Of maybe 2 in germany. This week on d. W. O afghanistan, august 2021. This documentary unravels the dramatic end of estate hearing from people who experienced it up close. With the taliban are seizing control of afghanistan. The eyes of the world are on the capital airport. For desperate scenes unfold over the course of 2 weeks. General audience out is in charge of airborne brigade, one in germany, and responsible for evacuations. Hes tasked with organizing and Evacuation Mission and afghanistan with hardly any lead time. Ah sauce, hi doff. It was fridays into august 13th and north because i got a phone call that made it clear the initial plan had to be ready by mid day. The next day when he asked me really when was the time pressure was unbelievable and globally, quartz i took that same day. However, germanys foreign intelligence service, the b and d reports. Taliban leadership currently has no interest in military takeover of cobble take over of cobble before september. 11th, rather unlikely. The bonus fare. Germanys armed forces is facing its largest ever Evacuation Mission to fly out germans and also afghans who are at risk come the line is will we be able to fly in less what a security like lawn we are. In afghanistan, afghanistan, the taliban continued to advance on cobbled cobble with enough guns in afghanistan. The taliban are on the verge of seizing power in berlin. Its becoming clear, the situation has been deeply misjudged. Marcos pizza is asked to return from his summer vacation. Hes Germany Special representative for afghanistan, few german diplomats know the country as well as he does. Hes to become germanys ambassador in afghanistan for the 2nd time. His flight is scheduled for august 15th, but it never comes to that. The German Embassy is being evacuated. The minister and some then foreign minister hi, co moss decided that i should go to doha and 1st and foremost and try to talk with the taliban, whom i already knew. Jeff, when the goal was to talk about the prospects of leaving the country, especially for our local employees. The afghans who have for years worked for german organizations are now in danger. Wherever the taliban is seizing control talks with a taliban are now critical to save them. When cobble wakes up on the morning of the august 15th 2021. The taliban are at the gates of the city president ashcroft. Danny had vowed to defend cobble to the very end. We started the morning, not thinking that this is going to be the last day in cobble. Tom delano head is National Security adviser. One of us rock gone is close as confidant, so he has bad news for the president. The afghan army has told him they cannot defend cobble. I had this hard to heart discussion with the military leaders. It was clear they didnt believe that was possible. The president didnt know thats what his military leaders were thinking. The problem was nobody wanted to sound weak. Because if any military leader was heard to say or any political leader was heard to say that this was not doable, it would immediately collapse. But there is one final plan to avoid chaos and bloodshed. Now theyre not every one of the Afghan Governments top negotiators is scheduled to meet the taliban in doha. I was booked on a flight on sunday morning on the 15th. Ah, to to go to door. Things looked very normal and officer opened the gates and he was tired. He could see in his eyes that he of and slept for long probably couple of nights. Ah, he recognized me. He said, sir, youre going to dora. And he, i, he said this too much. We have lost a lot. Can you please find a way can you please find a way to end us . Behind the scenes, the Afghan Government and the us are talking to the taliban, hoping to strike a last minute deal as well as god would. It appears there really was a plan to have a 14 day transitional phase in which connie would remain in the president ial palace and arrange for an orderly transfer of power in duffy, the taliban, agreed they would remain outside. Cobble. You also have cobb was from livelihood. And then suddenly yes, i made breaking me with coming in. I should have gone in the president about about an hour left of got a ton of stones president. I should have gone, he was gone, his left, the country has confirmed that the president , president , donny of afghanistan has left the country and then gone. He was gone at mid day on sunday. Well, thats were awesome. Well, the news surprised even his closest aids, including the foreign minister and his chief of staff. He only took his innermost circle with him. This is martin beck, the president s chief of staff at the time. I could the after lunch, i could hear the wife. But i didnt target silicon too because that, that there was a lot of helicopter. But when i said a foreign affairs, he called me, he asked me where as a president , i told him prism was with us. He went home. He said no, he done away. And i couldnt believe him, i had no reason to believe because the on nicholas over while the chief of staff is with others having lunch. The president flees with his top security adviser. Ready ready may have gone to lunch that wasnt understood, who goes to lunch at when the couple is about to collapse. But out from our understanding, do they dont even those people have left. So theyre gone. And now i said every minute the situation changed. And anybody that was left bold came with the president does. Suddenly there was this power back, yoga and the americans and the taliban asked themselves, so what do we do now . When and they asked each other. Yeah. Are you going in now or are we got it on . And the americans presumably said were going to the airport now. Were not going into the palace. And from what ive heard, the americans probably agreed that the taliban could enter cobweb contrary to the previous agreement. But gandhis decision to flee by had rendered that no one void is in info at the bottom. Ah, the collapse of the government also leaves sir refill godfrey in great danger. At the time she had the department in the Afghan Defense ministry, a former mayor. Shes one of the countrys few female politicians and one of the youngest. She has been risking her life so that other women in her country are in power to shape their own lives and futures. Now she finds herself having to flee. Ah. I left my on 2016 yourself achievement them because my certificates my invoice cease document. Eve, what thing my a watts. Even thing was theyre in a very big coupler. Were just going to bring these. I live at exclusive shows your breaking news inside the president ial palace watts. You are looking at right now. Is taliban fighters in the sites . The president ial power services, sir . These pictures explosive on al jazeera, im af, current last year, was her clear collapse of sta, immediate collapse of they say. And then it was it was art that was, it was, it was very, very hard. I saw all of them crumble down in front of it brought me suddenly to that realization. But would i be an exact person . Ah news kind of pictures where you alive. This for the thing that that thousands of words cannot describe me. So how many people fleeing gown from their plates like barts thats, thats how african lifers, how a nation was desperate. Because a nation was, was surrender to the wall. Jack vick rushed in berlin officials are taken aback by the speed of these development. Cindys visits in the its alice still doing everything we can to ensure germans, citizens, and former local employees can leave an hour sizes to a move. You know, caffeine in will, meaning germany and local employees are to be flown out from cobble airport, scuffed out flooring. The attic. Oh, this is some im jabari, one of those local employees. He worked for the german bonus here for years. It was his job to make the mission of the International Troops more popular among the afghan people. To encourage them to fight against the taliban. He also accompanied Afghan Security forces on missions. When the taliban begins taking one afghan province after the other, in summer 2021, he realizes hes in great danger. Hes counting on the help of the germans to get him and his family out of the country. Bundeswehr did very, but at the beginning they were ignoring us. However, in the beginning, while the day leave afghanistan, we were asking them to please a quit does. But this plea goes unheard when the German Armed Forces end their years long. Mission in afghanistan and june 2021. They leave behind the majority of their local employees, including so means robbery. According to the german crisis team, the situation and cobble is dramatic. Taliban has effectively taken cobble. If it was chick point south tyler bonnie all the way to the airport with district points they were chick inglewood class and all so and my face was a little bit more fabulous and may or lead the family members. So i had to hide what i did, i just i in r o as my husband to give me space at the between of his like fit at the down. Oh, of the car. So i sit down and then you know, whenever there was a chick point, my husband had a bag. He was splitting. Got back on my heat. On my way, when i was like, you know, i was witness saying this seems happening to city. How tyler, minor beating people, treating pupils evil words star live on their flags that that moments like all my family, evil. One a 9 percent sitting in the car. Every one was cry. Even one from my younger brother to my mom and to my husband. That was really painful because what we struggled for. It was a beautiful, bright future. A beautiful by to day. But what we are having is just running away and keeping, ah, tie to love m a grand for you the only identity k through can carry it. Ah, the biggest evacuation operation ever mounted by the bond is here, does not get off to a smooth start. Pictures like this go around the world. The americans manage to transport hundreds of people in one plane, putting the germans under pressure. But the us only give the German Armed Forces a very small window. You dont, you had to was like a german Evacuation Mission is underway, but it had a bumpy start or quantity to night. The bundle fair was only able to fly 7 people out of cobble in its big cargo plant league sniffed, or sometimes the discussion was a bit irritating in parts. And ive given the time that we had the conditions, we faced us when we only had 30 minutes on the ground. So the clock was ticking as we landed like 30 minutes. Then we had to be out, or else it didnt work, since the circumstances were very difficult and untrue. The dots on the situation changes on later flights than the bonus there is able to fill its planes code as, as we, i think its important to remember one thing of how this operation was depicted. Boat is not what the reality was like on the ground. Thus mostly our dornan bussey at us. According to the german crisis team, we will not be anywhere close to evacuating all the people. Approximately 13000 that we have on our lists by august 31st. Thousands of afghan employees want to leave for germany and many are waiting desperately at the airport. So i mean, jabari is there to the Security Forces. Dont, dont let people, the glen ah, you are hearing the voice of the weapon and its impossible to go. And this is really hard and he keeps on trying to make his way through to the german troops to no avail. Even though he has documents with him, including emails from the bond is fail rate. And then a regular crime that im coming here. As you see, there are more than 10000 people or so i think there and different queues and both of us to go and its really, really hard when he finally makes contact with the german soldiers. Hes turned away despite the paperwork he has with him while they sent me an especially evacuation letter and that the we took the bus talk us and also we got inside the airport and our german soldier kicked us out with my wife and 2 sons back that these, the, he was saying that you are, your name is not on the list. The mood outside the airport as turning uglier by the minute with kicking and shoving, and families being torn apart. Once thoughts, im given, these people were effectively fighting for the lives. Ill put it that way based us martin. And as a result, the fight of the survival of the fittest emerged in an increasingly ugly fashion at the airport as each day went by hot discretion, the stag along kinda of infant children were being passed from the back to the front of the crowd. I was young to know here was the child, but no family edmunds and its not what you can talk to the child has or not if its an infant, as its on. So we try to re unite families and set up a Meeting Point one together with other countries. Im very difficult who cutty freely. I peered. Woman zaps, do so with own eyes. People arguing over children like the 2 men talking at either side of a childs arms because they each want to use him as a kind of entry tickets into the airport to garner sympathy and flu call from device. So in woodson, mit light, so thats why we witnessed these children crying on their arms practically being dislocated. Little children turning blue, who were at viet me. Desert klein, these are images will never forgets us in below. Events in michigan. Ah, how could it come to this such chaotic scenes after 20 years of military engagement in afghanistan . The seeds for this disastrous development were sown in doha. Here in katara capital talks were intended to smooth the way towards ending the United States longest war top afghan american diplomats, zelma colonial zod was negotiating with the taliban for then us president donald trump. Well, he had come to a judgement like president obama had before him, that there was no military solution for afghanistan at that price that the us and nato was willing to pay. And the war wasnt going well. Was causing the United States a lot, 40000000000 a year. That was too much she believe. Ah, taliban wants to make a deal. Well see if they want to make if he has got to be a real deal. But well see some odd darts from donald trump wanted to end the war, didnt he wanted to bring his troops back counseling, as i said that to and bring back our all our boys, my son lavish. There are 2 main things. The americans can be criticized for by phone to firstly that the Afghan Government was not included or, and secondly, that the allies werent involved in whose name culture zak was always negotiate. A rather bizarre, lets awesome, did saw. In the end, the u. S. Agrees to withdraw all troops. The taliban commits to almost nothing in return. Apart from peace talks with the Afghan Government. I think when they had signed a do a deal with the americans. And they had no interest to negotiate with us. Dad did just have to talk with us for the sake of talk to mark the the, the boxes off the door had did oh, theyre talking with african to toddy. Bon, the taliban have a date. They know exactly when were pulling out, so theyll sit tight and then take over the country. Thats how it happened in the end. Lessons also become talks to not start between the Afghan Government and the taliban until september 2020 the negotiations and doha go on for months, but no peace deal emerges. In the meantime, theres a new president and the white house, but he to jest, wants out, timed in and americas longest war. Its time for american troops to come home. Suddenly it becomes clear that germany, too, will need to pull out its troops very soon. In berlin, the ministries are at loggerheads. Every one knows that local employees are essentially trapped. But how many are there . And how can they get v says the ministry of the interior is digging his heels in. Should the German Government quickly dispatch charter plains the German Foreign ministry has qualms. Afghan president , ashcroft gone, he has personally asked to marcus puts a not to do so through. Yeah. Must the yeah, of course you dont do it with you. You dont send in charter plan, so this is the until the, i mean, we were really worried that if we sent in charter plans and blew out local employees on mass fee, we have a responsibility towards theres no question about that than anyone who wanted to leave afghanistan would rush to the airport in a bed to do just that, and dont, dont, doesnt sound as in boy. Yet, this is exactly what happens just months later and august. By then the airport in cobble is a death drop. The german crisis team, alerts warning and attack will be carried out in the next 36 hours. We knew something would happen that day. We just didnt know where august 26th turns out to be the final day of the german evacuation operation and cobble on that day, thousands flocked to the airport again. The window of opportunity is closing against that backdrop. A suicide bomber blows himself up outside of the gates, killing almost 200 people. Ah, ah, one day later german troops are back in germany after the 10 day operation. The bundeswehr says it flew out 5347. 00 people within that time. But its just a small fraction of those that they wanted to get out. Mm hm. The last u. S. Troops left the country on august 30th, under the cover of darkness, practically fleeing after 20 years. The war is over for the west, at least. But many victims remain and many open questions. In the meantime, tommy jabari has managed to get out of afghanistan with the help of the German Foreign mystery. He left the country by land via pakistan, me for a long journey, followed venture full of risk. But the story right now, like i said, the airplane, me, the i refill go far a flight to germany via stumble here, she tells her story while still trying to support women in afghanistan from afar. For sally. My so im a little lost. Im so girl my eyes i was so lucky will to accept there will cease whats happening in my cant really me afghan women have once again been ordered to wear a broker and public. I have hardly any rights. Older girls are not allowed to attend school. Millions of afghans are going hungry. Thousands of afghan employees who work for the German Government are still stranded in the me. For my generation and my pupil, the pupil of my age, the builder was our self. And then when it was the time to enjoy our, our watching men, our struggle even gone. When the taliban controls cobble, once again, was that really inevitable . In berlin, a Parliamentary Committee has been set up to investigate the failure of the Afghanistan Mission and its dramatic conclusion. This type c o, its something you want to know. Especially if youve spent a long time in that country working or training. And suddenly you see this as most is what happened to buffy. Why did the security infrastructure collapse so quickly . And what about the forces that were trained . What else could be latan . Fast intuitive, i involved what they lacked was the confidence, the willingness to fight and the motivation that comes by itself. And what about soon am the Security Forces basically surrendered the country to the taliban without a fight . Im flores in the flank or didnt have you been with us. And that came as something of a shock to maybe with his ang m eyes on. So can i hold us african politician responsible. The world came after 911. 00. There was so much resources. So much willingness, but what we did, we africans. I mean we have to come, we can just blame others. Could i as one preventive . All no. But do i feel responsible . Somebody who worked with that government . Somebody who engaged with the International Partners . I feel yes. History will judge all offers and i think what happens and what is a disgrace . The fall of cobble has uprooted countless afghans, including former senior politicians. Now theyre not every is living in exile and amsterdam unable to return to f, ganeth down. The same goes for martin beck who fled to washington, hummed, alamo. He spends most of his time in london, macos pottsville, sped longer and then originally planned meeting the taliban as a german envoy should he shouldnt been appointed un deputies special representative for afghan instead. Controllers, but they have extensive control over the country more so than any other government in the last 40 years. We recognize that reality and are trying to stabilize the system so that people can live there and not die the theme of the by so that they can survive. But of course, thats a balancing act. That much is clear to the him, the god, one on the taliban are back there. Not internationally recognized, but theyre more powerful than ever. 20 years of war. Only for the taliban to return to power once again in ah ah, will you become a criminal or franklin . Ai already know that with hackers, paralyzing the tire societies, computers that outs where you and governments that go crazy for your data. 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