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After Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga sent offering to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday - the 76th anniversary of Japans surrender in World War II - and some Japanese senior politicians recently visited the shrine, China expressed firm opposition against the moves and lodged solemn representations with Japan.

Breaking news as the taliban closed in on kabul. the taliban says they were in talks with the opposing side for a peaceful surrender at the capitol. kabul will not be attacked and theyll shift power peacefully to a transitional administration. these videos appeared to show u.s. helicopters flying above kabul, sours say embassy staff are being flown to the airport. the goal is to get them out by tuesday at the latest. therefore still plans to leave skeleton crew of embassy staff behind. c cnn has...

But if you, sort of, surrender, if you like, then all will be forgiven. essentially, offering some kind of a blanket amnesty, to anyone who agrees to sort of put down their arms. although, i would say we have seen plenty of situations, in the recent past, where taliban fighters have carried out extrajudicial killings of military and security-services personnel. so you can understand, for that reason, a lot of people might be reluctant to surrender. >> yeah, thats the big fear. and again, its -- ...

Forever. so by stalling and by not paying the ransom, saladin was in a sense not just buying time for himself, but also hoping that some of richards armies would simply turn and go home. >> richard realizes that saladin is prolonging the fulfillment of the terms of the surrender of acre. and the longer this goes on, the more suspicious he gets. >> he flew into a fit of rage, something that he was known to do. he took the hostages, and he marches them out to a promontory outside of the city of ac...

And for it to be closing once personnel are out, is significant. what does that say for many of the afghans who are desperately trying to get out of there after the americans around? >> yes, i mean they are flooding offices right now in kabul trying to get out. many of them saying we worked with the u.s. military. there is going to be a target on all of our backs. you have to please help get us out. of course, it is very complicated effort as our richard engel reported. a lot of these forms, fir...

Evacuation. theyre not gone yet. >> as you mentioned, it was four days ago when the u.s. military said the taliban could take kabul in 90 days. how did the u.s. military, with all our intelligence and all the folks that we have there on the ground, get this so wrong? >> reporter: well, they completely, completely overestimated the afghan militarys ability or willingness -- and they are putting it on willingness because they have the capacity to fight back. and what has been so shocking is the su...

Courtney kube. courtney, so great to see you. pickup where andrea left off, talking about after all these years and all the resources put into training the afghan forces, that they would f surrender, pu down their weapons, take off their uniforms and blend back in to the population. the reaction in theto pentagon whats happening in afghanistani >> reporter: yes, so thats really been the factor here thats been a game changer on the ground, is the fact that the afghan security forces did not stand...

En en en enter peacefully and anyone who essentially do not fight them and offer surrender. >> one can imagine. i want to get to the comment from the minister saying theyll shift power to a transitional administration, if thats a significant development. what are we to make of that and what may that transitional administration look like? >> well, i mean this is whats being hammered out right now in these talks. as i said these are very last stitch talks and it is difficult to know what real leve...

Kabul and say they are in talks with the government there for a peaceful surrender. house members just wrapped up an unclassified briefing from the secretary of defense lloyd austin, secretary of state anthony blinken, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general milley who told them that the situation in afghanistan is fluid and that they are prioritizing the safety of several groups. joining me now evelyn farkas former secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. greg whitlock for th...