well nine thousand police officers secured the streets just down the road in the middle palace surrounded by a sizable security cordon prime minister pedro sancia held a meeting with his cabinet an area of relative calm away from the outpouring of anger outside of the spanish government has insisted it's doing this to advance talks with the council and leadership because. this is the only possible proposal the situation cannot be solved by continuing to hide one another it will only be solved through dialogue negotiations in a boom that would be there are signs is offering. both sides concert green how to solve this spain's government continues to maintain the crisis can only be resolved within the law but the catalan government doesn't agree and sees it as a political maneuver to do night further independence from madrid at this moment we do not agree and what is the origin what is the nature of the conflict and how to

file bit so we either start talking but i will r.t. seriously and with the best. with a breath aim to keep moving forward on the hilltop work it has been fourteen months since the outlawed referendum which triggered the current crisis emotions are running high on both sides but no path has yet been carved out to resolve the current standoff sony vaio al-jazeera barcelona. still to come here on al-jazeera. now he's a great soldier and he's been a remarkable minister and he's been a partner for all occasions america's allies and u.s. politicians on the follow ups after the sudden resignation of the u.s. defense secretary james mattis we'll have more on for the hunt continues for the drone operators who caused havoc at the u.k.'s second busiest airport for thirty six hours.

from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well things are not looking too bad across much of china we do have a couple areas apache rain for the next few days appear to it shanghai up towards ruhani as well down towards the south it is going to be cloudy for much of hong kong but over the next day or so we do think we're going to be seeing some more rain pushing down here towards the northern part of vietnam with the noise seeing some rain in your forecast center there of about twenty five degrees well speaking of rain we're going to see plenty of it across the philippines over the next few days actually manila the rain is on the increase for you those are showers right there across central philippines and it is going to be increasing so very heavy rain could lead to some localized flooding across the regions of saturday mostly cloudy and rain but we think by the time we get to sunday it is going to be

overcast and rain with a temperature of about twenty seven degrees for thailand not looking too bad cloudy conditions few but we don't expect to see much in terms of rain there but speaking of rain it is going to be rainy down here towards parts of sri lanka over the next day we have a little tropical disturbance in the bamberg all that is making its way towards the northwest rain is going to be quite heavy for colombo and as we go towards sunday that rain extends more into parts of india we're going to be seeing rainy a twenty eight degrees vocal kutta is going to be partly cloudy with a temperature of twenty eight. the wind sponsored by the time race. xenophobe ache violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's fastest growing far right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine appends national rally property generation eight. part two of

a special two part investigation on al jazeera. welcome back updating your top stories for you so far today the u.s. federal government is just hours away from a partial shutdown after president donald trump refused to back down on funding for his mexican border war now his demand for nearly six billion dollars is expected to be rejected however by the senate. the u.n. security council approving a team of observers to monitor the cease fire in yemen's people or city of the dado the u.n. monitors who won't be uniform go on we deployed for an initial period of thirty days. mistresses of rallies in hungary and put a pass to protest over

a new amendment to the labor laws critics are calling it the slave law it would allow employers to force people to work more overtime and even delayed paying them for up to three years. flights are returning to normal at london's gatwick airport after another drone sizing temporarily grounded services flights had resumed earlier after drone spotted on weapons they shut down the airport for thirty six hours more than one hundred twenty thousand travelers were directly affected need parker is there. thirty six hours of transport misery is slowly coming to an end a limited number of domestic and european flights were allowed to leave and land on friday but most long haul flights remain counseled the airport is coping with a backlog of tens of thousands of passengers many forced to bed down on the terminal floor overnight the reopening of the airport is being cautiously welcomed

the something to relate had. been you know more than causing panic they've made this sort of thing you're going to madrid in an hour. they were saying it's console one another saying we're flying so it's all quiet the decision to reopen get with follow the arrival of specialists military equipment on thursday police said they would be willing to shoot the drones down if they reappear again they were thought to be at least two drones described as being of industrial specification but in a much better place to say that we were yesterday in terms of the options available to us so we are in a really positive position in terms of detecting the drone tracking it mitigates the threat that it poses secondly the last confirmed sighting was just before ten pm last night so we've had a significant period of time where the drone hasn't appeared the hunt for the rogue drone operator or drone operators has drawn in multiple government agencies the police british intelligence the authorities say they're all following multiple leads but it keeping these details of the tight control for now airport management

to calling the incident commercial sabotage whoever's responsible could face up to five years in prison and we had ten thousand past is he didn't fly on wednesday we had one hundred ten thousand passes he didn't fly today and we're going to see ongoing disruption today and into into that we can. be a very different situation i'd just like to apologize to all the passengers an instruction that has been caused to them by this criminal act events here at gatwick have major implications for airport security around the world the union of air traffic controllers is demanding stricter regulations a more counter drone measures to safeguard airports and protect lives. al-jazeera that we can port. well it's been a turbulent week in washington with the resignation of the u.s. defense secretary james mattis dividing the president and senior republican party figures mr trump surprise withdrawal of u.s.

forces from syria and reports of a similar departure from afghanistan raising big questions in washington about what's happening to u.s. foreign policy issue how britain see there's been no shortage of voices in washington expressing dismay at donald trump's decision to withdraw troops from syria and the subsequent resignation of defense secretary james mattis and shaken by the news because of the patriot that general secretary model is. and now with reports that the president has ordered a withdrawal from afghanistan republican senator lindsey graham has called for congressional hearings on both decisions the foreign policy establishment is confronting one of its greatest fears but trump meant what he said on the campaign trail where for worse in the middle east that we were fifteen years ago i mean right now it's a disaster once trump filled his cabinet with people who did not share about view though the establishment thought it was safe i think it's fair to say that the establishment never wanted this moment to come stablish need and that is certainly as a member of that establishment in good standing. is only willing i think to. ask and

he's restored questions about u.s. policy in the region and even if things haven't gone well let me have it they're going asian is simply to persist there is skepticism about how deeply geo strategic trumps decision was and whether the president will even follow through. but several issues are reported to have been involved in the syria decision including the primacy of the us his strategic relationship with turkey and the avoidance of mission creep. in the last few months national security advisor john bolton has made it clear that the us was in syria to confront iran that was a position explicitly rejected in the tweet that announced the withdrawal we have defeated isis in syria my only reason for being there during the trump presidency the president writes the military itself is divided there are many senior officers in the military would think these serial deployments for a long period of time just aren't working and they're eroding military readiness

but it's worth remembering that even with these proposed withdrawals the u.s. still has tens of thousands of troops and massive air power in the region she ever towns the outer zero washington. and sudan a state of emergency has been extended to the northern whites nile states as protests against rising food and fuel prices spread eight people have been killed the cities of out and got us already under emergency rule and on thursday them astray sions fights the capital khartoum protest is angry about a seventy percent rate of inflation one of the world's highest economies struggled since losing most of its oil revenues since south sudan became independent in twenty eleven. opposition candidates in the democratic republic of congo and supporters to show restraint with unrest following the latest despondent of a long delayed presidential election malcolm webb reports from kinshasa.

these opposition supporters chant if there's no election by december the twenty third people will be killed president joseph kabila has let the democratic republic of congo for seventeen years it is due to step down for the last two. this man says he now could be this coming he's never stayed in power and there's no election will send soldiers but he can't kill us all. and this boy says we want the election if kabila doesn't want it he has to go. he will here support felix just a caddy one of the main opposition candidates they've gathered outside his party headquarters in the capital kinshasa. we don't have much patience with the government he said this man's a spy from the ruling party sent to stop violence to have it beaten. he was lucky

to be handed over to the police. elections that would have been delayed fighting. all the people here have been protesting actual to be held since before that right there broken up violently by police something are still alive people by the people here frustrated electoral commission yes they're not a delay and they're waiting to hear what their leaders say. position presidential candidates including she security skeptical about the seven day delay. we think this perspiring win is a way to push supporters to violence to burn election materials so that even the promise of an election on the thirty's the december cannot be fulfilled people here in kinshasa are waiting to see if they'll be trouble but leaders have called for calm i feel that this isn't for hope because these two words and this stand up.

until fifty december and the. article sixty four of our forces and ask me about what. ruling party officials told us they're not allowed to comment lot of people here wondering if the election really will happen on the thirtieth and wondering what will happen if it doesn't. al-jazeera kinshasa in the democratic republic of congo. tribal elders in a turn on the kenyan ethiopian border calling for calm after twenty one people died in a week of ethnic violence more late sits on both sides of the border fighting in ethiopia between ethnic and somali communities this year as forced thousands of people to escape to the kenyan side zain bus robineau from nairobi. a refugee crisis is playing out on the ethiopia kenya border. last week

a decades old dispute over tribal lands on the if your side of the town of moore ali turned violent again forcing the most vulnerable to flee into kenya. if you want to go back home but our houses have burnt. the population of split by an international border that runs through the center of the town a legacy of colonial rule that adds to the tensions in a place divided along ethnic lines for generations continuing fighting this year has forced thousands of refugees into kenya many are still there too afraid to go back their population that is here is too hesitant to go back the script. is being. worked on and if this people stay here most likely the host communities will have a lot of pressure on their food stalks. the tribal elders on the kenyan side say they want an end to the bloodshed and are worried about communities on both sides of the border. what's happened of the ethiopian side really worried us

members of the community government and security officials we are making sure what happened on the site doesn't spill over into kenya peace committee meetings. kenya during the past week involving both somali tribal elders are seen as a key part of maintaining peace on the ethiopian side these communities live on both say than their. individual teams on the if one of the on. immediate impact on families from. those who escaped fighting are safer now living with friends and family on the kenyan side of a divided town but the situation remains fragile for a lasting solution experts say the ethiopian government must resolve the land dispute in but it is difficult to divorce the fighting in a small border town from the bigger tribal dispute between ethnic communities something that's been going on for years and cuts across international boundaries

for now aid groups and local leaders here in kenya are trying to make sure that score settling doesn't bring the violence over the border. verby a center it's whistler just some of the world's famous ski resorts less well known is. it's the only resort into g.q. stone where a new generation of local ski is dreaming of sporting glory. stratford reports the country hopes that winter sports could boost the economy as well with more tourism at least fifty percent of the stone is over three thousand meters above sea level it's one of the most mountainous countries in the world mountain ranges that defy national borders include the prom is which stretch into northern afghanistan. and the chin hsiang which reach into kazakstan uzbekistan. and china but as you can stone has only one ski resort soffit is about seventy kilometers north of the touchy capital ducharme bay. it was built during the soviet era but has been

renovated and expanded in recent years after the first big snow fall of two thousand and eighteen olympic slalom skia aleesha could also has a lesson to give he represented tajikistan in the two thousand and fourteen olympics held in sochi russia. whenever i'm teaching the kids i feel great because this is my sport i teach them from the bottom of my heart because these kids will become flag bearers of the g. kids then. alicia teaches these children for free the kids come from poor families who can't afford the latest warm clothing but that doesn't in any way dampen the children's enthusiasm. i have been skiing for one year i want to ski in other countries i want to be the best at this bull. there may be only a couple of runs on these mountain slopes but they are enough to challenge these young learners and some who are considerably older now i have an escape for twenty

five years but i cannot tell you how much of a pleasure it is to be skiing again for the first time and especially here in tajikistan. back at the ski school children are preparing for another lesson eighteen year old medical barn helps them tighten their boots and ski bindings. from early childhood i had a dream to ski and so now my dream is come true because for six years i have practicing i've always wanted to represent my country and of course get the first prize. despite the uphill struggle of living in one of the poorest countries in asia these children have the enthusiasm and potential talent for being downhill champions one and all. that al-jazeera suffer daryl tajikistan.

this is al jazeera these are the top stories the u.s. federal government is hours away from a partial shutdown after president donald trump refused to back down on funding for his mexico border wall his demand for nearly six billion dollars is expected to be rejected by the senate. border security. the republicans understand it as you know or take it up today and it's really up to the democrats totally up to the democrats as to whether or not we have a shutdown. it's possible that we'll have a shutdown i would say the chances are probably very good because i don't think democrats care so much about maybe this issue but this is a very big issue it's an issue of pride stopped us republicans have expressed concerns and anger over the defense secretary james masseuses resignation senator lindsey graham is calling for an immediate hearing of the foreign relations

committee to discuss the matter the u.n. security council has approved a team of observers to monitor a cease fire in yemen's key port city of who data the u.n. monitors who won't be uniformed or armed deployed for an initial thirty days demonstrators are rallied in hungary to protest over a new amendment to the labor laws their critics are calling the slave law would allow employers to force people to work more overtime and even delay payments for up to three years nationwide protests have been held since last week. opposition candidates in the democratic republic of congo urging supporters to show restraint the call comes as large protests grip cities across the country the latest on the rest follows this week's percent of the long delayed presidential election. flights are returning to normal at london secondary port gatwick after another drone sighting temporarily grounded services and estimated one hundred twenty thousand people missed their flights during an earlier shutdown prompted by

a drone activity those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story i'll see very soon by. james mattis quits as u.s. defense secretary his protest resignation coming off the donald trump announced troops from syria is also said to be planning to pull u.s. forces will understand so it's not going who will now try and control an unpredictable president this isn't just.

hello and welcome to the program. it was seen as a measure of calm and stability in a white house swirling with chaos and unpredictability now james mattis has resigned as u.s. secretary of defense over a serious foreign policy differences with donald trump his departure comes as the president ordered a withdrawal of u.s. forces in syria and suggestions he'll pull thousands out of afghanistan too in his resignation letter to said he believes in treating allies with respect trumps announcement certainly took the u.s. his friends by surprise and left many wondering if the u.s. is a dependable ally we have lots to talk about with our guests in a moment but first mike hanna has this report from washington d.c. . like you here is the real deal is the real deal think the president trump an issue least surrounded himself with generals james mattis the

secretary of defense michael flynn as national security adviser followed by another general h.r. mcmaster and of course john kelly who was moved from homeland security to take over as chief of staff all are now gone or going matterson particular seen as a central figure in keeping a largely dysfunctional white house party functional secretary mabus was one of the few symbols the few items of strength and stability in this administration everything that indicates stability everything that indicates strength everything that indicates knowledge is leaving this administration when president trump criticize nato and threaten to leave it matters was the one reassuring allies behind the scenes he helped push the president to moderate his position on the g.c.c. crisis. and he was able to get the president to make an open ended commitment in afghanistan while loosening restrictions on u.s.

troops fighting there. and when trump tweeted out that he was banning transgender service members matters slow rolled the order until courts put it on hold the president's disenchantment was inevitably made public i think is sort of a democrat if you want to know the truth it would appear the final straw for james mattis was what many believe was a unilateral executive decision to withdraw u.s. forces from syria the secretary's resignation letter coming less than twenty four hours later making clear the core difference in his belief in multilateralism and respect for allies and the president's lack of either the letter continues because you have the right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects i believe it's right for me to step down from my position. this departures different from the many that have gone before highlighting like no other the maverick nature of a president that critics insist increasingly spurned said vice even on the eve of

a possible partial shutdown of government one that announces the resignation of a respected if not revered man who served his nation for decades in a tweet. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. let's bring in our guest joining us from maryland on skype is david eros is professor of near east south asia center for strategic studies at the national defense university and former director of nato operations at the pentagon from kabul habib or doug founding member of transparency afghanistan and national security analyst and from the us hold off on skype and craig assistant professor at the defense studies department king's college london and a specialist on jihadist groups in the middle east welcome to the program i'd like to begin with you in maryland david rush's we've heard a lot in the last twelve hours about the adults in the room and about james mattis

being the last adult to leave them by that they mean a tempering influence to some of the u.s. presidents more mecurio tendencies is that a fair way of describing the current situation. well we're not sure it's certainly a common way of describing the situation the president is mercurial the president is not a member of the washington foreign policy establishment he conducts himself as a businessman where it's acceptable to throw out positions and see what the reaction is even if you don't intend to take them he insists on tweeting he's incredibly and disciplined in its public messaging and i think it's fair to say that he drives the bureaucracy crazy. but there are you know other responsible people around him they may not have the profile stature and the kind of base of support and respect around washington that matters has but there are still

a lot of good people working in government in positions of authority to the door says the the letter that general mattis sent was not only should strongly but it was seemingly a rebuke of the way the president's going is the president likely to even listen to this given his past behavior the president takes some advice but i think he has a belief which his election bore out at least once that he has his finger on the pulse of america better than the people like me who live within the washington beltway andrus craigan dulce a little of the letter that general mattis sent was very strong and it said that the allies were absolutely key it seems that this white house doesn't really place much faith and its allies preferred to go its own way with up be a correct characterization to think. yes and no i mean it's so difficult to put a label on the trauma administration because a lot of the things as the david already pointed out

a lot of it it is kind of complex and in many ways also somewhat difficult to put in a box because you know the trouble white house has said you know the big model is america first and then has been translated in many ways a withdrawal from multilateral agreements it means you know a potential eve for many many months with basically putting a question mark behind us is integrity in nato it was basically saying you know we want to withdraw from most of the multilateral commitment that we have around the world if they don't serve our interests directly however he's made some u. turns when received it and i think that is was a very important character in ensuring that some of these huge urns of the drum astray she has made which were very important particular nato were his product and we're proud of his counsel and with him gone we have a lot of hawkish people in very prestigious high profile positions and many of these hawkish individuals might push him to take more hawkish what outlandish you know from him from american policy establishment point of view more outlandish and

decision when he comes to. the region of the middle east you know which i think matters very much a withdrawal that was drew no i mean this drama is dre ssion is one that doesn't necessarily mean i believe in mud only really serves their national interests and the way they have failed to somewhat understand a national interest can be very was by strong partnership and you know has somewhat led to this isolationist view that many have tried to put on the drum ministration when it's kind of cool to put him into that box because it was then you with kind of you can come on third or losses in maryland and just craig makes a very interesting point that whoever comes in next the secretary of defense may well be more hawkish on issues like iran sanctions on iran etc etc and that may well push the president into a further extreme position what's the president looking for in his next secretary of defense will it be somebody like that. well. he's got enough hawkish

issues of sanctions are determined primarily by treasury and state and he's pretty much comfortable with the guys he has there and of course john bolton i think on honestly the next secretary defense is going to focus more on the internal nuts and bolts of running the department of defense and rebuilding the depart a department of the fence that from the perspective of trump and his supporters has been run down. in seventeen years of fighting you know insurgencies in the middle east that don't really directly affect american interests at this moment and instead rebuild the capacity to confront near peer competitors like if russia tries to assault the baltics or if china tries to take taiwan again i think he's going to look at that sort of thing and when you look at his appointments the elevation of general mark milley from army chief of staff to the chairman of joint chiefs of

staff his message has been rebuilding the army for massive conventional warfare the secretary of the army mark asper who is a classmate of secular state my pump a.o. his focus has been on emphasizing rebuilding the army for conventional war and i think we'll see something like that so i think we'll see more of a technocrat rather than an ideal log let's get the view from kabul head clearly a very key u.s. ally you had that from david to russia's there's been this seventeen year low lawrence insurgents within within afghanistan itself the american public seemingly fed up of that what does this potential withdrawal of seven thousand troops seven thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan mean full in the kabul government. well i think more than. and he did else today afghans are thinking of the ninety's the civil war. the afghans look at this seven thousand troops withdrawal as

a premature withdrawal we believe that we have had fourteen thousand plus troops on the ground and you still have a lot of casualties inflicted to the afghan national army we have had provinces and districts lost two to the taliban and when you would draw seven thousand from the fourteen thousands you had i don't think this this conveys a very positive image and the reason we call it a premature withdrawal is because we are yet to strike a deal with the taliban. this will give is strong moral too to the taliban the taliban believe they have their time on their on their on their part where where the americans are now fed up of the seventeen years of war it did not bet any results for them on the other side you have the african government which serves as the local partner for the international community which is led by the united states

. the questions about its competence its capabilities are yet to be answered there is still a lot of corruption distilled division as of coming up with a united front to deal with the taliban in terms of peace so what does this peace would mean in terms of the governance the future of afghanistan. there's a panic mode everybody is in panic mode when they walk up to the news this morning . the future seems very uncertain at the moment we don't know how whether it will be seven thousand what happens to the assist chain of an advise program of the afghan national forces by the u.s. led coalition these are all the questions that when the time will answer for now everybody is in a in a panic mode. there are several questions to be answered clearly the policy will

unfold in the coming weeks but be aware of the courts want to follow up with you it's interesting that you mentioned the civil war in the ninety's there that civil war took place because there was a power vacuum which allow the afghan taliban to take over simply because there was no one to stop them are you worried you'll see that kind of situation again if the u.s. fully withdraws. absolutely yes given that if we could not get to teach it peace deal before the us would drop it i could i could understand that it's very likely. you have taliban that are stronger than any time else in the past seventeen years they have they have beyond forty percent of the territory that they control or either contest and you have a weak government which has its own internal problems. we are supposed to going to elections in the in the next six months but we have had parliamentary elections two

months ago which had its own crisis. and there's a lot of internal division in kabul amongst the political elites that we have in kabul and. it does not it does the picture does not look very very neat and clean given that you have the u.s. withdrawal i think taliban will start advancing towards kabul yes we do have the afghan national security forces they have paid a heavy heavy price over the past years in specific to the past three to four to five years given that the americans will withdraw you will have lack of air support and they will face all sorts of problems which does not sound good for the for the afghan government for the general afghan public it's not altogether very comfortable feeling and just craig i want to bring in head from does hold off. with

during the troops you're a military expert here while you work at the wall so his power in a king's college london tickly militarily is a sensible thing to do particular in dealing with a group like the afghan taliban. well i mean this is this comes in the context of what the trouble is gratian announce in syria as well so my point in syria is that from an operational point of view it will make a huge difference considering the. the americans have already since obama and trump in many ways it has continues that is having vested interests are a good rule for which i call sorry it will fail as a war by delegation where many americans are very and a relatively small contingent with boots on the ground which then use massive force multiplies with local forces so these kind of operations are interesting to knit to a degree because then they allow the americans to stay on the ground to create a context which will not lead to victory necessarily but at least keep you know in balance where many americans still have a say in tejas me however these both decisions in syria and afghanistan are highly

problematic because it sends a signal to allies and opponents across the region and i include afghanistan in the region yet that america no longer is interested to basically the burden of war and bear the burden of conflict in that region as they might have done sixty seventy sixty or seventy years and i was drawing especially in syria now you're sending all the signal to you allies and in afghanistan to the end of afghan national forces is sending a signal that we're actually no longer unnecessarily supporting you at the level that we promised and then kind of exposing them to the risk of the insurgent at this time in syria it might be nice as any other in afghanistan it might be isis and taliban you're basically and i'm going to be exposed to that huge risk without sufficient air support sufficient boots and trainers and directors on the ground so sorry wolf is already problematic as it is but at least it allows the americans to do a little bit by withdrawing you also sending a signal in syria to iran to russia and to turkey who are the real big players

america is not only interested in being a player and post conflict syria and i think stabilization both these conflicts in syrian and afghanistan means you need to long term commitments in order to oversee the stabilization process by withdrawing the west now completely loses any way in of determining how stabilization in the future will look like and many where in many ways allows the insertion tube to regain that ground and feel that the gap that has the void that was left. i'm going to follow up with you craig david in maryland said that the next secretary of defense may well be about the nuts and bolts of this possibly more secretary than defense do you think that's the way the defense department in the u.s. should be going given the threats and challenges it faces yes i mean overall i think if we look at the high i'm pretty of the challenges that the u.s. and the west in general is up against i think defense has to be written with

a small d. which means military is just one of the levers of power that should be concentrated upon in the new secretary of state will have to make sure that all these different levers of power in the defense realm ticket when we talk about information warfare and science on these also are included and i think a too much a robust into wench always focused on on conventional military operations near piazza david said and this is something i think is kind of missing the mark however i think if you look at the line of people that were up in negotiation discussion over the last couple of days in washington of who could succeed general masses all of these people i would share mattresses point of view are saying well the strategy is problematic in afghanistan in syria but if in the end of the day we want a some sort of a political outcome and somewhat of a political outcome that that you know is is. and is robust and sustainable where we also need to keep a bit of the pressure on at least and withdrawing means we're withdrawing our

operational military assets but also potential diplomatic and strategic assets and by bringing people around the table and to discuss that is the problem i don't think anybody in the defense department right now will or whoever was sixty will say that's actually a good idea because we do need the military leader in these in these two countries in order to facilitate a diplomatic solution that iraq has let's just talk about domestic politics head how much of this is the u.s. president donald trump for filling a campaign promise how much of this is actually just politicking he said he was going to get the americans out of unpopular and unwinnable wars. yeah boy that's a really good question and i and i think you put you put your finger right on it one thing that's really important to this president is that he wants to be able to go to the american people and say look i told you i'd do something i did it and

particularly the syria decision if you look at people forget but a year ago to this day you know the saudis and our other security partners in the gulf said hey we don't want the united states to leave syria it's important to confront iran there the president said all right we'll stay but i'm going to revisit this position in a year and i believe it was within the day within a day of the year or close to that so when the president says something he means it and he is good at gauging. public opinion particularly outside of you know the bubble i live in you know places like wisconsin michigan pennsylvania where it was felt he didn't have a chance traditional democratic strongholds these guys are saying what has seventeen years of war in afghanistan gotten us into when i deployed to afghanistan in two thousand and two my son was six months old and i had a beautiful mane of hair and now my son's got a beard and you have what you see before you in kabul have

a lot of luck i want to come to you. is it time for the afghans to look for another realm of rival allied then the u.s. government as it tons of thought to look to india for example pakistan china. it's a it's a very difficult question with the afghan government of afghanistan at large does not enjoy a very healthy relationship with. pakistan and india is quite far off india is quite far off i think it's very important for the afghan government and for the afghans to focus on fixing the african problem inside afghanistan. it's much more important than than going and looking for a year for yourself and not an ally in the region one thing is for sure that nobody could replace. the united states and tons of the financial aid that is given

to to the afghan government the international credibility that has been given to the afghan government and the military aid it is very important for the africans to focus on solving the problem inside of afghanistan but the one million dollar question will be are the taliban willing to talk to the afghan government because taliban stand is is very hawkish in terms of that they would want to talk to the americans and not the afghan government believing that the afghan government is a puppet regime it's the americans who topple dead lesion so that the and the americans are acting as an invader force in afghanistan and they will talk to the americans alone and taliban being non-state actor and going to in negotiating table and talking to the americans about the future of afghanistan in terms of peace in terms of the future government i think they're already winning on political front

as well they have been fighting quite hard over the past seventeen years in and funds inquired rapidly specially over the past four to five years. meaning winning militarily and now dio discarding politically as well it is not a good sign for the african government and and for the afghan people at large. to reiterate my point i think it's very important to focus on how we can reach to a peace deal inside afghanistan india cannot come and replace the united states china it will be difficult for china to come in to please. the united states and other words we just got to fix our own own problem. we all running out of time but i do want to end with you david in maryland you've heard well how the border there in kabul how to say that is time for the afghans to step up and so solve the own

problems almost this it will be seen as a victory full president donald trump if that happens but it's unlikely to happen isn't it. yeah i mean look the problem the afghan government has been the same problem since two thousand and three and you know the problem is you know just just one habeeb said. you know corruption inefficiency all these institutions of the afghan government spite of millions of dollars is a lot of s.u.v.s and restaurants in kabul the population of kabul has tripled since i was there but what is it done outside of the area that the international forces secure and it's a real tragedy for the afghan national security forces that they've been fighting and dying for a government that's still not very good so if the afghans were to solve it i think it would be a lot easier for america to continue to support it but you know the litany and senior officials of both parties have said and military officers like general dan bolger of just said hey man it's just time to go we've lost when we haven't

admitted it i think it's also fair to say that the obama deadline to leave that is initially what really in bold and revive the taliban movement because that just said hey man all we got to do is you know hide out and eventually these guys are going to go where i want to thank you all sadly we are out to tie on an issue that is going to go on for a very long time thank you david at their offices and have the word that and enjoy a scrape and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting a web site al jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to a facebook page that's face but don't come forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me in monaco and the whole team here i found out.

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for six months an undercover reporter from al-jazeera an investigative unit joined one of europe's fastest growing far right movements. generation identities dramatic stunts have attracted media attention and thousands of followers. in only twenty eight around one hundred militants blocked amounts and used by migrants on the france it's only for the. generation i don't see claims to be a nonviolent non-racist political movement. at all on the cover of found otherwise . to do with the usual. generation identity activists carry out

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