Of cobble about an Hour Drive from cobble, but 65 kilometers. So now they are knocking right on the door of cobbled taliban say that the government actually joined them. How we understand it is that they seen hundreds of fighters into the city. And this actually, his compound was tools 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 well today kalat, which is the provincial Capital Valvo that just in the last few hours weve seen video of the zach, the 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 control of more than half the provincial capitals. They hadnt had control of one in about 5 years and managed to do this all within a week that picked up in the last 24 hours, 7
Felt to taliban control. The group now claimed 22 of 34 provincial capitals, but the president , i should have gone a boat publicly for the 1st time in days, pledging not to give up 2 decades of gains. It shocked many people who were not going to start and i think the international community, the way that as the taliban has spread throughout africa and its done is taking over prevention. Capitals. The way that the norm, as seemingly capitulated just lost all of these potential capitals accept form of that. We should, we know we should, we would still the one bake hold out. It was almost like a full to City Of the government in the north, just 2 days ago press the Destro Johnny visited that try to stand around, strengthen the leadership, try to get them to put up for resistance or other headline story. The major Search And Rescue oppression is on the way in haiti. Of the country was struck by a 7. 2 magnitude of quake at least 227 people have been killed. But official fate, there will b
Especially down in the south of the country. Local officials are being quoted by various wire agencies confirming the kandahar now is in control of the tyler and all of these developments started happening late 1st day. Here with reports of, of taliban fighters breaching the defenses of kandahar of driving through to the center of the city, intense fighting their claims from the taliban, that the governor and its staff has had left the that Compound Bull claims that they taken over the Police Compound and then we started to see uploaded videos, apparently purporting to show almost a walk around of the deserted offices of the governor. So they did being claimed by, by the taliban, that they are now in control. Its a lot of the military units. It seems have withdrawn to a large military base on the edge of kandahar and they remains to be seen just whether there are any plans for some Counter Attack Counter offensive. All of this is from to the u. S. And the u. K to send at least 3600 tro
South. If youre going to leave car, will you drive about 3 hours hitting South And Youve got to go through gas needs. And now theyve managed to get that, that you cant really get south from cobble without going through there. And its under telephone control. They managed to do the same by taking the province of boggling a few days ago and cut off the north, chicago becoming increasingly isolated. People here becoming increasingly worried about what that means. As soon as the telephone continue the momentum, how close to cobble are they going to get and when will they stop . Now, Gods Knee is also important because of its strategic location. The governor. He decided to do a deal with the telephone to get out safely and we understand that he was given an escort by the Telephone And Exchange school of handling over the city. And it was video of him going through telephone checkpoints, in the province of Wall Jack on his way to cobble. And then the ministry of interior confirming to us tha
Evening of s gonna sons 34. They just picked up. The provincial capital finds a bad that symbolic sean in the North East of f. Kennesaw. Its actually the 1st time that the group has held bellhack, sean, in the history of the movement. They also picked up the provincial capital, political murray, which has been battling up to 2 days of heavy fighting. That is quite significant because its the gateway to the north from cobble. So definitively managed to cut off most of the north from cobble. Now they also picked up far a city the provincial capital, far in the south waste. This to night, picking up the 3 provincial capitals have now got 9. And to put that into context, the last time they held a provincial capital was in 2016, and they only held it briefly because us forces managed to push them out of condos, which they took at that time. So the pickup 9 over less than a week now incredibly significant and showing the amount of momentum they have across the country in the north, the City