and i guess this is. the headline it's. tyreese us to see where crowds here is an american made film making a mockery of the prophet muhammad refused to be silenced over two hundred people have been injured on some doesn't arrest it's a. rage against the film is spreading across the region with all the u.s. missions on time have flared up in almost a dozen countries including iran and a wrong well leave the rest. of the american ambassador to the country.

the president urges us governments around the world should unite in the fight against really just incitement and up next. also dr van dyke who spends her spent forty five days in taliban captivity undisclosed things all the real reasons behind the u.s. military presence in afghanistan taus and just a few more. eleven years ago america began its war on terror and today in afghanistan a us war continues to be waged by current cast has a very unique perspective on what has happened and continues to take place there joining me now to talk more about this topic is journalist and author jerry van dyke mr van dyke wrote a book called captive my time as a prisoner of the taliban thank you for joining our team thank you mr van dyke as i

mentioned the war on terror began some eleven years ago and u.s. troops according to president barack obama are expected to fully withdraw by the end of twenty fourteen is that a sign of victory or defeat in the so-called war on terror i don't think it's a sign of neither one i think it's a sign that the u.s. public is tired of this we initially went in for one specific reason and that was to dismantle the government of the taliban and to destroy al qaeda now people ask why are we still there how many al qaeda are there under president bush in the early part of the obama administration we heard the numbers fifty there may be fifty al qaeda left in afghanistan are we there because a fifty fifty al qaeda members know it is morphed into something far larger than that is it because the former soviet union the former the what we'll call the stands it was because ten tajikistan because if. you could stand to have the

largest untapped oil and natural gas reserves in the world if you talk to the afghans you talk to the taliban they'll say oh that's why the united states wants to stay here people say it's because we want to surround iran we have bases in the gulf we have bases once before in iraq we certainly have them in afghanistan do we want afghanistan and pakistan not to go to war with one another neither the bush administration. no the obama administration has been straight with the american public about that and finally we are responsible long with other nations for creating the very people against whom we are now fighting these were all allies of the united states and its allies during the one nine hundred eighty s. we haven't been straight with the american public why what we have created which evolved in some cases into parts of which evolved into al qaeda and which are we trying to dismantle that can you tell me what the war on terror looks like through the eyes of the taliban. no one's ever asked me that very question very interesting

question when i was a newspaper reporter in afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. new york times when we were tied with some of the members of the taliban today we called them the mujahideen which means holy warriors the taliban told me that we are the sons and the grandsons of the mujahideen when i was captured by the taliban and when i was in prison i had to listen for hours and hours and hours to taliban recruitment tapes and suicide recruitment tapes they talk of are they saying the chant of pashtoon history question geography question poetry this is a nationalist movement in their view they are simply trying to free themselves of foreign infidel invaders exactly like their fathers and grandfathers in order to have what they feel is a proper islamic government the taliban have become somewhat different.

and that is it's a result of their ties to al qaeda. which is comprised of foreigners primarily airheads gyptian zx saudis chechens specs those from western china and even some from europe so al-qaeda is a different entity entirely it is strictly it's interested in international jihad but the taliban have become because of their ties to al-qaeda and because of the twenty four seventh's news cycle they have become far more international but deep down in their hearts they're interested in one thing and that is an islamic government and a pashtoon islamic government now postured i don't want to make this too complicated for viewers but for them the pashtoon are afghanistan and they were at war before we came with what we call the northern alliance the tajiks these are different ethnic groups in the north so this is also an element

here there is that there is an ethnic war at play here as much as anything else but deep down more than anything else they want a unified pashtoon land they want an afghanistan that is deeply muslim their interest ultimately is certainly not to attack the united states but because of their exposure to the international world now they're far more capable of trying to go across to soviet central asia to expand the perhaps into iran yeah that element is there you were how hostage forty five things by the taliban cracked what was that experience like. frightening. thing. what did you learn that you didn't know about. i thought initially i would be killed immediately but what i learned and what surprised me was that even though i

was a prisoner. even though i lived in constant fear. that i was also treated with respect and i was treated as a guest because and this gets to the heart of your question ultimately. tribal law pashtoon tribal law called question while the tribal codes take precedence over islam they deep down they are students they are members of tribes more than they are muslims and i think that's one reason why i survived. i'm not sure why i survived. and why did they let you go after forty five things i still don't know the answer in general i'm trying to find out i get many i hear i get many what do they say to you once they were unlocking the chains from your arm they said congratulations on escaping death i daresay this i will that about

a year ago i got a call from someone a foreigner european and they asked me to go down to an apartment in new york two min there were questions from pakistan here by the invited by the state department on their way back to pakistan getting ready to catch a flight the very first question they asked me was. who kidnapped you. the taliban. or the government. my jailer said to me not a shot would be fired in afghanistan without the backing of the pakistani government so with the taliban in touch with the government did the government of pakistan know i was there did the government of pakistan in to intervene and ultimately save me. did july holiday in the her cunny network that we are at war with. and with which i lived in the 1980's and his name i use

constantly to try and save me and who i was trying to get to because i thought by getting to a kani i could find out about al qaeda did he ultimately hold on to that tribal law and say me i've heard so many different things that's why it's a very murky complicated place in the war is far far different from the way we are perceived in the media speaking of tribes what are u.s. intelligence capabilities among the tribes do you believe that washington has enough knowledge when it comes to the language and cultural experience of the particular reasons in afghanistan that need to be fully understood there was a general flynn i think his name was and this was about two thousand and nine two thousand and ten who was in chief of intelligence under then military general stanley mcchrystal mcchrystal who said and i quote we are flying blind

in afghanistan how many passions speakers are there when you when you find out in the u.s. intelligence community when you look when you talk to for example interpreters you find out that there is a huge underground network of interpreters all of whom have to pay bribes before they can work with with the american soldiers who controls these interpreters well i'm not sure that they're going to completely free at all the television can easily infiltrate this is my own experience i don't think the u.s. intelligence capabilities are nearly what they're portrayed to be however. when you get to someplace like pakistan i think it's possibly a bit different we have drones overhead we're constantly under president obama we've ratcheted up the number of drone attacks to those drones and i've been under drones how do they know where to attack you have to have the information on the ground what does that information come from. from working closely in tandem with

pakistani military intelligence that they would choose to attack their attack there why after so many years where we had we not been able to kill the leader of the country network ormal omar or golden hekmatyar the three leaders of the taliban or why did we have to go in and kill osama bin laden why didn't the pakistani intelligence tell us where these people were maybe they knew and maybe they don't know but i happen to think they absolutely know. but they have we have to have that intelligence on the ground and i think it's far better in pakistan then in afghanistan but it comes because pakistan works closely with these people and they work closely with the united states and who they want to attack they want to allow the united states to attack i started this interview by asking about afghanistan but i want to wrap it up by asking you about something you said that oxfam because you recently said that you believe that your lesson and its allies are fighting a proxy war against talks. only time together but that is at all without a doubt that that could create that even more dangerous time make clearly and in

that area of the world if they still don't know what they're doing in afghanistan can't figure it out crackling right is pakistan our ally or is it our enemy now the taliban and you take something like former joint chairman of joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen who said that they have cannae network is an arm of the pakistani i.s.i. pakistani military intelligence that we the united states have paid at least twelve billion dollars have given a different forms at least twelve billion dollars to the pakistani military since nine eleven. but the pakistani military according to former admiral mike mullen said every everyone else is backing the taliban so we are supplying money to the very people that are providing this money to the taliban to attack us forces why would pakistan back to tell about what is pakistan's interest in afghanistan no single afghan legislature in the history of afghanistan as accepted the border

between afghanistan and pakistan afghanistan was the only nation in the world to vote against pakistan admittance to the united nations in one thousand nine hundred seventy one single thing the border in eight hundred ninety three the british when they ruled india created with this called the durand line they do not accept the fact that the land that once belonged to them that the british took away should belong to pakistan and this is deep down at the heart of this particular never ending war in the middle of which the united states and its soldiers continue to die over a war that one started out of against al-qaeda which is morphed into something far deeper far more complicated is an old afghan saying it's going to stand it's very easy to enter but it's very hard to leave we're not leaving by two thousand and fourteen will still be there and we'll leave it right there thank you very much for your time.

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written in to implement ways of controlling the expanse of distance in it to keep us safe the move. you could trust because if you go you got to be about. the top stories and also clashes until you find cairo's u.s. embassy where quad's fear is over an american made film making a mockery of the prophet mohammad refuse to be silenced a hundred people have been injured and some dozen over estimates of the undead because. their rage against the film is spreading across the region with other u.s. missions on the top prize has have been almost a dozen countries including again in iran and a wrong while maybe a rest suspects in the killing of them are going to box into the country. strongly condemns the dead that president clinton says governments around. wilda

should you know it's really just in flight and. automated. hell i'm to welcome along with to the world of sports hey is what's coming up. displaying continue the defense of the davis cup tennis crown as they host the usa in the semifinals this weekend. splashing the cash. another big name signing as dutch to find the gregory fund of aileron. the league and club can compete for the champions league. and remembering marco moto g.p. to their bikes ahead of this weekend's san marino grand prix in memory of marco simoncelli who died was racing in the lazio last year. but starting with tennis

where the davis cup has reached the semifinal stage spain and argentina both looking to make the final for the second year in a row spain at the defending champions after beating argentina in the final twelve months ago will continue to defense of their title against team usa and he told the americans who won the more davis cup crowns than any other nation thirty two but they haven't played the title since beating russia in the two thousand and seven final the hosts of course without the injured rafael nadal first up on the friday u.s. open semifinalist downward for their faces sam querrey before johnny's not quite so nicolas almagro. well semifinals going to be ok it's hard to say it's your biggest challenge yet when we've played so many great teams on the road but this is a team in spain that hasn't lost in many many years when they've played at home so you know for us this is probably the biggest test in davis cup tell us going to for any country to come to spain and to beat them on clay but we like our chances you

know. we all feel like we're the favorites but we feel like we have a chance. the second the semifinalists we can see these last years between finally starting taina the czech republic the house spearheaded by former us open champion juan martin del potro while the czechs will be relying heavily on the in-form thomas but it. now is a football where french clubs have continued that some of big spending dutch international defender gregory van de valle has signed a four year deal with the parisians arriving for my x. amsterdam the twenty four year old stating the legal side has the potential to rival european giants such as roman trade and compete for top european on is the club backed by qatari owners have spent heavily this summer bringing in the likes of la timing the him addiction thiago silva amongst others and the pressure is on coach carlo ancelotti to secure results domestically and in europe. just that. we seek to have a big school today we have twenty eight players because we have to manage i mean is

the job of the coach to manage all competitions we have to be competitive and play on friday tuesday such as the wednesday before this you must have a competition with the school that you must have players with the highest possible level of performance put in months. meanwhile the fourth international backyard football tournament task concluded in moscow with kazakhstan beating the house five nail in the final and the tournament which aims to promote sport among children is going from strength to strength as michael crap cenk uygur explains. in twenty eleven as many as twenty nations to part and now annual international backyard football tournament and this year's event was no less successful despite only fourteen teams taking part but the drop in the number of teams was more to do with organizers deciding to branch out the tournament into other areas of sport rather than just football but i tournament has become more multidimensional if we started with just a football tournament back in two thousand and nine we now realize we have a project under the premise of children of the world to sport where we want to

include other aspects of interaction between the teams this year were included a chess tournament and a photo competition in which all teams were involved no doubt they'll be even more diversification in the coming years but football is still the main catalyst for the children teams from all over the c.i.s. countries including belarus and moldova were battling it out while teams like israel and iran who are resolving matters on the pitch even if the adults of these countries still cannot seem to find common ground but it was kazakstan and host russia who eventually made it to the final home advantage had clearly helped the russian side reach the spot but it was has expand that stole the show putting five unanswered goals past the home side i'm taking the trophy the tournament also attracted a few prominent figures including to go coach later need suits you i was invited to take part in the trophy presentation and i think it's a big thing because in the past backyard football was one of the main producers of footballers we see playing professional and with this tournament i hope we will see more such talents come through when asked about whether he had spotted any future

stars he was optimistic lacroix. it's of course tough to gauge because the kids are still young but on the whole the level of the tournament is growing every year and those kids i saw in the final left a very good impression. but of course this event is ultimately meant to allow children from around the world to meet and mingle while playing the sport they love with their ultimate goal of continuing to push for a healthy lifestyle among the young so that more than the national backyard has come to an end it seems to have been a rousing success yes. next yes probably even numbers indicate to me and i mean will eventually go into new years in the future but in the again some of the miserables in the world did start off playing in backyards at times so who knows maybe some of the guys behind me will follow in their footsteps. r.t. . now to moto g.p. where the sports athletes have paid tribute to marcos him and shelley who died at last year's malaysian grand prix the ride is completed a special op ed of this weekend son marine i raced former world champions valentino

rossi and jorge lorenzo were amongst those who took to the renamed miss world marco simoncelli one of the italian the twenty four year old's life ended in a crash in supplying last season we were all going into this weekend's race lorenzo is thirteen points clear on top of the riders standings ahead of spanish compadre and danny pedrosa the stage also set to feature a moto g.p. debut for northern ireland's johnny ray who's been called up by reps the honda as a replacement for the injured a reigning champion casey stoner. when i was in russia to speak. we got the news of a request from on. i didn't have to think about it too long so we were on a plane to bruno testing the machine so i must during the whole reps one hundred two minutes or so you forgive me this opportunity. and finally negotiations over this season's n.h.l. campaign appear to have hit the buffers once more with the prestigious north

american league on the verge of a third lockout in its history on saturday the commissioner of the n.h.l. gary bettman will announce if the season will be counselled r.t. takes a closer look now at how it may affect the hockey world and its second biggest lake the k h l. millions consider ice hockey the world's greatest game and the nation know how to lead the number one stage it's played on although this wonderful spectacles now under threat of closure you do you want to say shit happens it will be the third jump in though it's history and team owners and the players association a currently tour over the new collective bargaining agreement essentially how profits a share you can see big expiring in september fifteenth in the meantime hockey lovers great pieces like this currently one of you tube's most popular fan made videos as the wait continues going to be on our side.

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a good thing about playing on the high level it's always. thank. everybody to great to get willie with a potential nothing american lending party he gave has worked out special rules no more than three n.h.l. players can be signed for a team only one corner is allowed on two russian clubs last. on top of that at least one of the following. must be met blair has to be a stoic winner. and. winner has played at least one hundred fifty games in the n.h.l. over the last three years. has represented his country at the two world and world junior championships or winter olympics and why only those who had played in the poor are welcomed i think and the cellists. the russians or

international players six north american boys will increase the level of the game here i certainly looking forward to that. as far as i prefer obviously i prefer russian and a child stars. on a common thing in a place. on a large trans going to have a chance to see. stars and a show look out with benefit of the kids many on both sides of the atlantic everyone associated with the game is a waiting with bated breath the outcome of the talks but with there was a decision life will go on either here or there as it will take something more than just money to hold this great game about bringing on our team. yes watch this space that is all from the world there was plenty more light to hear not say the wild weather is next.

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