ah, ah, this is a breaking news this sunday. cale seemed panic in the african capital as the taliban procedures cobble with the residents now fleeing the city on mass. within the past hour we love the african presidents has fled the country and reportedly resign leaving the country in half as the off got started to secure a peace deal with the taliban leadership. that mr. surgeon escalated immediately after april. so now, meant by the us president, but american troops would withdraw meeting, but to decades off the washington pushed the country into ball to pentagon quits, leaving a desperate citizens face to face with him at once again. the

hello, this is sunday, the 15th of august. i am calling bray moscow's just 17 pm here at 8 30 pm in afghanistan. and we dominating our news coverage and a full hour of news of developments that are happening there as taliban fighters and to the presidential palace in the capital. fear in panic and gulf, the streets of cobble, the groups ordered its forces to enter the capital to quote, the prevent loosing and violence where i can, lower enforcement has fled the scene. meantime, unverified videos circulating online shows people throwing rocks at security officers who been leaving cargo without a fight. islamists claim that they are in talks with the government about a peaceful surrender of the capital of the video we've got for you, proposed to show inmates released by the taliban from the country's largest jail. earlier. they also seized by gra, military prison, located just 25 kilometers north of the capitol. reports claim that about $5000.00

convicts was set free, some of them former isis militant, but mostly taliban fighters ready to join the assault. ah, meanwhile, residents of cabella fleeing the city in huge numbers right now we've seen hundreds of cars, gridlocked in traffic jams, some locals abandoning their vehicles and just trying to get away on foot. on top of that, we've seen queues like this forming right outside bank machines. across the capital, as people try and get as much cash as we can in their pockets. before they try to leave a little earlier, i spoke to an afghan journalist about the rapidly deteriorating situation right now in cobble did morning. when i went to the city, i saw that they are appointed. everyone is rushing from one side of call to other side of cobbled people are rushing to the max that you're going to the bank of

course, face off because it has to be changed. i did call us toll got military face in the morning. yeah. what a lot of fresh but no one hour before. when i went out to the t. v i started, you know, quite a lot of military troops are going around the city we are hearing the military helicopters are trying to tie off the call was to be on according to information that we got from a different source in the district. people are a people to talk about in this area thought of and has the place in the district. they are speaking with the people of the big god experience that we would like to face the cannot run a country are big enough. governance on the people who are going to span, but according to the people that they are living under control of the telephone, right out in the province with them, you're happy from the behavior. it's all on the say that don't, don't, don't,

don't problem for the people the lead their students to go to school, the lead people to go to war. not as much as you say, for aggressive has their head about that. so it's clear we're in an area to fighting moment for afghanistan, this sunday, things have been changing rapidly over the past few hours. they will in the coming . i was to, let's just quickly recap. we've got to this point throughout the week. the areas had read showing where the taliban have been in control has been mostly that way throughout the week. but on thursday the taliban intensified its operation and sees the country 2nd largest city. very easily kandahar down there in the south by the end of friday. the militants got hold of harass, over in the west, the 3rd largest city in afghanistan, them all the time we got to the weekend quite rapidly from saturday to sunday. another area up in the north mazar e sharif was taken, but quite significant lead this area had hitherto been taliban resistance, not anymore. but then by ali on sunday,

the 1st news the taliban entering another key, city july le, bad to the east of the capital followed by reports that it was surrounding the capital. that's where we've been for most of sunday with taliban forces on the outskirts of that city, waiting for that chance. it means that the militant effectively control almost every province in the country. following what spain an astonishingly rapid and extremely decisive offensive. the taliban early ramped up it's offensive in april is not really that long ago in the great scheme of things that followed to biden's announcement that he was pulling american troops out of the time. the group only held less than a 5th of the country's territory. but come up to the day and even this is pretty much a conservative estimate by this hour. it now controls pretty much the whole country . how we can talk now to canadian journalists, tanya, go susie and who's been reporting on afghanistan for the past couple of decades. i hope you can hear me, tanya. just to ask you when your expertise,

in terms of what had happened in scottish down, are you surprised the the out the rapidity of the americans leaving all the speed with which the taliban of retaken control? sorry, can you hear me? i think yes, i can. tammy, yeah, i can hear you. i hope you can hear me as well. i was just going to was going to 2 decades that you had been covering. i've counted them which is surprised you more the speed with which the americans left or the speed with which the taliban of sweets back into power. when i think there's definitely a connection there. remember that the speeds of the taliban defensive was basically was amplified with the start of the talk and how it pretty much legitimized. what was until then a violent insurgent group, the promise of a withdrawal and unconditional lead drop pretty much gave the launch to amplify

their operation. so there's definitely a connection between between the 2. am i surprised that how quickly things things escalated to probably not the last, the morale among the troop a result of feeling abandoned by the americans and the international community. there's a lot to be said about forces as we've been showing on some video, i've been leaving the city without a fight. that's been something that's been echoed and other cities and provinces across i've canister as well. why do you think that it is? obviously it's been traumatic for the people who are left behind, but did they really have any choices that a way of being able to reduce potential bloodshed? i think it's several dimensions to this, and i think we'll be discussing that for you to come. as i mentioned earlier, there was a lot of morale, campaign, and much military information that's been in the information warfare components of

it that has contributed to, to morrow offense that were being abandoned, that the, that the victory of the bond was, was essentially complete. and there was no point in fighting, so there was a tremendous lack of moral, even though the true well trained and most, most who are involved in training. the truth wasn't a question of the troops, not being skilled. they're not being clear, but it was certainly a moral issue. the last of us air support was fundamental issue as well. and in terms of the afghan people, now, no doubt, many petrified, uncertain trepidation. i can't even begin to imagine. but they have been here before will be at a generation ago. what do you think's going through their mind about what's in store for them as the taliban take over again? well, there's certainly a lot of anger among atkins at the moment. much of it cancelled on the and his

clothes on too much of that channel that the american international community for abandoning the once again, as you said they've been through this before months running up to this event. they've been a lot of comparison to the been to the 990 to president nigel. now the, the departure of the angered across the board. they feel they were entitled to some kind of an explanation. some closure that's not going to happen. there is a great deal of panic and fear about the future. there really is nothing more and outgoing. president can say he's not part of the process anymore. there is a transitional government being formed. speculation now about what the makeup of that government will be, that transitional government people are afraid to because they've been here before . they don't know whether to trust the taliban min promises about

a transition. there are promises coming from telephone spokesman, that is going to be peaceful that there's going to be a general be. but there are people who are justifiably concerned because they were working for the government where they were working in these. and they're afraid of retribution and they think, you know, they've been here before. they know what happened. so things might be different. this time around there is hope. people say that the taliban in turn, external international legitimacy is critical. this time around. international relations will be something that they will not risk losing and they know that there are certain conditions that will, that will guarantee this. and among these conditions is ensuring the most peaceful transition. so that might give hope to afghans right now who are in the state in panic. how much personal responsibility can nash rough county take for this?

because in the 24 hours we've seen going to say his power away, but it's been more of a dam, burst in the past. 72 hours isn't it? that how much was he stymied by the americans being in control and how much of it is down to his personal leadership or lack thereof? that question is certainly an important question. i think personally, it's unfair to lay the blame squarely on one man's shoulders. let's remember that the country he inherited upon sending to the presidency wasn't exactly in the best condition. there were already a lot of problems to deal with. certainly, he made mistakes. we can go through those mistakes. in the last few months, there was criticism that essentially the government had become a triumvirate that had become been isolated. certainly

there was a tend to solve the problem that tend to but let's also remember that funny background would be, you know, makes that he was meant to be a president to, you know, who was going to develop the economy, built the state. he wasn't meant to be a wartime president, and all of this happened during his term in office. yes, he made mistakes, but i believe it isn't fair to just say of him alone, responsible for us. and realistically, what kind of taliban does ask understand, face for it's leadership? we've heard from a number of people that well, it's a different tele by now. it's a different generation. it's more savvy that it's going to want to be able to work with the international community. to legitimize itself on the world stage. but anybody who remembers the taliban knows it's a strict organization, a pulls, no punches, and it's version of sharia law is intense. just how much has it realistically change? do you think $1000000.00 question? it's been debated now for a few years. is this the taliban?

2 point. oh well they certainly gotten better at public relations. they certainly gotten better at marketing themselves. they publish their their, their propaganda machine. i can put it that way. it's spokesman. issue communicating several languages there accessible to the media, and they use the right jargon. so they've done a good job at that. have they convince the public it's difficult to take? and they said it's been as much in information warfare as it has been a military campaign here where we've been information from both sides complete things on the one hand telephone saying that they are kind of kept up with the times. and they're okay with giving women, right. but then evidence on the ground being presented by others. that actually been the case. i think we're going to have to wait and see. at this point, we can only hope that yes,

the new generation of that are members of this group and that they've been exposed to the grow, that they're not isolated in that they have evolved. but there is little suggest that at the moment we can only hope that also that there are those who say that the money isn't one group anymore. it's not a centralized body. and that the negotiators may not necessarily have control over the fighters on the ground, that there is a kind of divide multiple telephone rather than one group. does that mean will end up with 2 different kind of stands that so you'll have the, the moderates with the marketing in kabul, trying to do the talks. but really we have no control over the less watched more rural locations around to the west. and the south, well, that's the thing. we don't know how much of it is marketing and how much of it is reality. because on the one hand, we had the don't go shooters saying reduction in violence. on the other hand,

we see them ramping up the vine, and so it seems to be that with no connection between the 2. so we have to wait and see everybody is uncertain about them. that's the thing. when i speak to people underground and coupled, that's what they're uncertain about. the thing does it mean the last 20 years that we've had these freedoms that my sisters have been educated, that my wife is gone to work? does that mean that it's all over that? we don't know. we've had sort of abstract statements coming out of the moment, so we'll have to wait. in the meantime, it's saying the people are saying their former friends leaving on planes, the american flag now down from the u. s embassy attends time for those people that okay, no, really appreciate you joining us on our tea and sharing your expertise of the past 2 decades of covering. i've got this done good to talk to you the show you some more video that we've been getting throughout the day here with the h q. this is the taliban setting up a roadblock between july, bad just to the east of the capital and going from the cobbled people to driving

through. those checkpoints reportedly being checked for their documents. on top of that man without a bid. big asked if the muslim on this is exclusive video, we got hold of as well. this is enough kind of stand 2nd largest city canada ha henley road south back came on the taliban control on friday. that's what really changed the game and accelerated, the changes that we've seen over the weekend. the taliban said that it also seized hundreds of weapons and vehicles, as well as large amounts of ammunition in the city. despite the escalating violence over the course of this year, still took months to be given a security council to admit how critical the situation was. even a country that is tragically known generations of conflicts. afghanistan is in the throes of yet another chaotic and desperate chapter. and incredible treasure the for its long suffering people forgot he's done his spinning out of control.

while a couple of hours ago, i talked to the former afghan deputy minister of borders and tribal affairs. and he told me that the authorities and the people need to now unite the police piece, but they need to be helped by the international community. situation is changing our, by our, in the store to when the, they totally want to talk the district. so i've done this on the or was some sort of what is this business or national resistance against them. but when they took here are kind of hard big cities. and also right now, the stronghold of the north top of that is done. now it seems that there is some sort of peaceful turns ation and i've gotten some what the people are probably going to stun. and once it's clear because the public opinion of the people i've done is done is clear for everybody. and the, the lead to me to me, to of that under one of our pre inferior china. i'm going to stun about what happened now is the situation that is not in control of our guns. actually the war

was not going to war. it was a proxy worry and i've done is done, and i hope that guns will come together in the 1st time in 40 years that i've been said to be there in high enough of that. my day for rush, united states and other countries. and also the region they must come to a consensus to establish solar in neutral, inclusive government enough to understand because they've gotten this done as a heart official, will be to wait for the region in the international community as well. right now, what's important that the blood of the young blood of, i've done my, we stop in the transition must go smoothly. and i think the responsibility of what sites in the people understand themselves to stay home. so also to prevent looting, gravity and destruction of intra fraction of what we've done is done,

which will conduct the sun to another use after. and i hope that the leaders have started one in the leaders of the government will understand the situation and will think about the people that have done, especially the displace people of a gun is done in enough is in, in to stop the bloodshed dog. i'm going to sun people which are waiting for for years. the us secretary of state entity blink and says that it's not in the national interest to stay in afghanistan for years to come. i think that the taliban would continue regardless of whether the pentagon was present or not. meantime, us forces are in cobble right now helping to fax, evacuated embassy stuff. as we mentioned earlier, the flag is down and the back of the cobble airport. so we understand a total of $5000.00 troops are expected in cobble down to mid the swirl of helicopters of the facility diplomats have reportedly been ordered to burn sensitive documents before they leave. i observe as a comparing the scenes to vietnam's side gone in 1975. when pentagon helicopter

evacuated stuff, the mocking, of course, the end of the vietnam war, senior republican lawmaker, mitch mcconnell says it looks like america's ready for the fall was cobble, which is happening right now. although just a month ago, president joe biden dismissed any vietnam parallels winding back to 2001, and then us president george w bush insisted that the taliban regime was on its last legs. then more recently joe biden said it was highly unlikely that the taliban would over run the country. so really try and graphics next. how america's leaders could have got it so wrong. just pictured the timeframes really have a proper think about it. i was 12 when america 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 are we got now? 20 years versus what a couple or a few months in which the taliban research much news the mother myself and some people of the town, car condos, and douglas province's came here to the park. we have all fled to fi chain. there is no food and no water. the family said 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 set fire to demons 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 now the very big news they have entered the capital capital. but even at this point, again, a stance besieged government isn't 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 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 to vietnam with some people feeling when the tale. yvonne is not this out in 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 of got 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 full of couple president biden's decisions have 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. there was a huge foreign policy failure with general em,

if occasions just share of 7 month entered 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 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 i think there's any other way you can possibly measure by means of

compassion when the soviet stuff that's going to sound and 900 can i meet the pro civic government did not collapse in this way. in fact, it took from 2 years before any major cities fell to the majority being was here was saying, major cities for the one off 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 service one, the service didn't exactly do a good job. so therefore clearly the new americans have failed. this thing that got less to do with the of the daughter of miss underestimation of the taliban shying as it is to do with underestimation of the will to fight the government forces. i mean, simply put the 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. i'm behind me is the saying that the taliban has been wanting for quite some time.

the moment that former africa president ash ref connie gets on a plane and leaves the country now it does come mid to conflicting reports, though, as to whether he has officially resigned, although it's just a matter of time. in reality, how had he wor, campaigners long lambasted the united states for occupying. i've got to stand wasting billions of dollars and counting cost us lies can costing countless light kennestone who we talked earlier from the hamilton coalition to stop the war says there are also botching withdraw. washington diz did miscalculate and they 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 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 last mass. well as the us and others pack up and ship with. what about the afghan national to help foreign troops, although she is? well, they now fear reprisals from the taliban. one group of africans who assisted u. k. forces rallied on the streets of what was a very different cobble on friday, demanding protection from the british government. perhaps so that calls have been

heard. 600 british troops have been deployed, that the safeguard u. k. national as they evacuate from the capital, as well as supporting the relocation of former african staff. we spoke to an interpreter the other day who works for both british and american forces who are to remain anonymous out of fear for his life. my family has to it's in the past sometime my family home was attacked twice. my father has been given warnings and threats many, many times. my. my dad's name was called that has lots will be severely at risk because he offered not one but 2 of the sons against the italian. recently, one of the interpreter, his father was caught in bacteria a province. he was beaten very badly. and he was asked to ask his son, who is an interpreter, to come and change the city

a cause of the taliban in the past year. and so a number of interpreters has been appealed or targeted by the taliban. recently, one of the interpreter who used to be an interpreter for the american special forces was assassinated by the telephone. of course they will be coming off to them . they'll be coming off to their families and those interpreters. so there will be but should they will be different. americans have gone away versus going away. everybody is running away. who are they leaving behind? the interpreters who have served for years and years or status and i've kind of some tracing briskin benches. however, the you could government instead of saving the lives, bringing them here to live in peace and safety with their kids.