host: we've got a little less than half an hour left with our guest martin smith.ca and the taliban is the new documentary tonight at 10:00 p.m. on pbs. we welcome your questions and comments. i wanted to go back in time because you included that news conference shortly after the u.s. invasion in afghanistan. it revealed the tell about -- tell a ban -- tell about - t aliban. [video clip] >> in late november, 2001 at a big hotel in germany, the un-sponsored a conference to determine who would rule the new afghanistan. >> we are putting the pressure on afghan delegates. >> the taliban were excluded. there were a whole slew of afghan participants invited from the northern alliance to past students and afghans tied to iran but no taliban. >> was it ever considered for them to attend? >> not in my mind. i think the general feeling was they were defeated and they were out and we were going to try to do it as best we can with the groups you mentioned. it is customary in postwar situations to invite the vanquished to sit at the table to discuss the future. a decision is ma

host: we've got a little less than half an hour left with our guest martin smith.nd the taliban is the new documentary tonight at 10:00 p.m. on pbs. we welcome your questions and comments. i wanted to go back in time because you included that news conference shortly after the u.s. invasion in afghanistan. it revealed the tell about -- tell a ban -- tell about - t aliban. [video clip] >> in late november, 2001 at a big hotel in germany, the un-sponsored a conference to determine who would rule the new afghanistan. >> we are putting the pressure on afghan delegates. >> the taliban were excluded. there were a whole slew of afghan participants invited from the northern alliance to past students and afghans tied to iran but no taliban. >> was it ever considered for them to attend? >> not in my mind. i think the general feeling was they were defeated and they were out and we were going to try to do it as best we can with the groups you mentioned. it is customary in postwar situations to invite the vanquished to sit at the table to discuss the future. a decision is made n

host: we've got a little less than half an hour left with our guest martin smith. and the taliban is the new documentary tonight at 10:00 p.m. on pbs. we welcome your questions and comments. i wanted to go back in time because you included that news conference shortly after the u.s. invasion in afghanistan. it revealed the tell about -- tell a ban -- tell about - t aliban. [video clip] >> in late november, 2001 at a big hotel in germany, the un-sponsored a conference to determine who would rule the new afghanistan. >> we are putting the pressure on afghan delegates. >> the taliban were excluded. there were a whole slew of afghan participants invited from the northern alliance to past students and afghans tied to iran but no taliban. >> was it ever considered for them to attend? >> not in my mind. i think the general feeling was they were defeated and they were out and we were going to try to do it as best we can with the groups you mentioned. it is customary in postwar situations to invite the vanquished to sit at the table to discuss the future. a decision is made

. >> narrator: correspondent martin smith investigates the missteps... >> no one really knew how thisould unfold. >> narrator: and miscalculations... >> people ask,” what was the americans' strategy? the americans didn't have a strategy for afghanistan. >> why do you think we lost? >> i think it's a matter of willpower. >> we didn't have the will? >> we had a good amount of it, but they had more. >> narrator: now on frontline, the first of an epic three part series... >> why did we fail on our mission? and who was responsible? >> narrator: america and the taliban. >> froline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism... the john d. and catherine t macarthur foundation committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues... the heising-simons foundation, unlocking knowledge, opportunity and po

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five former officers demetrius haley to darius being emmett martin, the third, justin smith and desmond mills jr faced second degree murder charges and more so far, they've all pleaded not guilty. another two officers were fired, five more suspended , and one retired before hearing could be conducted. you remember the horror of that night graphic body and security camera footage showing the lethal assault and sparking protests across the country? joining us now is nick valencia, nick. this is being touted as a landmark lawsuit. hey, there, brianna leading up to this announcement. it was being touted by civil rights attorney ben crump as a landmark lawsuit, and now we know why. just a short time ago, he announced that the family of tyree nichols will be seeking $550 million from the city of memphis, as well as those individual officers who were involved in his beating death and really all those they say that were complicit in the deprivation of tyree nichols. constitutional rights. just listen a short time ago to what civil rights attorney ben crump had to say. we must hole. each and eve

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smith, she will not be the sick. mrs. murdoch , freddie grey and mrs. murdoch, freddie grey and scarlett mccgwire re having their say on that next. this is breakfast on gb news with martiners now. a deputy editor of the spectator to freddie grey and former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire . good morning scarlett mccgwire. good morning to you both. good morning, scarlett. let's start with you, shall in the mirror? this is shall we, in the mirror? this is a school stepping in to help in poverty. yeah, i mean. i mean, what? so the story is about teachers and particularly the national education union and the mirror saying there should be free school . free school dinners free school. free school dinners , which they've been fighting for quite a long time. what's so depressed thing about this story is there's nothing new in it. i mean, i was i've just been on houday mean, i was i've just been on holiday and i was with a woman i met for the first time who is a scottish teacher who left actually to work in the united arab brits because she just couldn't bear anymore. i mean , couldn't bear anymore. i mean, she said it was absolutely standard . you didn't just bring standard. y

martin smith, thanks so much for speaking with us and our callers