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state says they did it. what now for the us led evacuation from afghanistan? live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in the morning in singapore and 2.30am in the morning in the afghan capital kabul, where there has been carnage at the airport after twin explosions killed at least 60 people, according to a health official. the first blast is thought to have been the work of a suicide bomber, passing among the crowds gathered for more than a week at one of the airport s main gates to try to get flights out of the country. the second was at a nearby hotel. along with afghan civilians, 12 us military personnel have died. the uk ministry of defence says there were no british casualties. the initial explosion took place just before dusk outside the abbey gate at kabul airport, leaving bodies strewn all over a sewage ditch. the second blast happened near the baron hotel, which has been used by some western nations as a staging point for eva ....
this just in. a bulletin from kabul. taliban fighters have entered the afghan capital. this represents the collapse of the afghan government. the end of american nation-building dreams and the beginning of a frightening new era for many afghan civilians. i m brian stelter. this is reliable sources. it s 7:30 p.m. in kabul. darkness is falling on the afghan capital. there is a rush now taking place and evacuation at the u.s. embassy. a u.s. official just now telling cnn that a majority of the u.s. embassy staff are out of the diplomatic compound in kabul. some of them now at the airport, some are being taken off in airplanes out of the country. others are staying at the airport for the time being. reporters in kabul are reporting new developments basically every minute of every hour. there has been gunfire heard in the capital. there have been traffic jams in some parts of the city. other parts of the city look like a ghost town, according to witnesses who are there. ....
haiti s ambassador to the united states will be here to explain. just about 45 minutes we re expecting to hear from president biden about the u.s. troop withdrawal. it s been accelerating as the country effectively ends 20 years of war there. it was a promise made by candidate biden. as troops are leaving, the taliban is gaining ground quickly. the country is at a real risk for war president biden was asked about the prospects of kabul falling. here s what he said yesterday more than 2200 americans have died in afghanistan since 2001. in the united states, more than $2 trillion have been spent just in that country. while ending the war remains popular, the potential of afghanistan returning to a haven the terrorism is. it s made for a powerful symbol of the vacuum. miles of unguarded roads, hundreds of discarded vehicles. here at home while it goes much of the public opinion in this country. remember, there was a time afghanistan was the so-called good war. here i ....
president to this one, and i mean klassy with a k in this context. one of the real nice things with this transition, the transition didn t really happen, everywhere from the pentagon to the parts of the government dealing with the vaccine rollout, the outgoing trump administration refused to do normal transition things that would have allowed the incoming administration to understand what they were walking into. how the trump people were leaving things, what remained to be done and needed to be picked up immediately on day one by the new team. the trump folks just had no interest in helping keep the government going by helping the new administration hit the ground running. and so the transition in many ways was nonexistent, and one of the consequences of that is in the month or so since joe biden was inaugurated as president, we have repeatedly heard from the new administration that they were surprised by things they didn t find out were going wrong inside the governmen ....
the incoming administration to understand what they were walking into. how the trump people were leaving things, what remained to be done and needed to be picked up immediately on day one by the new team. the trump folks just had no interest in helping keep the government going by helping the new administration hit the ground running. and so the transition in many ways was nonexistent, and one of the consequences of that is in the month or so since joe biden was inaugurated as president, we have repeatedly heard from the new administration that they were surprised by things they didn t find out were going wrong inside the government until they were in position to be running things, things they didn t get briefed on during the transition because the trump administration blew off the transition. like, for example, surprise, there s no national plan for administering vaccines. we all thought they were doing that. we all assumed there was some sort of plan whatever the trum ....