i lose ah, the. c breaking you throw off the international this hour, at least 5 people reportedly killed at cobble airport and i got us on. the news comes shortly after unverified video or online showing us soldiers using what they call preventative fire at the airport summer. 4th address, the victim may have actually been killed and keyed is people rushed to get out of a country situation of the airport continue that the taliban is now back in control of ghana on the following. busy the capture of the country's capital on sunday, it followed a week of rapid territorial game by the surgeons. while i did rushes to evacuate every american citizen from the country,

us put the brave faith donors to 20 years. the top officials advocating the troop withdrawal and insisting that lengthy mission in the country has been nothing but a success. also in the program here, what are t european states evacuating their national from cobble and raising concerns about a potential flood of refugees? coupled with a new terror threat. ah, well, it's been a huge 24 hours. we're breaking news on the national. i'm rory to shade live in moscow. we do continue this monday morning with a dramatic events that have been unfolding enough janice on over just the last 24 hours. when the taliban has now declared an end of war in the country. this author, it's fight, is effectively captured every major city including the capital cobble. it means that often nearly 20 years,

the entire nation is now back. under control of the militant group. the there are unconfirmed reports stating at least 5 people are being killed at the capitol. that board should warn you. you may find the following images disturbing. the. now as you continue to watch right here, bodies can be seen on the ground at the airport this morning. the image has come off to unverified video, emerged on line reportedly capturing the moment us troops opened what they called preventative fire. the airport, it's all confirmed if it led to the death of those people, the us soldiers say they were only shooting in the air. some reports suggest the victims may have actually been killed in a stampede, as people are trying any way they can to get out of the country. well let's, i show you how the airport looks a bit earlier on sunday night. have a look right here. it's. it's the only part of the city that still remains out of

the clusters of the taliban. thousands can be seen desperately searching for an opportunity to flee. a commercial flight have again been suspended after they were resumed. the airport is now the only option to get out of the country as old border post, as we understand said to be on the taliban control. meanwhile, insurgents have seized the presidential pilots and cobble after president us rough danny fled. taliban says it's will shortly be declaring and islamic emerett of up chemist on a representative of the group still viewed as a terrorist organization by much of the world has already addressed the nation. how i'm going to 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 and ongoing. my great request to the

people of coble is to come to their workplaces open markets and shops. local and international organizations are requested to continue their activities as long suffering people solely on sunday, off the rounds of talks president ashcroft, danny resigned. it's something he confirmed on his facebook page. he said the move was to avoid bloodshed, and his departure was part of a peace deal proposed by the taliban. conflicting report suggests he's now in one of 2 neighboring countries, tajikistan or his becca st. on. however, both deny those claims that's bringing some more video footage here. this one reportedly showing inmates released by the taliban from the country's largest jail . earlier they also sees a background military prison located just 25 kilometers north of the capital revolt claim around. 5000 convicts was set free. mostly taliban fighters ready to join the sold. this footage circulating on line seems to show a taliban roadblock between july le, bad,

and cobble people are reported being checked for documents with men without beards being asked if their muslim. we spoke to one local journalist about the situation in couple morning i ran to the ftp to see how the city is located. the taliban fighters were guarded different areas of cobbler. they had the patrol. is that because the people who are taking photos with the tyler bonds, they thought about the different diplomatic areas. i saw some talking about that day and enjoy a compound but a lonely cd is quite shops or clues. the wedding halls or clues, restaurants or 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. that's all about rom, top,

it's offensive. and april, following jo biden's confirmation that he was pulling out american troops. you can see right here with the numbers in just a matter of months, the group has successfully swept across the entire country just for a moment here on the program. let's take a look and see how all these events unfolded. the b i

the so in the meantime, the us administration has again increased the number of troops at sending into afghanistan to evacuate american citizens. an additional $1000.00 to now being sent on top of the $5000.00 already allocated over the next 48 hours. meanwhile, helicopters planes were seen flying over the ask on capitol as nato sought to ensure the safe evacuation of foreign citizens. hundreds of americans have already left the country and thousands of trying to do the same. of the u. s embassy and the capital loaded flag off the old stuff were transferred to the airport. by meantime, back in washington, a large crowd ride back outside the white house,

people will voicing their concerns over the fall of the afghan government and the troop withdrawal. have been waving, ask on flags, and holding signs, proclaiming america betrayed the afghan people and demanding the country opened its borders to them immediately. earlier in the program are eager to down of join me here in the studio to discuss how the taliban triumph is being viewed in america. 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 just short of 20 years. that's 2 decades. if you're an african teenager in 19 going on 20, it means you never remember. you can't 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 that such statements and such promises against the taliban, made by all sorts of us politicians. thanks to our military, generalize and brave fighters of afghanistan, itala bon regime is coming to an end. i have plans on afghanistan that if i wanted to win that war, afghan is stand, 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 his any army in the world and an air force against something like 75000 taliban,

it 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, obliterated. 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 taliban 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. now they're mounting. left 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 it. they both stood it's military capacity by an order of magnitude, because the african 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 over the past few decades. america has sent so much military hardware and dr. canister on and so many suitcases of cash. you would imagine off the 20 years of old military equipment and all the money that the afghan soldiers will be able to actually defend the country. but apparently, after all of this, they can't, well, 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 form of african war 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, they're worth 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, is 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 stand. so this is what they've been doing. a lot of a lot of a lot of those 300000 they just lay down on 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 ask and 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, it 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 yes, 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 they entered, i've kind of been trying to hide 200 down to some, a been ludden over 911 terrorist attacks. of course, have they captured a sound loud and 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 well clear goal 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, 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. the war claimed the lives of almost 2500 us soldiers with many of their colleagues now asking what was awful to us veterans including one that helped to reopen the u. s. embassy and cobbled back in 2001 share their thoughts well at this point for, for all of them, the men and women of our country have served in afghanistan,

who have lost friends, who, who seeing people injured have gone through terrible emotional and physical trauma . as a result of this service and had hope that but in some way they were helping afghanistan for all of these people. most of them are sad summer, 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. our troops were told of very positive things about the future. but again, a stand and none of it was true. and i until committee knows very well that it, most of it was based on falsehoods, in imagining imaginations,

the veterans on iraq, the veterans of afghan, to stand, all of us, veterans ought to be going to our congress to say no more wars. because every one of these conflicts, as they ended up not only with hundreds of thousands, if not millions and 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. it's 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, that help them on a high level, not really rich, but those that actually implemented the project didn't get rich and now the,

the retribution and retaliation from it's all about who said you'd never should have been working with the u. s. government, in any of this anyway, is tragically going to happen. meanwhile, the 1st batch of british troops arrived in cobble on saturday to safeguard nationals and help relocate former african staff. we understand $600.00 soldiers are expected in total. other european states have been evacuating the national and suspending diplomatic missions of denmark and norway, a temporarily shutting down their shared compound. germany and finland are closing that facilities. citing the deteriorating situation. i'm more than 60 countries of cold on afghanistan 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 have danced on their

responsibility and accountability for the protection of human life and property and for the immediate restoration of security and civil order. earlier in the program, i spoke with correspondent paul asleep. she was in paris. the topic of discussion about her, europe's reaction to the fall of august on to the tunnel. 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 saying that he needed an absolute powers. he is the securing of both french nationals and african citizens who are there enough gun is done on the spot. and here they 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 . defeated vietnam? i'm sick and by the routing of galveston. 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's 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, both 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 counties 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've 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, related 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 seen 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, be asked gun literature community comprises about temper sent here in france. it is the 2nd largest refugee community. after the syrians, we are expecting the president manuel 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. while most of before and diplomatic missions are closing in cobble of the russian embassy is one of the very few this chosen to remain operational. the russian ambassador said, the african military that used to god the embassy have gone, and taliban fight isn't now in that place. we managed to get a comment directly from the diplomatic facility income. was a power vacuum,

a significant of course. there's gunfire 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 to our diplomats. our property will continue our work here in a calm and normal manner. for the taliban once again holding the reins of power and the country, those who have opposed the group all these years now live in fair potential, revenge. so what will happen to them? we got opinion from a range of analysts. i don't think the situation in this country of the stuff anytime soon, even in term. because i don't want to be a part of our me and not want to do leave different goals of the state. but i want

to have all power in that one is done and has 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 managed to tell by the level to fight. and i don't seem to be in that situation. it's very, very bad. and they just show us is that one down either them out harder. power presidential that might, than failed to accept this. certainly a lot of anger among atkins at the moment. much of it channeled on his clothes on too much of that channel that the americans at 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 telephone 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. that'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 the kind of divide that there's multiple pellet bond rather than one group. the in other news today here, which is an optional, we understand roughly a 1300 people are being killed, offer a huge earthquake nail the caribbean island of hayfield, saturday. the powerful trim abroad down homes, churches, and schools with more than 6000 people injured hospitals have become overwhelmed

now it's feared and approaching tropical storm. that's due to sweep through the region on monday night will only worse. not already dire situation. ah, ah ah, i am all pictures and analysis on the earthquake in haiti online right now a r t dot com. we appreciate you spending some of your monday with alterra moscow. we're back soon with more of your news.

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