has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that superficially looks like that no no just to not only destroy it maybe i even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that there is no doubt that they should view it all the way i said i we did it for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think go ahead are you going to exaggeration or misrepresented misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know us can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation unto it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actual intelligence and have the don't have the same there is definitely what

troops from afghanistan. demonstrators say huge sums of taxpayer money being spent on overseas military operations should be used to create jobs at hole. >> it's no good. we say health care parole now. >> the rally took place on thursday, one day before the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan. more than 500 people took part in the rally. they were underby many anti-wall street protesters who have been demonstrating in new york. young people are upset about the disparity of wealth and high unemployment in the u.s. the u.s. government spends about $10.4 billion every month on military operations in afghanistan. protesters demanded the government should use these taxpayer funds to create jobs at home. >> corporate sponsored, corporate owned. think about who benefits from this the most. i don't benefit from anybody being in afghanistan. >> stop today. there's no reason to be there. countries around the world have come to have a very negative outlook of the united states because of these wars. >>

spending where has all the money gone we had overseas first of answers as the us marks ten years in afghanistan plus this new number do you believe. in jesus. right. but as soldiers search for their home away from home is the u.s. getting too comfortable in a country it promised to leave perhaps as it goes for a multimillion dollar expansion at bob graham air base. good afternoon it's friday october seventh it's four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching r.t. well occupy wall street is still going on still going strong in new york city friday of the third week that we've seen protesters ranging from hundreds camping out to thousands on the streets speaking out against inequality and over grievances towards the financial system and of course wall street now this movement continues to grow we've seen demonstrations in cities including st louis dallas san francisco los angeles and philadelphia you're sanam behind me in boston to all over we've seen a sympathetic movement protesting in washington d.c. . this week as well and our viewers have been sending us stuff chad set

do you like the invasion of afghanistan part of the ten year anniversary little town of undefeated no way in sight meanwhile became an office rising faster than that with the number of civilians killed this year alone approaching total coalition losses in a decade. while in london and demands on the streets of the country's troops to leave afghanistan to violet inflicting the unpopularity of the u.k. over the war which has claimed almost four hundred british military lives. and. thousands of people on wall street protests against france across the two are spreading to dozens of american cities from richmond total sunderland hitting the capital washington d.c. . welcome to our t. prince follow news live from moscow. our tommies story now the u.s. led war in afghanistan has now passed the ten year mark widely dubbed as a decade of failure by critics its human cost keeps on climbing more than two thousand seven hundred foreign troops have died during the fighting and figured most of by the number of afghan lives lost jason mortlock report. another day in afghanistan's southern battle mor

in afghanistan has not pas the ten year mug widely dubbed as a decade of failure by chrissake it's even called keeps on climbing more than two thousand seven hundred foreign troops have died during the financing of big devoted by the number of lost jason what level of pull. another day in afghanistan's southern battle and more casualties despite official claims that the war's being won two thousand and eleven is lining up to be the deadliest yet for u.s. forces fighting to tame the decade long taliban insurgency but things to improve medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts are surviving these two soldiers one patrol in a vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded beneath him it took less than half an hour for a medical crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest for their injuries are bad but not extreme i mean we will most likely stay on base until they've recovered more severe cases such as if you teams are flown to germany for treatment all right you guys can go to this missi

another day in afghanistan southern battle more casualties despite official claims that the war is being won two thousand and eleven is lining up to be the deadliest yet for u.s. forces fighting to tame the decade long taliban insurgency but things to improve medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts are surviving but these two soldiers one patrol in a vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded beneath them it took less than half an hour for a medevac crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest for their injuries are bad but not extreme i mean we will most likely stay on base until they've recovered more severe cases such as if you tease or flown to germany for treatment right you guys can go right this facility was built to save critically injured american troops fresh from the front lines but doctors here also treat afghan civilians caught in the war's crossfire with nowhere else to go for help nine year old wally was shot in the head by a stray bullet earlier this year when u.s.

this week the ten year anniversary of our nation's war in afghanistan quietly came and went and is now the longest war in all of american history and despite ten years of this continuous warfare our nation seems no closer to reaching any sort of responsible conclusion or any way to bring our troops home in fact things seem to be getting worse this past august was the deadliest month in the entire ten year long war with seventy one u.s. soldiers died and so far two thousand and eleven is on pace to be the deadliest year in the entire war surpassing two thousand and ten is the deadliest year which surpassed two thousand and nine is the deadliest year in the war as in over the last three years violence confronting our troops in afghanistan has gotten worse and worse and worse and last week the former commander of the coalition forces in afghanistan retired general stanley mcchrystal brought more bad news speaking at the council on foreign relations mcchrystal said that we are maybe a little better than halfway toward reaching our goals in this war he went on to say this about the planning

military and i think with his assessment from afghanistan. let's check some news in this hour heavy fighting continues in search of the most important of the remaining strongholds controlled by forces loyal to. the interim government forces have been facing theists resistance fighting built by that's not rained fire from rooftops in fierce street battles and there have been intense gone by. near the university to control the conduct his home city is crucial as libya's new leaders have promised to declare liberation after it's captured even a resistance fighting continues else way in the country. abbas has overturned and crashed into a cliff in west job leading dinies it killing four foreign tourists and injuring eleven the bus was carrying visitors from the netherlands belgium in india as the brakes failed when it was going downhill it comes just a month after a similar crash on the island killed nineteen people. six people have had a lucky escape surviving a plane crash in australia a small aircraft with five skydivers and a pilot on board c

troops in afghanistan, the u.s. is currently spending $2 billion a week, and is on pace to spend i year. question, what explains general allen's seeming divergence from the commander in chief, barack obama's deadline for withdrawal by 2014 december, which is about three plus a few months, years from now. >> right. >> is it -- this commander in the field -- denying the validity of the commander in chief? >> not necessarily, more typical not announcing your withdrawal date as being vague as how long we'll be here the one thing the pentagon does to the want for the enemy to wait us out and then suddenly move in as soon as we pack up and leave. but the fact is we can't stay there forever. we are occupying the place, making progress in the tribal areas. we need to wind our effort down and turn it over to the afghans. >> you think it was purposeful disinformation on the part of the -- >> well -- >> because if you pause that sentence, he's not saying we won't be out. >> no, it will be -- >> a long period of time [everyone

they've gone through it in iraq and afghanistan. but you're also seeing younger soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors, people who were kids when september 11 and when the war in afghanistan started. so that's why you get the different perspectives. you get the people who came in 2001, who understood what the mission was when it first started. you have other people who don't really know why it began. so that's why we get varying viewpoints from varying people that you talk to. but for the most part, the majority of the people that i've talked to and various operating bases will say they know why they're here and they want to complete the mission. >> the morale of the american military always front and center. thank you very much, atia abawi on post in kabul >>> 20 years after she accused then supreme court nominee clarence thomas of sexual hair asment in the workplace, forever changing public attitudes about job discrimination towards women, anita hill. professor hill is now speaking out two. decades later, even though she lost that

strategy in afghanistan has been based on the belief that developing afghanistan's economy and institutions will win over the population to support the afghan government even after international forces draw down. some analysts are concerned that the afghan economy may somewhere a steep depression -- may enter a steep depression as military involvement in afghanistan winds down over the next three years. what's the u.s. take to insure that this depression does not happen, and i know you did mention a new silk road, the new central asia/south asia trading hub that we're trying to create in afghanistan. will there be job training programs and community development so that that can overtake the military action? >> thank you very much, congressman. and thanks, as always, for highlighting the important issues and security concerns coming out of africa. i thank you for that, and i join with congressman berman in saluting the life of former congressman howard wulpe who i also had the privilege of working with both in the '09s and as secretary of state. with respect to the sustainability of the afgh

if it seems we've been in afghanistan a long time, watch these boots. you don't cover much ground when you worry over every step. s it might take hours to cross 100 yards. the new lieutenant has learned, leave the path, go the hard way. >> better wet than dead. >.>> pelley: the home made mines dont spark underwater. >> if you can walk through water the whole time, you'll do it. >> pelley: durso went to west point because he wanted to serve in afghanistan. when we asked him why, he told us about a childhood friend who waited for a father who would never come home. >> the day after 9/11, i remember being at her house, and she got real quiet and she eventually looked back at me and said, "who's going to walk me down the aisle when i get married?" it wasn't just an event to me. it was people. it was my own people, my own town. to be able to see something like that and still decide not to do anything was like ludicrous to me. >> pelley: now he's learning this new terrain, like the long mud walls that support the grape rows here, they hide the enemy and slow

a decade of the invasion of afghanistan and the u.s. commander that is timely mcchrystal says america's only around hope way towards completing its military goals with the pricing of a simplistic understanding of the country partly to blame. the interim government schools and leave the biggest at a time to give them one of colonel gadhafi is long term a stronghold some are but face stiff resistance. and on go over the route of bias is gaining momentum in you'll president creatures from the occupy wall street protests in the streets of the big apple. as the headlines now let's go back to the i don't to show in washington d.c. . it's time for tonight's tool.

soon afghanistan it is really a horrible and depressing. it is it was a lookin full to witness the bleeding wounds of afghanistan society as a result of one war and destruction after another and it is it is it unfortunately after all these efforts and all this money and all these struggles at the heart of it a little the international community a local afghan government has achieved afghanistan today after ten years of us being there i think in many ways it is worse off not better off. what about this latest research that we're hearing over and over again lately that over ninety percent maybe ninety two percent of afghans have never even heard of nine eleven the cause of all this that kicked it all off and their countries evolvement in those attacks on u.s. territory what does it tell us about the way the u.s. is conducting itself and has conducted itself in the country for the past decade. i mean it's quite unfortunate. most afghan people neither have heard nor even have anything to do with what happened in one in nine eleven i wish you co

india is one of the largest investors in afghanistan. stronger relations is generating increasing concern from pakistan. they fear that india has an unspoken strategy. joining me now is a west asia expert for the observer research foundation. thank you for joining us. what does president karzei hope to get out of this visit? >> what he hopes to get out of the visit he has already gotten. he has signed a historic agreement. the circumstances of the signing of these agreements is rather more dramatic than the agreements themselves. these agreements have been in the pipeline for a long time. months and not years. the circumstances, the merger, the assassination, the peacemaker for the government, the haqqani -- these have been a dramatic backdrop. it requires a different kind of prominence in islamabad. >> how does india see itself playing a role in the future in the rebuilding of afghanistan? >> the term you used once upon a time, about two years ago, was a diplomacy by default. in other words, people said that everyone was getting involve

led invasion of afghanistan the ten year anniversary with the taliban defeat nowhere in sight meanwhile the human cost of the fighting faster than ever with the number of civilians killed these yellow to protrude total coalition losses in a decade of fighting. while in london and demands on the streets for the country's troops to leave afghanistan and such a rally reflecting the and popularity in the u.k. of the war which has claimed almost six hundred british military lives. and occupy wall street protests against trying to cause that you are spreading to dozens of american cities from richmond to los angeles and hitting become so washington d.c. . international news live from moscow this is an see with me thanks for joining as the u.s. led war in afghanistan has now passed the ten year mark widely dubbed as a decade of failure by critics its human cost keeps on climbing more than two thousand seven hundred foreign troops have died during the fighting a figure moved by the number of a good lives lost case not a lot of reports. another day in afghanistan so the battle more casualties de

jim maceda, nbc news, logar, afghanistan. >> what an incredible story out of afghanistan tonight. >>> in this country, the justice department today asked a federal appeals court to block alabama's extremely tough new immigration law which took effect last week. federal officials say the state law invites discrimination against all foreign-born residents and they are especially worried about its effect on children. our report tonight from nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: alabama's new immigration law is perhaps most confusing to children. in just one week they have been told teachers will not single them out, but when a group of students near birmingham with hispanic-sounding last names was told to assemble. >> our principal told us to come -- all the mexicans to come to the library. >> reporter: it was all tears. >> half of the kids were crying. >> reporter: as the kids enjoyed a birthday party this week they explained the school meeting was, in fact, to make sure they understood school officials would deport no one. >> we are already looking at about a quarter of our hispanic popula

have learned particular from the british experience in the past that if you go into afghanistan you go with limited aims and you go with a limited time period in mind to get to enter afghanistan in two thousand. two with no clear mission statement with no clear limitations upon when their lives were going to withdraw or indeed what their aim was is very very difficult particularly for a former military man to understand can anything good come and you think if they do anything positive i think i think there's plenty of positive things that are being the tipping achieved that first and foremost is we got to stop talking about afghanistan and those if it is as if it is the kernel of the problem it's not it's a regional war and it stretches from the borders of iran to the borders of russia and encompasses the nuclear armed country of pakistan the presence of our troops in afghanistan or should i say more properly on the afghanistan pakistan border is as much about maintaining the relative stability of pakistan and the relative stability of pakistan's nuclear arsenal as it is about reest

if you read the invasion of afghanistan in parts it's ten year anniversary with the taliban defeat nowhere in sight meanwhile the human cost of this rising faster than ever get the number of civilians killed this year alone approaching total coalition losses in a decade of fighting. while the nuns and their demands on the streets for the country's troops to leave afghanistan utterly reflecting the unpopularity of the u.k. of the period which has claimed almost four hundred british military lives. and over the by wall street protests against trends across the yard spreading to dozens of american citizen cities from richmond to los angeles and taking big brother so washington d.c. . new so rush on the around the world this is i see with me us for all our thanks for joining it's the u.s. led war in afghanistan has not passed a ten year mark widely dubbed as a decade of failure by critics its human cost keeps on climbing more than two thousand seven hundred foreign troops have died during the fighting a figure moved by the number of and given lives lost jason mortlock reports. another day in a

afghanistan ten years later. more shooting more bloodshed and not an end in sight the guys there are in afghanistan fighting hard to help us the coalition forces were ten years old when this war started the expense of the war in afghanistan is staggering it cost the lives of nearly seventeen hundred u.s. soldiers an estimated thirty four thousand afghan troops and civilian dad and nearly half a trillion dollars poured into war and today anti-war activists say enough is enough it's being. carried out on the backs of the poor and on the working class. thousands gather at freedom plaza in washington d.c. demanding an end to the wars we want the war to stop now and one way is to stop the funding of the war in iraq and afghanistan and we hope that's what the people will really put the pressure on our leaders to do. the protests sparked this week marked both the ten year anniversary of the war in afghanistan and the first week of the new federal budget a budget which funnels an enormous amount of cash and so wars in th

rocket fire just proof that the war is still going on in afghanistan and u.s. troop levels there are expected to decrease significantly in the coming months related expenses to be there afghanistan nearly three hundred forty billion dollars that's almost the billion every month. now here's what really kills me about all of this so usually the war is ignored by the mainstream media entirely don't forget that last year they only devoted four percent of our coverage overall to it but even when they do decide to cover it it's painfully shallow if not entirely misleading because don't forget when they send reporters in they're always embedded they're being led around by military officials and getting what amounts to a propaganda tour let's also think of what this war in afghanistan represents the beginning of our global war on terror the beginning of a retaliation for nine eleven which is in the last ten years driven our policies and our values become shadows of what they once were you know we had another war launched in iraq based on lies we had cia black sites pri

. >> what does it look like -- >> in afghanistan? >> in afghanistan and pakistan. what does policy look like without help? >> much more difficult without pakistan's help. it is not possible. it would be much more difficult. a much smaller number of u.s. troops and support of the continuing support of an afghan army that is stronger and better equipped, better trained, better led. hopefully with a government that is moving in the right direction to end corruption, there is nothing that we can guarantee. only if they can do that themselves. i think it is in their own self interest as they respond to the needs of their people that more effectively than they have. that is a matter of very clear self interest on the part of any government including the afghan government. so the next major decision in terms of our presence will be the long term strategic relationship which is now being discussed and negotiated and also the way in which the reduction of our troops will continue. at what pace, between the end of next year when all of our forces, all the additional 33,000 f

afghanistan is a strategic depth into pakistan. they created what we now as the taliban today under mulla omar. when they defeated the leaders of the mujahadin, they switched allianced and he became part of the taliban. mullah omar gave him position in the very first taliban government. now the strategy that we have in afghanistan is basically a strategy to pull out in 2014. the back stan strategy is how they can have their proxy in control of afghanistan after we pull out that that's what we see today. that struggle that's happening and the emergence of haqqani network as a major player in afghanistan. >> and in the an senbsence, the no effect we're going to have n on -- >> these people have been killing each other hundreds of years and will continue unfortunately to kill each other for hundreds. years. we need to leave but in a way we can guarantee afghanistan won't be a launchpad for transnational terroristic groups to attack the west and attack the united states. so in order to have the security guarantees, we have to have regi

the issue in a afghanistan can only be solved by the afghan people. the governments can compare notes. we can support them in their national efforts. we must not suffocate their own national efforts lf afghanistan determine their needs and support them in accordance with their needs. there has not been any lack of international attention on afghanistan in recent years. we are where we are. we believe we have to be a bit more calibrated, encouraging it afghanistan to pursue its national priorities. >> briefly, what is the sentiment among the huge muslim population on this growing afghan war? >> it is a situation where we need to be better than what we actually are at the moment. indonesia is a strong supporter of afghanistan. we wish the country well. we will be with them waging peace in a more comprehensive way. development and capacity building. >> the indonesian foreign minister, thank you so much for joining us. the minister joins us from our studios. forces loyal to the french transitional government in libya have begun their final assault on a ci

led invasion of afghanistan passes the ten year mark of the taliban defeat nowhere in sight and human cost is rising faster than ever. meanwhile in the u.k. enough is enough say protesters calling for a speedy troop withdrawal i gather in london to mark the afghan wars tenth anniversary. and then to corporate sentiment spreads fast across the u.s. the occupy wall street movement is criticized for lacking organization but says it's far from chaotic and is in for the long haul. welcome this is our team from moscow it's eleven pm saturday evening here my name is kevin i don't know top story for you the u.s. led war in afghanistan is now past the ten year mark it's been widely dubbed the decade of failure to with nato troops no closer to victory over the taliban and human cost though keeps rising both among the soldiers and the afghan civilians and demanded an end to the aimless war and the violence he brings down on them jason not lag for r.t. reports. another day in afghanistan so the battle more casualties despite official claims that the war's being won two thousand and eleven is lini

and that was archie's military analyst with his assessment for afghanistan. news and breve this saturday night abbas has all the time and crashed into a cliff and was job they named an easy killing fool for interest in the injuring eleven the bus was carrying visitors from the netherlands belgium many india as the brakes failed when it was going downhill it comes just a month after a similar crash on the island killed nineteen people. six people have had a lucky escape surviving a plane crash in australia a small aircraft with five skydivers and a pilot on board question to oak creek surrounded by trees and it was preparing to land near melbourne the pilot suffered a broken legs and had to become freed at least two were winched to safety by helicopter one passenger was also was also injured but a number of were remarkably and hurt after the accident. in the heavy fighting continues in search of the most important of the remaining strongholds controlled by forces loyal to us to the leader colonel gadhafi interim government forces have been facing fierce resist

seventh two thousand and one the war in afghanistan began as a counter strike for nine eleven atrocities masterminded from the country by osama bin laden retired army general stanley mcchrystal said the u.s. began the occupation with a frighteningly simplistic view and still have no idea how to end the conflict successfully meantime in the war zone american bases are still expanding providing it's full time personnel with all the comforts of home jason visited by a grab for r.t. . if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger with us live forces over at the teleported late two thousand and one bug a mere field is little more than a flight tower in a cracked runway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city that's helped over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft with enough equals to cross traffic jams in the expansion is no way aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to ma

get out of afghanistan. the costs in blood and treasure have been too high. 10 years is more than enough. after 10 years it's time to come home. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama, mr. bonner, for five minutes. mr. bonner: i ask unanimous consent to address the house and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: yes, you may proceed. the gentleman is recognized. mr. bonner: madam speaker, while the long-term unemployment is now worse than at anytime since the great depression and americans in growing numbers are becoming more and more concerned about the direction their country is heading, one thing that is uniting americans is the realization that their federal government is unnecessarily getting in the way of the job creators. both small and large businesses alike. by tying their hands, the hands of employers with bureaucratic red tape and over-the-top unnecessary and often duplicative regu

going to reports next from afghanistan. this is the commanding height that dominates this sweeping view of was the area of kabul the afghan capital. right behind me of the reason that three weeks ago was under the twenty hour siege by the ha going to network let's take a closer look at what went wrong we had the global war on terror first after al qaeda central radio lloyd told a pashtun tribal belt along the afghan pakistani border the state department filed a request with pakistan for cooperation against osama bin laden when slim about brazenly ignored the diplomatic request from washington d.c. with their middle finger behind their back to see if they could and should have saved the day by activating their formidable human intelligence network in afghanistan to conduct a clone dan stein body snatching mission and to bring osama bin laden to justice they just blew it looking back at operation enduring freedom the question is not what went wrong with this mission the question is what's preventing the w. bush administration

forces out of afghanistan now. >> two-thirds of the american people have washed their hands of afghanistan. they don't want to spend $10 billion a month. they got 16,000 killed and wounded that want to be done with it. >> reporter: even if all the combat forces are out by 2014 u.s. officials at the pentagon predict that smaller numbers of u.s. military, advisers and trainers, could be there in afghanistan 20 years from now. brian? >> jim miklaszewski, starting us off at the pentagon tonight. jim, thanks. >>> as we were just reminded, as it is important to remember every day there are still nearly 100,000 american service members stationed far from home in afghanistan. one is an extraordinary woman, our own jim maceda recently met a mother, a grandmother and if her sacrifice isn't enough, she's breaking new ground on her own. jim maceda tonight with more on her story. >> reporter: from the first refuelling of the day, captain matilda howe takes charge of keeping them in the fight. >> we need to submit a request for ammo. >> reporter: loading up a steady flow of combat helicopters. captain h