the where you can use in the headlines. the taliban says it sees to ask, can government buildings and states tv off to the president, please the country and when leaving the country and he says pay off some kind of can me i can have to talk about his cargo with resident fleeing on mass with the u. s. search me a thought to weights as well because the images of helicopters flying in for desperate stuff reminiscent of america's anxious escape from been around 5 decades ago. the bringing the very latest around the world. and of course, this monday, all eyes on afghanistan as the situation that continues to rapidly unravel. starting with how taliban fighters have seized the presidential palace in the

capital with president obstruct connie leaving the country and resigning the military now control the city. i have said they will soon declare and islamic, i'm read over the counter on a representative of the group still seen as a terrorist organization by many states has already addressed the nation would be like in the diplomatic institutions that function properly for the past 20 years. should continue to function as a representative of the afghan people i ask you to continue your work to establish diplomatic relations with the afghan people, the process of power transition if peaceful, land ongoing. my great request to the people of cobble is to come to their workplace is open markets and shops. local and international organizations are requested to continue their activities as long suffering people to lead it. islamist corvalle ordered its forces to enter the capital to quite prevent looting

and violence when africa, north fulton pays the scene. on verified footage circulation, one line shows people throwing rocks at security officers, leaving carpool without a fight at 9 pm cost. you came in and remains in place to rule the couple residents having seeing the city and huge numbers throughout the day. hundreds of cars were stuck in traffic jobs and some local, even running away that had been massive cues that bank. some people tried to remove money for fleeing. last name was with me now is, shall we not just facade the, the local john, this reporting from cobb. we've been speaking to him over the course of the day. now can you just give us an idea of what's going on in the city right now? well, thank you very my to see and cobbler city because of your heart. i don't hear

the voice of a trophy running or rushing and just completed quite just we have seen with us the different the radio, a soft crowd of people inside of the airport of cobble crowd of people out of which in the right way i'll call. but anyway, waiting for the been for sort of there because there is 2000000 flies have been shut down from the there's also known it's only military flights that they used by americans. i'm other diplomats the sensitive tyler bond has been sent and saying that the, all the, all of it carbon see, came under control of the ton of our, of our base and different a call. and they ask the people that if they are facing the problems they can reach me here is area where to touch base and then complain the attendance complex

and does a ton of one of the people of cobble that they can continue to work tomorrow. normally, a couple of people come back to work through the government buildings to the job and they normally just continue the work. can you give us an idea? what are the feelings on the streets? how, what's the atmosphere, how all the people are there? are they in panic? well, and i'll turn on when i went out. and i just went to the c g 2 to see how the cd is going on in the morning. in fact, the people didn't want a lot of people because when the people they woke up in the morning and they saw that it talked about already be and i'll just of the call and get a plan to be able to call the people to rush away a day we just went to the bar,

so they went to the, to the market, to buy a food that was a lot of crowd of traffic. people just that you could, you saw the people who are in the car and the motor by, by food. they will not, they were, they were out to just sort of the problem. but in the afternoon with a ton of been in touch with the t t. look why there was no more more, more people that teach you that was quite no more no traffic. but the from night when, because i don't, i don't see any anyone and outside of problem in this you just called me and what we saw also there's images of people fleeing leaping. couple some by foot, some by car. why will they go and how long do you think that this is going to carry on for? i was in the morning off. today the people were disappointed what they should do,

what the, where they should go, but. and now there's only one only hope that was flying from public abroad, but where the people should know all the kind of all the problems so upset us on all the teachers of observance, refunded to the tunnel on the same situation that we have in common. we have also the other provinces, that if you don't have any other choice in the state of staying in color, but yes, and the call the airport houses. and how does this not? how does of people waiting for the flag they are in the runway? all airport did. they had the problem with american soldiers. also, america, children don't let him to come the horses, but the people are the star people or the supply. i'm looking for a way to the problem. i want to ask, who do you think the people blame for what's going on the government? the all me that apparently just gave up so easily. all america. one of the people,

the 1st people blame on the america because the people are changing or people are staying that in fact i've gotten them handed to tyler bon one year ago when americans and dad tied about had an agreement. and i've got some 100 over to put it on from the time american did not have a government gun people, they always lead to tell them to take because the province is led to the district of what they did not try to prevent the fall and capturing of the district and capturing of the 1st people playing on blending on america. and the 2nd people are blaming the government, the government, which was that lead by any because he, he just did the reason of all prices. that's all we have in the country.

would you say i want to find the all sky this is tell about now is in complete control. i've kind of started meeting on it will be a ton upon lead country was still there are some places that remain under control all. and let's say that the people that they are against the taliban, like proven. and then under our 160 to him with this car will see if he still under control of the not a line fight now or the, or under control of the opposition group that they are against the information that they are planning to time. again, the target and the planning to fight against the town and they are not ready to over one. but the, except patient, all other programs including color c, g i handed over to to tell a bunch of under control of that and resend it appears. let me also send you step on facebook account and he said that he was face to face. and the last

station is often on the weather to fight fight against the tunnel on understand that gives a ton of on or to leave the country. he said that for preventing of living in car will be decided to leave the country while thank you so much for giving us your inside knowledge. of course, you're right in the middle of it all. it really is really great pleasure to have your insight. that was not just bizarre to a local john is reporting from the capital while the town on rom top, it's offensive in a pro following jo biden's confirmation. but he was pulling out american troops. as you can see on the graphic and just months, they've gone from a week position on 1900 cent controlling the entire country. this is how events unfolded. the

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the video ports to show inmates released by the taliban from the concrete largest jail. anya, they also seized the military prison located to just 25 kilometers north of the capitol. reports claim about $5000.00 convicts with that free, and mostly taliban fighters ready to join the assault and institute one line. so it's a ton of on setting up a roadblock between to lot of bar down cobble people driving through a reportedly being checked for documents with men without a beard being off. if they are muslim. lebanese university professor jamal what he says, the current situation is a clear brook merican foreign policy i've done this time has not been in a normal situation for the 1st 4 or 5 decades. it's been perpetual road since the late 19 seventy's, the over my family. bon of i've got to son is a clear failure all to decades american effort. of course,

the midwest relations that we take over but not as with as we saw them. so this has been the american port and trying to control countries throughout the history and various countries. and the moment they feel they could no longer sustain that pollution and that they would simply forsake that employees and the country to destiny. the size of those applying over the u. s. embassy and was very similar to the size of the helicopters. us helicopters over that embassy inside on $975.00. when i believe that the case of going to stand there much different from the body,

but of the late 19 nineties and even the americans invaded the gun. it's done on a week evidence that even a card that was indicated in the events of the new york system, that 11. but they wanted to have a pretext to invade the company, to direct jump on gender that was against mainly against china, against russia. and i guess the iran at the time when that was the runs of coalition of your asian quotas and noticed that the son who american joining the work needs a recent pictures from a couple app will come out from various countries are waiting flights to escape off cast on native forces or at the site to ensure safe evacuation of foreign dependent reports. they want to boost the number of the personnel bus 6000. meanwhile, the u. s. embassy in kabul has lowered installs and stripes off to stop what

transferred to the port. hundreds of the american off have already left the country . caleb moore opened in new york and following the american reaction as off down a stall and unruffled. while the flag is down, the u. s. embassy is evacuated, and the staff is at the cobble airport. and from what we understand, they were ordered to burn sensitive documents before leaving the embassy. and now voices are comparing the situation and cobble to the situation in saigon in 1970, by the famous photograph of the us helicopter, pulling out as the government of south vietnam bell. well, here's some of what's been said, the mitigated disaster enough. again, histone the shameful, saigon, like abandonment of cobalt, the brutalization of african women. and the slaughter of our allies is the predictable outcome of the trump widened doctrine of weakness. now republican senator ben sas also said the united states would regret its actions and ask dana

dan, and that this would hurt the international community and it would weaken the alliances of the united states around the world. however, anthony blanket and the u. s. secretary of state does not agree. he said that he said, basically that cobble is not signed on. and that is quite interesting because quite a little bit of difference there. lincoln said that the united states had achieved its goals and i get a stamp. and that because of the terrorists, responsible for $911.00 were apprehended and killed, i had ad achieved its golden and had been successful in the country. now it's important to note that the terrorist responsible for 911 were largely from saudi arabia. they were not afghan. furthermore, osama ben lawton was killed in pakistan, not in afghanistan, so quite interesting, but lincoln is satisfied with the last mission after 18 year. here's ways that we succeeded in achieving those fundamental objectives and the idea that we would sign

up for remaining there in the midst of a civil war for another 510 or 20 years, was simply not in the national interest. now part of the reason there's a just scramble is the us estimate about how long it would take the taliban to retake the country. seemed to have been changing at one point, they thought they had 6 months or 12 months. at one point they thought they had 90 day then even as recently as 2 days ago, they were saying there was no threat to cobble. here's what was said by a representative of the pentagon. always not right now in an imminent threat environment. but clearly, if you just look at what the taliban has been doing, you can see that they are trying to isolate cobble. now there's talk more troops being sent them to oversee the evacuation of us citizens. but as far as protecting afghans the white house has made clear, they do not feel that is in the interest of the united states. at this time.

professor of strategic studies tell mom alex s washington broken promises to the country and abandoned. it said when americans had not or the western capitals had not really engaged the elephant in the room. and they had kind of wished to do. we're for 20 years about development of back impact to you'll find some full time security forces inside of understand were not good. they were still very green in their preparation and the americans knew it. the western powers knew it. but just because there had been a lot of investment on the ground by the americans and american, it to waters were demanding as to why. so many of the american troops was still pledged in our fathers found that the us had to make the strong plus the fact that they did not have anything now to offer to the farm leadership or to the upon people. they had tried all types of experiments and those experiments had not

worked here this time they were the direct stakeholders. and yet despite the month of reintegration reconstruction reforming upon society, politics and security forces, nothing is really strong enough to started stop ground. back in 2001 and then us president george w bush insisted that the taliban regime was on its last legs more recently, jo. bite and said it was highly unlikely to talk about would overrun the country next up in the trend. gloss how america's leaders could have gotten so wrong just pictured the timeframes really have a proper think about it. i was 12 when americans sent its soldiers to again as 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, right after the u. s. pull up the 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, it stands 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 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 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 went on watching 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 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 fall of couple president biden's decisions have a hurtling toward and even worse, equal to the humiliating full of saigon in $975.00, who 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 m if occasions to show a 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 present. 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 that there is any other way you can possibly measure by means of capacity when the soviet stuff that's going to sound in line change and i need the co civic government did not collapsing in this way. in fact, it took some 2 years before any major cities fell to my job being was here is saying, major cities falling one off the other to have

a taliban before the americans have been for the left, which gives credit to compact things that shows how, how much less successful impact americans have been in building a stable government and i've kind of stamina service. one say we didn't exactly do a good job there for clarity, the new americans of failed did think 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, 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 anti war. campaigners have long land bastard, the us for occupying afghanistan, wasting billions of dollars and costing countless lives. but ken stone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war says there are also bottling the withdrawal washington. this did miscalculate and it 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 last mass still ahead. the taliban has taken control. almost all of our kind of gone will be following all the details. stick with us off the shall break the ah, ah ah, the in

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy going from station let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. developments only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk me the news. the welcome back. let's dive straight back in today's main story. taliban fighters have seized the presidential palace, nascar capital cobble with president sha, gone the,

leaving the country and resigning the medicines. now control all the city besides the port, and i've said they will soon decline. and islamic emerett of our kindest on the islamist group, onto the forces to enter the capital to prevent new thing and violence where african law enforcement needs to seen on verify such such a thing on line to people throwing rocks at security officers leaving ca, both without a fight at 9 p. m. a cause you came in and remains in place updates on the unfolding crisis in afghanistan are coming in by the 2nd. i found john, this fellow to worry, has been bring us up to see if your call is on the high security alert. busy we are told that some sites will carried in one part of the cobbler providence, on the outskirts against the taliban. i've not been able to confirm whether those strikes are by the americans or they were by the african air force. but we certainly ought to get an defense ministry official saying that everything would be

orderly, that this transition will take place in a peaceful manner. the afghan forces brought here, they continued to reassure it. and president harman carson, the former president, as treated because of why me and his officials are flooded as a vacuum. they have created coordination council along with dr. up the line with enactment data for magenta, wandering leader, to make sure that there is no chaos. there is no pain inflicted on the african people is called and bought on this all about the government to make sure that they don't allow lawlessness and chaos in their own ranks. and the prevent. fortune is from taking advantage of the situation and also. busy phone numbers to call on if there are. busy such issues, we will have disease. what will and fall tomorrow? what were they all about? you know, presence in the palace means i will determine maybe who will be attending and who else would be leading that additional administration. this is

a very different country to is this, all of mine come from wish they were defeated plenty early on. so this will be a transition of many different challenges other than fighting or massive social changes in this countries was called joining us now. it's brian baccha, national coordinator, the coalition months coming on. donald trump has come out and made the comment. probably we did expect him to, he's slammed biden's actions as the was defeat in the history of the united states . what do you think? do you agree with him? do you think anything positive has come from the last 20th? well, i think donald trump was in fact trying to stage and exit from afghanistan as well . and he was block as a matter of fact bite. and when he was campaigning, denounced trump's efforts to leave afghanistan, but once, once in the white house, i think biden was also listening to the pentagon high command,

which is really the decisive voice here. and there was, they have made the decision that this unwinnable war had to come to an end at some point. the fact that the afghan government collapsed without a fight in the center income rule. is it clear indication that this government was nothing other and nothing more than an extension of an american occupation force? in other words, it lack credibility. it lacked its, its core, its essence. and once it was clear that the pentagon and the by the administration were leaving this government collapsed. i mean, that says so much again, like some of the others who have commented, this war was unnecessary. the taliban said after the september 11th attacks that they were willing to hand over osama bin lot into a 3rd country and muslim country for trial. they denounce the attack.