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Family members, interpreters, engineers, i.t. workers, the people who picked up our trash. all of those people now are going to be sentenced to death. >> im sorry to interrupt. you mentioned the people who are trapped in afghanistan, including your family, have you been able to make contact with them? do you know what conditions are? and >> you might have looked to me at the beginning of this looking down at my phone. yes there alive. i have a cousin whos at the airport. i have another relativel...

But he was never part of it. we pressured him to release 5,000 prisoners, some of whom are on the battlefield and leading some of the attack, so from his point of view, thoroughly bad deal. and then we kept the afghan -- we pressed the afghans to stay on the defensive in the last year as part of our search for peace, so then you roll it over into biden, who got a bad deal, but he got a lot of advice to keep a presence, including from all our nato allies, british, germans,italians even, saying we...

Emergency evacuation of embassy staff and some afghans who helped the u.s. such as interpreters and their families. the white house releasing this photo of the president being briefed on the developments on the ground. helicopters and black smoke visible. american diplomats including the ambassador evacuated to the airport. at least 500 staff leaving the country so far. the embassy shuttered. the flag coming down. secretary of state blinken declaring to abcs jonathan karl this is manifestly not ...

The afghans that we are evacuating right now are a tiny sliver of that. we are hearing from afghans on the ground right now who have been trapped for years and bureaucracy, a 15-step process for an interpreter visa. even within the last few days, interpreters were getting appointments at the u.s. embassy in kabul for september. even as they were evacuating. it is inexplicable how long the siv process has taken. the new puppy to visa has been opened up. and i cant make sense of it. it is so opaqu...

Days time. but that is in two days time. in the meantime, in afghanistan, events unfolding hour by hour. afghanistan, events unfolding hour b hour. ,, afghanistan, events unfolding hour b hour. ., ~ afghanistan, events unfolding hour b hour. ,, ., ~ ., ~ afghanistan, events unfolding hour b hour. ., ~ ., our defence correspondent jonathan beale is here now. notjust a not just a uk notjust a uk problem of course, but one wonders what on earth happens next. , ~ , , ., , . next. yes, the ministry o...

In this case, i think we are witnessing three major mistakes. the first mistake was made by president trump, who agreed on a so—called peace accord with the taliban, declaring that he would leave afghanistan. so obviously the taliban did not have any incentive to engage seriously in those peace negotiations. second mistake was made by president biden, who implemented that agreement and fixed the 31st of august as the date where americans would leave afghanistan, so the taliban could just wait ...

>> he would never quit on us or my men. >> negative, no, sir. >> he was there from the beginning, from day one and he was there all the way until the end. >> reporter: this is what i filmed back then. haji in the closing days of the bar baruenosar -- bar tall yins mi. hajis fate and that of so many others now in the hands of the biden administration. >> our message to those women and men is clear. there is a home for you in the united states. >> reporter: the u.s. state department did create a n...

Afghans located outside the airport. they made a dash for the airport yesterday. these are afghan interpreters whose sivs, the visas to america, were rejected. they have run to the airport thinking that perhaps they could just get on a flight. plead their case. they were obviously turned away. and there are chaotic scenes there again this morning. there is footage of hundreds of men standing outside the airport. and there are taliban members in armored vehicles, roaming the streets. there is a b...

On execution for the vaccine rollout, the child tax credit. the president announced in april this was the time line for the withdrawal of the u.s. military forces but what were seeing play out now is clearly a failing of the strategy of the administration. it is striking to see a number of democratic lawmakers somewhat gently, some more bluntly, talking about the plight of women and girls, and the plight of the interpreters. and they were not as mindful and prepared for the need for a quick extr...

Of fortunes for so many afghans, who are now terrified and shattered by this turn, this terrible, terrible turn in their countrys history. in the uk, the ministry of defence has released these images of some british nationals arriving back in the uk from kabul last night. we can talk now to our political correspondent helen catt in westminster. that is the key, getting out the hundreds of british passport holders. ., , ., holders. that is the immediate riori , holders. that is the immediate prio...