jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. let's go back to the french capital now with a man has just arrived on the latest leg off his first to fall in tora since the gulf crisis began in june because spondon to join the hall is joining us live from paris as we mentioned first.

when we were able to get by, we got to kandahar and started going after the targets that headquarters had said to raid. we were hoping to capture more guys, figuring they had probably gone by now, or at least get intel. we did get some intel, no question the most important casingas a, basically a report and attack plan to attack the u.s. naval ship in single port by -- in singapore by a cell in asia. so photos, diagrams, everything, it would be on the scale of like -- vince: the coral vincent is a massive nuclear power aircraft carrier. duane: right. vince: i'm saying it could have been catastrophic beyond the level of -- duane: so that report got out immediately of course. it took some weeks, but they rounded up everybody in southeast asia and the whole cell was wrapped up. i feel like that above any single thing made it worthwhile for the entire team to send it in, because we do not know how many sailors could have been killed. there were other targets, international targets they were going to go after as well. vince: and people may know the name padilla's as well. and you did not k

jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. qatar samir as expected to hold talks with the german chancellor angela merkel and berlin shake to maim then hama alfon is on his first foreign trip since the gulf at all not a crisis began in june has already met a turkish president ratchet typer to want to discuss a solution the american head to paris later on friday for talks with french president and while my craw. the leader of yemen toothy rebels say they have ballistic missiles capable of striking in the united arab emirates capital and anywhere inside saudi arabia of the also warn that saudi oil tanks could be targeted if the kingdom attacks yemen's main war and who data which accounts for about eighty percent of food imports and yemen some sanctions against iran continue to be suspended by the trumpeter ministration as part of the obama era nuclear deal that officials insist it's only an interim measure before a final decision by the u.s. president next month the white house has also introduced new non-nuclear sanctions on ir

jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. we have the sports news still ahead on the news of the cleveland indians the second longest on the. baseball history it will have the details and sport. time for school elizabeth thank you very much the international and the committee has three if it reiterated that there's no plan b. for next year's pyong chang winter olympics in south korea this off north korea fired another missile over japan on friday at the games a g. to take place in february one hundred kilometers from the north korean border the i.o.c. is new head of ethics ban ki moon is backing the olympics the former u.n. secretary general who's also from south korea is confident the games will go ahead without a hitch. sports has a universal language and it can reach to any place even during a time of cold war even so there is heightened attention on the korean peninsula i'm sure that this chunk been told in big games will be a great success with a great sense of stability. whenever there was always a sports event. exchang

jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. so the u.s. now where there have been protests in the city of st louis after a police officer was acquitted of killing a black motorists people took to the streets softer and is always state john found officer jason stokley not guilty saying that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt the ma smith was shot five times following the conscious into the often eleven prosecutors found evidence of a gun but stokley is fingerprints planted in the victim's car. now nearly a week off to harken and ahead the u.s. state of florida tens of thousands of people are without electricity and many have not been able to return to their homes rob reynolds traveled to the worst affected area to see how people are cutting. big pine key is a study in desolation here on one of a chain of low lying islands that bore the brunt of hurricane earl mouth trees are stripped bare debris is piled high houses are trashed boats lifelong onto the shore telephone poles are snapped into like rotten driftwood

jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. and nigeria four hundred thousand women die every year due to but for later complications in many of these cases they simply can't get near enough to a hospital to get help catherine so explains from sokoto. bucky's sumanda is four months pregnant and wants to give birth in this government run special maternity clinic in socket a state it's new and the only one offering women different options of giving bath including how they would at home but who has six other children half of them delivered at home chose the match right away. i want to give birth on the mats because it's comfortable and it's what i'm used to at home i think the nurses will take better care of me here in the united nations says one hundred forty five nigerian women die every day from birth related complications it's one of the highest rates in the walls this is one of the biggest hospitals and for women from the state come here to have a baby for many. home because much more. far away we need. to finance. this woman

five year plan is to double the number of aircraft and increase personnel by fifty percent here at kandahar air field that means the afghan air force is going to need more space and they plan to take it from the other side of the runway there there's going to be offices training facilities and room for brand new helicopters the first blackhawk flights are expected to start next year it will take years to get the new helicopters fully in service in the meantime the afghans are making the most of what they have jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the american embassy in manila expressing their anger over u.s. involvement in the conflict in mindanao president rodrigo detect a has imposed martial law on the island to deal with isolated fighters in what are we protest has held placards condemning the government's use of american understanding and surveillance planes in the conflict. an entire police force has been fired in the philippines after allegations there but involved in the death of a teenager twelve hundred officer

jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. well nasa is cassini spacecraft has plunged with sasha and a twenty year journey and what the agency calls the grand finale disintegrated and saturn's atmosphere and a planned descent haven't given astronomers unprecedented and sought into the planet and its moons shihab rattansi reports we have. done just like that it was gold i'm going to call this the end of mission. project manager that. tumbled into saturn's atmosphere no longer able to point its antenna towards earth to send back images in fact at this point cassini was already long gone its fatal would be gone about an hour and a half earlier but such was the distance its final messages were only just reaching mission control and those in mission control knew cassini survived a minute maybe two after its last message before disintegrating. sr was launched in october of one thousand nine hundred seven and began orbiting saturn in june of two thousand and four its original four year mission was repeatedly extended although much o

jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. let's return to our top story an explosion at one of london underground train stations police say they are treating this as a terrorist incident that happened in southwest london this is during rush hour arianna one has more. heavily armed officers move to surround the train parked on the tracks at pass and scream chub station in southwest london emergency units responded at eight twenty in the morning that seven twenty g.m.t. to reports of an explosion on a train during rush hour this image posted to twitter which cannot be independently verified it stood to show a package still burning on the train we are treating the matter as a terrorist related incident and the metropolitan police counts terrorism come on will take responsibility for that investigation witnesses reported the city was panic as passengers realized what had happened with people reportedly trampled as they fled the incident happened in the early morning when london's underground system is busy and trains are often pa

from there harat, kandahar, islamaba we represented fifth group. we recommended america's policy at the nasty pointy-end bloody end of that fight that we went in to help enable the possibility of a brighter future for the people of afghanistan. >> it was my first rodeo. we got married in april. he left in october. he was a medic. i thought it was safe. yeah, he lied to me, guys. no, he didn't lie to me. he was a medic. >> every time they leave and they come back, they're a little bit different each time. >> a lot of memories. you know what i mean? you kind of tamp down and put away. not so good, but that's okay. every one of the husbands will tell you that they're going to die before us spouses do. >> i'll drink scotch. >> toast. >> there you go. >> we got chad. >> d.b. >> stev >> bill, wherever you are. >> salute. >> salute >> dear god in heaven. >> that's nasty. >> what is this? >> say hello. it wasn't until you were forced to retire you had to retire, then you isolated yourself from your family and everybody else. you internalize everything, you

jennifer glass al jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. still ahead in sports plays resumed of goals every other championship and friends it is going to tell you who's taken the lead. every day more than eight hundred expectant mothers die from preventable birth related complications ninety nine percent of all these deaths occur in developing countries poor young women in rural areas are at particular risk but they can be helped skilled care during and after childbirth can save lives between one thousand nine hundred and twenty fifteen maternal mortality globally dropped by forty four percent but still in some parts of the world giving birth can be life threatening when the nigeria about fifty thousand women die every year because of birth related complications it often happens while giving birth at home culture cost and distance keeps many from going to hospitals in the first of a three part series catherine sawyer reports from sokoto. bucky sumanda is four months pregnant and wants to give birth in this government run special maternity c

the goal was seize kandahar. i met him for the first time in the hallway. he was going to the bathroom and i was walking to get some coffee and it was just men trying to work with one another that didn't have any time for bull. even as the tensions rose, he still had an uncanny ability to hold things together over there. >> i think it was around 3:00 in the morning or so that the f-18 spotted a small convoy of trucks heading north. so here are these f-18s flying overhead and calling for permission to engage. that was when the war really became real. there was justhis moment where allen looks at me and says are they clear to engage and like everybody was suddenly quiet. i was going to authorize these f-18s to drop bombs on pickup trucks that were likely the enemy, but what if i was wrong. it was the silence that always sticks with me. are they cleared to engage and suddenly all eyes are are on me. i looked at allen and said sm e smoke 'em. and after i said the words, it was just sort of where did that come from. i don't say stuff like that. that's just not m

the aircraft can be used before the air force can operate entirely on its own for glass supports in kandahar the afghan air force says it can change the shape of the fight against the taliban and other groups especially here in kandahar southern afghanistan this is one of afghanistan's few fighter pilots he and his family have been threatened by the taliban so we're protecting his identity . this. year. he told me the people he's bombing aren't just the enemies of afghanistan they're the enemies of humanity he said that he's proud his country now has air power to stand up to them for decades afghanistan relied on these soviet helicopters but a lack of spare parts means these seventeen's will eventually be replaced with u.s. blackhawks captain has been an air force mechanic for more than thirty years. about new aircraft the only really will get peace in this country that the new technology. but the afghans still need a lot of help they can't maintain and fly all the aircraft they have themselves so us advisors and international contractors fill the gaps to build a an air force in peace time i

at least one flight landed at the kandahar airport. if anything, is a huge embarrassment for the afghan government, its international allies, and it is a stark reminder that the television and islamic state remain a potent threat for the people of afghanistan. this comes after donald trump announced a new strategy for afghanistan, promising a bigger military campaign against the taliban insurgents. how likely is it that that will help? 2016,t we have seen since the taliban have control of more areas. they are better armed, they can recruit from areas where previously the afghan government was recruiting for the police and army. doubt, the afghan government and its international allies are looking at a fight on many fronts. you have to find the sort of attacks in the city's, but you also have to fight the town of and on highways, districts, major provincial capitals that are surrounded. they have not fallen into the hands of taliban only because of air power, escalation in the air power we have seen. then you also have to do with the is

on tuesday in the maruf district of kandahar province. government leaders in sri lanka in the police to track down the attackers for him to refugees in colombo. by buddhist monks threw stones at a un shelter for thirty one refugees in the capital and mainly women and children re-injure fled after what the government described as a shameful assault i reports of an elephant and as has more now from columbus. a tired looking welcome sign still hangs above the entrance of the safe house that housed the roy injured muslims would welcome is the last thing they felt when a few days ago an angry mob descended accusing them of being terrorists wanting the un to expel them from sri lanka basically also accusing the u.n. s.c.r. of interfering with the sovereignity of sri lanka saying that the range of muslims had no place here and they would just bring the threat of terrorism back to this country now most of that group of thirty one. refugees were basically women and children most of them very young children obviously traumatised by the sight and so

southeast turkey since the 1980's twelve afghan security personnel have been killed in a suicide attack in kandahar a car bomb exploded in the district of no roof in the east of the province a government spokesman said the attack took place late on tuesday. to europe now where catalonia is leader has criticized european institutions for ignoring the region's wish to hold an independence vote carlos said spain's crackdown on the referendum is boosting support for the vote he insists will go ahead on sunday spanish police chiefs submit to plan taking control of polling stations preventing people from casting a vote no e.u. country has openly supported the referendum the spanish government and the courts have ruled it to be illegal but in the major actually done most even people on sunday will go out and vote massively peacefully also for only one reason and one of the most important reasons regardless of what their vote will be there is a firm conviction that the state today is an inheritor of franco's spain that wasn't overcome in this transition stage but today more than ever it is a problem that w

jennifer glass al-jazeera at the kandahar airfield afghanistan. let's go back to the french capital now where cutters a man has just arrived on the latest leg of his first foreign tour since the gulf crisis began in june spondon to join a whole is joining us live from paris as i've mentioned first foreign trip what will the enemy to be trying to do china. elizabeth he's on his way to the u.n. general assembly in new york tonight but taking the opportunity on this first foreign trip since the crisis broke out on june the fifth to stop off into europe's key capitals of course berlin this morning where he met chancellor angela merkel in paris now for his first face to face meeting with president. the opportunity to put forward qatar's position in this crisis to clarify its position to lobby for support to not before more pressure to be put on the parties on the other side of the dispute to come to some sort of resolution because it's become very clear now that qatar really doesn't want a political solution and the emir using language in berlin in the

he said lookee people in the west we used to only be in kandahar now we are everywhere. and he tried to copy his father. he has exactly the tone of osama bin laden and his message to what enlightened as to say is the same. in his last statement, the one before last where he'd gave this commandment for operatives he said look is hard to kill as many people as you can so don't just -- it's hard to do it right. and then he said always leave a message why you did it. i'm telling you why you did it. number one, our lands are occupied. the land of the two places meaning saudi arabia is occupied read we did not hear that since osama bin ladin died. we haven't heard that since 9/11. he brought it back. palestine. if we don't live in peace in palestine we will never know peace in america. that's something bin laden said himself but also we did not hear that in how long? a long, long, long time ago. and he talked about stealing the wealth of the muslim world. we did not hear that for a long time. he is bringing it back. he only asks one thing that they did not hear his father talk

kandahar airfield. replacing older helicopter the more modern models it will take before this force can stand on its own. on the continent crimea tournament details coming up with jones what. a survivor of the genocide there are people who like me to kill them when they're suffering but i didn't have the heart who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. and here is. finally laying the pass to rest and giving peace to the victims' families if i could just find if i could bury him. at this time on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on the. top stories british police are treating a blast in a london underground train as a terrorist incident the explosion happened on the. western the busy morning rush hour twenty two people were injured but now in a serious condition. amnesty international has use satellite imagery to highlight the extent of damage to burn. the rights bodies detected. violence flared and. and north korea has. launched in less than a

about 3,000 miles east of you there are american military people in kandahar, afghanistan, whose entertainment revolves around the armed forces network that broadcasts football games. i was over there in '07. i watched football games with them. can you imagine putting your life on the line in afghanistan and having just the leisure time and wanting the watch a football game and seeing your players, your american players, disrespect the country and the flag on foreign soil. can you imagine how painful that was? >> sean: how could they possibly not know? >> they don't know.thtril >> sean: most of these players are the best of the best. i have great respect for their athletic talent, their ability, their agility and hard work. they went to college, bill. those kids played college ball. >> it's a mob mentality. anti-trump demonstration is what it has morphed into. nobody is saying the players don't have a right to their opinion about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. if you want to feel america is an evil country where the white supremacists stalk innocents.wa blacks , you can believe t

thousand nine hundred eighty nine when twenty seven female students died in a fire at of his school in kandahar state two more range of muslims have died making the crossing from mere marts of bangladesh bringing the number who drowned since the start of the crisis to eighty eight baby abdul masood was one of those who drowned when the wooden boat he was on capsized on africa with four hundred thousand minority ranger have fled me a massive the military launched a crackdown there three weeks ago after ranger fighters attacked a number of police posts humanitarian assistance in bangladesh has traditionally been quite complex so the government has. no preferred to certain choices in terms of which agencies our presence on the ground and so forth this was before this big emergency i think that now that the emergency requires a very urgent response his presence will be scaled up very quickly we've had already an airlift of goods from the emirates other organizations are also sending goods and they think that they are going to say we're going to see a scale up of emergency very quickly. i doubt a se

[applause] vince: his book is "foxtrot in kandahar." will you stick around and find some books? -- sign some books? duane: absolutely. vince: i ask that you will not a cost him right away -- accost him right away. give him time to sit down and set up. duane: thank you. thank you. [chatter] >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. lectures and history, university of virginia professor gary gallagher teaches a class on civil war memory and how people in the north and south ofe interpreted the legacy the conflict from the postwar era to the present day. his class is about an hour and 15 minutes. mr. gallagher: all right, here we are for the last class this semester, and we will move into as youermath of the war, know. we spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict, and from the beginning, i alerted you that one of the issues of the class was going to be the tension between history and memory. here we are finally at the end where we will focus on memory for our last

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