well the. technology. hello and welcome to our town karen taraji and these are your top stories starting with a developing story these are live pictures from cairo where protesters gathered for a third day period over an american made film mocking making a mockery of the prophet muhammad a crash zone tear gas has been seen outside of the u.s. embassy there the egypt's health ministry house confirms seventy people have been injured. rage against the film is spreading across the region with all the

u.s. missions under attack protests have flared up in almost a dozen countries including yemen iran and iraq all flights to and from the libyan city of benghazi are suspended. by washington struggles to contain the fallout from the film saying it had nothing to do with its production at all assurances failed to defuse the anger. and up next our t.v. interviews all third jervy. who spent forty five days in taliban captivity discloses what he thinks are the real reasons behind the u.s. military presence in afghanistan r t in just a few moments. eleven years ago america began its war on terror and today in afghanistan the u.s. war continues to be waged by current guest 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 r.t. thank you mr van dyke as i. 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 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 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 nor the obama administration has been straight with the american public about that and finally we are responsible on 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. 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 or they sing or chant of pashtoon history question geography pashtoon 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. gyptian zx saudis chechens specs those from western china and even some from europe so it 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 seven news cycle they have become far more international but deep down in their hearts they're interested in one thing and that is in salami government and a pashtoon islamic government now 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's an ethnic. the war at play here as much as anything else but deep down more than anything else they want a unified pashtun 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 are 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 pashtoon wall the tribal codes take precedence over islam that deep down they are pashtoon 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 generals i'm trying to find out i get many i hear i get many what did they say to you once they were unlocking the chains from your arm they said congratulations on escaping death i dare say this i will that about a year ago i got a call from someone a foreigner european and he 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 were 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 hood county network. that we are at war with. and with which i lived in the one nine hundred eighty 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 colony 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 perceive it 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 pashtun 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 but 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 where does that information come from it comes from working closely in tandem with pakistani military intelligence that they would choose to attack their attack there why after so many years were we had we not been able to kill the leader of the county network or mullo omar or go beneath my t.r. 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 or 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 say this interview by asking about afghanistan but i want to wrap it up by asking you about something you

said that because you recently said that you believe the u.s. and and its allies are fighting a proxy war against. home with time to go but that is at all without a doubt that that could create that even more dangerous time to 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 rightly right is pakistan our ally or is it our enemy now the taliban and you take someone like former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen who says the county network is an arm of the pakistani i.s.i. pakistani military intelligence that we 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 u.s. forces why would pakistan back to tell it. what is pakistan's interest in afghanistan no single afghan legislature in the history of afghanistan has 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 one thousand nine hundred 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 once started out 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 believe 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. i mean sort of the only city in europe on the hosts of the trains you could see in winter the pretty good. thank you. so much. thank you. doug. it's so.

welcome to our teacher where protesters gather for a third day and karl rove furious over an american made film making a mockery of the prophet muhammad clashes on tear gas have been seen outside the u.s. embassy there egypt's health ministry has confirmed seventy people have been injured and. rage against the film is spreading across the region with other u.s. missions under attack protests have flared up in almost a dozen countries including yemen long and drawn. around washington struggles to contain the fallout from the film saying it had nothing to do with its production but all assurances failed to diffuse the anger. paul is here next with

the sports update. thank you very much karen welcome along to the sports headlines here is what's coming up cooler today spain continue the defense of their davis cup tennis crown as they host the usa in the semifinals this weekend. splashing the cash paris and your man out another big name signing is just the fan that gregory vanderveer will rise from saying the negro club talent compete for the champions league. and the remembering mark earley moto g.p. is a late take the lead bike headed this weekend summary nine grand prix in memory of malcolm sim and shelley who died last racing in the lazio last year. but starting

with tennis where the davis cup has reached the semi final stage spain and argentina but it's looking to make the final for the second year in a row spain the defending champions after beating argentina in the final twelve months ago will continue the defense of their ties against team usa and hang on the americans have won more davis cup crowns than any other nation is thirty two but they haven't played the title since beating russia in the two thousand and seven final the host of course without the injury to rafael nadal u.s. open semifinal is currently taking on querrey as we speak it's four four in the first set later john is now faces nicolas almagro. well semifinals going to be it's hard to say it's your biggest challenge yet only played so many great teams on the road but this is the team in spain it hasn't lost in many many years when they've played at home so for us this is probably the biggest test in davis cup tell us maybe 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 well the second semifinal this weekend since last year. beijing finest argentine or entertain the czech republic the host spearheaded by former u.s. open champion martin del potro all the checks will be relying heavily on the informal thomas but. now it's a football where french club paris and her man have continued their summer of big spending dutch international defender gregory van de vale has signed a four year deal with the parisians arriving from amsterdam the twenty four year old stating the legal inside has the potential to rival european giants such as realm of dread and compete for top european on as the club backed by qatari owners have spent heavily this summer bringing in the likes of zlatan abraham of it santiago silva amongst others and the pressure is on coach carlo ancelotti to secure results both domestically and in europe. and if you will seek to have a big school board 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 blown friday tuesday saturday wednesday for this you must have competition within this quarter you must have players with the highest possible level of performance put in months. meanwhile the fourth international but yada football tournament has concluded in moscow with kazakstan beating the host five mail in the final and the tournament which aims to promote sport among children is going from strength to strength as michael crabtree explains. in twenty eleven as many as twenty nations to part of the 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 third ball two men back into has 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 third a 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 mulled over 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 possible home side and taking the trophy the tournament also attracted a few prominent figures including to scam most of coaching their needs 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 professionally and with this tournament i hope we will see more such talents going 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 a sport they love with their ultimate goal of continuing to push for a healthy lifestyle among the young so that more than the national bag. has come to an end it seems to have been a rousing success. next yes probably even now most of the kids behind me will eventually go to doctors or engineers in the future is going to get us some of the miserable balls 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 foot. genco party most likely now to moto g.p. where the sports and late pay tribute to marco simone shelley who died at last

year's malaysian grand prix the ride is completed a special up out of this weekend's san marino race former world champions valentino rossi and jorge lorenzo were among those who took to the renamed miss on the world circuit marcos and will challenge to all of the italian the twenty four year old's life ended in a crash inside pang last season while going into this weekend's race lorenzo ms thirteen points clear on top of the riders standings had of spanish compadre and danny pedrosa the stage also set to feature a moto g.p. debut for northern ireland's johnny ray who has been called up by reps all honda as a replacement for injured reigning champion casing stoner. when i was in russia doing and speak. we got the news of a request from on learn to be honest i i didn't have to think about it too long till we were on a plane to new testing the machine so i marched during the whole reps on the team in h r c four for giving me this opportunity now to go see a sions over this season's n.h.l.

campaign appears 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 go ahead or not takes a closer look now at how it may affect the world of hockey and its second biggest leak 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 one of those spectacles now on this thread of closure of the year long suspicion happens it will be the third time in the it's history and team owners and the players association a currently tour over the new collective bargaining agreement essentially how profits a share of the currency be 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 fans is going to be on our side because back seven

years ago they got what they want so they got everything they want. you know again making money or even making money raking money so everything was good and it's not a good enough now they want to walk a spouse or a plane going to recognize it going to be on our site players love to play the game being up there to. mingle and propose them to the owners they only defending negotiations are in full swing over most experts players and fans alike expect n.h.l. commissioner gary bettman genomes the lookout this weekend then the european wide kontinental hockey league will become a major option for unemployed n.h.l. herbs kaito is making a progress story because getting back to read is getting better and better and. the competitor levels are higher so i think playing that's

a good thing about playing on the high level it's obviously not a good thing i think i would advice everybody to play to get ready for the turn so nothing american lending party he gave has worked out special rules no more than three n.h.l. players can be signed by a team only one corner is allowed on the russian clubs last year. on top of that at least one of the boeing. must be meant the player has to be a stanley cup winner while it's an n.h.l. words 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 in the chillers you there are the russians or

international players six north american boys who will increase the level of the game here i certainly looking forward to that. as far as i prefer obviously i prefer russian when a child stars dies like. a common thing in a play to be on the numbers having an alarm and trans going to have a chance to see. their stars and a show look out which he would benefit the kids many on both sides of the atlantic everyone associated with the game he's a waiting with bated read the outcome of the talks but there were the decision life will go on either here or there as it will take something more than just money to hold that weight gain but our team. well the k h l has no such problems and is in full swing this season spartak hosted metal an over

kuznetsova in their first home fixture of the season and it did not go to plan for the muscovites of breaks for mountain slopes and one for man tony lazarro have secured the visitors a comfortable. that is all from the world of sport for now with plenty more later here in the world whether it's next. he is being impeached to be. believed to be. elite.

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