inside the airport, american forces fired into the air, too. panic there, as a number of people died. us officials said they were assessing what happened, but couldn t confirm details. i just saw with my eyes three people, but there s more people, maybe. it s a very, very bad situation and people are in chaos. no one is quite sure what comes next in afghanistan, though it s clear the taliban are in charge. their members are out in force, patrolling in vehicles seized from government security forces. we re preventing looters and thieves from harming the people, says this fighter. the group has also reportedly been demanding all weapons are handed over to them. the unravelling of the state has come at a pace many are still struggling to comprehend. now it will be the taliban who decide what direction the country takes.
afghanistan, seizing control of kabul. ..the verdict today has been unanimous and brutal. the biden administration is redefining the word incompetent . an epic humiliation of us foreign policy, a woeful mishandling by president biden. just a month ago, the president said a taliban takeover of afghanistan was highly unlikely. and it was the national security adviser with the unenviable task of defending the administration s handling of the crisis and yesterday s evacuation from the embassy. the helicopter has been the mode of transport l from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years. it s not the helicopter. it s not the mechanism. that is how we move people back and forth, so. - no, no. it s the last minute scramble. you know that. it s the last minute scramble, when the assurances from the president himself were, this was not what we were going to see. joe biden who s at camp david and hasn t been heard from since kabul fell will return to the white house later today. t
airport. it s going to be complicated, it s going to be difficult, is going to be considerable political pressure on the government to set out the specifics. we ve heard the labour party talking a lot about this today, scotland s first minister saying that she stands ready to sign up saying that she stands ready to sign up to taking refugees or asylum seekers. i would expect to get some concrete plans from the government in the next few days and expected to be a scheme that prioritises women and girls and tries to address some of the unfolding humanitarian disaster. w of the unfolding humanitarian disaster. . , of the unfolding humanitarian disaster. ., , ., disaster. nick eardley at westminster, disaster. nick eardley at westminster, thank - disaster. nick eardley at westminster, thank you | disaster. nick eardley at. westminster, thank you for disaster. nick eardley at - westminster, thank you for that. najum iqbalfrom the international committee of the red cross. he joins us live
respond to what they re seeing on the ground now. the criticism we have been is very much from the elite policy circles in washington. they are dismayed but the american public, it s not clear how they will respond to these images of a humiliating exit. perhaps he would have to wait and see how things develop in afghanistan and whether it had been controlled state means is extremists including al-qaeda have a chance to regroup although the experts say if they do, the impact is more likely to be felt in the region sooner than elsewhere. but obviously the concern from security experts would be that there might be a terrorist attack in the united states might not be traced back to afghanistan under those circumstances you might see a backlash from voters as well. i would say it is something one would have to watch to see whether the manner of leaving has enough of an
how long american troops should stay in afghanistan. he did not support barack 0bama as surge and he made it clear that he does not want another father s son or mother or his son to go and servejust father s son or mother or his son to go and serve just as his son did. he s history suggests he s wanted to get out from underneath the shackles of afghanistan as soon as possible. and that seems to play into some of the criticism that he s facing now. yes, he s been pretty clearfor years he thought afghanistan was a predatory boy to be american forces and there was not really an endgame and there was not really an endgame and that the army had gone into with the threat of al-qaeda and they did not want to stay in nation building he has been vocal about that and he has very recently said i don t want a us presence to be in the middle of a us presence to be in the middle of a conflict, a civil conflict. so he