let's go live now to rob mcbride. he joins us from cobble. so let's start, 1st of all, rob, what do we know about reports of mediation effort underway between the tale? bon and the jamaica meals. so known as northern alliance. yeah, this is an interesting development. this all centers around it seems one character, malcolm. now he is a former major head, the commander, a fairly well known figure here in afghanistan, going back a number of decades he fought against the soviets. and then in recent times, given the upsurge and violence, he also led one of the so called uprising forces in the western city of had again against that again against the current violence et cetera. and he has been use been now sort of identified as a possible messenger to bring the message from the taliban. 2 political leaders here in cobble that it's time to seemingly talk peace. his message is directed the people who would normally the adversaries of the taliban people are linked to the northern alliance and so on. and it does come with an interesting time because of

all right, let's go live to report a, rob mcbride in cowboy. hello there again, rob. now that graphic just shows how much ground the taliban has made. what are you hearing on the ground? it's incredible. talk. so no talks, the conflict is wide spread across afghanistan continues, and it continues to escalate around. half of all of the provinces here in afghanistan, reporting some sort of ongoing conflict. some of the faces fighting has been taking place in the relatively small city of fara and the west of the country. now the taliban has been uploading videos on the 5th street battles in that city. it claims to have overtaken the governors compounds and also a security compound there. and there's also claim now to have taken the city. well that is now being confirmed to us by sources that say the taliban are in control. but this is yet again, a nother provincial capital that has been overwhelmed by this continuing conflict and violence fighting has continued elsewhere in the country in the south and the taliban stronghold of kandahar. the afghan defense ministry is cl

it will in deeds, rob mcbride that previous the very latest from cobble. thank you for now rob. we will of course, check in with rob and the team later on later on throughout the evening. for now we're going to head across to heidi joe castro. she joins us live from washington, d. c. hygiene years watching this earlier in the day will live gasping for breath, the sights of helicopters, the air lifting us embassy star 1st. certainly when that was specifically probably wouldn't happen by the us president. i'm are those stuff. are they safe? what is the state of the us embassy, right? know, in afghanistan, all in fact the u. s. embassy in cobbler has just issued a security alert saying that the security situation is in couple is changing quickly, including at the airport. their reports of the airport taking fire, it reads, therefore, the embassy is instructing us citizens to shelter in place. now this security alert does not confirm that the, the reports of fire on the report on the airport in fact happened. but they are cautioning us citizens to take this measure. and yes, through

we seem to have lost our connection with rob mcbride. rob was updating us on the taliban gains now that they have taken guys in the city, which is just 3 hours south of capital. let's go to how much i'm doing. he's joining us from del, how, because of how much right here in delphi, they, 3 of international diplomatic talks to try and find a way to end the fighting. and i've got a son. what can you tell us about how those are going? that's right. that's right. there in a flurry of diplomatic activity on day 3 of the app can talk here in doha, just last hour we saw the u. s. special envoys. i'll make wheels out as well as other special envoy doctrine with what was funny walk in to the conference area, which is just fine. my left shoulder that hall back there. here at this main menu for these international talks. the meetings have started. there are various diplomats and delegations who are here, the delegation we have not yet seen here today are the delegations for the african government and the delegation for the tall by now i spoke with

rob mcbride is in cobble this monday afternoon. still, chaotic seems there all of is of course began to unfold yesterday afternoon, sunday with the news that the taliban was indeed getting into the city the government to collapse. and that really did cause a surge of people to moving towards the airport. it seems as though the apple security, other airline and apple staff simply melted away and it really was a free for all people surging in that that has been a some control somewhat restored if you can call it that, it as much as the taliban have set up a perimeter to try to stop more people getting inside the terminal. and of course the u. s. military on that side of the port as they continue their operations, they have set up their own military perimeter. but between the 2, we understand that's in the terminal. it also all across the field and across the the adjoining parts to be filled are literally thousands of people running around as we've seen. try to clean gone to act croft and so on. so really desperate scenes that the ton

rob mcbride is in cobble with the lay.

let's head straight to carbo, where we can join rob mcbride's role. just give us a sense of where we are. they are, when it comes to security are right in the airport and those last ditch evacuations . i think the put you do get a real feeling that we are now finally into the end game of what has been a very long golf and chaotic and traumatic process evacuating. all of these people. one of the sure, a signs of that has been this process that began friday evening here of the us military contingent that gradually shrinking it's defensive perimeter. at the airport, we had seen them give up god post in agreement with the taliban, and then taliban gods effect to be taking over those posts on some of the outer perimeter walls and also on the inside of the airport. we've also seen in the, on the north gate of the airport that was the gate that has been protected by allies of the u. s. this is a former special forces afghan unit which is guaranteed seats on some of the last flights leaving the airport. they to giving up the protection of the north gate to ta

let's head over now to rob mcbride. he joins us live from cobble. of course we have those latest rocket, a tanks towards cobble airport. what does the situation on the ground looked like? well, the aftermath of those attacks look like, i think it is quite troubling for the americans. probably more insight, logical terms, is that now into this game of the backyard ation exercise. that because that seems to be little indication of actual harm or damage. but the us had warned specifically about a rocket attack as one of the continuing threats from this islamic state affiliates . it seems to be prepared for that. it, it deploy. does we just have confirmation that with more details on the pentagon, this anti rocket system that it has? it said it was successful. intercepting several of the rockets that they came in saying that just one of those rockets fell harmlessly. it says in an open piece of land the, the islamic state group has claimed responsibility. they say a total of 6 could choose cuz the rockets were fired at presumably from a vehicle which wo

rob mcbride is correspondence. joining us this out of cobble details still sketch. she clearly rolled. what else do we know the yeah, this took place early monday hearing. cobble that the at the airport on the northern gate. this is the gate that is often used by many civilians. you've secured places all the evacuation flights that they've got special baez's or they've had some link to military forces here. and i've got to stand on the west agencies. we understand there was this confrontation developed into a firefight. it involved. we have told us soldiers and also the allies in the german for the german soldiers. and it's unclear who exactly the afghans whether they were african taliban africa and security guards at the airport. what we are told is that one of these on demand was killed, several others were injured. we're hoping to get more details, more clarity later on, but it does show you the volatility that exist at the airport. i mean, it's quite a dangerous mix. you have all of these different forces all heavily armed with different areas of responsibility

the 1st live to rob mcbride's in cobble. so rob, what is the latest we're hearing on those rocket attacks? yeah, i mean, these rockets were launched early monday morning and it has to be said it must be. it's a troubling attack psychologically for the us in that final stages of this evacuation . although it seems that the actual damage was done, that islamic state affiliate here, and i've kind of stand, has claimed responsibility. they say total of 6 could choose to get style. rockets were fired at school from the back of a car, a vehicle. we have seen video uploaded of a vehicle on fire. that presumably was the vehicle from which these rockets were lodged. now the us had been warning about some sort of attack in particular a rocket attack that mentioned that specifically. then they have an anti rockets defense system in operation at the airport. they use that and it seems to have been effective according to the us. although it does seem as though one rocket managed to get through. but as of this, our, the evacuation operatio

rob mcbride live for us in cobbled southern use now. and wildfires continuing to ravaged large parts of the greek island of $500.00 is and now into the 8th day of baffling the flames. it's the most severe of hundreds of fives which have scorched slaves of the country in recent weeks. the prime minister is describing the situation as a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions, saying and as robbie joins us live now up from every thank you so much. tell us a little bit about the conditions where you are. well, we're here in the town of epic, so it's a deep sauce, excuse me. and it's on the northern tip of your island. and we drove the length of the island from the central part of the island all the way up north criss crossing through different areas, different towns and villages to arrive here. we saw far fighting crews along the way that were putting out fires. we saw the fires that were uncontrolled, and those small fires that we saw along the way overnight, they got bigger, and they spread and they burned all through the night. no

we have rob mcbride 1st says take you to alan fisher. he's at the white house who addressed that pentagon briefing, which took place a few hours ago. so these are the final as alan of the us evacuation, i made more rocket 5. what are us officials saying about this? well, joe biden is being briefed on a constant basis by his national security team here at the white house. he's being kept up to date with the final hours of us involvement in afghanistan. there was that rocket attack. as you say, 3 of the rockets did not land in the airport perimeter one did and cause no damage . the other was intercepted by the us military's rocket detecting system and managed to knock out of the sky. clearly, everyone here in the united states, particularly the white house and the pentagon, were really just like to wake up and went in the morning and find out that this operation is over. that managed to get out as many people as they could. and that there has been no part or loss of life because undoubtedly the loss of 13 marines on friday was on thursday

rob mcbride is in cobble with more on the latest on taliban advances. the latest. 2 provincial capitals are relatively small. poly comrey and.

all security forces are reported to have left the city, rob mcbride to join us live on the phone now from cobbles. so rob, if these reports ought to be believed, this is a huge set back for the government and its efforts to defend cobble yeah, this was a huge shock. this is developing this saturday evening. courts came through quite recently, maybe up to an hour or so ago that defense is crumbling with our issue refit. the last may just stronghold of the government in the north that taliban has been making, as we know vast games the territory and provincial capitals all across the north which was traditionally a defined stronghold. a style was against the expansion of the taliban. the resistance is crumbled really very quickly. amazon week would be almost like a full truck define that the taliban is heavily defended that been ongoing fighting for a number of days. in fact, it was just 2 days ago the president johnny visited was to refund and then attempt to try to boast the confidence that to try to steal the, the defendant to try this different the result to defend this city. when so

let's get more from rob mcbride now, who joins us live on the phone from a cobble. so rob, worrying and other worrying development, this for the afghan government forces giving this particular city is, is quite close to cobble. that's right. this is a blow from the afghan government. it is, as you say, it is a province now to fall in a short number of days. there has been fighting in this province for the past couple of days and the security post has been public company have come under pressure. and it was claimed earlier by the taliban that that's for the security forces out that is now being confirm to us. but in fact it has become the lakers provincial capital to fall to the taliban. it is one of the less important provincial capitals that have been a number smaller cities that have full and it is still in the northern way that the country side, but has seen a lot of the fighting. but nonetheless, it does bring that fighting close to the camp or not must be the concern for the government. we have seen so much fighting a really across the whole, the whole of afghan

rob mcbride has more from cobble. the map of who controls what in afghanistan is constantly changing and from the government point of view is changing for the worse. if you look especially at the north of the country at the game of the taliban has been making in recent days, it's really only mazata sharif, a very important stronghold for the government. that remains in government hands still well defended. all of the fighting is outside of the city and you would have said until recently there would be absolutely no chance of it being overwhelmed. but we do know that many people living in missouri sharif have been thronging the airport, trying to get on several flights without being staged every day to bring people out wanting to leave the city fill in the north. we understand they're still fighting around, couldn't do that's a very important safety that was lost by the government. so you have all of this fighting still going on. and then some of the provincial capital is that have been taken by the taliban, although t

many, thanks for that, rob mcbride there for us in campbell. well, as we were hearing that from rob, we did indeed hear from us sexual estate, antony blinking in the last hour or so. he says he is working with the new afghan government that will serve the country's national interest. we need with a ton of under the past few weeks to enable our evacuation operations going forward . any engagement with the taliban government and the ball will be driven by one thing only or vital national interest. if we can work with new asking government in a way that help secure those interests, including the safe return, my fears the u. s. citizen has been held hostage in the region since early last year. and in a way that brings greater stability to the country in region and protects the gains for the past 2 decades. we will do it. but we will not do it on the basis of trust or faith. let's bring in gabriel elizondo, who is in washington dc. gabriel, the military effort. now complete the focus now is on the diplomatic efforts. and we had that from us secretar

rob mcbride, al jazeera couple. let's get more on this because speech anatole leven, who was the senior research fellow, the quincy street for responsible state cross. he joined us from london on zoom. you are of course, a war janice, for many years, covering pockets on afghanistan in the mid 19 eighties. many thanks for joining the program. once he will take on the events of the last few days and weeks has america abandoned afghanistan and africa. people will have to agree with president by the african army would not fight to defend the stage. then in the long run, americans could not do it for them. i sympathize with ordinary african soldiers. he didn't want to die for this can states and, but unfortunately very corrupt commanders about the fact remains that if indeed this state had so little, real support and legitimacy, then it was going to collapse in relation it's collapsed much sooner than anybody expected, including me. but it was going to collapse, and america was going to have to get out. it's, as i say, j

who's in, jo. ha, but 1st let's cross to live to rob mcbride in cobble. hello there, rob. but what more do we know about these light of taliban games? that's right. this the ever changing map of who controls what in afghan has done really not looking good for the government after. what's been another very heavy day of fighting? you know, more than 25 years ago when the taliban 1st emerged largely from the south of the country, it found resistance to it in the north. what eventually became known as the northern alliance? well, you know, we seem with this latest resurgence that resistance simply being swept away with the gains of these territories and provincial cities really leaving only but e sharif that ms. ari sharif was the only the city holding out against the taliban in the north. the another city conduce, which is very important that all fell 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 there are reports, a very heavy fighting around conduce. and that is significant because given its imp

if they won't see, let's get more from rob mcbride's he joins us live from kabul robe, desperate scenes being broadcast from cobra this morning on shares on social media . what's the situation like at the airport? right? no. i mean that chaos does continue into this monday evening impact a couple of hours ago as we were starting to get into the hours of darkness and the darkness was falling. we started to hear quite a bit of gum by coming from that direction. single shot. no. so suppose the magic fire either from the airport road or from the airport itself. now the taliban, we know, has set up a code and try to stop more people from getting into the terminal day was we know have been using warning shots to try to keep people away. similarly, the u. s. continued the military, contingent of a very large force inside the fort itself, as they continue to conduct this evacuation exercise of an embassy personnel. the family is also the us citizen. they have been using their weapons. impact has been confirmed by the pentagon, that there was an exchange of gunfire early monday to demand that th

rob mcbride begins our coverage from cobble a couple airports main terminal. this is private control taliban style. follies of gunfire. scattered people in panic. the another gate, even more desperate scenes as the airport continues to be besieged. and at the side of the airport, where the us military evacuation is taking place. private defense contract is there . use take us at the british embassy compound, long lines gathered daily to apply for special visas with promises from the taliban of amnesty for those who worked with foreign forces and safe passage to the airport . but many doubt the taliban promises fears, raised bites, treatment to protest is wanting to retain the national flag. deadly classes with taliban fighters, the taken place in the city of gyla bad with emotions running even higher. as i've got this done, celebrates independence day. there have been further confrontations in the city of a sad about the violence of this independence day has res tension in what is already a very highly charged atmosphere, a bike o incident. it comes on the sam

rob mcbride just live now via skype. so rob more evidence of territorial gains in, in afghanistan, by the taller bond, as the afghan forces continue to struggle to defend provinces in every corner of that country. that's right. this has been a significant development. the fall of this 8th provincial capital in the province of baghlan and the capital poly couldn't re now there have been reports of fighting around this city to the past couple of days with claims by the taliban that they had dislodged government bosses. well, that's now been confirmed 2 sources to us and in fact, the video from the taliban purportedly showing its fighters celebrating in the center of that city. now this is part of this northern, sway the canister that is seeing this uptake in fighting of the past week or so with the full, a very important senses from, from the government. but significantly, this actually bring the fighting a lot closer to cobble itself. and that is a concern for the government. it's one of the small the provincial capital. b

rob mcbride, it joins us from cobble. so rob, how significant is the latest capture of provincial capitals? but the taliban seems to be making these gains almost daily. sometimes even alley as we progress. i mean the latest to provincial capitals are relatively small, poly comrey and fight about, but they are a strategically, geographically quite important, especially poly comrey. this is a small provincial capital but it brings the taliban presence much closer to cobble itself. and it also means that in this way, the northern afghanistan, it's really on the mazata sharif, which is a very big, very important government, strong called as just about the last government stronghold in the north. now this, the city is very well defended. all of the fighting is being kept outside of the city, but it has made many people in bizarre sherry quite uneasy. just seeing the rapid games the taliban be making it. in fact, we're getting reports that the airport there are crowds of people and have been crowd of people tried to get on the s

well, let's get an update from rob mcbride. he's joining us from trouble. so rob, what is the mood like incredible now that the taliban has taken charge? i think it still remains a fairly calm but fairly uneasy on the streets. i'm sure everybody here in cobble and elsewhere and i've got this done, followed by the news conference. absolutely avidly. every word a bit to to see what reassurances that we're going to get from the incoming government, the taliban. so it did, we remains to be seen whether all of that uncertainty, all of their fears, doubts, will be addressed or not. as we heard that, i mean the visa would that really got to be followed up now by actions. i think that will be the real reassurance for, for people here in afghanistan. the big development overnight here has been the return to i've got his dad died. the co founder of the taliban. very senior, important, bigger in the movement who has been in cattle leading the negotiations. now he is back here. he landed in kandahar with a senior taliban team on a tuesday night to large applause. large

live to rob mcbride, joining us from capital. so rob, what more can you tell us about the taliban gains and the, the situation on the ground right now, as these talks are about to get underway and cats are fighting continues to be widespread across afghanistan to give you some idea of fighting has been reported in 17, vasquez stands 34 provinces. so really half the country now the fighting batteries and intensity of cause. but some of the heavy a conflict is down in the taliban strongholds in the south of the country. in helmand, in kandahar the government has called in and strikes over nights in kind to hop calling in the afghan air force. there's also being continuing heavy fighting in this way, the territory in the north all that kind of stuff. and that's of course, where the taliban is taken at 6 provincial capital of i back now. that's a relatively small city, but a lot of the focus is back on. couldn't do the far more important strategic, ne, but that, that was one of the taliban. the biggest victories of late, but the deter

let's speak now to rob mcbride, who is live in cobble force. so rob 1st will tell us more about those operations in kandahar and laska go. that's right. from the government's point of view this friday morning, a quickly deteriorating situation with the apparent loss of both candor and alaska. now these are the 2 most important cities in the south kandahar in particular. being based in kandahar province is really almost like a fortress while much of kandahar province was being taken back by the taliban. the government has been committed to defending at all costs. kandahar had some of the better military units there was able to call and asked support to in fact, including us as strikes as a way of trying to keep the taliban at bay. but it seems that overnight said that they breached the defenses of the city. we got increasing reports about fighting in the center of the city claims by the taliban that they taken the governor's resident's. the police had quoted indeed, backed up by video showing apparent to taliban fighters walking around the reside

thank you so much, rob mcbride, for that update from couple. well, will the us in the final weeks, if it's withdrawal from afghanistan, russia and china are preparing for any regional security threats. china shares a border with a gun is done and is increasing cooperation with russia in a series of military drills. but there is more to their strengthening relationship as adrian brown reports from hong kong. nearly half a century ago, these 2 neighbors fought a brief, portable, but the latest china, russia, military drills showed that hostility is now in the past. in this mock battle, the enemy is unnamed. it's a military partnership that's strengthening, thanks in part to both countries, worsening relations with the united states. if you say it's a marriage of convenience, that underestimates the, the depth of their shared interest. and of course, the biggest one is opposing america, and i'm the mining america and the west. and that's extremely important. and in explaining the strength of the current chinese russia relationship, $10000.00 soldi

but 1st, let's cross to rob mcbride, who will give us an update on the latest taliban games. rob, that's right, this is a significant development and a significant game for the taliban. the city gods. me as there's been extensive fighting around this, if you for some days now. and it was always suspected that if another provincial capital was about to fall, then this would probably be that we understand that the town itself. 3 has fallen to the taliban but there is still fighting around the intelligence compound. 3 but the governor of gas, the itself has actually left the city. so this is a fairly small provincial city. but just as we saw earlier this week with some of these provincial cities to the north, which has fallen to the taliban, it does bring the fighting ever closer to cobble itself. so strategically, it's quite significant. also it does link of course with the south of the country which are the taliban strongholds of kansas and helman. and fighting continues there in kandahar itself and also a neighboring helman province. in alaska, god, the city is still being hea

campbell airport, which took place in an area where us forces are responsible for security, or rob mcbride joins us live now from combo. so 1st of all, rob tell us want news from there because i've been reports of gunfire and, and perhaps signs of, of, of the ongoing instability that what have you been hearing? yeah, i mean the, this continues to be a very volatile, uneasy night, thursday night now into friday morning here. local time over the past few hours or so, we continue to hear all sorts of bangs and bits of automatic gunfire coming from the direction of the airport, single shot being fired in the streets around us. we know that in the streets around us, there has been a real increase in the number of checkpoints in roadblocks being set up by the taliban. that we've sort of sense over the past day or so. but really felt that since the hours of darkness and especially since this attack, the level of tension here is really increased the sense that from the taliban themselves, the everybody here is extremely skittish. enervy as we go through the night. but a lot of the more activity we

rob mcbride reports from couple this report issue through the un. it does make very worrying reading, and i think it will gain a lot of traction here with people in afghanistan, given the taliban record in the past, and also it's reputation. so the report talks about former military and also intelligence personnel from the former regime being targeted taliban going door to door. also wiring they talks about the families of those people. if they don't get the individuals themselves. the families are then targeted as a way of putting pressure on those individuals to come forward from my dental who they are. and also talks about in full recruiting. inform is try to a presumably set up a network to try to identify all of these individuals. this, as we know goes against what the taliban has been saying from the very start. it has no interest in recriminations, reprisals, they say, well, it's a different type of regime. it was to start afresh. but we do know that from, you know, out in the provinces, local levels of this conflict swept across the country.

rob mcbride there, can he hear helicopters behind you reporting live from campbell, a very fast moving situation throughout the day. we will of course, check back in with you, but for i robot pride in couple. thank you very much indeed. let's stay with us. we can speak now, it's a sunday or mir. he's a senior experts at the united institute of peace and joy, incense from redwood city in california by skype. it's great to have you withers. how did we get here? many have been astonished by the speeds of the taliban advance. just yesterday people were talking about the of the capital falling within a matter of weeks. i mean it's, it's taken errors. what does all of this mean? be the public has, has collapsed. it has collapse. politically, which is which is triggered to military collapse. the con republic has not offered any miller to be to this any meaningful military to distance in any part of the country. and the same stands for cobbler prisons, bunny who was making announcements to the effect of attending. yesterday he made some melody appointments, and as latin would suggested, indica

and other nations urging the autonomy bound to let people leave freely, say, one to speak to rob mcbride. he joins us now from cobb. let's start with the situation at the airport. how are things unfolding down this time military evacuations? are they still going on even despite the cancellation of commercial flights? those we understand are still continuing. a lot of the helicopter movement that have been working between the u. s. embassy complex behind me to the international airport. that's pretty much come to a halt, but we understand that the flights out for the us military are still continuing. and i think maybe that's still part of the problem. better still for people who are desperate enough. the hope at least that maybe they'll get some way of getting out of afghanistan. certainly for people who have links with the us military or other nato forces who fade despite assurances from the taliban that they may face reprisals. but this monday afternoon, still chaotic. seems there all the bits of course began to unfold yesterday afternoon, sunday with the news that the taliban was indee

rob mcbride al jazeera couple. well that's the scene in cobble, but there are huge parts of the country where the car bomb do enjoy some support from ethnic groups. the top from border crossing and along the border with pakistan is one such area. it's not seeing a rush of people trying to flee off to reopening as come on either explains most of the contiguous provinces that board up august on all the way from hell mon gummed are coming down the nigger harcourt, buck, the corner. i predominantly pushed to where the dollar bought and had a lot of support. ideas. people are north panicking their, their business as usual. and although they were a fear that these people weren't, that people will be coming in large numbers across the line, borders, refugees, none of dad happened. you're guaranteed to panic. primarily because the push stones have supported that dollar bond redoubt. darcia bought. there will not have won the war and however, and car you have people who are helping the americans day will be here by the doll

rob mcbride is in cobble with more the reaction to the televisions take over. it has been an incredible day after what's been incredible, a few weeks in the complete transformation of africa. this done, i mean, the day began with the city basically being under siege. your people knew that we were heading in that direction since the fall of all of these provinces, we saw the build up of this momentum. as the taliban seem to get the support of the various factions, of which there are many in afghanistan, we saw them grabbing equipment and brand new humvees and vehicles. we saw them opening up prisons, but letting out taliban prisoners who then apparently joined the cause, joined by other people who seem to switch side so they get it with david. this has been building on people here in cobble. i've been watching all of this with growing on ease and that it's sort of culminated with the beginning of this sunday looking at the city on the siege and then report starting to emerge of taliban fight is actually coming into the city itself. and you could sense that kind

rob mcbride in the afghan capital campbell, because we've been hearing from the united states depends again saying that those evacuation efforts will continue beyond the u. s. on the western powers, particularly the countries. european allies are also in a rush to evacuate thousands of their nationals and afghans deemed at risk of reprisals. now been hearing from you k from mr. bar johnson. it says that operations to evacuate british nationals and eligible afghans will continue despite these explosions. were able to continue with the program in, in the way that we, we been running it according to the, the time table that we've got. and that's what we're going to do. because the overwhelming majority of those who are eligible have not been extracted from afghanistan. and we're going to work flat out the, the military, the, the phone office teams, the, the home office depot for teams that getting people through as fast as they can still. and we're going to keep going up until the last moment. charlie angela joins me now. is more on the reaction here in the u. k, but also perhaps more ge

let's go live now to rob mcbride in call will survive. what more we hearing about the new leadership and what a taliban government is going to look like. that has been the development over night here and i've got this done today going through to wednesday is the arrival on african soil of molar. and his senior taliban team, well about that is a co founder of the taliban. he's been instrumental in these piece to be taken place and he has arrived back and interestingly the destination they had, they have chosen to re enter afghanistan. it's quite symbolic. it's kind of, this is the birthplace of the taliban. it is if you like the spiritual home of the organization. i think for symbolism, it's important that he and his team make that entrance into afghanistan that we know from clips on social media, large crowds with that to greet them as they, as they appeared now, it remains to be seen now that they are back in africa this what all the next steps we expect that they will be coming to cobble at some point. this way we believe of we understa

rob mcbride has more from couple i think it still remains a fairly calm, but fairly uneasy on the streets. i'm sure everybody here in cobble and elsewhere, and i've got this done, followed by the news conference, absolutely avidly. every word of it to, to see what reassurances they were going to get from the incoming government that taliban and so we remains to be seen whether all of that uncertainty is all of their fears, doubts will be addressed or not. as we heard that, i mean the be the word that really got to be followed up now by actions. i think that will be the real reassurance for 4 people here in afghanistan. the taliban co founder on political chief has returned to have gone to stun. devante bars are arrived to a crowd of supporters in kandahar the birthplace of the taliban. bardon led the groups negotiators and talks with the u. s. and afghan government. the u. s. says the taliban has agreed to allow safe passage for a civilian, struggling to fly out of. couple evacuations have resumed a day after chaotic scenes on the runway. survivors are saturdays, earthquake, and haiti are

more from rob mcbride in campbell. we hear about some fighting down a pack t a problem. this is another, probably a 1000 cobble, quite relatively close to cobble. but there has been some fighting there, but apart from that we do get the sense here that this is maybe a breather, insensitive a time for consolidation the taliban taken. it seems so much a territory in so short a time that he probably needs to guarantee it can hold onto all of these places. it is extended itself very widely across the country. and you see that in some of the messages being broadcast by the taliban, we are just getting into the start of the work week here in afghanistan. and the taliban is telling people come back to work. we're now in control villages in algeria have joined emergency crews to put out wildfires that have been burning in the north for 3 days. at least 71 people have been to government says those fines but started deliberately and 22 people suspected of often are under arrest. police in nicaragua have rated the offices of a pro opposition newspaper. the owners of the parents are

rob mcbride has more from campbell get still remain fairly calm, but fairly uneasy on the streets. i'm sure everybody here in cobble and elsewhere enough gun is done, followed the news conference. absolutely avidly. every word of it to, to see what reassurances they were going to get from the incoming government, the taliban. so we remains to be seen whether all of that uncertainty is all of their fears, doubts will be addressed or not. as we heard that, i mean the be the word that really got to be followed up now by actions. i think that will be the real reassurance for 4 people here in afghanistan. the big development overnight here has been the return to i've got his dad died the co founder of the taliban. very senior, important figure in the movement who has been in cattle leading the negotiation. now he is back here. he landed in kandahar with a senior taliban team on a tuesday night to large applause. large crowds there to greet him. it's important that they return to afghanistan through canada. how this is the is where the movement with 1st founded. at the end of the last ce

rob mcbride is in cobble. what we do now is, as reported by the germans, is that. 1 the armed african man was killed and several others were injured. so we're not quite sure exactly who was involved from the african side. but it does show you some of the volatility at the airport that you have all of these heavily armed units with different areas of responsibility around the airport, both inside and outside a volatile crowd of people pressing to get into the airport. so we do, it is all, you know, a very dangerous mix, and we have seen incidents like this happened in the past week, and this seems to be another incident. so we're still waiting to see exactly what the circumstances were. the us president joe biden says the lifting of americans and vulnerable afghans has accelerated. he says, discussions are taking place to possibly extend a deadline for evacuations. beyond next week or 20000 people have been lifted in the past 7 days. at least 22 people had been killed during flooding in the us state of tennesse

rob mcbride is in cobble because these down to the south, west of cobble, they've been fighting going on there for some days. and when you look at the map of the changing map of who controls what gossley was always very vulnerable, it was expected that if, if there was going to be another provincial capital default. and that looked, that could be the next one to go. and so it is the taliban claim that we've not confirmed it with sources that it has full. and now this is a fairly small city, but as with other cities that have fallen in the north earlier this week, it does put the pressure on cobble itself. it brings the fighting and the presence of the taliban a lot closer to the seat of government. here the polls have openings amby as presidential and parliamentary elections. president edgar longo is expected to face a strong challenge from his opposition rival whose running against him for a 3rd time and follows a campaign dominated by a struggling economy and a big fight against corruption. algeria is beginning, 3 days of mourning, of the number of people killed and wildfires rose t

there is a lot of healing ahead to charlotte palace to 0 cobble or let's go live to rob mcbride in cobble for so rob, what's been the reaction to the tyler bonds takeover and their statements? i think that continues to be a very mixed responds. mixed reception to the return of the taliban. these are still very early days, a hearing cobble itself. that continues to be calm on the streets, but there is a certain level of tension that you sent. but there is also you see signs on the streets of more stores opening more restaurants, they're more people out on the streets. also more taliban, it has to be said in the last couple of days or so we've seen far more taliban fighters come again on the pickup trucks or motor bags or flying the flags that toting weapons, et cetera, coming onto the streets. i bet remains that the 10th. com. the next the big event we are expecting hearing cobble is again on the political scene, the return of mullah paradigm. now he is a very influential figure in the taliban. he was a co founder of the organization. he has been very instrumental in the piece towards goin

pfizer bad in the north and for ra cg in the south. meanwhile, towards continuing for 2nd day, rob mcbride is in cobble with more on the latest on taliban advances. the latest that 2 provincial capitals are relatively small, poly comrey and phase about but they are strategically geographically quite important, especially poly comrey. this is a small provincial capital, but it brings the taliban presence much closer to cobble itself. and it also means that in this way, the northern afghanistan, it's really on the mazata sharif, which is a very big, very important government stronghold, is just about the last government stronghold in the north. a chinese court has sentenced a canadian man to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty of spying. businessmen, michael spencer was detained alongside another canadian citizen in 2018. canada says a cases as politically motivated wildfires have killed at least 65 people in algeria 28th of those were soldiers who died during a rescue operation. 5 have ravaged forests in at least 16 provinces since monday. mustaine, national says brutal acts of sexu

now to couple and our correspondent following this evolving story, rob mcbride, rob, what else do we know about the nature of these direct negotiations going on between the taliban and government officials? i think the nature of the talk is really have to trying to find a solution that's going to be acceptable to all sides. that brings about a peaceful transition that really seems to be the watchword. at this stage. we are getting into late afternoon early evening and what's been extraordinary day and continues to be an extraordinary day of development here. the full of provinces all around the capital cobble and so which leaves cobble itself pretty much encircled. now, with these talks that have been going on for several hours for much of the day, in fact, and we understand that it's going on between the negotiators from the taliban, from the government. also from the us in the presidential palace. that whatever form of words they come up with potential agreement that still has to go back to negotiate. as we understand in those formal that goes, the asians are taking place to see if

crisis in the tunnel and sees the afghan capital last week, live out to cobble and my colleague rob mcbride, rob, we get any more details as to actually what happened here. yeah, i mean the details are still catch you, but we are getting a few more points. i mean it, but it does show the volatility and the confusion that exists still around the, the for you have all of these armed units with the different responsibilities guarding different parts of it all in close proximity to each other. and of course, in close proximity to all of these crowds of desperate people when they get inside the airport. but the german military, we have a statement from them saying that it was their soldiers involved alongside us soldiers and also what they call afghan security forces. the african security forces we are told they are the ones who sustain these injuries. one person dead and several injured staff. the african security forces could refer to army units of the afghan army who didn't want to surrender. didn't want to lay down to the taliban. that they took over it's understood, there are a few special

rob mcbride is in cobble with the latest on the cities that have fallen to latan. yvonne sharon, this is the provincial capital of pac tica. this is a province south of carnival on the border with pakistan that the provincial capital has now surrendered. we saw earlier uploaded videos of apparently taliban fighters in the center of the city. we've now had it confirmed that the city itself has now fallen to the taliban, which they had claimed earlier. there is also been fighting just north of pac tica at a similarly sounding province called pac tia. now this is, we the only be reports of fighting there, but that is a province a lot closer to cobble. we're also hearing of fighting invite attack and also tuna, which is to the east of cobble this again, are 2 provinces, very close to cobble itself villages in algeria joining emergency crews to put out wildfires that have been burning in the north for 3 days. the 71 people have been killed. the government says defies the. started deliberately. nearly 2 dozen people have been arrested suspected of zambia is opposition. leader in de dilemma