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Protect. >> youve been working on something pushing very hard for it in congress, which i think is a really important thing, especially u.s. immigrant visas for afghan interpreters who helped the mission there. it has bipartisan support. why is this so important and the likelihood you can get it passed into law. its not the greatest history that we as a country have of remembering those who have helped us in past wars. you know, when we left vietnam in the way that the u.s. left and with the qui...

Testified yesterday in washington he added the us is monitoring the situation but afghanistans military and police force is around 300,000 people strong and their job is to defend the country. the highest-ranking american military officers comments come as a new report indicates the us intel community believes the afghan government could collapse by the end of the year. the timing of the development comes as us troops are continuing plans withdraw from afghanistan by september 1st. the pentagon ...

Us. there is something like 18,000 afghans who worked as interpreters, drivers, engineers and then there are 53,000 family members as well. what happens mallet to protect not just the people who work but the family members because i am thinking they must be in some danger as well if the tenant and start taking over afghanistan. thats right. its an honour to be with you today and you are great i would echo your previous guests but in a very serious movements, when the president made his announcem...

Military force completes its withdraw. that project is expected to be largely done in the next two weeks americas longest war. we have i dont know update opt rescue e. could you plan. lucas tomlinson reports from the pentagon. >> those who helped us are not going to be left behind. >> for the first time publicly, president biden pledged his support to evacuate thousands of afghan interpreters and their families to help the u.s. military over the past 0 years. senior administration officials says...

Pledge their allegiance to us the united states of america they will be slaughtered. >> we need to see a detailed operational plan. >> president ghani and other afghan officials arrived in washington today ahead of a with president biden at the white house tomorrow. [shouting] >> situation growing more urgent with the taliban on the noorch can a beautiful. as many as 50,000 interpreters and their families may need to be evacuated. u.s. officials want to avoid situations like this from u.s. evacu...

Hell be coming to my office. that will be a discussion, theyre welcome here, just like anyone else to risked their lives to help us. >> i think thats it. the president there was talking about those 18,000 interpreters in afghanistan, who helped the u.s. in the multidecade war. the question to bring them to the u.s. to save them from the taliban. the president said theyre welcome here just like anyone else who helped us. lets get to the heart of this news conference and bring in kaitlan collins a...

Mean that the taliban take over? >> i think the intelligence community has had a very different point of view from the state department. the assessment is grim. i tepid to agree with them that once the military pulls out the end of july theyre really at the mercy of the taliban and launching a spring offensive and when the troops withdraw end of july i think you will see a complete takeover of the country which gets us to daniels story about the interpreters that we promised we would get them a ...

Offensive. >> yeah. absolutely. so we are literally hearing daily from interpreters whose lives are threatened as we speak. they are in imminent danger and why we must explore every option we can to get these interpreters and their families out and if that means a safe haven before domicile here in the united states or europe we need to make that happen and work with the nato allies because these interpreters helped and served alongside of them just like alongside of us. there are significant co...

Visa applications for the thousands who put the lives on the line for the u.s. with crucial services such as translating, many of them hunted down and killed by the taliban. daniel, as somebody who fought there and no doubt lost friends there, whats your reaction to the fact as of now the united states has not made good on the promise to help the afghans? >> were very concerned. as the founder of special operation association of america i hear from many operators who are still in contact with th...

The first military flight carrying afghan interpreters and theirfamilies is en route to the uk from kabul. the interpreters who worked with the british military have been threatened by extremists group in afghanistan. the relocation comes ahead of the uk withdrawing its forces from afghanistan by september. the headlines on bbc news: two of the england football team, mason mount and ben chilwell, will miss tonight�*s euro 2020 match with the czech republic because they�*re self—isolating, ...