ah, we dare to ask in ah, the breaking news on the international this morning? several people that are quarterly being killed at cobble airport enough. gotten us on the news coming shortly after unverified video emerged online, showing us soldiers using what they called preventative fire. at the airport, some reports suggest the news. the victims may have actually been killed, however, possible in a p, as people were rushing to get out of the country. situation that the board comes as a taliban is back in total control canister on following the capture of the countries capital. on sunday, it follows a week of rapid territorial gains by the surgeon meantime,

and that it rushes to evacuate every american citizen from the country. the us puts a brave face on his 20 year, mentioned that officials advocating the truth withdraw, refuting any and old claims. this is a repeat of the infamous exit from saigon in the vietnam war war program. here on our european states, evacuate that nationals from cobbled and raised concerns about a possible flood of refugees and coupled with a new terror threat. ah, welcome to the program here on the international. it's been 24 hours of breaking news on this channel. i'm girl researcher, we do start this monday morning, continuing with a dramatic events that have been unfolding and i've gone on over the last 24 hours . is where the taliban has now declared an end of war in the country. this offer its fight is effectively captured every major city including the capital cobble. it

means that after nearly 20 years, the entire nation is now back under control of the militant group. the now there are unconfirmed reports right now, stating several people have been killed at the capitals airport. i should warn you, you may find the following images disturbing. the, as we understand our bodies can be seen on the ground at the airport this morning. the image is coming after unverified video emerged on line reported capturing the moment us troops open. what they call preventative fire at the airport is not confirmed if it lead to the death of those people. that's the us soldiers say they were only shooting into the air a some report suggest the victims may have actually been killed in a stampede. that's people were rushing towards planes to try and get out of the

country any way possible. well, this is how the airport looked earlier on sunday evening. the only part of the city that still remains out of the hands of the taliban are thousands can be seen, desperately searching for any opportunity to leave a commercial flight had resumed than they were suspended. we understand, they resumed, i was suspended again in just the past few hours. of the airport is now the only option to get out of the country as well. as we understand the border post around afghanistan has said now to be under taliban control. meanwhile, the insurgents have seized the presidential palace in cobble after president ashura gandy fled the country. the taliban says it will shortly declare and islamic emerett of afghanistan and a representative of the group still viewed as a terrorist organization. by most states around the world has already addressed the nation. i'm going to be 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 people, the process of power transition if peaceful, land ongoing. my great request to the people of couple 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 are totally needed . on sunday, off the rounds of talks, president asked what i've gotten, he resigned something, he confirmed on his facebook page. he said the move was to avoid bloodshed, and his departure was apparently part of a deal proposed by the taliban. a conflicting reports addressed. he's now in one of 2 neighboring countries, either tajikistan or his breakfast on. however, both countries right now deny those claims. now this video reportedly shows inmates released by the taliban from the country's largest jail. odeo. they also seized by

grab military prison, located just 25 kilometers north of the capitol. reports now claiming 5000 convicts was free as we understand. most of them are taliban. the fight is ready to rejoin the assault. and this for this right here, circulating on line shows the taliban and setting up a roadblock between jolla. bad and couple of people are reportedly being checked for documents with men without beard. busy being asked if they are muslim. 2 wireless learn more about this or another push live to local journalists show, but not a facade or who's joining us here on our international. good to see you today. it has been a very dramatic 24 hours and the ask on capital. what is the situation on the ground right now in cobble? well, thank you very much. this morning i ran to the see to see how the seat is and looking and call one of the 20. if you fall in again to the car on some more, i can't quite it's the shops are still closed. i saw some shops were open

to taliban fighters. the war got different areas of cobbler. they had the petroleum that people were taking because of the people who were taking photos with the tyler bonds, the telephone or the patrol defender diploma. they gave us, i saw some tal about that the other day and enjoy compounds. but a lonely cp is quite shops or clues, waiting halls, or clues, restaurants or lose people. you don't see lots of people in the c p. you can see some, some, some, some moves, but still it's a quite good time to it's normal lives. can. you can you tell us for a moment here on the program we've been covering all sorts of these issues now for the past 24 plus our breaking news or when r t. s national essentially the fall of the country to the taliban?

a lot of the western media outlets keep talking about the taliban being this is a militant entity, of course they are also a political organization. what is the feeling? what is the sentiment among the average afghan as to what's happening right now with a taliban taking control? well, in fact, i'm also and i've gone off cobble when i just saw the tyler bond with no uniform but different type kinds of dresses. i just remember need that 25 when we were living up to the guitar, tyler bonds. i just love you changed a lot and regarding your policy and regarding of your district clean, they are not uniform fighters that just a whole showed that you did complete the military. you can see the on site

everywhere and no, no, just the people are saying that you're living like 20 years back. why they wouldn't even taught a bunch the gym. it has not been changed. anything in the thought of on this plane and policy as well as we understand some members of the town of i have have now announced that the war is over. so could that mean that the future of act of i've got to stop now should be a future of peace and prosperity? well, i decided to walk it over right now because most of the province comes under some sort of the only know we have a paid share prevents in fact, the 20th before also war system plays against the taliban. but then we have a report of lots of the commanders, not the farmer commander there what i get of the title and how can i share your per pay for i have again been talking about and also i thought for mission baton and

said that you're also paying efficient, forced to stay to pay a share to, to do, to capture the possible. in fact, i generally don't want is over. we don't have any fight and, and the proven system i've done is done except the pay status on the console. opposition of the title on the title one says that they will start fighting in a very soon accepted price. you know, we can say that the water is over and i'm not fighting and the province on sticks off country show it before i let you go. one very last question here, i'm running broad low on times the average, the average are gone. they're in the country, are they? are they happy or sad? the western forces and now leaving the country? well, in fact, we had a very good time in the 20 years. we have a, we have we, we grew up with the democracy with that with that with a good life. but of course,

people that if the situation continues like you have the thought of the will not brain changes on the policy on the rules. if they continue to enforce some of the rules, it will be difficult for the people to, to leave at the end of the telephone. but there are rumors that have been changed. you will have a new rules keep going. well, let's wait to see what would be then you will have to tell about the time people will decide to stay or not. but now people are the why they are disappointed. they don't know what they should do. right. local afghan journalist are sure, but now jeff has are joining us or when it's a national we appreciate it. thank you for your time. thank you. well, the thought about an ramped up it's offensive in april, following jo biden's confirmation that he was pulling out american troops. as you can see here, and just a matter of months, the group has successfully swept across the entire country just for a moment. now,

in the program, let's take a look back at how all these events unfolded. the b i. in the

meanwhile, the u. s. administration has again increase the number of troops it's sending into afghanistan to help to evacuate american citizens. an additional $1000.00 are now being sent on top of the $5000.00 already allocated over the next 2 days. meanwhile, helicopters and planes were saying flying over the outgoing capital nato sought to ensure the safe evacuation of foreign citizens. hundreds of americans have already left the country in thousands, a trying to follow suit of the earth embassy and the capital load it, fly off the old stuff with transferred to the airport. now the meantime, back in washington, a large crowd, right. they got that outside the white house, people voicing that concerns over the fall of the afghan government and out of the troop withdrawal. they've been waving flags and holding signs,

proclaiming america betrayed the afghan people and demanding the country opens its borders to them. immediately. why are you going to donald joining us? i live in the street to discuss. it's a bit further good to see you again today. the former us president donald trump. he's already weighed on the issue. he's calling it all the disgrace to fall about canister. he says, president biden should step down and it's worth reminding you that it was actually donald trump, who originally signed the piece process with a tile about in february after agreeing to pull out of the country. right? absolutely, but i mean, all we can do is just speculate as to how trump would have could have, might have handled the withdrawal would have been better. would have been worse. there's no way of telling because trumps no longer president and printed the president is a joe biden. and of course it's difficult to whitewash this whole thing because and to make it look like a success which they are trying to do right now. because just think of it, the americans, they've been present and have gone to a new just short of 20 years. that's 2 decades. if you're an african teenager in 90

and going on 20, it means you never remember. you can physically remember the country before before the us invasion. you've lived your whole life in a country where the u. s. was always present and you've heard such statements and such promises against the taliban made by all sorts of us. politicians. thanks to our military. generalize and the brave fighters of afghanistan, the taliban regime is coming to an end. i have plans on afghanistan that if i wanted to win that war, afghanistan would be wiped off. the face of the earth would be gone. it would be over and literally in 10 days. and i don't want to do that. i don't want to go that route bond take over that gas that now inevitable is known because you have the afghan troops have 300000 well equipped as well as crypt is any

army in the world and an air force against something like 75000 tale mine is not inevitable. so this is the sort of people who are living in panic and rushing to the airport. they were panicking because for all these 20 years they've been promised. the taliban has no, no fighting challenge, but it will be wiped out eradicated obliterates of, you know, all sorts of fancy words. what happened? well, we all know what's happened instead. i mean, the biggest, the best metaphor here is i've gotten not african, but talib and troops posing next to humvees, next to black hawks. all the best equipment in the world and, you know, worked a few years ago. all they could mount was a machine gun on a truck and now they're mounting. let is a guided weapons. when aircraft, not only did the us fail to dismantle the taliban as they had promised. and because it was largely a war on the taliban. but they,

emboldened that they both stood it's military capacity by an order of magnitude because the army essentially just gave them gifted them with some of the most advanced and powerful military equipment in the world. the taliban now has an air force was just her job. i know saying that taliban hasn't force. he also said there were 300000 trained afghans soldiers. and this is the thing you see equal to us saying just now over the past 2 decades, america has sent so much military hardware and rough canister. and so many suitcases of cash, you would imagine off the 20 years of old military equipment and all the money that the african soldiers will be able to actually defend the country. but apparently after all of this, they can't. while they did get their training, they did receive their fancy weapons. but the thing is, you also have to have the willpower to fight. and apparently this is what they will lacking. and i mean, i've read a lot of accounts of like for me and i've been will veterans who took part in the training and there's all sorts of stories claiming that. well, they just,

they just didn't want, they were trying to be, they were trying to make policemen and military out of people who were rent a carpet best. so this is, this is what they've been doing. yes, there were 300000 soldiers trained and equipped, but we've learned through, i guess, throughout this onslaught by the taliban. i guess all journalists around the world, they've learned that to ask a question. like how long will they be able to hold? a city is wrong just rather will they hold the city a at all? will they try? because so many cities and towns they just they just, they didn't fall. it's wrong to say that they fell because they never try to stand . they never try to make a stance. so this is what they've been doing. a lot of a lot of a lot of those 300000 they just lay down arms some joined the taliban. some just said you can, you can have that because they can leave a more or less the same life, but without having under the taliban. but without having to risk their lives. so this is what the u. s. has failed to do. i mean, they just, they didn't,

they didn't motivate because it was a war because the united states, they wanted the war on the taliban. the i've gotten is the didn't the, because this whole situation proved that they didn't want to fight the taliban. i mean, otherwise they would have now that they had to every, every single, every single chance to but still nonetheless, the united states authorities, the incumbent president and his team, they're trying to actually make it look like a success. the inability of asking security forces to defend their country has played up a very powerful role than what we've seen. we invested the international community invested over 20 years. billions of dollars in these forces, $300000.00 of them with an air force something the taliban didn't have with the most modern, sophisticated equipment. and unfortunately, tragically, they have not been able to defend the country. and i think that explains why this has moved as quickly as it's moved. well, in fact, that wasn't billions of dollars,

it was closer to 2 trillion dollars. this is what, how, how different experts estimate the cost of war of us willing to talib and if you factor in inflation and such things as and interest rate. but yeah, so according to the state secretary blinking, they succeeded. but again, i don't want this to turn into a lecture on history, but back in 2001 the united states, the entered of gaston, trying to hide to hunt down to some a ben ludden over 911 terrorist attacks. of course, have they captured osama been logged back then? maybe they wouldn't have been in afghanistan 20 years on, but well, he fled if he managed to escape, so a very achievable and dwell clear gold turned into something into let's re educate the whole country and teach them to fight the taliban, which we had previously by the way well it established and funded and trained as well. obviously. well the taliban turned out to be the turned out to be much better students than the regular african army. well, you go, you know, there's

a reason why the soviet's, the british, the americans, there's a reason why i've got this down. it's called the graveyard of empires. he goes, daniel, thank you. well, there will claim the lives of almost $2500.00 us soldiers with many of their colleagues now asking what was it all for to us veterans including one that helped to reopen the u. s. embassy and cobbled back in 2001 chevy. well, at this point, for, for all of the men and women of our country have served in afghanistan, who have lost friends, who, who seen people injured, have gone through terrible emotional and physical trauma as a result of this service. and had hope that in some way they were helping afghan stand for all of these people. most of them are sad, some are angry, but really they're sad and they're asking the question, and i think it's been reported widely. why, why was, why were we there? what were we really doing?

because we did not achieve any mission that was sold to our soldiers. jar, young men and women who served there. what they were told they were doing was not, i'm sorry, it was not the mission that was accomplished. ok. we didn't accomplish that mission, whatever mission that biden and trump, and george bush and obama were hoping to accomplish that was kept a secret from our troops that troops were told of very positive things about the future. but again, a stand and none of it was true and, and i until committee knows very well that most of it was based on falso vin imagining imagination, the veterans on iraq, the veterans of afghanistan, all of us, veterans ought to be going to our congress to say no more wars because every one of these conflicts has ended up not only with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, millions of citizens of the countries we've gone into being dead or wounded. but certainly the veteran population of the united states that continues to suffer suicides at $22.00 a day and long term mental problems that affect not only them personally,

but their whole families and their communities is something that our us congress and our politicians ought to be held accountable for forgetting us into these endless wars the when was for the defense contractors of the united states of america, they got really rich and those afghans that helped them on a high level, not really rich, but those that actually implemented the projects didn't get rich and now the, the retribution and retaliation from it's all a bond who said you'd never should have been working with the u. s. government on in any of this anyway, is tragically going to happen. meanwhile, the 1st batch of british troops arriving kabul on saturday to safeguard nationals and help relocate for my afghan stuff. a $600.00 soldiers are expected in total. now other european states have been evacuating their nationals on suspending

diplomatic missions, denmark and no way of temporarily closing their share compound and germany and finland the closing that facilities, citing the deteriorating situation and more than 60 countries of cold. and i've gotten us down to ensure the safety of those who want to flee given the deteriorating security situation. we support a work into secure and colon all parties to respect and facilitate the safe and orderly departure of foreign nationals and afghans who wish to leave the country. those in positions of power and authority across of dentist on their responsibility and accountability for the protection of human life and property. and for the immediate restoration of security and civil order, there's a better in the program i spoke to our correspondent paula slid about europe's reaction to the fall of afghanistan. i think it's fair to say that not just your opinion leaders, but the world in general is in a state of shock here in france, the priority is on evacuation. we have heard from the french president,

seeing saying that the immediate and absolute power is the securing of both french national and african citizens who are there enough county done on the spot. and here they are particularly talking about african citizens who have assisted the french government. the 1st flight is slated for monday, and it comes as the french military scenes reinforcements to the united arab emirates, to facilitate with the evacuation process. now all of this is happening as i balls are being raised and questions are being asked as to how the taliban was able to achieve such a quick victory. and certainly we have more more people asking questions as to the policies of foreign countries when it comes to engaging in was i uploaded the u. s . defeat in vietnam? i'm sickened by the routing of gaston. it is time to think things over before embarking on that and worse. because if war doesn't solve anything,

defeat changes everything. now it's not just france, but indeed it's many countries that are expressing better comments as to what have been the long term achievements when we've witness foreign troops in afghanistan for so many years. this is completely humiliating for the west. we assembled the most incredible, technologically advanced lines. the world is ever seen and were being defeated by an insurgency that armed with a k 40 sevens and p. jeez. this will be the biggest own goal made by the west. so far this century, the humanitarian disaster that's about to unfold will be catastrophic. the migration challenges will be huge. we will see further terrorist attacks. at the moment, there is no clear statement as to whether or not countries plan to recognize the taliban as the official government of afghanistan. we have heard from the british prime minister boys johnson urging countries not to act bilaterally in terms of

recognizing that taliban, what he wants to see is a kind of united front with like minded countries responding in the same way. and he believes that that will be the way to prevent a gun is done from becoming a breeding ground for further terrorist activity in the past 10 years and less. we've had just every now and again, an exodus of refugees and migrants flooding into europe. now it looks like it's going to start all over again. do you think europe can handle another wave of this? is the $1000000.00 question. many people here don't want to see a repeat of what happened. 56 years ago with the migration crisis that unfolded. then, and certainly speaking to people here on the streets of paris, many of them are nervous that we could be seeing additional room, a piece of that migration crisis again, as far as europe itself goes, the continent is split, particularly in terms of what to do with african refugees who made their way here,

but actually don't have the white papers in terms of remaining in us as refugees. we did see a number of countries, right. and later to the european commission, insisting that they have the right to same back to afghanistan. those african refugees who don't fit the criteria, but subsequent to that, we did see a number of countries backtrack. so we certainly seeing the split inside europe itself in terms of what to do with these migrants. the main concern being expressed by european countries is that they don't have the capacity actually to handle another huge wave of migration. the clock has run out on how long we can wait to adopt the complete overhaul of europe's migration and asylum rules we need. now at the moment they ask, richard community comprises about 10 per sent here in france. it is the 2nd largest refugee community. after the syrians. we are expecting the president re manual kron

to address the nation at 8 o'clock this evening. local time on the situation in afghanistan, so it will be interesting to see what exactly he has to say at that point. and while most of the foreign diplomatic missions are closing in cobble, the russian embassy is one of the very few of this chosen to stay and remain open. we've managed to get a comment directly from the russian ambassador to afghanistan. was a power vacuum a significant of course, there's gas fire in the city armed looters. we know about the smell of burning. the important thing is that the taliban, as they themselves promise are interested in a peaceful transition of power. they guarantee the safety of foreign embassies, including our embassy. we have significantly reinforced our security in advance. now there are no threats or diplomats, our property will continue our work here in a calm and normal manner. but the taliban at once again holding the reins of power in the country. those who have opposed the group all these years now live in fear

of potential revenge. so what will happen to them regarding a range of opinions from analysts? i don't think the situation in this country of the anytime soon, even in the immediate term, because i don't want to be a part of the government not to do all these different goals of the state. but i want to have all power in that one is done and has to the see the talent but one landslide victory. but it wasn't good. they just gave back and they just gave a couple and a lot of domains to taliban. the allowed to fight. and i don't seem to be hosted on the situation is wherever may and they just show us is that one down either them out hard or power,

which presidential that might have failed to accept it. certainly a lot of anger among atkins at the moment. much of it channeled on in his close on too much of that channel that the american, the international community for abandoning the once again, people are afraid because they've been here before. they don't know whether to trust the taliban spokesmen promises about a move in peaceful transition, but there's going to be a general m b. but there are people who are justifiably concerned because they were working for the government where they were working in ministry. and they're afraid of retribution. let's also ember that. there are those who will say that the money isn't one group anymore. it's not a centralized body. and that the don't negotiators may not necessarily have control over the fighters on the ground that there is a kind of divide that there's multiple pelican.