they also said kim was a bossy child who ordered the other kids around. kim asked of village elders to celebrate his homecoming after the war. 0ver breakfast, we asked now that korea is free from japan, what the future hold? just like a schoolboy reporting to a teacher, he said first, japanese collaborators must be purged. next, all land should be nationalised. lastly, all businesses
from kabul, the provincial governor has called a meeting. no women to be seen. local village elders and tribal chiefs listen. a young boy takes a selfie. much has changed since the taliban were last in charge, smartphones and social media. but poverty still the country s biggest problem. we have many expectation and we are praying the taliban will deliver. reporter: the week after kabul fell, a local journalist took a road trip for us to see what was happening outside the capital. taliban guides showed him the way. but the border changes already under way, part giving traders what they want, longer opening hours at the border, and part crackdown keeping men and women apart. translator: let me tell you, before we had one single line. both men and women. now we have two.
something that the pentagon officials here have realized way too late. the taliban has been, ever since president biden announced we would withdraw in april, they have been conducting an steeply effective influence campaign as well as their physical campaign across the country. they ve been taking advantage of tribal politics across the country. they ve been making deals with village elders as well as afghan forces, saying we re going to attack, but if you lay down your weapons and surrender peacefully, we won t kill you. they ve been doing this across the country. this has really he roded morale even as the americans have been withdrawing from 2,500 to before this happened just a thousand or so troops there. we ve really seen morale erode among the afghan security forces and many of them are fleeing, on foot or by plane, and we think people in the pentagon really just did not understand just how bad of a situation this was going to be, and how effective the taliban were at their
would one day fight for their country. i wonder how many survived the war, or where they are tonight. and near kandahar, i saw where the taliban faced their own humiliation. over here is the mosque where mullah omar in 1994 established the taliban. today it too is lost through the war, epic american-led battles reclaimed cities and villages from the taliban. u.s. commanders nurtured trust among village elders, believing in afghanistan s future and now in the chaos, we re left to wonder how that future has been so rapidly rewritten with chapters from afghanistan s past that s nightly news for this monday. thank you for watching, everyone i m lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night
but, you know, what many people here are saying is that, essentially, he s rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. that the moment for consulting with village elders is far behind us, now. and it became becomes rapidly unclear what ghani s political future will be. the most dire military predictions had been that kabul would be surrounded and fall between, you know, 30 and 90 days. well, the enemy, as you say, is is basically at the gates, right now. um, you said that they they the u.s. was trying to get its personnel out, by tuesday. i mean, will they have that long? well, i mean, this is exactly what people, like the u.s. envoy special envoy who is in doha right now are trying to negotiate with the taliban. basically, let us get our people out over the next-72 hours.