Evening Edition: Safe Passage From Afghanistan in Doubt

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The Pentagon says around 5,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan as people continue to try and get to Kabul's airport and catch one of the limited number of planes taking off. The State Department says it cannot 'ensure the safety' of Americans trying to leave and there are reports the Taliban are stopping people from reaching the airport. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks to FOX's State Department Correspondent Rich Edson about the ongoing efforts to evacuate Americans and allies from Afghanistan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.0	Wednesday, August 18th, 2021. I'm Trey Inks. The situation on the ground in Afghanistan remains extremely unstable as Americans and Afghans try to flee.
0:33.8	You've got Americans who are scattered around the country and it's very unclear how any of these people
0:41.2	are going to find their way to the only place in the country now that the
0:44.8	United States controlled and that's the airport in Kabul.
0:48.9	This is the Fox News rundown, Evening Edition.
0:56.5	People are still trying to rush the airport in Kabul, despite an extremely limited
1:00.5	number of planes taking off. The Taliban firing into the air outside to
1:05.4	push people back. The biggest problem developing is access to this airport.
1:09.5	Even Afghans and foreigners with exit papers aren't being allowed to leave.
1:14.0	Taliban fighters are blocking the entry gate and firing to disperse the groups of people.
1:18.6	Outside of Kabul, in the city of Jalalabad, protests against the Taliban erupted today. Flags of the group were pulled
1:25.2	down and replaced with the Afghan National Flag. Local media reports at least three people
1:30.3	were killed and a number of others injured when the Taliban fired on
1:33.8	the demonstrators. What we're hearing from people on the ground, what we're
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