everything, they ve realized how to navigate certain diplomatic fields and to make themselves more legitimate, if you will. but as you mentioned, that s not going to change the nature of who they are. they may be able to present the different face around the world toff governments here in tehranr in t dohar but they re still gog to want to run the show exactly like they did s 20 years ago. and any social reforms that have been made in that country over the last two decades are pretty quickly going to vanish in afghanistan.th and, you know, like i mentioned to you, they re desperately looking afghan people to get out of the p country and go to anywhere that will take them to try toe start a new life becau it really isn t a life under the taliban. however,he anybody who didn get ayb visa is not getting one now because they re evacuating the u.s.e embassy and you can get to able if you re else where in the country. this becomes a very problematic way of getting out of
0 latest on the situation. thank you. the fall of kabul appears to be imminent is the headline. we re sure courtney will be with us throughout the day, as well as our steam of correspondents to follow the latest. thanks for watching msnbc reports, velshi starts right now. i m ali velshi, we re departing from our normal format for the news out of afghanistan where the taliban is closing in on kabul. the biggest city in the country. it does appear to be surrounded. this map is the latest we have, but it is not fully updated because this shows mazar-i-sharif under government control and it s not. jalalabad is not under government control any more. kabul appears to be completely surrounded. this is a live look at kabul right nowk and here s where things stand. bagram air base which is typically 45 minutes north of kabul today because of traffic isl about two hours and now in the hands of the taliban. this ishe the base at which all americanic troops were headquartered in taliban. it