Charlotte bellis has more from cobble with trying to verify how these people have died. There were, there was chaos in the last 24 hours of people trying to get on planes trying to get out there really overwhelmed the airport security. Thousands of people flooding onto atomic clamoring to try to get on the plains. There are stories of, of people just pushing past him sitting on a plane and waiting for pilots to show up to fly them out. We understand it is on the, the security of international forces. So there are some questions about with the international forces were involved in the death of the civilians as they were trying to leave or whether or not they were simply crushed in the stampede. Holly bond took power late on Sunday Night gathering a cobble president ial palace. Fighters rolled up the national flag anD Posed for pictures. Hours earlier, president of connie fled the country. Events in afghanistan of sent shock waves around the world. Not least, the United States whose mili
Talk and crossing vats means to taliban now, controls all of us chemist on the border pipers in our early other groups. Fight has seized an important commercial hub. Been approach government bastion. This is mazda re sharif. That gave the Group Control of the north of the country. Cobble itself is not dangerously within reach of the taliban. All the details. Now in this update from Charlotte Burleson cobble. We are up to number 24. 00 of the provincial capitals that have fallen to the taliban of a total of 34. 00. And that has happened in just 9 days now. Are the telephone certainly steam rolling its way across the country, the 2 provinces that it is picked up over nice and early this morning. Lockman and manga ha picked up the provincial capitals. They are directly east of cobble. They actually bought a cobble to the east and the government had been fighting incredibly hard to keep those. Not only are they close to cobble, but they essentially cut cobble off from pakistan because the
Im on the inside. With a headlines on Al Jazeera, the taliban has taken over the president ial palace in the afghan capital kabul. It comes at an end of a surprisingly quick offensive during which the fight is took over most of the country. The taliban says at once a peaceful transfer of power when the World Mcbride has moved from couple at this has been a day that yes began with the circle months the siege of cobble pulling the noose tighter. If you like around the city, the cold, the nation of course of weeks of games by the taliban across afghan, its done taking probably instruct problems, gradually. Forces falling back as provinces fell and all of the focus, all of the attention, all of this great momentum that the taliban built up, then being focused and directed towards cobble itself. President danny has fled the country and they were chaotic scenes and couples, apple just on this also tried to leave the u. S. And the nation still have food since theyre working to evacuate the ci
Captured fully, all of the main City Of leg or province, which is the capital. The taliban now control more than 2 thirds of the country agencies a warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in afghanistan as the taliban offensive drives thousands of people from their home. Un Secretary General on Sunday Tennis has called on the taliban to immediately stop its advance. The message from the international community to those on the water off path must be clear. Seizing power through military force is a losing proposition that can only lead to prolonged civil war or to the complete isolation of afghanistan. I call on the tale bound to immediately hold your fancies and to negotiate in good faith in the interest of god is done and its people or the u. N. Is also calling for an immediate end to a wave of bonds in serious town western city. If the ra, thousands of civilians have fled, fighting between government troops, rebel forces the haitian judge chosen to lead the investigation into the assass
From the last earthquake. I hid in 2010, also a manga to 7, that killed more than 220000 people. So as we still get these details, and certainly this is a country that was not prepared for this, that is also struggling with its political crisis. Now, 5 weeks since the president was assassinated, the latest from that the judge investigating that president ial assassination. Having resigned on friday after his chief clerk was apparently killed for those efforts. As the taliban take city after city in afghanistan, the president asked ref ghani has made his 1st public comments in several days. He appeared in a brief video filmed in cobble and said hes speaking with local leaders and international partners about how to prevent more instability and violence. Meanwhile, the taliban has captured 3 more provincial capitals in afghanistan, taking the total to 20. 1 catholic foreign minister has met the taliban delegation in doha for a follow up on talks being held. Theyre aimed at ending the fig