were bombed in afghanistan, and from sea ships they were released into afghanistan within two days.e missiles, and cruise missiles are a missile with nuclear warheads, the americans said that osama bin laden is hiding in afghanistan, who allegedly organized these attacks on the united states and ben ivanovna himself i want to remind whose american agents would have been trained by the americans to fight the soviet troops in afghanistan back in the seventies. supported were photographs in jizzinsky with him, and in life then there was one of the main political, so to speak, puppeteers of the united states, and now, that same bin laden was here extremely. although it is still unclear whether he took any part in this provocative story at all. oh, my god, there was no strategy, but after september 11, this strategy appeared, that is, but with the mouths of the american nation to make it great and to do it at the expense of a powerful military force and at the expense of carrying out hmm on the poor, and the military campaign its results were extremely ambiguous now we can already see it

what do soviet soldiers here in afghanistan think?s become a barbarian here. some soldiers especially those rob homes, kill women, children and rape them. yes there was a case would soldiers which shoot in a house, killed the father an old man, killed the old mother and raped a 15-year-old girl and then killed her so she would not tell anyone. >> you are aware problem in kabul, therefore all of the actions performed within kabul or afghanistan, but whatever this is such as destroying, burning, killing looting on behalf of the villages on the countryside. can causal the f grant secret service bullets usually keep 15 or 20 afghans and human conditions and small rooms and tortured them by electric shock, beatings et cetera. it is difficult for me too describe all of what they do it would be harder to hear such actions of savagery for example i know a compatriot who worked very hard for some country. it is cut by the afghan into soviet officers and they gave him so many electric shocks he was paralyzed. ordinary people are very much oppos

we do not want communism in afghanistan, we want a true islamic republic in afghanistan. >> well, the his identity. you are a muslim just like you are an afghan. i would make a parallel easy to understand for westerners. it's a bit like the role of the catholic church in poland. you are polish, you are a poll and you are a catholic. in a traffic and a poll means you're not russian orthodox or you're not a protestant in german. it's the same thing with the afghans. the religion is part of their whole identity, that's part of their way of living, it's part of themselves. >> [interpreter] when we asked the man in charge of the military in the panjshir valley, by what miracle his 5000 men with only 500 weapons could managed to hold in check the army which is supposed to be the most powerful in the world, the red army. the first answer he gave us was that the mujahideen where believers, they defied a holy war and that, if they died, they would inherit the garden of god. and-limited some law that one must answer. but the second aspect of his answer was that -- it's a fact that a large part

let us recall that afghanistan has the richest oil and gas deposits., nato controlled not only the opium market, but also the coal-oil market. how much money did the interested parties receive from this operation of the presence of americans in afghanistan can you believe in president trump about six trillion dollars? as we also see it in gray where they are still up still remain where there is a location of oil. i do not want to go there at all, although they are without a legal basis, they are there. in this us strategy that it is necessary to assimilate the territory to establish its own rules and all alleged partners are allies who work with them, they actually obey, if initially in afghanistan, too, military victory was achieved quickly, then here is a political victory yes, an ideological victory it was never achieved, as recent events have shown, the teleban returned to afghanistan, without significant resistance, the organization restored its power, and in afghanistan and those who worked with the united states of america, we all saw absolutely

afghanistan. i do not think afghanistan is done with the united states. there is an enduring and symbiotic relationship that exists there. i don't know what the next chapter will bring. i hope. it is a brighter one for the afghan people. i think we have a we we have a moral obligation to particularly help the afghans who have come here and to continue to try to get out, get those afghans of afghanistan or out of afghanistan, but also all of the afghans who managed to get out of afghanistan but couldn't get to the united states and are in other countries that are less sympathetic than our own. so i think it is a the future of afghanistan is both the future of the afghan diaspora, you know, and then. and then whatever happens inside the country. but i do think there will be change. i think that's the one thing you can you can bet on. let's hope the sixth act has a happy very nice well said said. there's a series of books called the tuttle twins, connor boyack is the author, founder of that series for the tuttle twins. so and emily tuttle are a couple of kid

well, the war in afghanistan started in 1979. the average life expectancy for an afghan male living in the provinces in his early sixties. so unless this person is like in their early sixties, they don't have any adult memories of afghanistan at peace. so when you say, oh, there's going to be peace, you were asking the asking them to imagine a state of being out of whole cloth. so you're not engaging with people's memories, you're engaging with people's imaginations. and it's it's actually much more difficult to do that. and be on the same sheet of music. i'm going to try to keep this brief. i actually an afghan. so i remember last year basically how things went, right? like overnight we came interpreters, lawyers. we became advocates, we became unpaid employees. the united states, you know, immigration services. and i think i just want to do it. just clarify that. i don't think that the afghan people have lost their will to fight. and i think that is important to recognize that afghan women are the ones leading the protest like

you could say the same thing about afghanistan. so this decision to build in plywood in many ways ironically gives us the twenty-year war because if you look at that twenty-year timeline, at any point in the 20 years or talked about obama and all the missions accomplished and rumsfeld, any point in the 20 is willing 1824 months from major troop withdrawal. when you're on the grant in afghanistan in doing like a very retail work of counterinsurgency and what you're doing is sitting down with some like listen, mullah xyz is very important that you and your people support the afghan government, the future of your nation and your people is with the afghan government and our efforts here and here is a vote were going to build your edits can be great. i can't tell you how many versions of this conversation to look at you and say yes, yes we like all that but i just watched cnn and your president said you're leaving in 12 months. so the taliban shadow governor who lives down the street who comes at night when you're not here, he will be h

the only thing i will say is to say the war is over now we are done with afghanistan i don't think afghanistandone with of the united states. there is an enduring relationship that exists i don't know what the next chapter will bring. i hope it is a brighter one for the afghan people. i think we have a moral obligation particularly to help those that have come here to try to get out and get those out of afghanistan but also all the afghans who managed to get out but couldn't get to the united states and are in other countries that are less sympathetic with our own so ink think it is the future of afghanistan and then whatever happens inside of the country. i think there willn. be change. >> let's hope this has a happy ending.

in afghanistan, there are non-stop airstrikes.rture of the bombing of a hospital school in washington dc would bring a long list of sins, being just part of a crime against humanity. in this country, the actions of the military will be investigated by the international criminal court in the hague and personally by the chief prosecutor fatou ben of the court. here is one of the points of the war crimes report is another. misconduct registered by the us military in afghanistan in the secret places of detention of the cia, this happened mainly between 2003 and 2004. although, according to some reports, the violation continued and until the twentieth year, the answer would arrive quickly, secretary of state mike pompeo would call the court a quotation, an untrustworthy political institution masquerading as a legal entity. well known. at that time, john bolton, an assistant in our safety, threatened the judge with arrest, and a little later, the united states completely canceled the visa to the main prosecutor, hinting at economic sanc

in afghanistan the situation is different. essentially attempting to hoist a coalition ofal minorities the 40% of the population. they have essentially no political representation in thei government. and have been sworn to resist american occupation since they started fighting it back in 200. and so they are going to take over the country almost certainly. that means there's going to be to pay for those who been propped up in power byy the united states so far. it would be great if they could negotiate some kind of peacefulb resolution to the problem in the form of a new government there. but frankly i do expect the worst. see what in your book, enough already what you mean by that? irex well, low back was a term coined by the central intelligence agency after the coup in iran in 1953. it means not just consequences but long-term consequences of secret foreign policies. so that when they come back to haunt the united states the american people do not understand the real context of what is going on too. but with the iranian rev

then he had been in afghanistan for 10 years. it's not like that -- that runs after the red scarf a very important point to bret stevens from "the new york times" for example just a couple of months ago with an article criticizing the withdrawal from afghanistan in finding and lawton. america turn around if we give them a truck over to him bret stevens one of the leading opinion writerse of the times that this is proof that america must stay and continue to double and triple down forever and ever. these were taunts by bin laden because that's the reaction they were trying to get out of the american establishment. that america needs to stay at war until they have literally can't anymore because the art dollars completely destroy them and their empire is completely broke in. host of the subtitle of your book is time to end the war on terrorism and how do you define that war and what do you see it as how it started? the war on terrorism began in 2001 after september 11 and of course the cia had efforts against al qaeda in the years

the american bagram prison was founded in 2002 on the territory of afghanistan. during this time , thousands of afghans passed through it, according to the words, they were starved. they burned their eyes with an aerosol , they didn’t let them sleep in the prison, there were no partitions for visiting the shower or toilet, and local soldiers filmed the process on camera, humiliating people. but there were air conditioners. but there is one caveat, the desert climate is the same as siberian in winter. it's cold there, but in summer hot and the american guards turned on the air conditioner. in summer, on the hottest regime, and in winter, on the coldest, in order to increase the suffering of prisoners and once again to mock the german journalist jurgen todenhoffer saw everything with his own eyes. after visiting bagram. he will write a book. you must not kill. as an example, the author cites a case where prisoners were tied to chairs face down and let into the room by fighting dogs that mocked people until the shadows confessed to everything that can be imagined, w

my go ab government of afghanistan. well, that does happen. far, nudes, confession covered cobble banks, illegal activities, the luxury properties in dubai. and how the savings of afghan citizens were being used for off the books loans to some of the banks shareholders. in response, the governor of the central bank of afghanistan sacked both shock enfant node and c . e. o. haile lula feruci foreigner actually was very he d until i owe a short time that his life was not in danger. and we provide him security in caldwell hes bullied grove, carson cobble, and his a guest house in cover. then during the meeting, he told me, man, do you know how much money is missing? i'm the only one who is disclosing this money this fast to you. you know that these people who took this money did not one me a life. they want to kill me when i the governor fired the chairman and the c o. in august 2010. of course the worth came out in the panic started because people realized that something is really wrong with the bank. so they were afraid

just how restrictive has life now become again for girls and women in afghanistan. i've been african women's and girls life have been restricted tune extreme extent. i'm going to refrain from counting all the restrictions that were put on them in the past year because it has come to a point that african women are confined to their homes and they do not have the right to leave the house without a male chaperone. there are exceptions for women who work in the education and health sector, but mostly women are to stay home. girls and most provinces are banned from receiving a secondary education and a life has become extremely restrictive for them. what happens then if they do step out of the house without that male chaperone you know, when this is not the 1st time african women underwent similar restrictions under the 1st taliban rule, but schooling was forbidden for all girls and women. they have managed to set up underground schools to continue their education, carrying books under their borchers and meeting and secrecy. in private houses, we're seeing similar strate

that was going to the central bank of afghanistan, which would then transfer that money. of course, without interest would transfer that money directly to cobble bank and then cobbled bank for. then just what they said would be a minor cost of services within bank roll, or would then pay the afghan police and the afghan soldiers, ah, the owners were very clever. they made extensive advertisement over the tv radio billboard, and it was attracting huge amount of deposit from common people in 2006. i believe they could use a lottery type account called back to come in this back account attack. huge amount of deposit from common common public. one 3rd of the deposit was bank or fortune account for which covers been used to pay huge prices in like 2007 when i started. my duties is, is a governor covered bank comprised of 57 percent of total banking as it in or farms. the way they were marketing, cobbled bank at the very beginning in the marketing stance were very flashy. and everybody believed on the face that this is the right for us. so that's how i chose caldwell bank. i st

are you watching the w news coming up next in the w news, asia girls education held hostage in afghanistan. young women refused to be silenced by the taliban. and the daily struggle of a 20 year old afghan, who says she feels under constant surveillance from the state. all that and more coming up next in d w. 's asia. it's my colleague ben position and i'm on your campus. makennan, thanks so much for watching data with the are you i might and the power of sticks and society a symbol of arbitrary rule tool in the struggle for justice taxes the right to levy taxes in the obligation to pay them both impairment in the sovereignty of nation states and their citizens. but what happens when the power of taxation is undermined? ah, you won't pay taxation oh, ticks starts are 2 twin 1st on the w. ah, this is the w news. asia coming up today, held hostage girls education in afghanistan taking to the streets. young women stand off to the taliban, but risk violence. the dangers of just attending secondary school for girls or even higher as deadly attacks proved at uncertain future for women in afghani

ah, this is the w news. asia coming up today, held hostage goals education in afghanistan, taking to the streets. young women stand off to the taliban, but risk violence. the dangers of just attending secondary school for girls or even higher as deadly attacks prove at uncertain future for women in afghanistan, almost all aspects of daily life and now more restrictive. we meet a 20 year old trying to survive on to taliban rule. and scrambling for earthquake survive as a race against time that can be helped by technology and the insect world. we introduce you to the cycle cope roche. i i've been puzzling, glad you could join us. african women are refusing to be silent despite mounting repression and aggression from the ruling tele, bad. i've got to stand is the world's or the country where girls are forbidden from attending a secondary school or university solely because of their agenda defying the ban has its consequences. a private education center in cobble was blown up last week. the when says over 50 people were killed, more than double the taliban stole the victims were mainly g

i was out of country, i was not in afghanistan. and when i heard about it, i completely, i rushed to back to cobble just to make sure that my money is safe at us. quite devastating because we as a public, we as a business, we are light on the bank on the face. everything looks so normal, but everything was far from normal. cobble bank was in free fall, and the consequences for afghanistan and its people were potentially catastrophic. november on a jazzy at the foot cooling well, gracious tournament kicks off all eyes turned to kat ha, as if repairs a spectacle like no other old ways for new days. first nations frontline discovers how traditional knowledge is helping solve modern problems. israel holds its faith general election in less than 4 years. will this round draw a line under its political crisis? generation football meets the inspiring players, tackling social political issues on and off the pitch. americans vote in defining mid term elections. the results could see biden, and the democrats lose that congress majority novem

i was out of country, i was not in afghanistan. and when i heard about it, i completely i flushed to back to cobra just to make sure that my money is safe. and it was quite devastating because we as a public, we as a business weird light on the bank on the face. everything looks so normal, but everything was far from north cobble bank was in free fall, and the consequences for afghanistan and its people were potentially catastrophic. oh, inmates learning from other inmate's acquiring knowledge that could set them free through legal education classes and mach tribunals. that dedication has led to staggering results. you've been in prison with them. yes. so wrist in that they was teaching empowerment kenya, part of the rebel education series on al jazeera. i'm from canada and my country are playing and the world coke for the 1st time since 1980 say this is my 1st time uncovering a world cotton. so to half the country that i was born in playing in the country that i live in. well, that's truly amazing. it's so exciting to watch the wo

that was going to the central bank of afghanistan, which would then transfer that money. of course, without interest, would transfer that money directly to cobble bank and then cobbled bank for a den. just what they said would be a minor cost at services within bank roll, or would then pay the afghan police and the afghan soldiers, ah, the owners were very clever. they made extensive advertisement over t v's radios billboards. and it was attracting huge amount of deposits from common people. and in 2006, i believe they could use a lot city, a type account called boss to come in. this back account attracted huge amount of deposit from common common public. one 3rd of the deposit was back back ordered for shaneka, for which cover bung used to pay huge prices and lead 2007. when i started, my duties is, is a governor cobbled bank comprised of 57 percent of total banking assets. and so they were marketing cobbled buying could from the very beginning. the marketing stance was very flashy, and everybody believed on the face of the as the right place for us. so that's how i chos

america in afghanistan is over. this was not an operation.t was a twenty-year-old bathing, which ended at the end of august 21 with a frantic flight of american and nato military skunks, where at that time they had already come to power, or shameful outcome, washington's longest-running military campaign is clearly the experiment of several administrations in their understanding of forcible planting. the word of democracy in afghanistan has failed the problem of terrorism has not been resolved continues to be a very acute side is in an economic humanitarian crisis. and why well , because they were destroyed for 20 years. here i really like it. i think we'll talk more about that today, uh, let's talk. i like how now the representatives of the baltic countries germany poland started and started shout that you have no right to build a bridge on territory that does not belong to you. well, about the territories that belong to us, but we are not going to start, after all, the referendum should have been respected and the will of the people, but we

i first they were -- the environments where afghanistan. it was everything i was worried was going to happen there, it would happen in my subconscious at night. over time -- i have the story i could tell myself. in this case, i told myself after several years is stopped taking place in afghanistan. they were taking place in my home. there were somebody invading and i could not stop it, whether they were coming for her, my son . my therapist told me, while i told myself, the nightmares aren't connected to afghanistan so it is not ptsd, he was like, no, they evolve. the happen sometimes and it is dangerous. your nightmares evolve in your current environment. you're waking up full of adrenaline and searching the house at night with a pistol. now your subconscious is reinforcing it and tell you that there is danger everywhere in your modern environment. i wasn't delightful to live with. delightful. diana: in my first appointment with my trauma therapist, she sat back and was like, we are safe here, we are safe, this room. that is how we felt. n

, perhaps, a similar story awaits it before the shameful departure from afghanistan, there was a shamefularture from at least five or six states, well, in a row in this you can south vietnam to remember where the evacuation from was very reminiscent of the evacuation from afghanistan m-m. uh, the union of allies, they will fight if this fight is not associated with risks for themselves, that is, conditionally speaking, it’s just that they won’t give up on it, but if you choose between tallinn and as a seedy farming village in the vyzul region, then they will naturally protect their village on the arizula, and tallinn will be discarded as an unnecessary card, which, well, this picture, in my opinion, is a masterpiece. i wanted to draw the attention of the polish embassy to the fact that, uh, the new german borders if they are restored along the lines before world war ii will mean that uh, half of these military bases will go to germany and if the city is torun, pay attention - this is the border, uh on the russian empire and the german empire on fourteenth year. that is, torun is already t

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in afghanistan. >> oh yeah! there he is. what's up, dude? >> reporter: you can feel the joy in their embrace like childhood friends. >> good to see you. hi! how are? are you? oh my gosh. he is cutet cute. must get it from his mom. not you. just kidding. >> what a reunion. how was he able to track down zia's wife? >> reporter: juliette, this was was such a wonderful story. it's it's one of the key themes of fleet week that the major was able to give me a few more details into the evacuation. hed me once he did locate zia's wife wife in that pink hijab, they had a two mile walk to get to the tarmac where the c-17 would would eventually depart from and , remember, she is five months pregnant at this time and it ist is august in afghanistan. i cant imagine that was easy on either of them. but once he did get to that airfield, the major had to get back to work. he had to help help thousands of other people o evacuate if get afghanistan. he left her there in the company oa couple of his unit members but he told me he was able to return return at a

in afghanistan, not so much.nd so really a clear eyed assessment of the credibility and the legitimacy to be in support of both in a way that is successful or not. because i think that is a factor we have had the discount to believe we can somehow remake them or change how they are viewed among their own population which is probably something more than we can actually do. >> that is to point out product ndassociate myself with that and said that is how we turn the tide in iraq was the legitimacy of the tribal forces. it outstripped anything that iraqi security forces had. they provided enough of a veneer of legitimacy to the iraqi security forces that they were able to turn the tide. roxbury conclude i cannot resist the temptation to ask one quick lightning round a question madam secretary and for your general as some of you may have seen there was a press release yesterday from u.s. central command announcing we had conducted a drone strike against two isis officials. one and maybe both of them were killed. we h

she escaped afghanistan and is now in canada.e feels no more settled. >> i'm not only exiled from my country but myself. reporter: for now, she has put down her pen. >> this grief is like an ocean drning me and i don't know how to swim. ♪ reporter: sometimes, though, grief inspires as it did for this poet and singer. now living in pakistan, he wrote "o homeland" after celebrating his first holiday away from loved ones. >> we had lost our heland so in a very disturbed and crying state, i wrote the poem. and then i was able to sing it with music. reporter: back under taliban rule, popular music is once again considered sinful. the national anthem no longer plays nor does the flag fly. but he says this is afghan history running its course. >> whichever party comes to power, they change the flag, they change the coins, they change the banknotes, they change the constitution. reporter: what remains is the desire for knowledge and freedom. some women have opened unofficial schools to teach girls beyond grade six, when the taliban says

there's been deployment to afghanistan and a run for mayor.re have been several moments when you thought your life was on the line during your service, and a brief run for the white house. and then there's been the best seller you wrote and a round of therapy and now a second book, and did i mention that you have kids and you ran for secretary of state and won, and that you ran for the u.s. senate and almost won, and that you are growing the veterans community project across the country, so, i guess maybe the question is, how the hell are you? >> thanks, steve. i'm now very good. it is a lot of stuff. >> a lot of stuff. >> it was exhausting, but not because of all the stuff, but because i wasn't sleeping. i was constantly feeling like i was in danger and you know, the other stuff if you read the book, but, that was the exhausting part, more than anything. but now, i mean, my life is completely different. you know, now i coach little league and i get to play some baseball, and i'm -- i'm fully present as like a husband and a father, and a son a

karzai in afghanistan, not so much. clear eyed discussion to have the credibility and the legitimacy to supporta a goal because that'sde a factor and then we changed how they are viewed and that something more than we cant actually do and then to say that's how we turn the tide in iraq was for legitimacy and then to outstrip anything theor security forceses provided enough with the iraqi security forces that they were able to turn the tide against al qaeda. >> i cannot resist the temptation one lastnd lightning round question some of you may have seen there was a press release yesterday from central command announcing we conducted a drone strike against to isis officials we talked about the isis threat and lessonsee learned but this is not completely in the rearview mere to understand the terrorist organization in the ideology is isis defeated and what force posture do we need going forward? >> i once had a counterpart the problem with new americans many problems that are b part of the world so we should continue to pur

is especially important against the backdrop of the situation in afghanistan.

afghanistan and iraq. following the same approach which was a drawdown based on conditions as iraqi forces were able to exert control of any given province. u.s. forces are coalition forces and gradually drawing down. that was started in the bush administration and continued in the obama administration. we came to a point where there was really a question of do you draw down completely or do you maintain and definitely some kind of force. theid civilian side and the military side of the pentagon was pretty unified. arguing forki residual force. at that point taking casualties. strengthening the iraqi backbone with helping to dampen down tensions between the different ethnic developments, not ethnic, but religious. and we still had a pretty important blue, a roll of gluing it all together and keeping it going. very wholesome discussion of the pros, the cons, the risks. people committed their views to paper. we had situation rooms, discussion, debates about every aspects. he wanted to in given the threat of

afghanistan again turned into islamic.tated goal of a twenty-year us military operation was not achieved. that was the day in history. russia is war and pestilence and rebellion and external storms, its pressure in the spring. russia cannot be understood by the mind with a common arshin . she has a special place in russia, you can only believe. yes, they are russian characters it seems that a person is simple, but a severe misfortune will come in big or small, and great strength, human beauty rises in him. the highest and sharpest characteristic feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it. without a sense of their country as special, very dear and sweet. in every little thing there is no real human character. this feeling is disinterested and fills us with great interest in everything. spiritual life in russia is nobler i am poisoned by russia i miss it only russia is coming. breakthrough of the high zaporizhzhya npp to the energy gift is excluded the city authorities declare that russian troops are in

then we had invasion occupation of afghanistan. and course iraq was a nato operation as well, the rock against iran, but look at afghanistan, 20 years in afghanistan, a nato operation in many ways. and nato was part of that. why is not anywhere near europe, but it doesn't matter. it was part of it. and then we abruptly left, you know, but 19 years too late. but we left already preparation for, you know, making a new theater. and ukraine had had been in place. but the summer that we left afghanistan, 6 months before we left, we're simultaneously working in planning for what's happening in the ukraine today . and again, yes, nato caused that united states cause that was, that is a theater facilitated by the west. and russia has responded to it, in fact, in a conservative way so far. i'm really glad you said that nikolai, where we had over in the beginning of this week here and reaction to the sabotage the crimean bridge. and i would also say north stream is that we had of 2 days of missile barrage, essentially knocking out 30 percent

back home in afghanistan, he used to coach a women's team professionally. the income comfortably sustained jam, she'd and his family. this could last give all is my life and was my greatest passion. i'd reached a national level. i worked as a coach and coached a women's basketball team, basketball at the hospital, but the taliban band, women sports jam. she'd managed to flee afghanistan just in time. thanks to assurances from the canadian government. but after a few weeks in cutter, he got stuck in albania as canada wouldn't take him in. he's now hoping for a u. s visa, but jackie dose that he shows us pictures of his family, who he had to leave behind. his twins are just over a year old. now. he hasn't seen them since they were newborns. then his white calls . but hold on me, i'm only am. i am giving a television interview. in brazil, i will talk about my problems. loneliness, the family, the bureaucracy ritual. you know, if i swear all i do here is wait in, i'm audio stop to mission viejo. sunday, who was ash over the past year. every one told me i had be

>> yeah. >> abdul is one of afghanistan's most prominent contemporary poles.st of his adulthood life in the united states, fleeing afghanistan aer the soviet invasion in 1979. since then he's wheedled his most powerful weapons, his pen and his voice. >> this is what the poles and the wrirs were doing their part in the jihad or in fighting against the occupiers and the same role they played against the civil war after the soviet withdrawal. poets were opposed to the taliban too. >> above all, he wrote about the need of afghans of all either niceties to units. a theme that the new president karzai wanted to promote in the new anthem. >> it's about the pride we have taken in our country, in our history, in our present. >> karzai's choice of a well known -- language pelt was delicate. poetry is central to afghanistan's past and present, not just as a storytelling method but as part of the story. one of the most famous examples, the namesake of pakistani activist malali. in 1880, afghans were fighting their seconds war against the british. during the battle the sol

>> national security journalist and author of a book about afghanistan, hardest place.hrough all of your books about air act is the role of delta force which you have alluded to in your remarks today but a lot of people who read "degrade and destroy: the inside story of the war against the islamic state, from barack obama to donald trump" will be surprised to learn how extensive that role was particularly in syria far from being just engaged in counterterrorism rating a lot of people associate delta force with it comes to the point where it is running all the advise and assist efforts in syria for the most part, running an air campaign within an air campaign. i wonder if you could describe how this unprecedented situation came about and comment a little, i would be curious to hear from general mcfarland about this, the pluses and minuses of this in terms of freedom of action versus command and control issues versus the obvious transparency issue of having a huge portion of this campaign run by an organization the us government won't talk about as you have done, like pul

she's a former minister of women's affairs in afghanistan. thank you so much for your time tonight and all those insights. thank you so much and that is our time for today, but as always, the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter at w news and myself at nicole underscore for us. so please get in touch with us there and we will be right to engage you and keep talking for now though i am the entire team here on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day with ah, with with what of these mountains of waste could just disappear. sustainable packaging is urgently sought. bags made from algae, home from mushrooms, the future of sustainability. when will new technologies become cost effective? made in germany on d, w, and to the conflict. so no sooner had president butram amex for regions in ukraine . the news troops were forced to flee from a key city in one of them for humiliation. morgan gloss on russian commander by christmas. we come to you who are short craft the head of the presidential administration. as you c