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innocent life to be lost in the conduct of our operations, we re transparent about it. we re investigating this. i m not going to get ahead of it. the evacuation effort is now in its very final stages, with us soldiers being flown out ahead of tuesday s withdrawal deadline. many afghans remain desperate to leave the country. at this bus stand in kabul, many are headed for the iranian border. nearly all are hoping to be smuggled across. passenger numbers have more than doubled in recent weeks. translation: the previous government only cared - about getting rich themselves. now the taliban are here, there are nojobs, - there s no work anywhere. i need to be able to feed my kids. everything has become more expensive. - we can t live here any more. a new era in afghanistan is about to begin.
in its very final stages, with us soldiers being flown out ahead of tuesday s withdrawal deadline. many afghans remain desperate to leave the country. at this bus stand in kabul, many are headed for the iranian border. nearly all are hoping to be smuggled across. passenger numbers have more than doubled in recent weeks. translation: the previous government only cared - about getting rich themselves. now the the taliban are here, there are nojobs, there s no work anywhere. i need to be able to feed my kids. everything has become more expensive. we can t live here any more. a new era in afghanistan is about to begin. the taliban say they re bringing peace and ending corruption, but for those here, the deep uncertainty that has accompanied their arrival is a final push towards a new life. secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul.
the development came a short time after the united nations security council adopted a resolution calling on the taliban to allow safe passage for anyone left in the country, who still wants to leave. in a moment we ll be speaking to barbara plett usher from washington but first live to our chief international correspondent lyse doucet who s live in kabul. a significant moment at the end of a scramble of the last fortnight. fix, scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight intensified security measures in the last few days and in the last hour, the kind of gone far but i m sure all of our viewers can hear. it is why i am wearing a helmet tonight. this guy were full of red tracer fire, machine gun fire, bullets
have heard from him already on that and i expect he will outline more on how they will continue to press the taliban to let people leave freely and that is something the taliban promised something that has been mentioned in the un security council that has been passed, the international community uniting around there is that anyone allowed to leave should be able to leave and also putting forward a set of ground rules for the coming days and months and years with a new taliban led government in afghanistan and perhaps the secretary will refer to that as well. perhaps the secretary will refer to that as well- perhaps the secretary will refer to that as well. as we heard there were rockets fired towards kabul airport today for which the islamic state group claimed responsibility. and the us is accused of causing significant civilian casualties in a drone strike targeting is in kabul including children. secunder kermani reports.