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Since last saturday. but many more are still waiting. richard engel documented his own journey at the kabul airport and filed this report. >> reporter: thousands of afghans were evacuated overnight from kabul airport. theyre thankful to be escaping taliban rule, but it isnt pretty to flee a war zone. we watched one group of hundreds of afghans gathered in front of the departure hall leading to the runways. they wait outside for hours until the planes arrive. surrounded by trash, always under gua...

Weve changed were going to allow women to go to school. theyre saying that again and some people publicly appear to be taking that seriously despite what we know about the taliban being a medieval torture cult effectively. whats your take? >> taliban 2.0, if you believe theyre going to be kinder and gentler and listening to their better angels, if you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you and i can sell you that big white house behind you, willie. we are seeing reports already how they are t...

The country, if they had the right papers. but today both of those promises look uncertain. an intelligence briefing for the united nations says the taliban are stepping up their search for so—called "collaborators". that includes those who served in the afghan military or police. and the international airport at kabul remains a scene of chaos and uncertainty. our correspondent in kabul secunder kermani reports. this is crowd control, taliban style. outside the airport, thousands of people des...

"collaborators". that includes those who served in the afghan military or police. and the international airport at kabul remains chaotic. our correspondent in kabul, secunder kermani, reports. this is crowd control, taliban style. outside the airport, thousands of people desperate to leave. this is the road anyone being evacuated has to travel along. the taliban repeatedly stopped us filming. they dont like the images of so many afghans are fleeing their rule. they have denied claims they are at...

Ever known >> reporter: thousands of afghans were evacuated overnight from kabul airport theyre thankful to be escaping taliban rule, but it isnt pretty to flee a war zone. we watched one group of hundreds of afghans gathered in front of the departure hall leading to the runways. they wait outside for hours until the planes arrive surrounded by trash, always under guard most arrive here already exhausted because to get here, they had to navigate through taliban fighters who control the airport p...

That they could and essentially the chaos that ensued was inevitable. what these state department officials are saying is that it wasnt inevitable. kate? >> kylie, thank you very much. now to the ground in kabul at the airport there. isha ta 2346nzine is here with now. i know that youre in a military barrack on the north side of the airport right now. weve seen video of the chaos outside of the airport. what is the situation there right now? >> reporter: its the middle of the night in kabul, s...

All respect, the question is, are all of the gates continuously open if you had to close -- have -- if the marines had to close sullivan at various points, do you have the taliban letting people through this new gate that youre talking about? have you been able to keep them all continuously open? >> barbara, as the general said, we have additional gates now and reporting this morning is that they are open. but i cant tell you with perfect clarity that there havent been times over the last 72 hou...

If they had the right papers. but today both of those promises look uncertain. an intelligence briefing for the united nations says the taliban are stepping up their search for so—called "collaborators". that includes those who served in the afghan military or police. and the international airport at kabul remains a scene of chaos and uncertainty. our correspondent in kabul secunder kermani reports. this is crowd control, taliban style. outside the airport, thousands of people desperate to lea...

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Surrounded by trash. always under guard. most arrive here already exhausted because to get here, they had to navigate through taliban fighters who control the airport perimeter and whose idea of crowd control is using weve now landed in doha, qatar. this has been a long journey for the afghans and also been a very emotional one. >> so that kind of gives our audience a sense of what it looks like and what it is like for your family trying to get out. i want to primarily ask you, number one, do yo...