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tried to resist. but the taliban are not to be put off, of course. any resistance is dealt with them quickly. there are fights near the airport. that is completely unconfirmed. some have said british soldiers who were there were probably providing the initial cover for that area may have been involved. we ve not had anything official from that. but we have seen from that direction smoke rising in the air. there have been gunshots and explosion as you say. there are helicopters going around continuously. all the time we are being told, and it s either in the presidential palace or in the interior ministry which is 500, kilometer away from me that direction, are talks between the current afghan government and the great report by sir ramsey. not the clip we intended to play at all at that point. in part of his reporting he said he s seeing a parade of taliban
don t want to destroy the city and assault the human rights of individuals in kabul. but i can t really believe that given the reporting we ve heard from other places. you know, essentially the afghan people are surrendering. and this, of course, started with the afghan government because the military would not have surrendered if it weren t for the fact that they were not properly provisioned, you know, meaning having materiel, food and ammunition, and of course the political support, the will of the government in kabul. but, you know, again, the international community, the united states, we really need to look at what happens here. there was clearly an intelligence failure. and the way that we are leaving now is an absolute, as i said in my tweet, disaster. yeah, you said it s an absolute disaster. and as you mentioned, you covered this area under your purview when you worked for president obama, the eurasia area. i m curious for your perspective on what this day means for
fact, this is just the very beginning, the very, very tip of the offensive here or if maybe we re going to see kabul move in a different direction than we ve seen some of these other cities. it s also important to point out, you were just mentioning jalalabad. if the taliban moved in, they met virtually no resistance from the afghan military and they were able to take over not only jalalabad but the entire province there right outside of kabul without much fighting. and, courtney, is that because the afghan military is trying to protect civilian lives? reporter: you know, it s hard to say. i think every single area has been different. every province and every provincial capital have been different. but this may be as much about preservation of civilian lives as it is about preservation of the afghan military who have just really been overrun in some of these places. you know, in some of the cases,
folks, and he described a desperate situation because they are not in the city of kabul and unable to get to kabul, much less trying to get through the visa process. they assume they will die right there at the hands of the taliban. in the meantime, evelyn, as i mentioned, you covered this area a little while ago. give me the significance of the fact that the u.s. embassy will be closing there in kabul once all those personnel are out of there. i should also mention, we keep seeing those different pictures of the helicopters possibly transporting folks as well. the significance of the embassy closing. well, clearly, kendis, it s a symbolic failure for us politically, internationally. the world looks and says the u.s. can t even defend its embassy and we said we would stay with afghanistan, with the government of afghanistan, and the people of afghanistan even after we withdraw military forces. that was something that, you