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I was not allowed to do anything within my community. how was that? it was really bad, i felt like i was in a country where i came to seek safety, but it was worse than i was before. this part of west yorkshire has long welcomed those seeking sanctuary. for more than 20 years calderdale has taken in asylum seekers and it volunteered to resettle syrians during the war. the council says it is ready to step up again, but the leader says they must have support. we want to be open and welcoming, but ...

Extraordinarily worried about the plight of afghan allies inside the country and extremely concerned about what kind of taliban government were going to get. one of the people that has been cited by me by a number of people is mullah muhammad faisal, who spent 12 years in the bay cited as being responsible for the massacre of shia in the bammian province in 2001 and believe he was responsible for the genocide of hazares, 10,000 to 20,000 in northern afghanistan before thetal bab regime was toppl...

Flee the taliban. joining us now is adjunct senior fellow at the council on foreign relations, also with us pulitzer prize winning reporter, and executive editor of new yorker.com david rode. he too is highlighting the plight of afghans trying to leave including one journalist who along with david was kidnapped and held captive by the taliban before they both escaped. that journalist is now an american citizen working to get his family to safety. meeghan and david thank you both for joining us. ...

The process can be tough. i was not allowed to go to school, _ the process can be tough. i was not allowed to go to school, i _ the process can be tough. i was not allowed to go to school, i was i the process can be tough. i was not allowed to go to school, i was not l allowed to go to school, i was not allowed to go to school, i was not allowed to go to school, i was not allowed to do anything within my community. how was that? it was really bad, ifelt like i community. how was that? it was rea...

Aside, its remarkable a week ago we would have been surprised there are direct conversations going on with u.s. military commanders and taliban commanders that seem to be sort of these military technical talks. really the fact that theyre discussing any kind of coordination on the ground at all a week ago would have been pretty big news. now were trying to figure out what it is they were talking about and if they -- what exactly they were negotiating. >> yeah, its one of those things you can fil...

Well continue to see it become younger and younger and younger. well have our most vulnerable and most at-risk populations first. >> dr. jane morgan, thank you very much. >> thank you, poppy. >> all right. now to afghanistan where the taliban claim they will grant amnesty, thats what they say, to all employees of the ousted government and that they should continue coming in to work. >> a lot of genuine doubts, and ive heard them from people on the ground there about whether thats true. the situa...

Ghani always had a contentious relationship with the taliban. they viewed him as a puppet of the americans. on social media, ghani said he left to avoid further bloodshed. but in the end, he ran before the taliban took control, potentially escaping the fate of a previously deposed afghan president whose beaten, lifeless body ended up hanging from a pole. nic robertson, cnn. coming up here on cnn, afghan civilians have the most to lose with the taliban takeover. thousands have already fled the ...

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...

Veterans of america, and the iva, and we all told them as far back as april that they needed to start evacuating the afghan allies when we had troops and they had not collapsed to the -- and the secretary of state goes on tv and says this is not a new saigon, and he is right, it is worse. it is worse than saigon, because in saigon we got 130,000 people out in a week. we have been trying to conduct this in better part of a month, and we have barely moved 125 people. they need to take full respons...

>> and you make people laugh not only at you but at themselves. >> everyone will think im weird. [ laughter ] hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. appreciate your company. im michael holmes. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," the taliban seize afghanistan. the speed of the takeover shocking, end a 20-year war with the country back in the hands of islamist militants. fear for the plight of women and girls, girls who started going to school dream...