today at six, the desperate scramble to escape afghanistan, and life, under taliban rule. to escape afghanistan, some in the crowds at kabul airport hand over their children to us marines, to at least get them on flights to freedom. 0thers begged western embassies for travel papers. these people have no real information about what they can do to leave afghanistan, but they are desperate. in fact, they are coming to us, asking us, is it true? will the canadians give me a visa? the fact is, most of these people will never get one. the uk says it will continue to help people escape, as long as the us military controls of the airport. we are the lucky ones, we made it. there are lots of people who really need help. but one young afghan boy who did
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. signs of the taliban tightening their grip, cracking down on dissent and reportedly hunting down those who collaborated with western forces. the militants beat back the crowds at kabul airport, as afghans turn up in hope, at western embassies, long abandoned. these people have no real information about what they can do to leave afghanistan but they are desperate. in fact, they re coming to us sing is a true, would the canadians give us a view? most of these people will never get one.
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pentagon briefing earlier. barbara platt usher is in washington. tell us more about what the general had to say. he us more about what the general had to sa . . , us more about what the general had to sa . ., , . ., ., , to say. he was quite clear that they have the capacity to say. he was quite clear that they have the capacity to to say. he was quite clear that they have the capacity to airlift - to say. he was quite clear that they have the capacity to airlift quite - to say. he was quite clear that they have the capacity to airlift quite a i have the capacity to airlift quite a lot of people out at this point come up lot of people out at this point come up to 9000 today, but they clearly also don t have that number because of problems getting the people to the airport. now, the ones that they acknowledged was the state department processing of visa applications of afghan allies and vulnerable afghans and so on. that was taking a long time. so they said that they had brought in
were in constant communication so that the taliban would be letting through those who they were supposed to let through, and he also said he didn t believe american citizens were being blocked on their way in. he also confirmed that there was no plan to extend the perimeter. the american parameter, or move for presence and to kabul to escort people coming back to the airport. now, you have heard that i think the president has said that they may extend the deadline date if not all americans are out, they were open to that, he did not make that explicit promise for afghan allies, and they ve got less than two weeks now to get tens of thousands of people out. . ~ to get tens of thousands of people out. ., ~ , ., to get tens of thousands of people out. ., ~ , ., , to get tens of thousands of people out. ., ~ i. , . i m joined now by modaser islami, a social activist who is based in kabul. i wonder if you could tell us what the last few days have been like for you. the last few days have b