we begin today's show with haroun rahimi.sistant professor of law at the american university of afghanistan. he was enroute back to kabul when the taliban seized power. he joins us now from istanbul, turkey. professor, welcome to democracy now! it is great to have you with us. >> thank you. amy: can you respond to all that has taken place, the extremely fast seizing of the provincial capitals and then taking kabul without hardly a bullet? can you talk about the significance of the taliban victory, who they are, and what you expect? >> obviously, there's a lot to impact. the general of taliban to cover afghanistan, it is important have context here. the taliban have been growing in strength andhe government was losing ground for a very long time. undeying those, a series of problems sustaining the insurgency and weakening the government. also a military component, logistical and military issues and bad leadership that affected -- contributed. and toward the end, exacerbated even further and resulted in the quick collapse of af

amy: haroun rahimi, assistant professor of law at the american university of afghanistan.was en route back to kabul when he heard the news of the taliban takeover and at this point has stayed in istanbul, turkey. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as thousands of afghans attempt to flee afghanistan before the u.s. withdrawal on august 31, we turn now to look at how th trump admistration me it harder for afghans who worked with the united states to apply and receive what is known as a siv, a special immigrant visa. one former top aide to mike pence has placed the blame on trump's xenophobic advisor stephen miller. olivia troye recently tweeted -- "there were cabinet meetings about this during the trump administration where stephen miller would peddle his racist hysteria about iraq and afghanistan. he and his enablers across government would undermine anyone who worked on solving the siv issue by devastating the system at dhs and state." in recent weeks, stephen miller has repeatedly appeared on fox news to criticize efforts

thank you so much to all of our guests, haroun rahimi, marvin weinbaum, and klisman murati.hank you, too, for watching. you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website, aljazeera.com, and for further discussion go to our facebook page -- that's facebook.com/ajinsidestory. you can also join the conversation on twitter. our handle is @ajinsidestory. from me, mohammed jamjoom, and the whole team here, bye for now. ♪ x■ç■ç?Ñç [captions made possiblet television] ♪ ♪ >> i

haroun rahimi, thank you very much. parliament is to be recalled, what can you tell us?what can you tell us?— can you tell us? in the last few minutes we — can you tell us? in the last few minutes we have _ can you tell us? in the last few minutes we have been - can you tell us? in the last few minutes we have been told - can you tell us? in the last few minutes we have been told by| can you tell us? in the last few| minutes we have been told by a downing street source that mps will be recalled this week to discuss the situation. we don't know exactly the timing, how long they will be sitting for. a number of mps have called for this in recent days. as the situation has escalated. we have also been told there have been discussions over the past few days with opposition leaders and the speaker about this happening. it's possible that mps could return to westminster as early as tuesday to discuss the deepening crisis. {iii discuss the deepening crisis. of course, there are evacuation plans taking place at the moment, so they have multiple things happening that they need to