there are thousands of other families that he s been in touch with. and he just believes this is what he has to do. this is where they all want to be right now. inside this secure perimeter of the karzai international airport in kabul. from there, the dream is an american c-17 out. a seat on one of those is what everybody s clinging to. and that hope is diminishing with every empty seat that flies away. getting to a plane is another story you keep hearing. well, we don t have any control. even if you are in kabul, a ride to the airport meaning running a gauntlet of fear with a group of people who are overtaking a country. many of them aren t even from afghanistan. i m going to give you that report tomorrow night. who is the taliban? where are they from? who made this happen? but roads with swarming with them right now and they are there and they mean business. at the airport, take a look at the scenes of chaos. [ gunfire ]
to me she would have a stroke. more than a thousand have been killed in the past month. in a country engulfed by suffering. in a sign of their growing alarm, the us and britain are sending troops back into afghanistan to help evacuate their nationals. we can go live now to our washington correspondent gary 0 donoghue. hello, gary. quite a sense of urgency around this evacuation. yes. urgency around this evacuation. yes, and i think that s urgency around this evacuation. yes, and i think that s why urgency around this evacuation. ta: and i think that s why you ve seen this really very rapid deployment of around 3000 us troops to karzai international airport in kabul. some of them are already there, the bulk of them are already there, the bulk of them, the rest of them are going to be there by the end of the weekend, we vejust to be there by the end of the weekend, we ve just been told by the pentagon, and they are there not just to evacuate numbers of the