just. as he gets up there was a power vacuum off to the withdrawal of soviet forces and luke usually moves food out of the territories in a for trucks did see the new. guys in the zone of the biggest moment. in the north people gathered around the northern alliance and its leader ahmed shah massoud the so-called lion of publishers. in the south and east another movement began to assert itself in ethnic pashtun areas they called themselves the taliban and was supported militarily by pakistan then in conflict with india. the pakistanis were trying to impose their

will on the future of afghanistan and they wanted to ensure that afghanistan was not going to be a strong viable nation state that could in any way reconnect as they had in the past was india. taliban leader mullah mohammad omar was a war hero from the years of insurgency against the soviet union. pakistan decided it was going to assist mullah mohammad omar and this group which had no name and what they provided was money that for a. training ammunition trucks tactical advice and then eventually they provided they. the students religious students afghans and pakistanis ending what became to mean thirteen thousand. within the northwestern frontier province. and joining go in in the fight.

before becoming an attorney julie soon worked as an intelligence analyst at the pentagon sources in afghanistan warned against you know accounts close relationship with the taliban. worldwide there is a very broad perception that unocal was wrecking with the us government to promote the taleban as the most likely source for a stable single group in trolling afghanistan. and there was so i think an after or hopefulness on the part of some that if this pipeline could be put through it could be a source of stability or development for afghanistan and i personally don't like

the idea that that stability would mean that the taliban would be in charge. with the civil war raging mahdi militia went on these first journey into afghanistan. at the time there were six or seven were lowered that were feuding with each other and it was you know if afghanistan was not a real safe place to be. the first thing i noticed is the devastation. the counter reminded me of the pictures i'd seen of. germany post world war two. the taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there wasn't a stick of furniture in the house and all that we we slept on the floor and i know . had to it was kind

a little traveling road show sort of thing course you know now slide projector yeah because there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts and short some things and some just basically to describe the project and and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. they were measuring always if you guys will quit fighting with each other and form a government to get you in recognition that allows us to attract the world back to maybe be financial. then we may have a deal. but the taliban were on the offensive and drove the northern alliance concept of the cities of mazar e sharif and kabul. they then controlled most of the country. mohammad's not too long president during

the soviet occupation had been spared by the northern alliance but the taliban showed no mercy not buddha was first tortured cuss treated and then harmed alongside his brother. the execution was a clear sign of what kind of regime had seized power in kabul. julie says traveled in secrecy took a bill in one nine hundred ninety seven in order to learn more about the new regime . i had gone into kabul when it was held by the talabani secretly ace they dressed as as an afghan woman in a burka us. they seemed very foreign to me.

certainly many conservative muslims but even among them they generally do not support the sort of extremism that the taliban stand for i see the taliban really is an alien force. their attitude toward women or a number of human rights issues i found disturbing but i think it was that larger geopolitical issue of them being back i had pakistanis that was most disturbing to me. not. when the tide went to me and called out did you kill your own go down but you need to have a good experience with. the taleban man said bitterly just today it's. still

being learning insanities and their mother says they couldn't did it was not to kill her but to truth that it was a twelve day international community that was the top mark. america's concern about afghanistan had been minimal before the unocal pipeline project but on him and just negotiations spock's the clinton administration's interest in the country. i'd probably go to washington d c o once every six state weeks and i would typically meet with the state department the n.s.a. and cia. the cia was was very very well for you know they have this shadowy image i guess you call of that i found very straightforward and very professional and i think the clinton administration was really committed to helping you know american

business be successful. we enjoyed and really strong support from the. unit wasn't the only oil company that wanted to build. pipeline in afghanistan option time company breed us was also trying to do a deal with the taliban. oh but he does win this fight and the meal was over and does so little stove ins of the hands of. the doomed is of a no is this is the other one had to let him out who is a shrug i kid you know cause that a cool idea with the news was that as. the taliban delegation arrived at unocal is headquarters in december of ninety ninety seven. marty came home one day and said that when she thanked about having

a group of taliban and on occasion come to our home for dinner. didn't know what to say at the time i had to thank it trail and i was pretty naive maybe they come in and say how americans home and realize that their. average regular people maybe it would you know be good for them to to do this and agree to do it. on a multi million did their utmost to avoid offending the taliban visitors and removed all the religious pictures and figures. but they did not remove the christmas trees the air that the taliban came to our house there was a charity fundraiser thing and we had seven christmas trees in our house and the tali bomb just have blew their mind they can figure out what that was all about and

i think they were trying to. make a connection between a christmas tree and the birth of jesus christ and you know that you're just trying to make a religious guy can. action with what's his christmas tree all about. they never did understand that thing. as a whole there was free because that is true too different from. eastern culture but the phone to the nazis over the what it focused society and progress during. new outfit and custom that. dressed in their newly acquired jackets the afghans visited one of unocal z. offshore platforms. and freshened i doubt as they were amazed they were stunned to see these platforms in the gulf of mexico over seven in like three

hundred feet of water i think just the magnitude in the complexity of things and they were very well blown away by. the next leg of their journey to the visitors to omaha nebraska where they met one of america's foremost experts on afghanistan petroleum resources. the united states were trying their best to talk to the taliban who are obviously beginning to take over the whole of afghanistan the state department asked me to talk to the taliban's and they brought them in here. and so this room instead of having guys in suits and ties like they always had before these were talabani and you know was co-captain turbans and long beards and i really had to say they were afghans no problem and so i told him i showed him all this neat whiz bang satellite imagery

and stuff and you know if you're looking at our country we're looking at your country where you is and you can do this to show you how to do this all you need do is come over here and get educated in this stuff. the taliban teams journey ended in washington d.c. where they met leading officials at the state department. the state department was still hopeful that this was going to be a part of the international combined effort that would be profitable for unocal profitable for the afghans commercially and financially profitable for the afghans in terms of development and education profitable for the region. the tali bhangra interest in the project they were keen on making it happen they never did sign a cooperation agreement or anything like that because they were afraid to sign anything without knowing specifically that mullah omar was was behind it.

there are hardly any pictures of the mysterious taliban leader. in these rare footage of him home tries to hide behind a blanket. and . i was in khandahar the first time he was there and they kept saying that they were going to go talk i dast if i could go scene and they said no no no. you're not seeing shots of to see them all over your. mind you know khalid was in dialogue with the taliban about the pipelines another actor began to assert himself in afghanistan will sum up bin laden.

this son of a saudi construction millionaire was a local hero because he participated in the insurgency against the soviet union. in return to afghanistan in nine hundred ninety six after having be forced to leave the sudan. now he was preparing for a new war global jihad. wayne started on. the good hot in consequence a country that called billions and seeks to be found it was some of the not any nice colleagues eager to sue the taliban moved in to condemn not to be protected. as a rival back in afghanistan coincided with my own to work with the un.

never met the salad that a lot of i saw months in the bazaar then as convoy car passing by but i never you know we didn't labor anything we didn't know each other were looking at the other so. that first year that he was in the area was the time when he's solidified his relationship with mullah mohammad omar. natoma and rid of the. there is a lot of work in those you go. well the nature of the moves i don't want to say you have to do with the job to do but when i'm going to miss you more when the interview took on a whole i will miss the cut. in afghanistan marty miller and you know col how did the cia did the training of local workers who would to be employed on the so-called peace pipeline. we'd like to hire

locally so we had employment opportunities for the afghans in fact one of the things we didn't khandahar as we established a training center we found an old abandoned warehouse that we outfitted then we brought some equipment any a welding equipment. tools that were needed for the training. without being aware of it marty miller had established his training center in the same street as a sawmill bin laden's house. and i'd never heard of the guy before i didn't know who it was looking back on it. kind of gives me the creeps this is think about his act most of that guy. was someone bin ladin was also busy building training facilities.

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good. luck. lead. osama bin ladin was busy building training facilities. bin laden eventually became responsible for organizing the flow of foreign fighters between chechnya bosnia and the arab world for the taliban these soldiers were useful reinforcements in the fight against the northern alliance this enabled been logging to strengthen his alliance with the taliban and to recruit soldiers for his holy war on the western world. was this your first boat that idea that it is no yes but my video i think that

there are. no survivors that are left out of the one on the album for you that well it can vary a bit and their value in that you know if you but you've got a lot of it on and. yet. on the seventh of august nine hundred ninety eight a bomb exploded at the u.s. embassy in nairobi. similar tenuously a bomb detonated in neighboring tanzania two hundred twenty four people died in these terrorist attacks and building four thousand were injured. the i'll call you to trademark was established serial attacks triggered by suicide bombers. i don't think i was terribly surprised when i heard about what had happened because in laden was there he was able to do it in

a standing he was being attempted by the taliban. the young spy wanted to learn more about bin ladin and visited his enemies the northern alliance it was a perilous journey on horseback. along bad roads. in my interest in what was going on in the n.t. taliban areas because that was the area where we did not have a lot of them from asia and then my sense from back in washington is that a lot of officials and policymakers grinches writing off the resistance to the taliban. and. she met northern alliance leader ahmad shah masood who asked for support from the west in the fight against the taliban and al qaida. during her visit says go to unique insight into what was to come.

northern alliance prisons were full of foreign fighters from several countries their goal was to participate in the global jihad. she was especially shocked by what the prisoners told her about the close relationship between pakistan the taliban and al qaida most rude urgent he wanted to alert the west he wanted more people to know about the taleban and how they were interacting with bin ladin in to emphasize that if we were opposing bin laden that we should really realize that he and the taliban were sharing the same goals and resources and funding. but judy says report was not well received by her bosses at the pentagon. the state department was even more annoyed people were saying they were very upset about my trip and i was told i simply wasn't going to

be able to stay and that they weren't going to give me my security clearance back so essentially they fired me. the clinton administration continued in its efforts to influence the taliban regime . and we were in the middle of trying to. get them to modify their behavior and i'm a believer and you talk to your friends and your enemies talking is not acceptance of those practices. from day one clinton is trying to push back in first you know control and then pressure the taliban regime into change and of course that escalated once a son of bin ladin left sudan and went to afghanistan in one thousand nine hundred six the bombings of ninety eight were conducted from there so it was very much on the forefront of. the problem of osama bin laden stood in the way of any agreement

about future oil and gas pipelines. he had declared war on america and this on the taney as bombings of our embassies in tanzania and kenya really put us on a war footing with sound and then from that point on we were actually trying to kill him. on the twentieth of august nine hundred ninety seven president clinton ordered the launch of cruise missiles against several outcall you bases in my time to stop. four of the bases were destroyed in twenty five. were killed but bin laden himself escaped i remember when president clinton sent some cruise missiles and afghanistan. i just as when i told. my boss in the board of directors that it was time that this this one got to go anywhere any time soon.

about point you know withdrew from the park blind project but the french intelligence analyst. argues that the idea of an oil and gas pipeline leave don't. you know states what was fixing. they were pressuring the taliban to release bin laden. by negotiating about the pipeline the same sign the taliban were thinking they were calling the united states is not in by discussing within the python. a mile mark the five line issue was it leverage in preserving his country from u.s. strikes and avoiding to take a decision on on bin laden. osama bin laden was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. a strategy memo from bin laden's close aide to mohammed

ought to have was found to join the investigation of the nine hundred ninety eight east africa embassy attacks this memo written by mohammed that says it states clearly that as far as the taliban were mentioning relationship in some way was with american businesses over his project or u.s. diplomats. and their security and tightest security is guaranteed. to him. the terror attacks against the east african embassies tested the relationship between the taliban and the al qaida leader. because chris is not

going to stop. making a big part of the trip. there that in there in the early should between a kind of sign and the international community. there are. a lot of. that would be part of those see was a victim of thirty bucks or so you know sort of blood because you know sid valuable though baseload near zero but the kind you oh by the way those shooter was on thursday. the deer counted out as you know. and just sort of figured it was jewish understand the saudis have been there many of. them and found. jones to call the for you from a hunger strike in front of another. for the. news that he.

did that is. towards the end of the ninety's the pipelines were no longer on the agenda or in talks between the u.s. and the taliban. the u.s. asked thirty times for osama bin laden to be handed over but the taliban gave no clear answer the tox went a century now where the taliban the more we would close and the more they push back the more we push them on al-qaeda expelling us salad bin ladin the more they would fish back. they just got more into science. to keep. not follow and to build teach you talk to no man no of the honey you. tell your bottle. for them that you know that nobody. does a fish will reach one hundred not to do but do away no i'll tell you one of the dogs

come. when george w. bush came to power in two thousand and one here in new thames to get bin ladin extradited and get started with the construction of the oil pipeline. by van unit. it was out of the picture but others tried to revive the plans. w. bush in this direct connection with the oil industry and he was to try to be more pissed resist word that i. made a special documentary about the prelude to september the eleventh. american born adam gadahn is the film's narrator an attack on afghanistan had been planned for

a long time the americans are boiling mad about a number of things the islamic emirates domination of strategic energy reserves as well as the root of the proposed gas pipeline from the caspian sea. and most of all its refusal to hand over osama. in berlin in july two thousand and one a final dramatic meeting about the taliban was arranged between representatives of the united states government and all the players in the region. to pongs during these talks there's a u.s. representatives that would make this ultimatum that will have entered the car because of holes in the carpet bomb. the americans and informed their allies during a meeting in germany of their plan to invade afghanistan in the autumn

before the first snowfall which is what the eventually did so we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike. get my. eye . i was there in nine and they were in new york it has already said and. there were a tragic and how about of the people of the united states innocent people by the

way of doing coke. was not beloved in this but i knew. he. was above the so i would get it that is that if i would be judged on zero or on videotape. by the cannot just reduce. the initial ones are there to tell you about us so to speak to. cross over. the taliban offer to extradite osama bin laden to a third country but now the americans have decided to remove both him and the taliban the from the seventh of october america and britain attacked. the northern alliance exploited the resulting calles and the taliban regime unraveled. on the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of

kabul failed. with us backing canid karzai was inaugurated as president his brother had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plan it was. soon after nine eleven in a couple of moms suddenly we feared that's governments from the region got together and basically decided to revive the project. that means that even without knowing the fate of. terms of stability all these countries at come to the same conclusion they had reached before nine eleven the spy plane was crucial that. the interests. after years of war there is still no pipeline the taliban is back in strength and

reluctant to negotiate about peace. they cost the kind of on the government brought to a new government and the title of democracy in the human rights meant dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against paygo had been installed by the international community is to integrate into. the war against the taliban has made the building of the pipeline impossible. the afghan north also how some oil after the pipeline was shelved john ival who had left unocal considered investing in an oil and gas project in mazar e sharif. look at afghanistan

a political risk is amazingly high. but the reward is also moderate. opportunity for. the rich to argue that the country's petroleum. previously. that part of the world for both mineral resources and that's pretty spectacular. who are. those resources first. and then the past thirty years of war nobody's been able to do much. one afghan who tried to develop the country. stage was king mohammed zahir shah. after thirty years in exile he returned

a lot of afghanistan's history has been. when he was only nineteen years old nine hundred thirty seven when he gave the u.s. firm inland exploration company exclusive rights to oil extraction in the northern areas of the country. they were also given the rights to build a sixteen hundred kilometer pipeline. but the second world put a stop to these plans. older afghans. peace economic progress the introduction of democracy and education. they need any. major new attempts to restart. production in the fifty's and sixty's a series of test wells were drilled and. mapped the country's resources.

afghanistan at the end of the seventy's as part of the atlas afghanistan project. he got a unique insight into the maps of mineral resources. there was one american geologist me and two hundred fifty soviet russian geologist. so when i left afghanistan in late seventy eight i was actually be ported by the communists who had taken over the government i left having sent my maps out of the country in a diplomatic pouch came back to the united states and i worked on the mineral resources in afghanistan ever since. west of mazower and other remains of a canister finally from the soviet era. the plant is stayed in operation but no longer produces as much as when the russians were there. mouthing about on the fall

yeah i don't understand candles are not that hold only shasta million goes down as it has sought asylum laws passed flour johnny surely and saddam saldana mission that. could be quite sure that in asia. in two thousand and seven an experienced oil geologist rediscovered this area. he'd previously worked for unocal but he now worked as head of the norwegian aid project oil for development he wanted to help afghanistan with a new oil will. guide you along to his dissuaded from traveling to the north but with an armed escort he went anyway. at one gas plant

he discovered a brick don't room where documentation of soviet oil and gas production had been hidden. behind the secret wool lay old maps and seismic surveys that showed afghanistan's oil and gas resources was significantly greater than the outside world was aware of made his tin though there is so much all that on the air this is ultimately a sister. well the message in that i was told all shitsville fourteen years after the thetan is over than that in the midst of a legal flotilla to. the administration offices vote oil and gas in mazar i sharif allocated in old soviet buildings. chief engineer mohammed to john attardi has made it his life's work to preserve the

dusty archives. several times he saved maps and documents from destruction. lapointe inaccurate critical cannot get on the ground and get home i will not. know why would i not if he got it on my wall or young girls stuff on my third husband that i was young good our time and good that he couldn't do it any other girl didn't shut down after about us you can do it you know how i don't know how he ended she asked me how much of a mind he is a muslim first feeling that would make me look on their guy a moment as he is american not like a young girl that he could have the knowledge no not me if you don't have any girl muslim now that's a woman i don't know oh you don't know how. i felt i don't know what i want on behalf of the majority. leader and.

despite little money and poor health i toddy has systemized to finals and preserve the valuable data for the future i don't know one of the red least i want to talk of the job of our day not wanted or india could make about it a moment ago i thought that i'd buy the time but i reckon you i mean there's just not a need at all i know or don't know or don't offer. you may have to hold on a moment mad mad cow but he'll be a good question for you more we will get those covering up the courage of course a little eco whatever you think that. the united states once hoped the peace pipe line would unite the warring parties in afghanistan they still do amazingly enough they still want to build it. america's arch enemy iran also wants to build an oil and gas pipeline to india

tehran is in a hurry the aim is that a new peace pipeline should be completed in twenty seventeen. but again it has to go through taliban controlled areas peace with the taliban is more important than ever. was at risk of deja vu all over again it's not impossible that the taliban would come back to power they are an element and they're not going away and in order to have. i would say peace not necessarily have prosperity in afghanistan they're going to have to be a part of that fabric of society the more you can bring them into the tent and encourage moderate elements to emerge the more stable afghanistan will be. looking back i have to say i was terribly naive. henry kissinger's that this project is

a triumph of hope over experience and that hit me right between the eyes and through borders a lot of content and that getting a little common and i found it proved to be true. hello we've got more when she weather pushing across the middle east some rather disturbed weather actually just piling in across eastern side of the mediterranean we have outbreaks of rain for the eastern med just around cyprus pushing into the levant fifteen celsius in the cloud and the rain for looking rather disappointing on sunday will make its way further eisa make the most of that sunshine in baghdad in kuwait city eighteen or nineteen degrees that disturbed weather palls its way across iraq western side of iran seeing some rather disturbed weather from time to time north of the country up towards the caspian sea could also see some snow little more cloud there you see just driving its way over towards afghanistan but

kabul stays largely dry it's cloudy at around eight degrees celsius some cloud to across northern parts of saudi arabia on the same weather system then so a chance of some rain some spots of rights any possibility towards central parts of saudi riyadh could see some wet weather and that really disturbed weather piling out of kuwait city heavy downpours western parts of iran could see some localized flooding even catch your sport of rain here and carter is in doha at around twenty three degrees a good chance this is right across the eastern side of south africa as well as we go on through sunday and those showers intensifying for monday. on counting the cost digital divisions world's population risks missing out on the next evolution of the internet from russia with. kremlin banks investments in venezuela are all about plus a report from senegal currency control the city county would call. we know

the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations we are out there going i'm tired ryan reynolds. we are challenging the forces we're challenging companies we're going to places where nobody else is going. the u.s. gives the u.n. security council a draft resolution calling for presidential elections in venezuela.

we're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha and also ahead. the final push to root out eisel from syria u.s. backed forces prepare for a ground battle. why some environmentalists in india say the government's efforts to clean up their waterways isn't working. and a monumental change how the newly named north macedonia is rewriting its history. follow the u.s. and russia have come up with counter proposals to try to end the political crisis in venezuela the u.s. is calling for elections on nicolas maduro presidency in a draft resolution at the u.n. security council it's also seeking the delivery of international aid russia's counterproposal on expresses concern that any attempts to use force to topple maduro and put opposition leader fido and power no date has been set for

a vote on the u.s. draft but russia is likely to use its veto power it's a block and china another security council member supports majority it's called for dialogue meanwhile a top military man has switched allegiances to one and colonel rubin passkey men as says ninety percent of his colleagues in the armed forces are unhappy in this video released on saturday the army doctor urged fellow troops to allow aid into venezuela a week ago an air force general also switched sides saying he was backing. well a bridge between venezuela and colombia is a lifeline for thousands of people the simone believe our international border bridge remains open and is getting increasingly popular for people going into colombia to get food and other essentials the cross border bridge is blocked by a fuel tank and cargo containers as president nicolas maduro refuses to allow u.s. aid in. well it from the u.s.

has become part of the crisis the president says it's a ploy by washington to stage a coup international organizations that traditionally deal with humanitarian aid or keeping away saying what the u.s. is sending is political aides us to risible reports from people are as much divided by the offer for help. yankees go home is the message of this gathering in. the search supporters of president. who want to reassure the world that there are precedents won't be leaving office any time soon . and our revolution is here to stay twenty years of unique crisis in latin america we are going to be again the ladies of amazement that will take freedom to other countries in the world the rally is happening as the united states and canada are getting wedded to sending humanitarian aid in cooperation with a self declared president while hugo aid is perceived here as

a form of intervention people here say that the confrontation is not with the opposition but with a united states who is trying to take control of this country's natural resources and that's why they have come here to this club to sign a document that requests the united states to respect venezuela sovereignty but he bit thirty one of the largest barriers in latin america but only said says people need almost everything all her family has already left the country she says hyperinflation makes it difficult for her to eat every day they're resold so no water gas or health clinic where she lives an example of the enormous deterioration that has taken over venezuela's capital the them we're here since died the situation got worse and worse now it's horrible i cannot say i'm going to buy chicken because i cons of forded i live on pension of six dollars a month and that's why people like i waiting for any. assistance they may get not

caring where it comes from the u.s. is already sending field and medicines to the border but how it makes it into the country remains to be seen international organizations fear the consequences of using humanitarian aid politically confronting situation on the humanitarian aid and this is the reason why i have decided to come as from his posse one just two days ago i arrived here in trying to fix and to ask to both sides to clean the table from these useless discussion. because there isn't a grease gun in politicizing the humanitarian aid we want to use our humanitarian china without any involvement by in the police. because they say we should call a political aide that not to you money and you money damages and we'll talk by definition. in a country as polarized as venezuela neutrality is difficult to find. and that's why assistance from abroad is being used by both sides for the

government it's the evidence it's under attack for the opposition the possibility of showing it can bring some type of relief to people's lives. and just got back us . curtis led forces backed by the u.s. are trying to push i sold from its last pocket of territory in eastern syria twenty thousand civilians have been evacuated from the area held by the armed group but hundreds are still thought to be inside the offensive by the syrian forces focus on the village of who is near the border with iraq since amman again reports. the stage is set for what's being called the final ground battle against isis all the kurdish led syrian democratic forces work has the backing of american air power and i still is surrounded. and ready for an exchange of fire commanders are confident that this will be ice will last. this battle will be sealed in the next

coming days. most of the terrorist in baghdad is a foreigner in the last two months most two hundred cells in who were arrested they were foreign. there are varying numbers the clinton civilians who were leaving by tuesday maybe about a thousand civilians in between five hundred and six hundred terrorists so that means that maybe close to two thousand or three thousand civilians. eisel once controlled large parts of iraq in syria but a concerted campaign by regional and international forces has forced them back to a small area around the village of bugaboos. well s.d.f. military commanders are promoting this as the end of eisel many experts believe the group will continue to pose a threat president trump has been very clear to say that this is to kill off it that is being destroyed not isis the terrorist group which will continue to survive and as we know isis members have fled to yemen to libya nigeria they're there

they're scattered about the middle east but of course this is the we believe there are several thousand left scattered around iraq in syria and many of them are foreign fighters the coming battle will be a milestone in syria's war but humanitarian challenges will continue long after the fighting ends around twenty thousand people have been forced from their homes ahead of the assault on boat crews including the families of eisel fighters. still doing thousands more in refugee camps where conditions are dire due to chronic shortages of food and medicines much of the country's infrastructure is in ruins these people won't know when they'll be able to return home into modern al-jazeera for the u.s. president donald trump has predicted eisel will have lost all its territory within days and he gallagher has more from washington. well in essence don't trump already has declared victory against isolette look at the timeline from december when he

first made that announcement and that i saw had been defeated in that in fact he was going to bring the two thousand or so u.s. troops back from syria and that's really the key question here is the fate of those u.s. boots on the ground in syria donald trump has made it fairly clear that he wants to bring them back but that has had consequences he's gone against advice from his own generals in fact his secretary of defense at the time jim artist resigned over that and other global policy issues his own generals are still saying it's not a good idea let's not take any rash action here and then within the last couple of weeks his own party the republican party served him up a pretty harsh rebuke when they disagreed with his wish to bring those two thousand troops back from syria so what we've had since december since all john made that surprise announcement that he was going to withdraw those troops is the president swinging backwards and forwards saying he may bring them back immediately he may

bring the back in the next few months we can get back there if we need to or we just going to keep them there for now so it's a very confusing situation the overall sense is that as commander in chief he does want to withdraw those forces that sixteen soldiers have been killed in western afghanistan in fighting with the taliban four others were injured in the overnight battle with government forces and the state of the taliban has kept up attacks on the afghan military despite all going talks aimed at ending a seventeen year war members of sudan's parliament have called for an emergency session to discuss the government's treatment of protesters several politicians say they're worried about an excessive use of force hundreds of people have been arrested since rallies against president are met and bashir began in december and human rights groups say at least forty five people have been killed in the violence so don state media says all detained journalists will be released. protesters in haiti have thrown rocks at the president's home they've also fought with police.