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But because people did not have any other choice but to try and get into one of these evacuation planes, they had to go to this. !fine one of these evacuation planes, they had to go to this. . . had to go to this. one account in the immediate had to go to this. one account in the immediate moments - had to go to this. one account in the immediate moments after- had to go to this. one account in i the immediate moments after those blasts at the airport. colin clark is a terrorism expert and a director of policy and research at the intelligence and security consultancy. he gave me this assessment after what happened. this is a disaster in the making and i think he is right in the sense that afghanistan is likely to turn into some kind ofjihadist state. the nightmare scenario is that foreign fighters will flock to the country and reinforce all the jihadi groups operating there. not only al-qaeda but isis k and several other groups. al-qaeda but isis-k and several other groups- al-qae ....
10,000 afghans processed and ready to go are stuck. soldiers at the airport in afghanistan tells us thousands of afghans are waiting on flights now as the united states searches for new places to land evacuation planes. new places because qatar stopped accepting afghans. at the top of the hour president biden is set to address this crisis. let s get perspective on the challenge in the former u.s. beside to croatia. grateful for your time. if you had a minute with the president who is going to speak at the top of the hour, in the middle of a mess, what to you is the greatest challenge for the president? i think the greatest immediate challenge is to evacuate the rest of the u.s. and foreign nationals from kabul. the afghans who worked with the ....
Around, he said, love, tell the world they have not changed. they are the same as they were in the 19905. are the same as they were in the 1990s. they are beating people, they are firing into the air. they are scaring us. so you see these two different sides, and it s hard to resolve them. i was speaking to some of those taliban fighters there, they are quite frustrated it seems with the images that are being projected around the world of so many afghans wanting to flee the country. they want, of course, to project an image of stability. so in fact, they were stopping us from filming on a number of occasions. at times, they were aggressive, but other times they reprimand we had long conversations. and you can see those evacuation planes leaving here. this was filmed on board an evacuation flight conducted by the uk military. according to the government at least two planes have left today. carrying hundreds of people. here s the uk defence secretary ben wallace. things are changing rapi ....
Fighters walked will through the halls of this palace. as you noted earlier today, afghan president ashraf ghaani fled the country. this opened up the door both literally and figuratively for the group to go into the presidential palace and start to take over. and what we are seeing tonight and what we are learning tonight, significant, about how things unfolded over the past 24 hours. according to these taliban fighters speaking on live television, they coordinated throughout the day with the american military in terms of getting these evacuation planes out of kabul safely. part of the reason i think we have not seen many direct confrontations, because with we know there have been heavy confrontations taking place in conversations taking place in qatar with mediators trying to figure out a safe way to peacefully transition from the afghan government to the new taliban-controlled country of afghanistan. also we learned some interesting ....