listen to. returning to the roots element of. the charge family from somalia live around the world and i'm one of them needed urgent assistance of. the family starts october and on t w. donald trump became u.s. president on a promise to do what his predecessors had not and america's costly forward wars especially the one in afghanistan it is a promise he has not kept tonight on this 18th anniversary of the 911 attacks on the united states peace talks with the taliban in afghanistan have stopped the fighting has not and trump well he remains commander in chief unable to prevent america's longest war from getting along i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day.

we had peace talks scheduled a few days ago. i called them off when i learned that they had killed a great american soldier from puerto rico. he says one of his soldiers was killed here and he stopped the peace process he doesn't care about. the last 4 days we have here our enemy harder than they have ever been in before. that's how the twin towers and the incident is still being remembered here innocent people get killed. but no one cares about it who remembers them they know humans will go wherever they are and use power the likes of which the united states has never used before our only hope was peace which won't happen nothing but i noticed.

also coming up a.w. news special report on the never ending nightmare for roy hinge a women refugees who left everything behind to escape violence in myanmar now in bangladesh they're being forced to sell the only thing they own their body. there's no other job i can do like i can't do anything else remarry my new husband would take care of me. not my children. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the round the world welcome we begin the day with the united states marking the 911 terror attacks it is an event that 18 years on is beginning to take its place in the history books while slowly losing its place in our collective memory and with that the danger of mis remembering the past is growing now the 911 attacks led to the war in afghanistan which today rages

on and has become america's longest war troops from germany and the u.k. who remain in the country on a nato mission and recent peace talks between the u.s. and the taleban were called off by u.s. president trott now these are all facts of recent history with a day at the pentagon u.s. president trump he veered sharply from the facts of 911 when he implied that the taliban had sent terrorists to bring down the twin towers $911.00 the deadliest attack on american soil since pearl harbor was carried out not by the taliban but by al qaida terrorists which you take a listen to part of what the u.s. president said today we had peace talks scheduled a few days ago i called them off when i learned that they had killed a great american soldier from puerto rico and 11 other innocent people they thought

they would use this attack to show strength but actually what they showed is unrelenting week. the last 4 days we have hit our enemy harder than they have ever been hit before and that will continue. and if for any reason they come back to our country we will go wherever they are and use power the likes of which the united states has never used before and i'm not even talking about nuclear power they will never have seen anything like what will happen to them while on this 911 anniversary i'm joined tonight by christopher callender an afghanistan war veteran who also advised both the obama entropy administrations on afghanistan and he is credited with being one of 2 people who open communications that lead to peace talks with the taliban he is currently an

adjunct senior fellow at the center for a new american security and he joins me tonight from milwaukee wisconsin mr callender welcome to the day i want to ask you how do you read what the u.s. president said today at the pentagon about the taliban did he conflate the taliban with al qaida. well it certainly seems and i want to begin by just you know my heart goes out to all the people who have been affected by 911 both the event itself 18 years ago as well as the aftermath to endless wars as as president from calls and to include all those veterans from afghanistan i was talking with. a person yesterday who is with deutsche bank on september 11th 2001 in manhattan right across the street from 911 and from the towers as he you know describe for me the events of that and it's absolutely

searing. it's important you know that there's a difference between the taliban and i don't negotiate ations with al qaeda not possible negotiations with the taleban are possible but as we've seen very very difficult. you have invested a lot of time in getting talks with the taliban up and running and you did that under both presidents obama and president trump i'd like to hear your thoughts on the u.s. president inviting the taliban to camp david i mean did you know the trump had extended that invitation. no and you know look i'm not a u.s. official any longer the the work that i did in 272800 to try to help get this current round of talks going was as a as a private citizen. as he was government official. i mean it does seem a bit odd. to put it lightly to invite the taleban to camp

david premature you know maybe after a a lot of confidences they'll to after a cease fire after there are have been extensive negotiations in afghanistan and it changed environment to include the taleban pronouncing their ties to al qaeda and and now see very clearly that al qaeda that al qaeda or any other terrorist organization is unwelcome in afghanistan. and they've made similar declarations on human rights in follow through with those things and making credible commitments keeping them then maybe you have a situation in which the peace process has advanced to the state in which you would have some sort of meeting on on us but it's really premature and quite frankly is that you know the reaction from both sides of the political spectrum in the united

states has been radio what did you think when trump declared those talks to be dead are they really dead well the door is closed but it's not locked at the end of the day you've got a situation in which you've got a strategic stalemate as long as the afghan government maintains international support the taliban are not going to be able to overthrow the government converse lee as long as the taleban maintains external sanctuary and sufficient internal support indigenous support in afghanistan it's not going to be decisively defeat and so we are in that situation on. you know 2 weeks ago when we're still in that situation today it's unlikely to change so you know really you've got 2 options for ways for one is you can try to keep u.s. and nato troops indefinitely in a landlocked country that surrounded by hostile force and have you know and

they end with an afghan government that's evident very difficult time dismantling the kleptocracy and undermining a it's just a miss in the ice afghans. or you can you can pursue a peace process but we mate we're likely to take a different approach. in a peace process in the future this time we went for the big deal and i'm sure there are a lot of reasons going for the big deal we elected not to use a more deliberate step by step approach to build confidence which historically is much better track record so my advice would be that if we're going to when it's talks resume and they should and we need to take a very different approach both the united states taliban the afghan government need to take a very different approach to this and move in a more a step by step incremental process that builds confidence builds in the talks over time and then i think you are have the potential to see some very significant.

i'd like to play a clip for you mr callender it's from july of this year and it's the u.s. president saying what he could do to afghanistan if he really wanted to take a listen i have plans on afghanistan that if i wanted to win that war afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth it would be god it would be over in literally in 10 days now when you hear the president saying that mr clinton can you imagine these peace talks being revived as long as president trump is president. well it's going to take some strategic leadership on all sides of this conflict to to resume these talks i think it's going to take a much more sensible approach to these talks me clearly just getting

a bunch of people around a room in secret in doha trying to hash out some sort of deal is it's not going to work. and this deal could have been potentially destabilizing so see you here invariably in a situation where you either resume peace talks and try to gain a successful outcome from this war through peace and quite frankly from the united states nato perspective if afghanistan's no longer a platform for international terrorism and ideally if it if afghanistan is a place where the rights of all afghans men women and children included are respected then that's quite frankly a successful outcome for the united states and and nato for the taliban a successful outcome to them is no more international combat troop presence so that's entirely possible as well so you've got a situation where the objectives of one another in this case u.s.

nato on the one side taleban on the other side. you know there's no disagreement in terms of the outcome now but i'm just there's disagreement you get there but if you have good governance of course and it doesn't yeah i was going to ask you i mean how do you reconcile those to the afghan government wants to respect women's rights for example and we know that the tele body they're not known for doing that at all so are they going to change a fundament of their thinking or can these 2 opposing ideas be expected to live in peace to co-exist in afghanistan peacefully. right well when you look at actual behaviors you see a much more mixed picture than than than what you've presented of course on the ground in afghanistan and this is exactly what a confidence building approach is important that all sides. the u.s.

and nato the afghan government and the taleban need to demonstrate that they can make it to and maintain credible commitments that lead step by step towards reductions in violence and ultimately toss towards a political settlement in afghanistan let me ask you about former national security adviser john bolton he is now out of the picture we know that he was opposed to the president inviting to tell the bomb to camp david but he was no friend to peace talks at least publicly did you feel that you were in a battle against john bolton when you were working to set up and to make these these talks work. well bolton was not the national security adviser at that time it was i mean was it uphill that look there's a lot of impressions about the taliban some are accurate some are not accurate. you

know in terms of whether they you know they are willing to engage in a peace process and part of you know part of our effort was to was to try to identify them and and have the taliban do things that would suggest that they were willing to talk acts such as their february 14th letter to the american people asking for talks and then the i mean a big breakthrough came when president gandhi and general nicholson announced a cease fire over it all theater in june of 2017 they invited the taliban to do the same the taliban said they would do it to a 3 day cease fire and and they made that announcement and for 3 days or they eat khalid if there was no violence in afghanistan at least you know no taleban on afghan government violence and it really open people's eyes and tell upon it much greater sense of command and control then than many of the skeptics gave them

credit for and so that was a key data point in and convincing the trump and ministrations to you know to at least try a peace process and as a set i think the door is closed right now but the strategic situation is unlikely to change in the near future or it or over the mid-term and so forcefully the door is not locked and i think i think you'll see a resumption of talks here at some point and hopefully they'll take a different trajectory than than this one christopher kalinda joining us tonight from milwaukee wisconsin mr bill and if we appreciate your valuable insights on the situation with the united states and afghanistan and the taliban thank you thank you it's been a pleasure thanks for having brett. well they've fled deadly violence they've become refugees in a foreign country and now they've been forced into prostitution they are among the

700000 rodin job refugees now living in sprawling camps in bangladesh their lines are already grim refugees are not allowed to work and they depend on food handouts and some women there have turned to the sex industry others are lured abroad with promises of jobs in marriage only to end up in prostitution d.w. has this exclusive report tonight from the bangladeshi city of cox is bizarre. in the world's largest refugee camp in bangladesh life for women and children is particularly difficult. this woman fled from me and ma with her 3 children and husband after their village was burnt down 2 years ago. my husband left me and my children after we came here and it was difficult for me to make ends meet

i didn't have any other option and i want to live. any other option that is then to work as a prostitute now when she gets the call she travels to the neighboring towns outside of the refugee camps. on the telephone there is no other job i can do like i can't do anything else if i remarried my new husband will take care of me but not my children. that it's impossible to say how many reading the refugees end up in the sex trade here many are as young as 14 according to local n.g.o.s thousands of women are trafficked across bangladesh and even abroad lured by false promises of jobs and marriage. we wanted to gauge how widespread the problem really is in the tourist town of cox bazaar roughly 40 kilometers from the camps we got in touch with

a pimp who posted to have several rainbow women on call. hello. show you some girls and if you like them you can take them if not you can read. oh ok see you in an hour and. a bit later reporter meets the man at a prearranged point and gets into an auto rickshaw with him while we. followed behind a reporter secretly filming the entire encounter. the 1st stop is a hotel which serves as a brothel to begin with the manager seems suspicious and denies having any prostitutes then he shows us pictures of a few women on his phone none of them seem to be wrecking. around 10 pm the pimp sends a rectangle woman to our hotel she's too scared to talk to us when we reveal we're

journalists because she's worried the hotel might tell the pimps but she confirms she is a 23 year old wrecking a refugee she says she's a victim of her circumstances. back at the camp the sex worker we met earlier tells us 3 are not allowed to work and there have been several police raids on hotels doubling as brothels she herself was recently released from jail. the us and the now let me know if i can't find any other way to make money i'll have to go back to this work if i do i might get arrested again. but she's likely to take that risk again because for now she doesn't have a choice. and faced with such a bleak future bringing the women remain easy prey for the pimps and traffickers. it is a never ending nightmare for the women. she was one of the reporters on that

story. then let's talk about one of these sex workers that you talked to she said that she had no other way of making money so talk to me. she said desperate she's willing to sell her body. the situation in the camp is pretty bad but the refugees you know they they need food handouts they need humanitarian aid that's all they have they're not allowed to work so it's not as if they have any other options when you go into the camps the situation's pretty diam us and small shops which a tolerated by the authorities but even that isn't illegal so there really isn't very much for women to do in the woman in this case her husband divorced she was alone with 3 kids the youngest was 3 years old and she felt she didn't really have a any other choice you know they're not allowed to work because the bangladeshi authorities don't allow them to worms or has there been a response from the saudis to this report. not directly to this report we obviously

talked to the authorities and the have been the has been a crackdown there have been the several police raids i mean it's also interesting to note that prostitution itself is legal in bangladesh this is one of the few muslim countries where it's legal if you're over 18 to work in the reddest of brothel but for the refugees it's illegal because they're not allowed to work as i said before so even just leaving the camp unless that's a medical emergency and you have a pass to go to the hospital is illegal of course people are desperate find means and ways when you drive to these can't sell these police checkpoints so the the authorities are trying to crack down but obviously it's difficult and i mean even if prostitution is legal in bangladesh we're still talking about a health risk for these women sexually transmitted diseases for example so how is it being dealt with of course and hiv is a problem too i mean we've talked to an engine that works with sex workers and they're trying to raise awareness they're trying to to get women to use condoms for

example with their clients but it's very difficult this isn't so very conservative society. difficult to talk about certain things and yes there is a health risk and we don't know but it's quite likely that sexual to sexually transmitted diseases are in fact spending you were report highlights trafficking across bangladesh and abroad i mean what more can you tell us about how this trafficking works and how it thrives it's a huge problem i mean we're talking about potentially thousands of young girls some of them as young as 1314 who by false promises sometimes i mean the promise jobs in malaysia or even just marriage in malaysia and then often end up in prostitution and sometimes it's the whole family that tries to get money to pay for these girls trip to malaysia on boats very dangerous boats a lot of the capsize people die during the voyage sets of a dangerous journey and i think it's you know it's a sign of how desperate the conditions are you and i spoke last week about this new

this island where this new community has been constructed for the refugees by bangladesh and you were telling me last week that the refugees don't want to go there so now through this component forced into prostitution into the in the equation. do they want to go back to me and more for example if they have an opportunity they'd love to go back that's what everyone says but they're too scared of the situations that i mean they don't trust the government basically but their villages raped women and killed people only 2 years ago and not many independent observers hardly any journalists allowed into the state rakhine state as in the within me and ma where these people come from but the reports we are getting is that conditions are bad and people just don't trust the government so that between so what you've been told is they don't right now that they wouldn't go back to me

in or because they're scared for their lives they don't want to go to this island. because they'll be cut off from the rest of the world so klutzes bizarre is the only where they are now is where they want to stay for the time being and that's a place where you get this horrible story about prostitution of course and also the government of bangladesh is trying to force them to leave just last week they switched off the internet and we talked to the foreign minister who said well actually the conditions are really good maybe they're so good that that's why people don't want to leave so i think in a philip by looking at a future that is coming christly really yeah like a nightmare that just won't end naomi contre as always thank you. a handshake in berlin that sent diplomatic shock waves to beijing you see right there the german foreign minister hi kumasi meeting with hong kong pro-democracy

leader and protester joshua was part of a group of activists visiting the german capital this week there were reception here in berlin left beijing cold today china summoned to the german ambassador warning that the meeting could have negative consequences for by lateral relations and here in berlin china's ambassador today began naming in shame. no it and regret that certain politicians and i'll say very openly the german foreign minister himself as well as other members of parliament met with just for a while. and what has now happened unfortunately will have negative consequences on bilateral relations and the chinese side has to react so. well today german chancellor angela merkel in a speech before the german parliament once again called on beijing to respect human rights including those of protesters were joshua wong he is now on his way to the

united states where he's been invited to testify in a congressional hearing we'll be watching to see how china reacts to that. watching the day see tomorrow. the be. the be. the be.

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