afghanistan s national airline has started to resume domestic flights. the schedule is limited but does include cana kandahar. today the white house chief of staff said they are working to evacuate remaining americans from afghanistan. we re going to find ways to get them. the ones that want to leave to get them out of afghanistan. we know many of them have family members. many of them want to stay. the ones that want to leave, we re going to get them out. we are monitoring developments from nearby islam bad. what do we know about the situation at the airports in kabul? reporter: yeah. the taliban still appear to be standing by, at least when talking to diplomats about their commitment to allow those to get out. those americans and other citizens to get out. we know in islamabad, they were
people are not working. business is drying up. there s a lot of closed shop fronts as we speak. the economic situation is going to be difficult. the taliban are saying they re trying to get the banks open again. but i think their most important strategy to the economy will to try and get recognition and try and keep foreign aid flowing. the previous government was almost totally reliant on foreign aid. i think three quarters of its budget was funded by foreign aid. and the taliban will be desperate to keep that money flowing. ben farmer there live in kabul. thank you so much, ben. i want to take you now to our nic robertson, closely following the situation in afghanistan and joins us from islam bad. good to see you. i understand that iraqi generals from intelligence, as well, are in kabul at the invitation of the taliban. what is the significance of these meetings? also, what does it tell us about the links between the taliban
contained. a doctor at a nearby hospital says the victims were killed by suffocation. 75 people were injured. authorities are saying the fire swept through the hotel with little warning. a short time ago we spoke to cnn producer in islam bad. we know that the mayor was speaking to the press last night overnight, and he said they were absolutely no fire exit. none of the administration was there. there was no fire alarms alerting people within the hotel that there was an actual fire going on. so a lot of the dead, the people who died, almost all of them, all of them, actually, died of suffocation. the 75 injured have also suffered from breathing issues. and even though the fire has been contained, it s still unknown as to what the cause of the fire itself was. at least 33 people are now confirmed dead in oakland, california after a fire tore through a dance party at a warehouse.
that is prosecute him. leaving that aside, i think it s more complicated than that. in the article, i made clear that, look, in my business, somebody comes and he tells you something. you then verify with others. if somebody happens to be retired, it s much of easier to quote somebody like that than somebody who is still inside. i was able to verify the story from people who are basically inside the game, and, of course, that helped a lot. i m not going to just go with one source. i ve been around too long to do that. but, you know, i ve known people over the years and some of these people i ve been dealing with for a long time, very dependably. it s not as if the word source is just some sort of whimsical thing. this is a very serious person in a serious position who knows a great deal. and let me go on. i was able to independently verify most of the items in it. plus, i got two big major things from inside pakistan. both from karachi and islam bad,
great deal. and let me go on. i was able to independently verify most of the items in it. plus i got two big major things from inside pakistan. both from karachi and islam bad, the capital, that verify. i can t go around naming people. when you say independently verify there is a bunch of contentions in here there was no burial at sea, for instance. that the trophy trove of documents was fabricated post facto. when you say you independently verified them, what does that mean? what that means is that there is a one of the basic things you have to understand about the mission. let me give the essential. the president of the united states did authorize the raid. the s.e.a.l. team six, our most elite unit did do the raid. they did kill bin laden. they went in and out without trouble. that is correct. everything else that the government postulated the night they announced t the night of the raid the president went public with detail is simply not