to the wolf to in vic, no, one of us in 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 move no caffeine in remaining germany and local employees are to be flown out from cobble airport cuff to oscar flooring. they hadn't oh, 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. one to 3 or did very but at the beginning they were ignoring us. however, in the beginning, while the day leave afghanistan,

we were asking them the lease 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 in jabari. according to the german crisis team, the situation and cobble is dramatic. taliban has effectively taken cobble. if a while was chick points of 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 has been to give me space

a de between of has 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 heat. on my way, when i was like, you know, i was witness saying the scenes happening to the city. how tyler, one of beating pupils, treating pupils evil words, starla bar and there are flags that, that moments like all my family, evil. one a 9 percent sitting in the car, avery, 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 i gang t t at you can carry it. wow, the biggest evacuation operation ever mounted by the blindness 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 u. s. only give the german armed forces a very small window. mm hm. you don't. you had to was like

a german evacuation mission is underway, but it had a bumpy start. i quoted you tonight. the bundle fair was only able to fly 7 people out of cobble and it's big cargo plant league sniffed. or sometimes the discussion was a bit irritating in parts. and i've given the time that we had the conditions, we faced us, 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 bond is there is able to fill its planes code as we i think it's important to remember one thing how this operation was depicted bought is not what the reality was like on the ground. does falsely r dornen bussey it us? according to the german crisis team, we will not be anywhere close to evacuating all the people. approximately 13000 that we have on our lists by august 30, first thousands of afghan employees to leave for germany and many are waiting

desperately at the airport. i mean, jabari is there to the security forces done. don't let people to go and 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 bond, is fail rate, a 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 the go ahead, that's really, really far when he finally makes contact with german soldiers, he's turned away despite the paperwork he has with while they

sent me an especially vanquish on 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 these, 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 on thoughts on keys, and these people were effectively fighting for the lives. i'll get it that way, at least this morning. 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. oh, room kinda of infant children were being passed from the back to the front of the crowd. i was young people to know here was the child, but no family edmonds can, it's not let you can talk to. the child has will not have it's an infant as it's on

. so we try to re unite families and set up a meeting point soon together. with other countries isn't very difficult. who cutty shoes? ah, here woman zaps goosgo with her own eyes. people arguing over children. those 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, so up, soil. we witnessed these children crying on their arms practically being dislocated . little children, turning blue hubbard, visits me, desert climb. these are images, one never forgets and 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 dad 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. i was crossing the united states a lot, 40000000000 a year. that was too much, she believe. ah, vela bad 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 of them are donald trump, donald trump wanted to end the war, didn't he wanted to bring his troops back home playing as i said, that to and bring back our,

our boys spun lovers. there are 2 main things. the americans can be criticized for my belief, firstly that the afghan government was not included or, and secondly, that the allies weren't involved in whose name collier 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 to do a deal with the americans and they had no interest to negotiate with us. they just have to talk with us for the sake of talk to mark the the the boxes off the door did oh they're talking with african devonne. 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 were com talks

do 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 b says, the ministry of the interior is digging its heels in. should the german government quickly dispatch charter plains? the german foreign ministry has qualms. afghan president, osh rough ghani has personally asked marcus puzzle, not to do so. william,

i'm of the jaga of course. you don't to estimate if you don't send in charter plan . so this is the, i'm thought it. i mean, it's that we were really worried that if we sent in charter plans and flew 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 don't 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 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. ah, mm mm. 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.

ah, in the meantime, jabari has managed to get out of afghanistan with the help of the german foreign ministry. he left the country by land via pakistan, a long journey followed vendor risk follow back to the story. right now. luckily i'm inside the airplane, me. the i refill go far a flight to germany via a stumble here she tells her story while still trying to support women and africana stand from a far far 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 country, me afghan 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 me for my generation and my pupil, the pupil of my age, the bell dollar was dollar self. and then when it was the time to enjoy our, our wa cheeseman. 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 tide 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 is what happened to 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 trust them would be, but soon am the security forces basically surrendered the country to the taliban without a fight. i'm flores in the flank urgent audi body with us. and that came as something of a shock to me was his ang m, eyes on. so can i hold us the african politician responsible?

the world came after $911.00. there was so much resources, so much willingness. what we did, we africans. i mean we have to come, we can just lay madison, could i as one prevented all no. but do i feel responsible for somebody who worked with that government? 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 up rooted counselors, 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, macos pottsville, sped longer, and 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. more so than any other government in the last 40 years, john, 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 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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