a because of the hold on a cover letter for richard brennan is the regional emergency director for the leasing office of the world health organization. he says the international community focus on cobbler port is obscuring the monetary in crisis. and that's gonna stand even before the fall of the government, afghanistan was the 3rd largest humanitarian operation in the world with the 18400000 people in native, she had turn assistance. and right now, our ability to bring 8 in to respond to that need. has been a lot because all commercial aircraft have been stopped coming in into the airport. as you rightly said, we have 500 metric tons of medicines and supplies, you know, logistics hub and you buy that. would you to come in last week? even prior to current events and we've been trying for days and days now to to, to transport them in i think it's a combination of issues. i don't think that those who are running the air operation want to have commercial flights coming in and i'm unloading supplies and trucks coming into the airport with the heritage security concerns. but if we, if we ca

richard brennan is the regional emergency director at the world health organization. he says, agencies is stepping out their efforts to protect the most vulnerable in afghanistan. we've been saying that the eyes of the world have been been focused on the evacuation operation out of couple airport. but what's lost in all of this is even prior to the recent events, afghanistan with the world's 3rd largest humanitarian operation, and now we're seeing those needs escalate. and once the evacuation is completed, we're going to be left with an enormous humanitarian need an enormous humanitarian task. and i think all humanitarian agencies where we've struggled to get aid in over the last couple of weeks, i think from the world health organizations perspective, we have some good news. we're getting some support from the pakistan government right now. but the hard work is, is really just beginning for the humanitarian agencies. were very conscious of the vulnerable groups in afghanistan, particularly women and girls and children and their rights. and we will be doing all that w

and being barbara, we can speak now to richard brennan, he's the regional emergency director for middle east and for the middle east and office of the world health organization joins us on skype from cairo. good to have you with us. so what will it mean for the many people in the canister who rely on aid? if this age remain stuck in the u. s. e? well, i think the international communities focus on the air operation out of couple airport is really obscuring a huge issue across afghanistan. and that is, even before the fall of the government, afghanistan was the largest humanitarian operation in the world with the 18 point. 4000000 people in native that turn a systems. and right now, our ability to bring in to respond to that need has been a lot because all commercial aircraft have been stopped coming in into the airport. as you rightly said, we have 500 metric tons, medicines and supplies, you know, logistics hoping to buy that. would you to come in last week, even prior to current events and we've been trying for days and days now to to, to transport them in. but that's not being post.

we are running out of supplies, scrambling to see how we can get the next shipment in said richard brennanas tragic as the images are he said the bigger humanitarian picture has been lost in all of this. pictures you can see in the papers as it is being reported from the various news sources, including the new york times adding its own picture. we will take the next call from m stephen in new mexico, democrat line. good morning. caller: how are you doing? host: fine thank you. go ahead. caller: we have people dying of covid. why are we even talking about afghanistan? host: why do you think it is not a worthwhile topic? caller: this is old news. it is 20 years old. host: right, but the evacuation is much more recent. caller: it is going fine. what do you want from the man? host: when you say it is going fine, what makes you say that? caller: he is doing the best he can with what he is got to work with. host: ok. mark in westwood, new jersey, independent line. go ahead. caller: thank you. this catastrophe -- thank you. this catastrophe is due solely to biden's terrible decision and by the wa

we are running out of supplies, scrambling to see how we can get the next shipment in said richard brennan. as tragic as the images are he said the bigger humanitarian picture has been lost in all of this. pictures you can see in the papers as it is being reported from the various news sources, including the new york times adding its own picture. we will take the next call from stephen in new mexico, democrat line. good morning. caller: how are you doing? host: fine thank you. go ahead. caller: we have people dying of covid. why are we even talking about afghanistan? host: why do you think it is not a worthwhile topic? caller: this is old news. it is 20 years old. host: right, but the evacuation is much more recent. caller: it is going fine. what do you want from the man? host: when you say it is going fine, what makes you say that? caller: he is doing the best he can with what he is got to work with. host: ok. mark in westwood, new jersey, independent line. go ahead. caller: thank you. this catastrophe -- thank you. this catastrophe is due solely to biden's terrible decision and by the wa

brennan, also stand by for me, please, sir. i want to bring in our chief foreign correspondent. richard, i'm certain you're aware of what has happened outside of the airport in kabul, and again at this point, according to the taliban, some 13 dead including children. scores of others hurt, the pentagon confiring that among those hurt are the military personnel from the united states of america. what is your reaction to what we're seeing play throughout in afghanistan? you were just there, if i'm not mistaken, roughly 36 hours ago? >> less than that. i was at the airport this morning in kabul. and i know a little bit more about the attack that took place, so it took place near the abbey gate. it is also very near the baron ho tell. it is really a military base and has been for some time. the military base, the airport, is surrounded by blast walls. the baron hotel is tucked up right against those blast walls. it was flut in order to house visiting personnel, contractors with b it was built very securely. it almost looks like a military base, itself. i and other journalists have stayed th

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director brennan, we were speaking to you before we heard from richard engel, and director, you opened the door on the intelligence failure this represents, it being your stock in trade, your life's work. given your love for the men and women involved in the trade, talk about that a little bit. talk about how it could have happened. and if i can add a part two of the question, what's the role going forward for the clandestine services broadly without specifics? >> well, i don't know what the intelligence assessment was as far as how rapidly the afghan forces were going to collapse. but i do know that the assessment has been for quite a while that the afghan military and security capabilities was very dependent on that u.s. support system. and so i think the events over the last several days caught a lot of folks by surprise within the government. i think they were hoping that there was going to be more of a battle by the afghan military against the taliban. but again, i think it was the psychological impact of the announcement that we were going to be getting out fully, a wholesale wit