story now i ve been speaking to laurel miller program directorfor asia at the think tank, crisis group. i asked her if she thought kabul would fall next. what is unclear is whether the taliban are planning to or even needs to attack hubble or if the government will simply collapse before they have to make that move. what we are seeing so far is that the taliban has had a very well laid strategy for surrounding the city is that they have now been able to move on and for essentially, encircling the city. so it looks extremely fragile at the moment. it is just uncertain whether the government collapse before the taliban has to fight for the city or whether they will
nearby kandahar is believed to be on the brink. we are now departing, as i say, and leaving the country to what we are going to see is a massive humanitarian disaster, a civil war. we are going to see huge migration problems and on top of that we are going to see terrorism raise its ugly head again no doubt in this country and other countries because it s now become a safe haven for them to regroup, rearm, and retrain. most british troops had already left kabul as part of the us led withdrawal. this temporary surge is purely to facilitate the departure of those who remain securely, but once again it raises more questions as to what was achieved by the sacrifice of a57 british lives over the past 20 years. jonathan beale, bbc news. i m joined now by laurel miller. she is the program directorfor asia at the think tank, crisis group.