welcome to our parents are all chant and i've got another breaking news police in yemen reportedly fired tear gas and warning shots as protesters tried to storm the u.s. embassy for a second day driving mobs have also attacked the german and british embassies and pseudo i'm all in response to an american film mocking islam. meanwhile in colorado violence shows no sign of dying down as clashes enter their fourth day despite attempts by the country's most influential political group to call the outbreak.

washington scrambles for damage control after deadly anti-american demonstrations spread across the arab world but efforts so far failed to appease the angry mobs. up next interviews all third jere van dyke spent forty five days in taliban captivity it discloses what he thinks are the real reasons behind the u.s. military presence in afghanistan to r.t. in just a few minutes. eleven years ago america began its war on terror and today in afghanistan a 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 our team thank you mr van dyck 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 this so-called war on terror i don't think it's a sign of either 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 maybe fifty 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 it could stand you could stand to have the largest untapped oil and natural gas reserves in the world if you talk to the afghans you talk the taliban you'll say oh that's why the united states wants to stay here people say it's because we want to surround iran 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. you know 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 enough ghana stand 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 pashtoon 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 an 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 an islamic 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 called the northern alliance the tajiks these are

different ethnic groups in the north so this is also an element here there's 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. 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 a tribal codes take precedence over islam that deep down there 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 asked me to go down to an apartment in new york to minn 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 jalali be in the whole 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 ditch. and saved 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 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 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 it comes from working closely in tandem with pakistani military intelligence that they would choose to attack their attack there were. 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 that your lesson and its allies are fighting a proxy war against. home with the media 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 correctly 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 said that kani network is an arm of the pakistani i.s.i. back as a military intelligence that we united states have paid at least twelve billion dollars and given a different forms at least twelve billion dollars to the pakistani military since nine eleven but the pakistani military. former admiral mike mullen said every everyone else is backing the tell of it 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 television 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 eight hundred ninety three the british when they ruled india created what 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 of the against al qaeda which has morphed into something far deeper far more complicated is an old afghan saying it's gonna 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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to look needs being grimaldi. well sports news is next with the unit and the new big spenders of european football have been splashing their cash around again p.s.g. from porous they want to be the new chelsea the new barcelona and everything in between and it seems burley a week goes by car and but they don't buy another clear they've got another one more another just a sec. thanks for joining us this is indeed sport today and we have plenty for you in the next ten minutes or so including the following. on thin ice the clock continues to run out of thousand and eight bosses on players seek to save the upcoming season. king of the canvasser. muhammad ali makes a rare public appearance to receive a humanitarian award in philadelphia. the youth of mothers the stars of tomorrow

show off their skills in moscow at the fourth annual international dockyard football championships. negotiations over this season's n.h.l. campaign appear to have hit the rocks once more with the prestigious north american league on the verge of a third lockout in its history on sunday the commissioner of the league will announce if the season will go ahead or not r.t. takes a closer look now at how it may affect the ice hockey world and in particular its second biggest league the kitchell. 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 leave the year long sation happens it will be the third jump in though it's history and the team owners and the players association a currently tour over the new collective bargaining agreement essential 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. making money or even making money raking money so everything was good and it's not a good enough now they want to. paint fans going to recognize it going to be on our site players love to play the game being up there to. make those rules 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. or cato is making a progress story because getting back over it is getting better and better and. the competitive travels are higher so i think playing it's a good thing about playing on a high level it's obviously not a good thing i would advice for everybody to play to get ready for the turn so nothing lurking lending for a good gauge or 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 year. on top of that at least one of the four we. must be met blair has to be a stoic winner. and a cio 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 previous two world

and world junior championships or winter olympics and finally those who had played in the before are welcomed i think in the chillers you there are the russians or international where 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 when a child stars. a common thing in a play to be. on a large towns going to have a chance to see. their stars and if you look out who it benefits the kids many on both sides of the atlantic everyone associated with the game is 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 the great game but our team. to moto g.p. know where the sport's elites have paid tribute to marco sim and shelley who died at last year's malaysian grand prix the riders completing a special up ahead of this weekend san marino race former world champions fallen and jorge lorenzo amongst those taking to the renamed in the world circuit marco sigman cheli to honor the italian the twenty four year old's life ended in a crash in supplying last season now going into this weekend's race lorenzo sits thirteen points clear on top of the rider standing. the head of spanish can patrick dani pedrosa the stage also said to feature a moto g.p. debut for northern ireland's gianni riotta who's being called by raps all honda as a replacement for injured reigning champion casey stoner. when i was in russia doing i speak. we got the news of

a request from on learn to dance and i i didn't have to think about it too long till we were on a plane to bruno testing the machine so i must going. on the team and h r c four for giving me this opportunity. just about every sports fan is aware of muhammad ali's legendary achievements in the ring but the seventy year old has also fought plenty of battles for humanitarian causes the legendary fighter this week receiving the liberty medal for how to put into parkinson's research an illness of which he suffered some self and he was constantly on the forefront of social issues famously refusing to enter the military to two his opposition on the vietnam war the seventy year old devoted his boxing life to worldwide charts all missions and was given the presidential medal of freedom in two thousand and five one of the highest civilian award in the u.s. . and the greatest fighter from the next generation of boxers after ali has shared his opinion on the state of boxing today former on disputed world heavyweight champion mike tyson also giving

a little preview of what his next career move entails. a very good. good friday but we want to feel. brewer are in the particular have a preferred. particular you know book me she's friday you know so we have before we go into a. thing i want to entertain now i want to dampen billy madison moment and show me if you. really. mike tyson as a ballet dancer i'd like to see that football where french side. continued their summer of big spending dutch international defender gregory vander vehicle the latest player to arrive moving from i.x. on a four year deal the twenty four year old to sign for six million euro stating the league one side has the potential to rival european giants such as real madrid and compete for a top european on the club but by qatari owners have spent heavily this summer

bringing the likes of slap down abramovich amongst many many others. and finally the fourth international backyard football tournament concluded here in moscow. stan topping the charts the tournament which aims to promote sports among children across the globe going from strength to strength as michael reports 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 thousand is 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 had to amend has become more multidimensional if we started was justifiable to men 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 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 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 this far 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 coach later new suits 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 sternum and i hope we will see more such talents gone through when asked about whether he had spotted any future stars he was optimistically. 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 the more the national. has come to an end and seems to have been a rousing success again with next year's probably even now most of the kids behind me will eventually become doctors or engineers in the future and 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 that it will follow in their footsteps genco. all your sport for no i'll see you soon whether it's next. culture is that so much time and there's

a huge music to share on talk to friends from arab spring arab blowback what accounts for the rise of violence across the entire arab middle east recently was the killing of the american about. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

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