me the breaking news on our international bits, our at least 5 people reportedly killed at cobble airport and i've gotten us on. the news comes shortly after unverified video emerged online, showing us soldiers using what they called preventative fire. the airport. some report suggests the victim may have actually been killed in a stampede. the chaotic situation of the airport comes out the taliban is back in total control of afghan has gone following the capture of the countries capital on sunday. followed a week of rapid territorial gains by the insurgents. meantime, as it rushes to evacuate every american from the country like us put the brave face on his 20 years, the top officials advocating the troop withdrawal. but in assisting the mission of

the country has been nothing but a success. european states also evacuating that national, strong, cobble and raising concerns about a possible flood of migrants on refugees coupled with a new terror threat. ah . what a 24 hours to be in for your worldwide head and welcome to the program here in tennessee. we continue our special coverage for you this monday with a dramatic events that continue to unfold in afghanistan over the last 24 hours. where the taliban has now declared an end of war in the country that's offers fighters effectively captured every major city, including the capital cobble. it means now 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 have been killed at the capitals airport. a warning you may find the following images disturbing. the, as we continue to show you the video here, bodies can be seen on the ground of the airport this morning. that image has come off to unverified video on line reportedly capture the moment us troops open what they call preventive fire at the airport. it's all confirmed if it lead to the death of those people that us soldiers say they were only shooting into the air. in fact, some report suggest the victims may have actually been killed in a stampede, as people will rushing towards airplanes trying to flee the country. but show you how the campbell, therefore look earlier on sunday evening, is the only part of the city that remains out of the grip of the call about a 1000 can be seen searching for any opportunity to leave. or we understand

commercial flight have again been suspended after they were resumed at the airport is now the only option to get out of the country as we understand old board posts now, mind by the taliban. meanwhile, insurgents have seized the presidential palace in kabul off the president. ashcroft gone, he fled the country. taliban says shortly, it will declare. and islamic edward of afghanistan like a short time ago in the program, i spoke to a local journalist who morning i ran to the pc to see how the city is located. taliban fighters war got different areas of cobbler. they had the patrol. is that because of the people who are taking photos with a ton of the telephone or the patrolling a different diploma? i saw some tal about that day and a compound the lonely cd is quite shops or clues,

wedding halls or glues. restaurants are blue people. you don't see lots of people in the city. you can see some some, some, some moves. but it's still, it's a quite good time to. it's normal. large. on sunday, off the rounds of talks president ashcroft ghani resigned is something he confirmed when his facebook page. he said the move was to avoid bloodshed and his departure was part of a peace deal apparently proposed by the taliban. now conflicting reports suggesting he's not one of 2 neighboring countries tajikistan or spec us on. however, both countries deny those claims. now the following video report shows inmates, right. they're released by the taliban from the country's largest jail. earlier they also seized by graham a military prison, just 25 kilometers north, the capital. the 4th claim about $5000.00 convicts was set free. most of them taliban fighters, ready to rejoin the sold. this footage, circulating online apparel. he shows a taliban setting up

a roadblock. between jamal about uncouple, people are reportedly being checked for documents with men who don't have any bid of being off if they're muslim. and. 2 now the taliban ramped up the offensive in april, following jo biden's confirmation that he was pulling out american troops. look at the numbers right here. you can see in just a matter of months, the group has successfully swept across the entire country. let's take a look now at how all of these events unfolded the

despite the fears of many african citizens, the taliban says there's nothing to be afraid of. a representative of the group still viewed as a terrorist organization by many countries around the world has taken a moment to address the nation. 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 afghan 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, market and shops. local and international organizations are requested to continue their activities as long suffering people solely needed. that's i bring you some new reaching out to this our from afghanistan. it's where a local news agency called tolo is claiming the taliban militants have stormed its officers in cobble. they enter the compound, took weapons from security staff. while meanwhile, the usaa ministration has again increase the number of troops sending into afghanistan to evacuate american citizens out. an additional $1000.00 and l being sent on top of the $5000.00 already allocated over the next 2 days. meanwhile, helicopters and planes were seen flying over the afghan capital noto sought to ensure the safe evacuation of foreign citizens. hundreds of americans have already

left the country and thousands are still trying to of the u. s. embassy and the capital load. it's flying off the old staff with transferred, but only transferred to the airport. that is, meantime back in washington dc, right there are large crowd gathering outside the white house. people will voice and concerns over the fall of the afghan government. the troop withdrawal have been waving, ask on flags and holding signs, proclaiming america betrayed the afghan people and demanding the country, opens its borders to them. immediately with earlier in the program ortiz egos, donald joined me here in the studio to discuss how the taliban trial is being viewed in americans. 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 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 i've gone to a new 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 and our allies, and the brave fighters of afghanistan, taliban regime is coming to an end. we broke the taller bonds momentum. we built strong afghan security forces. we devastated outside of leadership, taking out over 20 of their top 30 leaders. the path to peace is now set before that. 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 canister. now inevitable. it is none. because you have the afghan troops have 300000 well equipped as well as crypt is any army in the world and an air force. again, 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 obliterates of, you know, all sorts of fancy words. what happened? 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, few years ago all they could mount was a machine gun on a truck and now they're mounting. let's go to 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 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 2 decades. america has sent so much military hardware and dr. 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. i mean, i've read a lot of accounts of like foreman, i've been 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, well, they've learned that to ask a question. like how long will they be able to hold? a city is wrong. it's just rather will they hold the city 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 the 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, has been 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 authority to the incumbent president and his team, they are 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 in 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 more of us one to taliban if you factor in inflation and such things with 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 gaston, trying to hide 200 down to some, a ben ludden over 911 terrorist attacks. of course, have they captured a sound loud and back then maybe they wouldn't have been and i've got to spend 20 years on, but well he fled if he managed to escape. so a very achievable and well 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. the return off the taliban is a huge concern for those who have been working for the coalition forces over the years. so much though, that some of actually been taking desperate measures to leave the country. a warning you may find the following footage, distressing unverified footage on social media, claiming to show some one falling from an airplane as it was taking off from cobble airport is claimed online that the person that'd be hiding in the under carriage of the aircraft. so immediately clear if is, if it's actually a person to be totally honest with you, there are some other objects, seemingly falling from that same aircraft. the war claimed the lives of almost 2500 us soldiers with many of their colleagues. now questioning, was it all worth it to us veterans including one that helped to reopen the u. s. embassy and cobbled back in 2000. and one showed that 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 seeing 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, in 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 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 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 arrived in kabul on saturday to safeguard nationals and help red. okay, former guns off a $600.00 soldiers as we understand are expected in all now. other european states have been evacuating the nationalist on suspending diplomatic missions, denmark and norway, a temporarily shutting that shed compound germany in finland, the closing death facilities, citing the security situation, and more than 60 countries of cold on i've gone on to ensure the safety of those who want to leave 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. earlier in the program, i spoke with our correspondent policy. i see them paris and she gave us all the information about europe's reaction to the fall of afghanistan to the taliban. 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 nationals and african citizens who are there enough county done on the porch. 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 is 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 kansas straw fake. 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 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 african 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 accident of refugees and my 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 a dish, a room, a piece of that migration crisis. again, as far as your staff goes, the continent is split, particularly in terms of what to do with african refugees who've made their way. yeah. but actually don't have the white papers in terms of remaining in us as refugees. we did see a number of countries right 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 should be 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 dub, the complete overhaul of europe's migration and asylum rules we need. now at the moment, be asked gun richard community comprises about 10 percent here in france. it is the 2nd largest refugee communi. after the syrians, we are expecting the president emanuel crohn 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 all across cobble, the russian embassy is one of the very few of this chosen to remain operational. the russian ambassador says the african military that used to guard the embassy is old gone now,

and they've been replaced by taliban fighters. but apparently he says everything's ok. he told us about the situation around the russian embassy a couple. years ago i have stored my witnesses say that a group of anom taliban members approached the afghan police squad who offered to hand over their weapons, which was done than the ministry of defense and internal affairs of the afghan special services actually dissolved themselves. president connie 1st fled from his parents and then left afghanistan in the late afternoon. the power vacuum has certainly been felt there were shots being fined in the city bomb. people are walking around and there is the smell of burning. it's impossible to say that the situation has totally collapsed, as almost all the adult population. and many teenagers had weapons in the hands here before the events. and it was never calm in the city. the main thing is that the taliban, as they vowed a set up for a peaceful transition of power, they guaranteed the security of foreign diplomatic missions, including our embassy. of course, we can't ignore what's happening in the city and the situation affects our work. we

carried out a very serious set of measures to strengthen our security in advance. and currently there are no immediate threats to our team and our facilities, therefore, will continue with our work here in a calm, regular mode. and recent days, we've started receiving appeals from russian citizens of african origin, living in a bowl. they want to move to russia. these issues we carefully studied and we'll try to help issue why let's go back to some of the news you're brought to earlier in the program of the local tolo news agency in koppel saying that the taliban militants and apparently stormed its officers, that's find out more now across life that local german shore, not just joining us here on our team. it's a national. can you confirm this for us at the moment that the new jersey saying it's been over run by the taliban. can you confirm that story? do you have any information? well, i haven't got a formation from a friend close to the news that an hour before or like 5 minutes before i group off

to tyler bond. talk to the total news compound. if we don't have the information that what's happening in the news, but we are watching the news tv, it's running on great. but yet might be some meetings inside of the 2 renewals. my my, my, my, my talk with us with a totally new staff. maybe they have some kind of structure of limited order to know, but they still, we don't have any kind of information that way. but yes, we confirmed that a group off. tyler bond news. what does this mean? do you think for the future of the freedom of the press or the future of journalism, enough honest on do you think what damage a lot it damage to feed them off a gun to started damage to maybe off of us and only now that they're all journalists, international juris. i'm local jones,

save and that the territories that it can continue the war daily. and normally you won't be a problem for the journalist and in all other preventive stuff. i've done it well, it's still we don't have the exact information, but what's, what's happening in the us, why? what for the top one interrupted it to the news. it will be known later. but in trying to use compound, well, damage to the med damage, to feed them. so beach and also with a hard to promise, not good thought about leaders and it's all about earlier. and he said, this is the new part of them. but i have the permission to talk to the compound or other formations in house as soon as possible. but now you're seeing that out or enter into the compound to the house of people in the problem showing. can you tell us is a tolo news agency? is this an afghan run? an afghan government news agency?

it's not a gun. government news tv. it's a private tv, but it's a leading tv in the country, the family and tv in the country. i confirmed it, but it's not belonging to government. it's a private or local journalist. sure, but not just thought joining us live here on the international. we appreciate you joining us here on the program. we spoke a couple of hours ago. we'll probably speak again soon. thanks for your time. i thank you for your time for joining us here on our international. we come to life from moscow, nearly 1 30 pm monday afternoon. my colleague neal harvey, here at the desk and half an hour's time with more of our special coverage of the new dawn of afghanistan. the

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