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people a day, so this is behind that pace with tens of thousands of americans and afghan allies still waiting for a way out. cnn has also learned military commanders are in contact with taliban militants about security on those chaotic streets around the airport. constant reminders of the human beings caught up in all of this. that s right, especially children. new video shows a toddler being handed to american troops on top of the wall at the airport perimeter in kabul. meantime the state department is engaged in high level diplomatic talks with the taliban in the neutral setting of doha, where we find nick paton walsh. good morning, the taliban starting a violent crackdown, we ve all seen the images. obviously the situation at the airport remains chaotic and tense. who knows where this goes. what are you seeing on the ground and what do you think happens once the western media starts to leave? reporter: that is of course the major question. we ve seen initially ....
of afghanistan. the politics of our presence have always been deceptive and messy. the exit is too. here s the reality. trump made a rash deal with the taliban to leave by may 1st of this year. biden agreed and had it go bad on his watch. here is how the current president explains the state of play. it would have taken a significant american troop presence, multiple times greater than what president biden was handed, to stop a taliban onslaught. but the afghan government and its supporters, including many of the people now seeking to leave made a passionate case that we should not conduct a massive evacuation unless we trigger a loss of confidence in the government. what you can do is plan for all contingencies. we did that. when a civil war comes to an end with an opposing force marching on the capital, there are going to be scenes of chaos. do you agree with that assessment? it doesn t really matter. that s politics, okay? what matters is how we do what we need to ....
only 2500, would be out of the country on may 1st. the idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there i think is simply wrong. we have team coverage on the ground in afghanistan and across the globe tracking the latest developments. we begin with cnn international security investigator nick peyton walsh. what is the situation right now? it s comparatively quiet. i have just heard a couple of crackles of gunfire over there. about an hour ago we saw a trace of fire with helicopters above. the skies are a little bit quiet but there have been consistent helicopters moving, we think american personnel around the airport where they re mostly headed. developments in the just last hour, we ve been seeing pictures broadcast by al-jazeera. from what it looks like possibly one of the key offices of former president i should say president afghani. one said he had been in guantanamo bay prison for eight years but essentially not feeling any rea ....
and the taliban saw, then we would have been back at war with the taliban. we trained with modern equipment over 300,000 afghan forces. they ve got to fight for themselves. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. afghanistan has fallen. as americans scramble to get out, more are heading in. a short time ago the pentagon approved sending another 1,000 troops because of the worsening security conditions. in all, a total of 6,000 american service members are now being deployed. it has been a day of breathtaking developments and heart wrenching images. the crowd you see in this social media post, believed to be americans and their allies at the kabul airport, waiting to board planes and leave the country. scenes of complete chaos as people clamor to be evacuated. america s longest war has ended in humiliating collapse. take a look at this. al jazeera video showing victorious taliban fighters laying claim to the presiden ....
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