welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden says us troops might stay in afghanistan beyond his deadline at the end of the month if more time is needed to get every american out of the country. it comes three days after the taliban takeover, which prompted thousands of people to try to leave. we ll have a full report from there in a moment, but first here s president biden explaining the chaos we ve seen in kabul in the last few days. he s been speaking to us network abc news. when you had the government of afghanistan, the leader of that government getting on a plane and taking off and going to another country. when you saw the significant collapse of the afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them, just leaving their equipment and taking off, that was, you know, that s what happened. that s simply what happened. i m joined now by our north america correspondent david willis. the president coming in for a great deal of criticism,
hello and welcome to the programme. president biden says us troops might stay in afghanistan beyond his deadline at the end of the month if more time is needed to get every american out of the country. it comes three days after the taliban takeover, which prompted thousands of people to try to leave. we ll have a full report from there in a moment, but first here s president biden explaining the chaos we ve seen in kabul in the last few days. he s been speaking to us network abc news. when you had the government of afghanistan, the leader of that government getting on a plane and taking off and going to another country. when you saw the significant collapse of the afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them, just leaving their equipment and taking off, that was, you know, that s what happened. that s simply what happened. 0ur north america correspondent, david willis, has more on what presidnet biden had to say. and the president making the point he is committed to
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kabul, port-au-prince, washington, beijing and moscow as only early start can. but we begin with the taliban in charge of afghanistan. the white house now facing dual challenges this morning on a national security level, preventing the kind of extremist resurgence that led to the attack that drew the u.s. into afghanistan in the first place and on a more political level containing the fallout from the catastrophic retreat by the afghan army, the u.s. spent 20 years to defend their own land. images like this seared into history, desperate afghans fleeing the taliban chase an american military plane as it departed yesterday. also chilling scenes of what appear to be people in free-fall losing their grip after takeoff. and u.s. forced to get the allies who remain there out. and new photo inside a military cargo plane that flew out sunday, 640 afghans crammed on a floor on a plane meant for far fewer. president biden admits that the collapse unfolded more quickly than the u.s
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