we have not seen a change in the taliban. now, if the taliban try to enforce their ideology and create a monopoly in afghanistan, that is unlikely for any afghans to accept, but if it's a compromise in which we compromise some of our current freedoms to achieve peace, then perhaps it might be worth paying that price. but to say that we will forego all of these freedoms and allow the taliban to return their brutal ways of ruling and enslave afghans inside their own country, that is not an acceptable scenario. 0k. well, you will know of the reports. there are reports in the times, radio free europe, elsewhere of what's happening in northern provinces that have been retaken by the taliban, where they've banned women from going outside without the burqa and without male companions. they've asked families to give their daughters to commanders to marry them. they've shut schools for girls over 12. they've banned music, television, told men not to shave their beards, and there've been public beatings. and i wonder... you've heard th

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>> the agreement that the united states has with the taliban is that it is the taliban's job is to prevent other groups from outside afghanistan. if those groups get a foothold in the taliban fails to meet its commitment to not allow those groups to be operating from its territory, you will see a different united states posture. president bynum is not going to tolerate. host: do you see afghanistan becoming a safe haven? >> i highly doubt that the biden administration would commit suicide by reversing their decision. there is going to be escalated violence, there is always room for different groups to operate, it's going to spill over onto neighboring regions. again, the taliban have close familial ties with groups like al qaeda, insurgency has been fluid in its nature, fighters have been fighting and have allegiances to groups. that means the same fighters, and you can see this from prisoners. the idea is it is difficult to distinguish between them, especially during an armed conflict of this escalation. it's going to be difficult to stay true. host: the u.s. involvement was launched with

do you trust the taliban? pres. biden: no, i do not trust the taliban. reporter: mr. president, will you amplify your answer please? why you don't trust the taliban? pres. biden: it is a silly question. do i trust the taliban? no. but i trust the capacity of the afghan military who is better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war. reporter: thank you, mr. president. given the amount of money that has been spent and the number of lives that have been lost, in your view with making this decision, were the last 20 years worth it? pres. biden: you know my record. i can tell by the way you asked the question. i opposed permanently having american forces in afghanistan. i argued from the beginning, as you may recall. it came to light after the administration was over, our administration. no nation has ever unified afghanistan. no nation. empires have gone there and not done it. the focus we had, and i strongly support it, and i physically went to afghanistan. i was up in that pass where osama bin laden was allegedly -- allegedly escaped out

who will account for the surge of the taliban in afghanistan? a growing number of warlords and militia groups are taking up arms against the insurgents. also coming up, mandatory testing could be a requirement for travelers coming to germany. the government is looking into making covid-19 testing compulsory for anyone entering the country by land, air or sea. they are blamed for causing taxpayers millions of euros. simone biles withdraws from the individual all-around finals at elevates, putting the spotlight on mental health. i am brent goff. to our viewers watching in pbs and all of the viewers watching around the world, welcome. we begin in afghanistan with the worsening security crisis. in many cases, government security forces seemed incapable of stopping the insurgen --insurgents. they are mobilizing to counter taliban takeover. >> dozens of fighters guard this house, it is the house of autumn the most powerful warlords in afghanistan. for decades he has fought the taliban. now he leads the armed resistance in this province. the government

do you trust the taliban? i do not. no, i do not trust the taliban. >> ny -- [inaudible] >> we ask -- [inaudible] >> do i trust the taliban? no but i trust the capacity of the afghan military who's better trained, better equipped and more competent in terms of conducting war. [inaudible] >> given the amount of money that's been spent in the number of lives lost, in your view, what making this decision for the last 20 years worth it? >> no my record, i can tell by the way you asked the question. i opposed permanently having american forces in afghanistan. i argued from the beginning, as you may recall, it became after the administration was over in our administration. no nation has ever unified afghanistan, no nation. empires have gone and not done it. the focus we had, and i strongly supported, you may remember we went to afghanistan, i was where osama bin laden was allegedly escaped or out of harm's way. we went for two reasons. one, to remove osama bin laden to the gates of hell as i said at the time. the second reaso

that said, _ taliban? it's a very discouraging situation. that said, there's - taliban? it's a very discouragingj situation. that said, there's still a lot we can do. it may not be enough but there's a lot to try, starting with funding the afghan security forces. your clip at the beginning talk about how some troops had not had ammunition, etc, or not been paid. that is true in some cases, but the afghan security forces do have ample resources flowing to them now. there's a lot of corruption and mismanagement of those resources which is part of the problem, but i still favour continuing that flow. we know the communist government held on in 1989 after the soviets withdrew for about three years, as long as the aide continued. that's one big piece. the second equally big piece is western contractors who keep that afghan air force flying, which allows the special forces to move on the battlefield, if there are taliban concentrations or attacks, it allows afghan airpower which is been gradually building up over the years to use fires in the skies against concentrations. thos

if the taliban continue to gain ground international negotiation settings, the taliban have presented themselves as having changed. they say that they are essentially no longer the brutal idealogues that they were in the past. they a promise to respect women's rights. do you believe that? thank you. i do not believe that because at least in the places the took the control of the places in the past few months. the things were here is the very best the ethics or the impacts of thought about control over women in the areas under their control. there's unfortunately very disproportionate for example, they have limited woman's movement, but they, they have not allowed them to go to work. and then the call i had 3 days ago. and then one of those to read the receive to they say that in but a phone proven, we are a, we are, i come from, they burn the houses of my religious minority. she a smiley people, and then they, they say you are the same thing. my neighbor at 13 years old, golden by the sun during this day she was going out and then they beat her badly. so the community went to taliban

that's the whole thing. taliban cannot convert the whole population of upon a son into taliban taliban a zation of her finest. son is not acceptable. yes, of course, they feel at this moment that they have that hand militarily on the ground too. and that will not last that way. i'm sure. i'm not talking about days and weeks that we're talking about the course of time because that's the lesson from out. his state, so the sooner we get to the other fact in reality of life, the death to you cannot, you cannot impose, you are well upon the whole nation through military might. even if you have that opportunity that should compel them. and also, as i mentioned, we're ready to, to talk about but my question was, how confident are you that the african government is going to be able to prevail, to protect those freedoms and assure the african people that it is here in the long run. and it will continue to be there as, as i mentioned, if there is no, there is no peaceful settlement. unfortunately the world will continue. and as a result of the war, tinge will change and it will go and to hand. t

the taliban and taking up arms. amy: as the u.s. military says its withdrawal from afghanistan is 90% complete, the taliban is escalating its offensive by seizing more districts. we will speak to a longtime afghan women's rights defender and a journalist in kabul. plus, we will look at why the palestinian authority is cracking down on palestinian demonstrators in the occupied west bank. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. haiti's interim prime minister has declared a state of siege and imposed martial law following wednesday morning's assassination of president jovenel moÏse. the first lady of haiti was injured in the attack and was airlifted to a hospital in miami, where she is reportedly in critical but stable condition. haitian police say they've arrested two suspected assassins and kill four others in a gunfight. video from the scene shows the heavily armed attackerclaimed to be from the u.s. dea, the drug enforcement administrati

what was agreed and argument put taliban. there were 4 elements for points that must of been implemented. otherwise, there is no agreement. it was said by mr. hutton, that nothing gets promise till everything gets promised. now we see that i've got to stand is facing and security, high violence collapse of districts and close to the clubs of provincial centers and nobody is taken care of what is going on on the ground. so it, it really depends on international community led by us to intervene in this situation and create a momentum on the piece process. the piece process without end top gun piece process. there won't be any winner for the water. the water will not have a winner. the winner will only be those terrorist groups that they have brought in international community led by us and nato 12 going to start in 20 years ago. it will happen again. the going to be again, my attorney as groups joining together and i've got to stand, they will be terrorizing, not only i've gotten it done, but it will rise that region and missio

there are reports of increasing taliban advances. government in nigeria have targeted a hospital in a school in les than 24 hours. we understand nurses and children have been abducted. this is in the northern part of one state. you can see the bullet holes there. it has been reported that at least eight people were abducted from herncluding three scolchildren. the government has yet to this is one of the eyewitnesses. >> there were gunshots and they entered some of the houses in the quarters. there were two children and a daughter. anchor: a school was rated by gunmen, 150 children are missi from the baptist high school. it's the 10th school kidnapping in nigeria since december. this is one of the parents. >> i'm told by friday that will be located. this morning at about 6:00, they entered the school, kidnappers. none of our children are back. anchor: we've been talking about who may be behind the attacks. >> the region where its happening, where kidnapping for ransom is common. criminal gangs have been targeting schools, as you said

do i trust the taliban? no. but i trust the capacity of the afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped and more competent in terms of conducting war. yes, ma'am. >> reporter: thank you, mr. president. given the amount of money that has been spent and the number of lives that have been lost, in your view with making this decision, were the last 20 years worth it? >> you know my record. i can tell by the way you asked the question. i opposed permanently having american forces in afghanistan. i argued from the beginning, as you may recall, it came to light after the administration was over, the last of our administration. no nation has ever unified afghanistan. no nation. empires have gone there and not done it. the focus we had, and i strongly support it and you may remember i physically went to afghanistan. i was up in that pass where osama bin laden was allegedly escaped or out of harm's way. we went for two reasons. one, to bring osama bin laden to the gates of hell, as i said at the time. the seco

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the idea that the taliban are winning. and they believe that that is causing fear among the populations, cues for passports and baez's. people moving around the country is also affecting the morale of the afghan security forces. well, it's not the media saying at this time it is the most senior member of the u. s. military saying, yes, it's not a foregone conclusion. that the taliban are going to take control of the country, but it's certainly one of the possibilities that still the possibility of a negotiated settlement between the african government and the taliban. but rather bad scenarios, a return to warlords across the country's breakdown in parts of the country's country. so very worrying picture presented from the highest levels and the pentagon. will james, if the end came in, i've gone a son is or appears to be very unclear from military standpoint. what should we be looking out for in the days and weeks ahead? what he heard in talk about the mental of the taliban. that's clear in the games they've made the terri

okay, let's begin enough galveston where the taliban is making for the territorial gains . its latest capture is a town of islam color on the border with iran. videos on social media, purportedly show militants taking down the african flag from the local customs office. it's the 3rd border crossing the, the telephone. this taken in just the past week. the other 2 led into the jacob's done on his becky stone. and here's what i understand looks now in terms of who controls was talib on areas. in red cover, an estimated half of the country, though the group itself claims to be in control of around 85 percent areas in yellow are contested with the pockets green showing where the government holds way . meanwhile, american troops, which have been in the country for 20 years now packing the bags sto, biden's, defended, sending them home while leaving the country to face what he has called himself, the strongest taliban. the 20 is the us president says simply, nothing more washington can do. no mission accomplished. i mission was accomplished in that we get to scott some and widen,

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so for the taliban. but that shows that apparently of on forces are trying to converge close to the gobble area, took to strengthen their strong old in the couple area and allowed aligned some of the rural areas in the distant areas in the better free to if to started on field making sure there bobbo does this mean and then combine the government in kabul is not going to worry too much about reversing these military setbacks, particularly if african security forces in many of these rural areas are basically surrendering. i mean, in recent days that african forces that reports african forces fled across the border into, into, to just on to they don't, they don't putting up a fight. yes, some of the forces in which are rich, which lacked the support coming from garbled, may probably give up in areas where they think the taliban race is evident. and that's a, it's about fine for a couple of the doctor don't. i'm still, i would say, when the president of a lot of fun heard from us law street, they'll get abo

it's one of a number of front lines between taliban fighters and afghan forces. the army has been forced onto the back foot with more than a 1000 soldiers recently fleeing across the border to fully nice nations weapons inspector scott ritter told us that the us mission in the country was far from a success. if, if all our all we want to do is kill been lot, and in the and i laid out, we could have done all of that much sooner without undertaking that, which we did undertake. why didn't can say otherwise. but the reality is we were involved in nation building, we did build a nation in afghanistan, a failed nation. and now we're abandoning it. you know, i will be the last person to argue in favor of a continued american military presence. but we need to be honest with the people, with their neighbors, the regional neighbors and the world. what we did for the last 20 years was bail we last. and now we should be looking to the international community, especially afghanistan's regional neighbors offer assistance in helping come up with a solution by pretending that w

the that their security forces can hold off the taliban?— off the taliban? the afghan government _ off the taliban? the afghan government certainly - off the taliban? the afghan government certainly says i off the taliban? the afghan i government certainly says that off the taliban? the afghan - government certainly says that it has the strength to hold on in this country. but we know is that they're fighting taliban forces in 20 of this country's 3a provinces, hundreds are dying in this violence every week, thousands are being displaced. last week, the un said 50 of this country's 370 district had fallen to the taliban, warning that the time to prevent the worst case scenario right be running out, and i think ordinary afghans are subtly worried about what lies ahead. —— might be running out. there are some fears that once all international forces leave, there might be civil war in this country. find forces leave, there might be civil war in this country.— war in this country. and yogita, what do afghans _ war in this country. and yogita, what do afgh

>> president biden: no, i do not trust that taliban, that's a silly question, do i trust that taliban, no, but i trust the capacity of the afghan military who is better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war. >> benjamin: you cannot trust iran or pakistan who would become the big players in the country, what happens next? being realistic, do they move in quest mark and surely that is a foothold to the countries who are frankly adversaries? >> i don't see iran playing any meaningful role, may be a bid in the western part of the country, remember they are the shiites country, that taliban is a sunni, radical islamic sunni based organization, they are archenemies coming iran had plenty of opportunity to move in across the border, that taliban told them, you will pick the time that you come into our country, we the taliban will pick the time when you leave, i don't see them as being a player at all, pakistan has been a mischief maker throughout, pakistan has always been a backstab or as far as the united states is concerned, they have been our friend shaki

but taliban is taking control of more of afghan. his son and afghan soldiers leave the country. us troops also leave. how worry are these major about men and we're washington reconsider a plan. this is inside so ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm fully back, the ball varies growing concerned about the future of afghanistan as the us and allied troops prepared to leave the country. i've gotten forces us of rendering out, post st, escaping in their hundreds to neighboring tajikistan. those that do phase the taliban put up little or no resistance. the heart of us operations in afghanistan for almost 2 decades. the background base is empty of american troops and the taliban is pressing on with its territorial campaign, making significant gains. the armed group now controls almost a 3rd of the countries, $400.00 districts, mainly in the north. it took over 13 areas on saturday alone, the biggest single day advance in the 20 year war. and it's more than doubled the number of areas it controls. since the u. s. accelerated, it's pull

the taliban has not surrendered. the taliban will continue to fight. and so you're creating a perpetual rational to keep u.s. troops there even if the situation is not improving. he is saying, look, i'm going to break the cycle the first year of my presidency and 20 years is long enough. again, that creates a lot of risks in a lot of because. we'll see difficult things happen in afghanistan. what he's saying is we have to recognize there is a limit to what we can achieve in afghanistan. we've achieved the central counter-terrorism mission with al qaeda and bin laden which is the reason we went there in the first place. and the foreign policy is focusing on china and climate change and other things that doesn't allow for the united states to provide the amount of resources and bandwidth and obviously the risk to our troops that we have for the last 20 years. the. >> what could this situation in afghanistan look like three months, six months, nine months down the road? i was also struck by the president repeatedly saying afghanistan has never been a unit

translation: that taliban don't want peace, the taliban want - the whole government. the taliban are only killing. and there is another concern. osama bin laden may be dead, but its organisation, al-anda, lives on. many fear a return of the taliban means a return of al-anda. a nightmare scenario not just for afghanistan, but for much of the world. frank gardner, bbc news. has the us failed in afghanistan as he has claimed? lyse doucet is in the afghan capital kabul. all of the focus now is on battlefields across this that will take some time, this is notjust military, but also financial, political, social by all of the worlds great powers. mistakes have been made on all sides. the president, who was of grace and charge for most of those two decades is also the commander—in—chief. he never really wanted to be the commander—in—chief. mistakes were made on his side as well, but certainly even the general mailer, the top us commander has said in a recent interview that we did with him that we have to take an honest look at why some things didn't turn out the way w

operations against the taliban and al qaeda. president biden pressing the accelerator on the withdrawal of forces but denied that a full withdrawal is imminent. that is still set for september 11. >> after two decades of american presence, bagram airport. >> and repeat that this country is ours. >> program has become a symbol of foreign occupation in afghanistan. it was the main air base used by coalition forces since the u.s. invasion in 2001, becoming a makeshift village with a hospital and even fast food restaurants. some 100,000 soldiers lived there. this nerve center in the fight against the taliban will likely be remembered for housing a secret facility for housing terrorists where torture was conducted. on friday, the u.s. president said everything was going according to plan for withdrawal. >> we're are exactly where we expected to be. i wanted to make sure there was enough running room that we would be able to do it all by september. it is a rational drawdown with our ally troops. >> after september, only soldiers taske

but the taliban has all the time. and he was alluding to the fact that some everyone knew at some point the us was going to have to pull out enough chemistry. i was going to stand on a town and that the taliban would of course, challenge that well, that dates come. president binders ask all us forces to be out by the 20th anniversary of $911.00, which is just a couple of months away. so us forces are drawing down there at a time that it seems like pissed off to the taliban have stopped. and the taliban is ascendant across the country and back let me show you a map where this is from la ward journal, just tracks us and they say the talent has. deborah doubled the number of controlled ac in districts since may 1st. now and this map, the lie gray is what is now uncontested and controlled by the government of afghanistan and presumably backed by the us. the dark gray is controlled by the taliban and the red is considered contested. then you can see the taliban that circled. cobble there in the center, they've circle the k

of the population is not conducive to taliban- success. it will try very hard to hold onto the capitol city i think the local politics in up in the north will favor the allies and not favor the taliban. some ofli the cities, i think a stalemate of some kind probably with some back and forth motion is more likely than an outright taliban takeover parade will have to see what happens in the next few months. >> version with the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. let me give the viewers a phone line to call anything to join this conversation with michael hanlon of the brookings institution this morning. if you support the withdrawal (202)748-8000. ifhd you oppose it withdrawal (202)748-8001. i do want to hear the storieshe and the thoughts afghan war veterans (202)748-8002 is a special line he set aside for afghan war veterans would you go ahead and start calling and as we show this picture from the wall street journal this morning. army general scott miller on the left the top u.s. commander ending over the reins of the afghan operation to mar

translation: that taliban don't want peace, the taliban want _ the whole government. the tally banner on the killing. the taliban are only killing. and there is another concern. 0sama bin laden may be dead, but its organisation, al-qaeda, lives on. many fear a return of the taliban means a return of al-qaeda. a nightmare scenario not just for afghanistan, but for much of the world. frank gardner, bbc news. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in the afghan capital kabul. all of the focus now is on battlefields across this country, but far away in the gulf state of qatar, negotiations have resumed between an afghan government and taliban delegation. we are joined from from one of the government team negotiators. welcome to bbc world news. thank you. how would you assess the seriousness of the talks which have taken place in recent days? is it just that taliban going through the motions, or is this a serious effort at trying to find peace? well, i guess the seriousness of the attacks are determined by what is going on on the ground. 0n the ground, things

i star during the taliban. of course, it was a different time at the time, i don't have united states or any other nato countries support. i was living in a very merchant ally and neglected society and country in the earth with the name of scottish them right now, which way different, and that different it business means it means generation change in that change of generation bring lots of thanks to afghanistan and the new generation get been engaged to the work, so that's why it's not acceptable for us to have the fact go back to the dorky job . i've got this done. so it said, that's why i'm saying i've got his son shouldn't go back to the hands of terrorist network. there's no guarantee also do her agreement talk about said they will cut their til with their let's say i'll tell you down or an ice ice or dice group. so where is still they have formed fighters with fighting with them? so they have those they terror support and malicious and militant with them. it's not easy for everyone to accept that. ok, just

bag deece taliban fight. who's pushed out of color. you know, ordered to wakes at the cities gates until security forces surrendered day after day. the pressure boats with less than 20 percent of afghan stan now controlled by the afghan government charlotte bellis out to 0. while another base used by us troops in iraq has been attacked, at least 14 rockets landed on the i in alice. they are based in unbar province. 3 minor injuries have been reported. 3 miss falls were also fired towards the bass. on monday, the attacks are believed to be in response to the air strikes against the round back. the groups ordered by us president joe biden. last week. the way any plans to build the border fence to stop refugees and migrants entering from neighboring bella. ruth, it says it's struggling to cope with a sharp increase in arrival, mostly people who have come from the middle east and africa after bill of ruth relaxed efforts to stop them from crossing the border. the bell of ruffian president, alexander lucas shanker

we had destroyed the taliban. one of the critical strategic mistakes was the pivot to iraq which i opposed.e ond. one reason i opposed it is i thought it would eventually lead to compromising our resources and ourr attention to afghanistan, and it did. we tried to resuscitate that approach to afghanistan over several surges. they have not been successful.ea 20 years of effort and thousands of american lives i don't think represents a shallow promise in 2002. >> let me ask you this. had president biden decided that, you know -- because there was a debate, are we at war or not at war. there was some thought of a stabilizing force, not dissimilar to japan, korea, or germany. would there have been support in that for congress, for a stabilizing force that was er basically at bagram air base, for an undetermined amount of time? >> perhaps, but i don't think there was an overwhelming sense in the congress that we should stay.s i think the reaction to the departure has been one of generally acceptance. i think the other

the taliban is making more inroads than we expected. the vitamin ministration said it would be difficult to get support in the wider international community. if the taliban were to take power at the point of a gun. so important to remember, the last columbine gun was only recognized by 3 governments in the world. and they sustain themselves for quite a significant of time until the u. s. decided to go in after 91120 years ago. a return is not something that the bite administration is planning for. alan fisher. thank you very much indeed. ah, never in his pleading for international help with the catholic, a prime minister, warning the country is just days away from social explosion. how sandy says global help is urgently needed to prevent outright economic ruin. evidence currency has fallen through the floor. it's not last about 90 percent of what it was worth in late 2019 blackouts. a common because of a dilapidated power grid. some areas only getting 2 hours of electricity a day while drastic fuel shortages mean even private generators

it fell to the taliban without a fight. the afghan government is not saying that it sees every district lost as a defeat. they are saying we pulled out intentionally from districts that were smaller and not strategically significant. he has also said they have moved troops to protect the larger and more important towns. one other journalist has tweeted about the role of rumors. one local official said they had banned districts because they thought handing over rule of the taliban was part of the plan, which it definitely is not. there are also reports that some afghan government forces affected to the taliban. here is the afghan national security advisor saying that is not the case. >> they may have abandoned their post because they ran out of ammunition or supplies, but by no means has anyone defected to the taliban. they may have abandoned their posts because they were no longer able to fight. ros: the washington post reported an assessment by u.s. intelligence at the afghan government could fall within six months of the

if the taliban continues _ air support. if the taliban continues to _ air support. if the taliban continues to take - air support. if the taliban continues to take more . continues to take more district, more territory, what sort of a risk does that pose to afghanistan's neighbouring to afg hanistan�*s neighbouring countries to afghanistan's neighbouring countries and indeed, countries beyond? countries and indeed, countries be ond? ~ , , beyond? well, the biggest sin . le beyond? well, the biggest single risk from _ beyond? well, the biggest single risk from a - beyond? well, the biggest - single risk from a humanitarian perspective is internally displaced persons and refugees. if you are a neighbour of afghanistan, they have lived through this in the 1980s and 19905, through this in the 1980s and 1990s, where a large scale war pushed refugees into iran, into pakistan, into areas of central asia. i think the additional concern based on the ability to move into europe is that we will start to see growing numbers try to get into europe, in part because there are eu

the taliban. it was right from the start. at one level, i would have to say i wasn't terribly surprised. but i'm not sure i expected anything better from the trump administration. but i did expect better from the biden administration. and boy, has that been a disappointment? he has outtrumped trump. he has made the decision to pull all the way out. so, it was quite a shock to hear him actually make that decision. now he owns this policy. i think he'll live to regret it. i think this will be a permanent stain. daniel: we have five minutes left. i want to give folks a minute to think about the immediate next steps we need to be taking over the next three to, either two weeks to the next three months. jill, i'll start with you. the next two weeks to the next three months. jill: i would like to see the evacuation flights now and get people to guam. the leadership there has said that they are ready, willing, and able to welcome our allies who have served. they've done it before. and frankly, they have

like for example, for interpreters, but again the taliban will be the taliban, so everything they say has to be taken with a pinch of sword. they had previously given reassurances that they would not target or persecute interpreters for the americans that did not reassure those people in afghanistan at all. they still feel abandoned by the big brother by washington. so there's only one way to see if they put their words. they put their money, excuse me, where there was, ah, and that is just to wait. indeed, it is. for thanks very much for taking us through all the us. art sees igor, shit, them all the need to know from the business world expense form takes us beyond the headlines and moment season. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest. while you see in this, these techniques is the state devising message to end essentially destroy the personality of an individual lifetime. means this is how one doctors, theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed the danger to the state. that was the f

i’m taliban taking kabul, i presume? i'm not taliban taking kabul, i presume? i“n not concerned about that, it has been a propaganda war by the taliban and their backers. they are basically claimed to have a certain percentage of the country but these are the least populated and most remote areas and when you actually see the population amount, it's around less than 20% of the population live in the areas the taliban claim to have. we population live in the areas the taliban claim to have. we knew the us withdrawal _ taliban claim to have. we knew the us withdrawal of _ taliban claim to have. we knew the us withdrawal of troops _ taliban claim to have. we knew the us withdrawal of troops is - taliban claim to have. we knew the us withdrawal of troops is not - taliban claim to have. we knew the | us withdrawal of troops is not 100% complete, that comes in august. you represent kuchis as i introduced for our viewers, the taliban are renowned for mistreating minorities. how are you feeling about what's going on in the moments? it’s going on in the moments? it'

speaker, is the taliban. that will be the safe fate for our afghan partners if we don't get them out of there now. i urge the administration -- they have 700 now come to fort lee in virginia. i urge the administration to get the rest of them. there are 9,000 interpreters. probably 20,000 total when it comes to our afghan partners. please, mr. president, get them out before they are killed by the taliban. our i.s.r., intelligence surveillance cognizance capability is out. bagram fell to the afghans in a very sloppy transition, and the taliban is going to take that over, too. now, we can't see what china, russia, and iran are doing. we can't see what isis and al qaeda are doing, mr. speaker. we are going dark, mr. speaker, because we can't see anything on the ground. i will tell you this, the moral obligation we have to save those who we promised we would protect them has to be fulfilled, and that's precisely what this bill does, mr. speaker. and i want to thank the judiciary committee for bringing this forward

>> translator: the taliban signed a peace deal with the united states, and the main point is the taliban will not allow any terrorist groups to operate in afghanistan, he said while the taliban promised to keep afghanistan free of international terrorists, there are more than 20 terrorist groups operating in the region and they are coming in, inspired by what they consider the taliban's victory over the united states. lester >> all right, richard engel in kabul tonight, thank you >>> now to an nbc news investigation into the secret sale of art by president biden's son hunter the asking price, up to half a million dollars per painting but ethics watchdogs are blasting the arrangement. here is stephanie gosk. >> reporter: powerful and impactful work, according to the gallery owner who will sell hunter biden's art this fall. art critics aren't so sure. >> well, it's not as bad as i might have thought. >> reporter: others have been tougher, one calling it hotel art but the gallery says it values some of the first time artist's paintings up to a half million. >> you can get a work by matisse

as the taliban offensive gains momentum. they claim to have seized more than $100.00 out of nearly $400.00 districts in the country with a strong presence in the north. 100. thanks to god and this is prison before the majority of the afghan people in the previous era, june taliban rule, for more than 10 years. we are now in control board and 70 percent of the territories. it is simply because that people know us very well and the afghan people have no problem dealing with us. many afghans are frightened, their consent, the security situation in the country will only worsen once the us forces eventually leave. while not only me, but all africans are very to the polar bond, will take kind of fun as us troops leave the country. no one and honestly is completely satisfied with the palate bond monotonic. from the day the issue of the withdrawal, a foreign troops arose and it has had a negative impact on the deliver of people. the fall of times why district comes just days off the us and nato forces vacated their main by graham at

leverage on the ground. taliban cannot convert the whole population of upon the sand into taliban taliban. a zation of her finest. son is not acceptable. yes, of course. they feel at this moment that they have that hand militarily on the ground too. and that will not last that way. i'm sure. i'm not talking about days and weeks that we're talking about the course of time because that see this and from out his state there is no peaceful settlement. unfortunately, the world will continue. and as a result of the war, tinge will change and it will go and to hand that part. if you're talking about the survival of the state, i should, i should say that yes. while when the slum makes it public, that is opposition. there are different roofs which are not happy with our conduct, but a day courtesies as they are unhappy. but they're the same time a daily with the principles in the principle of had a public one person one vote. and so to another principles. and if you're talking about the survival of the state, yes. and you can watch the full interview with de la de la in our next talk to i'll just