and there in down here. in the black car fall along silas. and we didn't know it was it's i. the driver said they are right there. and said no we didn't know where they were. we kept on walking and they kept face of us in this car. and they kept training at us to get in. and we refused her. a hundred yards that way. and they offered us some way screaming jello at the restaurant intent. and i had a scream there too we finished we all loaded back up in the car but they never went back the way they came they went around away from the reason i fell asleep and i never will go up until we are coming up to the moon against you. when after a good old not by relays i was good now like i said my dad didn't know. very many

new fears in the churches they did geared how they got the children here. i believe it was february two years ago. those on the board sessions that are at the chisholm united church and chisholm township of the book five miles out here

and my first set were the sessions meeting effect in there was two other members in the minister and myself and the minister was going through the agenda that we were to talk about in she mentioned the residential school system and all of a sudden i started to shake and broke down crying i had no idea why. i didn't know what this was a vote at all. and from that i ended up going to my doctor and for some depressed help for depression and he referred me to a psychologist in north he and to curb probably twenty minutes to determine that they just part of my problem was from that incident fifty years earlier. i was to the station there in the r.c.m.p. and we had a territorial jail there which most times i was in jail guarded night and in this

day shift i happened to be the same to whatever came on through the door it would be sometime between november of sixty four and april of sixty five on a day shift i was assigned to assist an agent from the residential school system to pick up two children from a family in fort smith northwest territories i went to the door of this home and the woman who lived there knew why we were there to know she know that her two two daughters were being sent to residential schools the mother was crying both children were crying probably six and eight years old. and i took the six year old from her arms actually and turned them over to the agent. he jumped in his car and part took off to the airport in aerospace and the end of that night i saw i never saw him i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget the price.

at the time i didn't like the idea of taking kids away from their family bothered me in cursed being in the r.c.m.p. had no alternative who could complain about it. the only thing i knew about the in the residential schools was a place where the good formal education and i didn't see any problem. since then i've come to realize what they were a boat. heard no differently now and that's part of the story that i want to tell. it took up maybe five minutes of my life. and i buried it back in sixty four sixty five. in a boat fifty years later it came back to haunt me. here in boston.

we were sitting at this at this very spot i'm not sure if it was exactly the same table we're sitting at this very spot. at a board meeting. you remember ron you were on the board at the time and and the board at that time had decided that they wanted to study this book called a healing journey for us all and part of that took us into residential schools well let me let me say first clearly that i think the residential school

history within canada is one of the the the greatest tragedies if not the greatest tragedy in our whole. history as a country. it's it's the damage that's been done to so many lives and. the damage that it continues to be done and that will be felt generationally. is it's just it's beyond one that we it's hard to even take it in. feel. presidential schools are schools that were set up by the government of canada and there are other countries that have the same thing but it was a policy that was put into place to bring all as many indigenous people as possible

into these schools to educate them into the european way of life to take you away from your culture your language all your traditions and that's what it's about. in order to sever those ties in your culture in your language they had to separate children from families and communities we wore uniforms you all dress the same you had your hair cut the same you were all one and it was to assimilate us to make sure we didn't have an indian left in us when we left here.

the took us to the church or recently we had say prayers and things like that we weren't allowed to talk in our language we had to speak english but it wasn't indoctrination like you didn't put us in one room and you just indoctrinate us all day long or anything like that just the way. the routine of the place it was in it was in the routine. that in in speak anything but english or you went to the white man school. you mean the way miniature you are the way with clothes all those are built in was in the classroom that your painted thing was there was in green in the system there's a mode of living years the. it was taken from them there was no

mother no father figures nobody said good night or come and see you if you are sick personal didn't know me look empty except that they put is in a big player room similar to this dining room. and we sort of loot looked after so . what was going on across this country that so many children were being taken so many children were being put into residential schools and my thing is if if they were such a wonderful school they were models everybody should i had him and i made up

europeans everybody should i had a residential school not just one race of people is a very racist policy you know but that's what the intent was is to kill the indian in the child and pretty much they've done it. so you get punished for being who you are. it's a school where you're punished for the third least of interaction saying. the the punishments were. severe. and punishment for things you never did you never did. i and i i don't think i ever did anything wrong that would deserve a strap never. and you got it. you never knew it. when you went over the line they let you know they give you d.d.

beating phones with a symbol but it was more than that it was tear or a that accompanied each beating. for tell me when you have children put in an electric chair for entertainment or for punishment lesser crimes against humanity and yet different things and i've heard of other guys have an electric currents and they brought us into a place they called the press room where most of the beatings were no name. and we were near one of the time and got a good show lacking with the litters leather strap and. everybody. was afraid of it but. everybody knew they were going to get it sooner or later just remember them crying there was a lot of crying in this place a lot of tears and yet we find out it was like. thousands upon thousands of children that were being used despite the beatings and the ferocity of some in the

beginning we still defied the authority to run away. the boy say how those over sixty boys displayed does them or each of us are lonely beyond a spear from within we each had our own battles to fight. we were lost lonely scared and confused her biggest battle was to keep her secrets. are laser shrouded in secrecy no one could know who we all clicked to the new kids are being raped and will they see it in large numbers suddenly the babies. no one could know no one would ever known. saddam in go learn had to be a nicer place so he tried to escape.

the colonel scene when ironing those caught were ferociously been relentlessly beaten with the other machinery belts carried by all the staff including the principal the cane beaten until liz beamed echoed out to the earth you need money in the burns down the lean way up the city streets beaten until there was silence that was the scariest despite this we ran away i believe each of us tried to least once to escape that worries prison the hellish place with demons all of. them to. ethel and there's

a boy others. at that far end of raw unless it time and time again day after day and boy and i are aware some that come live there some you and miss me somehow. another error came. just came out of there feeling so dirty rotten low as you can imagine and i thought every kid over there knew that i had what had been in me. but i think it all and then because none ever bothered me and i never asked what happened in there i think we all got it on fire. but it is a nasty dirty they. were. it's like here's where i got him a lesson here. saying against the wall here and he had his way with me.

i was his mother i. see time in my life and i felt so dirty and so so. bad we don't in the boiler room he took my clothes off. and they just stand here a little guy just discussed what he was doing.

it's i think it's very very possible that children did die here but we'll never know all assist i've heard too many different stories for it to be all lies if they're not buried here they're probably buried somewhere on the property and it's just one of those things that in time we may come across it but this this we can investigate if there's any truth to it if there is anything in there just just from the people that i know from the survivors that i know that say that yeah they remember this being something and you don't just put a window at the bottom of a basement for any for no reason. with a big breaking news story it can be chaotic frantic behind the scenes. people shouting instructions in your ear you're trying to provide the best most accurate

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isn't this more about living with difference and you and visas that and who do they contain. the right to live anywhere in the world have every right to leave their country maybe his time goes head to head for the poor economy and on al-jazeera. and i honor and taylor in london where top stories are now jazeera the turkish president has accused the united states of betraying its allies as the country's currency crisis deepens u.s. imposed sanctions on turkey over its refusal to extradite an american preacher and sanctions cause market turmoil for the lira which is lost more than forty percent against the dollar this year on monday the central bank is the rules around how

banks manage the lira and promised loans for any banks that need them you know it's meant to help to pull the lira back from a record low there are still grave concerns about the state of turkey's economy i thought of transfer to you going. on the one hand you're a partner but on the other you shoot yourself in the foot so for example the united states is a strategic partner with us in afghanistan in somalia you one of our strategic partners in nato but then you go and stab your ally in the back is this acceptable afghanistan is sending reinforcements to help defend the embattled city of gaza a from a taliban attack or the three hundred people have died in four days of fighting thirty of them civilians the president called an emergency meeting with police and military chiefs while the u.s. has carried out air strikes on taliban positions near is just one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul huge crowds have gathered in northern yemen for the

funerals of some of the fifty people killed in the saudi emirates the air strike last week forty of those killed inside a province were children many of whom were on a school bus at the time authorities are struggling to identify the remains of all those killed in the attack as some parents are still looking for their children amongst the debris. it's about ways president elect is urging the country to unite and move on from last month's disputed election i missed my long ago was speaking at an event marking the heroes day holiday he was due to be inaugurated on sunday but the swearing in ceremony was postponed because of a legal challenge to the election results by the opposition a former president of argentina has appeared in court for questioning over bribery allegations christine accused the denies alleged payments from business executives to officials in her government and to her late husband. who also served as president after day to stay with us on i was there it kind of this dark secret

continues next i'll have the news out of that. i like finding old friends and when he has what i know her by from the residential school the mohawk institute when we first went in there we were my sister and i were separated into groups and i had one older girl that took me under her wing and my sister don we need look after her well i don't you know when i was there i don't even remember going there i don't really remember the people that do me out but in my home i remember that. i know i was just there so then i met this this older. person on this older girl kind of took care of me when i was growing up. and she told me when

she's ready to leave because she was in twelve thirteen maybe fourteen she said that she was going to ask her mother to come and get me and take she to take me home to be her little sister. but didn't happen because. she she. gushy got hurt. hurt her bad. i think. i think somebody hit her on a tree. and i don't know i think she died but i'm not really. sure but i don't know. why anyway i've been able to say in the last few years that they killed her

and i was there. were happened to her. just. sometimes a nice dream of hers she would come to me and dream by that because it hurts to talk a lot. because i remember when she used to. piggyback we honor. her back and we run and play and. then when i got hurt she picked me up to. give me a hug and sending them to cry. like why we should meet different men you know and. after they smashed or treat. you know that sound sometimes you

can hear it on t.v. and there were other shows that sound that the sound. even if the glass breaks to be. out scream. and sometimes my family get mad and. i say. that's the sound. scares me and. makes me would like. the scene is a drawing child who just surely with four was flailing away with his head above water in a raging river he can swim but there are risks with that unrelenting he

slips under the surface or reef the trying to catch you know that leaf breath but he knows he's going under for good what tears run upon this child's mind knowing can imagine those sites will go down with him the want to live as seen above in the light under surfaces of the river. as he slowly sinks his here is silky and wavy in the room still lute ever removing so slowly and reaching for no purpose except his will tells him to reach up. a lady's surface phase in his body has no more movement except that of the current he tumbles lay physically along a barn and into oblivion. i

left. a come back one day and attacked those people that had attacked me in the eye they didn't just attack me they i think they attacked everybody. but. i wrote a book called bird legacy in the. dead book they don't have this great desire to go back a morning and beat the wapping i. i haven't forgiven them but they're not around to forgive when i realize. the effect that this type of government administration had one thousand people in my time.

it disgusts me that i'm a canadian and i always thought canada was the greatest country in the world and i'm ashamed to say i'm canadian because it weren't a government it's not. the government wanted access to mineral rights mining lumbering fisheries all natural resources that canada has and they all are on his native land of course they were here first so the government i guess determined rather than go to war with the natives they would eliminate them.

and i know from my own experience people that i've norm they were raised by whites in the residential schools so when they were finished their their parents didn't accept them if they weren't native and the white community did not accept them because they were native so these people knew those hundred fifty thousand children . grew up in limbo with no roots no background and no place they could call home. i knew had time when i believe i went to school that day in. and it was the last day of school in summer. everything seemed greater than the grass seemed greener the sky was blue or. it was just

a great day. you come home and they're like you're a stranger i'm a stranger to them but they're a stranger to me too so i had to go find who my relatives were how was i connected to this community i knew where i came from i didn't know that but i just didn't know holly fit in. hundred fifty thousand people children were taken from their families and as role of a result of that seven generations of native people grew up with no roots. this is my friend carol croce whom i've known for a few years and appreciate her friendship and and what kind of things she can tell us about her first nations so. having my father my

aunt and my uncles. gone to residential school my father never discussed his upbringing he was silent the home that we lived in. was silent around who he was and how he was raised so prior to the age of thirty i had no idea or no understanding of what had happened to my family and i knew that there was something up like there was something wrong but i didn't know what that was when i was finding all of these things about residential school when i was thirty and my father had already passed away my mother was still alive and i started asking michael my aunt questions it began to i began to realize how strange everything was and it began to see

what those schools did and what the effect that we had and why my brothers and i had struggled so much with our emotional life this was wrong to teach children away from their parents and heard them into a school against their will it just blew me away and then when ron when you had the courage to stand up and say that this was wrong and that you knew it was wrong when it happened instead of standing up and said i witnessed this in it didn't look that bad that. i can't tell you what that does for people. i really can't.

and i don't care what bad things you might have done in your life or one i know it was a whole lot because you're going to birdsville a. they were raised that. they were complete your race. but what you don't hear about is what happens to adult people when their kids are ripped away. and those kids come back broken but they come back broken to two adults that are insane and that's the other half so nobody is ok.

i'm not a bank and ask for the survivors to stand up for a moment to be here with us survivors please stand. the children in the grandchildren are survivors please stand up as well things began to change when the survivors of the residential school experience went to court beginning in the one nine hundred eighty s. but not really successful until the mid one nine hundred ninety s. when the courts finally ruled that they could sue the government for the abuses it went on in schools and the churches as well the root of the t r c as in survivors

themselves survivors said we demand attention and we demand recognition for what it is and was that we experience in the residential schools i had a problem. i had a hearing problem i would mark i went teeth are now on. the way and i'm sure. it was for him still there and. i don't know you know this is a financial news. we were the recipient of their most private moments in their life often and we as listeners had to be there for them because we weren't just representing the commission we were actually representing

a hearing of the entire country. well as a commissioner for the truth and reconciliation commission listening to the stories of residential school survivors it was difficult emotionally very challenging but there's no doubt that when they cried often we did as commissioners we always made it a point to repeat back to the survivors what it was that they had told us because we wanted them to know that we had heard them and that we believed them. to be poor and they think we. ought to publish. why but really for what i put. i could i could tell my grandchildren like look

what a great privilege of north. he loved. but. i can't it hurts it's certainly the think boat. what i missed. it was a very emotional. very emotional time because the more you got into it the more the more things started to come up about residential school that you would start to remember that you'd listen to everybody and. it was a very very difficult time so i was involved right from that right from when the lawsuit started so the truth and reconciliation commission of canada was asked to assist the survivors to move from an area being victims of the residential school experience to becoming. involved in a process of establishing

a better relationship with the government and with the church as the story of the truth of residential schools in this country is a story about the resilience of children they have supported me in this work but at great loss to the relationships we could have had and which we will now try to recapture. were. residential school survivors. really can canada. this is not. only about.

resilience there's a whole lot of truth that to has been shared. it's also about reconciliation and there's not going to be any truth to the in my telling or in new york i'm screwed it takes. two or three or four generations. to work all this o.t. to get is the history books and have become commonplace that the guy next door knows where that in the future of canada will students and be told that this is not an in to go part. of everything we are as a country everything we are as canadians that is a promise we knew pretty here all students are our.

it was the closing ceremonies of the truth and reconciliation commission had a five kilometer walk from gatineau quebec to the city hall inaudible was approximately seven thousand people participating. many natives many non-natives there was different church groups civic groups people just bringing their families out to participate and support the native americans. by the time the commission's work ended almost seven years later that we had established the credibility of the commission not only in the eyes of survivors but in the eyes of the country and the truth and reconciliation commission has brought an image of canada forward that now includes this history.

the national center for truth and reconciliation was created by the truth and reconciliation commission in order to preserve all of the materials that were collected under the mandate to the t r c but more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country have asked us to ensure that their statements and the other material that was collected finds their way into the hands of educators into the hands of researchers so we have a very important and critical role in continuing to expose the truth and should canadians understand the truth of what's happened in this country and for the contribute ongoing understanding healing and reconciliation in this country. canadians no longer have an excuse though which i think is one of the most critical things about this process of truth or reconciliation. the i

don't know or i didn't know really is no longer defensible. let's. go. with the. you see the one. of the very. near being made here in the. i'm very hopeful i'm still a bit scared as to what's happening and what could continue to happen i want to see

action i want less talk and more action so we all know that something is changing in terms of healing for the native folk and for white and brown and yellow canada. i'm. all for. both. of. them off of. our office or i'm going to move. back into. them and give them.

a. day when there is unique in their expressing their. their culture in the. good and genuine things aboard. the color of the old sits for. the dances the songs.

when every residential school survivor is healed i'll be. going nuts that's how it went for me. and i'm until they're healed i will be and i'll keep harking to anybody who would listen. there's always hope without hope we're done. and now the house has to be hope. and when i look at my grandchildren i think yeah there's a lot of hope. i see positive things for i don't.

full of struggles. and what not on the balmy ball a little bit i'm walking up on the to full of pleasure. i don't mind i'm getting away with it i'm not going but i'm not going to have an intimate look at life in cuba today as it was an alarm in our country that i had no want daniel i gave up i was able to mind cuba on al-jazeera. the largest multi-sport event on the continent and the second largest in the world

the asian gangs will host thousands of apne competing across a mix of traditional and the limbic sports follow us from the news and updates from to contact the hosting city of the eighteenth asian games on al-jazeera. it doesn't often get this cold in queens and that a minus six i think has been down this since about ninety ninety five for a win tonight and last night was just the same so we got a couple of cold nights by day gets up to eighteen to twenty typically from southern queens and dancer victoria to watch as sas australia these are all the thick is the full cross the tuesdays next without much better in brisbane to be caught on this or even times do in fact boris gets the same place but a cold front coming through post will leave bit of rain but not a huge amount in the sun comes out off the woods and same time the cloud is closing in once or once again on victoria but these fronts are particularly active we've

had the rather active ones. brought in the cold weather the clouds being gathering in the tasman sea has already hit the western side of new zealand so you can expect a couple of cloudy days and possibly wet ones so in the forecast oakland cross church similar temperatures same sort of air and the cloud bringing rain is like to be as a toughie is not a huge amount of rain it tends to clear slow east was just dissolved rain however in summer midsummer is returning first of all to the korean peninsula in beijing and then to japan. a new poll ranks mexico city is the pool with worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses but even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you

have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse now marianna uses a new service it's called dr it's for women passages only drawn by women drivers. to some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven drivers. this is. this is the news hour live from london coming up. president says the u.s. are standing in the back as the near a crisis deepens. a battle for afghan

security forces backed by the u.s. attempt to repel the taliban. a mass funeral is held in yemen's city for the victims of a saudi and iraq yes strike that killed fifty one people forty of them children. the former white house aide releases a recording said to me of a private conversation with donald trump was fired. second major title. holding often inspired the woods to win the u.s. p.g.a. . the turkey. the president has accused the united states of betraying its allies as the country's currency crisis deepens the u.s. imposed sanctions on turkey over its refusal to action an american preacher but in the past few minutes we've heard that the white house national security advisor john bolton has met turkey's ambassador to the u.s.

to discuss the detention of the pastor so incautiously reports from istanbul walking through a business street to people take nervous glances at the foreign exchange screens wondering how much less their money might now be worth. here's a massive yes the dollar is one of the prices about what she wants to buy over on serb budget. give me a discount on leaves. a request it's turned down turkish lira is down at least thirty percent against a dollar in ten days this doesn't only hurt the buyers but the sellers too. including tibet's carts all he has run this shop for at least twenty years how far his products are imported is cost horizon tremendously stronger more notice and we are almost at stagnation waiting for exchange rates to settle i purchase in dollars so my costs increase forty percent i'll have to reflect this in my prices however

exporters are happy with the depreciating. this. fare hotel owner who has run the silver wholesaler with his brothers for twenty years ses his profits have grown. for the mother although i import my products i explored them all we don't have a problem my profit margin is bigger now also we bring foreign exchange to our country but there certainty a worry seventy one. the finance ministry says it has an action plan to help ease the market's concern and turkey's central bank has pledged to provide all the liquidity by the banks many economists say the markets the men that you trust to stop the us trouble present our don imus financial team are totally against that don't say is this is a speculative attack against still there are by foreign countries and might be you . if it does experts fear it could have

a spillover of fact into europe where turkey is because lenders are so you have to sort of al-jazeera a stumble. when we're joined now by abraham dovish is the director at the center of a turkish studies thanks very much for coming in just on this line that's been breaking within the last fifteen minutes or so that. john bolton the national security adviser has met the u.s. the turkish ambassador to the u.s. to discuss the issue of the detention of andrew bronson this pastor who is going to at the beginning of all this whole issue that sparked the crisis what do you make of the fact that they're having that conversation now andrew bronson's the tension has been a symbol of this crisis that's in the conversation would probably have with john bolton is about for a new way to resolve this matter and release and brunson with turkey losing face i suppose that's what that's one of things i mean if if it isn't just a matter of releasing him and the sanctions being lifted then presumably that that would resolve some of the crisis but it appears that the crisis has got worse in

turkey than than just that particular set of sanctions in this crisis the third is facing now is not just the but yes sanctions it's not just the brand turkey detaining andrew brunson it is a much more much bigger crisis that they're displacing well it's been long coming turkish leader has been losing its value turkish government has been out of truck in terms of being a good been seen as a competent government managing the economy well the. become an incompetent government and not been able to manage their economy properly not one of the issues or the questions has been what why added one has been refusing to raise interest rates which are a lot of people would suggest would be an answer to some of the problems he's been president to guns position is very difficult to change because his political success was based on the economical growth of the country so the country's economy was growing and it was claimed to be his success story amongst the masses in the

country so he has seen. you know he's seen interest rates been low as part of his success because for him the growth will come but when interest rates are low inflation will be lol and i think he's beginning to realize that this was not the case and he's got to look for alternative ways of managing the economy now i mean he's talked to most all this crisis he talked very kind of angrily about having to look elsewhere for new friends who might those friends be and how damaging would that be to the u.s. techie relationship or take his relationship with the west more broadly and what is open is present each time the country face a crisis whether it's a political crisis due to domestic policies or it's about turkey's foreign policy that there's cause friction between the u.s. and turkey in syria and particularly for example lately he has always come up with the negative or having enemies targeting turkey. doing two thousand and fourteen he called it an interest lobby when gives it parkinson's when happening and now he

calls it foreign countries targeting economic you know turkey with an economy warrants on i think those friends that he's referring to are likely to be russia china qatar but you know we need to remember that if turkey requires a huge bailout this could be a hundred billion dollars and none of those countries are going to be in a position to provide that sort of guarantee or bail for turkey so preserve their gun needs to look internally back in the country and understand all realize that most of the problems are caused by the incompetency and the growing will to tell you in no way off or running the country every day or thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on the subject. afghanistan's military is sending reinforcements to help defend the embattled city of guard me from a taliban attack while the three hundred people have died in four days of fighting the president called an emergency meeting with police and military chiefs while the u.s. has carried out air strikes on taliban positions hundreds of people have fled the

city just one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul on the highway connecting the capital and southern afghanistan child bennis reports. the taliban has turned the ancient city of gosney into an urban battle field the assault is now in its fourth day with two hundred seventy thousand residents locked inside the homes casualties of the offensive lissa the streets. those that reach the hospital find it overwhelms space and medicine rationed between soldiers and civilians there are so many more cases and too little capacity. with into order international humanitarian. and un we will try to bring in trial markets and sample drugs and medical supplies as soon as possible. doesn't he became the frontline of the war between the taliban and the afghan military on

friday morning the taliban launch rockets at the police headquarters into chick points publishing tweets and videos declaring victory afghan special forces responded with u.s. support but the taliban bunkered down and residents homes of war his followers the government is defiant gosney is under their control. charles the jungle the storm one hundred ninety four taliban fighters including pakistani and foreign fighters were killed i hold the taliban responsible for what has happened in the city all the destruction and torching of buildings. with foreign mines cut only residents who have escaped can reveal the reality is face is undecided. they were burning buildings and there were dead bodies everywhere in gaza new city the fight was ongoing the situation was very bad and all the shops were closed. the taliban badly want to go they briefly held parts of the western city of foreign may and two years ago but neither are a significant is this gosney is

a large provincial capital just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul it lies on the motorway that connects kabul with southern afghanistan. off the government is trying to keep the road open despite frequent taliban ambushes. we have launched checkpoints for the safety of our people using the highway we are here to serve them day or night afghans are watching girls nervously they won't guarantees of safety demonstrators gathered outside the ministry of defense headquarters in kabul questioning what security their tax dollars provide. with upcoming elections president danny is looking to come concerns on sunday he had an emergency meeting with military and police chiefs and tweeted he would seen green folks minutes the red cross a sending reinforcements to dropping forty body bags bandages and medicine at the main hospital charlotte dallas. does the former senior adviser to the chief

executive of afghanistan abdullah abdullah thanks very much for being with us what's your interpretation of why there's been such a big flare up in. well this flare up in guy's knee was not unexpected unfortunately this is collation that took place has been in the works for many months in people who know what the situation is like whether in government or outside of government have been talking about the for a long time and pointing to the fact that there are some very serious cracks within the security of the city and that the taliban are taking advantage of it so this could have probably been prevented if the government in the international presence in afghanistan military presence in afghanistan could have done more to defend his knee but now that it's done it shows that there is an escalation that the taliban

or trying to show that at least if they can't keep it forever for too long at least they are able to capture yet another afghan city and cause mayhem and chaos for everyone including the government in put the government in a very defensive politically difficult position in mention the possibility they might not be able to hold on to a very very long the government said it's sending reinforcements and we've seen that they've been u.s. airstrikes what how long do you think this it'll take to get back under control well at the beginning they thought that it would take a few hours now it's we are in the fourth entering the fifth and i think that we haven't seen a very major us change in the lay of the land as far as taliban presence is concerned but eventually i think that the afghan forces backed by international helpers or is going to dislodge the taliban or the taliban will themselves move back out having made a point. you again know.