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Stories at the top of the hour straight after this programme. 20 years after 9/11 and the invasion of afghanistan, american troops are finally leaving. but since news of the withdrawal, targeted killings and suicide attacks have increased. the taliban are back and gaining ground against government forces. many people fear there will be a return to their brutal regime of the �*90s. the taliban leadership say they have changed and want to work alongside the current government. there was in the p...

Of course, education is their right and it is much needed. and when there is the education there, of course it is they have the right to work. so we want to end this phase of occupation and bring about another government which is acceptable by the people of afghanistan. so it would be one person, one vote? weve seen a number of targeted killings in afghanistan at the moment. the taliban deny that theyre involved. so whos behind it? some people who are military people who are fighting against us,...

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Base. that wasnt true. what they did was take the afghans who bravely defended the small base i was on and so hes been lying at least since 120. and i think hes counting on the international press to either not look into all of the lies and hes told all of the atrocities, hes justified all the killings of afghans that the taliban has committed that hes papered over. more afghans have been killed by taliban than americans. and so i wish i could believe him. >> i appreciate your time gratefully at...

Heard the reassuring noises from the very practised taliban spokesman but what really matters is whats going on out of the public eye in the regions, in the rural areas, where zealots will be moving into positions of power and influence and i worry that as soon as the is afghanistan, we will begin to hear the same sort of reports of atrocities and killings as we heard in the past. lets see and lets hope for the best.— in the past. lets see and lets hope for the best. in the past. lets see and ...

What have you been getting about this so far? >> they are so far saying the kinds of things that would you hope they would say in the current circumstances. stay calm, well be responsible, there wont be revenge killings, no one should be afraid. whether they, aside, whether they genuinely mean that and they may, at least some of them may, there is very much an open question as to whether they can hold their own fighters and commanders to that. youve got a lot of people who in the taliban movemen...

Saw that the taliban was gaining in power because they care most about their own safety. thats why it happened so quickly. but it was all happen and actually so far, although it looks really bad. its not as bad as it could have been. there have not reprisal killings yet in kabul. and there may be. i will be one of the first people complaining about it if it happens there arent so far yet reprisal killings. we dont know what the taliban is going to do. the taliban is committed to having an exclus...

President, we are extremely concerned about the taliban not honouring — concerned about the taliban not honouring their promises and commitments made in their statements. we have witnessed time and again— statements. we have witnessed time and again how the taliban have broken — and again how the taliban have broken their promises and commitments in the past. we have seen _ commitments in the past. we have seen gruesome images of taliban mass execution _ seen gruesome images of taliban mas...

Executions and targeted killings in kandahar annika bull and the reporter in kabul said he is hearing the similar reports. what is your response that the forces are committing the atrocities? >> these allegations are totally baseless. totally wrong. they are the propaganda spread to another mislead the opinion of the world against us. of course there was when the forces and policemen created the outpost, the station and they fled. there was for a few hours -- and our forces were at that time the...

That went through several wars over the taliban times as many deadly attacks over the years. it will not be easy to ensure that the residents who have been left chaos, who have left to uncertainty, left of the possibility of a bloodshed and killings, and as we heard, foreign and western diplomats have left to and western diplomats have left to an undisclosed locations. the afghans dont have that luxury. the people here were promised a comprehensive and prominent ceasefire and none of those thing...