Emotional goodbye to barcelona. We look at what his next move might be. Live from our studio in singapore. This is Bbc News. It is sam it is 8am in singapore, 4 30am in afghanistan. The taliban are gaining ground at a shocking speed. Three northern afghan cities appear to have largely fallen to the islamist militants within hours of each other. You see on your screens, the biggest is kunduz, a city of more than a quarter of A Million people. The provincial capitals are also largely in militant hands, in the latter, they have been freeing prisoners. This adds two others are captured on friday and saturday. Government forces appear only to have held their own pace and the airport, the Interior Ministry Spokesman insisting they are retaking strategic sites and will drive the insurgency out. Our correspondent Paul Adams has more. Fire and confusion in the centre of kunduz. Taliban pictures appear to show yet another city falling under their control. This is their biggest prize so far a lar
By a Fifth Wave of the virus. Hello and welcome to Bbc News. The taliban has captured three more provincial capitals, this time in northern afghanistan, as they intensify their offensive to seize power, following the withdrawal of western troops. The three cities appear to have largely fallen to the islamist militants within hours of Each Other. The biggest is kunduz, a city of more than a quarter of a million. The provincial capitals sar E Pul and taloqan are also largely in militant hands. But the government in kabul insists its forces are fighting back to retake lost ground. Heres our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams. Fire and confusion in the centre of kunduz. Taliban pictures appear to show yet another city falling under their control. This is their biggest prize so far a large city, economically and strategically important, and it seems to have fallen easily. Afraid of the fighting as much as the taliban, civilians are fleeing, some of them heading south for kabul. A Governme
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History. Good to have you with us. Well, another city has fallen to the taliban. As the militants warn the u. S. Against more intervention in afghanistan. A local journalist tells cnn its under taliban Control Meaning they have taken at least five provintual capitals in just a few days. Taliban video which cannot be verified purports to show a Government Compound in kunduz after the militants took over. It has forced nearly 300,000 afghans to flee their homes since january. In total more than 3. 5 million have been displaced. And Cnns Nick Paten walsh has reported from Inside Afghanistan for years now. He is tracking these latest moves by the taliban, and he joins us now live from london. Good to see you, nick. So what is the latest on the taliban advances and how do we verify their claims . Theres quite a lot of evidence they have since friday now taken five provincial capitals. As of friday we saw the first one fall near the iranian border and the most significant of the five as you