Goal is to get Embassy Personnel out by tuesday if to not sooner. What you are looking at is Cnn Video of helicopters shuttling employees from the embassy for that evacuation. President biden has authorized sending in another 1,000 troops to carry out the operation which brings the total to 5,000. Lets get more on the fastmoving developments in afghanistan and get straight to cnns nick Paton Walsh, who joins us live from kabul. Nick, there werer the. There was an Intelligence Assessment a few days ago that said this would take place in 30 to 90 days. U. S. Intelligence didnt anticipate this would happen merely within hours. Bring us up to speed with what youre seeing. Reporter yeah, its important to have a sort of slight pause on where we feel we are in terms of kabuls security. From what we can see, we are not seeing the taliban entering the city from multiple points as some of the reports have suggested. In fact, a source in the president ial palace, who, obviously, have skin in the
These videos shot from cnn. It is believed they are carrying u. S. Personnel. Embassy staff are being flown to the airport, there are plans to leave Skeleton Crew of Embassy Staff behind. L lets bring in our Clarissa Ward live In Kabul. There are conflicting situations of how close the taliban are In The City. Reporter we know they are In The City. They want to enter peacefully. The Groups Spokesperson delineating the rules of conduct inside kabul saying theyll not come and search your homes or ex tort money. Theyll not fire on you unless you fire on them, guaranteeing the protection, he said of businessman and also afghan soldiers and those working Security Services provided they do not try to stop the taliban from entering the city peacefully. Of course this has been graded on the ground here with chaos. People desperately trying to get out of the city. We had a team at the Passport Office this morning, huge lines of hundreds and hundreds of people trying to organize their Paper Work
Momentum. Sources tell cnn the u. S. Is completely now pulling out of the embassy In Kabul over the next 72 hours. What youre looking at is video, Cnn Shot of some of the helicopters that are shuttling employees from the embassy to the airport to be evacuated. Remember it was just on Thursday President biden had said some would be evacuated. It has escalated to all. The president also sending another 1,000 troops to carry out the operation, which brings the total to 5,000. Cnn Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward is with us from kabul. When we talked to Nick Paton Walsh earlier, and i know he is near where you are, he describes the situation this morning as that he is stunned. What is your assessment . Reporter i think stunning is a pretty good assessment. I mean, this news that we are just receiving from a source inside the president ial palace that eight or nine of the taliban representatives who are a part of the Qatar Delegation are currently in the president ial palace
This is cnn breaking news. good morning. welcome to new day. it is sunday, august 15. i m boris sanchez. i m christi paul. breaking news out of afghanistan. we are witnessing history here. taliban fighters have reached the gates of the capital city of kabul. yeah, a statement issued by the taliban a short time ago is asking for calm, saying that its fighters are now on the outskirts of the city and they want to take control of kabul peacefully. the embattled afghan government is currently in talks with the taliban over the country s future and sources tell cnn that taliban representatives are right now at the presidential palace in the city s center. the acting minister of national defense is attempting to reassure kabul citizens saying in a speech that the security of the city is ensured and afghan defense forces are committed to defending kabul. the effort to get americans out of afghanistan is gaining
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