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To know who comes, who goes. so the afghan interpreters, the people that supported the u.s. military, the contractors, theyre not going to be able to get to the airport. i hear administration officials keep talking about were going to really step it up to get those people out, but there is no way they can get to the airport now through the entire network of taliban check points that have been set up across the city. >> courtney, what can you tell us about these additional u.s. troops being deplo...

Security council about to start an emergency meeting on the taliban takeover in afghanistan. that is what youre looking at on the left side of your screen. that is going to begin any minute. as scenes like this one youre about to see unfold at the airport in kabul. desperate afghans literally running after planes to try and get out. the evacuation operation suspended as the u.s. tries to clear the runways. a lot of them are stuck at the airport waiting for their ride home, along with afghan help...

Personnel from the u.s. embassy there. a state department official tells nbc news almost all u.s. personnel have relocated to a facility at the hamid karzai international airport. officials today said the u.s. is put 1g,000 more american troops into kabul to aid if the mass evacuations of u.s. personnel. now, im the last person to criticize joe bidens decision to go through with this withdrawal from afghanistan. i support it. but it is botched execution and wishful thinking and its failure to an...

We need to be thinking about competitiveness with china. we need to be thinking about chinas expansionary visions in the indo-pacific. we need to think about russian disruptions. we dont need to get involved in the middle of a civil war. but that said, the imagery of this experiment coming unwound so quickly because they didnt sequence correctly how they got people, including interpreters, out of the country, how they got forces out of the country, how they got diplomats out of the country -- th...

Parliament is recalled to debate the situation in afghanistan. lets hear now from sharif karimi, who worked as an afghan interpreter for the british forces in helmand. he was speaking from kabul. right now, i am in kabul. the situation is not confirmed and we dont know what will happen in these days. we dont know who is in charge of the capital of afghanistan. people are just living in fear. they are scared. they dont know what will happen next because the situation is not good. there are many i...

Evacuations to get those u.s. staff out. we know that 5,000 have already flown out. thats not taking into consideration the afghan interpreters who have been granted sivs. those who worked the u.s. military and then of course, you have journalists, afghan journalists which media companies, particularly u.s. media companies who are also trying to get these people visas. they have been reporting on this war now for years, for two decades. many of them feel that their lives are now in danger. so th...

In the country. i will say that afghanistan in 2021 is different than in 2020. i think we will see some of the atrocities the taliban is likely to carry out in some areas. the unfolding events in the coming weeks and months i think will determine exactly how much of a problem the afghan people are going to be facing given that the taliban are clearly ascendant. >> we want to bring into the conversation matt zeller, former first lieutenant during the war in afghanistan, former combat advisor with...

Those people are evacuated, its not up to 4000 people are eligible in afghanistan and you are talking about people who hold a british passport, but also some afghan nationals who have worked with the british in rose especially public facing roles like interpreters over the years that british forces have beenin the years that british forces have been in afghanistan. its about getting them out as quickly as possible. the defence secretary ben wallace was speaking to the bbc earlier and said the mi...

This is where a lot of people will be brought to, those who can be got out of the country. yes. raf brize norton is the head of raf transport operations which means the aircraft taking off from here and heading towards kabul will be the ones upon which people will be airlifted so those people fall into two categories, british passport holders and those entitled to come into this country, who qualified for example under a scheme set up by the government to bring interpreters of afghan origin with...

Tough questions. ive asked this administration for months, when are you going to get the interpreters out, when are you going to get our afghan partners out of there, when are you going to have isr intelligence capability out of the country? they have done none of this and now its a scramble to the airport and none of the planes are flying out right now, its essentially closed down. i think this could be worse than saigon itself. >> now, they are saying that if there had been a residual force le...