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afghans are thronging to kabul's airport

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desperate to get on planes and leave the

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country at any cost they're scaling the

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airport's walls this morning rushing in

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there's no screening no security checks

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just force of numbers

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when they do manage to push aboard

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planes they're so crowded pilots won't

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take off

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and no one agrees to disembark

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it's all happening just a few hundred

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yards from the military side of kabul

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airport now separated by a row of barbed

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wire from the civilian side in chaos

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the military side is where the u.s is

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staging an elaborate evacuation of

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american diplomats from the

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embassy but even here afghans managed to

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push through

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willing to cling onto an aircraft as it

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took off

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rather than stay in afghanistan

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afghans say the americans are only

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focused on getting u.s citizens out

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along with some interpreters although

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tens of thousands of translators still

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have no u.s visas so they too are left

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to the taliban the militants took

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control of kabul yesterday

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we watched the move in kabul is falling

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now we've just left our office our long

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time home in afghanistan and we're

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heading to a safer location where we're

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hopefully a safer location already we've

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seen some gunmen who look like taliban

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on the streets and all of the government

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checkpoints all the police all the

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soldiers they're going

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now the taliban are out in full force

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they took over the presidential palace

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occupied kabul's version of the oval

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office afghanistan's president fled the

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country the taliban have set up

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checkpoints across the afghan capital

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and their islamist rule is already

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coming back

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this was a popular beauty salon styling

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women's hair and makeup the taliban

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banned salons along with education for

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women and girls so when the taliban came

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back now they've painted over the beauty

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shop people here know what the taliban

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want they know what the taliban expect

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we watched a man tear up the beauty

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parlor sign in line with the taliban's

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wishes

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the taliban don't just control kabul but

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the whole country and all the weapons

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the u.s bought for the afghan army there

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are also reports of atrocities including

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abductions rape and executions

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the militants are much stronger now than

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20 years ago when the u.s drove them

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from power when they sheltered osama bin

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laden as he plotted 9 11.

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now the taliban are back as the u.s

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leaves afghanistan gripped by panic and

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run by extremists

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the taliban have been taking pot shots

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at the u.s transport planes as they

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leave and many are drawing comparisons

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to the u.s evacuation from saigon

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all right richard engel in kabul stay

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