with the gains of these territories and provincial cities really leaving only bizarre sharif ms. ari sharif is the only the city holding out against the taliban in the north. another city can do which is very important in the north bell to the taliban at the weekend. and now we know that the airport, which had been holding out to conduce that is also full. and their reports are very heavy fighting around conduce. and that is significant because given its importance, the government has promised a will. we take this city and we have been expecting a counter attack. so that's a real test because if it fails that test, if it doesn't, we take that safety. that's going to be very telling on which direction this whole conflict is moving. so you have all of these gains in the north. and then of course, that's the continuing violence in the south in helmand and kandahar the strongholds of the taliban in the city of laska guy which is heavily contested. there has been a massive car bomb. this was a humvee packed with explosives that was trying to get to the main police headquarters. it was intercepte

and he has been in miss ari sharif also promising to launch a counter attack at selling saying that the taliban, it is easy to get into the north of the country, but very difficult to leave. these are all very fine words, but we're waiting to see just when they are going to be backed up by actually when there is going to be some real sort of counter offensive. but increasingly, as these provincial capital continue to fall, you do get a sense of the clock continuing to tick for the african government. thank you so much from a bride reporting from campbell. so while that is taking place on the ground and i've gone assigned over in katara, it's day 3 of international talks that are aimed at ending the fighting in afghanistan. and mamma jump room is coming to talks. how much just talk us through the day and what do we expect to see? well, there, you know, you mentioned day 3 of these talks here and don't have officially kicked off just this hour. the meetings have started, they're taking place in that conference hall. you see the hallway just behind my left shoulder short while ago we saw t

mass ary sharif in the north and even kabul, but even kabul is starting to become more and more isolateds another neighboring province which looks like it could fall at some point today. and at the same time, andrea, you have a situation where thousands of people continue to flee all of these provinces, the more areas that are taken over and the more they continue to make their way, these very dangerous journeys to the capital city and we spoke to a number of people today who worked as support staff, interpreters, cooks, construction workers for the nato project and they are terrified. we spoke to one man who came up here from kandahar just arriving in the capital today and he said that the taliban is going door to door in that city looking for people who have connections to the u.s. war effort either nato or u.s. military or even aid programs. so it's a really dangerous situation for a lot of people who work for americans and for nato and there are tens of thousands of them. >> on top of that, you have families who have fled these regions and in a lot of cases their houses have been des

yesterday, they captured mazz ari -- mar -- mazz ar i sharif. we are about to hear from the secretary of state of the united states who is going to formalize some of what we are hearing. andat that is that they are evacuating kabul, that they have asked the taliban not to enter the city until such time that the americans are out. and that is expected within a 72-hour deadline from several hours ago. what we don't know, though, is this conversation about the interiorth minister in afghanisn saying that power will be handed to a third party. they are basically saying, we are giving up, we are out of this place, give us safe passage out and somehow we will have a bloodless transfer of authority. this has largely been a bloodless takeover. i am showing you helicopters. these are providing security, overflying the area. what dong we understand this to be. do you know anythinganis about this third party might be? >> htno, we don't know what thi third party is. it seems unusual there would be a third party involved if the taliban is essentially taking