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A drone equipped with a wide net will now try to trap the dogs, one by one, and fly them to safety. the top us envoy to afghanistan is stepping down from his role less than two months after american forces withdrew from the country. this is zalmay khalilzad. he led the us dialogue with the taliban, but months of diplomatic talks failed to prevent the militant group from seizing power in august. in a resignation letter to the us secretary of state, khalilzad acknowledged, with some understatement, that. injuly, when the taliban were just beginning their takeover, he spoke to my colleague yalda hakim. will you intervene if the taliban want to overrun kabul? ....
Well, those are abstract questions. i mean, it s not entirely abstract, ambassador khalilzad, because they are on. around kabul, they have surrounded kabul. we ve just heard our correspondent there. it s not an unlikely scenario. well, i don t believe it s a likely scenario, and so it is a what if question. the taliban has said they will not attack provincial capitals. we hold them to that commitment that they have made. just one month later, the taliban had overrun kabul and taken full control of afghanistan. and in september, us defence officials said the takeover could be directly traced back to the doha deal spearheaded by mr khalilzad. here s the co founder of the think tank afghanistan analysts network. ....
Ahead of that messaging before the science had before that regulators were on the same page with them. john: , and on the immigration front, the mayor of del rio, texas, is on the extraordinary pictures. they declared a state of emergency in his town. thanks for being with us on this friday martha: thanks, john and jacqui. a lot of breaking news. i m martha maccallum in new york. any moment now, there you can see the podium is set up at the pentagon. a huge development breaking right now as we are told that officials are about to announce that no isis-k fighters were killed in the august 29th u.s. drone strike in kabul that killed ten civilians in fact. there s no disciplinary action we re told expected as a result of that obvious misstep, ....