be given the chance to enter politics and even contest the country's top post according to him and karzai a taliban leader may run for the presidency in next year's elections but only if the militants renounce terrorism and to to r.t. contributor hashim returns he says the insurgency is gaining popularity among afghans and the occupy nato forces actually helping to boost this trend. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all those thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan and the taliban under more low more is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pullout of course lots of people are asking there hundred fifty thousand nato troops there and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases. the continuous drone attacks and the atrocities committed by u.s. and nato are nice to have troops of course do catalyze pro taliban support it was only in the past week or so that a u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province after allegations of complicity in kidnapping tor

to afghanistan throughout the past decade in exchange for loyalty president karzai confirm those regular payments but billed as the detail of how kabul spends the cash or he's going to teach you can next looks at the american way of dealing with the region's booming corruption. u.s. and afghan officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to the new york times and said that for many years the cia had paid tens of millions of dollars in what they say was ghost money to the office of president karzai the afghan government has received billions of dollars of u.s. taxpayers money but the officials say that the secret cat went to fuel corruption in the country the cia apparently delivers the cash every month in suitcases backpacks and plastic shopping bags the official said much of the money goes to paying off warlords and politicians many of whom have ties to the drug trade and in some cases the taliban the result of that appears to be that the agency empowers the same networks that american diplomats aligned for spent agents say they're trying to dismantle president karzai was asked about t

political nonstarter because the taliban have been very clear in their position they do not see the karzai government as being legitimate they have openly called it as a puppet of the united states they refused to hold any sort of negotiations much less view the constitution as legitimate or offer any sort of candidate so again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't very much that cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this affectively to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do that why negotiate with the so-called puppet government when we can talk to the occupiers themselves but there's divisions within the taliban as well do they actually hold negotiations or do they fight until the occupiers the u.s. forces leave the country there's also divisions within the obama administration about this because while this war has been encouraged probably costly

when karzai as the u.s. military leader in 2002 for help to remove a warlord turned governor in western afghanistan who was enriching himself through smuggling, karzai argued to washington that doing so was essential to establishing the authority of the central government. the request was rejected on the grounds that u.s. troops were not to engage in what was called green on green activity. even if one side was the president on who our nation was depending. since we were not going to provide the muscle to remove the warlords, karzai engaged over the following years, in a rational act of self- preservation. by the time we and our nato partners got wise about the damage the warlords were having across the country, karzai had moved into their camp. let's fast-forward to 2009. you know the stakes. obama campaigned on afghanistan being the good work. general stan mcchrystal told him that if it did not commit to a surge, the taliban would not be possible. you know what obama did. 30,000 more troops. but with a dea

networks that american diplomats online for spent agents say they're trying to dismantle president karzai was asked about the ghost money saving it he basically dismissed the payments as no big deal saying those are monthly small amounts used for various purposes as the cia declines to comment another u.s. official is be quoted as saying the biggest source of corruption in afghanistan was the united states afghan officials quoted in this new york times report said a number of senior officials in the afghan national security council are individually on the cia's payroll there was an interesting story with the administrative mohammad. mr saleh he was arrested in two thousand and ten in connection with the sprawling american led investigation that tied together afghan cash smuggling taliban financing and the opium trade president karzai heading released within hours and the i then helped persuade the obama administration to back off its anti-corruption push possibly because they didn't want the cia connection discovered in the alleged corruption scheme because that would be a story of a dog

taliban financing and the opium trade president karzai heading released within hours and the cia then helped persuade the obama administration to back off its anti-corruption push possibly because they didn't want the cia connection discovered in the alleged corruption scheme because that would be a story of a dog chasing its tail in washington. anti-war campaigner richard bakker says the billions of dollars that washington has already poured into afghanistan have a no way helped the country's people. it's really amazing when you look at the cia operations in afghanistan which really began that in two thousand and one of the banks in seventy nine nine hundred eighty s. the cia largest operation and it's entirely history is carried out in america is there and the billions and billions of dollars that have flowed and yet today in two thousand and thirteen afghanistan ranked exactly last so it really indicates what about the corrupting influence that the cia interventionists head over all of these years and continues to have today there. are various sums of money the real the us military

was it wise to invest with president karzai and his administration for that long? melissa: right. >> not with society. i mean, i have been raising the issue of funding ngo in afghan society, funding women's movements, students' movements, artists. this is a real guarantee for the future when the taliban would try to return. in the case of president karzai, maybe in the beginning that was useful, but on the lon run to have a foundaon of power based on foreign money or intelligence money is shaky. melissa: yeah. and that's really the problem is that when it's unrestricted and when it's not subject to any sort of controls and it's this hush money cash that no one's following, who is deciding who is the right person to receive it? who decides who deserves the tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, that this is the best choice to give to this person rather than to this person in the me country? how do you even decide in. >> look, anything that goes outside the normal principles and parameters oforeign aid that is us thed in congress -- discussed in congress and negotiate

efforts to negotiate an agreement to stay in afghanistan past twenty four teen or the president karzai appears to be prepared to strike a deal he knows what kind of a backlash it may have been of ghana's spent in order for u.s. troops to stay they need immunity from prosecution under the afghan war and that's with very good negotiating now the deadly strikes killing civilians certainly make it hard for the afghans to accept such a deal and allow foreign forces to further operate there with impunity. in a separate incident over the weekend five americans including a diplomat were killed by a suicide bomber while they were delivering books into an afghan school men while the story made headlines in the u.s. media the killing of avg in civilian says often ignored a contemplates activist david swanson even though the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike that killed americans and in particular one woman who was a state department employee who had met john kerry and the u.s. deaths of course are alway

these airstrikes come amid repeated pleas from the afghan government of president karzai to stop killing civilians because in course those words they fuel insecurity and instability they further alienate afghans from their government which many afghans see as a puppet government so president karzai although he does over his power to allied forces to washington specifically but he clearly understands that those civilian casualties there are more violence in afghanistan and undermine his government even further these are the types of attacks that infuriate the local population like the one in september last year nato killed eight women or in may a nato airstrike killed an afghan family including six children and two women earlier this year president karzai banned afghan forces from calling in airstrikes although his order appears to have been ignored by international forces now these attacks also undermines u.s. efforts to negotiate an agreement to stay in afghanistan past twenty four thirteen or the president karzai appears to be prepared to strike a deal he knows what kind of a backlash

efforts to negotiate an agreement to stay in afghanistan past twenty four teen or the president karzai appears to be prepared to strike a deal he knows what kind of a backlash it may have been of ghana's spent in order for u.s. troops to stay they need immunity from prosecution under the afghan walk and that's what they were negotiating now the deadly strikes killing civilians certainly make it hard for the afghans to accept such a deal and allow foreign forces to further operate there with impunity in further violence in afghanistan a suspected taliban bomb has exploded underneath a bus nine people are reported dead and dozens are injured the target was a government bus travelling between kabul and gaza me at the weekend on the roadside blast killed six people including an american diplomat david swanson peace activist and the author of war is allies as the u.s. media doesn't show enough attention to attacks in which innocent afghans die. even the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike that kille

influence and running the country president hamid karzai has confirmed a shipment of claims that there is scope is being exaggerated details from our she's got a. both u.s. and afghan officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to the new york times and said that for many years the cia had paid tens of millions of dollars in what they say was ghost money to the office of president karzai the afghan government has received billions of dollars in u.s. taxpayers money but the officials say that the secret cash to fuel corruption in the country the cia apparently delivers the cash every month in suitcases backpacks and plastic shopping bags. much of the money goes to paying off more lords and politicians many of whom have ties to the drug trade and in some cases the taliban the result. appears to be that the agency empowers the same networks that american diplomats online foresman agents say they're trying to hold president karzai was asked about the ghost money you. get he basically dismissed the payments as no big deal saying those are monthly small amounts used for various purposes as

he is going to be with karzai the next day. i think general done for it is that still have that right now. i think they are a good team. all of the chips are in place to make it happen. how are we proceeding on this agreement? the president had talked to karzai the day before and told him we need to get this done now. i am saying get it done this spring. did not wait. i saw what happened and how it fell apart in iraq. the downside, what we would lose, it would be tragic. real positive things. we have made really good gains there. we hear of the tragedies of a suicide bomber. the blue one up as we arrived at headquarters. positives as a agreement. they can provide enough security. the tal bang cannot beat -- taliban cannot be the afghans. they do not have the numbers or ability. we still need to be there to advise and to help them. >> you do not be taliban, we have not been able to defeat them. taliban. defeating the that is not mean they would be able to set up a suicide bomber. i do not think it will be totally as peaceful as

and who are being considered friends and sponsors of mr karzai they're all. far away from the people of afghanistan and afghans are alienated by a of from them what is it said mr karzai that he's taken this money he believes it dizzied to be all above board and correct yes do you think in your estimation. in a country that all europeans are emphasizing the rule of law transparency and a war against corruption this is not a good example so whether whether he admits it or not whether he talks about it or not anything is not accountable you cannot should think for it you cannot have any paper trace for it is not something that we should be promoting and pushing for in this country sometimes always thanks very much for your time tonight. have you stay with us it's eighteen minutes past eleven and a night now here moscow about was more world news for you just a couple of minutes time. technology innovation all the developments from around. the future covered. about international airport in the very heart of moscow. the u.k. could be looking to restore its permanen

in the case of president karzai, maybe in the beginning that was useful, but on the long run to have a foundation of power based on foreign money or intelligence money is shaky. melissa: yeah. and that's really the problem is that when it's unrestricted and when it's not subject to any sort of controls and it's this hush money cash that no one's following, who is deciding who is the right person to receive it? who decides who deserves these tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, that this is the best choice to give to this person rather than to this person in the same country? how do you even decide in. >> look, anything that goes outside the normal principles and parameters of foreign aid that is us thed in congress -- discussed in congress and negotiated with the administration, and then it goes nickel and dime and everything is known. outside that in the realm of con front talkings, the french used to call it deny confrontation, meaning blackmun you don't know where it's going, there must be at some point in government a level that should know about the sums. and then they should k

efforts to negotiate an agreement to stay in afghanistan past twenty four team although president karzai appears to be prepared to strike a deal he knows what kind of backlash it may have enough against them in order for u.s. troops to stay they need immunity from prosecution under the afghan law and that's what they are good negotiating now the deadly strikes killing civilians certainly make it hard for the afghans to accept such a deal and allow foreign forces to further operate there with impunity david swanson peace activist and author of what war is a lie says the u.s. media unfortunately doesn't draw enough attention to similar attacks. even though the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike they killed americans and in particular one woman who was a state department employee who had met john kerry and the u.s. deficit of course are always smaller numbers but they dominate the coverage of americans are not aware of the extent to which this war is essentially a one sided slaughter of helpless pe

but for now the afghan president hamid karzai says the taliban leader could run for the presidency in next year's election he made the comments days after his return from qatar where the afghan government agreed the group can open an office in doha if indeed they renounce terrorism nato is pulling out its troops by the end of cars eyes turn the afghan government pushing for peace talks however the taliban is refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american puppet and they hope to use the doha office to facilitate peace talks with the united states r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says nato is conducting a war zone is only helping the insurgents political ground. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all the thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan if the taliban under mullah omar is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pull out of course lots of people are asking their hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people are talking about fifteen thousand rema

the papers and karzai -- karzai's behavior's and comments at times. we should consider what his reaction would be moving forward. i just make that comment. let me turn to sequestration if i might. what are your concerns? to what extent will sequestration have a negative effect on the mission and the readiness of troops who will rotate into the theater in 2014 and pickups -- perhaps beyond. >> i have been told the sequestration will not affect the resources available to our men and women on the ground in afghanistan and i believe that. my concern is it will affect the readiness of home units preparing to deploy to afghanistan. i think one of the great success stories over the past 10 years has been the quality training and equipping we of provided to our young men and women in uniform. there is no comparison to what training was earlier in my career. that is a result of the congress and leadership learning lessons over the last 10 years. i think it is important that we sustain the high level of training in the coming years because we will still have pe

however the taliban are refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american puppet but they recently announced and readiness to enter politics and have opened an office in daraa how to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. and also a contributor afshin rattansi says nato has contacts in the war zone is only helping bring senator in to gain political ground. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all those thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan and the taliban on the mall obama is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pull out of course lots of people are asking the one hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases the continuous drone attacks and the atrocities committed by u.s. and nato and i say have troops of course do catalyzed protel about support it was only in the past week or so that a u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province after allegations of complicity in kidnapp

when karzai asked the u.s. military later in 2002 for help to remove a war lord turned governor in western afghanistan enriching himself through smuggling, and karzai argued to washington in doing so was essential to establishing the authority in the government, it was rejected on the grounds that u.s. troops could not engage on green on green activity even on which our nation was depending. we were not going to provide the muscle, karzai engaged in a rational act of self-preservation, cozying up to them. when we and our partners got wise about the damage the war lords reeked, karzai moved into their camp. let's fast forward quickly to 2009. you know the stakes. obama campaigned op afghanistan being the good war, endorsed the strategy for afghanistan in the early weeks of the first term without a discussion. general stan mcchrystal said if the didn't commit, defeating the taliban is not possible. 30 thousands troops with a deadline, and fairs troops come home within two years, a date they took from planning doc

of being incompetent and corrupt so there's no love lost between president karzai and the americans and president doesn't want to be undermined by external forces. in a few moments it will be catching up on all the week's top stories with k. pop it you stay with us. wealthy british style it's. right on. target. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines joining to cause a report on our. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today. hello welcome to the r t sports show with me k. cartridge and here's a taste of what's coming up. on the rise defending champions and meet the terror extreme ildiko second in the russian crimean me. while finding that form capello makes it eight games on beacon in charge of russia offering a one one draw with brazil. and all russian course tests can be thrown on the bridge to say top of their group but could face neighbors huge change in the euro league playoffs. but l

elusive confidence was reported from afghanistan believes karzai his closeness to the west undermines his credibility. he's made this point numerous times before calling for the taliban to participate in elections is that stand is so open and democratic that even mullah omar working to disarm essentially could run for office of course the reality is that this is a complete political nonstarter because the taliban have been very clear in their position they do not see the karzai government as being legitimate they have openly called it as a puppet of the united states they refused to hold any sort of negotiations much less view the constitution as legitimate or offer any sort of candidate so again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't very much that cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this affectively to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do

plus a daring taliban attack claims dozens of lives in afghanistan just a day after president karzai offered the militants a chance to enter politics that and plenty more for you after this break stay with us. for about international airport in the very heart of moscow. continue. here in r.t. the race for the top job is kicked off in venezuela as the country's acting president nicolas maduro prepares to take on his main opposition rival and he kept pretty low is both are going to replace the country's late charismatic president hugo chavez who died last month following a long battle with cancer with the former confident and visit needed to chavez is looking to continue in the footsteps of his predecessor the central state governor has failed to deliver a free market economy and strengthen ties with the west including. dr francisco he's head of latin american studies at middlesex university and he says despite the good intentions the chances of completely securing the top jobs as. nicolas maduro has demonstrated to be a formidable communicate so easy person the several to use in body

well, what karzai -- karzai was never a partner in our efforts there because, to him, everything we were trying to do was promoting good governance, was by extension going to be pushing out the war lords, the powe brokers, the cronies who he depends upon for political support so he worried all this would help erode his power base. so, his government was not just not only -- multibell double negatives -- not only not a willing partner in these efforts; actively south to sabotage a lot of what we were trying to do. with friends like that, how do you implement course insurgence. >> host: the echos of vietnam in my ear, i can barely here. >> guest: not to mention the president and his corrupt brother precisely. >> host: what we have done to go after this nonenemy to try to remake it, created so many more enemies and now we're fight al qaeda and mali and sumatra and other place wes don't know about. another question. >> i have a family member deployed to iraq twice and afghanistan three times. he was an officer and is no longer in the military. he left. and i'm just wondering, this is pretty

president note that karzai made a statement. it got huge publicity but when the resolution was achieved by you and the afghans it got very little publicity. i'm afraid that's too typical of what the media situation is here. my final question is on pakistan. you met with the chief of pakistani's army staff with -- also with afghan military leaders, i believe. a trilateral meeting. can you tell us what your assessment is of pakistan's current role? whether they've in any way changed their behavior in terms of ending the safe havens that exist in pakistan that have been used to attack our forces, afghan forces? >> at this point i can only tell you that the rhetoric from pakistan has changed. the general has pledged cooperation. we have seen increased levels of cooperation since the fall. we did sign a trilateral tripartheid border agreement in november. we have conducted an exchange of officers. i have a pakistani liaison officer in my office. we have several officers to deconflict issues. we have increased communication and the ge

they refused the pleas both from karzai and from the u.n. to expand that peacekeeping force to the rest of the country, and they took the position that u.s. troops in the rest of the country would not do peacekeeping. the result was we turned security throughout a society of 70 million to the afghans, a society that had no army and no police force. so i think it's not remarkable that things deteriorated, that the taliban was able to reconstitute itself, to recruit, to refinance, to reorganize and to begin to project power to get pakistani sanctuaries back into afghanistan, and the united states responded in dribs and drabs over the years. we tend to say that this is the longest war we've ever fought. if you look at the major wars, it's also the least costly. in terms, certainly, in terms of military manpower, the level of casualties in afghanistan is not only smaller than iraq, but it's much smaller than vietnam or korea or world war i or world war ii. and as a practical matter, the serious fighting has only gone on for the last four or five

taliban financing and the opium trade president karzai having released within hours and the cia then helped persuade the obama. push possibly because they didn't want the cia connection discovered in the alleged corruption scheme because that would be a story of a dog chasing its tail in washington where america's money of course comes from what is the world's biggest defense budget bush. richard becker spoke to me says as long as it continues to swell the more americans are going to fall into poverty. missing you look at the cia operations in afghanistan which really began that in two thousand and one of the one nine hundred seventy nine and the nine hundred eighty s. the cia largest operation and soon tire history was carried out in afghanistan and the billions and billions of dollars that have flowed and yet today doesn't thirteen afghanistan ranks exactly last so it really indicates what about the corrupting influence that the cia interventionists head over all of these years and continues to have today and they're spending a vast sums of money the real the us military budget thi

the officials told the paper the main goal is to maintain access to karzai and his top aids. some say it's undermining u.s. efforts to end the war. >>> a major milestone at the world trade center today. the placement of the final two sections of the spire. the skyscraper will become the tallest building in the western hemisphere. installation of the 408-foot spire began in december, after 18 pieces were shipped from canada and from new jersey. >>> a more somber milestone in the region today as well. it's been now six months since superstorm sandy slammed ashore. many coastal communities are still recovering. new jersey's governor is expected to announce later today nearly $2 billion in federal help to keep the momentum going. >>> time for the weather across the nation. aside from the drenching in the southeast, look for some showers and thunderstorms in the upper midwest, from minneapolis to milwaukee and kansas city. showers from seattle to portland. up to 6 inches of snow in the cascades and northern rockies. record highs in the southwest. >>> the first triple-digit day of

these promises that were made to them well this is a very difficult issue for ghana stan and president karzai has ordered the afghani troops to stop calling for airstrikes since almost every time they lead to these casualties and especially deaths among women and children he's pleaded with the united states and with the alliance in general to stop targeting populated areas to stop killing innocent lives taking innocent lives basically. unfortunately these operations are still taking place and over the years it's believed that nearly twenty thousand civilians have lost their lives throughout the years of nato's presence in afghanistan and signal is why the united nations that every year the amount of women and children unfortunately still rise which is. difficult to believe since pretty much the most volatile part of this whole operation seems to be over nevertheless these figures we're still seeing them and just for example to give a couple of examples of what happened last year with these airstrikes for instance in february two thousand and twelve seven children or young adult killed by an a

women and children and unfortunately this isn't the first time that we're hearing these news president karzai personally ordered all afghan troops not to call for airstrikes he's pleaded with the united states and the lions to stop targeting populated areas to stop killing civilians and throughout the years it's estimated that around twenty thousand civilians lost their lives in afghanistan this is a very sensitive matter of for the country and many of these lost lives are connected with airstrikes in fact the u.n. acknowledges that every year the amount of killed children and women rises and here are just a couple of examples just from last year february two thousand and twelve seven children and a young adult killed in an airstrike may two thousand and twelve six children and two women from the same family killed in an airstrike july september and the list really goes on and these are only airstrikes and only cases which have been confirmed by need to while they're also drawn strikes the reeds and while many other cases where there are unfortunately casualties and of course ego coalition fo

over the weekend karzai approve the opening of a taliban office in qatar on the condition that the group renounce terrorism this comes as afghanistan prepares for the pullout of nato forces next year. maybe a concerted push in the u.s. for more gun control to december's deadly school shooting but a tone in the state of georgia is going against the tide and noodle says the head of every household in nelson is now required to own a gun and the bullets local officials insist is to deter criminals while in texas and leaders are holding back from commenting on an organization that is handing out shotguns and training people to use them. the gun control debate is focus on what type of arms americans are allowed to obtain and bear and thanks to a groundbreaking technology entire gun pods can be manufactured with a license one to use students working to make sure everyone can make a gun at home as marina port my experience. from the state of the union in youngstown a while we're no workers are mastering the three d. printing but has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everythin

strongly soured relations between international troops and the afghan government prompting president karzai to ban his forces from requesting western air support now his artie's medina question over to tell us how this ties into past tragedies. well the decade long war in afghanistan that started back in two thousand and one has caused the deaths of thousands of afghans directly from insurgent and foreign military action as well as possibly tens of thousands of afghan civilians in directly in recent years the death roll has rocketed there is no single official figure for the overall number of civilians killed by the war but i still mates for specific years or periods have been published by a number of independent are good news ations now let's have a look at the civilian casualties in some months of last year there's going to be some figures over here soon well in february two thousand and twelve eight civilians including seven children were killed in a narrow airstrike in the same month six more civilians died in a night and these numbers continue to grow almost every time women and childr

forces on the ground but such has been the anger over the so-called collateral damage that president karzai ordered a complete ban on afghan security forces call in airstrikes however as we have continually seen these rays have not stopped but thanks very much indeed for that caution over there. political analyst kimi i spoke to middle earlier he says the taliban is to initiate an afghan life to be separated which all the guarantees collateral casualties if they don't happen strikes. and this kind of war which is going on in afghanistan it is very difficult to avoid civilian casualties because the taliban are living among the people among developed is among. those eventually areas. they are receiving support from the people and they are eating and. among the people living among among developed is because of this i think it is very difficult for nato forces of particularly in airstrikes to avoid civilian casualties. and you've been on a website on what you think the consequences of this latest deadly strike here are the results coming up on the screen for you from these figures it looks as t

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said thean -- taliban past several years that they do not recognize the government of karzai. at this critical moment, they have to make some major concessions for them to be able to move forward. the international community is not going to allow for a taliban office in qatar if the taliban are not genuinely willing to talk to the government of afghanistan about what to do after 2014. >> let's move straight onto the world of sport. >> thank you very much. wills -- andy murray become the new world number two when rankings come out. he won the miami masters a second time. >> andy murray. >> the last time andy murray played a final on american soil he won his first grand slam, the u.s. open in september. having not won a masters title since 2011 the scott decided to put more focus on the series, but he lolost he first set in miami 6-2. murray had an advantage in his previous meetings with the spaniard. he fought back for the second set. 605 in the decider. murray was facing match point, and when he won the rally the spaniard used one of his challenges. was with marurray in the ti

we're not seeing any of it. >> you met with hamid karzai. >> i got summoned to hamid karzai. >> how did that go? >> this is a sense is the point of the book. the guy the british put in in 1839 is more or less karzai. he's the same chief of the same tribe from the same lineage. and very similar kind of guy. charismatic, educated, enormously cultured. but from a very particular elite of the country. and he did no better than -- than karzai this time. and he's constantly obsessed with the idea that the afghans see him as they now remember sharshuja which is a puppet. a puppet ruler put in by foreigners. his entire legacy is he thinks in doubt. unless he distances himself from america. which is why you're getting this very strange talk back going on, biting the hand that feeds him. not because he's mad or crazy which is one of the kind of theories. >> off his meds. >> essentially what you get the pakistanis briefing, saying this guy is nuts, crazy, should be removed. the reality is he just doesn't want to be remembered as a puppet. he's got a year to show he's an independent ruler. wants to

hamid karzai dpoirnling he received stacks of cash from the u.s. for years. karzai said it has been a small amount of money for areas like housing and medical care. it was reported it was 10's of millions of the dollars. the money led to more corruption. they also received cash from iran. a father faces child endangerment charges after this video goes viral of him allowing his 9-year-old son to drive this ferrari. the child's mother filmed the whole thing with the little boy's 5-year-old brother in the passenger seat. the boy has been allowed behind the wheel since he was five years old. heather? >> okay, answerly, thank you so much. for some terrorists entering the united states doesn't say peer to be a problem at all. some are being granted tourist visas. why isn't there a plan in place to catch that? >> it is a caping whole washington needs to fix and fix now. william has the details. >> they came not over a fence but by plane. the 2007 arrived in a tourist visa. two years later he tried to level this dallas high rise with a car bomb. he came to the u.s. o