Its just after the top of the hour. President biden will speak to the world this hour as Afghanistan Falls Under Taliban control. Well bring you the president s remarks, live. This is video were about stto show you from Cnns Team In Kabul of american fighters outside the embassy. The embassy has been evacuated. The u. S. Sending back in thousands of troops to defend the airport now In Kabul as civilians have been flooding the runways desperate for a flight out. Some people, even shasing and clinging to the side of a moving u. S. Military plane as you can see here. We have this very disturbing video to show you. It appears to show an object, its possibly a person, falling from the aircraft just after take off. You can hear people gasp in horror. Cnn has not been able to confirm that anyone was still clinging to the aircraft when it took off. Lets start with Nick Payton wal walsh. He is live for us In Kabul. We heard from pentagon officials say their plan is to evacuate a thousands peopl
Expect. people want answers. they want to understand why this withdrawal was done in such a hastty and chaotic way. they want know what will be done to help the tens of thousands of people who have worked closely with the u.s. military, who have worked closely with the u.s. embassy, worked closely with journalistic organizations like our own, who have worked closely with american and european ngos. there s a lot of anger and resentment here from people who did work with the u.s. they felt the execution of this withdrawal was handled so poorly. they plooef that the u.s. team were hoodwinked by the taliban. they they were not able to extract real meaningful concessions from the taliban
reporter: what s your message to america right now? translator: america already spent enough time in afghanistan. they need to leave, he tells us. they already lost lots of lives and lots of money. people come up to them to pose for photographs. [ speaking foreign language ] they re just chanting death to america. but they seem friendly at the same time. it s utterly bizarre. almost everywhere we go, it seems the taliban want to talk. a lot of people are very frightened that you might engage in revenge attacks against security forces. since yesterday we ve proved that nothing will happen, and we give assurance to everyone that they will be safe, he tells us. and we follow our leaders once we make a promise we stick to it. maintaining law and order is top of that list of promises.
Temp temporary, perhaps but spieling of security on the ground. it s largely calm and quiet tonight. we did have a few gunshots a few moments ago. other than the the street offense kabul, at least, have been pretty quiet tonight. that s because there s taliban fighters on every corner. in this moment they want to project this image they can main main security and keep law and order and can govern. a lot of people will have a hard time believing that and they are petrified and desperate as we saw in the gut wrenching pictures from the airport. this is the image that the taliban seeks to convey at the moment. thank you. it s so helpful to have you on the ground. president biden is expected to speak any moment now. what message this sends to america s other allies and their adversaries around the world?
President if he s doing any last second adjustments to his address. stop making promises that you re not going to keep. how are ke going to get thousands out when we don t have any bases anymore. when the airport is under siege. you can t land an airplane there. this is so appalling and it was so preventible. i say this as something who voted for the president and somebody who was withdrawing f from afghanistan. we didn t have to do this any way. we have got afghans desperately clinging to our c-17s trying to get out. as if that was the only choice that biden had. it s appalling. his advisers knew this was going to happen. the intelligence community knew this was going to happen. we all knew this was going to happen. the first people the taliban would go after is the afghans that risked their lives to help