afghanistan. but when you think about it, what do you wish had been different what do you wish had been done differently? well, i can say a lot of things, but it s too late now. but security forces at least some confidence and hope that the withdrawal is going to happen. the transaction was going to happen. we were sure of that. but we didn t know it was going to end up this way. so, we were assured that even if we had to take care take the responsibility and lead our country and our government and our nation, which we had been doing for the last few years, but we were still sure that the international community, especially the u.s. forces, will remain some element in central kabul or in central airport or in the bases of afghanistan,
outside should now cover their faces even. and should be accompanied by a male escort. but on the streets in the capital here in kabul, you see women dressing pretty much as they did before. and they re not being met with a huge amount of resistance from the taliban for doing that. there is a sense that the taliban is trying to be pragmatic in some of the ways in which it chooses to implement its very extreme version of sharia law, but the fundamentals have not changed. and so the fear here on the ground is that the situation is only going to get worse as the taliban continues to consolidate and centralize its authority that you are going to see more and not fewer restrictions imposed on women and girls here. clarissa, on a diplomatic level, you re there right after the u.s. has taken out the head of al qaeda, ayman al zawahiri in the city where you re standing, that was condemned by the taliban, the u.s. said the
capability of u.s. intelligence and of these over the horizon attacks puts them under a lot of pressure with their domestic hard-line following who say how on earth can we possibly have any relationship with the u.s. when they continue this kind of aggression and there were protests the day after that news was made more public. so it puts everyone in a very difficult position and it raises serious questions about how the u.s. can navigate this relationship, going forward. both sides do seem to accept on a fundamental pragmatic level that that engagement needs to happen, but there is no question that the killing of ayman al zawahiri, right here in central kabul, dramatically complicates that effort. all right, clarissa ward on the ground there in the afghan capital. it is great to have you back there. looking forward to more of your terrific reporting and we ll be in touch. now, still ahead, a senior cdc official calls a case of
taliban was violating the doha agreement when they agreed they would not shelter terrorists. so do you have any sense of where those i don t want to call it a relationship but where those discussions stand and how this assassination, this killing impacted the discussions that do happen between the u.s. and the taliban? reporter: i think that there is no question that this has had a dramatic effect on the nature of that engagement. and it has been a major setback, because it is clear that the taliban has not abided by its promises to not give safe haven to al qaeda and other terror groups. now, leaders of the taliban said they didn t know that zawahiri was here in central kabul. many others including officials in the u.s. government will tell you that s nonsense, that s not possible and that actually people at the highest levels were aware of it. and similarly from the taliban s perspective, this very clear and stark demonstration of the
uh, how long are you. i m done. i m okay. welcome back. the former president of afghanistan ashraf ghani is slamming the united states in a new interview saying his country was in his words, quote, deceived, and the taliban emboldened by a agreement that laid the foundation for the u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan after nearly two decades on the ground. this withdrawal took place nearly a year ago, you ll recall, august 30th, 2021, a day where scenes like these showed desperation of some to escape after the city of kabul fell to the taliban a few weeks prior. hundreds swarmed the airport, some running on the tarmac to get on those planes out of the country. and since then the situation