how do you feel about prospects for peace in afghanistan and continued us involvement in afghanistan today? >> the war against the soviet union, the war between the united states involvement in afghanistan in so far as we are concerned in 1979 the mujahedin where seen as a proxy army for the united states and the cold war. we did not want to put our own soldiers in afghanistan so we hired this mercenary army of arabs, turks, filipinos, we funded with saudi arabia the mujahedin, taking a tolerant muslim nation like afghanistan, turning large elements into saudi arabia in afghanistan, thereby changing the complexity of afghanistan, pakistan where thousands were built, in their desire to promote wahhabi islam around the world and that created this cauldron of war the soviet union saw that they pulled out, the geneva accord ended that war in geneva, it was between pakistan and afghanistan, there were on the sides. it was negotiated. we did not provide as much as before. we kept active and the soviet union kept pouring arms into the communist government they had in power and it continued.

it's a side of afghanistan and up the wider world has forgotten a peaceful and fascinating afghanistan boasting unique not sure on monuments and the legacy of a civilization dating back over a thousand years and then there are the people who live and love this and that illuminating stories. this ancient knowledge in years cept to exude this sense of apple blossoms and the musicians and the conductor actually do blossom as they perform in the capital kabul eighteen year old nagin feels far removed from all the current problems mentioned swings her back. when i conduct this student i really exist feel like crying that i'm conducting here and it's easy if i do it if i work hard on. nagin has a combative nature which was vital in asserting yourself against the reservations of the clan the north eastern afghanistan a region where the taliban still have considerable influence. after the orchestral rehearsal negin practices various percussion instruments. she had wanted to become a pianist but an injury forced her to consider other options it's a minor challenge after everything she's been th

or rather die in afghanistan is an umbrella that they want to carry attacks in afghanistan under the name of diet it's not it in force in afghanistan it's not something that we should compare with you know and the middle east or i saw in india be the least in afghanistan is a proxy groups or other proxy groups that the regional countries. intelligence service is using to to further their own aims and goals in afghanistan and this is done under the name of the. or i still i think there are other organizations behind this and linked with some very serious networks in the region and tell me about this in the security situation more generally as we came after a weekend we saw an attack on the intercontinental hotel in general. how well or badly on the security forces coping with these kinds of attacks and i think the security forces can cope well but the problem is the lack of capacity in terms of how to manage these security forces in afghanistan where of whatever we see challenge the security forces go on tackle the but the problem is how to manage it i think i should point a few more

is a thought of extending it to afghanistan should afghanistan become peaceful. first region to benefit is the kandahar region. to gets economic sense into that project. this did not mean roads only. it meant a lot of avenues of connectivity that included road and rail, and fiber optics, and elseines, and whatever falls into the domain of connectivity. it is still happening. deficits, and infrastructure. investments, most of these are now almost completed. we used to have but we used to call load sharing, which meant blackouts for 15-16 hours a day. it is down to zero. >> in the entire one tree? ?- in the entire country >> yes. beautiful roads have been built. , i would likeads to -- i should have brought the book. i want to show how u.s. and pakistan worked together to change the region. >> that is because of the united states? >> in partnership with the united states. it is little known. , thein the energy sector united states is already a partner in many of these projects. most energy projects, which have been done by chinese, general electric is providing the

could threats take in afghanistan. the people of afghanistan are for peace. since 1979, almost 40 years, that the event suffering some kind of military solution, which is being found. you need to have a political genuine reconciliation. the people of pakistan, , sorry, the government of pakistan from the government of united states and china must support the process. second, we should also focus on management between pakistan and afghanistan. we don't want that, the people that are pushing towards afghanistan, taliban, who we believe should join the political -- [inaudible] should come back. in any case there are bad guys who live and cross borders and can do bad things and, therefore, we have to integrate that movement cross-border movement. so pakistan is already started on our own, on this huge, humongous price, 200 -- i have looked over those mountains. i don't know if he did or not. it's not easy. we started in 2016 and we should be done by 2022. then will be setting up 900 votes to control the border. but we cannot do it alone. we need support from afgh

in fact it's a killer in afghanistan for the past week. four attacks in the last week that happened once an intercontinental so you have reports on that scores of people killed inside the hotel the security was very very lenient. and until four o'clock in the morning the police and other security forces able to help the people living in intercontinental hotel and after that there was another. attack on the super children enjoy last night there was an attack in a normally no income cause of people war killed in this attack and again today we have unconfirmed reports that more than seventy people have been killed and around more than a hundred and fifty people injured since the number could rise because there was a lot of casualties the serious the people who have been injured and the number of deaths could increase even further the government has confirmed fifty six dead so far and some deaths all even under relatable because they have been civilly burned all the hits of been severed so the situation is getting you from bad to worse the sec

i'm going to have you with us tonight afghanistan is reeling from yet another terrorist attack suicide bombers and gunmen targeted a military academy in the capital kabul killing at least eleven soldiers so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility it's the third terror incident in this city in just one week and it's part of a wave of deadly violence which also when the. there's no escaping the military presence on the streets of kabul for the third time within days attackers have killed victims in the afghan capital this time the target was the army itself militants including suicide bombers stormed a battalion near the marshall funny military academy and began an onslaught afghans are turning their fury on the government. look at what's happening to this nation you're not able to control the current situation it's better that the security ministers resign what's kind of government at ministry is this you're not even able to secure the city. the afghan defense ministry says two gunmen were killed in the exchange of fire and two others died off to detonating the suicide vests one

afghanistan is a country built on consensus. they have the leaders sit in a circle and figure out what they are going to do, then they try to do it. often it changes and then people to not do what they are going to do but it is a country of consensus-making. to go back to the question about the taliban, typically in that society, you go with the winner. so what is going on right now with the counterinsurgency, ared karzai and the afghans seeming more and like the winner -- more like the winner then the taliban have. are seeming morethat is right you a0 troops? crackdown,d to the the police force and the army, and add security. then, from the grassroots, autumn up, working from tribe to tribe -- bottom up. is a tribent, there that said that they were so disgusted by the taliban a couple of weeks ago, that they were going to fight them no matter what. if the u.s. wanted to help out, great. they did not care. it turns out, just recently, in the last week, the two sub tribes of this tribe are now fighting each other, and based stop

and the moving story of two young turkmen girls in afghanistan. at last able to get an education after years of repressive taliban occupation. five years on what has become of their dreams. rewind pencils and bullets at this time on al-jazeera. training starts lightly but the pace picks up quickly as these grannies work out a long life time of frustration. at eighty five years old intombi sold what trains as hard as anyone and. i feel so good i feel fresh i punch this side and this side like this and like that i really leftists i don't like things like soccer because i will bring these ladies are tough and i take their training very seriously you. know you're feeling more confident of more energetic feel more alive. personal stories of lebanese villagers on the border with israel the blue line runs through their daily struggles when they go get an emergency forces stop us when we go there they're sure that those who are right and peaceful protests do reason in the place of the interior means the fines and resistance that at this new time it's mean

we think that the people of afghanistan -- we didn't united states and afghanistan can stand together just like we have and achieve common milestones. if you do not hear about al qaeda today, an organization which was responsible for 9/11, it is because pakistan and younes dates work together. day in and day out. in the first decade after 9/11. to eliminate al qaeda. there is no reason why the two countries should not continue in the same spirit. to finish dup what was started. but if the path chosen is not working together but whatever it is. i objectives and defeat of terrorism will not be able to make that much more progress. therefore i think this is the message that is coming out of the civilian leadership and military leadership. that look, we have been partners. we achieved a lot. and we need to work together to finish up what you started. what was started in afghanistan. that is the message we have been trying to convey. not make claim one against the other. >> we want to try to trade issues. with regional trade and also, broader global trade. if one looks at some of the more

save the children suspends its operations in afghanistan off the gunman's stallman's offices and call bull will than a million children will be affected. hello i'm in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. as fighting intensifies between kurdish and turkish forces in northern syria the u.n. says civilians have been blocked from escaping an uneasy truce allows families to return home in the democratic republic of congo but can the peace last. and a health crisis in indonesia's remote part for province where a measles outbreak is feared to have killed hundreds of people we have an exclusive reports. a low out top story this hour save the children a suspended operations in afghanistan after three of its employees were killed in an attack on its regional office government stormed the aid agencies compound in the eastern city of jalalabad after a suicide bombing just outside four others were injured in the attack which has been claimed by ice will jennifer glass has more from kabul. a harrowing day for several dozen people trapped inside the offices of save the children the atta

afghanistan so you you you mentioned you can do this bit or bombing years ago but we did. face increasingly a number of failed bombing of health care facilities. whether it be intentionally. as a tactic of whether it be an intentionally into forego for our. u.s. authorities told us regarding could do this be taught. and this new modern warfare. which is disrespectful of humanitarian aid as neutral induction an independent type of aid together with what we are afraid of is the crimean any additional sort of humanitarian aid in the speech. by state authorities. and i think it's very important for us and therefore so i think it's of great food. that we were able to reach this u.n. resolution despite the fact that it's not yet operationalized that would be the next step for us as a community is ation a few many diana aid basically criminally being a humanitarian aid being provided to a group level a screaming or the bellas terrorist is a real burden to our capacity as organisation to deploy independent impassioned and neutral assistance where it's needed and this is also erodi

or instability in afghanistan is pakistan so how on earth do they think that pakistan would like to destabilize afghanistan and not contribute towards efforts that would really stabilize and make of understand a peaceful country. ukraine's president has announced he is bolstering his military with new weapons systems more than that and live russian after a short break you're watching i can trash. the. sky. a plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill you narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million one playa. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy great so will more chance with. the base it's going to. i. welcome back this is r t international now ukrainian president petro poroshenko has hailed his country's receipt of new lethal weapons from the united states and a tweet said that ukraine's military budget is increasing to

but just the definitely what we see in your men afghanistan syria. and so many complexities of increasing disregard by states for your share in the going to the why are the non-state actor or are obviously. very much behind a number of violent attacks of different nature looting of a speech and the key that image is also our capacity as human into any way. to be able to engage with as non-state actor or in order to do so we stayed. are. going to getting a ration conduct a reasonable ration for instance need to acknowledge that it's also important for own security and no capacity to a neutral and. in some context to engage with those non-state actor whether they be loved as a terrorist group criminal group unseen i says it's very important for on security that we are able and the road to engage with those different non-state actors and agree that one of the context. limit of context of it's an increasing complexity is an increasing number of group including number of complex ideology behind. to get us into to engage with those different groups for hum

and the moving story of two young turkmen girls in afghanistan. at last able to get an education after years of repressive taliban occupation. five years on what has become of their dreams. rewind pencils and bullets at this time on al-jazeera. save the children suspends its operations in afghanistan after i saw gunmen stormed its regional office killing four people. in the intent of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up brazil's appeals court upholds a corruption conviction for former president lula da silva of a major impact on his political ambitions. larry nasser the disgraced former doctor of the u.s. gymnastics team is jailed for up to one hundred seventy five years plus. i'm james day in day where president trump is expected in the coming hours will he be set by the global elite to gather. i know save the children has suspended its programs in afghanistan following an attack on its eastern offices in jalalabad three of its staff members and an afghan army soldier were killed in a suicide attack and siege which has been claimed

we think a peaceful afghanistan will serve us well. we think the united states and pakistan can work together to achieve common milestones. if you don't hear about al qaeda today, an organization that was responsible for 911, it is because pakistan and united states work together, day in and day out the decade after to eliminate al qaeda. there's no reason the two country should not continue in the same spirit to finish what they started but if the path chosen is not working together, i am afraid the first of the shared objective and defeat of terrorism will not make that much more progress. this is the message coming out. we achieved a lot and we need to work together to finish what we have started. that is what we are trying to convince. not to place blame one against the other. >> we want to turn to trade issues, both regional trade and broader global trade. if someone looks at initiative , it's significant and includes upwards of 60 countries, 4.4 billion people, 40% of the world's gdp, everything from rails and roads and pipelines

is that the problem in afghanistan? but what about those security forces who fight for their country? to have this green on green or green on blue attacks? i think people see we are the bohemia will --dash why the people have not caused the problem. . . . . continue to live in pakistan e-mail enough t--3 million of tm and today they are used to recruit. if you want to stabilize afghanistan suffer pakistan also we want to see if it does not stabilize. we think that this was to be done. they are going to write them up and have a conversation for about a half an hour and then we will read them and about four or five or six of them. they would say you are crazy why do you want to work on this issue and work with pakistan. there is a lot of distrust in washington, so everything i heard you say i know that you are speaking with great passion and i believe you. the statements are not being believed so what do we do about the situation where we don't trust each other and is it fair and possible to say is that one thing for the

save the children suspends its operations in afghanistan after also gunmen storm its regional office killing three of its staff. nor until this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. brazil's appeals court upholds a corruption conviction of former president lula da silva of a major impact on his political ambitions. larry nasser the disgraced former doctor of the u.s. gymnastics team is jailed for up to one hundred seventy five years. and we'll tell you about the bollywood film which caused widespread protests in india because of its muslim hindu love story. and who save the children has suspended its programs in afghanistan following an attack on its eastern office in jalalabad three of its staff members were killed in the suicide attack and siege which is now being claimed by eisold should have a glass has more from the capital kabul. i detect began with a car bomb at the door of the stave the children office in jalalabad in eastern afghanistan the gunman stormed the building for more than eight hours they battled afghan security forces while dozens of save the children sta

prevails in afghanistan. speaking foreign language] >> mr. president, so far we provided some humanitarian technical support to afghanistan worth $75 million u.s. dollars ut we have trained civilians that they can't get trained in afghanistan. [speaking foreign language] >> we will discuss later the issue on afghanistan. speaking foreign language] >> we spoke about other international issues and we spoke about north korea issue. speaking foreign language] >> and you probably know that kazakhstan was a country that possessed the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world but we decided to give up nuclear weapon and shot down the largest nuclear test site in the world and kazakhstan has the moral right to talk to the nations that are seeking nuclear weapons and this is the way we are talking to iran and this is the way we will be talking to north korea. speaking foreign language] >> i think the issue of north korea can be solved by joint efforts of the united states, china and russia. speaking foreign language

here because you are a for us in afghanistan thank you very much for your insights thank you. several thousand members of germany's kurdish community are staging a protest against turkey's military offensive in syria the demonstration is taking place in the german city of cologne which is home to a large kurdish community it comes a week after turkish troops launched a ground and air assault on kurdish forces in northern syria we understand police are intervening following an incident there were fears the violence could break out between kurds and turks who support the military operation. germany's green party has elected to new leaders the vote was part of a reshuffle triggered after the failure of the party's coalition talks with chancellor i'm going to marco's conservative block and the free democrats robert ha back will now head of the greens alongside on and they. are part of the centrist wing along as well as part of the greens pragmatic wing breaking a tradition of electing a leftist. now on to some of the other stories making news around the world voters in the czech r

save the children charity suspends its operations in afghanistan following an attack that killed three of its staff plus. london looking at the work of one of the greatest living photographers of our time a master of manipulation. a court in brazil has upheld the conviction against former president there's enough to silva for corruption and money laundering it's a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insisted he will seek reelection in october that is about reports on the southern city of port or leg. these people are standing by. they're convinced he will be brazil's next president despite a court's ruling that makes it almost impossible for him to run. the risk distance will never die we lost the battle but not the war president twenty eight hundred nine. hundred. ninety eight. again on wednesday an appeals court upheld his conviction for corruption and money laundering even increase the sentence to twelve years and one month one of the judges said there is no doubt that the former president was involved in a corruption scheme. i looked at these question

policy in afghanistan has appeared to fail time and time again and it doesn't look like the u.s. has come up with a viable solution. into the conflict so maybe trump should rethink stirring up trouble with a u.s. ally. ok so let's take you on there let's try and answer some of those questions or go live now to tell out as a retired lieutenant general of the pakistani army you're very welcome to the program this hour how do you interpret double tweet your thoughts on donald trump's tweeter. yeah i think he came that i think he is just trying to sort of express his frustrations in fact he's trying to place blame on pakistan to sort of shift the blame on the exactly what the american policy has failed to do they think that by placing blame on pakistan they are going to solve the problem of understand they are sadly mistaken this is exactly the same policy that they pursued in weird nam where they failed it's the same policy that they have been pursuing in afghanistan where they have completely failed and having failed in the policy in afghanistan they tried to place the blame on pak

and there was shock and awe in afghanistan. so keep this in your mind. and then the other thing is to an extent, everything your listening sort of starts going more seriously awry at the end of the cold war. where we lose some of the guns. so this is my first kind of questions but let me turn to susan and then to ed for your comments and reflections. >> thank you. first of all thank you very much for the invitation to be here at the atlantic council and i got an enormous amount out of your book. your summary just now was a very elegant way to bring everyone in the room up to speed. it is a little overwhelming to start first sources of so many things i want to say. not only about your book but this great introduction you have just given. i think that you have done a brilliant job of describing the failure strategically paradigm of searching having been informed policy area for more than 30 years now, i've always been searching for a higher idea. yes, we do not do strategy very well but at one point in our history, at least during a period that i have stud

will president of afghanistan couple of days ago in an interview say that afghanistan is under siege call is under siege so it really is under siege i mean no the only call the other provinces are under siege people are really fed up people are really sad about what is happening and people are quite concerned about the future as well because nowhere is safe these days i mean now imagine a car full of explosives they come. through a checkpoint a security checkpoint seems that there are those of infiltrate within the security . as well like for example getting back to what happened in the intercontinental that will go to their evidence example of you know how does your situation is like but people are really really bad i mean let me remind you on social media afghans have been taking on criticizing the afghan government saying that they have failed in ensuring the security of its citizens. it's not a nice mage's event i there there have been many attacks in afghanistan maybe can you tell us why that is. well it is because the afghan government seems to be quite busy with internal and d

inspector general for afghanistan says that the pentagon told him to keep quiet about how much of the country's territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups the spokesman for the resolute support mission in afghanistan responded that the data isn't classified and there was no intent to conceal it he says human error is to blame for the misunderstanding is what the inspector general's office said in its report. this development is troubling for a number of reasons most least of which is that this is the first time sega has been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer the instructions are coming from the pentagon and they are given to the special inspector for general afghan reconstruction and from what we understand they've instructed him not to give out certain pertinent information especially about casualties among afghan forces but one of the key things that they've told him to leave out of his reports is the balance of power on the ground he's essentially not being permitted

of afghan soldiers violating human rights in afghanistan i will talk about his new book state to watch for the whole. team years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun bad guy trying to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think if they are inheriting one of my my baby says my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by the u.s. . team yes we did this is a middle school we go through. serials and we cut ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the mob gun fire just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun on a who i'd met and photograph those years of god i don't know that but we are not for a. fight for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money killian erroneous and spending two hundred twenty million and one player. it's an experie

these mounds are not like afghanistan. afghanistan has magnificat mountains. i finally convinced her to do something. she said okay, find a helicopter and accrue and take people up into the air and shoot footage and maybe we can do something. so i went back and i found people to do this. i got a phone call from the cia advisor on the movie. he said don't do anymore. i've convinced the director that i can do it and i'll take my friends from the pakistani army and will go do it. he's been out of the army for 20 some years and he's gonna call his friends and taken army up above and he's so close with them that he can go shoot this footage, my goodness. this tie that i thought might've ended with him 20 years later is certainly very strong. so that is my way of saying, perhaps there are links that are still there. now, to bring this back, what they had said to me was, they could certainly be using me, one 100%. they wanted the coleman family to be able to see, to allow the parents to see their grandchildren. they would allow me too bring them over to see you then.

also coming up save the children suspends its operations in afghanistan after an attack that killed three of its staff. president says he's willing to be questioned by a special council mullah who's investigating allegations of russian election. to film the school's widespread protests in india because of its muslim hindu love story. that first brazil is up held a conviction against the former president lewis in the asio lula da silva the corruption and money laundering but he was defiant saying he will still run for the presidency in october today's a bove reports now from the southern city of porto alegre where his supporters have been rally. these people are standing by. they're convinced he will be brazil's next president despite a court's ruling that makes it almost impossible for him to run. the risk distance will never die we lost the battle but not the war president. on wednesday an appeals court upheld his conviction for corruption and money laundering even increased the sentence to twelve years and one month one of the judges said there is no doubt that the former president was

save the children suspend operations in afghanistan after an attack all the aid agencies workers. are watching al-jazeera like my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next thirty minutes judgement day in brazil for former president lula da silva called verdict could dash any hopes of his return to power. on the move with nowhere to go thousands of civilians unable to escape fighting in northern syria. security measures ahead of next month's. winter olympics. welcome to the program save the children has suspended operations in afghanistan in response to an attack on its workers the gunmen stormed the agency's compound in the eastern city of jalalabad after a suicide bombing just outside that two people have been killed including a policeman jennifer glass our correspondent following events are a difficult day for save the children but what's the situation like now as it was. just a half an hour or so ago. it is has just ended security forces are clearing the building forty six people a harrowing day for them more than eight a half hours trapped inside that building with t

the nato mission in afghanistan has announced that one u.s. service member has been killed in combat missions a statement adds that four more service members were wounded in the incident that took place on monday and province but no further details were given on what exactly occurred earlier a provincial spokesperson announced that nato led afghan forces had carried out air and ground operations killing more than sixty eisel terrorist. because the militants were hiding in local residents' houses civilians were also hit with at least one killed and thirty more wounded here's what's the billions there told us about what happened. a woman was killed two men and two others were burned there all the victims are here in hospital some most of legs injured. over eighteen people were wounded and others were killed see the child here in the bed he lost his leg his mother was also killed in the incident that. helicopters and jets hit the people some of the. people were killed. the calm which was used by villagers was destroyed are these american forces a

save the children charity suspends its operations in afghanistan following an attack that killed three of its staff plus. i'm andrew symonds in the occupied west bank and i'll be explaining why the palestinians are getting excited about the introduction of cheap all their smartphones it's a ten year old knowledge of. government has received a blow to the credibility of its handling of the raising the refugee crisis off the tip top us diplomat quits an international advisory board meant aimed at resolving the turmoil in rakhine state bill richardson who was once considered a close friend of and son suchi accused them in my leader of lacking moral leadership on the issue he branded the panel set up by c. chia whitewash calling it a cheerleading operation for the government i was very happy and the stress right down from the reaction to my point this issue of reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly. brought almost an explosion on her part. saying there were issues relating to the official secrecy that this was not my charter as a member of the advisory board and the very heat

policy in afghanistan has appeared to fail time and time again and it doesn't look like the u.s. has come up with a viable solution to the conflict so maybe trump should rethink stirring up trouble with a u.s. ally. you know it's been funny reaction to this many pakistanis themselves did not appreciate the american president's comment. it's actually hard to believe that it's a. noise about a sign that. the president of the us has something. quite contrary to what is likely but a start yes pakistanis are beginning. to sacrifice the lives of many soldiers all of the water there the water it was. the water which actually the world wasn't just. how far along at the end of your treatment like this that the aids they have given us is nothing can pass while huge human losses the time has come for us to be united they can't do anything against us these are just when its trump is frustrated because of afghanistan he directs his frustration at pakistan. as a citizen i would say the real problem is our rulers accepting us aid we don't need their aid. retired lieutenant general in the pakist

the nato mission in afghanistan has announced of that one u.s. service member has been killed in combat missions a statement adds that four more service members were wounded in the incident that took place on monday and province but no further details were given on what exactly occurred earlier a provincial spokesperson announcing that nato led the afghan forces had carried out air and ground operations killing over sixty eisel terrorists he added that because the militants were hiding in local residents houses civilians were also hit with at least one killed and thirteen more wounded here's what civilians were told or here's what's in the news there rather told us about what happened. a woman was killed two men and two others were burned there all the victims are here in hospital some most of the legs i was also injured got shot. over eighteen people were wounded and others were killed see the child here in the bed he lost his legs his mother was also killed in the incident say that it was kind of cocked his and jets hit the p. . some of them la

information about what is going on in afghanistan the u.s. public cigar is quite quite bizarre i mean they they have been the only sort of element of oversight that we're getting on the the impute amount of money that's been spent on infrastructure projects that never seem to appear so it's very bizarre that the americans are classifying this information and classified information on. so-called taliban takeover of provinces and police killed an american soldiers killed but of course already there are so many private contractors involved now that we don't have that information anyway on who has been killed or who's been injured of foreign troops and of course the afghans very little information about about who is dying and who's on a kill list and who's really a terrorist and who's a civilian it's all getting increasingly murky for you as i was i said i was going to return to the drug question i'm going off the back of what you just said anything like cointelpro but what is the effect for hair. and distribution on e.u. streets on british stree

afghanistan is the worst of all worlds. and quite frankly, i think the only way out is to begin reducing our presence and containing, because if we're going to stay for the long term, it's going to cost huge amounts of money and blood and treasure, and we cannot turn afghanistan into something that it's not capable of being. >> i'd like to go on to other questions. >> also, i think your point on a post-conflict which is not this book, but the south korean post-conflict, germany post-conflict, we could learn a lot -- >> if you have an occupying army, things tend to work out better. especially when the other side has capitulated. remember in germany and japan there was no terror, american soldiers were not killed. i mean, they had really surrendered. that has not happened elsewhere. >> david -- [inaudible] george washington university. i regret that i'm still on afghanistan, but thank you for writing this provocative book that i'm looking forward to finishing. i've only just started. but i have another afghan question -- >> w

former president of afghanistan actually told this show that he was convinced of u.s. government collusion the de facto collusion with the u.s. military helicopters in jalalabad and islam is isis day is the u.s. or u.k. now implicated in the present spate of carnage this is what former u.s. intelligence agents philip giraldi and robin david steele are saying they're saying the u.s. is actually armed trained and financed isis and i've heard similar similar stories from jalalabad about that the u.s. is now to put in operation phoenix which is what they were doing in vietnam which is sort of kill lists and going into villages and and killing killing large groups of people and one of my interlocutors in jalalabad said well it's very clear where the bases are taliban bases they have flags flying above them why doesn't the u.s. just go in and take out the bases and instead they're going in and taking out villages who have got nothing to do with this so it's quite bizarre what's going on bizarre or or or something else i mean donald trump some would say and he's been giving i

we start off in afghanistan where people in the capital kabul are still reeling from a string of attacks the latest incident and. bloody week killed at least eleven soldiers after suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a military academy also called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack part of a wave of violence this month including a powerful car bomb where the talabani used an ambulance as a weapon. there is no escaping the military presence on the streets of kabul for the third time within days attack is have killed victims in the afghan capital this time the target was the army itself militants including suicide bomber has stormed a battalion near the marshall fahey minute trick catch me and began an onslaught afghans are turning their fury on the government that you know is not a modest look at what's happening to this nation and you're not able to control the current situation it's better that the security ministers resign what's kind of government at ministry is this you're not even able to secure the city you're going to go to. the afghan defense ministry says two

a nato mission in afghanistan has announced one u.s. service member has been killed in combat the mission statement that four more service members were wounded in the incident it took place on monday and none go hard province but no further details were given on what exactly occurred earlier a province spokesperson a nice that nato led afghan forces carried out on ground operations killing over six the eyes of terrorists he added that because the militants were hiding in a local residents houses civilians were also hit with at least one killed thirteen more wounded here's what civilians there told us about what happened. the woman was killed two men and two others were burned there all the victims are here in hospital some of those two legs i was also injured but shop now. over eighteen people were wounded and others were killed she the child here in the bed he lost his leg his mother was also killed in the incident that russia when helicopters and jets hit the people some of them lost legs people were killed in the car which was used b

government has invested in afghanistan for four or a decade. a lot of money has gone into afghanistan many to make sure that america do not get america doesn't get targeted from the afghan soil the shores from the afghan soil just like it happened in two thousand and one in the nine eleven attacks so he realized that he ality but the point is that they have to take it as a comprehensive strategy where they need to put pressure on those countries which are supporting militancy in afghanistan they need to really use the military might in order to push back the coming forward the opposition militant groups and also build a consensus with the regional countries that is china and russia are the two main players in the region there has to be a consensus among pakistan china russia and america when it comes to the afghan conflict and they have to join together in order to respond back to the given situation otherwise if there is no consensus it will be difficult to find a suitable solution that can help the sustainable peace building and security of a

i don't thing you know they have a strategy for afghanistan. turkey is ramping up its military offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria the operation has already claimed dozens of civilian lives and caused global along with antiwar rallies held in several countries the latest was in the german city of cologne. assassins of people showed up at the demonstration demanding ankara's withdraw from the african region of syria there turkey is carrying out what it calls an anti terror operation police moved in to break up the gathering after found kurdish militia flags appeared and a similar demonstration was held in london the protests come after seven civilians were reportedly killed in a turkish airstrike. well these are the pictures from on the ground showing the aftermath of the attack it's fear the airstrikes may have claimed even more lives with people believed to be trapped under the rubble witnesses claim the turkish aerial bombardments are targeting residential areas. as assad said about you there are no military zones here all of t

and the moving story of two young turkmen girls in afghanistan. at last able to get an education after years of repressive taliban occupation five years on what has become of their dreams. rewind pencils and bullets at this time on al-jazeera. a matheson in doha the top stories on al-jazeera gunmen have stormed a luxury hotel in afghanistan's capital kabul taking hostages the interior ministry says two of the gunmen have been killed a special forces attempt to take control of the intercontinental hotel jennifer glass has this update from couple. afghan special forces have been clearing the hotel floor by floor trying to find the gunman and get and evacuate staff and guests from the intercontinental hotel the siege started about nine o'clock on saturday night when at least four gunmen attacked the hotel it's unclear how they got into the hotel that is something that's going to come under investigation the hotel was very busy on a saturday night a wedding party was ongoing we also know that a number of guests were in the hotel delegates for a confer