i, too, was also in kandahar just four years before you.my question is to you with, this election that has just and trump being the office, what you think of his as we have known the avengers team. what do you think of them i'm sorry what do i think of what trump's cabinet. i think oh, yes. well, i tell you what, i'm i've got a lot of a lot of you overused the theme here. i've got a lot of hope for it. i mean, we see we see a lot of of new people from kind of outside of the the typical system. i think it's a we need a cabinet that's full of people who aren't beholden to some of the things of the past and are willing to go to work quickly. i think it's a you know, it's not a formal of the cabinet, but i think, you know what, elon and zach are doing is is really exciting as well. it'll be interesting to see know how that how that confer plays out because there will be conflict and i think it's warranted in many cases. but it'll be interesting to see how that conflict gets played out and can a non-governmental organization have impact that the

promulgated by the ultraconservative macro leadership of the taliban based in the southern city of kandaharontinue to be expressed. the deputy foreign minister again said it was against islamic law not to allow girls to go to school, women to university, to deny them access, to be playing a role in public life, but despite criticisms even from within, there is no sign the taliban leader is going to bend. and there is no way relations will be formally normalised until they are. although some countries are making advances with them. thank you. inafew in a few minutes, we will hear from the british prime minister keir starmer who will be speaking in downing street about the southport killer who pleaded guilty to the southport murders on monday. the weather is similar to what we had yesterday but will change towards the end of the week. today we have a weather front across the north west, enhancing showers. we have another across the central swathe of the country producing cloud and rain. to the south, we could see brighter breaks, but there will be cloud around. sunny skies in northern ireland

the years, i have frequently seen you in action in war zones, in bosnia, bag bad, fallujah, kabul, kandaharhumvee. this soldier did everything possible to rescue his colleague from the burning flames. when i went to pin the medal on him, the soldier looked at me and said, i don't want it. i don't want it. he died. i don't want it. and that moment, all i could think about the courage and incredible courage and hue mill tai ty and moral compass this soldier had. that all of you have. this is not hyperbole. you are simply the greatest fighting force in the history of the world. history of the world. that's a fact. that's a fact. [applause] and there's never been a time in history when we've asked our military to do so many different things, so many different places, all at the same time. i want to be clear, you've done all, all these missions with strength, and maybe even importantly with integrity. i asked you to end our nation's longest war, you rose to the occasion. evacuated americans, allies an afghan partner, accomplishing the largest airlift in military history and ending a war with the

for example, certain strong men on the ground were, for example, in kandahar, were supposed back and provided for against the will or expectation of the sitting president in kabul. the military was insisting on that, the political arm of the u.s. which is mostly the u.s. embassy, was not pressing a change according to consultive process or frank conversation with the leaders of the country to see what is good and what is bad for institution building and for stability in afghanistan. so that conflict always contributed to this difficult relations between the united states and these presidents. >> thank you. we are at time and i would like to now recognize commissioner jones. please go ahead. >> thank you very much. i want to first thank congress for setting this commission up and doing it in a fashion that i think it is very important for americans to understand that it was done in a bipartisan fashion. both republicans and democrats got an equal number of votes in who was a commissioner and what that means i think is that this commission is bipartisan in its nature, but i think even