kandahar struggles more than other cities. there are sporadic outages in other places, residences and people have full-time pow, because the capital has access to imported electricity. the power problem here wasn't this bad, it's worse since the n.a.t.o. withdrawal. >> when american and canadian forces were here, they had 50 megawatts. when they left. thi had their tents here we lost - no power. >> some of that electricity comes from the 10 megawatt diesel plant built with american funds. now the generators are silent. >> running the camp at full capacity would bring the people at kandahar 8 hours a day. the power people say it doesn't make financial sense. they can only cover 10% of the cost of fuel. in the control room they are dolling out power to the neighbourhoods. suddenly the lights go off because of a short in the power grid. it is reset. kandahar's grid is unstable. it will need to be upgraded or replaced. first the city has to find a power source. this businessman says afghanistan missed a golden opportunity because

. >> i'm jennifer glasse in kandahar. the biggest city in southern afghanistan doesn't have electricity because it can't afford to run its power stations. >> guardianship imposed by the state >> they lose more rights than someone who goes to prison... >> what's being done to protect liberties in texas? >> i'm just a citizen trying to get some justice for an old man... >> an america tonight investigation only on al jazeera america >>> welcome back of the the top stories, yemen's government decided not to attend u.n. backed peace talks set to be held in geneva. the exiled leaders want the leaders to withdraw from cities and towns. negotiations are aimed at ending two months of saudi-led air strikes. a burundian opposition leader has been shot dead in the capital. they were killed in a drive-by shooting amid unrests after weeks of protests against president pierre nkurunziza's bid for a third term. >>> celebrations in ireland after the public voted to approve same-sex marriage. more than 62% of voters chose to allow gay coup

in the meantime, the people of kandahar have to make do as best they can. jennifer glasse, al jazeera kandahar. >> shutting down any foreign ngos they thy are undesirable. but the u.n. has criticized the move. >>> many billionaires are funding ukraine's military. president petro poroshenko is accused of not doing enough, despite the pledge to ending corruption. andrew simmons has the details. >> in the distance, there's shelling. and tanks are close to the front line. two blatant breaches of the minsk ceasefire. it is another average day of these ukrainian volunteers in their standoff against pro-russian separatists regular armies conventional warfare are terms that would hardly best describe so many forces from opposite sides. there's very little conventional about it. put simply, if it wasn't for funding from a billionaire oligarch the nepra 1 unit may never have existed. the battalion's commanders experiencing the glitz of rich living. they are here to receive bravery awards. but they are not medals. they are an exclusive collection of swiss watches said

in the control room, abdalla sahir is dealing out electricity to kandahar's neighborhoods. people eventually need to be upgraded or replaced. but first the city has to find a source. businessman faisal says afghanistan missed a golden opportunity. >> clear the money was spent with long term in mind they wouldn't have spent it on these generators they should have built hydroelectric plants and after that solar winds. >> the money the government doesn't have, meanwhile the people of kandahar will have to taketake what they can get. jennifer glasse, al jazeera. >> if you want more you can go to our website that's aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. >>> on a special eldition of "america tonight", honouring the broken soldiers. >> i want people to know that the war doesn't end when the guns are silenced. i want them to know that >>> a long time coming, but a salute to disabled veterans. also tonight - how did a veteran's hospital become the center of a great disservice to our nation's bravest defenders. christopher putzel inside the wisconsin hospital known as candiland

this is a powerful man in kandahar. his reputation built on strength and brutality. then battling the taliban. he became host to a nightly ritual. hospitality is deeply rooted here. food and drink served daily, and a sign of status. so is his small private zoo. on this day a number of tribes are represented. they outline what they have done securing funds to about schools, mosques and canals. they often mediate disputes. >> the tribal meetings have been here for years. this is the custom and tilture. the government kept resolve the culture. >> like a murder between cousins, both sides thought the state justice system was moving too slowly, and agreed to have the other elders arbitrate. the killer looks on as they explain a solution. the murderers family turned over 460 grapevines and houses for the children. both called it a fair deal. >> the agreement is in writing and approved by both families and the police. it says in part with a conscious mind without force i agree to the solution i will have no future disputes or fights about the issue. that whole point, say th

. >> reporter: this is a powerful man in kandahar. the reputation built on a combination of strength and brutality. first as a mujahideen fighter. when he returned to kandahar he was host to a ritual. >> they meet regularly to talk about the events of the day and head off problems in their community and tribes. he is treated with reverence. hospitality is rooted here. food and drink served daily and a sign of a lean status. on this day a number of tribes are represented. they outline what they have done for their villages securing funds to build schools, mosques and canals and mediate disputes. >> the tribal meetings have been here for many years. this is the custom and culture. the government can solve problems solved by tribal elders >>> like a murder between cousins, both sides felt the state justice system was moving too slowly and agreed to have the elders arbitrate. the killer looks on. the murderers family turned over 460 depraip fines and three houses for the children. both called it a fair deal. >> the dreamt is in writing, a

they may be in kandahar. they can start there, and we can connect them back to a resource here. vago: how is the jobs picture changing f veterans you can is it getting bter in any sense? dr. crouch: i think the pentagon leadership has done a good job. what we see here is complementary. they have really put a lot of energy and locus in it, and i give them high marks. on the other side,here'a lot of folks out there that want to hire veterans, and so that's a positive thing. one of the things we are going to be able to do with this through the combinatn of emplplment training but also community reintegration is help connect some ofof those people. it's ahallenge, but i think things are getting bette vago: as you try to adapt to this changing military community out there that is bett connnnected than it has been in the past, better eduted, better informed. dr. crouch: onef the things, in the context of transition 360, we wiwill make a lot services available onle and allow people to get darted or even go through the entire process digitally, if you will, but in addition, we are think

another example, last week i was in kandahar province. i was traveling around, looking at schools, because i was interested in the question of education. because supposedly the united states has helped bring education to millions of afghans post 2001. well it turns out particularly , in the south, many schools that were built were actually contracted to the warlords and strongmen. the building of the schools actually deeply damaged local communities in ways that probably would've been better off if they never done so in the first place. so, you know, the broader answer to the question is that if the u.s. was serious about state building, it had to be serious about actually building institutions. instead, it was only in two or only focused on counterterrorism and now we have no state and terrorists. >> [inaudible] -- >> do you think it is better now than if we had not gone in? anand: it depends where you look. there are parts of the country where life is significantly better today than it was under the taliban. there are parts of the count

he was then transferred to kandahar airfield who was accused of the mears mind. he was hung upside down and whipped until he could be paid again this charade went on for two or three years in 2005 until the commander of the u.n. was killed in a ss attack. and the -- major commander of the intelligence services that ran the militia that was torturing him he now lives in california. he was brought here and he had many family members who are american citizens. so this is -- this is the situation. i can repeat hundreds of stories like this. in fact, my books have hundreds of stories like that of people are caught on the war on terror. in fact, in afghanistan turned time-out be wars against local communities in which certain war lords and certain commanders were eliminating their enemy or using the united states to gainl riches, to gain power. we live with that legacy today. i think the process cease that created the insurgency in afghanistan in 2002 and 2003 by 2004 the taliban had reconstructed itself as a fighting force and who was now based -- the leadership was b

, what that would maybe mean for my daughter to grow up in kandahar, what it would mean for her education let's say i was a mid-level function their at the ministry of the interior, and i saw an opportunity to take a certain amount of money that would get me and my family out of afghanistan and somewhere safe. you know, who's -- i think it's very difficult to sit here and say what's right and brook. and when we talk about these issues of corruption, we have to do it with clear eyes understanding that many people are operating in a dynamic that is unfamiliar to us. and addressing that dynamic might do more to address these problems of corruption than, you know than sort of excoriating folks for being corrupt. so that's my opinion and, you know, obviously, you know i wrote a book about a green-on-blue attack, so i feel that it's worthy to kind of examine some of these issues. >> fought in iraq and afghanistan, why did you choose to write or set your novel in afghanistan and not in iraq? >> i've done writing on iraq war, short fiction that's set in iraq. it wasn't necessarily a really delibe

. >> the money the government doesn't have, meanwhile the people of kandahar will have to taketake what they can get. jennifer glasse, al jazeera. >> if you want more you can go to our website that's aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. >>> on a special eldition of "america tonight", honouring the broken soldiers. >> i want people to know that the war doesn't end when the guns are silenced. i want them to know that >>> a long time coming, but a salute to disabled veterans. also tonight - how did a veteran's hospital become the center of a great disservice to our nation's bravest defenders. christopher putzel inside the wisconsin hospital known as candiland >>> and shocking evidence of what was hidden in the fiery pits of afghanistan and iraq, soldiers. >> a lot of people say it is our generalations agent orange >>> "america tonight"s sheila macvicar on the dangers concealed in flames. >>> thank for joining us, i'm joie chen. as memorial day approaches we consider the sacrifices of our veterans, we be given with veterans from iraq and afghanistan. those that have physical wounds of war and life

there's a siege going on in kandahar where two gunmen are on top of a roof they are surrounded by afghan forces. they have killed one woman so far. in another province we saw four suicide gunmen attack the local courts. they have been killed along with two policemen killed in that attack. and in northern afghanistan, the fighting continues there are sporadic attacks there. we have seen in some of the areas, local people taking up arms and fighting against the taliban because the afghan forces just aren't in place. this spring fighting season which is just about a month old right now, under tremendous pressure by the tell ban in at least 11 provinces in the last 24 hours a particularly large about of attacks across the country. >>> malaysia police are continuing the process of exhuming dozens of trafficking victims in mass graves on the border of thailand. the government is investigating whether local forestry officials were involved in the smuggling. >>> florence looi has been to one of the camps. >> reporter: malaysia police have begun exhuming bodies discovered in graves in an area clo

taliban attacks across afghanistan not only in hellmann province, in three different areas, but also in kandahar in southern afghanistan, and central afghanistan four attackers tried to mount an assault on the local court, and managed to kill two policemen before those fighters were killed. and fighting going on for about a month since the taliban launched their spring offensive in late april. this is really a lot of pressure on an afghan security forces that is fighting basically on its own. a small nato force is helping to train, advise and assist as well as a small american contingent who are allowed to engage in counter terrorist missions. but the afghan security forces don't have the kind of air power they had when nato was here and that has proved really a great challenge for them. the taliban emboldened by this are launching larger and more complex attacks across the country. not just in the south and the east. their traditional strong holds but also in the north where they have been present, but not really very aggressive now they seem to be certainly more confident that they know that t

an iou that braved ieds in kandahar. a promise was made. to america's veterans. dav fights to keep that promise. so all veterans and their families get the benefits and support they earned. for help, visit dav.org. >>> forget $10.10 hour some democrats pushing a bill to mandate a $12 minimum wage. they say and unions also say it will help workers across america. are they right or are they wrong? sabrina, what do you think? >> they're wrong. artificially manipulating wages is going to be a jobs killer. i'm sure i'm not alope. that i walk into a local chain drugstore all the time and there's one employee who works there. it is a security guard. because every single thing has been automated in that store. the fact that people who poverty and we all want to help those people aren't there because of low, you know low paying jobs at fast food restaurants or drugstores. it's because they don't have consistent paid employment. the best way to help them grow the economy. >> what do you think? >> i think this is a trend that companies are doing anyway. you look at aetna an

my second tour of duty was afghanistan, kandahar province 2012. i joined when i was 29. um, just wanted to fight and fight for our country, and a couple 30 year olds, a 34 year old in my basic training, but i was running circles around them. i was in good shape at that age, and there were giving two airborne contracts out of about 150 people, and i got one. so, i did good. 09 was kind of quiet. we had one incident. we went over an ied. um, that was the only time that something happened there. and then, it was like night and day going to afghanistan. that was a completely different story. every day was a gunfight in afghanistan. um, we had to worry about land mines. we had mine detectors. i remember just going to the top of the hut, and just thinking, eh, that tree line is 400 meters away, no, no one, nobody can hit me from here. and all of a sudden i just (pop). when it hit me, it hit me in the right chest area, right next to my plate, but it hit my 203 grenade. and it made my grenade explode, so the concussion was kinda, it knocked me to the ground. and i just remember

them because the phone system seems to be down in that area, that is the latest in the attacks and in kandahar two gunmen are on a roof and surrounded by afghan forces and killed one woman so far in the province. we saw four suicide gunmen attack the local courts, they have been killed along with two policemen killed in the attack and northern afghanistan and the fight there continues with sporadic clashes there between afghan forces and taliban who are in many of the villages in the city and we have seen in some of the areas local people taking up arms and fighting against the taliban because the afghan forces just are not in place. the forces in the spring fighting season which is just about a-month-old now under tremendous pressure from the taliban in at least 11 provinces in afghanistan in the last 24 hours, particularly a large number of attacks across the country. >> deputy foreign minister of iran say inspectors will not be allowed to the sites after two days after they said they would and we say the u-turn is part of a future deal of iran's controversial program. >> translator: some so

an iou that braved ieds in kandahar. a promise was made. to america's veterans. dav fights to keep that promise. so all veterans and their families get the benefits and support they earned. for help, visit dav.org. >>> nearly 30 million americans will hit the road this weekend but what if i told you soon those miles will cost you. as lawmakers push for a mileage tax to replace the gas tax, oregon is launching a pilot program that will do just that. taxing each mile you drive just over a penny. suzy a mileage tax better than a gas tax? >> i'm surprised in oregon my birthplace they do wacky, crazy things in oregon but this is the most surprising to me in a long time. i think you're taxing the wrong people. it is very regressive. people who live far out of the city because they can't afford to live closer to the city will be taxed and middle-class people who drive for their vacations instead of the wealthy who fly to their vacations will get nailed by it. let alone the logistics of figuring this out. oregon i thought i couldn't be surprised by you but i was surprise

last week i was in kandahar province and looking at schools. the question of education, supposedly the united states helped bring education to millions of afghans post 2001. it turns out particularly in the south many of these schools that were built for contract did to local warlords and strong men and the building of the schools actually deeply damage local communities in ways that would have been better off if they had never done so in the first place. the broader answer to the question is if the u.s. was serious about state building, it had to be serious about building institutions. instead it was only focused on counterterrorism and now we have no state and terrorists. >> would have been -- [inaudible] >> depends on where you look. it depends on where you look. there are parts of the country where life is significantly better today than it was under the taliban. in other places it is worse than it was under the taliban. it is so counterintuitive. in southern afghanistan for women under the taliban women were locked in their homes, kept awa

there is a siege in kandahar. two policeman on top of a roof, they have killed at least one woman in at that siege. it's been going on since last night. since late last night and in northern afghanistan there has been constant on and off fighting between the taliban fighters have have many of the villages and district headquarters surrounded and the provincial capital surrounded and that fighting has been going on for several weeks now the fighting in 11 provinces spring fighting seasons with a lot of attacks going on now the. >> all right general officer glasse live from kabul afghanistan, thank you jennifer. >>> the u.s. in damage control mode in the wake of a blame game over the fall of the iraqi city of ramadi to isil. defense secretary ash carter on sunday said iraqi soldiers showed no will for fight. in response the iraqi prime minister's spokesman suggested carter was wrong about that information. >> reporter: an effort to patch things up, joe biden called prime minister to pledge support support. an a rook

examine that's just the late nest the series of attacks there is a siege going on in kandahar where two gunmen or top of a roof. they are surrounded by afghan forces. they have killed one woman so far. in another province, we saw four suicide gunmen attack the local courts, they have been killed. along with two policemen killed in that attack. and in northern afghanistan the fight continues there are sporadic clashes between afghan forces and the taliban who are in many of the villages surrounding the city. we have seen in some of those areas local people getting -- taking up arms and fighting against the taliban because the afghan forces just aren't in place, the afghan forces in this spring fighting season which is just about a month old right now, under tremendous pressure from the taliban in at least 11 proof inses across afghanistan in the last 24 hours particularly large number of attacks across the country. >>> jennifer glasse reporting there. malaysian police believe at least two jungle camp where his they found graves of trafficking victims were abandoned in just the last two w

they then took him to a private jail in kandahar city, down the stairs, and hung him upside down for 18-20 hours per day. they hung him upside down and with him. he was hung with a number of tribal elders. one of them was a very famous tribal elder and was with so much he was eventually killed. -- whipped so much he was eventually killed. he quickly realized that they would wear after was not necessarily intelligent, what they were after was money. in other words, if he were to pay, he would be given his freedom. so his family raised money, they sold some of their goods to collect the funds and delivered it to his captors, and he was released. the problem is once he demonstrated he was able to pay were his release, he was a mocked man. so like clockwork every few months he was arrested again by militiamen. he was then transferred to the special forces who accused him of once again being an al qaeda master man -- mastermind. he was eventually turned back to the militiamen and hung upside down. this charade went on for three or four years until 2005 when the commander of the unit arres

he was then transferred to kandahar airfield who was accused of the mears mind. he was hung upside down and whipped until he could be paid again this charade went on for two or three years in 2005 until the commander of the u.n. was killed in a ss attack. and the -- major commander of the intelligence services that ran the militia that was torturing him he now lives in california. he was brought here and he had many family members who are american citizens. so this is -- this is the situation. i can repeat hundreds of stories like this. in fact, my books have hundreds of stories like that of people are caught on the war on terror. in fact, in afghanistan turned time-out be wars against local communities in which certain war lords and certain commanders were eliminating their enemy or using the united states to gainl riches, to gain power. we live with that legacy today. i think the process cease that created the insurgency in afghanistan in 2002 and 2003 by 2004 the taliban had reconstructed itself as a fighting force and who was now based -- the leadership was b

an iou that braved ieds in kandahar. a promise was made. to america's veterans. a promise we all must keep. dav fights for all veterans and their families so they get the health care, financial benefits and support they earned. if youu'e a veteran who needs help, or you'd like to help us keep the promise visit dav.org. ♪ john: when i graduated from princeton tuition was less than $4,000 year. okay. there has been inflation since then, but now a year and princeton cost more than $50,000. i don't have any idea what they do with the money. they stop calling me to ask for donations. there are millions a better causes than giving rich colleges more money. as one of as one of my guests mentioned one reason tuition prices went up so much is because of handouts from government. when government increases financial aid colleges spend more money. even our freespending president said he understood the problem. >> students and taxpayers can't just keep on subsidizing skyrocketing tuition. we're going to run out of money. john: right. yet that same year the president also sa

do you want to come ashley's replacement in kandahar. do you want to keep going because nothing would dishonor her memory more than stopping this mission. i can't promise you i won't die any more than the rest of us but this is what we signed up to do. we do. we didn't sign up to give our lives but we did sign up to serve. this is a conversation that's going on in all of the women keep going out. it is true that not a single one of them thinks that any job will ever measure up to what they did that year alongside special operations. they love the job they loved the mission they considered a a privilege to be doing the work they were doing because they were at the heart of a mission that mattered serving with the best of the best which is all they had ever asked for. in fact, one of the gals, another member of this team who had this unique distinction of being both a sorority sister, and rtc cadet and a women study major she has this moment where she says i hate being a girl because everything noble noble is out of reach. all the sudden t

traveling across country reach highway one of the country's principal paved road which would lead them to kandahar and optical found inside more than 30 men, women and children. everyone knew one another. they all came from the same cluster the mountain villages. others were shopkeepers heading to the capitol to buy supplies. the women carried turkeys, gifts for the relatives they were stay with. a number were an ethic minority's of shia muslims. now there and taliban country and therefore dangerous for them. they were short on gas. they met no other cars and little foot traffic. the world around them must have seemed empty but it was not. unbeknownst to them they were being watched and their every movement transmitted across the globe. a ramshackle vehicles one one breaking down and the other blue attire that along people they would never meet conferred across oceans and continents as to who they were aware they were going to what they were carrying and whether they should live or die. on what they were traveling toward an operational detachment dropped him of the supporting force to attack the n

settled soon after midnight traveling cross-country and the principal trade road which would lead them to kandahar and north kabul. this came from the same southwest of kabul. many of the men were on their way to iran in hopes of work. others were shopkeepers heading to the capital to buy supplies of the students returning to school. a number of them are ethnic minorities who discovered and treated with cruelty whenever they had the opportunity. now they were in the western province and therefore very dangerous but this is that was the short because they were short on gas. they met no other cars and traffic. the world around them must have seemed empty but it was not. unbeknownst to them they were being watched and their every movement transmitted across the globe. as the ramshackle vehicles, one kept breaking down people convert across the oceans and continents on who they were where they were going to know what they were carrying and whether they should live or die. unwittingly the group was going towards a detachment in the u.s. special forces patrol dropped them with a supporting cause of the

want to keep going to tristan's the west point but the shoes who would become ashley's replacement in kandahar. and he said you know some people said he wants to keep going and she said nothing would dishonor her memory more than stopping this mission. i can promise you that i won't die any more than any of the rest of us. we didn't sign up to give our lives but they did sign up to serve. and so this is a conversation that's going on in all the women keep going out and it is true that i think not a single one of them face and -- think that any job will ever measure up to what they did that year alongside special operations. they love the job they love the mission they consider it a privilege to be doing the work because it was at the heart of a mission that mattered serving with the best of the best. it was all that they have ever asked for and in fact one of the gals another member of the team who have this unique distinction of being a sorority sister an rotc cadet and a women's studies major, she has this -- i hate being a girl because everything noble is out of reach. all of a sudden thing

says to you guys want to keep going to tristan the west point -- who becomes ashley's replacement in kandahar. some people think you want to keep going and she said nothing with dishonor her emory moore and stopping this mission. i can promise you that i won't die any more than any of the rest of us because this is what we have signed up to do. we didn't sign up to give our lives that we did sign up to give something so this is a conversation that's going on in all the women keep going out and it is true that i think not a single one of them thinks that any job will ever measure up to what they did that year along special operations. they loved the job, they loved the mission they considered it a privilege to be doing the work that they were doing because they were at the heart of a mission that mattered serving with the best of the best which is all they have ever asked for. in fact another member of this team who had this unique distinction of being both a sorority sister and rotc cadet and a women's studies major she has this statement that she says when she 17 i hate being a girl because

but 2001 in afghanistan, in the fall of kandahar. there was throw hundred americans and we killed a third of al-qaeda and kicked them out of the country. >> what if we had kept our eye on the ground now. would we be farther? >> we would have been. this is where aggressive intelligence operations will root out the enemy. and the one way to stop them is stop them in the area where they are operating and forbid them from coming to our home land and continue attacks here. there is 20000 foreigners and westerner ares that are traveling in iraq and syria and they are coming back to europe and the united states and the way we stop it get rid of them there. >> what message does it send to the rekrauts and trying to join isis knowing that we are now on the ground? >> isis is promising adventure and stop playing video games and come do the real thing. but what happens down there is a bullet in your chest or bomb on your head and you will not get adventure. >> the intelligence that would not have been collected if we dropped a bomb. we wouldn't

there's a siege in kandahar with two gunman on a roof, surrounded by afghan forces. they have killed one woman so far. we saw four suicide gunman attack the local courts. they have been killed, along with two policemen killed in that attack. in northern having a the fight in kundu continues. we've seen in some areas local people taking up arms and fighting against the taliban because the afghan forces just aren't in place. the forces in this spring fighting season, just about a month old now are under tremendous pressure from the taliban in 11 provinces across afghanistan in the last 24 hours, particularly large number of attacks across the country. >> much more to come, questions about safety asked in china after a fire at a home for the elderly kills dozens of people. >> trying to beat the student loan system in the u.s. >> in sport taking a tumble. did the loss of seth curry damage the playoff hopes of the golden state warriors? details coming up. >> all that still ahead. malaysian police are continuing the grim task of exhuming the bodies of dozens of suspected t

there is a siege going on in kandahar with gunmen on the roof and surrounded by afghan forces and have killed one woman so far in wordak province we saw four suicide gunmen attack the local kourtsz -- courts with two gunmen and there are sporadic clashes between forces and taliban who are in many of the villages of the city and we have seen in some of those areas local people taking up arms and fighting against the taliban because the afghan forces just aren't in place. the afghan forces in this spring fighting season which is just about a-month-old right now under tremendous pressure from the taliban in 11 provinces across afghanistan in the last 24 hours particularly a large number of attacks across the country. >>> government leaders in burundi say they will not vow to international criticism of the president's bid for a third term and protesters against the president has been killed after police opened fire in the province. protesters spreading to more areas of the capitol. our reporter harry is in one of those areas. >> reporter: tuesday started off dramatically. this area is and

. >> reporter: there are a number of attacks not only in hellmund province but in kandahar and southern afghanistan and central afghanistan. four attackers tried to mount an assault on the local court and managed to kill two policemen before those four attackers were killed. in northern afghanistan fighting is heavy in boglund province. that fighting is going on for about a month since the taliban launched their spring offensive in late april. this is really a lot of pressure on an afghan security force that is fighting basically on its own. there's a small nato force here helping basically train, advise and assist as well as a small american contingent here 4,000 or 5,000 american forces allowed to engage in counterterrorism missions. that means they can call in air strikes in concert with the afghans, but the afghan security forces don't have the kind of air power that they had when nato was here. that has proved really a great challenge for this. the taliban are launching larger and more complex attacks across the country not just in the south and east their traditional strongholds w

i could go to to heart rot kandahar -- herat, kandahar. we traveled around without military escorts. we don't have any people in those cities. another city that is very dangerous. it is very difficult to get around. it is very difficult to get sources. we cannot go out and talk to the afghans in many places outside of the wire. they have to come in to see us. we get a lot of information from them. we use afghans as sources. they do monitoring of sites for us. we tried to come up with other means to do it. this is not your normal ig operation. my auditors whereby javits -- where black jackets, my agents are carrying machine guns when they go out there. this is not your ordinary situation. host: as you mention security there is this headline in "usa today." afghan deaths, injuries up 70%. a number of afghans killed in the police and army are worded, the number is up 70% in the first 15 weeks of 2015. lisa, you're next. caller: i do not understand for myself how we can spend so much money overseas helping everybody else with the budget that e

after ashley died one of the historians asked her replacement in kandahar, this is in the book, do you want to keep doing this mission? because you know, after vietnam the dogs program went away. we ended up needing to revive it. and she had a laugh like oh, we're dogs now. but the truth was the comparison was somewhat apt. it was a capability built for a specific mission. and she said nothing would dishonor her memory more speaking of ashley, than shutting down this mission. we all want to go back out there and more. right? and i'm sure each one of you experienced that. and then that life-saving, you know, what is the information -- what's the value you add? i read ranger impact awards -- or not read. but i know of ranger impact awards where they said this person helped us to get this information that we would not have found if this, you know soldier wasn't there, about some of the csts. that there were people, there was information, there were things that were very relevant to achieving that mission that were found because those women were there, which is why i think we're sitting he

kandahar, almost impossible. harat, relatively safe. mazar sharif, they're stepping up attacks, the attack on the courthouse there. coming back to the northern corner of afghanistan, i was amazed at the progress -- new airport smoothly-paved roads and a lot of progress in trade. so it is definitely a mixed sense of what the future holds. i think there's some room for hope. >> charlie sennott, the ground truth project. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> woodruff: now we turn our focus closer to home. >> sreenivasan: while more than two million men and women serve in the country's all-volunteer military force, a new documentary, "the homefront," focuses on the additional three milllion husbands, wives, sons and daughters who remain behind. they carry on their lives while a loved one is overseas for months, even more than a year and sometimes on multiple deployments. this is part of pbs's military voices initiative. >> i'm a specialist, i'm in the army reserve. i joined hoping that i could get a deployment as quick as i could becau

at this memorial down south in kandahar, general campbell paid tribute to some of their fallen. afghan major general abdul hamid was at his side. he lost close to 200 of his men this past year. you believe that the afghan security forces, particularly the afghan national army doesn't get the credit it deserves. >> campbell: it's the number one respected institution in afghanistan. couple years ago, i probably wouldn't have said that, but today it is. they've taken this fight on, they've gotten them through two very, very tough fighting seasons, and the last one, predominantly, all on their own. >> logan: the afghan government can't afford to pay for them. the afghan army, the police, the air force, they're all paid for by the u.s. and its allies. casualty rates-- they're dying in huge numbers. unsustainable, according to your deputy. the attrition rate's another area of concern. >> campbell: yeah, i mean, there's challenges. they know that the army they have today probably will not be the size several years from now. they just can't afford that. the casualties you brought up, yo

to have a kandahar rebuilding plan. by that i mean we've got -- and not have a baltimore, boston, toledo, chicago, rebuilding plan. to rebuild these inner city communities. sarin dippite won't do it -- serendipity won't dee dooo it. we need to hear the voices of the peaceful protesters the majority of protesters the last year who say we want action and we want it now. >> when you talk about reform in the baltimore police department that also has to be extended across the country when you look at the pockets of problems, specifically even this year in this last year alone. that is much harder to do because you're dealing a lot of the times with just singular bad apples if you will. i don't believe that you're saying that all of police departments need to be reformed. many of them are doing a good job. how do you go about looking at the individuals? >> i would suggest that any mayor, police chief, city council, police departments today should now hold up the mirror and look at themselves. i doubt if a month ago baltimore

they don't need kandahar. they need the resources. this obviously will be used to fuel their larger continued global expansion. >> let me ask, why does it seem the white house isn't appearing to be concerned about the gains isis is making right now? what are your sources telling you about our military leaders, how they are handling the fact that this white house continues to sidestep any significant offensive against isis at this point? >> well people in the pentagon actually know what's going on and are trying to do the right thing. it's because the white house is personally directly trying to control this, much like johnson tried to control the vietnam war from the white house. didn't work out for lbj and it won't work out here. we have to recognize the current strategy is nonexistent. there isn't one that actually does anything. let's look at what's going on in iraq for example. the iraq strategy to keep iraq together in one country is not going to work. the very reason the iraq army keeps collapsing is the country it was designed

i could go to to heart rot kandahar -- herat, kandahar. we traveled around without military escorts. we don't have any people in those cities. another city that is very dangerous. it is very difficult to get around. it is very difficult to get sources. we cannot go out and talk to the afghans in many places outside of the wire. they have to come in to see us. we get a lot of information from them. we use afghans as sources. they do monitoring of sites for us. we tried to come up with other means to do it. this is not your normal ig operation. my auditors whereby javits -- where black jackets, my agents are carrying machine guns when they go out there. this is not your ordinary situation. host: as you mention security there is this headline in "usa today." afghan deaths, injuries up 70%. a number of afghans killed in the police and army are worded, the number is up 70% in the first 15 weeks of 2015. lisa, you're next. caller: i do not understand for myself how we can spend so much money overseas helping everybody else with the budget that e

i could go to -- harad big city to the west, kandahar. my people, my agents traveled around in cars without having military escorts. we don't have anybody in harod in maser jalalabad is a very dangerous place. so it's very difficult to get around. it's very difficult to get sources, because we can't go out and talk to the afghans in many place outside the wire, outside the bases. they have to come in to see us. but we get a lot of information from them. we use afghans as sources and they do monitoring of sites for us so we try to come up with other means to do it. but this is not your normal ig operation. my auditors wear flak jackets helmet my agents carry machine guns. this is not your ordinary situation. >> host: as we mentioned security there's ha headline in u.s.a. today afghan deaths and injuries up 70%. talk hearing about afghan security forces suffering record casualties this year as they combat taliban rebels largely without the benefit of u.s. air power, and other international military support they had come to rely on in the pa

i could go to masar kandahar, my people, my agents actually traveled around in cars without having military escorts. we don't have anybody in in masar. so it's very difficult to get around. very difficult to get sources because we can't go out and talk to the afghans in many places outside the wire, outside the bases. they have to come in to see us. we get a lot of information from them. we use afghans as sources and they do monitoring of sites for us. so we try to come up with other means to do it. but this is not your normal i.g. operation. my auditors where helmets and my agents are carrying machine guns. this isn't your ordinary situation. host: there is this head gine in "usa today," afghan deaths are up 70%. afghan security forces suffering record casualties. and other international military support they have come to rely on. the number of afghans killed in the police and army killed or wounded, the numbers increased 70% in the first 15 weeks of 2015. lisa, good morning a republican. caller: i don't understand how we can spend so much money overseas helping everybody else with the bud

after ashley died one of the historians asked her replacement in kandahar, this is in the book, do you want to keep doing this mission? because you know, after vietnam the dogs program went away. we ended up needing to revive it. and she had a laugh like oh, we're dogs now. but the truth was the comparison was somewhat apt. it was a capability built for a specific mission. and she said nothing would dishonor her memory more, speaking of ashley, than shutting down this mission. we all want to go back out there and more. right? and i'm sure each one of you experienced that. and then that life-saving, you know, what is the information -- what's the value you add? i read ranger impact awards -- or not read. but i know of ranger impact awards where they said this person helped us to get this information that we would not have found if this, you know, soldier wasn't there, about some of the csts. that there were people, there was information, there were things that were very relevant to achieving that mission that were found because those women were there, which is why i think we're sitting