and i thought you asked the key question of general mackenzie. do we have what we need to protect ourselves. so what is the plan to keep u.s. service members safe as evacuations continue in kabul the next four days. >> and general mackenzie said he has, he believes he has what he needs at the airport right now. we heard from president biden later saying that anything that the military needs, he has been granting their request. at this point we do not anticipate additional u.s. military flowing into the airport, but as you said, chris, the evacuation mission continues. so that means that u.s. military and marines are still screening people as they come on the airport grounds. we heard from general mackenzie they screened more than 104,000 people throughout the course of the mission that began august 14th. that's a tremendous amount of people that have come through. he made the point one of the reasons this is so dangerous is because bringing these people onto the airport, they have to get up close with them and check them, they have to make sure t

i think 10 mackenzie handle this question very well. the fact is that where to situation where inherited a situation, particularly since as we all know, that the afghan military collapse 11 days before 11 days that it is in the interest of as mackenzie said in the interest of the tale mon, that in fact isis k does not task to size beyond what it is. number one, and number 2, it's an interest that we are able to leave on time on targets. as a consequence of that, the major things we've asked them moving back to perimeter. gimme more space between the wall stopping vehicles from coming through, it cetera. searching people coming through it is now a good call. a tightly commanded regimented operation like the u. s's military is. but they're acting in their interest, their interest. and so by and large, and i've asked the center, same question to military on the ground. whether or not it's useful exercise, no one trust them. we're just counting on their self interest to continue to generator activities as in their self interest that we leav

we heard from general mackenzie yesterday and the 3:00 p.m. our that we are now sharing intelligence data with the taliban. we have given over biometric streaming -- biometric screening , fingerprints of everyone who has helped us. how are we ensuring that the taliban doesn't go hunt those people down? anastasia: general --annmarie: general mackenzie was saying they didn't give all information to the taliban, but enough that so at the security checkpoints, they can make sure people are able to enter. it is very unnerving for many americans to hear that, given the fact that the taliban's where the -- the taliban were the ones how bring -- the ones harboring al qaeda and osama bin laden. we just heard them say yesterday that there's no evidence that bin laden was the one responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks. but the taliban right now is the security outside the airport, where u.s. troops are now present. general mackenzie said it is because it is mutually beneficial for them. the taliban want us out, but no one in the white house, the pentago

courtney can you take down mackenzie it's courtney qb from nbc news. can you tell us a little bit more about the these extremely real additional threats from isis is it, uh concerned about more suicide attacks um and also about some of the steps that you may be taking to mitigate future attacks? i mean, would it include. putting u. s troops were marines outside the gates are outside of the airport for additional perimeter security and then finally with all of this is there any discussion about sending any additional u s troops to kabul airport for additional security measures uh so let me actually answer the last part of your question first we assess we have the forces. we need to protect ourselves there. i'm always in a constant dialogue with the secretary if i needed anything else, i'd be talking to him immediately but i think we have what we need to protect ourselves so let's talk a little bit about the threat strings so very very real threats. dreams very very uh what we would call tactical that means imminent could occur at any moment and they ran

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a historic moment at 329 p. m. eastern time here in washington, general kenneth mackenzie, the head of central command, uttered 12 words that essentially ended the u. s. is a 20 year occupation of afghanistan is 12 words where i am here to announce the completion of our withdraw from afghanistan. and that was some of the 1st words that he uttered in this. in this briefing here. very interesting briefing. he said that it was the last 5 military aircraft that left a 100 cars, a international airport. he said that the commander on the ground was on the very last plane, as well as ross wilson, the us ambassador to have dennis den they were on the last plane. and those planes are now out of afghanistan airspace. he said the also that, that, that a lot of the military assets that the u. s. had at the airport have been destroyed . and that in terms of handing over to the taliban, he said some very interesting things. she said that the taliban has been in his words, helpful and useful over the last several days, especially helping to secure the perimeter of the airport. he was quite frankly, l

general mackenzie is courtney cube from m b. c. news. so were there any evacuees left at the airport when the last me as military flight last there were no evacuees left at the airport when the u. s. last slide left corner. thank you. and then just on the television, you know, you've, you've talked about their pragmatic ways of operating with u. s. military here. do you see a role for a u. s. military to have open conversations with the taliban, even potential coordination going forward in particular with this growing and now essentially the threat from isis won't tell you my, my dealing with the taliban. and my dealings of my commanders on the ground with a telegram revolved around our determination to execute this operation and a very flat statement. we made them. but if we, if you challenge us, we're going to hurt you. and i think they recognize that and for their own purposes, this is something they wanted to have happen to. i would, i can't foresee the way future coordination, but between us would go. i would leave that 1st for some

i think 10 mackenzie handle this question very well. the fact is that where the situation where inherited situation, particularly since, as we all know, that the african military collapse 11 days before 11 days that it is in the interest of, as mackenzie said in the interest of the tale mon, that in fact isis k is not attached to size beyond what it is. number one. and number 2, it's an interest that we are able to leave on time on targets. as a consequence of that, the major things we've asked them moving back the perimeter. gimme more space between the wall. stopping vehicles from coming through and cetera. searching people coming through it is now a good call. a tightly commanded regimented operation like the u. s's military's but they're acting in their interest, their interest. and so by and large and i've asked the center, same question to military on the ground. whether or not it's useful exercise, no one trust them. we're just counting on their self interest to continue to generate directives. as in their self interest that we l

this is close up. war said the general mackenzie. any praise the heroism of every single person has to do these searches. you feel the breath of the person next to as you're doing this, he said, and that is the point that he was making, that the way to make the safe is it has to be that close that involved. and in just over a week, he says they've managed to process 104000 people by doing that. what was also interesting is he said the threat has gone away that they're still aware that there will almost certainly be other attacks. know they talked about how they could prevent rocket attacks, how would they have the ability to try and repair morters attacking the international airport. but they said they don't have the ability to try and walk something such as a truck bomb or another suicide bomb. and that has become abundantly clear in the last couple of hours. the threat is there, it remains and something that the americans have to work with. but general mackenzie also believe that he will get the job done on august the 31st. he was

i know general mackenzie spoke to this today. that is the process still underway at this point in time. until that process concludes, the president would not make a call because that is in the first step in the process. and then dover, of course he would consider and want to be a part of any means of honoring the lives that were lost today. go ahead. >> general mackenzie described this explosion of abbey gate happening at a point after someone had been searched by the taliban. how is the united states still going to work with the taliban the way that the president is describing or just in his remarks to get american citizens and afghan allies out if that is what we're working with. >> look, i'm not trying to sugar coat what we think of the taliban. the taliban is not a group we trust. they are not our friends. we have never said that. it is also the reality that the taliban controls large swaths of the afghanistan. and to date, because of coordination with the taliban, we've been able to evacuate more than 104,000 people and save

this is the passage general mackenzie quoted. they shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. williams starts now. good evening i'm chris jansing in for brian williams. 223 day of the biden administration and as we come on the air, tonight we're following two major stories. the u.s. has officially ended its 20-year war in afghanistan. it is now tuesday august 31st there. the deadline president biden set for all u.s. troops to be out of the country. afghanistan is now run by the taliban. we'll have much more on that in just a moment. also tonight, millions of people across louisiana are coming to grips with the scale of damage from hurricane ida. the storm made landfall in the port for sean sunday as a category four, slamming into the coast with devastating wind and rain. it's one of the most powerful

i'm tom mackenzie. this is bloomberg daybreak europe. last rites out of couple -- kabul. the u.s. pulls its final troops out of afghanistan, ending the nation's longest war. china's slowing recovery snaps risk sentiment. the service sector is back in contraction for the first time since last february. the eu recommends new restrictions on u.s. travelers in another blow to the tourism industry. let's check in on the markets. it is a sour mood over in asia, particularly in china. the dual winds of weak economic data, but also [indiscernible] the focus on game makers and private equities. msci asia-pacific seeking out gains in terms of 2%. it is very much hong kong and mainland china. there are some futures up after 12 record for the s&p closing out above 4500 yesterday. the u.s. 10-year has dropped lower in terms of the yields. let's switch focus on that major story out of afghanistan. the u.s. has officially ended its military presence in the country, the final flight out of kabul ends america's longest

okay. mackenzie estimates that they're about 2000 fighters in afghanistan. and while the u. s. is completely now pulled out of the country troops, boots on the ground, if you will. he did say, of course the u. s. still has overwhelming air power, and as we've heard from the pentagon and others still has the ability, if necessary, to be in afghanistan in some sort of military capacity without boots on the ground, if you will. he also said that all of the military personnel at the airport had been military, excuse me, all of the military assets, whether it be hum, these or airplanes that had been left at the airport, had been destroyed. and that all of the any sort of airport is civilian airport infrastructure to get ahmed cars, that international airport back up and running again as a civilian airport. that infrastructure had been left in place and not destroyed by the us military. and he also said that in terms of exactly the timing on when the last 5 u. s. military planes left the airport, he said that while they were cooperating with the taliban, they did not actually give th

. >> reporter: central command's general frank mackenzie says the diplomatic sequel now begins, led by secretary of state tony blinken who insists the commitment to afghanistan remains. >> a new chapter of america's engagement with afghanistan has gun. >> reporter: the final hours were, u.s. officials say, the most dangerous. after a massive suicide bombing last week by isis-k that left scores dead including 13 american service americans. early monday morning five rockets were fired at the kabul airport. isis claimed responsibility. the pentagon says its antirocket defense system engaged and no casualties were reported. the vehicle used to launch the rockets turn to ash. it came just hours after u.s. central command said a drone targeted an isis vehicle with a large amount of explosive. the air strike was in a residential kabul neighborhood. >> there was a second explosion that assessed that what was there was going to be used in a high profile attack. >> reporter: but the multiple explosions also killed civilians. a relative told cnn at least ten were killed from a single family. seve

it was interesting. mackenzie said he believes that there are about 2000 ice. ok. fighters still within afghanistan, he insinuated that a lot of them were from the prisons that the prisoners that were let out of some of the jails in ghana. stan, he feels some of them were from there and he said that the taliban would have their hands full dealing with ice. okay. in the coming weeks and months quite frankly. however, the bottom line to all of this is the 20 year war in afghanistan, or at least the 20 year presence of us troops in afghanistan officially is now over . gabriel is on the they are joining us with the very latest live from washington dc. gabe, thank you. will you a secretary of state anthony blanket is expected to speak shortly. i think we've still got an empty podium there. it is. was in jordan though, is joining us live from washington d. c. to give us some idea of what to expect. i'm hi, there rules might we expect from lincoln? well, the secretary of state convened a meeting with his foreign minister counterparts in the g 7, as well as from cut he

s same channels. gord, mackenzie says, always enjoy listening to peter o'beirne, honest observations and always to the point to these said peter, all born is excellent, very informative mohammed abdul. i says, why did to these? i may feel so badly prime minister. she speaks a lot offence. the name p doing says u. s. a cannot betray the slogan, nobody left behind. when are they? no book hobby says, this is what hope looks like most and parts have invaded afghanistan to the ages because it was a cheat gateway. all field, the americans are only the latest. if the west stop time to meet them, at least the western society, they would have the only hope they can have and not the hope of escaping it. as this leads to excursion has proven. professor john curtis is today's unclaimed king of the tv posters. alex, interviews him about the long history of political pulling so fast. so some john cost us. welcome to valley simon. show. nice to be acts. so let's go back to almost the door and the flick of pulling in the united kingdom, the 1945 general election. so here was a situation where the ne

back from april interest for the general, i guess a journal, mackenzie talked about wanting to talk to the taliban about pushing the perimeter back as one of the 3 ways to avoid another incident has that happened? i mean, you can see by how much, but it's significantly been pushed back. and what are you seeing in terms of flow to get it less people being allowed in a rush of people which could lead to similar to what you've seen today. so what i can report as my discussion with the commanders they are on the ground is that multiple activities have taken place to increase the force protection specifically in communication with the taliban, of how they are executing their checkpoint operations and communication when they're so i, i would say there's been multiple, i don't want to go into the details of the exact, of what the communication, but i know that has happened. and what we have seen today is, is a little lessing of what we would say total capacity of people in and around gates . yes, thank you just because the 10 says, i says sincere. so the people who are worried about the thing

cent-com commander, general frank mackenzie today. the attack today came at the kabul airport after a warning from the u.s. embassy in kabul that was eerily, eerily accurate. i mean, uncannily accurate. this -- this was the warning from the kabul embassy last night, word for word. quote, because of security threats outside the gates of kabul airport, we are advising u.s. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport. to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a u.s. government representative to do so. quote, u.s. citizens who are at the abby gate, the east gate, or the north gate should now leave immediately. leave immediately. just hours after that very explicit warnings, u.s. citizens at the abbey gate should leave immediately. it was hours after that directive when abbey gate was, in fact, where one of the two suicide bombs today detonated. exactly as that warning from the kabul embassy said it would. and while the days-long crush of humanity bottlenecked at the gates of the airport has been an

i'm tom mackenzie. let's get back to the markets. investors very much focused on any tapir thought coming out of jackson hole on friday. let's bring in paul dodson. aware is your attention focused, in terms of this beach from jay powell? >> the market is kind of expecting he will open the door for the fed to move towards tapering, either at the backend of this year or early next year. feel like one of the details people might be more focused on is what sort of tapering horizon we are thinking about. how long it will take the fed to get down from about 120 a month at the moment, back down to zero. it could be a key determinant for where the market goes in how it reacts to what he says. people will be primed for that. and of course, what the future rate path looks like, as well. tom: how important is the makeup of the tapering? specifically when it comes to nbs. a lot of focus on the housing market for obvious reasons. is the makeup of the taper likely to be spelled out when and if jay powell finally starts to pronounce on it? >> yeah

a lot of fears there would be more attacks, general mackenzie, head of us forces in afghanistan, in a press conference at the pentagon, isis -- the deadly suicide attack, the night before the attack on wednesday night, the state department alerted a similar warning telling americans to leave their gates including the at the gate, another warning from the us embassy that in a minute attack, no question the isis k planner is part of that and has been taken out, it is a dangerous situation, 5000 us troops and 4 million people. >> every single one of them tonight. afghan war vets, thanks, you have been doing commentary on this. that isis planner is dead. what is your gut check where we are, 5000 being surrounded by the talent ban, the taliban is still in control. what are you feeling now? >> i am feeling heartbroken for veterans who served in that country for 20 years. they sacrificed not just for the afghan people but for this country and each other. president biden threw it away and 8 months of his presidency. this country deserves leaders are involved and not detached. since the beginn

>> i thought general mackenzie covered it very well yesterday. we are certainly prepared and would expect future attempts, absolutely. but i won't get into the specifics of what those are and why we are doing what we are doing. without talking to intelligence, we are monitoring these threats very carefully, virtually and in real time. >> two questions for general taylor. in the way that the attacks, u.s. commanders on the ground had improved communications with taliban commanders, none lonely in improving security, but also potentially getting siv applicants or afghans through the gates, and since isis is also a problem for the taliban, is there potential there to coordinate, to actually target isis? >> when we see improved communication, i would answer that with we are continuing communication. so improve, i would say every day that is improving because we have more repetitions. we are able to continue to have open lines of communication. so the specificity of what is being passed back and forth technically to allow for a better security environ

kirby: i do not have any additional details from what general mackenzie laid out yesterday. you're going to do the friends it's on this and learn as much as we can. -- the forensics on this. we are still digging into it. reporter: do you have any timing on when you believe the remains will arrive at dover? press sec. kirby: i don't. the services are in contact with the families, they will notify the families through the casually tea -- casualty assistance officers. as you know, the process does not take that long. reporter: will the president and secretary go to delaware to meet the families of the fallen? press sec. kirby: i don't have any schedule announcements to make. we are mindful of the importance of any return of fallen members, these included. reporter: you have any status report on that 17 internet landstuhl -- injured at landstuhl? press sec. kirby: the last count i had was 20 had gone to landstuhl, there were some additional wounded, but they were treated on site and returned to duty. i do not know what the status is. as you know, we don't usually get into the de

let me also thank general mackenzie and the rear admiral who is the commander of u.s. forces. and major donahue of the airborne division and the brigadier general at this critical time. it is making an enormous difference. they know as i do that there is a lot of work to be done. all of this is very personal for me. this is a war that i fought in and led. people, and i know what is the following along behind me. as i said, we have a moral obligation to help those who helped us. i feel the urgency deeply. i want to e with a word for the force in our military. i know that these are difficult days for those who lost loved ones in afghanistan and for those who carry the wounds of war. especially now, we mourn those who made the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan. let me say to their families and loved ones, our hearts are wish -- our hearts are with you. the u.s. military stands as one to honor those we have lost. afghan war veterans are not some monolith. i am hearing strong views from all sides on this issue. that is probably the way it should be. whats important is that each of

we also think general mackenzie and the rear admiral of the united states forces, and general donahue and brigadier general sullivan. is making an enormous difference. they know, as i do, that there is a lot of work to be done. all of this is very personal for me. this is the war that i fought in and led. i'd of the country. i know the people. i know those who fought alongside me. we have a moral obligation to help those who helped us. i feel the urgency deeply. i want to end with the word for the force of our military. i know that these are difficult days for those who have lost loved ones in afghanistan, and those who carry the wounds of war. especially now, we mourn those who made the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan. let me say to their families and loved ones, our hearts are with you. the u.s. military stands as one to honor those we have lost. afghan war veterans -- i am hearing strong views on all sides, and that is how it should be. what is important is that each of us will work through this in our own way. we need to respect that and we need to give one another the time and

general kenneth mackenzie, the head of central command are cent. com said isis carried out the attack specifically isis k or isis correson. and will likely continue to try and launch more attacks, adding that others have already been forwarded by security forces and cobble. the general went on to say to attack and hold to suicide bombers detonating explosives outside the abbey date of the airport and nearby hotel. the hotel, followed by isis gunman, opening fire on civilians, men, women, and children. along with us troops and military personnel. there are warnings about to attack and it's certainly raises more serious questions about americans evacuation efforts. why it has become so incredibly catastrophic and also pass comments from president, bite himself about america's effort in afghanistan and the war on terror. listen to this mission, to degrade the chairs, tread about kind in afghanistan and kilo summer been lot and was a success. i believed that our presence in that gas dance should be focused on. the reason we went in the 1st place to ensure afghanistan would not be used as

i know general mackenzie spoke to this, this still underway at-this-point. until that is concluded, the president would not make a call, that is the first step in the process. terms of additional steps,st dover, of course, he would consider and want to be a part of any means of honors of the lives lost today. >> general mckenzie describeder that one of the explosions at the abby gate happening at a point after someone had been searched by taliban. how is the united states still working with the taliban the way that president describing or remarks. to get americans citizens and afghan allies out if that is what we're working with. >> i'm not going to sugar coat what wero think of taliban, they are not a group we trust, they are not our friends, we never said, that to date because of coordination with taliban we've been able to evacuate more than 104,000 people. that is necessary to continue our evacuation, i understand your question, peter, the questions of others to what they knew or role, there is no assessment we have of their involvement in this at-this-p

fact that they see bitcoin as a safer store value than the local afghani currency >> now i wonder, mackenzie, how long does this play out? if, say, the taliban aren't friendly to crypto, which i imagine they might be. repressive regimes have tried to control their own crypto currencies, stomp out the ability of people to have their own options. is there the sense that the existing structures of crypto offer individual afghans options? >> yeah, so unlike the rest of the cryptosphere, a lot of afghans dealing in bitcoin aren't talking about it because they don't know what the reaction will be chain analysis shows there is widespread adaption of crypto happening now. afghanistan is ranked number 20 out of 154 countries on their annual global crypto adoption index. when you're talking about peer to peer exchanges of crypto, afghanistan jumps up to number seven. >> mackenzie, thank you. >>> that entire piece, please do check it out, is on cnbc.com >> a quick programming note. don't miss cnbc's "evolve" live stream tomorrow. the ceos of kohl's, chewy and a lot more as the industry looks to recover

is complimenting the taliban . mackenzie was very complimentary. that the taliban was very helpful in the final days of securing the perimeter of the airport and helping the us to do the evacuations and ultimately leave afghanistan completely. so interesting comments for mackenzie saying a very complimentary of the role that the taliban played. he did say that the us believes there are about 2000. i saw k fighters that are still in afghanistan now. okay, many thanks for that. gabriel elizondo for us in washington dc. well, we can head to cobble now and speak to correspondent robin, but bright. so rolled president joe biden, keeping his word withdrawal from afghanistan by the 31st of august. but it's come at quite a cost, doesn't it? yeah, absolutely made. it's just a few hours now before sunrise here. enough gun it's done and people in cobble and gas comes down as a whole will start to be waking up to the new reality for the for the 1st time in 20 years. there are no us soldiers on afghan soil. all of this started to unfold really quite quickly. la

general mackenzie said isis remains a quote, extremely real threat and will try to carry out further attacks, something present a bite. and also was saying this was a mission designed for stress. and that was expected to come under attack, and certainly that happened, as we know, he said at this point it does not appear the taliban played a part in the attack and that it's within the taliban interest for america to leave the country as well. he added that again while america will press ahead with withdrawing and evacuating any and all us citizens and ask in nationals by august 31st. the august 31st deadline. he could not guarantee total security wasn't here. it sounds ridiculous, but the vast majority of people and communities like that want to come to america, given a choice. so getting every single person out is can't be guaranteed anybody because the termination or who wants to get out as well . and there has been intel sharing, and this was confirmed by general mckenzie between us armed forces and also the taliban. that so emphasized the messiness of america is nearly 20 or invol

look, i think general mackenzie handled this question very well. the fact is that we're in a situation -- we inherited a situation, particularly since as we all know that the afghan military collapsed 11 days before -- in 11 days, that is in the interest of, as mackenzie said, in the interest of the taliban, that, in fact, isis-k does not metastasize beyond what it is, number one. and, number two, it is in their interest that we are able to leave on time, on target. as a consequence of that, the major things we have asked them, moving back the perimeter, giving more space between the wall, stopping vehicles from coming through, et cetera, searching people coming through. it is not what you would call a tightly commanded, regimented operation like the u.s. is, the military is, but they're acting in their interest, their interest. and so by and large -- and i have asked this very same question to military on the ground, whether or not it is a useful exercise. no one trusts them. we are just counting on their self-interest to continue to generate thei

we heard from general mackenzie, the cent-com chief, that the people who were -- the marines who were searching this individual were so close, they could feel each other's breath on them. so it does possibly suggest to me that he may have been within that inner search lane unless they had chosen to search some people outside of the airport. i am not seeing much of that when i was brought there. certainly, all that went on inside the safety of the airport itself. that explosion appears to have claimed most of the u.s. lives here but then, it isn't quite clear how we have seen another 90 or so afghans killed at this stage. there was a secondary blast which appears to have happened near the baron hotel. that is quite close to where we are talking about here. so we could be roughly talking about a similar location. that was subsequently followed by gunfire, according to general mackenzie of cent-com, which also killed a number of civilians, too. so it looks like we are dealing with three possibly attackers at some point. the question is how did they get through the taliban security? and p

i mean, once the head of sudden come general mackenzie said we are withdrawing all air support. we said that on the 14th of june, 3 weeks later, the air force and army leaves barbara air force base. what did they expect to happen? so in other words, if the civilian agents change piped up and said, you know that the taliban is just going to roll through, they would be disregarded. it's the us army. and it's milly, and it's of course, mackenzie who is head of who should be should be a portion to blame for this. and the question that i have really, where are they so dumb? how damaging is this for the by the ministration. clearly the president would have gone along with this if he thought it was going to and of such an absolutely pay or not math for him, but how, how much of this hurting him? oh, it will hurt him. it's a liminal event. i would say it's as important as 911 now the real danger of course . ringback is that the people will accuse biden, there is a prospect that the republicans could capitalize on this because the major media will not be able to tell the truth about what

i'm oceana mackenzie, i do sport climbing and i'm from australia. so, i started when i was about eight, and, yeah, my mum, she actually took my sisters to our local climbing gym, but i would go with them and hang out at the gym and start traversing around the walls. and, yeah, i pretty muchjust loved it straightaway. climbing has this great challenge where you're actually trying to find a way to get up the climb. i loved having that challenge of trying to figure it out and challenge my mind as well as my body. the good thing about climbing is it's always really great to find your own way because you have a special kind of way of doing things. i never expected climbing to be in the olympics, so when it was first decided, i was like, "oh, that's amazing. it can be really great for the sport!" and then when we realised that i could potentially qualify, it was like, "whoa, i can actually go to the olympics," and it happened. and, yeah, super excited. for the olympics, you do speed, bouldering and then lead. speed climbing, just to get up the wall as fas

general mackenzie said isis remains a quote, extremely real threat and will try to carry out further attacks. something president biden also agreed with today, saying this was a mission designed for stress. and that was expected to come under attack, and certainly that happened, as we know, he said at this point it does not appear that taliban played a part in the attacks and that it's within the taliban interest for america to leave the country as well. he added that again while america will press the head with withdrawing and evacuating any and all us citizens and ask in nationals by august 31st. the august 31st deadline. he could not guarantee total security wasn't here. it sounds ridiculous, but the vast majority of people and communities like that want to come to america, given a choice. and there has been in tell sharing and this was confirmed by general mckenzie between us or forces and also the taliban. so that said clearly, today's events so emphasized and i've seen this of americans nearly 20 or involvement in afghanistan now coming to heretic, violent and crashing end for

analysis by peter and alex much better than the dog was reporting we see on many same channels. gord, mackenzie says, always enjoy less than peter o'beirne, honest obs divisions and always to the point to these are, says peter, all born is excellent, very informative. mama's of do. i says, why did to these and may feel so bad list prime minister. she speaks a lot offense and the name p doing says us a cannot betray the slogan, nobody left behind when are they? no book hobby says, this is what hope looks like. most empires have invaded afghanistan to the ages because it was the chief gateway. all field, the americans are only the latest. if the west stop trying to meet them at least the western society, they will have the only hope they can have and not the hope of escaping it. as a slave to excursion has proven. professor john curtis is to div unclaimed king of the tv posters. alex introduce him about the long history of political pulling professionals from john cost us welcome to the alex simon. chill. nice to be. let's go back to almost the door in the let's go pulling in the united kingdom,

now general mackenzie was asked, do you think the taliban a load this to happen? he said no, because he believes the taliban have a vested interest in the united states meeting the self imposed deadline of the 31st of august. and he says, that's why they are talking about security with them. and he fully intends to meet the mission, which is to be out of the country by the 31st of august with all americans who want to leave back heading towards the united states. thank you very much. alan fisher with all the latest from washington. thank you. alan, just want to update you on one of the story that we've been following over the past half hour or so hearing from our correspondence in cobbler, rob mcbride mentioning that there was gunfire loud sounds of explosions in the afghan capital. not far from the airport after those multiple attacks which took place about 6 hours ago. and now we have the reuters news agency citing member of the taliban saying that actually this was a control explosion carried out by the u. s. in order to destroy i munition, they say so the larg

just to be clear, general mackenzie, very clearly blaming. i saw k for this attack. he was asked that he think the taliban let this happen. and he pointed out that the taliban actually have an incentive to let this operation continue at the pace. it has been going because they want all foreign fighters out of the country by august the 31st. and the way that is going to happen is not through attacking us forces, hammet, cause i internationally a port and on that matter of information sharing with the taliban very significant . as you point out, alan and the fact that these evacuation the evacuation operations will continue, he was very adamant about that. does that mean deepening us taliban involvement? well we know that have been in contact. we know that the director, the ca has been talking to the head of the taliban almost on a daily basis. we understand that many people object to that idea, but the reality the real politic is that the taliban are controlled across afghanistan in kill bill. and at the airport as well. and so the us, if they want to get this operati

and it's of course, mackenzie who said, who should be should be a portion to blame for this. and the question that i have really, where are they so dumb? how damaging is this for the by the ministration. clearly the president would have gone along with this if he thought it was going to and of such an absolutely pay or not math for him, but how, how much of this hurting him? oh, it will hurt him. it's a liminal event. i would say it's as important as 911. now the real danger of course, is that the people will accuse biden, there is a prospect that the republicans could capitalize on this. because the major media will not be able to tell the truth about what happened on fridays bought and gave an address and also feel a jonas questions regarding the situation. and i've got to start on decisions. washington, a taken in the run up to the fall of call last sunday. this was mounting criticism for all sides blood and tried to put a brace, face on it, and missing know that there's still a lot of uncertainty. so evacuated, mission is dangerous. it involves risks to armed forces and i

iam oceana i am oceana mackenzie. i could do climbing and i'm from australia. so, i started when i was about eight, and, yeah, my mum, she actually took my sisters to our local climbing gym, but i would go with them and hang out at the gym and start traversing around the walls. and, yeah, i pretty muchjust loved it straightaway. climbing has this great challenge where you're actually trying to find a way to get up the climb. i loved having that challenge of trying to figure it out and challenge my mind as well as my body. the good thing about climbing is it's always really great to find your own way because you have a special kind of way of doing things. i never expected climbing to be in the olympics, so when it was first decided, i was like, "oh, that's amazing. it can be really great for the sport!" and then when we realised that i could potentially qualify, it was like, "whoa, i can actually go to the olympics," and it happened. and, yeah, super excited. for the olympics, you do speed, bouldering and then lead. speed climbing, just to get up the wall as fas