the moon ah, the ah headlining right now on r. c. a double terra attack. cobble add pole during evacuation efforts. killed 72, and hinges 158 with at least 12 us military personnel among the dead of correspondent who's that said. there were several more bluffs which the taliban claims their american forces destroying their own ammunition and islamic state affiliates in afghanistan known as i said, k says it carried out the bombings that the taliban condensed the attack. the

taliban had early a warned that an attack on cobble apple was possible might be ended, harming the group's image. the problem is that a huge number of people have gathered near the airport and there was a threat that the single person, one person alone can carry out an attack and killed people in order to damage the taliban reputation. germany says it's ending evacuations from afghanistan because the situation is too dangerous, but other nations, including britain, france, and the us pledge to carry on earlier, and it televised address president biden, to avenge the american lives last. and we will not forgive we will not forget we will hunt you down to make you pay the i hello and welcome. it's just turned to in the morning on friday,

here in moscow just after 3 30 am in afghanistan, country where the capital is still reeling. from an atrocity committed during the already deadly chaos in that city. a correspondence saying cobbles reported several bluffs in the apple area, which the taliban claims were down to us forces destroying their own property to stop it falling into foreign hands. earlier, there were 2 bluffs outside the terminal where a chaotic evacuation effort was under way ahead of the u. s. pull out, which is just 5 days away. according to the afghan health ministry, at least 72 people were killed and a 158 injured. the pentagon has been saying that 12 american military personnel, or among the dead, with 15 injured it might be a 13 c. u. s. military member has also come to their injuries. we'll try and get that confirmed for you as soon as we can. the attacks come just hours after western governments had been warned of a security threat. and now the terrorist group known as ice is k,

an afghan affiliates of islamic state has claimed responsibility for the atrocity. the groups spinning conflicts with the taliban since it's inception in 2015. and it's believe to have been behind a number of high profile attacks in afghanistan in recent years. during a recent media conference, the taliban spokes person warned of a possible attack on cobble airport. it must be the problem is that a huge number of people have gathered near the airport and there is a threat that the single person, one person alone can carry out an attack and killed people in order to damage the taliban reputation. this is not a significant, not a big threat. we're monitoring the situation at the airport. how often you correspond to mariah garcia, who's in the capitol told us earlier that he was with a group of journalists when they heard a 3rd explosion. the taliban spokesperson has come out and said the people have been hearing explosions. please don't be disturbed. that is us troops carrying out

several controlled explosions, designating the storing their assets. things that they call the vacuum, but they can't risk falling into the hands of the taliban. that doesn't explain all the explosions that we've heard. they've come from different directions other than the direction of the airport, which is several kilometers away from us. we've also heard the ceaseless shooting. the rap has led up around the city recently. what hasn't let up is the aerial activity. nato. jets passing, zooming overhead, endlessly since the 2 bombings at the airport. but about the bombings, the taliban has come out and claimed responsibility for both the suicide bombing at the north gate of the airport of capital airport. where the majority of us debts reportedly happened. there was also an explosion at the hotel, the baron hotel,

which was recently until recently used by us and british forces and diplomats to vet and to approve people for evacuation. it hasn't been in recent days, but that is where a suicide story, a car bobbing, took place it. he's vague. who's just just across the road. from another checkpoint that was mine. but predominantly taliban sizes had between the taliban and prizes and the hotel where a whole lot of people which, which are everywhere around the hotel, around the, the field around the perimeter of the fuel that is kilometers and kilometers of fed to checkpoints that surrounded by civilians people who are desperate people who are waving pieces of paper trying to get in screaming, pushing, shoving, with no space to move you to that have been reports of people being trampled without the bombings to panics. i'm tied to to worry them. and the,

the problem is that the threat of more bombings is persistent because the crowds haven't disbursed, they move during the explosions. but they still, they're trying to trying to get into the airport trying to find their way into those final cargo blades. even planes before the evacuation finishes and the taliban has come out and said that this area can't be made secure until those crowds disbursed until the americans leave. and we assume control. and that is something that the united states is also worried about their urging people to, to leave, to go away, despised at the beginning of the evacuation, urging them to, to come to the airport test to stick around to get on those back planes, promising them to be transferred to europe or to america, to safety away from the taliban. because many of the people that there is a real threat to them if they remain in galveston,

they believe others of that opportunity. more people who want to use the opportunity to get out of the country united states has promised that they will find those responsible and that they will take action since the isis isis k is i just off, shoot, gotta start the claim, responsibility for these attacks. the taliban says that it can only conducted and investigation, find those responsible once the american sleep, but things remain very tense. here, there is anticipation, there is worry that the attack may happen again. and that is something that is said by both the taliban and the united states and its allies. a little earlier we spoke to ali hasanti who was in cobble airport when the 1st explosions occurred to dave in to the airport of cobbler. i was, is standing on the is get, i will need to get used to sort of like 5 minutes away. i just saw

there was like 45 minutes and they had to run. they was looking look danish people renewed the duration parliament, the difference of them, the type of type of good they're willing do we're looking, we're suspicious. they didn't have what they was looking for. the airport. they were looking to be used to a 100 mentors. when they get back to them to my line, i will get back to the learners with the people like after one or 2 minutes, an explosion happened when it came. it was near. it was near the lake 1st, then away an accident happened. didn't go on 1st of the year, the gun for them, the 7th, a big guy was and it can it, when they get to the line, they used to say it. i think those guys that there was behind the use of looking them guns. i mean your camera after the used through they call the people that stay

away, stay away with the people that didn't move. they told me that they are joking because they did these things many times. they was always getting serious. and then the us started trooping gas gas and smoke. when the people the day, you know, the, to like 6 to 7 gas people, the people who really need to get injured. i saw there was like 5 to 6 of them in danger. defense was born in. do you think there was lying on the grounds? let's just give you some more clarity on this group that says it was behind those attacks. i says k, it's a splintered you had this group. it's based in the eastern africa province is called a sam. according to un reports, it's got up to 2000 fighters and it's done things like this before i k carried out about a 100 attacks on civilians in afghanistan and pakistan between 20172018 has been

largely held back since then. but it has also targeted the taliban in the past. out max blumenthal, his editor, greystone, says isis k is a direct product of the us invasion and could be a useful enemy for some. well, we did hear about this group, for example, and i believe, april 2017 when trump and essentially authorized the pentagon to drop the mother of all bombs in eastern afghanistan, i believe in the non ga har province on isis k. but the roots of this group in its existence is poorly understood. and of course, when we hear these press briefings at the pentagon, there's very little context. this group actually is a direct byproduct of the us invasion and occupation of afghanistan. it grew out of the pockets donnie taliban, who were a disgruntled tolerable members who wanted to carry out attacks on us targets inside pakistan and afghanistan. one of their most spectacular attacks was on camped camp chapman, u. s. military base where they used

a c. i turn coat to attack us soldiers. there are several other attacks on american assets. and this all lead to a rise of terrorism inside pakistan directly related to the u. s. presence in afghanistan, 6 years ago, the pakistani taliban, which was widely suspected of being used by the african government, backed by the u. s. against pakistan turned into isis k. and today it is led by very interesting individuals show, show how much i will hide year shabamo hygiene, who is actually not african. he is an arab, and he signals the return of the kind of foreign jihad to afghanistan and a direct link to the anti soviet jihad of the 1980s. and now we see afghan. it's then becoming increasingly a base for foreign jihadists directly as

a result of the u. s. d stabilization of the country. well, let's get some all states reaction life to tampa, florida, and conservative activists. greg assal that can welcome to all t given that's the u. s. lam baston for being an afghanistan and criticized now for getting out too quickly. now, these atrocities have happened. president biden's saying we will hunt you down. we will find you with whatever method he sees fit. so it's difficult to judge at this point, isn't it? what's america doing next? in afghanistan? i mean, right, right now we just the last, really 14 days have really been as little chaos. the evacuation plan was a total disaster. you're never supposed to pull out the military 1st when you got american contractors and also in american or people with afghanistan. american visa was still there is supposed to take evacuate those people in the military time. last. well, we did the wrong way. we tried to back rating military 1st and then the taliban saw

that as great attack that come up. and now we're in this horrific situation. this morning we have a total as now 14 u. s. military killed in action. 20 wounded the worst attack on us military in afghanistan. and over a decade, the pentagon really hasn't shown much strength over the last 12 hours in here. back in america. we really don't know what the next step is. we really don't know what's going to happen. an hour from now a days from now, week from now. and quite frankly, a lot of people are very, i'm sure if the total of the entire situation that's going on at the ground over there are on the ground in bold. i mean, isis is, as we saw, very unpredictable. there were several explosions today, suicide bombs, car bombs, all that kind of stuff. you know, they're unpredictable suicide bomb to just walk right up to the gate and both

themselves. all. this is something that is definitely on a flight time constraints and we need to act fast or something like this, whatever or something like what happened today could happen tomorrow, greg, and i know it's kind of easiest for us to be sort of arm chair strategists on this, it must be extremely chaotic for those remaining forces at cobble. apple try to keep a handle on this, but if these bombers got through what's left of the american security and they also got through one of the taliban securities that doesn't bode well for the remaining of occupation, does it? if the cobble airport is the only way out, i mean, exactly. you said that as accurate as you can. i mean, i looked at a map, the whole airport is so right. there's surrounded 3 interest, 60 degrees. so if one gate is breached, or one gate is overthrown, and the taliban however, is able to make the way in then that you know the chaos. it's probably basically by

till the end because and also the taliban. and it's very easy for them to blend in with just regular civilians are very easy to conceal. weapons, explosives, things like that. and you've got to, you've got hundreds and hundreds of citizens going up to the gates. are still there every single, every, every hour, the day trying to break 3 tried to evacuate. and isis is just looking at that situation drooling because they can. they know it's a situation where they could just walk right through the crowd and detonate a suicide. that's just cause even more terror then there was today. so basically yeah, we lose. we don't need to lose an air. we don't need to lose your field. if we lose one of the gates or one of the checkpoints and that gets overrun, then chaos is going to enact. because there's a limited amount of taliban. it's unlimited by the ice in that area. but we have

limited amount of our personnel military, that's the, i mean, the odds are not the numbers aren't in our favor and that's probably where i sustained the taliban is going to try to capitalize and exploit that weakness. now that this has been the united states deadliest day in afghanistan for over a decade, this is obviously gonna be far from over sadly. okay, thanks for talking to us. 70 of activists. greg apple. becky in tampa, florida. good to talk to you. thank you. for developments on this, on the way here in germany is wrapping up it's evacuation efforts. the britain and france are pledging to carry on. we're gonna get reaction from european and british officials will have what they've been saying right after this the when i was shot, the wrong. why don't just don't the room. yes to fill

out this thing because the after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves, well, the part we choose to look for common ground in the me i will the

the hello, the more on the terror atrocities have side cobble airport in afghanistan, where we now know that 13 u. s. military personnel have now died from that terror attack is the 1st u. s. military death in over a year's february 2020. when the last death occurred, and it's the deadliest in more than a decade for days that the warnings 7 am and tara sac outside. cobble air force, multiple european leaders and readjusting their plans in the wake of those blas comes as the august 31st deadline. fost approach is just 5 days away after which no western forces a to remain in cobbled earlier correspondence. peter oliver, and he's allie brought us up to speed on the latest european reaction. well, not just in year from the us as well. i'm 20. 0, good. seattle has just recently has said that he will be convening

a meeting of the un security council on monday. specifically to talk about the ongoing situation in afghanistan here in year. if we've heard from sha michelle, the council president who condemned the attack and said that he hoped this wasn't going to see a resurgence in terrorism emanating from of gun a stun, nato secretary general, you insult him, but also adding his voice to the condemnation of this attack, he said evacuations would continue, that, that remained the priority, getting people out through cobble apple, where they possibly could when it comes to germany, they had to now it's through and i kind of cut him out of the german defense minister that the german evacuation mission had been completed, that's the evacuation of all german soldiers diplomats and the remaining german police officers. there were on the ground in afghanistan. they have been sent one transport plane back to cobble apple. this is

a special called go transport plane for, for taking people who require immediate medical assistance, taking people from the ground, their who are being caught up in this horrific terrorist attack and flying them off to what we understand to german bases in beckett's dawn where they can receive medical treatment there. we've also heard from high co must the german foreign minister who confirmed that there were no german personnel. no german citizens involved in the, the terrorist attack, you know, no, no germans were among be killed or wounded on the grounds. and when it comes to the evacuation process, they said it had being completed, angular medical, the german chancellor, describing this attack as despicable said be the window of being able to get people out of the country. well closed pretty much. and i'm going to come cut about the defense minister blaming that window, closing on the taliban, taken into consideration, this evening's events. we see that the risk is kolosso. this is

a high pressure situation in which to evacuate people from the country and operate an al lift. we know that the time window is narrowing the anomaly the, the attack that we saw today, and of which had been warned in recent days. and also this morning had made it clear that the pro ration of the operations in kabul is not possible. the security situation on the grounds, and the telephone's refusal to allow an extension pass the 31st of august, have made this impossible. well, here in rome, the defense ministry confirm no italians had been caught up amongst the killed other wounded from the terrorist attack on friday. what we have seen though is a number of those countries announcing the end of that to ation programs. norway said it was impossible for them to take anymore. people out, they've been joined by belgium, poland, and canada, all saying there was no more left to be involving their personnel from the ground fronts. we heard from a manual cross, the french president speaking in dublin,

during meeting with the irish leadership. what he said was that there was 20 boxes of french nationals on the guns that france was wanting to evacuate from the country. 20 pulses waiting near or right at cobble airport that they intended to try and get them out. but it didn't look good for them doing that so far. he said that the embassy was being evacuated in the, the french ambassador to afghanistan would continue his work from rome to london. isa over to you, any reaction from downing street because it wasn't so long ago that london was saying he would like to actually see the deadline extended? absolutely. we've been seeing, in fact, over the last few days, the warnings coming from you k officials that there would potentially be some type of attack, specifically targeting the actuation as warning their own systems, of course, about the potential threat of this attack. and it's now played out as johnson,

the prime minister, however, saying that the u. k. will be abandoning day will they, she has that responsibility to continue to get people out of the country and say those efforts will still continue. we're going to continue without operation and we're now coming to towards the, the end of it to the very end of it. in any event. what this attack shows is the importance of continuing that work is faster than sufficient amount of as possible in the hours to remain to us. and that's what we're going to do. the case manager of defense have been saying today that they are working closely with their sources and their own assets that are in trouble to try to establish exactly what happened as we've been hearing this evening. it appears that the attack is being attributed to the so called state in some group who of course,

in the past attacked the kind of i had johnson interesting lease himself. he wouldn't be drawn and exactly who is responsible, but took the time to explain and point out as well. that how about members as well have been killed in this attack? likely bar is something that realizing that of course, we talked about how been assisting those evacuation attempts, but also not wanting to call on them because of course, those lines of communication, those lines of negotiation are going to be key in the coming days, not just again for that continuing, evacuated and effort, but of course going forward about the type of government we might see in a crowd is done what role the canada case in that and what influence the u. k. would like to keep going forward. so. 2 bar johnson, as it was still continuing to decidedly have that evacuation attempt continue. but also, of course, not costing any blame as many should say there's still establishing

a full facts. okay, that's the reaction in europe. let's head back across the atlantic now and talk to r t americas john. how the i that john. let's talk about president biden's televised news conference from just a couple of hours ago. previous they've been saying that the african mission was successful. this televised statement and questions at times he got very emotional, of course, bearing in mind, this is now the deadliest day for the american military in afghanistan in over a decade. so what did he have to say? well, did reported ask him about well, he was emotional, he also looked pretty tired, understandably so. he's been in the situation room pretty much all day with us, you know, military commanders and security officials. he said, really the, the main message here, 10 facade calling, he said, the evacuation will continue and that the united states will get out any and all american citizens and african nationals with permanent us residency. what's known as a green card, who want to leave. he said some people may not want to leave,

but those who want to leave the u. s. will make every effort to get them out. he said it is an airline airlift mission, unlike any other in history and was expected to be dangerous and stressful that was planned for also attacks. there had been warnings about attacks. he called those u. s. service members. now, i believe the number is gone up to 13 who are killed, quote unquote, heroes saying they are the backbone of america who are engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others. and that the mission will and must continue. now, more than ever, and he had this message for those responsible to those who carried out this attack as well as anyone wishes america harm. no, this we will not forgive. we will not forget we will hunt you down to make you pay.

now earlier today, general kenneth mackenzie, the head of central command, are cent. com said isis carried out the attack. specifically, i just k or isis correson and will likely continue to try and launch more attacks, adding that others have already been forwarded by security forces and cobble the general went on to say that today's attack involved to suicide bombers detonating explosives outside the abbe date of the airport in nearby hotel, the baron hotel, followed by isis gunman, opening fire on civilians, men, women, and children, along with us troops and military personnel. there are warnings about today's attack, and it's certainly raises more serious questions about americans evacuation efforts . why it has become so incredibly catastrophic and also pass comments from president biden himself, about america's effort in afghanistan and the war ontario, as in this mission to degrade the chairs, tread about kind in afghanistan and kilo some been lied and was a success. i believed that our presence in that gas dance should be focused on the

reason we went in the 1st place to ensure afghanistan would not be used as a base from which to attack our homeland again. we did that we accomplish that objective. but today, president binding seemed really backtrack, even raising questions about whether the u. s. again, should have been in afghanistan in the 1st place to begin with, and certainly as long as the u. s. was there nearly 20 years as far as the ongoing effort? general mackenzie said isis remains a quote, extremely real threat and will try to carry out further attacks, something present and bite. and also agreed with today saying this was a mission designed for stress. and that was expected to come under attack and certainly that happened, as we know, he said at this point it does not appear. the taliban played a part in the attacks and that it's within the taliban interest for america to leave the country as well. he added that again while america will pressed ahead, with withdrawing and evacuating any and all us citizens and ask in nationals by

august 31st. the august 31st deadline. he could not guarantee total security wasn't here. it sounds ridiculous, but the vast majority of people in communities like that want to come to america, given a choice. so getting every single person out is can't be guaranteed anybody because the termination or who wants to get out as well . and there has been entail sharing, and this was confirmed by general mckenzie, between us armed forces and also the taliban. so that said clearly, today's events though, emphasize the messiness of americans nearly 20 or involvement in afghanistan. now coming to heretic, violent and crashing and calling you, i really doesn't bed well for the next 5 days either when that deadline hits home, of course. ok, john, how the in miami? thanks very much for updating us on jo biden's news conference earlier. ok,

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