the plight of britain's african troops. the forgotten heroes of empire. i'm sami's a them in their look at the headlines here now this is now the u.s. house of representatives as pasta resolution to end american military involvement in the saudi led war in yemen it's a direct rebuke of the trumpet ministration support for the kingdom the measure now faces a contentious vote in the senate the u.s. president says he'll veto it hasn't is the co-director of just foreign policy and u.s. advocacy groups lobbying congress to fund and then to yemen's war he says the house is likely to have leverage. on the ground it's a wonderful bipartisan moment let's take

a look at what's happening on the ground in yemen right now on december thirteenth u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths was able to secure a cease fire between the two sides the hobbies and the who these because of the congressional pressure on the trump administration and saudi arabia now that has been a fragile cease fire the suffering in yemen remains on the biblical scale twelve million people on the brink of famine and talks are resuming again right now they're actually grip it is in who data province right now in the harbor on a boat talking to both sides they're trying to agree to the prisoner exchange fifteen thousand prisoners to be exchanged between the two sides and also to have the forces inside her data province redeployed now so this vote the timing of this vote creates tremendous leverage for those peace talks so i think you could have a real of impact on the ground. at least twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in

a suicide bombing near the pakistan border the attacker drove a vehicle filled with explosives into their bass local media say soon the armed group has claimed responsibility this came as a u.s. sponsored conference opened in poland on the security situation in the middle east it's widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran. and us judge says dark transform a campaign chief has breached his plea deal by lying to investigators or manifold has been found in violation of his agreement with the special counsel robert muller is investigating the russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election the judge ruled manifolds intentionally lied about his contacts with a russian associate mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . this represents a significant victory for robert miller's team the judge has agreed with prosecutors that paul nunn effort has violated his plea bargain by lying on

a number of occasions to the f.b.i. and to prosecutors themselves he will face sentencing in the same court before the same judge on the thirteenth of next month and clearly he could face extensive jail time one must remember too that manifold is also facing sentencing in a separate case this one concerning financial crimes sentencing in that particular case was postponed pending the outcome of these plea bargain hearings but very clear that the special counsel's investigation is continuing apace not clear when or whether his report is going to be publicly released in the near future. furnace waivers opposition controlled congress has named new boards of directors to the state owned oil company opposition leader one announce the appointments of directors that clearly is to venezuela and its u.s. subsidiary citgo petroleum the opposition is trying to gain control of an

opposition of an industry rather that is the economic backbone of the country at least nine people have died after nearly a week of anti-government protests in haiti the demonstrators are calling on president. to step down that angry about rising costs economic stagnation and corruption. manufacturer bosses announced it will cease production of the world's largest passenger plane plane assented the fleet of only a few major airlines biggest customer ever it's just reduced its order for the a three eighty super jumbo the european aircraft maker will not continue for the auction past twenty twenty one double decker planes began flying ten years ago. taliban oil now stay with us.

who started this thing i only know who the taliban were and i didn't know how radical they were just what they were about. one of the things of the talabani is is that they didn't have a clue about oil and gas business the idea was was to bring him over and

establish credibility with it with the taliban that we were a real company. multi millon secretly invited to a group of taliban leaders to unit cows headquarters in sugar land texas. no press covered the event. i have some the statues that i got in indonesia and there are figures of the people carved out of iron wood and the people are neck it. and i had that one of these professors islamic professors check my house out when he saw these things he said i don't think that's going to work with the dollars bond. said well the days when you got some black trash bags of the adhesive and put workers on the stuff that's what they did with the burgers on the statue. and. marty miller was

a vice president of oil company unocal. they wanted to build a huge oil and gas pipeline through taliban controlled areas of afghanistan. but how did these negotiations influence us foreign policy towards the taliban. and. i am. lucky. enough current capital kabul is preparing for

a new iraq foreign forces of mostly was drawn from the afghan soldiers and police will now be responsible for security in the country. but in twenty fourteen five thousand of them were killed in battles against the taliban. but the taliban hasn't always been an enemy of the west today their former foreign secretary lives in a heavily guarded house in one of couple's bettors suburbs. during the ninety's he was involved in discussions with the american oil company unocal. the i will take my advice you will cause in a. blow the world out of me just four hundred. there are more than one jewish. but as if to say enough is a loophole for the it could be

a political will come but it's not as if he wants. if they bought the levy of it i took the lives of others that it be out of it by the homeless but that's it this is all out of my psyche of. those if i there was that they think it will last. since the soviet invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine the country has been in a state of constant new phase. during the afghan insurgency the mujahedeen received extensive weapons support from the united states and britain in their struggle against the russians. and. the soviet occupation ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. two years later the soviet union also collapsed.

you know cows c.e.o. john saw an opportunity in the full of the iron curtain. at the time the soviet union broke up and china opened up which shop and more last sametime read a very senior guy. kind of cruising the former soviet union to look for opportunities. where you realize that turkmenistan had huge world class gas reserves which were produced by the soviet union but after breaking up they were not produced any longer because russia had his own gas supplies to bring to market from siberia so mr john was stock was reserves of no market. unocal wanted to build two pipelines one for oil and one for gas the pipelines would go from many stunned through afghanistan pakistan and india

a distance of well over seventeen hundred kilometers construction costs would be close to ten billion dollars. of calmness done could earn four hundred million dollars per year in transportation costs which would more than double the afghan government's income at that time the whole area is just in turmoil you know the pakistanis don't like the afghans afghans don't like the fact stan is the turkmen are skeptical of both of them and then you've got india and pakistan all of that is just a mess and there. is a good stuff there was a power vacuum off to the withdrawal of soviet forces and local schools flipped over the territories in a for trusted civil war i know. you guys. because i'm a go. 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 s. nic past june 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 have in the past was india. taliban leader mullah mohammad omar was a war hero from the use of insurgency against the soviet union. pakistan

decided it was going to assist all of all how it all my are in this group which had no name and what they provided was money on that front or a. training ammunition trucks tactical advice and then eventually they provided they call absurd the students really just students afghans and pakistanis getting what he came to being thirteen thousand bhadra saw us once in the northwestern frontier province or the adjoining go in and the fight. before becoming an attorney julie soon worked as an intelligence analyst at the pentagon sources in afghanistan warned against you know cows close relationship with the taliban. worldwide there is

a very broad perception that unocal was wrecking with the u.s. government to promote the taleban as the most likely source or as a stable single group in trolling afghanistan. and there was a safe think in after. or hopefulness on the part of sound 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 warlords 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 notice is the devastation. you 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 weren't a stick of furniture in the house and all the we we slept on the floor and i and i had a it was kind a little traveling road show sort of thing course you don't have slide projector yankers there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts in shoreham some things and some just basically to describe the project and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. the message was 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 me to be financial. then we may have to get over. but the time the band were on the offensive i drove the northern alliance concept of the cities of my zone in shoney's to build. they don't control most of the country. mohammad's not too long president during the soviet occupation had been spared by the northern alliance but the taleban showed no mercy not blow 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 serves 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 i was held by the taleban secretly they dressed as as an afghan woman in a burka. they seemed very foreign to me certainly many asked answer conservative muslims but even among them they generally do not support the sort of extremism that the taliban stands 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

political issue of them being back i had pakistanis that was most disturbing to me . not. going to thailand to mean talk about between india and go down but you need to have a good experience with. the taleban madden said bitterly just today it's. still being learning in seminaries and the mother says the curriculum did it was not to kill her but to troop that it was a. good day to mash them tremendously that was the problem 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 and 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. all but he does win this fight and the meal was over

a little south of ins of the hands of. other duties of a no is this the other one had to let a. kid you know cause the coup deal with. the taliban delegation arrived at unocal this headquarters in december of ninety ninety seven. marty came home one day and said fraught with g. thank about having a group of taliban and a delegation 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 we're. 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 the most to avoid offending the taliban visitors and removed all the religious pictures and figures. but they did not remove the christmas trees the year that the taliban came to our house there was a charity fundraiser thing and we had seven christmas trees in our house and the talabani just add blew their mind they couldn't figure out what that was all about and i think they were trying to. and then make a connection between a christmas tree and the birth of jesus christ in you know that new job trying to make a religious connection with what's his christmas tree all about. they never did understand that thing. as

a whole there was free because it is too different from. eastern culture but the phone to their nests is o.t. i would focus society and them for artists to a. new outfit and custom that. dressed in their newly acquired jackets the afghans visited one of you know cows offshore platforms. impression i got as they were amazed they were stunned to see these platforms in the gulf of mexico over seven and live 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 match one of america's foremost experts on afghanistan petroleum resources. the united

states were trying their best to talk to the taliban or obviously beginning to take over the whole of afghanistan the state department asked me to talk to the columbines 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 would have to say they are afghans no problem and so i told him i showed him all this neat whiz bang satellite imagery and stuff and 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 or you need to 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. 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 basked if i could go seen and they said no no no it's just you're not seeing sure 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 wall global jihad. wayne started on capture the good hearted in consequence a couple of things and see the fun it was sometimes not only nice colleagues eager to sue the taliban moved in to kind of not to be protected. as a rival back in afghanistan coincided with my own to work with the un. never met this i will bet a lot of i saw him once in the bazaar then as a 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. zuber is allowed within those you go. why did you reach for the moon shot up of ice i just couldn't with the judgment of one i'm going to miss you more when the interview took on a whole almost sort of. in afghanistan marty miller and unocal how did the cia do the training of local workers who would to be employed on the so-called peace pipeline. we'd like our locally so we had employment opportunities for the afghans and in fact one of the things we didn't conduct are as we established a training center we found an old abandoned warehouse that we outfitted then we brought some equipment in your welding equipment. to who were needed for the training. without being aware of it to me that 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 don't know who he was looking back on it. kind of gives me the creeps think about that guy. who some of bin ladin was also busy building training facilities. and went on line. to do that you're for them we've got this or he's joining us on the set all of us have been called in as in some form or some fashion if this is a dialogue we are talking about the legal front you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including the funnel and some people are seeking it out everyone has a points for us your thoughts your twitter and you could be on the street join the

global conversation on how does iraq until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was a. covering khuda taz tragedies of quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we. have. one education system that was introduced. in america because your hands have to fill a void that needed to be filled. every dude is being am it's being weak and it's being measured to support intelligence agencies. to do things in secret or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew chose to retire from. we could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for surveillance digital dissidents on al-jazeera.

sami's they down in darfur with a look at the headlines here now desir the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution to end american military involvement in the saudi led war in yemen a direct rebuke of the trumpet been the straight support for the kingdom the measure now faces a contentious vote in the senate u.s. president says he will veto it please twenty seven members of iran's revolutionary guards have been killed in a suicide bombing near the pakistan border the attacker drove a vehicle filled with explosives into their bus media say so in the group.

has claimed responsibility. this came as a u.s. sponsored conference opened in poland on the security situation in the middle east it's widely seen as an attempt to isolate iran because. we've got this meeting is not in secret this is an open meeting with representatives of leading arab countries that is sitting down together with israel in order to advance the common interest with iran. has announced it stopping production of the world's largest passenger plane the a three eighty the super jumbo was bought by only a few major airlines the biggest customer of the emirates just reduced its next order european aircraft maker will not continue for adoption beyond two thousand and twenty one the double decker planes began flying ten years u.s. judge says donald trump's former campaign chief is breached his play deal by lying to investigators paul manifold has been found in violation of these agreements with the special counsel robert muller is investigating russian interference in the two

thousand and sixteen u.s. election the judge ruled manner for intentionally lied about his contacts with a russian associate venezuela's opposition controlled congress is named new boards of directors to the state owned oil company opposition leader one way though now it's the appointment of venezuela and its u.s. subsidiary citgo petroleum the opposition is trying to gain control of the oil industry which venezuela relies heavily on at least six people have died after nearly a week of anti-government protests in haiti the demonstrators are calling on president . to step down that angry about economic stagnation and corruption. it's taliban or now. thanks.

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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 healthy yes but what i think you know i think that there are. no safeguards that are left out of government out of the southeast that well it can vary a bit and their value in that you know if you but if you've got a low focus on this 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. 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. 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 the information in my sense from back in washington is that a lot of officials and policymakers grinch is writing off the resistance to that's how bond. 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 they weren't going to give me my security clearance back so essentially they fired me. the clinton administration continued 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 in you talk to your friends and your enemies talking is not acceptance of those practices. from day one the clinton administration was trying to push back in first you know control and then pressure the taliban regime into change and of course that escalated once 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. the problem of osama bin laden stood in the way of any agreement about future or in the gas pipelines. he had declared war on america and this on the bombings of our embassies 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 july just nineteen ninety seven

president clinton ordered the launch of cruise missiles against several bases in understand. four of the bases would destroyed you know twenty five. were killed but bin laden himself escaped i remember when president clinton sense cruise missiles and afghanistan. i just that's when i told. my. lawson the board of directors it was time that this this one got to go anywhere anytime soon. a bad point unocal withdrew from the pipeline project but the french intelligence analyst joins show but he saw it argues that the idea of an oil and gas pipeline lived on. the states what was fixing there were pressuring

the taliban to release bin laden. by negotiating about the pipeline at the same sign the taliban were faking they were calling the united states is not in by discussing the end of the pipeline. a mile mark the five line issue was a leverage in preserving his country from u.s. strikes and avoiding to take a decision on midnight an. osama bin laden was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. a strategy memo from bin laden's close aide 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 and as far as the taliban were mentioning relationship in some way was with american businesses over his project or u.s. diplomats. there's security inside

a security guarantee. the are. taking in. the in. the terror attacks against the east african embassies tasted the relationship between the taliban and al qaida leaders. his presence in afghanistan. became a big part of the trip. in the early shift between a kind of stand back from our stomachs meeting. there are. a lot of. to be part

of those see was a victim of static surgery so you know it was sort of blood because you know sid valuable though baseload near zero by the time you oh and your way those shooter was one thirty. the deer quite a lot as you know. and just sort of figured it was just as you would understand the saudis have been there many of. them and found. jones all 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 that tice went essentially nowhere in the taliban the more we would

close and the more they push back the more we push them on al qaeda. expelling a salad then lot and the more they would fish back. they just got more designed. to keep. not follow the teach you talk to no man no of the honey you. tell your bottle. for them then you know that nobody. does a push to each other not to do but do away nor does any one of the dogs come. when george w. bush came to power in two thousand and one the renewed attempts 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 persuasive words 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 route 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 will make this ultimatum that will have enter the carbons of holes in the carpet bomb. the americans and inform their allies during a meeting in germany of their plan to invade afghanistan in the autumn before the first snow fall which is what the eventually did so we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprised them with a preemptive strike. get

my. eye . i was there in nine and they were in the uk it has already said and. here what a tragic and tired. of the people of the united states and innocent people by the way of doing coke. was not beloved in this but by need. not just on the above the trying to get it is a good study but i would be judged on zero or them but it would. understand. the juice. the mitchell was there to tell you about us or the speaker to

get across. the taliban offer to extradite or some of the northern to a third country but now the americans have decided to remove both him and for 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 a government brought to a new going to mean to another title of democracy and they can move on i just meant dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against paygo had been installed by the international community is to go into.

the war against the taliban has made the building of the pipeline impossible. the afghan north also house 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 but the local risk is amazingly high. in the. but the reward as also moderate. together as. opportunity for. the rich to argue that the country's petroleum. previously known.

as the geology in that part of the world for both mineral resources and hydro that's pretty spectacular. so poor they have not developed those resources first. and then the past thirty years of war nobody has been able to do much. one afghan who tried to develop the country's oil resources and an early 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 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. a time of peace economic progress the introduction of democracy and education. they need any change made new attempts to restart oil and gas production in the fifty's and sixty's a series of test wells were drilled in the. geologist 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 other remains of a canister finally from the soviet era. the plant is still in operation but no longer produces as much as when the russians were there. mouthing about on the roof on the at i don't understand kills are not that hard only sas million goes down as it has sought asylum laws passed through our johnny surely and saddam saldana mission. could be 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 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 and made history in the if there is so much all that's on the air this or that all

of it existed. well the message in that i was told all shitsville fourteen is thirtieth in all of them did in the midst of a legal floor the order. the administration offices vote oil and gas the most i'll show relief allocated in old soviet buildings. chief engineer mohammed to john off tariq has made it his life's work to preserve the dusty archives. several times he saved maps and documents from destruction. blueboy we can absolutely critical that i got on the ground and did occur in my will manalo knew i was going not because he got it on my wall or young girls stuff on my third cousin that i was younger that our time in kentucky in any other girl

didn't shut down after about us you can do it you know how i'm not here and she asked me how much the i might be in a muslim first tell you that it would take me a lot of the yes ok i don't want as he is american not let a young girl letter he called her knowledge not a mommy if madonna is a girl muslim not a woman i don't know oh you don't know how. i felt i don't know what i want on the whole didn't already know me under. 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 are they not wanted or india could make about it in a moment though i thought that i'd buy the time but correct anyhow 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 off on the

mad mad cow but he'll be a good question for him or we will get those covering all the kurds up north a little or whatever you think that. the united states once hoped the peace pipeline 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 the 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 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 or triumph of hope over experience that hit me right between the borders lot of content and that getting a little common and i found it proved to be true. well as a last winter system and scrapes through bringing rain and snow to took mr and afghanistan

there's a bit of a gap before the next one's already developing developing over turkey will swing through into the west's levant during sissay dropping temperatures bringing cloud and rain and some snow ties uptick ecosystem it might well be a went wrong once again and here is the big gap so enough gas and looks fine during services and friday but there's the rain spreading right across northern syria northern iraq and the cold front will sweep down picking up the winds ahead of it and behind it and change in the direction which usually picks up sun and the drones quite dampen the moment his sun is going to be a big problem to be honest but the wind direction we noticed had it suddenly means twenty four in riyadh the cloud comes across the border occasional showers are breaks of rain lasting hour or so and that's heading down towards bahrain and qatar maybe later on friday ahead of it warms behind it dropped yet in fact even to think riyadh's picked up that nice little taste of water twenty eight before the following day it will certainly get cooler in the of the breeze active weather has

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