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And you are looking about those scenes. and it is chaotic. and tear gas is flying. and bullets are flying. and whips are being brandished. you understand that its -- its -- its very difficult to have some kind of semblance of checks and balance and orderly lines. and its almost impossible to keep track of who is going through and how many people. and, you know, i know a lot of western journalists who are desperately trying to get their -- their staff out of the country and the only way they can ...

Workers. the taliban understands that this is their moment, that the world is watching, and that they need to provide some semblance of law and order which makes those images from the airport all the more stark. and of course the real worry now is that the airport, don, is becoming like a powder keg, and just one incident, one wrong move, could risk everything exploding into a much more serious conflagration, don. >> clarissa ward in kabul, afghanistan, thank you very much, clarissa. joining me ...

Airport. hundreds desperate to get a flight to freedom. even passing toddlers over barricades to troops guarding the perimeter. their hope that if they cant get out, their children might. this gives a sense of the scale, he a thin line of british soldiers trying to keep order. —— here a thin line. the heartbreak of having to turn away those without the right papers. and there are still fears for those left behind. i papers. and there are still fears for those left behind.— for those left b...

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There is some semblance of order inside the airport, with military evacuation flights continuing. britain says it has already flown out more than 1000 people. it is aiming to do that every day. but it still depends on the taliban, who control access to the airport. the us president, still having to defend his decision to leave, at least like this. he had promised a safe and orderly withdrawal. he set a deadline of getting his troops out by the end of the month. now he says they will stay until e...

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Youre not going to get in. president biden said between 10 and 15,000. hardly a precise number. the u.s. just doesnt know exactly what americans are there? >> and i think that just speaks, again, to this sense, as much as president biden said theres been no failure, you couldnt possibly have planned for this. well, okay, but are there some things that perhaps the u.s. should know, like how many americans are in afghanistan? you would think that might be something that they would be able to track...

>> i think at the time we were there, i deployed 2010 to 2011 and shortly after i returned we killed osama bin laden, i mean literally weeks after i got back. and so part of me thought the war would end there and some semblance of resolution tied to why we originally went there in 9/11. and its really over the past decade ive come to see the parallels of vietnam. and now to seit as a kind of so-called good war turn into that is incredibly tragic. >> yeah. one of the things that strikes me about ...

That picture of vietnam in your mind when you are thinking about how this might and? >> i think at the time when we were, there i deployed in 2010, to 2011. and shortly after i returned, we killed a sum of bin laden. literally weeks after i got back. so part of me thought that the war would end there. and some semblance of resolution tied to why we originally went there after 9/11. its only in the past decade that have come to see the perils of vietnam which, originally i wouldve said thats iraq...

Which can be good. but people who are in afghanistan, they are in need, too. first of all due to war from different provinces. some people came to kabul and they dont have a roof over their head and they dont have food. there is some semblance of order inside the airport. with military evacuation flights continuing. britain says its already flown out more than 1000 people. it is aiming to do that every day. but it still depends on the taliban, who control access to the airport. our people are ma...