i was told the roads would be closed and the area sealed off by government forces after the attack. it was time for me to leave charkh. >> when the us and natoraws most of its troops from afghanistan, the taliban will, despite over a decade of war, still be here. the key question is what will happen on the ground after the draw-down? the answer might be that i've already seen it - it's basically already happening. a fight for power - on the battlefield with bullets and in the towns and villages, for local support. >> what is likely is this sort of thing continuing for the next four or five, six seven years,. areas in which the taliban have de facto control surrounding small afghan outposts and continuing to fight perhaps not a lot of territory changing hands. and as always civilians will be caught up in the middle >> and so what we're most likely going to see is a stalemate, two sides fighting each other with not one side winning which is not a good thing for peace. >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> native families divided by foster care >> anytime they see a social worker, the immediate response is..

dinners a broad as you can imagine they are looking forward to the end of their missions and returning with their families back home. the us and nato right now, in ferguson, missouri, protesters have seemed to have taken a thanksgiving pause. there have been no police or missouri national guard members standing outside the ferguson police station where people have been gathering to protest sometimes violently over the past week since monday's announcement that ferguson police officer darren wilson will not be indicted in the august shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown. efforts are now underway to beautify the city. groups have been painting designs on the plywood that covers store windows. >>> meanwhile religion leaders called for unity in ferguson. ministers preached the looters and vandal do's not represent the entire community. >> it's not like it's a play. this is real. this is our lives. give us -- we should have a place in this country as well as everyone else. and so i am very passionate about what's going on and i don't want our people to lose hope. >> church leaders said it's a time to focus on healing and moving fo

the taliban. of course there are. and i'm also sure that they are getting significant external support. >> these are the facts: the pakistani military through the isi provides intelligence to the taliban on nato and us and ana operations. they provide even training for them and resources and logistics. >> the sound of the military jets returns, but the fighters don't seem too worried. >> they even stop to pick up fruit on the way. but i'm concerned about the nato planes circling above us. >> i just saw two fighter jets in the air, flying very low, possibly targeting us i'm scared as hell. >> but the planes didn't attack us >> it's not a major attack. it's a small group of taliban, it lasted for a couple of hours. for those types of attacks isaf planes don't normally engage. there are much larger attacks 200, 300 taliban in which there is a real danger of the base being overrun which would be a major political and symbolic blow to the afghan government and to nato and in those cases it would be much more likely to engage. >> they couldn't get the bodies of the fallen comrades, so they're very disappointed. but they say they killed a lot of afghan national army soldiers, i can't confirm it because we

as the us and nato prepares to pull out most of their forces later this year, i travelled here to trysee what life is like in areas of afghanistan under the rule of the taliban. after days of negotiations, through intermediaries - i was told i would be allowed in, with

this is the last thanksgiving celebration before the us and nato combat mission ends december 31st. >'ll looking forward to that more than anything. >> i'd like to say happy thanksgiving to family and friends back home. take care. >> on behalf of the obama family -- >> president obama thanked troops for their sacrifice. >> we say an extra prayer for you and your loved ones and we renew to take care of you as well as you've taken care of us. >> president obama may not meet his commitment to reduce troops to nip hundred 800 by the end of the year nato countries say they cannot supply the extra soldiers needed as replacements. alfonso von marsh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> back here at home hundreds of volunteers prepared thanksgiving meals for manna the non-profit organization that provides meals for those who are critically ill. volunteers prepared turkey and all the trimmings. over 1800 homemade meals were delivered warm and ready to manna clients and their families. tomorrow the kick off to the holiday shopping season and this year more people will be heading online to find the be

as the us and nato prepares to pull out most of their forces later this year, i travelled here to trye is like in areas of afghanistan under the rule of the taliban.

here in the mountains of romania these soldiers are training for battle just a seven-hour drive from ukraine. despite good relation with russia, nato uses the command center to be nato's eyes andin the sky when it comes to russia. >> that's al jazeera america ali velshi with his new series the new cold war. that's all next week with ali velshi 7:00 p.m. eastern and 4:00 p.m. pacific. as you saw in the clip, nato is ready to support ukraine if called. we continue our conversation, george in washington, otilia in london and michael, the ofce in kiev. is it realistic to think that nato under its current rules of engagement would come to the defense of ukraine? >> well, nato as an organization cannot be involved because ukraine is not a nato member right now. but nato member and the united states and european partners can provide economic and military assistance to the ukrainian people to help convince them to defend their territory and get putt on it back off from attac attacking his neighbors. >> otillia, what kind of impact do you think the behavior of russian's president vladimir putin in the way that they're thinking about their future and the future of russia with europe? >>

and combat troops crossing the border into ukraine. let's get more and speak to our correspondent who is in the separatists strong hold of donetsk in eastern ukraine. tell us more about what natosaying and what you yourself have seen on the ground. >> reporter: well as you say, they -- they have said they have seen russian military convoys crossing the border from russia into ukraine, including artillery and troops and tanks. now in this region, there has been a lot of movement of such columns that have been sited almost daily by on youralists and the osce, yesterday we witnessed a column of vehicles traveling to donetsk just as we were heading out of town to the mh17 crash site. meanwhile there has been an exka lags of the violence. fighting can be heard daily and through the night rather loudly in the center, but mostly around the airport to the north of the city that the fighting is taking place in a standoff between pro-russian militia and ukrainian forces. a standoff that has been going on, despite the ceasefire that has been signed in early september. >> what has been the reaction of the ukrainian government in what sort of action are we expecting them to take? >> report

the alliance. >> they have been with nato and in maritime operations with us. 've done training here in ukraine together, and what is important about this work is that it will bring the ukrainian army closer to those nato tactics, techniques and procedures that make them even more inter-operable with our forces in the future. >> merkel told parliament what was needed was patience and staying power. that seems to be moscows approach as well. nick spicer, berlin. >> russia is encouraging the syrian regime and opposition to return to peace negotiations. russia is one of syria's main political allies and is long supported the syrian president bashar al-assad. >>> peter sharp joins us from moscow. what is the significance of this meeting? >> you know, the relationship between syria and russia goes back more than 50 years,-- >> i'm sorry about that. we have technical problems with peter. still to come, including, why this week's opec meet something set to be closely watched in years. [♪ singing ] >> and a fond farewell to lebanon's diva of music. >> we remind you of t

and we call on russia to pull back its treeps. joining us tonight, former nato commander and dean of the fletcher school at tufts university, admiral stavrides. good to have you with us, admiral. is there any doubt in anyone's mind that russia has invaded ukraine? >> absolutely not. an invasion is the imposition of armed forces across a sovereign border for political purpose without the consent of that sovereign nation. there is no question that has happened, lou. >> why is it that nato, president obama and others, are reluctant to call it what it obviously is? >> lou, i don't know. clearly, this requires a forceful response. vladimir putin is driving the train back to a new cold war. we should not let that occur and we cannot let this kind of aggression go unanswered. >> russians, in fact, including president putin, are bragging that they have tactical nuclear superiority over nato and the united states along their western border with europe. do you concur? >> they do. russia has many more tactical nuclear weapons but lou, this is not going to turn into a tactical nuclear exchange. what we should be doing is aggressively aiding th

despite good relation with his russia, nato uses its join command certainty and its f-16s to be nato's eyes and ears in the when it comes to russia. norway runs that operation from its military head quarters. which it recently moved 600 miles north to buddha. becoming the only country with a military headquarters inside the arctic circle. one big reason for the move, to keep better tabs on russia. buried deep inside an arctic mountain, norwegian officers track incoming russian bombers on giant monitors. an image that conjures up memories of 1950s cold war suhr surveillance and lately that era has come roaring back to life. brink man ship between nato and russia has always existed. but the crisis in ukraine may have fundamentally redefined moscow's relations with the west. >> i think without question the ukrainian crisis has pushed the russia-west relationship over the cliff and in to something that is qualitatively different than what we had for most of the cold war period. >> nay speech putin gave to russia's parliament announcing the annexation of crimea, he outlined a new vision for the kremlin. moscow

the witnesses, but when you encounter russians come and i have in many international conferences over the last seven or eight months, the line sometimes is you americans drove us to this but it was the expansion of nato in 1997 and 2002 when you took in 10 countries in nato, three of which had been constituent parts of the soviet union. you drove us to this. it was your aggressiveness. i don't agree with that at all, but i wonder how one should respond to the. i think i know how but we've all had this question but in this giving us about what most of us on this panel were involved in the clinton and bush administration? that poor sensitive sole putin, did we hurt his feelings too much and drive into this? >> you are looking at me. [laughter] is passing strange that the debate over the expansion of nato would be once again in the forefront of controversy, not just between is a passionate between those of us in the west which by the way is a geographical term that we thought was expanding to include many in the east, but it's also a point of controversy here in the u.s., particularly among those of us who are either, you can call us the wonky or the foreign policy elite. the original rationale for expa

. >> and one of the great advantages of being back in turkey with a friend and a m may -- nato al lie -- ally. >> i can remember our discussions when we were pushing the effort for us to get engaged in bosnia and kosovo. we have tackled a number of very contentious issues regionally and internationally and we've always eventually come out the same side. >> our military values greatly the competence, capability, and the partnership with the turkish military. baas knosn one thing i'd like to point out, the last time i saw the prime minister, he was merely the foreign minister. echkos thank you. thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> that was a fairly brief press conference there between the u.s. vice president joe biden who's on a visit to istanbul and the turkish prime minister. both of those men have a great deal to discuss about the tensions in the region, particularly on the issue of confronting isil. the u.s. relying heavily on turkey as an ally in its battle against isil in that region. i'm sure we'll have more on those talks later in the coming hours. >>> now in the u.s., republican politicians are lashing out at president barack obama

have noticed from the very beginning actually in the '90s that there are no conventional forces symmetries between them and us. what it used to be with the natoact and war so used to switch. they do not have conventional forces we do not believe to defend against nato should never get up one morning and decide to invade russia. plus they have some particularly as with the chinese by the way, impressed with our prompt global strike. they been impressed with our continued enthusiasm for various architectures of ballistic missile defense, and they believe it could be circumstances in which either their territory or their forces were threatened by our capability. this has led them come and this is in the open literature, and led them to explore apparently concepts of de-escalation, de-escalation through the use of nuclear weapons first in the conflict against u.s. forces, allies, assets all around the world including continental united states. if you didn't get fat, that means they would be circumstances in which the russians would believe they can deescalate a confrontation with the united states of america by attacking us first with nuclear wea

the russians retaliated and those cascading events led us to where we are today. just this week there was an update from natoecretary of state general underscoring the seriousness between russia and the u.s. we showed you the video of that just a few minutes ago. those 400 flights are more than three times as often as last year. all of this is starting to sound like the last cold war. for more of our special series the new cold war tune in sunday, we'll devote the entire show to tense relations between russia and the west. that will be sunday on al jazeera america, 5:00 p.m. eastern, 2:00 p.m. pacific. that's our show for today, i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. >> in the middle of san francisco sits a bee farm with a dozen hives and up to a million bees, run by volunteers who plant flowers and fruit trees to attract and build the bee colony that produces honey for the neighborhood. now, this lot's owner and other interested land owners have an extra incentive for setting up community gardens, a new city tax break. someone paying $10,000 in taxes before would now just pay about $100, their property a

the russians retaliated and those cascading events led us to where we are today. just this week there was an update from natoecretary of state general underscoring the seriousness between russia and the u.s. we showed you the video of that just a few minutes ago. those 400 flights are more than three times as often as last year. all of this is starting to sound like the last cold war. for more of our special series the new cold war tune in sunday, we'll devote the entire show to tense relations between russia and the west. that will be sunday on al jazeera america, 5:00 p.m. eastern, 2:00 p.m. pacific. that's our show for today, i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. >> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. count down: time is running out on a nuclear deal with iran. the last minute effort underway. immigration reaction. republicans respond to the president's reforms. the case against cosby. the new claims of sexual assault. we'll talk to a legal expert about what happens next. and portrait of an artist. she has captured some of the most famous faces in the w

continue to monitor the situation and report on what the relations between russia, the united states and nato mean for the situation in the world. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. good evening, this is al jazeera america, i'm michael eaves, john siegenthaler is off. >>> easing tensions, a much calmer scene in ferguson, missouri, protestors find new ways to get their message across. oil bust. crude oil price take a nose

the russians retaliated and those cascading events led us to where we are today. just this week there was an update from natoecretary of state general underscoring the seriousness between russia and the u.s. we showed you the video of that just a few minutes ago. those 400 flights are more than three times as often as last year. all of this is starting to sound like the last cold war. for more of our special series the new cold war tune in sunday, we'll devote the entire show to tense relations between russia and the west. that will be sunday on al jazeera america, 5:00 p.m. eastern, 2:00 p.m. pacific. that's our show for today, i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. >> between 1990 and 2003 nasa launched four satellites to photograph our galaxy across the spectrum of both visible and invisible light. they made up the agency's "great observatory program" and each orbiting telescope saw things a little differently, and now the youngest of the four satellites has just finished its mission. the spitzer space telescope is an infrared camera, it detects objects that our eyes can't see and it has taken 2.5 mill

continue to monitor the situation and report on what the relations between russia, the united states and nato mean for the situation in the world. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. >>> very few people get up in evil. what evil can i do today? >> he wrote the epic novel, a song of fire and ice, the basis for the hbo series "game of thrones" now in its fourth season, george r.r. martin is working fotin issue the series. >> there are days i wonder if i bit off more than i could chew. did it have dotcoms? >> his characters are often consumed with power struggles

continue to monitor the situation and report on what the relations between russia, the united states and nato mean for the situation in the world. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. >>> an egyptian court is due to deliver its verdict in the trial of ousted president mubarak accused of inspiring to kill protesters. >>> hello, this is al jazerra live from our headquarters in doha. also on the program, nigeria's president vows to leave no stone unturned in the search for the perpetrators of a mosque bombi bombing. >>> pope francis makes a visit to istanbul once the greatest christian city. >>> the united nations committee

from the very beginning actually from the 90s that there are now conventional force asymmetries between them and us. what it used to be with the warsaw pact and natoad switched. they do not have the conventional forces to defend against nato should they go get up one morning and decide to invade russia. plus they have particularly as well as the chinese by the way impressed with our prompt global strike. they have been impressed with our continued enthusiasm for various architecture of ballistic missile offense and we believe there could be circumstances in which their territory or their forces were threatened by capability. this has led them and this is in the open literature, this has led them to explore apparently concepts of de-escalation, de-escalation through the use of nuclear weapons first in the conflict against u.s. forces allies assets all around the world including the continental united states. if you didn't get that means there would be circumstances in which the russians would put the bacon de-escalate decompensation by attacking his first with nuclear weapons. trying to limit they would be concerned about collateral damage that thi

path for the high-end warfare piece so there's messages to believe sent to the support, to nato and there. and i think for us, we're distributing that fine. on the iso operations and people wonder about that, we provide carrier with air wing and right now talking with general lloyd austin, he's fine with that. we've got a lot of capacity on the ships that we have forward today so 104 ships out and about the world today, harlan. they have a lot of capability and we continue to train and to expand that capability so that the east can deliver that. so i'll close with i'm fairly happy with where we're going and that the focus remans appropriately in the asia pacific balance. >> let's go here to the front row, please. >> admiral, nice to see you again. the world has changed. what do you think are the changes that need to take place in the training and education and learning of our sailors and officers? i mean, it's just not about hitting the target. you used two important words to me. one was understanding and the other was relationship. how does that get into our educational programs? >> well, we mentioned earli

the news hour. thank you very much for watching. my colleagues is live from will be done next. i hope you stay with us on al jazeera. >> nato accuses russia of sending tanks and artillery and troops across the board into the ukraine. >> the ukraine government is now deploying it's forces to the east. you're watching al jazeera live from london. tensions flair between israel and palestine as israeli settlers are blamed for burning a mosque in the occupied west bank. >>> a deal between the u.s. and china is hailed as historic, but will they follow through on

these in and around the world and leave the big issues to continue along the delivery path with the high-end warfare piece. there are messages to be sent to the support of nato and for us we are distributing that. people wonder about the operations. we provide carrier with air wing said right now talking with general lloyd austin he's fine with that. we have a lot of capacity on the ships we have today. our ships have a lot of capability and we will continue to train and to expand that capability so we can deliver that. i will close with them certainly happy with where we are going and that the focus remains properly in the asia-pacific. >> animal nice to see you again. i'm at the naval postgraduate school. the world has changed. what do you think are the changes that need to take place in the training and education and learning of our sailors and officers? it's not about hitting the target. you used to important words, one misunderstanding in the other was relationship. how does that get into our educational program? >> well we mentioned earlier bringing people from the chinese navy over to interface with our folks to see who is this example and who is this department

the discretion for it -- four afghanistan's were killed and 13 others were injured and british embassy spokesperson confirmed -- a couple under attack almost daily as insurgents intensify the war on local security forces and us and nato keep their output target at 30 million barrels per day despite the fact that there is an oversupply of crude oil that prices are plunging. rises have dropped by nearly 1/3 since june. they feel another -- they another two dollars a barrel on tuesday. prices go down and many countries asked saudi arabia to cut production and sort of support prices and get them back up again. the saudi's are the top oil producers in the 12 nation organization and they effectively decide opec's policy and saudi arabia minister has indicated being in favor of the status quo before the meeting and it looks like they have decided to keep it that way. >>> in a week marked with protest and controversy. president obama focuses annual thanksgiving address on what brings americans together. take a listen. >>> thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because more than any other it is uniquely american. each of us brings our own traditions and cultures and recipes to the table but we all share this date united by the g

and jim baker at the american academy. and we talked about this. it was not the kind of effort that should have been made to say, how else can we use nato. nato was our western alliance and remains that, but it has kind of come unraveled around the edges. it's not as unified as it once was. it was an incredibly important and potent force and facing the east and dealing with issues together, and not always perfectly, but it was the alliance. now it has a lot of parts to it, and they're often not greater than the sum of their parts, which they need to be. the other part of what we're watching here tonight is that it was so thrilling and hard to explain about how the dramatic people who had such a terrible 20th century, mostly self-induced wounds, then were divided. and you'd have people in the west who had cousins in the east. the people in the west had democracy, consumer goods, and hope. and when the wall came down, their cousins and the other fellow germans came through in acid washed jeans, two-cycle lottos and automobiles as if they had come from the moon to venus. they just couldn't believe what they were seeing. and so, it was one of

thinking of conducting foreign policy in the future, saying we can't sit in the corner and let nato decide everything for us anymore. germany is trying to be more assertive without aggression and this is what you have to look at. >> we are expecting 8,000 balloons positioned along what was the wall to be released. just talk us through what we're expecting to see and what that's all about. >> well, you can see, i think behind me, a line of balloons that goes in front of the brandonberg gate, 7,000 balloons follows the line followed by the berlin wall. it's a kind of art project. they will be released in a few minutes to the sound of the ode to joy. they symbolize the fall of the wall in a sense and the hopes of a nation coming true and also their hopes for the the country is trying to take on more geopolitical responsibility. everyone will have a feeling what the balloons mean to them, to marry family and to their country. >> nick, thank you very much. enjoy the celebration tonight. >> the berlin wall has gone but in the last 25 years, more separation barriers have been built. we report on bethlehem in the o

the astronaut whose twitter feeds educated many from space. join us more from the website aljazeera.com/considerthis, we are on facebook and twitter >>> nato confirmssian tanks, artillery and troops cross the border into ukraine. ♪ >>> so this is al jazeera live from doha. also ahead israeli settlers are blamed for burning a mosque in the occupied west bank. >>> the world's worst polluters agree to clean up their acts, but there's doubt over whether they can actually do it. >>> and the european space agency makes history by landing a

. >> and in fact, one of the things that we were talking about in yesterday's story, in the new cold war, they are using old-fashioned techniques, sending planes out there to see how nato countries will react. and how is the west supposed to react to this? what do you do with junk in space? >> space is a neutral and international territory. and if you begin to mess with other people's satellites, you get into a geo political terror situation, and scary stuff. but as long as you don't bump into somebody else's stuff, you don't need to reveal it. russia that's not talked about what it is, so speculation ranges from it could be civilian, and it could be sort of an experiment in space, debris cleanup, a burgeoning area of space around the world, it could have something to do with a repair program, and people have talked about that up in space, but that doesn't seem lime. in the last probably five or six years, we have seen a resurgence of a program that had been shelved, the kremlin program, and it was supposed to be done with, and in 2010, the space agency announced that they were doing research into killer satellite programs, and this could be something very well be some