President ghani s desk. the issue was not whether the taliban was in control, it was. the immediate issue was the airport, as thousands of afghans and try to get out. herring footage it emerged a people desperately trying to get onto planes. with us helicopters being used to clear people from the runway. people chasing one us plane while others climbed to the fuselage. hours after this, president biden addressed americans and refused to accept mistakes have been made. i and refused to accept mistakes have been made. , ., and refused to accept mistakes have been made- been made. i stand squarely behind my decision- been made. i stand squarely behind my decision. after been made. i stand squarely behind my decision. after 20 been made. i stand squarely behind my decision. after 20 years, - been made. i stand squarely behind my decision. after 20 years, i ve i my decision. after 20 years, i ve learned my decision. after 20 years, i ve learned the my decision. after 20 years, i
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Start doing that. well, there has been quite start doing that. well, there has been quite a start doing that. well, there has been quite a lot start doing that. well, there has been quite a lot of, start doing that. well, there has been quite a lot of, you - start doing that. well, there has been quite a lot of, you know, i been quite a lot of, you know, evaluation and the press, analysts and pundits and so on about the failure of the war in afghanistan or the intervention in afghanistan. that is really a collective failure of four administrations. you have had agencies they are going over the failures as they wear. so i think the interview is more focused on the moment whichjoe biden can take responsibility for. the war is the collective failure of others, but the execution of the departure is on hand, and he is going to be the one who has the face of it, and this is why you have the questions focused on that. i guess i lots of people responding to this interview and also to t
The us continued its withdrawal the taliban continued to protect its operations. by the beginning of august, they took territory they have an occupied for 20 years. on the 6th of august came another strategic symbolic moment, and the taliban took its first capital. it was a city on the southern border of ireland. it fell without a fight. afghanistan made this plea to the us. ., . , .,. afghanistan made this plea to the us. ., . , .. ., , us. the council must act and prevent a catastrophic us. the council must act and prevent a catastrophic situation. us. the council must act and prevent a catastrophic situation. we - us. the council must act and prevent a catastrophic situation. we are - a catastrophic situation. we are alarmed by incidences, by the taliban and their association. that alarm will have grown. alarm will have grown. mostly without resistance.
Around, he said, love, tell the world they have not changed. they are the same as they were in the 19905. are the same as they were in the 1990s. they are beating people, they are firing into the air. they are scaring us. so you see these two different sides, and it s hard to resolve them. i was speaking to some of those taliban fighters there, they are quite frustrated it seems with the images that are being projected around the world of so many afghans wanting to flee the country. they want, of course, to project an image of stability. so in fact, they were stopping us from filming on a number of occasions. at times, they were aggressive, but other times they reprimand we had long conversations. and you can see those evacuation planes leaving here. this was filmed on board an evacuation flight conducted by the uk military. according to the government at least two planes have left today. carrying hundreds of people. here s the uk defence secretary ben wallace. things are changing rapi