out empathy, staff, and local interpreters. washington though insist it s not a full evacuation and the embassy will remain open. bryant, with more now from the africa and capital given events down to the south of the country and the storming by taliban fighters. right. into kandahar itself. this kandahar is i ve kind of dance 2nd city. it has. it is right down in the hot land of taliban country in the south of the country in kandahar providence and its neighboring province of helmand. because of that, this is basically become a fortress. it s very important for the government to hold onto this even though much of the rest of the provinces gradually fallen away to the taliban. you have a headlines. samsung s vice chairman s been released from prison in south career up to been granted parole. j wiley was serving a 2 and a half year sentence for primary critic saves relief, reflect the culture of lenient c. for corporate bosses and zambia, they re counting the votes in both pre
the fall of last category and kind of the country. second city would be the most significant game for the on group since it s offensive began. the u. s. u. k. are sending more than 3 and a half 1000 troops to cobble to help with the evacuation of embassy staff and local interpreters. the us state department says this is not a complete evacuation, and it s embassy will remain open. these are the 2 most important cities in the south kandahar in particular. being based in kandahar province is really almost like a fortress while much kind of a province was being taken back by the taliban. the government has been committed to defending at all costs can hardly had some of the better military units. there was able to call and asked support in fact, including us as strikes as a way of trying to keep the taliban at bay. but it seems that overnight said that they breached the defenses of the city. samsung s vice chairman has been released from prison in south korea after being granted
which is the prevention capital of logo, which is just south of cowboy. they say that they have control of the city and that the governor and his immediate staff have joined the movement. they do add, however, that there is some heavy fighting still in the city with special forces, but they say they have claimed it. we cannot independently verify that the reasons we spoke to said there has been very heavy fighting. there this morning. the taliban has detained the veteran commander of a militia in western gaston ismael con. he s known as the lion of her, wraps. he was take them as taliban flight to seize that city. con is one of afghan . the stones most prominent warlords battling soviet, occupies in the 19 eighties and working alongside us forces to top whole the taliban in 2001. the un is calling for an immediate end to a new wave of violence in serious south west and city of. there are thousands of civilians fled heavy shelling and ground battles between government troops a
seems to be heading inevitably towards campbell. the pentagon is sending 3000 us troops to help pull out embassy staff. charlotte better, susan campbell was more on the battle for her at residence there. we took about half a dozen page for her. oh said the same thing that they would tell yvonne in all the streets in the center of town that they had come into town. this afternoon, pushed through, they had been trying to get into the city for about a month. but they made a breakthrough cross through the front line this afternoon and they broke into the prison. they got into the police compound. they got into the governor s compound that they released all the prisoners residents telling us that that they had prison is one man said my relatives when the prison another in my house. and they could hear gunfire. but they said us driving through town. that gunfire is not coming from clashes from security force. it is, is it is celebration, reagan, fire polls are closing in zambia. we