this is johan from afghanistan. and i'm also an intern at the embassy of afghanistan here. as you said one of the challenges in afghanistan to eradicate polio is accessing areas that are insecure and under anti-government elements. i was wondering how successful the earth est efforts has been with the local communities, anti-government elements, to access those areas and advancing the vaccination campaign. thank you so much. >> over here? >> thank you very much. i work with gsi on usaid's maternal child survivor program. thank you for all the -- the points you made today. just a few comments, one is looking really at that whole community engagement piece. i was really delighted that you all reiterated the fact that the polio eradication, the way we're implementing it has changed over time. and recognizing that that community engagement is really, really critical to finish the job. that means that this is going to require not just the polio vaccines, but also other services including routine immunization. particularly in communities where they don't have access to any other

president trump considered pulling out of afghanistan last summer. he decided to add an additional 3,000 troops. the goal remains to force the taliban to the negotiating table. >>> the entire world is watching as rescue workers i vauevaluate their options for rescuing 12 young members of a thai soccer team and their coach. monsoon rains are on the way, which could flood the cave completely. janice ms mackey frayer brings us the latest. >> reporter: too much water, not enough air and torrential rain on the way, all conditions that could spell disaster for the children and their coach if not rescued soon. the options are few and risky. one involved a so-called buddy dive. each boy tethered to a skilled diver. it's an incredibly treacherous task. an experienced diver running out of air and dying this week. the three-mile journey through the cave's tunnels takes an experienced diver about six hours. some spots too tight for scuba gear. another option, inserting a giant flexible inflatable tube. >> it will be as big as 17 centimeters in indictme as long a

they've become longer and more intense, making afghanistan one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. haffizullah's daughter wazeela remembers althe times her dad struggled to make money and feed the family.an >> ( ated ): when my father came home, he was very unhappy. so that made us all unhappy.no he didn't haveh money to cover our expenses. and when we didn't have enough food miserable.was really >> reporter: hafizullah's grape field may not look like a battlefield, but this is where a new war in afghanistan is being waged. with farmers caught between two forces they can't control: climate chan and terrorism. so this is the negotiation with the community people. daud rimi is with the united nations development program. $7he's helping to oversee million program to protect afghanistan's most vulnerable communities from the worst impacts of climate change. >> climate change is a multiplier, a threat multiplier, one of which is the recruitmen of young people by the terrorists groups, by insurgent groups. >> reporter: that insurgency is bankrolled by the drug tr

troops in afghanistan the serving there right now a new commander is taking over there in afghanistan and word that the white house might want a new review of the situation james thank you. well nato may be trying to move on but the comments by donald trump calling germany a captive of russia cause a stir in the u.s. democrats there been calling president trump an embarrassment for criticizing key allies white house correspondent kimberly hulk it has more. as president donald trump chastise u.s. allies in brussels over trade policy and defense spending u.s. lawmakers here in the united states are underscoring their support for the transatlantic alliance in the republican controlled senate as well as the house of representatives the lawmakers there have approved a non-binding measure that affirms support for nato but democrats in both chambers are going a step further you can donald trump for criticizing allies putting relationships at risk i said grubb to the view that we should not be criticizing our president was overseas but let me say a couple of things nato is indispensable i'm v

germany has more than a thousand troops in afghanistan. yes, there's the contribution of cash and other resources, isn't there had? >> certainly other resources. take a look at the fundamental bases are in germany. we depend on germany, the -- for our principal bases not only the hospitals in germany and frankfort, but the major military bases are in germany. and they pay for us to be there. part of their contribution. it's not just about money, it's far more than money. this is a principal ally, that has been in place since the end of world war ii, against the russian aggression. and now we have putin who is clearly aggressive in trying disrupt the european union and nato, and he is successful in doing so. he has managed through a variety of things, involvement in elections and principally helping elect president donald trump in creating discord, disarray and hopefully not being able to meet his ultimate objective which is to end nato and to end the european union so, that the influence of russia in that region can be expanded. we have se

interior minister accused of being insensitive after joking about failed asylum seekers being sent back to afghanistan on his birthday. i'm going to have you with us we know now one of the two teams that will vie for the world cup title later this week france has sealed its spot at the finals after defeating belgium my colleague jonathan crane is here from b w sports talk us through this game tonight john. quite simply a defensive masak lost in france because they worked out how. the mouth of the day and they got the crucial goal five minutes into the second half let's take a look at how it all unfolded. it wasn't until the twenty second mini k.g. semifinal sprang into life belgium's toby and a viral tonight on the turn a stunning sight from hugo to reese fronts a tight next kilian and back pay feeding benjamin providing the thirty eight minutes of vital stop and see vocal twat this time the breakthrough arrived early in the second tough front she said well in t.t. rose highest i'm not home and strong reasons corner in the fifty first minute i nothing called swat could do about that one. fronts turn o

and you know it's not just iraq and afghanistan while president obama was present this is not a partisan issue we were bombing six or eight countries and we're talking about libya we're talking about somalia yemen. these wars aren't really even. talked about by most people i mean there was this great photo of a press conference the department of the pentagon was giving about the war in afghanistan and our new strategy we thought about twelve new strategies and there was this great shot this for reporters in the room and about fifty empty seats and so i think until we learn and teach the kind of messy history of the war in afghanistan in iraq we are apt to repeat it whether it's in iran whether it's in west africa american soldiers are dying in countries americans can't pronounce they can't find on a map and part of the problem and part of the reason for that is they're not really educated on this and nor do they need to be educated because they don't have to serve unless they choose to now of course sometimes there's a back door draft that it's economic theories that mean a lot of people

we had every reason to go to afghanistan. we gave the taliban so many opportunities to give bin laden up, and they refused. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. these carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations. >> around the world there was enormous support for the war in afghanistan. there was a sense that osama bin laden and al qaeda had attacked not just the united states, but the security of the global community. the u.s. military mission to overthrow the taliban was very swift. it took only about six weeks to force the taliban out of kabul. >> tackling the taliban wasn't that difficult. toppling a government is one thing. to track down individual fugitives, that was difficult. >> the president's approach to this is that it will be continuous. but that it will be broadly based and it will be economic and political and diplomatic

of what to do in afghanistan nato says it remains committed in its worth reminding you as president trump complains about nato since two thousand and one that in about three thousand five hundred u.s. and nato troops have been killed in afghanistan over that number over one thousand one hundred one not americans they were from other nato countries all right james bays there in brussels james thank you well nato may be trying to move on but the comments by donald trump calling germany a captive of russia have caused quite a stir in the u.s. democrats there been calling president trump and then bassman for criticizing key allies a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. as president donald trump chastise u.s. allies in brussels over trade policy and defense spending u.s. lawmakers here in the united states are underscoring their support for the transatlantic alliance in the republican controlled senate as well as the house of representatives the lawmakers there have approved a non-binding measure that affirms support for nato but democrats in both chambers are going a ste

and you know it's not just iraq and afghanistan while president obama was present this is not a partisan issue we were bombing six or eight countries and we're talking about libya we're talking about somalia yemen. these wars aren't really even. talked about by most people i mean there was this great photo of a press conference the department the pentagon was giving about the war in afghanistan and our new strategy for about twelve new strategies and there was this great shot this for reporters in the room about fifty empty seats and so i think until we learn and teach the kind of messy history of the war in afghanistan in iraq we are apt to repeat it whether it's in iran whether it's in west africa american soldiers are dying in countries americans can't pronounce they can't find on a map and part of the problem and part of the reason for that is they're not really educated on this and nor do they need to be educated because they don't have to serve unless they choose to now of course sometimes there's a back door draft that it's economic theories that mean a lot of people join our mili

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fourteen people are killed in an airstrike in the province of afghanistan. investigative journalist group redfish shines a light on germany's arms trade claiming that not everything is above board. the white house threatens to revoke the security clearance of former intelligence chiefs of openly criticized donald trump. well for the latest on these stories you can head to our team dot com coming up though the director of a new t.v. show about british jihadi converts is the gas so fiasco.

fifteen dead in afghanistan after gunmen stormed a government building in jalalabad taking dozens of hostages plus. opposition supporters confident that man has won zimbabwe's president saying despite delays in the release of election results. social media giant facebook says it's discovered a coordinated campaign to influence america's midterm elections using its internet platforms is removed thirty two pages it believes in authentic or links to fake organizations aimed at creating divisions before november's vote almost three hundred thousand people follow the suspended pages alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . the phone to the facebook mark zuckerberg went to capitol hill to admit his company hadn't done enough to stop foreign groups trying to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. now as part of its continuing investigation into election interference it discovered it's happening again and so it has suspended thirty two pages on the plat

this cave in afghanistan is 2500 meters above sea level. huge buddha statues hewn into the rockface once stood here, until the taliban blew them up. the hardline islamic militant group p also closed most of te schools in the area, and didn't allow girls to go to any of those that remained. it's different here now, but the children who attend freshta's school still can't afford to pay for lessons. freshta: the people of this area, they are really backward, and they are refugees s of different provinces. they especially need education because of this. reporter: freshta teaches nearly 30 children from the neighborhood. there's no room for any more, and the few donations have already been spent on books and pens. like the children here, freshta is from the hazara ethnic group. for centuries, the hazara have faced discrimination in afghanistan. but ththey dream o of a brighr fututure. >> i would like to become a doctor and treat people in the surrrrounding area. >> i want to be a teacher and later teach in a school for boys. reporter: sekaina is

this cave in afghanistan is 2500 meters above sea level. huge buddha statues hewn into the rockface once stood here, until the taliban blew them up. the hardline islamic militant group p also closed most of te schools in the area, and didn't allow girls to go to any of those that remained. it's different here now, but the children who attend freshta's school still can't afford to pay for lessons. freshta: the people of this area, they are really backward, and they are refugees s of different provinces. they especially need education because of this. reporter: freshta teaches nearly 30 children from the neighborhood. there's no room for any more, and the few donations have already been spent on books and pens. like the children here, freshta is from the hazara ethnic group. for centuries, the hazara have faced discrimination in afghanistan. but they dream of a brighter future. >> i would like to become a doctor and treat people in the surrrrounding area. >> i want to be a teacher and later teach in a school for boys. reporter: sekaina is the

afghanistan is perhaps the only country in the world that will accept him. >> for his first television interview he figured he'd have a world audience. >> mr. bin laden, you have declared a jihad against the united states. can you tell us why? >> translator: the arrogance of the united states regime has reached the point that they occupied arabia, the holiest place of the muslims, who are more than a billion people in the world today. >> what are your future plans? >> translator: you'll see them and hear about them in the media. god willing. >> on the 8th anniversary of the u.s. deployment in saudi arabia, osama bin laden's forces bombed two american embassies in africa. >> it was midmorning in nairobi when a powerful bomb exploded outside the u.s. embassy. the building behind the embassy crumbled into a tangle of concrete and steel, turning the sidewalk red with blood. a passing bus, its windows blown out. people on board incinerated. >> almost simultaneously, 415 miles away, another deadly blast. the target, the u.s. embassy in dar es salaam, tanzania. >> simultaneous attacks become

germany has spent large number secondes to afghanistan, largest provider of troops in afghanistan, let -- does this measurement really reflect the respective members contributions? >> target to focus the mind. 2%, that is something you can say to the public. trump is saying 4%. not something he came up with on a whim. ,hat is not meant for germany that is meant for his base back home. with his base, this is what is worrying, he is trying to create a part of the population in the united states that is a style -- hostile to nato, they say it is decadent, a security blanket without paying in. that is something, he is creating a new resentment for. nato has 62% approval in the --ted states, germany sec 7% 81% of liberals, democrat leaning voters support nato and only 49% of republicans, that is down. he is creating a new skepticism of nato within his base and that is worrying. >> a little comment on this 2% target. nato has been trying to find a better rest -- measurement for germany, cash is a bit easy. cash,r measurement, budget, 2%, capability, from tanks to aircraft -- >> germany not l

we will see what happens with the afghanistan meeting at 4:30. the time now 19 minutes after the top of the hour and sparks outrage and instead of removing from campus, removes to art museum, jackie ibaÑez with reaction to that story that will have blood boiling and thank you very much for your book. appreciate it. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level? then you need xfinity xfi. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. heather: american flag, look at that, flying high outside the university of kansas, but an outpouring of backlash the university is still refuse to go remove flag entirely, jackie ib ibaÑez here to explain? >> the work of art was way to end political division but it did just the opposite as you can imagine, the piece known as quote flag 2 designed by german artist as part of art project. the american

then he needed better relations with india with afghanistan and for all and for that he would have to change the policy towards these countries and that is where he started crossing the red lines done by the military if you mean on. one still sort of stay within the red lines of the military and yet wants to ensure that pakistan goes economically and the seeming international isolation ends that pakistan does not have an economic crisis or. and that he's able to for sort of push back against the rise of islam is he will end up crossing that red line in the military there is no there is no way that he can balance board let me widen this out a little bit you were talking about relations with india and afghanistan and song. how do you think that this preserve the how do you think that the congo over moment if and when it comes into fruition. is going to be regarded by the u.s. by india by afghanistan are we going to see any sort of change in policy when the the imran khan government comes into place. so i just first press conference in iran said that india takes one step towards pakistan

our commitment to afghanistan remains an enduring one. although uk combat operations ended in 2014, our troops are playing a key role in nato's resolute support mission. by leading the security force, they are performing a vital role, training and advising and assisting their force, strengthening afg hanistan‘s democracy. they also paid tribute to those serving in the country. the uk has always played its full part in contributing to these missions, we currently have personality deployed, as laws on the support mission. it is right that the skills and professionalism of our armed forces can our partners in afghanistan, by training their forces to the same high standards. can i does press slightly on the, i am not asking for a specific date, but how long does this increase going to last? as a long—term or a short—term increase? we're going to continue to work with our nato allies and we imagine and possibly review our structure, not just in terms of afghanistan, but also in terms of operations in iraq and syria, so we are constantly

commitment britain is one of them and as we've just heard is now also sending more troops to afghanistan non-combat troops to afghanistan saying that further demonstrates its commitment whether the other nato leaders will yield and boost their spending we don't know and if they don't exactly what that means remains to be seen too soon as anything emerges from that summit in brussels and i guess we'll have to read into what they say they're bound to make conciliate communities to each other so we'll have a press conference afterwards so we'll have to read carefully what they say and when they emerge we'll you know what happens. next the highly anticipated meeting between donald trump and president putin next monday in helsinki sinks of put the media rumor mill into overdrive some are even speculating that the u.s. president's been a stalwart spy for decades or i guess day of takes a closer look. it was all so free in nj so crazy stuff of conspiracy theorists and pinfall habits but they've done it they've really done it they went right in at the deep end. as trump arranges to meet face to

there's no solution to the problems in afghanistan, no enduring stability in afghanistan without some degree of cooperation with pakistan. >> husain, what does this mean for pakistan? so many of the countries are moving, in some way, look at malaysia, moving away from authoritarianism. in some cases the military is even more dominant. where does this go? >> it has a very fixed notion of what pakistan's interest is. pakistan must see india as the eternal enemy. pakistan must have a dominant role in afghanistan and pakistan must be the center of the universe as far as that region is concerned. that is an untenable situation when your literacy is low and quality of education does not create the human capital. i think if, as laurel says, that the dependence on pakistan if the united states decides to pack up and leave pakistan, it leaves pakistan with no anchor and also its own domestic growth and pakistani military is betting heavily on china, expecting them to bail pakistan out. pakistanis alone can bail pakistan out and pakistanis need to think beyond the military as the country's savi

we had every reason to go to afghanistan. we gave the taliban so many opportunities to give bin laden up and they refused. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. these carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations. >> around the world, there was enormous support for the war in afghanistan. there was a sense that osama bin laden had attacked not just the united states, but the security of the global community. the u.s. military mission to overthrow the taliban was very swift, it took only about six weeks to force the taliban out of kabul. >> toppling the taliban wasn't that difficult. toppling a government is one thing. to track down individual fugitives, that was difficult. >> the president's approach to this is that it will be continuous, but that it will be broadly based and it will be economic and political and diplomatic, as well as

we had every reason to go to afghanistan. we gave the taliban so many opportunities to give bin laden up and they refused. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. these carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations. >> around the world, there was enormous support for the war in afghanistan. there was a sense that osama bin laden and the taliban had attacked not just the united states but the security of the global community. the u.s. military mission to overthrow the taliban was very swift. it took only about six weeks to force the taliban out of kabul. >> tackling the taliban wasn't that difficult. toppling a government is one thing. to track down individual fugitives, that was difficult. >> the president's approach to this is that it will be continuous but that it will be broadly based and it will be economic and political and diplomati

mission in afghanistan has reiterated remarks by the secretary of state on the possibility of direct talks with the taliban one day later though he said that his words had been mischaracterized by some outlets and insisted that he was not suggesting working with a terrorist organization. mr pompeo said that we the united states are ready to talk to the taliban and discuss the role of international forces we hope this will help to move forward the peace process more real from ation of sixty pompei was statements in which he said that the united states is ready to work with the taliban the afghan government and the afghan people towards last in peace was mischaracterized. america's war in afghanistan is now seventeen years old and appears to be in stalemate the taliban control roughly forty percent of the country and there are currently fifteen thousand u.s. troops stationed there even though donald trump promised during his two thousand and sixteen campaign to declare the war a lost cause and pull american forces out last month. far but civilian casualties already a record high one th

we had every reason to go to afghanistan. we gave the taliban so many opportunities to give bin laden up, and they refused. >>. on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. these carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations. >> around the world there was enormous support for the war in afghanistan. there was a sense that osama bin laden and al qaeda had attacked not just the united states, but the security of the global community. the u.s. military mission to overthrow the taliban was very swift. it took only about six weeks to force the taliban out of kabul. >> tackling the taliban wasn't that difficult. toppling a government is one thing. to track down individual fugitives, that was difficult. >> the president's approach to this is that it will be continuous. but that it will be broadly b e based and it will be economic and plit us call and di

fifteen dead in afghanistan after gunmen stormed a government building in jalalabad taking dozens of hostages. a low i'm maryam namazie and london yo with al-jazeera also coming up iran's skeptical of a president trump's offer of talks with officials saying they don't trust the u.s. as zimbabweans wait for the results of monday's elections both the main presidential rivals say they are confident of victory. and hundreds of hikers are rescued from an indonesian mountain hit by an earthquake but thousands have been left homeless. but we begin in eastern afghanistan where an attack on a government building has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen others two gunmen set off explosives and stormed the department office for refugees in the city of jalalabad which has seen many deadly attacks security forces fought for six hours to end the siege this after a bus hit a roadside bomb killing eleven passengers shallop ballasts reports from kabul. jalalabad one of afghanistan's biggest cities and a new zone as the department of refugee of foods for a conference on how to help disp

and you know it's not just iraq and afghanistan while president obama was present this is not a partisan issue we were bombing six or eight countries and we're talking about libya we're talking about somalia yemen. these wars aren't really even. talked about by most people i mean there was this great photo of a press conference the department the pentagon was giving about the war in afghanistan and our new strategy we thought about twelve new strategies and there was this great shot this for reporters in the room and about fifty empty seats and so i think until we learn and teach the kind of messy history of the war in afghanistan in iraq we are apt to repeat it whether it's in iran whether it's in west africa american soldiers are dying in countries americans can't pronounce they can't find on a map and part of the problem and part of the reason for that is they're not really educated on this and nor do they need to be educated because they don't have to serve unless they choose to now of course sometimes there is a back door draft that its economic base that mean a lot of people join o

and currently circulating afghanistan and pakistan. accessing all children with repeated vaccinations has been difficult due to active fighting, suspicion of health workers, variable quality of campaigns and reaching populationings on the move. health workers continued to be targeted and killed, but they continue to work regardless of that. nigeria wild virus had been silently circulating for more than four years. >> vaccine derived polio. how do we define the end game of polio. something that the global community is taking up now needs to be clear about what do we mean when we talk about the end of polio. our concern is that the vaccine derived polio virus is still circulating after polio is certified as being eradicated it will create a great deal of confusion at the country level. it looks and acts like undetected. it looks and acts like polio. it has a lot to do with our credibility of eradication. we need to have some clear guidance for countries on this. and clear definition as we go forward. whether it's wild or vaccine derived,

here in afghanistan i'm sorry i've been. able. to see the. effect. there you know. a lot of feel ready about this. it is more about. responsibility of this ok and it has this is still very much an active scene unfortunately some of the numbers that we're getting on the casualties will possibly continue to rise and we'll check back in with you again with thank you. well general's awesome has been a leading figure in afghan politics for decades he has a wide following among the ethnic community and the country's north through the air as he's allied his fighters to numerous groups and countries who have been active in afghanistan's various conflicts charlot bella's profiles the divisive and controversial leader the second most powerful man in afghanistan is back in kabul vice president general abdul rashid dostum had been living in exile in turkey for the last fourteen months he was allowed to come back after his supporters protested demanding his return. general dostum lift because of this man ahmed ishi a northern elder who accused him and his guards of kidnapping an

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and in afghanistan? let's start with vietnam. this goes to what you were saying. >> as we talked about, when senior politicians start to realize that early. we might not win unless we are willing to go farther than they wanted to go. prof. faulker: and you are not willing to do that. so you are stuck in? >> can you achieve a win and leave. prof. faulker: what else. what is the central strategic dilemma for the united states when it comes to vietnam? when it comes to the stalemate thing? >> possibly brought up in the article when there is a change in administration, you only have a couple of options, to stay where you are or go more in. you tend to go more in. at least that is the case in afghanistan. prof. faulker: we have seen that. 1968, 500,000 in vietnam. but what is the problem? >> it is expensive. prof. faulker: what else? >> that people want to be here. prof. faulker: ok. we have europe and these other places. what happens if you need one million in vietnam? >> more drafts. prof. faulker: if not more draft, oh, those guys.

i think it's the second largest provider of troops in afghanistan it has led to a battalion in eastern ukraine direct so does this kind of target and. sorry does this kind of a new target measurement really reflect the respective members contributions well you know this is it's just target to focus the mind i mean it's easy to communicate two percent two percent that's something you can save your public and now trump what he's doing is saying four percent i don't think that this is something they come up with on a whim although it seems that way he's communicating it but that's not meant for germany that's not meant for as a message to medical or anybody in brussels that's meant for as a message to his base back home and what he's trying to do with his base and this is what's worrying this comes back to the threat from within is basically create a part of the population the united states that's hostile to nato that sees it as decadent that sees it as a lot of countries that have enjoyed the american security blanket without paying and without appreciating it sufficiently and that's som

and you know it's not just iraq and afghanistan while president obama was present this is not a partisan issue we were bombing six or eight countries and we're talking about libya we're talking about somalia yemen. these wars aren't really even. talked about by most people i mean there was this great photo of a press conference the department of the pentagon was giving about the war in afghanistan and our new strategy we thought about twelve new strategies and there was this great shot this for reporters in the room and about fifty empty seats and so i think until we learn and teach the kind of messy history of the war in afghanistan in iraq we are apt to repeat it whether it's in iran whether it's in west africa american soldiers are dying in countries americans can't pronounce they can't find on a map and part of the problem and part of the reason for that is they're not really educated on this and nor do they need to be educated because they don't have to serve unless they choose to now of course sometimes there's a back door draft that its economic base that mean a lot of people join

to me, we should not be in afghanistan. i don't know what we're accomplishing in afghanistan. and i wish we ended the war by the end of our administration. i don't think we're making it better. every time this argument would come in the situation room it would be if we leave it will get worse. well, we're staying and it's getting worse and we have been there for 15 years now, and at what -- >> if you leave, don't you leave it open for isis and al qaeda to come back in and repeat the cycle. >> we have the capacity -- what our military can do is take out a troy terrorist safe haven. >>> our very presence in afghanistan has created a distorted economy, has clearly not disenincentivized people from joining the taliban, has created some dependency among the afghan goss its not healthy. lounge is hong luff, 20 years, 25 years? i think that it's not healthy for democracy to fight a war for 15 or 20 years where we're now fighting a war -- if i told you in 2002 when we went into afghanistan that in 2018, we'd still be fighting a war in afghanistan, other on the osama bin laden is dead,

in afghanistan and the middle east. europe has done much more for world peace then he gives europe credit for. and i'm sorry that the united states has been unfortunate enough to elect a president like him. host: does europe feel underappreciated by the united states? guest: probably we do because there are so many areas where we cooperate for mutual interest. and america does have a strong interest or always used to have, the liberalbeing of democracies in western europe. for the benefit of trade. the benefit of security or the benefit of having allies. for addressing global issues and right now, the sentiment in germany and europe is that although we consider friends with united states, maybe the current president doesn't have that concept anymore of friends and enemies. but everyone is more or less a competitor. we want you to join the conversation. democrats, you can join at (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. .uests, (202) 748-8002 outside the united states, we want you to call in at (202) .48-8003 let's g

jalalabad one of afghanistan's biggest cities and it opens on. the department of refugee your fears for a conference on how to help displaced afghans they we're talking shit. explosions hit the compounds exterior flowing to government to get past the. will this of others have a hold of him again of i was sitting in my medical store when a gunman entered the refugee department right after that they started shooting and one of them blew himself up at the gate i saw two injured people come out of the building for several hours sporadic gunfire was heard across the neighborhood smoke billowing from the building as afghan special forces hunted the remaining gunman the building is next door to the city's main hospital ten people were treated to with critical injuries. it's also just one hundred meters from a midwife training center that was attacked in the same way on saturday three staff members were killed and sixty seven trapped inside for hours. in the last three months they have been thirty attacks against civilians in this province that have kill

he willed enormous influence in afghanistan's north when he returned from exile ten years ago this was his reception. was many including president danny who needs the support of dostum spanx we eager to see what type of reception he gets this time. charlotte bellus al-jazeera. is a political analyst and specialist on regional security he says dostum has clearly been targeted by opposition groups. the opposition militant groups are his target. i mean day the target because he does not build those gatherings which can contribute to instability and insecurity and i want to start and the issue of jerusalem has been so much politicized on the last two or fourteen months that anything doing with that in dom's of insecurity or targeting the khan lives or even harming them would have significantly contributed to instability in the afghanistan unfortunately many people talk their district down will help the country get rid of these warlords who have been maintaining a hedge of many and have been influencing the local politics have been really creating problems for the general public return of.

have not in western afghanistan. here the unknown in computer programming. it's been make possible by the digital citizen fund the organization helps women and girls in developing countries gain access to digital education roy a mom who co-founded the nonprofit organization. the woman's and there were there because especially because there is a very alike afghanistan they only know one reality because the real tainted used by their society community fathers and the teacher in the schools but the connected the world they find different realities what their skills as difficult to keep a woman to sit at home from computer basics for beginners to complex programming courses with the digital citizen fund wants to change afghan society to do that the women and girls are also taught financial literacy important for entrepreneurs when i see the girl go live for the first time i see that excitement and that her phrase and that's is important because if woman get the financial independence this is has the power to dramatically can change a society can see into the wom

it took place in southern afghanistan where taliban is present. there's a row bufts military presence helping them, much schaller than it was when the u.s. was in a direct combat role. so u.s. casualties are much more rare. this is the third combat death in 2018. as you see, u.s. force casualties have gone down, but you do see this where the u.s. is very much in harm's way. >> one of the things we don't do enough of is when we say advisers on the ground in afghanistan, what are they advising? what specifically are they doing in support of the afghan troops? >> there's a wide range of things they're doing. you have elite special forces-type unitses going in and participating in joint operations with afternoon begans against senior terrorist targets, but there are logistics, things of that nature. with don't know what type of role these servicemembers were performing when they came under attack. all across you have them working closely with their counterparts, and often in cases sharing meals anze living quarters together. there is a closeness, and

attackers talk at a school for midwives in afghanistan to take people hostage. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up excitement's building where at the final push for votes of the countdown to zimbabwe's general election. it's been called a fire tornado a blaze rips through a city of the. ninety thousand people in california with deadly consequences. and she's looking lively enough now but behind the smile this go back to the scars of what's been called the summer of guns in the canadian city. explosions and gunfire been heard in the city of jalalabad in eastern afghanistan the attack is a training center for midwives and it's believed that several people have been taken hostage let's go live now to what charlotte bellis who's in kabul what's the latest. adrian hi i've got yes we've got sixty five people taken hostage inside this midwife training seem to in eastern jalalabad the capital of province have just heard from the ministry of public health spokesman there is sixty five people students teaches midwives he believes

has the lead role and that's enough going to start on what is going to happen there in afghanistan as a nato mission still that the u.s. and nato have been involved in afghanistan for many years now it's worth telling you that a new commander is taking over in afghanistan and there's even talk of a new review by the white house into the mission also worth telling you that since two thousand and one three thousand five hundred or slightly more than that nato and u.s. troops have been killed in afghanistan that we're telling you out of that three thousand five hundred figure over one thousand one hundred were not americans they were from nato and partner nations james thank you. well nato may be trying to move on but the comments by donald trump calling germany a captive of russia of course quite a stir in the u.s. democrats there been calling president trump an embarrassment for criticizing key allies white house correspondent kimberly help it has more. as president donald trump chastise u.s. allies in brussels over trade policy and defense spending you. u.s. lawmakers here in the unit

he made an observation linking his sixty ninth birthday to failed asylum seekers being deported to afghanistan well that you listen i was given that amount of money on the same day as my sixty ninth birthday that was sixty nine people it wasn't ordered by me sent back to afghanistan that is far more than what has been usual up to now. or who is going to brady is here with me so what what what was that was that just a case of insert in the foot in mouth now and think later i think it was definitely much more than that more than a tasteless joke i mean if anything it really sheds light on quite this rather blahs a passage chaired which hospital for the german interior minister is read a stocking to take towards germany's migration policy debate goes completely against this call that we're haring by from the e.u. from brussels and from chancellor angela merkel recently to have more humanity and remember that migration policy is about humans it's about people and this goes completely against this call and of course that particularly deportations of afghans from germany is still quite a controversi

i think it's the second largest provider of troops in afghanistan it has led to a battalion in eastern ukraine right so does this kind of target if you're a national security in eastern europe sorry does this kind of a new target measurement really reflect the respective members contributions well you know this is it's just a target to focus the mind i mean it's easy to communicate two percent two percent that's something you can save your public and now trump what he's doing is saying four percent i don't think that this is something they come up with on a whim although it seems that way he's communicating it. but that's not meant for germany that's not meant for as a message to medical or anybody in brussels that's meant for as a message to his base back home and what he's trying to do with his base and this is what's worrying this comes back to the threat from within is basically create a part of the population the united states that's hostile to nato that sees it as decadent that sees it as a lot of countries that have enjoyed the american security blanket without paying it without

government doesn't track the number of contractors it uses in places iraq or afghanistan we know it's a lot we don't really know exactly how many. i spent several years working within the industry i have a military background and one of the differences between being a soldier i found and being a private military contractor is that when you work for the u.s. military or any military you take a sacred oath that you're going to serve and fight for your country and necessary die to protect a way of life one that you believe in i am an american soldier i'm a warrior and a member of a team. that will never accept defeat. at least i will never win i'll never leave a fine comrade it's the complete opposite in a private military world you look at the budget first the loyalty of these companies and these businessmen's change depending on market forces. we operate in the world's challenging complex emerging markets the middle east is absolutely cool for other business today. the sooner we can are in palin we perform in tune the right thing off. this industry is not just what you see is what you

at least fourteen people have died in a suicide bombing targeting afghanistan's vice president abdul rashid dostum a former warlord an ethnic media returned from exile off to fourteen months following allegations he tortured and abused a rival at least sixty people injured eisel claims it carried out the attack charlotte dallas has mall. and schools of vice president abdul rashid dostum supporters gathered to welcome him back at kabul's international airport a suicide bomber detonated vest his. at the main entrance among the casualties was security forces and civilians. dostum escaped his convoy had passed minutes earlier the second most powerful man in afghanistan had been living in exile in turkey for the last fourteen months his supporters protested demanding his return but there are many who don't want him back. gen dostum lift off to ahmed ishi in northern accused him and his guards of kidnapping and rape. ordered his commander to rape me nine other bodyguards he told them to rape me until the ground is covered with blood and take a photograph but dostum refused to come in for q

and exhausting effort in afghanistan. >> that puts the decade at three decades. what you have is we are in a situation where the sons and daughters of soldiers are going back to that country. this is a good point why the nato alliance is so important. war is expensive. if you look at what everyone is spending across the board with france at 1.7, germany at 1.3, it is very expensive. we have to start if we are going to keep troops in afghanistan. >> looking at facts on the screen. since 2002 the longest american war in history, 16 years of us engagement, 50,000 us troops stationed, cost taxpayers $45 billion per year, donald trump was opposed to remaining, to give it more time. what do you think he decides? >> this is where he will hit home with why -- the administration is doing a strategic review of the afghanistan strategy to see what we need to do moving forward. the us will have a strong presence but we distance our allies if we are going to make sure the television stays away from the scene. 50% of the region, we reduced forces, nato is important, sending in