me on one of the deck put afghans who clung onto a miniature plain, taking off from cobble fills the deal on his phone. his fate is no, no, but someone called and took lunch to that. the town of bon brief to meet your officers, seizure of how i promising that have no revenge. and the africans who worked for, for an army officer, given the losses, revealed the one of the taliban commanders who gave victory sweet to me after on capital presidential palace spent years other detainees. i want to move back i on the hour every hour. this is all t international for myself and the whole team here on t h q. and i welcome to the news. while starting, i saw, of course,

it is more scenes of chaos in afghanistan onto the kind of bonds takeover of the country. some shots were fired up the international apple in cobble as people scrambled to flee the new regime. some tried to scale perimeter walls and sentences to reach the evacuation flights with desperate parents dragging the children over the barbed wire. there are unconfirmed report to taliban fight to shot him on scaling the wall. 7 people have been confound, killed the airport in the last few days. the of this satellite imagery taken on sunday captive the town loyal in and around the hub as thousands attempted to flee to, to a lack of pet to locals. reports they abandoned that caused by the roadside. fuel is expensive right now and difficult to find. some of those who reached the point was so desperate to get out. they resulted clinging to planes that were taking off

. this video was filmed by one of those who took that risk. it's unclear what that was though, since the video has a much on line. it's hope he was one of the lucky ones who survived. but others, once on verified and disturbing video, has a watch on line, apparently showing some of those who had clung to us for the pain falling to the deaths. and it's reported that human remains will also found in the landing. get of that very plain off to its flight from cobble fire. arms and munition went dumped up the luggage racks in the call. paul called the capital that port locals bound to them as they attempted to flee. we all local john. sri know jeff is all about the situation on the ground. there we go. the room of the taliban. i just started out in public safety also. we are locked in for the government. people haven't said that you're looking for the journalist and, and call for the shocking news for everyone, even for me. i left my office on my rent a place,

but i immediately and denied my school to d. p. off below, i found out i'm the leader of all about how much money he published. i mean, maybe you said that the cobbler people are safe to talk about the down in the door of the couple people i'm down. so there's a group of about a fight that has permission to enter out all the people. and as people flee the telephone has given a media everything which had tried to assure towns that they would be safe if they stayed in particular the tires group. santa would not exact revengeful knows who had cooperated with the u. s. coalition. to break down exactly what it was that was how to bon sadam now joined, lived by dmitri park. forgive him. forget is the key message from today's press conference? yeah,

that seems to be the main message of peace and love. i guess the taliban leadership made this press conference apparently to kind of give a face to their, to the international community. that this is a new taliban that they're friendly. they want to make peace. their main message has been that yes, they will pardon anybody and anybody who has to do with the occupation of afghanistan for these 20 years. but besides that, they've also talked about things that would be deemed more progressive, especially coming from an internationally recognized terrorist organizations. things like women's rights and media freedoms. one of the 1st things that they 1st again said is that they want peace, which would mean that there would be no interrogations. and no revenge or any of that sort against anybody who worked in gas and any ford citizens of foreign fighters, foreign workers, or even of gas and citizens who helped us coalition. during these years, after that the spokesperson for the taliban leadership went on to talk about things

like women's rights that women would now have a much better under the new governments at the taliban leadership will make they're still working on that part. but yeah, women would have it so much better. they would have all their rights protected. they would be come a very active part of society. they would be able to work on air and even have hold places and positions in government. although they did stress, of course, that this would be under the guidelines of serial law. so whatever that means and how that would be actually implemented. after that, he talked about media freedom again. once again, everybody can work. everybody can function even encourage the media to highlight the shortcomings of the afghanistan gulf men. although he didn't warn for it not to work against the government. and independent media would also be allowed to remain free and independent basically. so all these messages, they're basically saying that this is a new taliban leadership. this is going to be new. and they've been talking about this all over the place. basically saying these messages to anybody, even

r t reached out for an interview with them. and here's what they said. they are not exposed to any danger because they are in our homeland, among their people. we strive to make the future for the people and the country worthy. we have no desire to take revenge on these people. we strive to ensure that all people united, despite all the challenges we want to build a new country and make our people have a decent future. we have issued a number of decrees including the decrease concerning those translators who collaborated with the occupying regime for one reason or another. the past is the past. they don't have any problems right now. so it's a media tom offensive, a dance for sure. but how convinced all people? well, obviously not everybody is convinced. we can see from all the care is going on and again, stand with the mass exodus and all the scenes of people trying to flee the country . because phil, it's the taliban, it's an international terrorist. internationally recognized terrorist organizations, people are not just going to take their word for it that they're going to be better

and everything. but the taliban leadership has stressed that what it tries to conveys, trying to convey is that they've changed. it's been 20 years since they were in power. and over these 20 years, the afghan people grew and grew. and they're not the same taliban there. if they were back then and kind of shows, i guess you could say because now the twitter handles, they're holding press conferences. that by all means are civil. i'm sure many people thought it would be something more barbaric when they are a taliban press conference. but if anything this, there's a lot of promises made here, right? so it's still remains to be seen if any of these promises will be held. but one thing this press conference has shown at least, is that the taliban has learned p r. basically it's learned how to communicate with the west. it's learned how to use these key words that the international community generally likes, well suck, you know, as one is convinced, if you look at those pictures of thousands flying to the port and trying to scale those walls bought time will tell maybe be proven wrong that was to reach about joining me in this teacher. the new look taliban has already failed convince song

as we were saying with the ears foreign policy chief, joseph brown saying that the only thing that had improved in the group compared with 20 years ago was to our ability to speak english and montana. was that your leaders are growing increasingly worried about the situation in afghanistan. they say the chaos can spread to europe by prompting. a large influx of refugees brought out at the block will help countries neighboring us, canst, on to deal with migration flows need to coordinate between a union member the states congress. it will be how you know and we will have to support it. timesheets and neighbors. countries well, joseph borrow, who we will, listening to their summed up the sentiments, expressed at a online meeting of the you foreign ministers in which he said that the priority was the safe evacuation of european and of any african citizens who had worked with

them for more than 20 years, if indeed they want to be evacuated. he also said that they were ready to engage with the taliban. this did not mean official recognition that it was an acceptance that they needed to work alongside with them to prevent a potential humanitarian disaster and a potential migratory influx. not everybody in europe is happy. you have a sample from germany and eastern european capitals who are asking the question why other countries are not taking on the burden of dealing with these refugees. first, we have to discuss how to accommodate the people in the neighboring countries and move forward. the next step would be to look further, but a european solution would certainly be difficult. we have not yet managed to create a common asylum policy development. this would be, we must anticipate and protect ourselves against major irregular my great re flows that would endanger those who use them and feed trafficking of all kinds. we will

therefore take the initiative to build without delay, a robust, coordinated, and united response that will involve the fight against irregular flows. now, despite mucous concern about the human crisis and the potential impact that this could have on us, but she did manage to find time to attend to full premier in berlin. and despite the criticism that so far, gemini had only evacuated 7 of its national from cabal. at the same time, a number of leaders are very pessimistic. you have, for example, the check president, my list zeeman, who had said that nature build enough gun, he's done. and its legitimacy has now been brought into question. the distrust towards natal from a number of member countries will grow up to this experience because they will say if you failed and again, it's done. whereas a guarantee that you won't fail in any other critical situation as well. austria, it has cold on neighboring countries to have done to set up people taishan centers

as a way of handling immigrants that are attempting to flee the taliban. also, of course, is maintaining a very hard line stance when it comes to immigrants. you then have turkey, which is in the final stages of building a 295 kilometer roy along its border with the ran to prevent african refugees from entering that country. the nato secretary general said the priority for nato was as follows. nato's focus right now is to ensure the safe departure or personnel from ally than partner countries. and of the africans who have helped us, admitted that europe was surprised at the speed of the political and military collapse. of the campbell government, it was something that they had not anticipated. he also said that he was frustrated that after years of international assistance, the results were to quote him not better. one of the taliban commanders,

he was giving a victory speech from inside the presidential pot. as soon off the medicines took over the john capital is its marched a form, a detainee out america's infamous. want to move a prison camp. so who's the past? ronnie was born in 1975, he was recruited by the town of on, in the 1900 ninety's, eventually, during the movement, so called ministry of intelligence in 2001 he was detained by us forces in cobble, subsequently sent to guantanamo bay, where he was among the fast detainees, well that he was incarcerated until 2000 and unsettling, and not the time ronnie was deemed by us intelligence as a medium level threat. there it is to the us and its allies. i was expected to join groups dedicated to attacking us forces enough kind of stone if released and yet the americans did release him in the end. addressing the review panel. ronnie reportedly claimed he was just an ordinary shopkeeper who wanted to return to

afghan installed to catch his sick father. earlier we heard from scott ritter, a former marine corps intelligence officer. he told us that places like one ton of mo, will bond to create extremists. the united states is very rarely has 100 percent accurate information on people. we detain the, these people for, for many years. if i were detained off the street as an innocent person and subjected to in humane treatment in an illegal facility for a number of years by an occupying party. and then i was released, my life would focus solely on killing those people. so when, when people get radicalized by undergoing an experience that no human being should be subjected to, we shouldn't be surprised. it's 100 percent counterproductive. i mean, anybody was, any brain knows that this is not how you go forward. mean lost and found the vice

president has vowed to keep up this fight against the taliban. i'm really solid tweet to the he was still inside the country and was now in fact be acting president. now port say around $10000.00 afghan troops on the way to pun, ship province, to join the resistance. this area is you can feel them up. no very close to cobble and includes a strategically important road that leads to the north of the country. sala has reportedly been joined by other military commanders who refused to give in. the northern part of afghan stone has historically been a foreigner, the taliban side. it was home to the so called more than a lion switch for against the terrorists in the ninety's. according to some reports, fighting has already broken out with afghan full says, managing to rest control of some areas near the capital. meanwhile, fresh videos lodged said to be of women protesting in kabul that demanding that rights be respected, including to walk to education on to political participation. the taliban though is

actually been arching women to join the government on another unprecedented move, a town upon officials with a female present for an interview with tolo news and ask on television station. so part of a p r campaign to present a more moderate sunlight off the group to the world. earlier, my colleague knew harvey, discuss the future press freedoms in the country. the sod looks ne, he's chairman and chief executive of movie group, which oversees toler news. the title of trying to win hearts and minds. they're trying to convince the political establishment people outside the top of the movement to join and support the taliban movement that are trying to secure international support. so i think it's a bit early. it's a bit too early to just to what the long term intentions are. there will be a transitional government know that they may be more restrictive and eventually

they'll be an emerett at the top on have their way. so long ways to go before we can say that they're receptive to women on television or to equal opportunity for math kind of sense. how do you feel about freedom of speech? enough canister, the moment you kind of optimistic, maybe you feared the worst when the taliban came into power. but how are you feeling in the moment? i'm feeling neither. i think it's too early and we can't be used to assume that they have changed for good freedom. of speech is not just some reporting on facts. i mean they, they believed that gods on their side. and then the holy koran is that a constitution. and then they can never be challenged in time. they will need to be need to get channels and we'll see how much capacity they have for criticism when that happens too, too, too early. and we have months and months ahead of us to see if they actually their, their actions match the words. it's understandable. we sent an awful lot of people

fleeing heading for the airport. it's been tragic at times, watching the people who tend to get out. have you had any veal stops saying? look, you know, we're just not comfortable with this. we, we want to go? yes, we have and there are many who want to stay on and continue their work and some who wish to get that. i mean what the taught about doing that and the coming weeks will determine what people do in the years. i had this, this sort of this, this middle class, this youth was 60 percent off, got in front of them, of the age of 20. and they can, they can make, make the country. and if they leave, we lose our educated class. so really it's up to the top line in terms of how they behave and their behavior is going to impact what people do in the months ahead present. and by doing broke his silence on the crisis more than a day off to the ton of on took control of the country. he came to us mission. afghanistan was never about nation building. our mission and get to stand was never

supposed to been nation building. it was never supposed to be created a unified, centralized democracy or only by last interest. and again, stan remains today. what has always been preventing a terrorist attack on america homeland. but his statement came and stole contest passed. comments back in 2002 bite and said that fading to establish a solid national government in afghanistan might create a less safe haven for an american terrorists. caleb moore pen takes a place in the next stop the presidents history with the conflict. when you look at what's happening and afghan, stan, you can hardly say that joe biden is blameless. he supported the war 1st in congress and then his vice president. and now he says that his decision for a sudden withdrawl is correct to many. it looks like he has absolutely no clue what he is doing. what in his mind, it all makes perfect sense. we want to have gans dana was 20 years ago with clear

goals. get those who attract us on september 11th, 2001. and make sure i could not use f ganeth stan as a base from which to attack us again. we did that now. some are remembering how wishy washy joe biden was when it came to the obama white house's decision to take out. been lawton. he eventually praise the decision when it fit the overall narrative and emission that will go down in the annals of intelligence in special operations. some of america's most gifted security professionals track down osama milan. after the trail had gone cold. the jo, what do you think? and i said, you know, i didn't know we had so many economists around the table. i said, we oh, demanded direct answer. mister president, my suggestion is, don't go,

we have to do 2 more things to see if he's there. now biden looks a little shaky when you look over other foreign policy decisions as well when it comes to iraq. he voted for the war and he pushed the false claims about weapons of mass destruction. but now he's for withdrawing their to as vice president. he supported prime minister ma leaking and many of argues that he ended up emboldening isis when it came to libya, biden was very outspoken in supporting the overthrow of what was at that time, one of the most stable and economically prosperous regimes on the african continent . now says that one was a big hoops as well, starting to look like biden doesn't really know what he's doing on the global stage . this is something his critics have been pointing out quite loudly in recent years . i think biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy, a national security issue over the past 4 decades. remember, out biden campaigned for office by calling out. donald trump says unpredictable and untrustworthy when it came to us foreign policy. well,

recent moves in afghanistan are certainly not an argument in jo biden's favor. you know, it's hard to know what's going through biden's mind because he does change his mind on strategic issues and he doesn't have any clear set of guiding principles when it comes to foreign affairs. yes it's, it's somewhat of a crisis, but the crisis happened a long time ago when democrats stopped supporting and non interventionist military policy when, when democrats were all in favor of going into iraq and going into afghanistan and when they supported hillary clinton and obama, when we when the united states military got involved in libya and other places, they already lost the logical battle they are in the crisis happens. so this is just another symptom of bad policies within the democratic party. and the democratic party losing the good things that had ever had that it stood for almost

20 years. all of us involved me kind of thought has taken a heavy toll on millions of people who are not being kind to american taxpayers about to foot the bill. for one of the country's most expensive rules and history and take a look back at the extraordinary cost of the campaign. on my orders, do you know the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda, terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. we will win this conflict by the patient's accumulation of successes by meeting a series of challenges with determination and will and purpose the the me i

the real, the wealthiest country in the history of the world. and yet we have the highest trial poverty rate of almost any country on our mission and ghana stand was never supposed to been nation building while after the taliban takeover. the red cross said it will keep stopping us canister on and continue providing assistance tool. 5, in fact, recently the 8 organization reported that since during the foster had treated 14000 people wounded in pointing in the country on the 5th of august alone, so far as 8000. the red cross as direct us asia on the pacific says that in recent years, over half the casualties have been women and children on the recent fighting,

you know, in the country. and in the recent days we've been seeing a number of ensured must have been up or people injured in that that would fighting sounds like let's go in and create a huge you monitor in need. here are deeply you back. it was most from the fighting over the years here. the concern is really much on the women and children that are making more than half of the casualties such that we have. we have, you know, we're, you know, we're supportive because here from there you'll have to imagine where the long term stripling and bane once you have been to the us because you're going to be also referred to those think i rehabilitation printer where it would take years to just print a paper that could have been detected from,

from those wounds. we are very much committed to continue the work be in a hospital. but that's not on me that i can understand the reason for our safety. and this is not something that we are denying. however much of the remedy that we have had over the years. he's already known. and we've been working in pregnancy control control. i read to him, i'm very much going to be that we can continue working. we're going to, he's are very much the ones are trying to independence, any percentage. and it's very crucial, particularly at this moment. that's when his ition stand by. there was the russian foreign ministry also describes the current predicament as the natural result of the u. s. and nato troop withdrawal storing parallels with all the western lodge interventions over the past 2 decades. critics, a washington's length steel patients in the country, had been paying directly into the taliban hands locked easy was tunnel, explains. they've done it. finally,

from siri and libya in the middle east to venezuela and cuba and latin america, washington has a decades long history of failed attempts to bring anti government militia is to power. and at last they've crack the code in afghanistan with the taliban. apparently, all they had to do is instead of aiding them, they should have just fought against them all this time. thanks to our military and our allies and the brave fighters of afghanistan, taliban regime is coming to an end here is little doubt that our greatest military challenge right now is afghan. stan, we must reverse the tale, bonds, momentum, and deny the ability to overthrow the government. our troops will fight to win. we will fight to win. it all started so well. the us invaded the taliban, fled to the mountains. the us trained and trained and train the new konami spend

billions on supplying it with more noms. we spent over a trillion dollars we trained and equipped an afghan military force with some 300000 strong. we gave them every tool they could need. all of this in vain, only for the taliban to seize all the equipment as soon as i've got to stand fools which strengthen their already solid position in the country. the comprehension of the situation on the ground was also far from what you might expect from the country, deeming itself the military and intelligence superpower. the united states currently lacks a comprehensive strategy to gates reconstruction efforts in afghanistan. it also lacks overarching plants with clearly defined metrics to guide its work in a number of key areas such as anti corruption, connor narcotics, health, education, gender, rule of law and water. all this lead to the inevitable corruption,

the thriving within the security forces. there glaring ineffectiveness and as a result, lack of trust to the u. s. backed institution from locals, the african population perceives places, predatory bandits and calls them the most hated institution. in the country. around 30 percent of the recruited police have deserted whether issued weapons to set up their own private checkpoints and extort money from travelers. various sources before the telephone calls were a preferrable alternative, and that they were perceived as accessible, fast and less corrupt than the government established courts. so when the us says something like this, that force proved incapable of defending the country. and that did happen more rapidly than we anticipated. is it that big of a surprise? i mean, really well, but at least this time america is meddling actually lead a militant group. even one recognized as terrorists by many states to gain total control over

a country of galveston who failed. the united states failed and they failed to train the ocoee and military. but to be honest, this isn't even the 1st time where we've in something like this. remember how much the united states invested in in nation building in iraq and how the iraqi security forces word. at 1st sight of islam extended, it was very obvious to me. as soon as you know, you said that it would be withdrawing that this was essentially the same thing as hitting the keys to the towel them. but i truly do not believe that the american public understood this, and i'm not even sure that the fight in administration understood the seed. this is what happens when you try to impose a western concept of them, but democratization onto a culture that has absolutely no concept of it. i mean, they didn't,

they never had an army there before. and they, they were more involved in insurgencies and whatever. then we tried to build an army, this was totally alien to them. so none of this is surprising. and many of us very early on were saying this is a, a prescription for disaster. and this outcome is very dismayed. on the one hand, i feel very badly for the asking people because they have really taken the brunt of, of this miscalculation both by their own leadership and by the united states government. while to rap on this house coverage of the unraveling situation. afghanistan, we've been following closely and will continue to so the saudi international life from the.