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Kabul. tens of thousands of people have been _ kabul. tens of thousands of people have been airlifted l kabul. tens of thousands of| people have been airlifted to security. today i would like to once again repeat that those who have not been able to leave kabul with the help of the airlift will not be forgotten. we will continue to work to ensure that they can leave their country if they so wish. ms merkel has actually cancelled a trip to israel due to the unfolding crisis in afghanistan. separately, the uk prime minister has also weigheed in. borisjohnson condemned the attack as "barbaric", p...

The final weekend, final four days at this point. it's already past midnight in kabul. perhaps, much more difficult to operate at night but the u.s. has shown the evacuation operation continues. state department spokesman ned price said there are 500 americans they are in touch with and giving them directions for what it will take to get them to the airport and get them out. whether that means simply walking there which could easy expose them to danger or going in a vehicle which could also expose them to danger. or some sort of helicopter mission to get them out. we have seen a few of those t...

Cross border linkages, people who have family on the other side of pakistan. and we are hearing reports of people going to the border on the other side, the west of the country with iran, we are not clear whether they are being allowed in there, whether people are getting in, people without permits, but the window is closing in. we have heard canada, germany, australia saying they have finished their evacuation operation, the uk in final stages, there are lots of people still in afghanistan, people i have been speaking to over the past couple of weeks who feared for their lives under taliban r...

That i reported yesterday about isis-k or the islamic state course on wanting to attack particularly those entry points to the airport, those crowds of afghans trying to get into the airport and if they could, the u.s. service members guarding those entry points just as isis-k had both the intent and the capability to carry out those attacks yesterday. that being the concern, they maintain that intent and that capability. and that's why you continue to hear from the white house podium, from the pentagon podium that they are concerned about the terror threat going forward. it's real. and it's a...

Cnn's nick payton walsh in doha. nick, those evacuation flights, they continued. we saw one take off virtually moments after the attack. tell us the situation at the airport now. what is the pace? how many people are still getting out? >> reporter: yeah, the focus as i understand it from a source directly familiar with the situation on the airport, the focus now is getting the last-minute special access requests onto the airport. but, quote, unsure how many they can get in because so much taliban coordination is required. now, on the airport as of this morning, evacuees waiting to leave, wha...