future. >> afghanistan will, with the help that they provide be able to provide security to its people and to protect its borders. >> panetta said he and karzai made good progress but he declined to say whether they had agreed the size of the u.s. force that will remain in afghanistan. >> after a long and difficult path, we are finally, i believe, at the last chapter of establishing in afghanistan, a sovereign afghanistan that can govern and secure itself for the future. >> afghanistan will, with the help that are you providing, be able to provide security to its people and to protect its

future. >> afghanistan will, with the help that they provide be able to provide security to its people and to protect its borders. >> panetta said he and karzai made good progress but he declined to say whether they had agreed the size of the u.s. force that will remain in afghanistan. >> after a long and difficult path, we are finally, i believe, at the last chapter of establishing in afghanistan, a sovereign afghanistan that can govern and secure itself for the future. >> afghanistan will, with the help that are you providing, be able to provide security to its people and to protect its borders. >> panetta said and he karzai good progress but declined to say if they agreed on the size of u.s. forces that will remain in afghanistan. the united states currently has 68,000 military personnel in afghanistan. local forces are supposed to take over responsibility for security before the end of 2014. any u.s. soldiers that remain would be for training and assistance. >>> the transfer of security powers seems an ambitious goal, given the persistent taliban insurgency in afghanistan. friday's mee

future. >> afghanistan will, with the help that they provide be able to provide security to its people and to protect its borders. >> panetta said he and karzai made good progress but he declined to say whether they had agreed the size of the u.s. force that will remain in afghanistan. >> after a long and difficult path, we are finally, i believe, at the last chapter of establishing in afghanistan, a sovereign afghanistan that can govern and secure itself for the future. >> afghanistan will, with the help that are you providing, be able to provide security to its people and to protect its borders. >> panetta said and he karzai good progress but declined to say if they agreed on the size of u.s. forces that will remain in afghanistan. the united states currently has 68,000 military personnel in afghanistan. local forces are supposed to take over responsibility for security before the end of 2014. any u.s. soldiers that remain would be for training and assistance. >>> the transfer of security powers seems an ambitious goal, given the persistent taliban insurgency in afghanistan. friday's mee

we understand education as a vital factor in the overall growth and future stability of afghanistan. educated citizens can drive change from within. what are your plans short-term and long-term to ensure that this progress that you mentioned of education continues to move forward? especially in regard to increased access of education for women. >> we did see a great deal of violence against schools in the initial years by the taliban. we succeeded against that. there are executions and -- pakistan is going through a very difficult time. and other of events there, they are all a source of concern for us. i can speak with satisfaction, the suffering that we have had, our schools are safer in the past three years, the great majority of girls go to school in afghanistan do if in safety and security. we have not had any major incidents. and this concern for families and students would be less and less a matter to think of. thank you, sir. >> this will conclude the program. i have one important announcement before i thank our remarkable speaker. please do not leave your seat until you hear

largely on the very presence of the troops and with his term ending in twenty fourteen the future of afghanistan is far from certain and the main question remains who really decides the future of afghanistan the karzai led military the so-called afghan national army is really nothing more than the biggest militia on the block backed by the us the u.s. presence there is one more militia the nato presence is another militia these militias are vying for power influence control of resources all those things at the same time you have external actors in the in the vicinity in the region the neighbors of afghanistan afghanistan will remain a challenge during obama's second term even after the withdrawal the u.s. and nato will be blamed if and when that country falls in the hands of the taliban operatives again that would take afghanistan to square a zero the exact square that brought us and. doing into afghanistan as more americans oppose the war in afghanistan pressure on obama is growing the cost of the war is high just this past year the cost of the war in afghanistan was over one hundred billion do

of the future of afghanistan as vague as the nature of the relations between the united states and afghanistan in the future so obviously a lot actually came out of this conference today or we have learned a lot and that might be learning that there are still not much that we know at this point or that they have figured out concretely at this point one thing that did come up over and over again was president karzai saying in reiterating the fact that they need afghan sovereignty in the nation and one of the surprising things that actually came out of today was that they announced that once the cars i returned to the country they will be in charge of the detention facilities and the detainees in afghanistan the afghan forces will be talk about the importance of this and why this was a sticking point for president karzai he can go back and tell his people i have accomplished something now we do have control over our own over own prisoners now this is the silver entity that i've been talking about this is something that. accomplished in this trip this is. he can

afghanistan work afghan spine security peace prosperity and dignity and in pursuit of that future afghanistan will have a long term partner in the united states of america long term partner in need because the war is far from over see this invasion was never about a victory at upbraiding country no this is about the complete destabilization of a region i mean just. where afghanistan is it's sandwiched between pakistan and iran it's about installing a system of control setting up shop for a future of imperialism and military aggression so ho mr president spare me the charades and let's break the set. up. where you never seen anything like that. for many of you today is just another day for others or represents a harrowing black spot in american history because you see today january eleventh is the eleven year anniversary since the first inmates were brought to the u.s. detention facility at guantanamo bay and what followed was nothing but scandal torture and human rights abuses that were heard around the world by two thousand and eight many hoped by kuantan it will be left as part of the bush

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suicide bombing and killing, there has been many positive changes in afghanistan. >> the possibility of the tell about having a futureole in afghanistan, music is here to stay. jennifer glass, al jazeera, kabul. >> good. >> at least crutcher people have been killed by a severe wave on the east coast of australia -- at least quite sure people have been killed. we have a report from sydney. >> the only to evacuate the people was by air. more than 1000 people were at lifted -- were airlifted. >> we're asking people the main priority is life. listen to emergency service workers and their directions. >> 2000 properties went at least under water. the extreme weather led to more fun than danger. the wind whipped the sea into foam create a large bubble bath. brisbane escaped the worst. some businesses went under. most household look up early dry. the river reached an all-time high. the weather headed down the coast toward sydney. there was no serious damage done. the only thing still wild by tuesday was the sea. >> i will hang around for a bi t. >> floods two years ago killed 35 people and damaged 35 homes and businesses. it

. >>> today will likely be a crucial day for the future of afghanistan. president obama will sit down with president hamid karzai. the leaders will discuss the u.s.'s role there when the war ends next year. it will be the first face-to-face meeting since president obama was re-elected. karzai had dinner last night with secretary of state hillary clinton. the meal came after the two had a private meeting. they also discussed the future of afghanistan, including preparations for that country's elections next year. >>> the death toll continues to climb in a series of bombings across pakistan. at least 120 people were killed in the blast yesterday. 81 of them died in two explosions at a billiards hall in a shia neighborhood in ket a. a sunni militant group with ties to the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. human rights groups are criticizing pakistan's government for not doing more to protect its shiite population. more than 400 were killed in pakistan last year. >>> joe biden's gun control task force turns its attention to the video game ind

afghanistan work afghan security peace prosperity and dignity and in pursuit of that future afghanistan will have a long term partner in the united states of america. long term partner indeed because the war is far from over you see this invasion was never about a victory to threaten country no this is about the complete destabilization of a region i mean just look at where afghanistan is it's sandwiched between pack.

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future. >> u.s. troops are expected to leave afghanistan by the end of next year. today's meeting comes one day before karzai meeting with president obama at the white house. >> metro is looking at its security, specifically on buses. in the wake of a shooting incident last december that left a young mother dead and her daughter wounded. brown was shot to death while she was boarding a bus. her 23-month-old daughter was shot in the face but survived. authorities say the child's father later killed himself. police say that they caught the man who stole two police cruisers last month. they are both charged with grand larcenyny. the cruisers were stolen within days of each other. a missing shotgun and mobile computer remains unaccounted for. >> the coast guard is holding hearings to investigate the sinking of a tall ship during hurricane sandy. it sank about 90 miles southeast of north carolina. two people including the captain were killed and 14 others survived after escaping in lifeboats. >> no pictures like that around here, thank heavens. >> nice and quiet weather

military troop presence in afghanistan after 2014. also the future security of the country. ow to talk about president karzai's visit to washington, what's at stake for the united states, what's at stake for afghanistan, our white house correspondent brianna keilar, chief political analyst gloria borger, chris lawrence, and richard haass, author of the book foreign policy begins at home. let's go to the east room of the white house first. they've been meeting now for a while. set the scene for us. i know one of the key issues involves any u.s. military presence in afghanistan after all u.s. troops are supposed to be out by the end of 2014. that's right. and it has been cordial reception as he comes here today for bilateral meetings that have already taken place as well as a work lunch with president obama and the vice president and then he'll be wrapping up his day here with the press conference. but that cordiality which we saw here today and also when karzai met with secretaries clinton and panetta be llies in tension ove the past few years. some very serious issues that ar

mind, you also mentioned there is some unrealistic expectations from afghanistan and the united states with respect to pakistan's future role in reaching out to some of the taliban, especially the taliban leadership. it props up against u.s. and afghan forces in afghanistan. you said there are some limitations. what are those limitations? >> the limitation is what i had mentioned. we should not be expected to deliver the taliban leadership to a position that maybe will -- you may be wanting them to take. that would not be possible for us. i said that we have quite an experience of interacting with [indiscernible] and they never agreed to pakistan's point of view. this applied to the leadership and the taliban themselves. when they were rolling afghanistan. to expect that pakistan should be able to make them except, for example, the renne constitution, we will not be able to do that. this will be between the harpies council and the taliban and how the taliban are dealt with. this is for iran. they are debilitated and this is the way to proceed toward reconciliation. [indiscernible] that is for the renne leadership. paki

afghanistan. now again, none of them provide a knock out blow. a lot of the discussion will continue to take place in washington over the next several days about what the future is going to be. and you hear lots of press reports about what will happen from now to 2014 which is when nato has said that all of the combat missions in afghanistan will end and part of the discussion that will take place in washington which we can address in questions and answers is what will remain there as we continue to have a very important part of the u.s. strategy. but what we've learned is that this was an opportunity for many terrorists organizations to be able to leverage the weakness of the state of afghanistan to operate there, both their legal activities you see on the left- hand side of the slide as well as their illegal activities there on the right in which they extort money. one of the most noteworthy networks that we've written about is the hi canny network and our study of the network we sent people over to afghanistan that went with many of the counterterrorism forces that were going after them, documented what they were doing in terms of undermining the state in

afghanistan where afghans find security, peace, prosperity, and dignity, and in pursuit of that future, afghanistan will have a long-term partner in the united states of america. mr. president. >> thank you very much for that warm welcome to me and the afghan delegation on this visit to washington and for pairing with us, as i mentioned during our talks, in the prayer house with all the crowds that we have there. the president and i discussed today in great detail all the relevant issues between the two countries. i was happy to see that we have made progress on some of the important issues for afghanistan, including afghan sovereignty. we agreed on the complete return of detention centers and detainees to afghan sovereignty. we also discussed all issues of appear began security. i'm very happy to hear from the president as we also discussed it earlier that many spring this year the afghan forces will be fully responsible for providing security and protection to the afghan people and that the international forces, the american forces, will be no longer -- that the task will be that of the afghan fo

they also discussed the future afghanistan, including preparations for that country's elections next year. >>> funerals are being held today for some of the victims of yesterday's bombings in pakistan. at least 120 people died in the blast. it was the deadliest day in that country in years. more than half of the victims died in attacks on a billiards hall in southwest pakistan. a sunni militant group with ties to the pakistani taliban is claiming responsibility for the bombings. >>> new this morning, an apparent hostage situation inside a los angeles mall that's still going on. l.a. police say two armed men somehow got into a mall at lax about two hours after closing last night. they believe they may be holding a woman hostage inside a nordstrom rack store. overnight workers were evacuated there. the situation closed part of the 405 freeway for a time. it's reopened. >>> during a week of talks aimed at ending gun violence, gunfire rings out at another school. a student shot one classmate and tried to shoot another in taft, california. police say the boy had been targeted students who

and he's trying to get his ducks in a row for afghanistan's future. although president karzai, if you think about it, there's going to be another election in 2014. he's not going to be the president of afghanistan. right now, what he's focusing on is helping his own legacy. >> and how many could be left behind. it could be zero, maybe 3,000, as many as 15,000. obviously, he's going to push for more, rather than less? >> it seems that way. president karzai and the afghan government right now, look, they know what they need is an international presence to help the afghan troops to continue to build the afghan forces because they can't handle afghanistan right now themselves. they can't secure their own country. but there are people on president karzai's staff that have the illusion that america needs afghanistan more than afghanistan needs america. but as we all know, that's not the case at the moment. because the focus of 2014 and beyond, is if america doesn't stay and help, will the country fall back into a civil wary will it fall back to the taliban?

future of u.s. troops in afghanistan topped the agenda.e will take part in a joint news conference coming up in a little more than two hours from now. cnn's wolf blitzer and gloria borger will anchor our special live coverage. >>> vice president joe biden said his panel on gun violence will present recommendation tuesday. he said it will serve as a beginning and not an end to the discussion. president obama called for the task force after the massacre in newtown, connecticut. >>> in a little more than a week president obama will take the oath of office for his second term, but his inaugural committee is struggling to replace one key speaker, pastor louie giglio will no longer give the bendiction over criticism of a sermon he gave in the '90s over homosexuality. joining me now are wayne bessen the executive direct of truth wins out a nonprofit group that fights what it calls, quote, anti-gay extreme and senior sprig a senior fellow from the family research council, welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> wayne, why the objection

the future of afghanistan is up for discussion as the country's leader prepares to meet top american officials in washington later on thursday. size talks with u.s. defense and state secretaries as well as his one on one summit with president barack obama could provide answers to a wide range of crucial issues including the number of american troops are to remain in afghanistan after the majority pullout in twenty fourteen and their possible role washington hasn't finalize its decision on the matter and doesn't rule out a complete withdrawal that scenario is unwelcome by the afghan government and its position is increasingly fragile amid a strengthening taliban insurgency patricia digital politics professor from new york university says it's in no one's interest for the u.s. forces to leave right away. there's a lot of talk about not leaving any troops there at all however i don't think the us can afford that neither can the region because there are still quite a bit violence going on there so i think the president will probably leave some troops there at first i'm tied but i would a

mapping out afghanistan's future after foreign combat troops have left. their meeting will determine the primary mission, to fight the taliban or to get rid of al qaeda. president karzai wants soldiers. his forces lead emissions across the country. they are still not ready. for many years to come, these soldiers in afghanistan generally will rely on america's support. >> for more on those meetings taking place, i spoke with peter bergen. what is the main sticking point in these meetings between what the white house wants and what president karzai wants? >> it is the question of immunity for american forces. the u.s. does not want its soldiers being prosecuted by an afghan accords for obvious reasons. this is a big sticking point. >> karzai would like that? >> yes. that is very much what he would like. and then there is the numbers. the obama administration [inaudible] the final number will be 8000 to 10,000. >> the white house did not rule out the possibility that there will be no u.s. combat troops after the end of 2014. what difference to the future to

the future of afghanistan for discussion is the country's leader meets top american officials in washington because those talks with the u.s. defense and countries as well as his upcoming one to one summit with president barack obama could provide to a wide range of crucial issues including the number of american troops to remain in afghanistan the majority put in twenty four. possible role washington doesn't finalize this is. a complete withdrawal is not welcome though by the afghan government to increasingly fragile amid the strengthening taliban insurgency hillary. extensively with u.s. diplomats in the middle east and he told me she believes there's nothing left for president karzai to fight for in washington. i think these talks are for the president and his national security principals to let afghanistan's president karzai down as softly as they can to let him know that unfortunately they're not going to make good on their promise to completely train. the afghan military and police before u.s. troops leave i think this this visit is about trying to let cars i know as nicely as they ca

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america's military future in afghanistan afghan leader hamid karzai is to meet president obama with washington still mulling the number of u.s. troops that will remain in the country after twenty fourteen more of that in just a few minutes stay with us. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so please you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture. the mission of free cretaceous free in-store charges free. range month free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media dog r.t. dot com. t.v. . thanks for joining us here on r t going to live from moscow i'm marina joshie afghan leader hamid karzai is and washington to thrash out america's role in afghanistan during talks with president obama mr karzai has already met to fans are really on panetta and secretary of state hillary clinton the focus of the wider one meeting is expected to beyond the number of american troops that will remain

din we are secretary of state hillary clinton and this morning's meeting will focus on the future of afghanistanand u.s. troop levels. >>> the national rifle association and hunt irs are planning a rally on january 19th, two days before president obama's public inauguration ceremony. gun control advocates have launched an advertising support to draw up more gun laws. today, vice president joe biden will meet with video game executives. >>> today, d.c. cup sill members make a trip for the white house to ask if a big favor from president obama. what they are doing today to put a long-running issue into the national spotlight on inauguration day. >> first, speed camera cash. new numbers show just how much money the city made on the much high pressure despised devices. i don't want to know. >> they got some of mine too.  . >>> of the revenue from the controversial speed cameras in d.c. reportedly skyrocketed from 2011 to 2012. new figures show a 100% increase in the cash brought in. it went from $42.9 million in 2011 to $95.6 million last year. >>> some members of the d.c. council are heading to t

that was laura smith in london the future of afghanistan is up for discussion as the country's leader meets top american officials in washington ahmed cars talks with the u.s. defense and state circuitries as well as his upcoming one a one summit with president barack obama could provide answers to a wide range of crucial issues including the number of american troops in afghanistan the majority pull out in twenty four to possible role before washington has been finalized this decision on the matter doesn't rule out a complete withdrawal but scenarios not welcomed by the afghan government whoever those positions increasingly fragile are being the strengthening taliban insurgency in some thoughts on those from hillary mann leverett and for those of you with u.s. diplomats middle eastern asia why hillary thanks for being with this the obama administration send signals that it's firmly committed to a pullout in twenty forty we know hearing that all u.s. troops could leave afghanistan can these talks really change the course of action is that what these talks are about. you know i think t

again the future of afghanistan is up for discussion as the country's leader meets top american officials in washington and causes talks with u.s. defense and state secretaries as well as his upcoming want to one summit with president barack obama could provide answers to a wide range of crucial issues including. a number of american troops remain in afghanistan or for majority put in twenty four teams and the possible role washington has in finalizes decision on the matter it doesn't rule out a complete withdrawal scenario is not welcomed by the afghan government positions increasingly fragile and with the strengthening taliban insurgency let's talk to ali rosenberg he's a university of sussex he writes for the daily political blog hi there thanks for being with us just days before these talks a senior white house advisor now it's washington is now considering this idea of maybe a complete withdrawal in twenty forty what kind of message is that sending ahead of these negotiations. but unfortunately not a very good one but i think that has as much to do with obama's domestic pressures as

he is looking to stake out his position on the future of afghanistan as we move towards some sort of lower levels of troop presence in afghanistan and he is laying, he is laying out markers right now before he meets with the president. we'll probably be reading about some of this in the papers tomorrow. melissa: we have a 66,000 troops right now on the ground there. we're talking about pulling everybody out by 2014. what do you think is the risks of that? >> well, i think when they talk about the zero option i think the white house is also laying down markers because we're having some problems negotiating the future of american troops in afghanistan. i don't want to get too technical, melissa, but there is a thing called the status of forces agreement and this protects our troops while they serve overseas in foreign countries. we have them with japan, germany, korea, places like that. we didn't get one with iraq. that is the reason there are no u.s. troops in iraq. iraq is dealing with resurgence of al qaeda. we're pressuring them as well. they're trying to pressure us. they want thi

for less than going to say just going forward is on the future of afghanistan, i could not agree more with what anand was thing about the money issue in afghanistan. i wrote a paper published here by new america called russian roulette, and i forget the subtitle, that runs through and as a comparison of the last days of the russian occupation in afghanistan in the late '80s with where we are today. frankly, i don't think from a sustainability of the afghan government standpoint we have done much better. and that's pretty depressing but i think that's the case. and we may have been worse. i think that a lot of ways you can make a strong argument that he was a more dynamic and creatively within hybrid car site. so the last thing though is where do we go going forward. and i think especially in the process. we had a strategy of very effective tactics, meaning the drone strikes. those aren't going to defeat the taliban and they're not going to fundamentally defeat al qaeda, in my view. i think they will suppress the taliban and al qaeda. and i think it's possible that al qaeda, in particu

future is what do we want in the region. this is not just a case al-qaeda was in afghanistan and now they largely are not. it's a question of the future of the region, the future of the afghan people but also the stability in the region and i think that what we want to do, what our strategy is all to be what we're talking about now rather than just the numbers of forces there. >> schieffer: let me ask you the question i asked senator mccain and that is, i would agree with you and i think most observers would, that al-qaeda no longer has the safe hairch haven in afghanistan but as long as thet have a safe haven in pakistani but from the standpoint of u.s. security, does it make any difference now what happens in afghanistan? >> i personally believe that the region matters and afghanistan cannot be viewed in isolation for pakistan or even iran or the other neighboring countries. so if for example there were an unglurchedungovernorred area, i think pakistan's very stability now with the pakistani insurgency, those would really be threat upped and nuclear armed pakistan in a threat upped position would be a re

two key issues for the future of afghanistan is the political certainty. for an afghan, insecurity is to the a problem, it's uncertainty. the fact we don't know what we are transitioning too. what is next for afghan. part of that has to be form nature-- formulated by the afghan political leadership. they can help to a certain degree but we still do need to hear very clearly what is in for afghanistan after 2014, as far as what from the national partner but most importantly how afghanistan itself sees itself in a changing region. >> what about this of hamid karzai saying he will be retired president soon enough. is that a certainty at this point. and then what does that mean for afghan politics? >> that is a challenge. i believe that president karzai will step down and he is not going to be running. >> therefore i didn't expect he will be endorsing individual groups too early that enhances this environment of uncertainty in afghanistan where we do need actually a clear movement. we don't have political party notice afghanistan so therefore it's important to

afghanistan where afghans find the security, peace, prosperity and dignity and pursuit of that future, afghanistanve a long-term partner, the united states of america. mr. president. >> thank you. thank you very much, mr. president, for the very gracious and warm welcome. to me and to the delegation and this visit to washington, and for bearing with us as i mentioned during our talks, with the crowds that we have there. the president and i discussed today in great detail all the relevant issues between the two countries. i was happy to see that we have made progress on some of the important issues for afghanistan, concerning afghan sovereignty. we agreed on the complete retain of detention centers and afghan sovereignty, and that this will be implemented soon after my return to afghanistan. we also discussed all aspects of transition to afghan governance and security. i'm very happy to hear from the president as we also discussed it earlier that in spring this year the afghan forces will be fully responsible for providing security and protection to the afghan people. and that the international for

afghanistan was accused by american officials of accepting a $30 million bribe. host: so you think the future role is to protect these mineral interests? caller: i would say if you look at a map of afghanistan, i do not think we will be -- i think china that is getting all of its copper from afghanistan has more of an interest that we do. i think al qaeda is -- host: that is henry from new york, new york. from "the new york post." we want to show you a little bit more from what the president had to say at the white house in announcing the time line for a scaled-back military presence. [video clip] >> as president karzai announces the final -- u.s. forces will move to a support role this spring. our troops will continue to fight a long afghans when needed. let me say this as plainly as i can. starting this spring, our troops will have a different mission. training, advising, assisting, afghan forces. it would be a historic moment and another step toward full afghan sovereignty, something the president cares a lot about as do the afghan people. this sets the stage for the further reduction of c

what i have noticed is he does care about the future of afghanistan.d during our interview he wants his own children to grow up in the country. >> what do you think it would look like logistically in afghanistan, not in the long run, but this year, starting this spring when the president says the mission will change, it will become train, advise, assist. he didn't say it will be the end of combat operations, the same way he said that in iraq. but he did say it's going to be a change in mission. what do you think logistically that will be like in afghanistan? how do you think it will affect daily life? >> i think it's going to be similar to what we've already been seeing. a lot of the country has already been handed over into afghan hands. and they need their hand-held right now. and basically, when america goes to the train, advise and assist role, they're going to be holding afghanistan, the security forces' hands. they're going to be sitting in the background, waiting for the afghans to ask for help. and they do eventually ask for help. in 2012 we sa