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Ensure safe passage. Sandra: we are seeing disturbing new images of taliban brutality against the afghan people. The taliban whipping and beating people in the streets including women and children. The pictures seen here contradicting the group s claim of a peaceful transition to power. Trace: we have team fox coverage. Rich is live at the state department. It is chaos getting to the airport. There are taliban check points. They are letting people pass or beating them. That s according to several contacts who are in kabul right now. There was a recorded video earlier today. We talked to someone trying to get video of what is going on in the city right now. He said the taliban caught him, seized his phone and beat him after they took his phone from him. The u. S. Embassy in afghanistan sent an alert to american citizens: u. S. Government provided flights are departing. U. S. Citizens and their spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21 should consider traveling to the internatio
Schools into confusion over masks announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone for two decades, we wondered how our longest war would end. Now we know. A total collapse that will be remembered by its swiftness and by its own saigon moment. Afghan civilians desperate to leave their country trying to climb aboard a u. S. Transport plane as it taxied for takeoff president biden today addressed the american people, admitting events unfolded more quickly than he expected, with the taliban taking control in just three months after the start of the u. S. Withdrawal. The president calling the images of afghans trying to flee gut wrenching, but resolute that there will be no turning back the clock in afghanistan, blaming afghans for not fighting for themselves saying after 20 years, he will not put more american lives at risk tonight, however, american troops are still arriving to secure the kabul airport and the departure of american and allied civilians richard
People climbing onto planes, flooding the tarmac. The u. S. Military has managed to secure its half of the airport and flights are taking off, both military and commercial. According to the pentagon, this is happening but the situation is still tense and very, very desperate. Chief foreign correspondent richard engle has the latest from kabul. Richard, what are you seeing? reporter: the evacuation flights are coming in frequently now. You can sense there s urgency about them. They land, they re only on the ground a few minutes before they take off again. It is clear the u. S. Wants to wrap it up as quickly as possible. Kabul airport this morning is back up and running, evacuation flights for u. S. Embassy personnel and contractors in full swing. Flights were stopped yesterday and tens of thousands of afghans stormed onto the runways desperate to leave, clinging onto aircraft, trying not to be left behind as the americans pull out. U. S. Troops found themselves overwhelmed, as they trie
Good morning to viewers here in the u. S. And around the world. It is monday, august 16th. We are beginning with our special live coverage of the fall of afghanistan, nearly two decades after 9/11. Moments ago the u. S. Temporarily suspended all air operations at the airport in kabul. We re seeing can haotic scenes e this. This is part of the reason for the suspension, desperate afghans chasing down u. S. Planes that are leaving the tarmac, some clinging to the fuselage as the airplane taxied. The taliban is now in charge as it seized control of the capital without hardly a shot fired yesterday. Insurgents overran key provincial capitals in the span of the last week. Embassy officials have warned americans still in the city not to travel to the airport because it is unsafe. But as of now, it is the only way out. We heard from a white house official, there s no way to get those folks to the airport. The pentagon is rushing 1,000 more combat troops to secure the perimeter to get american