the fly from our t breaking news this sunday. cale and panic in the afghan capital of the taliban procedures cobble with residence now fleeing the city on mass. as african authorities tried to secure a peace deal with the taliban leadership, the medicine group, order. it spices not to enter the capital just yet, but the interior minutes pledging a peaceful transfer of power to a transitional government. the resurgence escalated immediately after april announcements by the us president, the american troops would withdraw. meaning that 2 decades of washington pushed the country into war. the pentagon quits leaving desperate citizens face to face with the militants. once again. the hello, this is avi international from moscow. my name's colleen bray with

a full hour of news for you as we continue all rolling coverage of afghanistan, fear has engulfed the capital as the taliban surrounds callback the following rapid national games throughout the week. the medicine group claims that its in talks with the government about a peaceful surrender of the city. there are also reports that president ashcroft. connie has resigned with local media saying that the former interior minister is currently heading an interim government out based on verified video circulation online supports to show inmates being released by the taliban from the country largest jail. earlier. they also seized by gra, military prison, located just 25 kilometers to the north capital report. claim that around 5000 convicts was set free. mostly taliban fighters, ready to join the assault. ah,

this is the scene most recently. and cobble is residents, try to flee the city in huge numbers. hundreds of cars are stuck in traffic jams right now with some local steve, and abandoning that calls and running away. that have been massive cues, bank machines as people try and take out money. they can, before they leave, alaska journalist says the red deep fears right now about the future on the streets of the capital. from what i can confirm from what i have been able to speak to people, there was count exchange when people were rushing towards the atm machine or the traffic job members or the police have an open fight into the or the traffic cops are trying to basically keep traffic in motion a couple of the city. now in panic, everyone is leaving, but we will have to see how the transition for a couple city takes place. now the best clarity from both sides that is serving as

an aside in terms of, you know, putting into some fearful scenarios and events and uncertainty. but it's easier said than done low. so let's see how we do that in the the, when do you do that? if it does not go back to square one, and it does look also very cooperative that at the end of 20 years of massive international investments, minions of dollars, you know, perhaps even trillions lives laws. this is the end result. so we will have to see how it moves from here. but as i said, again, the clarity from all sides is help, you know, to store some sort of contra dancing on people, especially 6000000 people living in this city. we have to really remember that the african private sector sport, hundreds of millions of years, dollars into the city, and the construction of buildings, shopping malls, at an individual apartments and other businesses. so this is also why the thought of one of issue, the statement, reassuring businesses,

both $1.00 and $4.00 that the investment would be protected. so let's see how that goes. but obviously, if you looting in violence or in the minds of people, we can get more regional reaction. now we can talk to professor of strategic studies, some a leak professor, welcome to r t. even people with only a cursory knowledge of what's happened in afghanistan saw this coming in recent weeks. and yet the americans and others said, we've given the funding, we've given the resources we've given the training, it's going to take weeks. if not months for the taliban to regain control, that didn't happen. why do you think those powers said that they must have no well, unfortunately, even people inside capital and find nationals, they were also feeling that they do have

a couple of weeks before the before goblins so overtaken by the taliban. but it has been a very sift action. and i would also say the fact that despite every investment that the u. s. and the vision fall is had made enough honest on to think that there floundered upon was number one strength single to security forces. docs was extremely lacking and that was a red flag that everyone had trees at all times. in the past, the foreign national security forces were strongly lacking in their ability to face any kind of threat, especially the threat that is faced by a found a son at the moment. and that was one of the weakest links in the us. all the western fall is being up on his arm. and of course, the 2nd factor was that there was hardly any grassroot political development enough on his fund that would have given rise to an indigenous grad true to higher level

upon political leadership. that could have been that that could have provided a sort of a threshold or a leakage between people and the higher political goddess and prevented the taliban, or anyone else from entering into the various provinces that they had taken. and now the stand right outside counsel, in terms of the ill preparedness of the afghan forces and government for what's taking place in these past couple of weeks. i had an analysts say metaphorically, a few days ago. if a man is drowning a dozen suddenly learned to swim, if you take away the life preserver, why do you think there was such a rapid withdrawal of all that support when the country it's false, isn't government? despite 20 years of occupation was so so woefully unprepared for this this is actually away, very big question to ask the western powers. because since the signing of the

agreement and providing a timeline boxes thought and many other countries, water innovation bows and mainly the u. s. that you haven't done sufficient groundwork enough bonded to actually announcer the draw timeline and hasten your withdrawal from this country. because it now requires more than ever the main month if you, if it entered gobble or font is found initially after $911.00 was that they hadn't carried out proper deconstruction or reintegration. reintegration and re reconstruction of the country at that time. and that was the biggest glitch in the geneva pods and the soviet union had pulled out. and now americans were here fully committed to see to it that i found it on the thought of. but unfortunately, that's precisely what we see happening all over again and 20 is dying that are honest on was not prepared. the security forces inside of finally found were not

prepared. they were still really green in their preparation and the americans knew it. the western fall was new it, but just because that there had been a lot of investment on the ground by the americans and american waters were demanding as to why american troops were still pledged enough on his farm that the u. s. had to make this a drawing plus the fact that they did not have anything now to offer to the bond leadership or to the upon people. they had tried all types of experiments and those experiments had not worked. plus the fact that the blame gaming has always been on pakistan. the doctor thought has been a spoil up, i guess on his mod, done sufficiently enough. but now one can really see the red flags as to how much put pakistan a country with limited capacity could do enough on his bon, when americans had not. or the western capitals had not really engaged the elephant in the room. and they had kind of wished it were for 20 years,

about development of back impacting to find some flu time. but unfortunately, and i was already given the situation both to hire that american feel confident that during trust i'm not going to be damaged here. they are going to have a history withdrawal. they're going to be honest on and what is going to happen too often. assad is up to their feet. that's similar to what had happen for me by far than the 19 of late 19 eighties. early nineties and the history is here again repeating itself what they had not done that time. again, not doing it this time here. this time they were the direct stakeholders. and yet, despite the month of reintegration reconstruction reforming our society politics and security forces, nothing is really strong enough to started scott ground. and in terms of where the taliban stands now, were you convinced by their assurances, the things are going to be different this time because one also suspects that the

a concern over the welfare of the afghan people. now if anybody is going to have the ever the taliban, it's regional powers, like packets done. and iran, but also that pressure valves been released, a ton of banners swept through their emboldened what impact can pakistan and iran have in order to maintain the wealth of citizens. you see there is a difference between a taliban of yesteryear by the bottom of this time. it's a new generation. it's much more confident they have already signed an agreement and they have been in negotiations with all the major capital of the world which makes them really confident power plus the fact that they have now been legit to my used in a lot of sense by the western capital's, so whatever they do, whatever they need, they negotiate. they have this idea that the magistrate upon government, honeys,

government, or any government that was sitting in the cobbler presidential palace. it's just a facade. and basically we are the ones that whom follow brokerage have taken place, so that makes them a very arrogant, very confident and very assured power, so to speak. plus the fact that they have not only the ground power, they have set to so many programs. they also have the weapons, they have the money, and the money has been running the founded bon through these 20 years, and also all those little followers that the western capital had time and again, so they have stretched so none of those things have crushed and is the surface which is the worst case scenario, but for the moment, as the thought of bon have moved from problems to problems. and they have done a really good strategy the 1st and circle the body. and then they moved into it. and now they're surrounding couples. so what we hear see is that at the moment

they're giving reassurances to people that if the surrender, nothing will happen. but it is also a lot of great fine that this is not exactly what is happening. and there is no media coverage of the areas which have surrendered or which have been of ended. and there is a lot of killing that has taken place. but there are no official statements in that regard. but professor, i mean, forgive me for being an old cynic, but even in a peaceful country, a few had a powerful government the spin elected and pretty much opposed. it's never a particularly healthy thing, politically for that country. but here we're talking about a group whose history has ruled with an iron fist despite what that promises and vows might be this time round. it still doesn't bode well that a country that's going to be run by an unopposed militarized. pretty vicious force is going to end well for the people of afghanistan,

not at all. i totally agree to do. it's going to be in a very, very unfortunate situation. and you see. 8 that besides what i'm pointing out that last time and that the been started by the entered cobble and counted out killings and so many other things which made them unpopular with the rest and capitals and they would be legit advised right. right away this time long. the thought upon walking to cobble with a lot of confidence that has been given to them because of the law. and this is an unfortunate thing that has happened. this is not a process that has happened overnight. what we see, what is happening today is something that started as early as how far it was signed . and the thought about how this confidence that they can do whatever they need to do and know what is going to send for them. and tomorrow, the legitimate elective government in a font is what it is going to fall. because of them, there's not going to be any one to save them from whatever feet that they are going

to face. one can hope and wish that things do not turn extremely ugly as they are all predicting and really hoping be because our fond nationals and fond brothers and sisters have worked very hard to construct. and i want society a modern, a progressive, a fond society. they have left the woman hurt abroad, they have invested the time and she fashion given their life to find a song to make it a country, to be proud off on the written on the flag of a map of the was and again defined to find his son going all the way back to those 20 unfortunate years. so long pause, i had almost already been an extremely long and difficult road, even if a new chapter does seem to be opening up. professor malik, i really appreciate your insight. thanks for joining us on our see this sunday. our last hour i spoke to an african journalist about the deteriorating situation right

now inside cobbled this morning when i ran to the city, i saw the appointed. everyone is rushing from one side of call to other side of both. people are rushing to the max that you're going to the bank. of course, the face of the call will be changed at the public. told me that we face in the morning. you want to look a fresh but no one hour before we went out and t t, i started, you know, quite a lot of military troops are going around the city. we are hearing the military. alec looked us or trying to sky off the call was to be on according to information that we got from different sources in the district. people are a people in this area thought of and has plans in the district.

they are speaking with the people, but the people are saying that the tunnel is, are the ton of, of the heavier are very good. not as much as safe aggressive has been about that just visualized for you a recap of how things have been unfolding throughout the past week. afghan is the areas in red controlled by the taliban motor blade. the areas in the know of which hitherto had been pretty resistant to the taliban. not anymore. but then on thursday, they captured kandahar the 2nd largest city of afghanistan. that's when things really started to escalate by the end of friday. the militants had taken the harass over in the west of the country, the 3rd largest city in afghanistan, that by the time we got to the weekend muslim, shaped over saturday and sunday, that fell to the insurgents. too early on sunday. the 1st news about the taliban entering another case, city journal, about just to the east of the capital, followed by reports that they were surrounding the city itself and biting that time during those talks. now this now means that the medicines effectively control

everywhere enough. gonna stand apart from the capital just yet, following a rapid and extremely sizes offensive. it only stretches back to april. the following turbines announcement this, he was pulling out american troops rapidly down at the time the limits group held belly, a 5th of afghanistan's territory. but now as you can see, it's pretty much on its way to controlling the whole country. we got analysis earlier from a former senior british police officer and reservist army officer who worked in afghan us down as a security advisor. kevin hood, he told us that it was clear, this situation was coming from 11 problem with the group government employees. that they will not all wary all telling truth to power. and of course, because the politicians had no real plan. i think i got blunt about a you number of generals might contain the mentor, a way of doing this, they wouldn't listen to the majors left tenant colonels become armed as on the ground or blue collar worker, lisa by slightly high. what do i know?

i may have been in the houses of release, but i know nothing about subsequently things the west. but the rest of the world were not prepared to deal with the issues of trying to impose a corrupt government on a country where many of the people did not support the government and then more in culture and not understanding the subtleties of the tribes that got installed, yes, you can bomb and you can fix taliban leadership or the insurgency or i s k. but you will not stop the night. so i'm coming back into the villages and towns more video to show you this is exclusive footage from the key city of july about just the east of the capital cobble. it was the last major stronghold taken by the taliban before they reached the outskirts of the capital. the militants claim to the city, like many others, was taken without a fight. this is also some exclusive video we've got for you from the 2nd largest

city kandahar in the south of the country, which came on the taliban control on friday. that key change in 4 tunes for the taliban. the group said to seize hundreds of weapons and vehicles as well as large amounts of i mean nation in the city. despite the escalating violence over the year, it took months for the un security council to have met just how critical the situation was. even a country that is tragically known generations of conflicts. afghanistan is in the throes of yet another k. u optic and desperate chapter. an incredible treasure the for its long suffering people. afghanistan is spinning out of control. i talked to the former afghan deputy minister of borders and tribal affairs. he says that the authorities and the people must now unite the piece, but helped by the international community. this is not the choice of people, but for me, as i've done and far more stuff i've done right now,

what's important that the blood of the young blood of guns 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, fraction of 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 gun issues. i think it must be done in the international community through united nation must. i bought sites to come to get him to sold. i've been which and well, throughout this sudden day,

international embassies have been shutting up shop. we've heard that the swedes and the germans are pulling out in the coming hours. meantime us forces are in cobble to help evacuate the embassy stuff. a total of 5000 troops are expected that i'm the mid the swirl of helicopters of facility diplomats have reportedly been ordered to burn sensitive documents before they leave. observe as a comparing the same to vietnam's. sy gone in 1975. when pentagon had called us evacuated staff that mocking the end of the vietnam war senior republican law make a mitch mcconnell says it looks like america's ready for the fall of cobble back in 2001. the us president george bush insisted that the taliban regime was on its last legs. more recently, joe biden said it was highly unlikely. the taliban would overrun the country, belyea pets, rank or off next. how america leaders could have got it so wrong. thanks to our

military generalize and the brave fighters of afghanistan, itala bon regime is coming to an end volleyball take over cuz i guess that now inevitable. it is not because you have the app can troops at 300000 well equipped as well as crypt has any army in the world and an air force. again, something like 75000 taliban. it is not an ever just picture the timeframes. really have a proper think about it. i was 12 when america sent its soldiers to again, a 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 failure. 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 use the mother myself and some people of the town car, condos, and babylon province's came here to the park, we have all fled to fighting. there is no food and no water. the families have very worried because they have no idea what to do. have been displaced from telecom city . the telephone killed my son. they took all the belongings from my house and set

fire to them as 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 to bowl 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 in injury. thousands of american personnel got a 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 episode 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 vietnam with some people feeling what? 0 the tale. vaughn is not the south, the north vietnamese army. they're not,

they're not remotely comparable 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 of ghana 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 full of couple president biden's decisions have a hurtling toward and even worse, equal to the humiliation 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 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 present. and again, it's dan, but take a moment to think of the price would be afghans are paying and are to pay. and the foreseeable future. the number of locals 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 that there is any other way you can possibly measure by means of capacity

when the soviet stuff that's going to sound in one connection, i need the pro service did not collapsing in this way. in fact, it took some 2 years before any major cities out to my job being was here was saying, major cities for the one off the other 2 to the taliban before the americans have been for the last which gives credit to compact things. it shows how, how much less successful impact americans have been in building a stable governance. and i've kind of stamina service. one say we didn't exactly do a good job. so therefore clearly the, the americans of failed did think that who got less to do with the daughter of miss underestimation of the taliban shying as it is to do with an under estimation of the will to fight the government forces. i mean, simply put, the gun forces collapse 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

anti war campaign. as long lambasted the united states for occupying afghanistan, wasting billions of dollars and costing countless lives. but kennestone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war says there are also bottling the withdraw. washington. this did miscalculate and that scrambled to increase troop levels to compensate for that, the u. s. should never have been, and nato should never have been in afghanistan in the 1st place. this was a unilateral and illegal invasion and occupation that took place without the approval of the un security council. now today, the united states and staging a withdrawal, a retreat from afghanistan. and they're doing it in a unilateral fashion. again, they didn't use the help that they could have called upon from russia, china, india, iran, and pakistan. those regional and,

and asian powers to organize an orderly withdrawal. and the creation of a stable government in kabul, that one that might have been a government of national unity or a power sharing arrangement or coalition government. instead, the u. s. deliberately left mass and as the us lead alliance withdraws, what about the afghan nationals who helped foreign troops while they now fear reprisals from the taliban? one group of afghans who assisted u. k. forces run it on the streets of cobble on friday, demanding protection from the british government. and perhaps it seems that that calls have been heard. 600 british troops have been deployed to safeguard u. k. nationals and they evacuate from the capitol as well as supporting the relocation of for my afghan staff. but not everyone's been included with one former interpreter, pleading directly with britain's prime minister.