not trained to respect them. and yet despite the impending nightmare scenario, some women activists are choosing to risk it all and stay in afghanistan for now to continue their work. reporter: this is one of them. she s a prominent activist and head of the afghan women s network. i am planning to stay here. i m going to for as long as i m needed in afghanistan. for as long as there s something i can do, which is useful and hopefully capable of going outside. i m not afraid about that. reporter: this courageous woman in her 70s is waiting to find out what life will be like after the august 31st deadline, but says the taliban cannot afford to count women out this time. afghanistan has 35 million people and there are 18 million women and there s a lot of people they are educating here. we need to work together and
useful. and i will hopefully be capable of going outside. i am not not worried or afraid about that. reporter: this courageous woman in her 70s is waiting to find out what life will be like after the august-31st deadline, but says the taliban cannot afford to count women out this time. afghanistan has 35 million people, and there are 18 million women. and there s a lot of people that they are educated here. we all need to work together. and and and that s what i m hoping that it does it happens. and it better happen sooner because the more time we spent in this in this kind of a quagmire of not knowing what is going to be happening, afghanistan will be in deep danger. reporter: and then, there s a generation of afghan women who can t even remember living under the taliban. like 23-year-old pashtana durrani. she is the executive director of learn. a nonprofit working to expand access to girls education in the country. she s now in hiding.
afghans being able to leave the country after the august 31st deadline, umm, that the taliban will allow, umm, people to leave the country. how secure are people in that i don t want to say promise but those statements from the taliban? yeah, yesterday you a senior taliban official say that afghans would be allowed to leave the country. normally the paperwork, passports, and visas will be able to leave once normal commercial operations resume. it remains to be seen if the taliban will do that. it remains to be seen whether the west and other international community will cooperate with the taliban in helping to reopen the airport and helping to restore normal flight operations. especially in helping to give visas to afghans they think are vulnerable at risk and a short term thing while media attention
yesterday s bombing that killed 13 service members, biden referred to the on-going efforts. the mission they are performing is dangerous. now, come with significant loss of american personnel. it is a worthy mission. they continue to evacuate folks out of that region. out of the airport. evacuate more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. tonight, the white house said that since august 14th, the u.s. evacuated more than 109,000 people from afghanistan. peter alexander asked press secretary about the deadline to have all troops out of afghanistan. so it is clear for americans right now, four plus days away from the august 31st deadline,
additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. tonight the white house says that since august 14th, the u.s. has evacuated more than 109,000 people from afghanistan. earlier today, our own peter alexander as press secretary jen psaki about tuesday s deadline to have all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. in terms of four plus days are way from the august 31st deadline, is the white house commitment at this point that all americans who want to leave afghanistan will be able to leave before that date? that is what we are focused on, committed, to and working. on our chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in doha tonight where he continues to follow events in kabul. while hundreds of americans have evacuated cavill in the last 24 hours, if you re an afghan trying to get to the airport, now the block is the path as. blocked the u.s. is saying that