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today, boycott mcpoverty and gathered outside of spots be like mcdonald's. that's the latest news, you can get the latest on our website, aljazeera.com. on "america tonight," a short cease fire. ukraine erupts again with more blood shed after the so-called truce. what's at stake? also tonight, a star athlete and popular celebrity accused of raping women in five states. could former new orleans saints player darren sharper have lived a double life? >> he began to make some shots and he began to give these shots to the girls. >> on the front lines with the
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taliban. the view good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. it is clear at this hour that the firey clashes and burning anger that drew the world's attention to a burning city square in kiev have now spilled from ins >> good evening. thanks for joining us. i am joie chen. a fiery clash that drew the world's attention to a burning square in kiev have now spelled out well beyond ukraine's capital city. just about this time a day ago, a truce was announced and the opposition held their breath. within hours, it was clear that whatever hope there might have
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been for an end to the stand-off, it evaporated. since u crannian president yanokovych declared intent to start negotiations, even more blood is spilled. within hours, protesters are in independence square sparking renewed and violent clark with the police. less than 12 hours after the truce announcement, protesters wrestled control from security forces and more than a dozen officers are taken hostage. during the showdown in the square, at least eight people died. over the next few hours, sharp international response with a government targeted for blame. u crannian domonokovoski leave the sochi games in protest. the olympic committee says more than a dozen ukrainian athletes will not compete.
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within hours, video purporting to show police marksmen firing live rapids goes viral. diplomats meeting in brucels begin to draft sanctions and an arms em bargo against ukraine while the foreign ministers of germany, policy and scramble in kiev with the government and opposition leaders. russia sends an envoy to kievsponding to the president's request and the european union moves to impose sanctions. the white house announces th thatpthat president obama is now looking at a range of options on how to respond. >> yanokovych has lost control of a large part of his own country. this is especially true in the western part of the country, the part of ukraine which is closef et to europe. the world's adeposition has recently been focused on kiev where he is hanging on through brute force.
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but his battle may have already been lost. >> in a city near the polish border, protesters have taken control and occupied government buildings and installations, a movement that has spread across town. so far as the opposition has seized control of six police stations at the head of the state prosecute destroying criminal records and sees add major military installation before torching it. riot police in full retreat, giving up, along with other units in nearby towns insisting they won't carry out orders against protesters. the region with little loyally for the current regime. western ukraine has been a center of anti-government sentiment and yanokovych is in no position to take it back. an advisor to ukraine says the military is unlikely to be much help. >> the military is about 1500 has not been brought in because
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they were too dangerous to bring it in because kiev has an interest because the opposition has the majority there, seen as president yanokovych, that's why we are seeing all of the fighting in kiev where in the other parts of the country, it's clear who is in charge. >> western ukraine's ties to roche go back centuries. it was once part of poland before the second world war and more radically national lifts in the eastern part of the country where russia has more influence. >> yanokovych and his allies have about 90% in the eastern most part. and in terms of population, these two parts of the country are approximately equally large. >> the chaos in kiev, those
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ancient teachings have become a political reality. >> following up with the latest in kiev and ukraine, we turn to a film maker who has been chronicling the violence. i understand you were out just in the last few minutes? >> i was. i am staying pretty close. i was just out there as they were -- a crowd of people had gathered. the miles per hour industry was meeting and people did not want them to leave. there were troops captured from this morning's battle. >> captured? >> yeah, they were troops from the perimeter. apparently they were the police,
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authorities. put on the front line. the buildings that the demonstrators are occupying after the day. >> damien, i understand throughout the course of this day that you have been going around and you have been in some of the areas one of them a makeshift morgue. >> it was kind of a field hospital. it was in the lobby of hotel ukraine which is right on the square. and one of the main skirmishes was right on the street right in parallel to the hotel where people were shot. you know, there was live gunfire going on this morning. so there were several people that were shot, and they were being operated on and treated in that makeshift hospital in the hotel lobby. >> damien, i know that you have covered both the activities of these last few months and a also, that you were there during the orange revolution, like, i guess it's six, seven years ago
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now. what have you seen? do you see a similarity? do you see some change in the approach of protesters, the opini opposition to the government? >> yeah. there is definitely it started out with the similarities on the way things looked on the square. there were tents on the square, you know. it changed psychologically where back then, yashanko had come to power and make everything good. now they have that since the orange revolution caused sos much dissolutionment of not reaching expectations of people, they don't necessarily have much faith in the politicians.
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you know, their al i recognize, they are not giving them the kind of benefit of the doubt at all. >> do you see -- do you see the strength of the protesters going not only in kiev but elsewhere in the country where we just referred to growing? >> absolutely. >> the more you try to use force to kind of crush the movement, it more it motive aids or radicalizes people. people seem to have no fear. people have been -- i have met people who have recently arrived in the past 24 hours on the square. a lot of those are from western ukraine that are coming to it. it seems like they are digging in. you know, they cleaned out all of the -- there was a
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younger fellow who was helping out in the hospital. so it's just really kind of self organizing. it's pretty incredible to watch, actually. but they are definitely digging in. it doesn't seem like losing is an option, unless they die. i mean, that's -- that's what it seems like. >> we hope will is not more death. thank you very much for joining us on skype from kiev. >> thank you for having me. now we move across the world to another set of protests which have turned deadly as well to venezuela where the death toll is rising. >> translator: she grabbed my hand and at that moment there was a shot to her head and she got dizzy. i don't know it was a gunshot. >> a 22-year-old beauty queen
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was shot in the head on wednesday. she became the fifth person to die in demonstrations there. born out of the discontent over the severe socioeconomic problems. tense clashes have erupted, the demonstrators will are calling for the president's resignation. since the opposition leader's arrest on tuesday, the original murder and terrorism charges against him have been dropped, but he has been charged with arson and conspiracy which could get him up to ten years in jail. the president called him a fascist. and issued a strong warning to protesters. >> translator: and to his accomplices, he is responsible, and one of them is in jail. what is more, one by one, they will take the same. i have no doubt of this. firewa? >> sdmrfrnling at acoom places for the coup, he is responsible.
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one of them is in jail. what's more, one by one, they will take the same road, the same cell. i have no doubt of it. >> another counselor now from the freedom to protest from the freedom of the press, an update on our al jazeera colleagues detained in hora prison after 54 days in an egyptian court. peter gresby pled "not guilty" to joining, aiding and abetting a terrorist organization. this has been ajuned until march 5th for the judge to consider the matter in private. three are among 20s other journalists facing similar charges. ays rejects the charges and is demanding the immediate release of its staff. ansi, the manager of al jazeera english said we are deeply disappointed that they were not released from the prison today. the charges against our staff are baseless, unacceptable and
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wholly unjustified. when we return to "america tonight," a former football star and popular player is accused of living a double life and committing disturbing crime against women. also ahead on the front lines, a rare view from inside as a team of fighters moves against basis in afghanistan.
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i feel like there are many stories out there that are untold that need to be told. stories about young people, about minorities or about women or about countries you don't usually hear about. i feel very fortunate as a journalist to have a chance to share those stories. al jazeera america. and now on a troubling story that involves multiple multiple allegations of drugs, rape and a super bowl champion, former n.f.l. star and new orleans saint t.v. an left daryn
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sharper is being accused of drugging and raping several women in several cities including los angeles today he told a judge there he is not guilty, but as america tonight's lower jane reports,. >> despite the stunning moves on the field, selected five times as one of the best players in the n.f.l., former new orleans saints star darren sharper is shocking his fans for what he is accused of doing off the field. the former defensive back is the subject of sex crimes investigations in five states, florida, louisiana, nevada arizona and california. he is accused of knocking women out with strong medication and raping them. in los angeles, he is facing 7 combined counts of rape and drug charges connected with incidents last year and early this year. in florida, a woman came forward last month to report a sex crime
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incidents in 2012 and detectives there investigated a similar case in 2011. in new orleans, court records show detectives found sharper's dna on a swab taken from one woman who claims she had drinks with sharper and blacked out in september. documents revealed she found sharper on top of her, sexually assaulting her when she came to. records show he is accused of processing a generic form of ambien and morphine. >> he began to mix them drinks, shots and he began to give these shots to the girls. tempe arizona police say they are investigating similar allegations in an effort to knock out three women in november. the tempe report shows one woman reported feeling dizzy like the room was spinning and like it was difficult to speak after sharper mixed and served shots at her apartment. later, she claims she witnessed
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sharper naked crouched over her friend having sex with helper. the report says sharper said he didn't really remember what happened the next morning. i guess i could have done that. i am really sorry, one woman said. >> they didn't know what was going on but they were sexually assaulted. >> they say they found traces of ambien in a glass used to mix the shots. 1 woman said he had given her the popular drug molly in the past. sharper's new orleans attorneys would not go on record with us but sprooeflsd publically that sharper would be fully ex hon rated. the new orleans times picayune said campbell told them in january, sharper did nothing wrong. >> it shocks me. i hope it's not true. i really do. like i said, i just, if this is true, this is just not the darren sharper that i saw in new orleans. >> the criminal investigation is startling news for fans like breast cancer survivor cindy
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wylie. for several years, she mingled with the player at the ball catch for her, a louisiana breast cancer awareness benefit head lined by sharper and other n.f.l. stars. >> it was like 102% women. it was strictly a women's function. to learn about ball and to come out and have a good time and support the american cancer society. this is video from the events we hope site showing sharper played a big role in the event. >> we know the fans in new orleans. watched football. sharper also visited with many women at the events cocktail hour. >> you were telling me about what his interaction was with all of the women at the event. you felt like it was kind of appropriate? >> no. no. he was they have, never, never ever inappropriate. not at all. i mean i never saw anything. i never saw him ever -- there were a lot of attractive women there. i never saw any of that. we spent a lot of time in the
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general vicinity that he was. so we saw him interact with a lot of people. i still am really shocked about the whole thing. >> the los angeles attorneys see cleaned to give a statement on the record. laurie jails. sharper is due back in court april 15th and while he has not been tried or convicted, there are questions about possible patterns of behavior. joined this hour by dr. aaron nelson, a clinical psychologist and professor at the university of. you don't want to make any conclusions about guilt or innocence in this particular case. try to help us understand. i mean this is rape in a way that we don't think perhaps is the kind of allegations we are talking about is something different than someone in the dark of the night, for example, pursuing a victim.
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>> there is a spectrum when it comes to sexual assaults in our personal violence, different types of offenders, the stranger, rapist who is hiding in the dark as opposed to someone who may make acquaintance. one thing that they all have in common, trying to hold them together with reckless disregard for the feelings and the personhood of the victim. >> we talk a lot about rape being an act of violence but not necessarily about sex, itself. so when you talk about the use of drugs and something like that, this is about control? >> you are right. one of the most common misconceptions that we try to combat is that rape or sexual assault has a sexual connotation in the classic way. it is not sexual.
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it is not about, you know, some sort of mutual attraction or inter personal, you know, sexual arousal. what it is about is over powering a victim and usually feeds a profound as soon as of inadequacy in the offender. >> there are different understandings of categories of people who commit sexual assaults in this way. you talk about a narcissist? >> right. well, yeah, he with think about a continuum of behavior. percentage at one end who are sadistic in so much as they actually are aroused by the violence in and of itself. that would be one end of the spectrum. at the other end of the spectrum would be those people who violate the sanctity of another person, sort of based on their own selfish inability to recognize that, you know, another person has -- is not
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interested in them. >> so in this particular case, and again, we are not making any conclusions here this case hasn't been tried yet, but these allegations, we have heard that there were other people involved, other people present nearby when these alleged assaults were taking place. how would that fit into a notion of control or act of violence? how does that fit in? >> when we talk about sexual assault, it is always a form of violence, but when you think about that need for power, someone feeding the pervasive inadequacy, it would be understandable how somebody's sense of omnipon thence work further fueled by having control over not just one person but multip multiple victims but owes who were present when it was taking place may have psychological
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consequences oven times as well. >> very interesting case to watch. we appreciate your insight in helping us understand what might be going on here. dr. erin nelson from the university of arizona college of medicine phoenix. >> thanks for having me. when we return, a rare view. the taliban fighters, they are running towards the base now. they are trying to raid the base. i need to stick with them even though it's dangerous. >> on the front lines with the taliban. from a journalist who risked all for this story. consider this. the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what.
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now a snapshot of stories now, the stories making headlines on america tonight. two men accused in a beating of a san francisco dodgers stand. one of the prospects, mahem, the victim suffered permanent brain damage as a result of the attack. the execution of convicted plans, a new anonymous supplier of petro bashtol. attorneys have asked for a new background check over a settlement of inhumane drugs with an oklahoma compounding pharmacy. pleading guilt to multiple
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terrorism related charges. the suspected al-qaeda operative helped to plan the deadly attack of an oil tanker off of the coast of yemen in 2002. a higher profile preenser as part of the plea deal. since 2009, the united states and it's nato allies have dedicated billions of dollars to setting up a new afghan national army. today, only 37,000 sdmrus troops remain in afghanistan and a success or failure of afghans manning their own basis will determine the fate of the country as well as the wisdom of the u.s. strategy. in a rare exclusive look at afghanistan's war through the eyes of the taliban, al jazeera's fault line and danish journalist carsa were embedded with taliban fighters in an operation in logar province. >> sitting at the back of a motor bike, driven by a taliban
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earlier this evening, we heard the sound of the drones quite nervous. they have taken us to a safe house where a number of taliban fighters are checking their weapons. >> for the several days that i am with the taliban, they only tell me to stop. but i am acutely aware i wouldn't have been allowed here? >> we always had a certain media savvy, the way they used the media to establish their point of view and get their case
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across, they should. we certainly do. they have always been actually failure sophisticated in communications and i think allowing cameras in and doing interviews like this is another example. >> the commander is a 23-year-old man called misan, a veteran of numerous claims beens the government and nato troops. at the moment, we are just sitting and waiting here. i am not allowed to go beyond.
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the atmosphere is a little bit tense. people there are preparing themselves. they are changing all the time. we are on our way to fight a battle this capture an afghan national army base. the only thing i know is that
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they say they are going to fight until they capture the base. they are not going to withdraw. >> joining us now from copenhagen is the journalist you saw in that report. explain to us how you were able to get access to the taliban. why were they willing to work with you? >> i got the access because i used some middlemen, some contacts who had tribal connections through the taliban in this district. the thing is with the tribal connections that they sometimes surpass loyalty. you can go to an area where afghan national army soldiers they don't attack taliban solders because they are of the same tribe and they have a ceasefire. >> so you are a freelance journalist, i understand, but
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did having a relationship with al jazeera have any impact on the taliban's decision? >> i got in touch with them, and got the access before i toll them about which tv station it was, so they actually gave me the green light before i told them i was with al jazeera. but afterwards they were interested in knowing which channel they were going to be broadcasted in. and i told them that it was al jazeera. so you could say it's 50/50. >> i have to ask you, because on a previous trip to afghanistan you were kidnappeded and held hostage. why did you decide to go forward this time? them? >> i -- i felt i could trust them. but i was extremely nervous anyway, actually, because -- because the thing is that i actually felt much more comfortable last time i went to afghanistan. and when i tried to get access to the taliban and doing
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-- do almost the same story i did this time. but it was my own research that i did afterwards that showed it was a setup. it was a local taliban group that kidnapped me, but the leadership of the taliban had no knowledge about it. they said they didn't have a clue about what had happened. so i was very nervous this time, but it's -- it's almost six years ago, and it was also kind of a personal failure for me when it happened, so it was quite eager to overcome it, and i think it's an extremely important story to tell. so i thought that, you know, we have had a war for 12 years, and we have had very mu documentaries from inside the
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ranks of the taliban, so it's extremely important for the americans, for the western audience to know why these people keep on fighting against nato and the afghan government, are. >> we're going to ask you to stand by here, because as you know, this is extraordinary access that you have had to the taliban, and we want our viewers to see more. the afghan army routinely faces strikes by taliban fighters, so as was witnessed in this fight near the town of kabul. >> reporter: chart district in afghanistan. dawn is just moments away as a group of taliban fighters prepare to launch an attack on an afghan army base. they haven't told me exactly when they are going to attack.
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they just said it is going to happen around sunrise. begins. earnings conference call ex [ explosion ] >> reporter: the taliban's heavy machine gun is ready. these taliban have little or no former military training.
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and the ana fight back. [ explosion ] [ gunfire ] >> reporter: things aren't going to plan. their machine gun still isn't working. they leaf the gunner to fix it, while they go to support their attack from another side. [ shouting ] >> reporter: to allow the rest of the taliban to enter the base, three suicide bombers have been sent to blow up the main gate. [ shouting [ >> reporter: but they have to first avoid fire coming from inside.
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the taliban fighters, they are running towards the base now. they are trying to raid the base. i need to stick with them, even though it is really dangerous. i don't know the area, so i'm just running after them. there is a helicopter. the helicopter might be armed, so the taliban run for cover. [ inaudible ]
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>> reporter: there are 200 meters of open ground between the wall and the base. [ explosion ] [ gunfire ] >> the taliban can come in fire, harass, and retreat. the afghan army has to actually be there and try to create an environment over time that is going to allow the country to function. they are not going to go out and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the taliban. it would make no sense. >> reporter: the more tars are landing in areas where we are close to some of the other guys behind us. the battle has been going on for about an hour and a half now, and the afghan army soldiers
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under attack inside have received no support from other bases. the taliban had hoped this would be a victory, but it is becoming clear that they are facing far greater resistance than they had expected. the taliban soldiers that i'm with, have lost two men. it looks like there are not as confident as they were before attacking the base. and for these fighters it looks like the situation might be about to get worse. >> journalist rejoins us now to talk more about his extraordinary reports there in afghanistan. you expressed the difficulty
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that this taliban team had with being able to fire their own machine gun. you said they didn't have formal training. they really had a lot of difficulty there. did it give you some inclination to understand how strong of fighting force the taliban is today? >> obviously, you know, you can't generalize about the taliban. it's very different how they are from area to area. i visited the taliban another time. i didn't manage to finish it -- it was a documentary i tried to do in cue nar, and they are really experienced fighters up there. and they seemed like somebody who had trained a lot. and have seen talibans who are peasants like these guys, just taking up arms, so yes, they are not professional trained a lot of them. and most of the -- how can i say -- that advantage that they get in the
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battlefield is mostly because of their morale, because actually they are not a fatal -- some of them -- they are not so afraid of dying, because for them it's a win-win situation. either they get killed and go to paradise, or they win the battle. so it's the morale i would say which is the difference more than the professional skills. >> i want to ask why you think they let you video almost everything they did. >> i was actually quite surprised. i expected that they would actually tell me what to film, and not to film, and control a lot of the things i was doing, but they actually -- they seemed very honest about them wanting to let me understand what they were about, you know, in these clips that you have just shown, it is just about the battles, but i also have done a lot of
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other footage from every day life in the areas. and actually, like it said in this the movie, i was never told to shut off the camera but once, and it was in the battlefield because ament commander got disappointed with two people getting killed and he was stressed, i suppose. so they were actually quite open surprisingly. >> thank you very much for joining us from your home base in copenhagen. ♪ we'll stay with our in-depth look at the taliban today after the break. how strong of fighting force do u.s. officials think it is now? and what does that mean for the future of afghanistan? and looking ahead on america tonight, the pot pack. >> i say welcome to the clip and thank you for joining us. >> amsterdam's mayor, what his country has learned after decades of marijuana sales.
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>> this is close to five grams. this is roughly five grams. >> and how many joints can you make with that? >> about three joints out of a gram. >> that's friday on "america tonight." early in the
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morning. we follow up on today'stable
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tonal mark a sdmrfrmths jacobson, commander of u.s. forces in afghanist afghanistan. and matt waldman oversaw negotiations with the taliban. gentlemen, both of you have seen these clips of the taliban today as it were. matt, can i begin with you and ask what your perception was? ask what your perception was? there is a certain sense that this is looking like a rag tag group of fighters. what is today's taliban strength? >> it does appear that way in that particular attack. as many attacks look something like that. but there are some 200, 300, even more attacks happening every week in afghanistan.
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and of particular importance is the number of people they are killing in their attacks is higher now than it has ever been since 2001. they are killing some 650 on average, some 650 people a month, and many of those are afghan police and soldiers. so i think even though they may not look like a very effective fighting force, in actual fact they are killing a great many afghan solders and police, and it is a real problem for the pro government forces. >> and mark you have worked with the f afghan army and helped to set them up. is this a threat that is disturbing to them. >> i think from the video you see something really wonderful and that's the ana of 2014 is not the afghan national army back in
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2003, 4, 5, or 6. they deliberately assessed what was going on. they are under attack. they don't worry about -- in other words they are not worried about being overrun here. they are taking deliberate action. will was a comment about well, they haven't been supported in almost an hour here. they didn't need to be. they were holding their position just fine. so this is an afghan national army that is much more capable than it was a decade ago. >> looking at both of these players here, the ana and the taliban, or resurgrant taliban or whatever you would define it today, what does this tell us about the future? we're going into a period where there will be elections in afghanistan and the longer team agreement with the us.
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>> the fact is that the taliban while making some tactical gains, they are killing civilians as well. weak rule of law, weak governmental institutions, because without that all of the security in the world won't matter in the long run. >> do you see an opportunity for optimism moving through the next few months? >> i would point out it is a cause of concern that the taliban are killing 3 or 400 policemen a month. that is posing a real problem for afghan national security forces, but i think that looking forward, i think what it underscores is that the taliban aren't going away, you know? and if you consider the international withdraw, the cuts
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in aid, the general disengagement from afghanistan, then what we need to be look towards is reconciliation. a an overwhelming majority of afghans have said all along, the only way this will end is if there is some kind of agreement between the government and the taliban. and that's what the international community should now be looking to support. that is going to require a mediator to coordinate efforts o move that forward. >> we have talked with our correspondent jennifer glasse quite a bit, and she talks about this incredible sense of insecurity right now, a sense that no one knows what is going months. >> our war may be over, but the war in afghanistan is far from over, and what is going to have to happen is not just an increased effort by the afghan national security forces, but an
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increased effort by the international community focusing on these non-military issues, rule of law, governance, et cetera. my concern is without a bilateral security agreement, there will be no possibility of the types of nato forces required to continue training the f afghans. >> gentlemen thank you both for being with us, mark jacobson, and matt waltman. >> thank you. next month "faultlines" will air more of its exclusive report. it will air march 21st and march 28th on al jazeera america. ahead tonight in our final thoughts of the hour, a big break through, the life-saving prototype, and consider this. the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one
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else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what.
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♪ finally tonight, college is not just about the books anymore. to make a difference, professors are teaching students how to apply classroom principles in the lab. alan takes us to a college in seattle where the concept could be a big break through. >> reporter: on a winter day when the promise of spring brightens the campus, you'll find this junior in doors in the lab, solving problems. >> so i made a device that has curved channels that are
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circular cross sections that is able to transport a tissue core. >> reporter: translation he is working on a letter way to diagnose pancreaticcancer. this technology could giv pathologists a much more complete three dimensional view. remember chris is just 20, in his third year of college. he is serving a kind of educational apprenticeship, this doctor runs the lab, and with the help of federal grants pairs students with teachers for one on one mentoring. chris gets part-time pay and works with researcher who says he is learning too. >> awesome. yeah, it's awesome.
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i mean, usually -- i have my way of doing things, so it doesn't always translate well, but when you have the right mix, it works out perfect ly. >> reporter: this is an ongoing trend. valuable experience for the next level of education, and later career competition. here research participation has nearly doubled in the last five years. the non-profit council on undergraduate research has seen membership triple in the last decade. in chris's case he is already running hard. his teachers say his work is ground breaking, the technology he developed worth patenting. >> nobody has demonstrated exactly what chris has demonstrated in our lab as far as we know, and that's one of patent. >> reporter: he gives tremendous credit to his mentors and his
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time in the lab. >> to watch this device come out and be able to transport tissue through them, and then learn that no one else has ever done this before, it's exciting. >> reporter: the kind of exciting development more ung graduates are now getting a chance to experience. snp and that's it for us, we'll tomorrow. ♪ we know to al jazeera america. i am thomas drade deposit in new york. let's get you caught up on the top stories this hour. it is friday morning as we take you live to kiev where opposition sources have been killed in fighting in ukraine's
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capitol. thursday was the bloodiest day since anti-government protests began in november. world leaders expressed outrage over the violence and aresponding with sanctions. an exclusive look inside the taliban fighting in afghanistan. they are attempting to attack afghan security forces with suicide bombers with fighter jets overhead. the trial of the three al jazeera colleagues in cairo has been adjourned. they appeared in covered on thursday. the three pleaded not guilty to charges of aiding and abetting a terrorist organization. al jazeera says the charges are false and demands the immediate release of its staff. >> the demonstrators gathered outside seattle's fast food restaurant thursday calling for a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour.
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the fast food workers amend their supporters labeled their protests boycott poverty by chains like mcdonald'ses. those are the headlines. i am thomas dra deny in new york. the latest headlines. ukraine growing more deadly by the hour. the violence continues in venzue venzuela. online on al jazeera, taliban terror, a reporter allowed to cover extremists from the inside and the risky world of the american fraternities. antonio moro. here is more on what's ahead. towards some sort of unity government. v

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