Increasing, but well take some time to have an impact. The taliban has captured august on 2nd biggest city kandahar, which is the groups birthplace. Elsewhere in telephone sites is also to control of lunch because 18 of afghanistans 34 provincial capitals have fallen in the past week. At the ton of androids closer to cobble nature when baset the meeting to discuss the Spirit Crash is enough. Janice, done, they want to coordinate measures to reduce the staff at the embassies in cobble well, american, and push for caesar on their way to cobble to help Embassy Staff and local interpreters leave the country. Washington is insisting it is not a full evacuation. And the embassy will remain open. Mike, hannah reports, it was just a month ago that the top us general and ive gone is don returned to the United States. His mission, apparently over me since then the taliban has made huge gains throughout. Have gone, is done. And now be with is read deploying troops to assist in the evacuation of a
Charlotte balice has been following developments from cobble and now the 2 provincial capitals today, Poly Alum provincial capital of logo is just to the self of of carbo about an Hour Drive from cobble about 65 kilometers. So now they are knocking right on the door of cobbled the telephone, say that the governor actually joined them. How we understand it is that they sent hundreds of spices into the city and this actually, his compound was stormed and he was forced to surrender. It is significant because it is gone, is Harm Province and also because it is just so close to the capital. Now, it is not the only place that Cloud Today collapsed, which is the proven to Capital Valvo that just in the last few hours, weve seen the video of the vaudeville governor being escorted by the telephone out of town. Very shortly after that, the taliban took over and claimed it as the 18th provincial capital. To put this into context for you, theres only 34 provinces in the country, so they now have c
From government forces. Southeastern city of gaffney is just a 150 kilometers from campbell. A. U. S. Defense official has till the Reuters News Agency the group could capture the capital within 90 days. Rob mcbride is in cobble because these down to the south, west of cobble, theyve been fighting goinG On there for some days. And when you look at the map of the changing map of who controls what gossley was always very vulnerable, it was expected that if, if there was going to be another provincial capital default. And that looked, that could be the next one to go. And so it is the taliban claim that weve not confirmed it with sources that it has full. And now this is a fairly small city, but as with other cities that have fallen in the north earlier this week, it does put the pressure on cobble itself. It brings the fighting and the presence of the taliban a lot closer to the seat of government. Here the polls have openings amby as president ial and parliamentary elections. President
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Fighting around the city for some days now . And it was always suspected that if another provincial capital was about to fall, then this would probably be that city. We understand that the town itself has fallen to the taliban, but there is still fighting around the intelligence compound. But the governor of gas itself has actually left the city. So this is a fairly small provincial city. But just as we saw earlier this week with some of the provincial cities to the north, which of fall into the taliban, it does bring the fighting ever closer to cobble itself. Pulls of opened in zombie as president ial and parliamentary elections. President Ed Garland who is expected to face a strong challenge from his Opposition Rival who is running against him for the 3rd time. It follows the campaign dominated by the struggling economy in the fight against corruption. Algeria is beginning 3 days of morning after the number of people killed and wildfires rose to at least 65, the algerian red crescent