twenty fourteen when i joined by live ten and colonel richard williams former commander of the special air service mr williams thank you very much for joining us here at foreign troops are pulling out of the country at the end of this year but the u.s. is still hoping its soldiers will stay on the ground a lot of the chances this deal will get signed. well you got the whole of the year to the end of twenty fourteen to have this thing signed. and so we have to remember that all oh it's january there is a long period whereby more discussion is going to happen and what i'm told by friends in the political arena in kabul is the reason president karzai is taking his time on this is to secure the best possible deal for him and his political affiliates in the run up to the elections from afghan politicians themselves using the leverage that he has gained by potentially threatening not to sign it and secondly to gain more advantage from the international community particularly with respect to the aid and development promises made in tokyo by again threatening to not sign this and perhaps ask for more so w

soldiers something karzai is reluctant to accept what we spoke to the former commander of the special air service lieutenant colonel richard williams and he explained why he thinks u.s. is insisting on immunity for its troops. they would wish to ensure that any soldier commits a crime in afghanistan can be tried under american law and in an american court as i understand it the area of debate at the moment is that there is a proposal that an american soldier who did commit a crime in afghanistan could be tried in afghanistan in american law as a compromise but i think it's very important when american support ongoing operations in afghanistan is tenuous to say the least that the american public doesn't believe that it will be throwing its soldiers to the afghan to the mercy forgive me of the afghan judicial system twenty forty. admiral allen west who was britain's head of navy when the u.k. went into afghanistan has said the operation was a waste of time he called the war a strategic as well as a political failure of turning kind of william says that the biggest achievement of the conflict would

special air service tells r t what he expects from the negotiations i believe that what we try to achieve is to set the conditions whereby an afghan government can. play we. believe. if those conditions are certain he should be here then what we're likely to see is a compromise between kabul once the taliban once which will see afghanistan not a little over the next period of time perhaps the next ten years but they're going to be a great strategic victory if we want to call it that or any great strategic outcome . americans initially wanted a deal signed before the end of the year. now so the pine ridge and the a reservation in south dakota. has an annual per capita income of four thousand dollars eight times the rate of diabetes than the national average two times the rate of heart disease and three times the rate of infant mortality and also has possibly the highest unemployment rate in the country eighty percent which is the estimated rate of alcoholism on the reservation and this is despite the fact that alcohol is a legal there review is that producer cody snell breaks it down from

skepticism is growing that negotiators will get hemmed in by its former commander for the uk the special air service tells rts what he expects from the negotiations. he said. we try to cheat and use to set the conditions whereby the american government continued to gnaw on the way the pool. all the greetings and will be leading the topper the conditions the second is today minimally likely to see that he's a compromise between the old ones. wants which will see a dentist on the rule. in the next period of time perhaps the next ten years. so will it be a great strategic victory. if we want to call her a great strategic outcome. initially one of the deal signed before the end of the year. no crying or rage indian reservation in south dakota law still has an annual per capita income of four thousand dollars eight times the rate of diabetes than the national average two hundred of heart disease and the two times the rate of infant mortality. i also have possibly the highest unemployment rate in the country. eighteen percent which in that it is the estimated rate of alcoholism on the reservation and this

s a special air service tells r t what he expects from the negotiations i beat a shit what we try to achieve is to set the conditions whereby an afghan government can. play we. believe. if those conditions are certain he should be here then what we are likely to see is a compromise between kabul once autonomy. which will see afghanistan. over the next period of time perhaps the next ten years but then can it be any great strategic victory if we want to call it that or any great strategic outcome. americans initially wanted a deal signed before the new year. in west virginia a chemical spill into the elk river caused caused governor earl ray tomblin to issue a state of emergency and nine counties and a water ban for one hundred thousand people over five thousand gallons of a coal preparation chemical has escaped from a tank of freedom industries and the state's capital the link was discovered last night but it's possible has been going on for longer our correspondent megan lopez has more. state and federal authorities are working around the clock in charleston west virginia after a sp

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service. nominate someone online out our website, kpix.com/hero. >>> and by the way, our half hour jefferson awards special will be airing this saturday at 7 p.m.ix 5. a lot of really dedicated people. >> yeah. >>> speaking of dedicated, you're looking for rain. have you found any? >> i have spent -- been doing this for a long time. we're usually fixated on the short term. now what's coming up in two weeks? we need a change. we are looking. right now we're coming up dry. here's a peek outside. what a great shot, top of sutro pear 1400 feet in the sky looking down on the gorgeous city of san francisco. from sutro tower, mainly clear night like the past 20 or 30 in a row. concord 60 currently. oakland 65. you beat the record high for the day by 10 degrees. you're right now at 65 degrees. that was the old record. we are sitting here talking about highs in the 70s. here's the other side of the stuck weather pattern. government shut down yesterday, washington, d.c., 4" of snowfall. philadelphia 13" of snowfall. new york city 11" of snowfall. they are saying, enough with winter. their winter has been going on for two or three months. ours has yet to

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special spot where hell literally froze over hell michigan 12 below. >>> in england, crews are preparing to recover the pwaud kwaez of four american service members. the airin an area near the biggest air force base in the uk that is used for flight exercises, and the investigation has begun into why this one went tragically wrong. it's near a remote place, about 130 miles northeast of london. the wreckage is spread over a large area of marsh land being cordoned off for the four bodies to be covered and because there is concern about live ammunition spread around the crash site. the region is sparsely populated, and luckily there were no casualties on the ground. the chief superintendent of the local police force -- >> there has been speculation, i understand, about what the cause of this aircraft crash has been. i repeat my message from earlier, it would be foolish to speculate. >> the helicopter is designed for low-level flying in severe conditions. this is one in afghanistan. it's a reliable and robust aircraft often used in rescue operations, and in disaster relief. this is one flying missions in japan after the tsunami, or this one doing firefighter