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If someone resigned from the job, they will not kill them. but when people resign, the resigning people they will kill. at night they come to your houses, they kill your interpreters, so they will never forgive them. if they see hundreds that we are, the translator, not for getting them. they are only saying that someone should not help them and let them be alarmed so they should be easily killed. and because they say the most dangerous enemy, they are hitting us and calling us, that the most da...

Before we came on. so the uk government is announcing tonight the establishment of a new what they call bespoke afghan resettlement scheme — call bespoke afghan resettlement scheme. so this is separate to the questions — scheme. so this is separate to the questions we have been talking about for some _ questions we have been talking about for some months about interpreters or other— for some months about interpreters or other afghans who have assisted british— or other afghans who have a...

And theirfamilies who more than 3000 afghan interpreters and their families who worked with uk forces have been resettled and they are working to bring more to britain. but the situation for afghan women is particularly dangerous. that afghan women is particularly dangerous-— afghan women is particularly dancerous. �* ., , dangerous. at the local level is the re orts dangerous. at the local level is the reports we — dangerous. at the local level is the reports we are _ dangerous. at the lo...

Usaid has helped 20,000 women get jobs. this is just from usaid and what do you say to women and girls now about their future? >> well one of the things that i have been pushing the biden administration on is to expand who is eligible to be evacuate so it is not only the interpreters, not only people who worked directly with the united states government, but actually women and girls and women leaders an teachers who taught women and girls in school. because we know that we made -- >> but realist...

Us? >> reporter: well, john, honestly we have to wait and see. this is one of those situations where we just need to see what unfolds on the ground. clearly its between those two extremes and what the taliban is trying to do and has been enacting since it took kabul is an offensive. whether it was the spokesman in doha or whether it was the spokesman in kabul today. they are trying to convince the united states and the rest of the world that they are different, that they want international legit...

Because they are searching to our addresses. and its not only my life, but also my family life right now is in danger. we are facing more and more threats than before, because before our identity was not being clear to the taliban. now they know our name, ourface, ouraddress, our phone numbers, everything. fearing the future, many afghans are trying to leave in any way they can. their desperation evident in these scenes at kabul airport. the us says it has now secured the airport in order to eva...

And we have all the means to prevent it. >> that was major matt zeller on this show over a month ago. he and the organization he co-founded, no one left behind, have been sounding the alarm for months about the need to get going, to evacuate thousands of afghan men and women at grave risk simply because they worked alongside and helped u.s. troops during our war effort there. we now know as of whats happening right now in kabul, we know the alarms that matt and others were sounding were accurate...

Would get them out if it ever came to this. their lives are now in peril tonight. >> right. this is stain on the presidency, i believe he has boulevard on his hands. when we got word of this decision, we kept repeatedly warning the administration. you have to get these interpreters, our afghan partners, out of there. they waited until the very last minute, and now this rush to the airport to get them out, and now we dont even have planes leaving the airport. now they are going to be left behind,...

The taliban first entered. >> coming here -- with taliban. [inaudible] >> sean, hes terrified that his children will be killed. there are people there with little girls, young girls, they are afraid that al qaeda will take them for their wives. this is a terrible situation. biden needs to stand on principle. president biden needs to get these interpreters out of there. they have to believe in our word or they wont believe in us again. sean? >> sean: sarah, thank you for that report. lets turn to...

Left. were trying to accomplish one primary mission, evacuating the americans and nato civilians out of the entire country, not just kabul. thousands are still there, and it seems to me were in a very perilous situation at kabul international airport, one runway surrounded by mountains, surrounded by urban areas. the taliban obviously will outpost, will form a perimeter. its highly unlikely in my view that the friends, interpreters, families will present their documents for safety to a taliban s...