the ah, breaking news this sunday i forgot to stand. interior minister pledges a peaceful transfer of power to a transitional government with the authorities reportedly entering into talks with the taliban leadership. the militant group has surrounded cobble ordering its fights as not to enter the capital. yet, following an intense week of rapid taliban advances, sweeping the country and taking every major city in just a few days. in the midst resurgence began immediately after us. president joe biden announced that american troops would withdraw back in april, and after 2 decades since washington dragged cobble into war, the u. s. is out of afghanistan leaving the desperate people face to face with the militants. once again, the, the

hello, this is arty from moscow. i am calling bray, bringing you a full hour of rolling coverage as the taliban retake afghanistan. and what's been just a short a few days. and with a ferocious speed, the taliban announced that they've surrounded the capital. cobble this, build some the recent gains by the taliban throughout the week, and it's been extremely swift. negotiations over a peaceful hand over are reportedly underway with the government. and as far as where, where we're getting on the news, why is that president connie has now resigned? that's not been confirmed yet, but that's what we're hearing here. the r t new center, the interior minister appointed the head of the countries transitional government. the so things are changing rapidly by the hour. the areas in red are those controlled

by the taliban. it's been pretty much that way for most of the past week. most of in the rural south, but tellingly early on the north which had pretty much been anti taliban through the recent years. the capital, as you can see, still largely the government control forces, but that is decreasing on thursday the taliban started its operation to take the 2nd largest city kandahar in the south. that was a key gain. by the end of friday, the millison had also taken head out the 3rd largest city in afghanistan from saturday to sunday. another area also fell to the insurgents. that early on sunday, the 1st news about the taliban entering another key city jill, about that emerge. and now the country's capital cobbled, it's now surrounded. but that now means that the medicines effectively control almost every province in the country following a rapid and decisive offensive. but for the moment they are holding back. they

reportedly control all border posts throughout the country. and the only way to get in and out of afghanistan is through the heavily defended car bull airport, which i was checking the traffic earlier wrong. there are many flights that were a couple of american flights, but not very much else. a few other international flights from india, and from doha, they were circling not much traffic around there right now, but that is the only way in and out of cobble right now. a local journalist has been telling us the latest, the taking of public responsibility ever to call upon me to call, but without adequate to go supplement. lots and lots of people could be killed. one day, a lot of houses or government government busy would be a good be a little bit. that's why the local government and political parties on the installation fee goes in cold written form to try to prevent from the entering of

the telephone to cobble the key. because it is an important key. lots of people are living here. we don't want to, to destroy the call, what you would fighting. that's what you need to be hand over to any government with a political system. another military option. i grew up in the time of the night. what i've done is sunday. i remember the time of the time of the period what, why did title had become thrown off of gun when he had a fax telephone or something with the same yellow you with the same? i guess it's really very difficult for the use for the new generation, the big one. and i've done this on the impossible to accept the same or the same ideology of the audit in both of i've got to start off at 20 years that we had to read them. and i'm going to read that we have the never got we saw live, but the off the 20 years that we,

we had all of this opportunity in the country. again at one time with the same ideology. this should be, should be changed, should break get behavior, which is great. otherwise i've gone to sun will go to i'm not that can be that they will and when you as well just to remind you what would be a major development if we can confirm it. but at the moment it's just media report . that's the african president. ashcroft gone, he has apparently resigned, was one of the key demands for a peace deal by the taliban. but he had been holding out suggesting that he was going to bolster up the government's military forces instead. but the moment we don't have that confirmed, but it seems that the president of afghanistan has resigned, according to local media reports in afghanistan. we also got the latest from poverty's, sub boone, who's also a jer listing cobble the pupil. why? because of, there's always no. busy fees and situation of the solid law and capturing the. busy

big cities such as come the province mazata city. why the color called into the reaction cover c t one bit, they don't, they don't want to give up to the parlor. so then don't was thought of on and cover . i myself, i'm afraid. and that's well as that pupil enough gang, some are afraid because of the car long as they are so near to the call, we'll see if there is no and so forth from the government official yet about us can journalists, so we are worry about or that was on the news, the genesis, and with, with, with, with other like agencies and other this can be done by others. so i am very well now we can talk to

a former deputy minister of border and tribal affairs in afghanistan, dr. fried on bar x. i talked about x, i welcome to all, to good to happy with us taliban. then in control of all but the capital right now, the speed with which it's happened and the ease. how does that surprise you? well, thank you very much for the fall. i pray if i'm for my country and also for the people of august on we suffered like for 43 years of warning, the gun expenses 1979. yes, you said the situation change and i've got a son in the military situation is changing in dynamics. and the situation is changing our, by our, in the start when the, they totally want to talk the district of gun on the or was some sort of what is this them are nationally distance against them. but when they took here are kind of hard big cities and also right now they strong paul dollars in our top. i've gotten

this done. and i mean, it is why the hon the the influential to figure out when you're heating in here are surrender for them. and they treat him where he will and after that now it seems that there is some sort of talk where peaceful term vision. and i've done this in the 6th, his excellency, the president of homer carven up the de la r v for a piece, full term vision. and i've done this fun in college surrounded right now. the surrounding cities in provence is all to be taken by title one and the people of probably 50, which is the 6000000 people city is in panic. and and it seems that the welcome of power or something like welcome a forward to city. mercifully the past week where the taliban had taken control so easily. it's been largely bloodless to expect that to also happen with cobble

i hope so. i hope so because the now everybody knows that the of them, the trump and administration finding the agreement with only one in 29 and february 2020. and after that, the white and administration administration also announced that the on dish no withdrawal off the international troops. i'm going to start now. everybody knows that a lot of each tools that, that people off of on or don't know, indiana or a lot of uncertainty. truth behind the scenes, the time will show. right now the employ shall have been figures yet, or a lot of rumors, of course, are trying for a smooth transition of order because as i mentioned before, cobble is a big city with 6000000 people with a half 1000000 internally displaced people living without any shelter and the food

in the or is the m, n a t, and cries, it's not going to start, especially in color city. and i really appreciate this statement of one that the out. we are just not going to call the city. i hope that you will put that in there was not entered, but now you are in doubt scared of the we call the city and i think that the international community, united nation, and also the humanitarian organizations. international organizations should pay attention to the humanitarian crisis, which will lead to him. and they said in a disaster in i've got some, especially in college. i will ask you about that little bit later because there is apparently going to be a un security council meeting on this. i just want to ask you 1st though, because we've been hearing through the week how local leaders in the provinces and military personnel, they were described as abandoning their posts and leaving the people to their own devices. the taliban, the political spokesman,

speaking on our teeth arabic channel. yes. they said that this is what the afghan people want. this is why it's easy for us to retake peacefully these regions and performances with such alarming speed. critics would say that's because there was no choice, the other choice would be death or retribution. yeah. what the people are going to sun once it's clear because the public opinion of the people are going to stand is clear for everybody. and the, the legitimate method of transportation of power is the pre inferior trying to get this done about what happened now is patricians actually is not in control of guns . actually the war was not, i've done work before the proxy work i've done is done. and i hope the guns will come together the 1st time in 40 years, as i've been said together in high enough of that, why do a 1st rush,

united states and other countries and also the region. they must come to a consensus to establish so in neutral and to see if government enough to understand because they trade in i've gotten this done as a heart off issue will be great for the region in the international community where how can it be the choice of the afghan people, if this is another take by the taliban, like we saw in 96, i think this is not in the situation. what's going on is that out of control of people in this is not the choice of people, but for me and i've done and for more stuff i've done right now. what's important that the plot of the young blood of i've done, we stopped in the transition must go smoothly. and it is, i think the responsibility of what sites in the people are going on themselves to stay home. so also to prevent looting, gravity and destruction, of interest,

fracture i've done is done, which will conduct the sun to another disaster. so now is the time that the international community, united nations security council, through region all the players in the region and international lawyers must be the attention of you said that you can sort of will have your emergency meeting in regarding the up going to issues. i think it must be done in the international community through united nation must i bought sites to come to get the aim to sort of them which and dr. barracks i bought realistically. can they do though, because there's been 20 years of foreign interference in afghanistan to try and get consensus. and we're back at the stage where i've got some walls in 2001. yeah, if we look to the past the, to the history of i've done this and i've got a son was published in the modern i've got some right now,

247 by much i don't need to go, i'm going to find is the traditional country in the listen to each other and also the transfer of power in the agreement between the security forces in the top. one forces also was mediated by the elders. because what side are i've done? i hope guns will understand the situation in the one of the times where peaceful agreement and not allow the, the spoilers, infallible makers to make problem for wookey deductible. and several people off. i've gotten this done and now i am again asking the united nation, officially the humanitarian organization to pay attention to humanitarian disaster, which is already we witness and understand right now the situation in college city is not good. there is no traffic, lots of jobs, and everybody is calling and saying that we saw some tall, one members in the outskirts of public city. i hope that the renewal military

solution for public safety, the tall one should stay outside the city and the transition. my time to day 1st off on thursday adopted up the law. in other there's through the help of international community. you know, that guns the needs sold in new to the government. it will be for the, for good to the beach and there will be a trade in title going on and it will be a military dilution for i've been question. it will harm the region in financial community in the future about your question. the time will show many calls for this to be a peaceful transition. as you say, that's to reduce the suffering, the bloodshed for the people who are left in cobble waiting for the taliban to move in. and let's face it, that's only a few hours given that we've had 20 years, where by the taliban is essentially being constrained like any pressure. coca now that has been released. how realistic to expect that it is just going to be

a peaceful transition of power. and everything will be fine into calls a new industrial language. we have a problem that now gives me a new record for the bid. and as i told you, that during the junior court, 988, when they saw it, troops withdraw from a gun. it was no direct talk between our guns and was this was the issue that happened in happened and i got it done by this time. i've done some degree negotiating in, in that, in moscow and other city. and this is for the will all the region and also all the colors to bring are going to get it. and i hope that the leaders have started one in the meters of the i've been government will understand the situation and will think about the people off of guns done especially to this place. people off a gun is done in the enough is enough in to stop the bloodshed gun on people which are waiting for 40 years and the powers of such as they are remaining and cargo.

what reassurance can they give to the people in those towns that are now again under taliban control? and the people in cobble who are waiting for taliban control to start again. for the past 20 years they've culturally shifted. they politically shifted. now they must be petrified. yes, of course, the other i told you the people of trouble are in panic and i'm in direct contact with them. they say that we will stay, we are staying home. some of them didn't reach to the whole houses because they went to the offices, and after that, the office, the government offices, some of them were locked down and went to the homes. the lead, you will are sent to the hopes, but still you are on their way and yours. they're funny. and also the key of like what it seems like walking powering public. i hope that the military which are in charge of the secret call the city will take full control of the city and i hope for the best which is the peaceful agreement between the off shells in the top one

leader. surely for the close to which it was community and city with a lot of problems. and i hope you don't mind me asking what might be now you've question. but 20 years ago, the tele bama notorious for imposing an extremely brutal form of sheree a law. what's to say they won't do that again. is there any indication in the past 20 years that might have shifted if they want to have at least some sort of valid voice on the world stage? yeah, it will be better to ask this question about the surely a lot implementation of the law from top one spokesperson, but i know we still have a constitution which is a lot of make and everything and i've done is done is waiting on according to this islam regulations by what will happen in the future. i hope the one also will understand that alone in without the inclusive government, that will be the right off woman. right?

of right, for you cation day minorities, right, which is very important. it will be very difficult for them to get recognition internationally and also to control in governor. we're going to start, i hope, for the best that this is after all, more than 43 years will come on before the end. and even if that is the case, let's hope it is. there is a peaceful transition of power. the taliban take over, bloodshed is minimal, and things remain calm. the tunnel remains terrorist organization to many world powers. so even if this does occur peacefully, i've got some faces being isolated, froze it out socially, economically. politically. it's not going to be an easy right for the people of afghanistan in the coming weeks, months maybe years. well, as you said, the deal be a problem for a solid one. also it when the if gave take control of august on the control of i've done some really totally if they don't pick the values, the international community. i don't think that they will because the government

and as i said before, i hope the will understand in the, i think might be took lessons from the last 20 years and also the other 5 or some more than 5 years of government. and i've done this done, which was the way the us information, and i've got to spend that time that we respecting the while he was in the culture of the people of i've gotten a son in without establishing golf inclusive government. of course, the international community, as you said, the region would not support them and they will be elated for the future. i hope that all the countries of the region, especially the pockets done which has a lot of influence on fall want to place them in also the, the region, the united nations security council will push the sites to come to a peaceful agreement, interest, abolition, good government which will not be

a treat for the region and for the international community. the all the, the promised high agreement that the top one or 2 will not allow until it is inside the child. or the started going to spend to be used against the interest of the united states in the light. i hope that it will happen by the help of mediators, like i told you, the reason and up up down is done is, excellency, president, cars i and other, including sure people are gonna respond. and i've done people in my look to the pot and to sit together and told the issue of the, the most important jailed strategic location of the issue forever. and the paper are well, most important here. the 400000 also internally displaced as the un sees it. i want to off just briefly before i let you go. what happens to them?

the people who don't want and taliban afghanistan, all the people that the taliban wouldn't accept. living under the rule, will they be allowed? where could they go? right now, don't have any place to go because the majority of the internally displaced people came from the hillman province, is depends hard from kind of hard to call the city and cover. the city is full of the local, displaced people without any shelter, without food, without nothing. and i again asking the united nation in agencies to help them because it's a disaster in the city. and you don't have any place to go, but the places which are not all under control of one, we are going to the homes because we are no confrontation right now. in the majority of the intelligence and educated people of guns done, some of them were created quite the united states. the people which worked with the military be already the same to the united states and others are waiting outside of

guns for a while. if the situation get better, of course the u. k. people of a gun on the following will come back when it's done. otherwise the will stay. i will say the gun is done in the will be for my country. it will end date. well, it's sorry to talk to you in such circumstances, we do wish will the best for now their former deputy minister of orders and trouble of fashion. i've got to stand on friday and barracks. i appreciate you coming on our team this afternoon. thank you very much. okay, just to update you on something that we mentioned at the top of the program, we had some unconfirmed reports that the afghan president ash ref gone. he had resigned. well, we've seem to have information on that that he hasn't yet stepped down as afghan president, they were unconcerned reports, as we said at the start of the program when we do here anymore. of course, we'll let you know. now back in july, you as president joe biden said, it was highly unlikely that the taliban would overrun the country. but the current situation just shows how those predictions were woefully inadequate. bond take over

that gas that now inevitable is non because you have the afghan troops have 300000 well equipped as well as crypt his any army in the world and an air force again, something like 75000 taliban. it is not an evidence, just picture the timeframes. really have a proper think about it. i was 12 when americans sent its soldiers to again and stand for the taliban to be dealt with for 20 years for 2 decades. washington was splashing exorbitant amounts of cash on this grand attempt to give the troubled central asian country a favor. coalition servicemen were dying even more way more local lives were lost. so what do we got now? 20 years versus what a couple or

a few months in which the taliban research acted as a force, a step away from taking over the whole country pretty much me. the mother myself and some people of the town car condos. and babylon program came here to the park. we have all fled fi chain. there is no food and no water. these families have very worried because they have no idea what to do. i have been displaced from telecom, sushi, the telephone killed my son. they took all the belongings from my house and had fire damage transferred me.

but if you think all this is a huge surprise, which came out of nowhere. sorry, that's not really the case. right after the u. s. pull out announcement in april. the taliban instantly proved it's not just ready to but they want full control and they're practically at the doorstep of capital kabul now. but at this point, the government there won't be able to rely on a helping hand from washington. african leaders have to come together. we lost thousands at last death and injury. thousands of american personnel got to fight for themselves. uncle sam is pulling out, but some of the troops have to stay or even be sent back to secure the likes of fleeing us. diplomats but watch out for the wording because according to washington,

this is not an evacuation. this is not abandonment. this is not an evacuation. this is not the wholesale. busy withdrawl, what this is, is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint. this is a draw down of civilian americans 46 years after one of the most humiliating episodes in the history of us overseas operations. the falling of south vietnam and the capital saigon. joe biden already had to answer questions about the vietnam defeat. flashbacks, you see any parallels between this withdraw and what happened to vietnam with some people feeling when the tale. vaughn is not this out. the north vietnamese army, they're not, they're not remotely comparable in terms of capability. there's going to be no circumstance for you to see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the united states from afghanistan. this kind of confidence by

the president has done little to convince those who have come up with lines that you can see right here. the journalists can smell a replay of saigon. the growing numbers of politicians turned critics of the going to send for bob can't help drawing the unfortunate parallels either the latest news or the 3rd, the drop down, and our embassy and a hasty deployment of military forces seem like preparations for the fall of couple president biden's decisions have a hurtling toward and even worse, equal to the humiliating full of saigon in $975.00 were basically gave up on the african government not just now, but all the way back to the start of these talks. what president biden did was to embrace it, he owns it, it was a huge foreign policy failure with general m, if occasions just show up 7 month into this administration, everything points to

a complete collapse. anyway, the whole pull out may end up as an immense reputational issue for the biden administration, for the u. s. as a whole, it's very likely to tarnish the entire 20 years of coalition presence. and again, it's dan, but take a moment to think of the price which the afghans are paying and are to pay. and the foreseeable future, the number of local displaced is set to reach 3500000 this year. war is war. the decimal will only keep on rising. the whole crisis puts neighboring countries in jeopardy. you just can't help asking the same question. what was all of it for these long and controversial 20 years? total failure? i think i think there's any other way you can possibly measure. i mean the capacity when the soviet stuff that's going to sound in one connection, i meet the pro, soviet government did not collapsing in this way. in fact, they took some 2 years before any major cities fell to the majority of being here

is saying, major cities pulling one off for the other 2 to the taliban before the americans have been for the left, which gives credit to compact things that shows how how much less successful and button americans have been in building a stable government and i've kind of stamina. soviet, when the say we didn't exactly do a good job for clarity, the americans of failed did thing that got less to do with the daughter of miss underestimation of the taliban. shang, as it is to do with underestimation of the will to fight the government forces. i mean, simply put for government forces collapse they've shown very little will to, to, to fight. and so it's really a moral problem when the government forces more than the strength of the taliban. we also discussed the latest developments in afghanistan. we can stone from the.