this is why you should care only. four thirty pm on sunday here in moscow this is. your headlines now a sixth day of fury shakes the muslim world as protesters across the globe rally against america and it's following the release of a controversial film designed to mock his long. time diplomats rush to douse the flames and salvage ties with the muslim world while experts point to america's mideast policy as being responsible for the. last year and see austerity protests once again people want the belt tightening measures to end over

a million and a half people in spanish catalonia calling for independence. u.s. sanctions against iran failing to curb tehran's oil trade as heavy consumer nations are once again exempt from the measures. mr jere van dyck a man who was held captive by the taliban for forty five days shares his personal view on the true reason for the u.s. military operation in afghanistan this is our city. 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 in 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 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 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 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 i. tell. you 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 talked of or they sing a 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 arabs gyptian zx saadi chechens those 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 been. because of their ties to al qaeda and because of a 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 up 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 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 that. 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 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 don't i think it's 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 army 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 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 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 day in the hood county network. that we are at war with. and with which i lived in the nineteen eighties 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 the 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 mullah omar or go beneath the are 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 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. only come together but that is at all without a doubt that that could create even more dangerous times 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 said that kani 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 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 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 it's an old afghan saying it's got 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. i mean. the only city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fawlty in which are the pictures. so.

well. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. the headlines on r.t. the sixth day of fury shakes the muslim world as protesters across the rally against america following the release of a controversial film made to mark islam. and diplomats rush to douse the flames and salvage ties with the muslim world or experts point to america's mideast policy is being responsible ultimately for the rest. plus europe is in gulf with anti austerity protests once again people want the belt tightening measures and over a million and a half people in spanish catalonia are calling for independence. and u.s. sanctions against iran are failing to curb terror and the oil trade is heavy

consumer nations are once again exempt from the measures. by mr you know neal a pleasure to see you today and we've got a quite a lot to talk about there in your world of sports the green light has been given for an icy exodus from the north american hockey league not exactly right start a lockout is official in ice hockey rory a lot of players and i thinking of coming to europe some of them really signed here in the k.h. l. it's a big story and we've got much more in the coming right now super. thanks for joining us this is indeed sports today we have got plenty ahead for you this hour including the following. coming home a surrogate gone char on yet again most can become the first n.h.l. stars to return to russia but the american league officially lost dog. staying

alive the bryan brothers win their doubles rubber against spain to keep the usa in with a shot of reaching the twenty twelve davis cup final. trick hero it's been a weekend trim ember for sure lankan bumps money kumar sangakkara as he wins three major global cricket awards in the very same. russian n.h.l. ors are not free to play ice hockey in their home country or indeed anywhere else for that matter the north american league on able to come up with a new labor agreement this weekend resulting in its second work stoppage since two thousand and five two russian n.h.l. stars have in fact already returned to their roots all the way defensemen thirty eight don't chart pittsburgh forward you've been involved in three and with their former club magnate of course during the negotiations they are now officially reunited on the ice putting pen to paper with the kitchen squad on a year long deal as soon as the lockout went into effect on saturday night the jew who won the stanley cup at pittsburg in two thousand and nine not hoping down they

can go in cup to their c.v.s. the previous n.h.l. lockout wiped out the entire two thousand and four zero five season. let's turn our attention to football where three games are up for consideration today in the russian premier league the first of which is no coming to a close c.s.k. moscow went into the clash with a london knowing that a fifth straight win would move them up to second in the table right behind carrick with a round eighty nine minutes gone in the capital it's one nil to the army. thanks the key city on this second half strike later g. you also have a patience of ending the weekend in second spot and retain a crust the dark side without a win since the first week of august while rock bottom dinara the rust off the date action. over in england top them will be hamming to secure their first win of the premier league season when they kick off to reading shortly after three games spurs have secured just two points coach under the last boss obviously struggling to

rediscover the form which saw the londoners finished fourth last season newly promoted reading also with a less than stellar start posting just a solid three point to their name meanwhile liverpool manager brendan rodgers has been speaking about the week which saw british prime minister david cameron apologize over the handling of the hillsborough stadium disaster ninety six reds fans died after being crushed during an f.a. cup game in one thousand nine hundred ninety. difficult courses you can imagine though that should. never think sharon didn't you know some of the players weren't you know agreeable. to relatives so to have been a real emotional week because when you show him to liverpool was part of the continent you know you as a player and manager. you show in your agreement. an agreement contributed to produce an emotional national airport to your new. two spanish football we go where

barcelona have maintained their position at the top of the catalan side being hit tough a four one away archrivals real madrid again slipped up a cagey opener was brought to life when he thought he had no finished off asa perth . run after thirty two minutes the introduction of leo messi was a decisive move at the world player of the year netting twice in a four minute second half period for one then the eventual final score involved one while real madrid season has gone from bad to worse with lots of sitting material folding a one zero loss to sivia simmering us men have won only wants this season in four times. over in the german bunds league dortmund funs once again turned out in numbers and were even joined by chancellor angela merkel as the reigning champions who stood by or leverkusen months for most heading for twenty minutes in. lost to cough ski with a second before half time before robert. third in the second period as the host

screws to a confident. while the champions main rivals in last year's runners up byron munich were attempting to maintain their perfect start to the campaign against maine you. will say to lead after just thirty minutes last year champions league finalist weren't likely to lead slip from there i'm not prove to be the case that bar and winning three want to play much mum points from their first three. i worth waiting for that finish the biggest signing in australian football history has arrived on on two thousand and six world cup winner del piero greeted by local crowds as he prepares to begin his tenure with sydney f.c. the thirty seven year old wife getting just as ruckus reception as our world famous husband allegedly for reminded of his former glory signing autographs. on his own event is college plenty of pressure on del piero then to perform with

a two year deal seeing emerge two point one million u.s. dollars per annum that contract means he's the highest paid player across the street for footballing codes those include the ruby union rugby league and all the rules along with balls. in tennis the usa i've kept the davis cup semifinal with spain alive following a victory in the doubles rubber and trailing two love after the opening day mike and bob bryan the top ranked doubles team in the world knew they needed a win to give the us any chance of reaching the vendors final and they started brightly in front of a near sellout fifteen thousand capacity crowd in key on taking the first six three spain's marcel noirs appeared to pick up an injury and helping play in the second set but he decided to continue playing from that point on the bryan brothers didn't look back saying i had a six three three six seven five seven five winter spain's. argentina have it all to do if they are to reach their second successive davis cup final not

only do the trail two one heading into the final day of their semifinal with the czech republic but also have to make do with how it's my time for sunday's reverse he's been rudolf's with a wrist injury the czech republic season initiative on saturday after winning the doubles and straight sets thomas burdick on the topic stepanek sing off eduardo shrank on six three six one six three the czechs said one win away from reaching their second final and. you know russia being eliminated from the top ranking world group after losing to brazil the hosts taking on a salable three zero lead on something it's their first time in history that russia slipped out of the elite group brazil meanwhile return to the top table for the first time since two thousand and. ten boxing sergio martinez has reclaimed the w.b.c. middleweight title after beating mexican. julio cesar chavez jr by unanimous decision

in las vegas the argentine was stripped of the title two years ago after feeling to take on a monetary challenger with chavez jr proceeding to take the beacon belt martin is dominated saturday night splash for eleven runs on was heading for a comfortable point of the station before a late flurry from a chavez junior almost secured a knock out martin is hitting the canvas twice in the final round but managed to get to his feet on both occasions and he had also done more than enough to take the win when the final bell sounded more known as the starting the w.b.c. cry into the ring title he also held. cricket where the twenty twenty world cup gets underway this week in sri lanka into are the defending champions in the shortest format of the game having recently lost top spot in the test rankings to south africa in captain stuart broad we keen for his side to reassert their dominance in t twenty the south africans also happen to be the top ranked t twenty side in the world but are still seeking their first major i.c.c. tournaments victory their captain a.b. de villiers admits in the past pressure may have got to his side. i'm going to be

very honest with you i'm going to put out this straight up front we have choked in the past and we know about that if you if that's the richie looking people it's a simple as that we flew first some really bad experiences in the past but are locked in for source of us post we come in with a whole new look in the team we've worked really hard with all new management team which is given us a lot of energy and a lot of new ideas so we will approach as tournament differently we would like to win the pressure situations we are going out there to do exactly that and like i said be prepared and really excited for the two to get on to that field. it was a busy night for kumar sign that card at the annual i.c.c. awards ceremony and winning three awards including the people's choice voted for by the public the batsman who knocks almost fifteen hundred runs in the past twelve months was also named test cricketer of the year and on the overall prizes i.c.c. cricketer all twenty twelve. writes it's an amazing i've seen the people who've won

before and i've seen the nominees. and the year these guys have had i just sat and watched it had my all the all the guys up there going in for land faced into as it got out to twice i reckon in that since you were in so it's great to be among them and it's a huge on the to win and that's your sport for joining me again and i run into our time for more including the latest from the russian premier league an all in between he said. welcome to the. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.