is imminent already today that security is provided by afghans for afghans. having been there many times, i find that fact pretty staggering and encouraging and you should too. >> given that the raw material, high proportion of illegal drugs on britain streets starts in afghanistan what progress is being made in getting farmers to grow other things other than poppy and is the prime minister confident the afghan government will continue this work once we left? >> we are seeing progress on this. britain is invested in the wheat seed distribution project. one of the lessons of going to the country repeatedly in the last five years is if you want to do something about poppy cultivation you can talk all you like about destroying crops. the real key is building roads because you have got to enable the afghans to get their produce to market. if they don't have legitimate produce to get to legitimate market the drug dealers will prey on them and give them their poppyseed at the end of harvest and the job is done. it is about roads and government capacity as much as t

and afghan officials saying the u.s. military will be afghanistan for years into the future or think two thousand and fourteen is too soon for withdrawal so to help sort this out take joining me from tucson arizona to tell us what withdrawal really means he's a member of rethink afghanistan an artsy blogger cake thanks for being with us now first i just want to talk about the back and forth a little bit if u.s. forces can't defeat the taliban what makes anyone think that the afghan army can. i think a couple things here to notice that the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan so by the u.s. leaving you're going to see the taliban basically not want to fight as much because they're supposed to be fighting it's kind of conspiracy and afghan peace process take place because afghans generally speaking don't want to silly fight with each other they just simply want to live in coexist for the most part when i'm away but then how do you reconcile that a lot of the civilian casualti

the afghan national police. he has put in place a number of training initiatives that are paying big dividends, not just the lease being literacy in a country where the literacy depending on the statistics varied between 10 and 20%. it's not surprising that many of those who seek to be soldiers are police are illiterate. that alone has given the members of the afghanistan national security forces a different feel about who they are and the role they could potentially play in their country. so that plus many of the initiatives which are under way and gaining purchase now and transaction leave me confident that our end state, which is an afghanistan security force which has both capability and staying power will be successful in the end. it's not just about ntma, all in in the command and partnered with the units in the field have become also vital to the process as well. the professionalization of units as well as the individual preparations of afghan national security police and army troops in the training pipel

the afghan national police. he has put in place a number of training initiatives that are paying big dividends, not just the lease being literacy in a country where the literacy depending on the statistics varied between 10 and 20%. it's not surprising that many of those who seek to be soldiers are police are illiterate. that alone has given the members of the afghanistan national security forces a different feel about who they are and the role they could potentially play in their country. so that plus many of the initiatives which are under way and gaining purchase now and transaction leave me confident that our end state, which is an afghanistan security force which has both capability and staying power will be successful in the end. it's not just about ntma, all in in the command and partnered with the units in the field have become also vital to th process as well. the professionalization of units as well as the individual preparations of afghan national security police and army troops in the training pipeli

afghans accompany our forces on every one of these. they do the callout-- in other words, "come out, we've surrounded the house." they do it, obviously, in the native tongue that's appropriate to that area. >> they do the entry operations. they do the searches, if it's required, and so on. we make mistakes. what we try to do is to learn from the mistakes, to adjust in the wake of them, and to truly turn lessons learned intellectually into actual changes in practices. >> narrator: the story of one jsoc operation that took place last september shows how kill/capture missions risk alienating ordinary afghans. this wasn't a night raid, but a daylight air strike in the northern province of takhar. the military announced that they had killed a prominent taliban commander and his fighters. but it soon emerged that something may have gone wrong. the aftermath of the strike was filmed by a local police officer. >> narrator: locals said the dead were all innocent civilians, election workers on the campaign trail. defense secretary robert gates h

forces trained afghan policeman or retrain a pilot in five weeks. training provided by the germans in northern afghanistan last four months. but i set demands that the basic standards should be similar. >> the security situation is the most important requirement for every step we take in the beginning phase of transformation. the most important task is to guarantee security in afghanistan and secondly, to develop the afghan security forces to appoint -- to a point where they will be capable of taking over security responsibilities. >> the germans are saying for the moment. their withdrawal starts at the end of the year. what form that will take is still unclear. the debate is ongoing. german forces will make their first hand over to afghan troops on july 20. but they will remain in charge in the turbulent areas. the germans still need support from u.s. attack in medivac helicopters. the aircraft will remain in northern afghanistan until the end of the year at least. meetings with tribal elders take place on a regular basis. the mission is about enco

soldier who leaves that the surge is removed to afghans -- two afghans will take their place.his is the start of a process that will ensure by the end of 2014 there will not be anything like a number of british troops as there are now and they will not be serving in a combat role. this is the commitment i have made and that we will stick to. having taken such a huge share of the burden and performed magnifict record decade the country needs to know there's an end point. the level of our current commitment and our combat operations. this decision is not only right for britain but for afghanistan too. it has given the afghans a clear deadline against which to plan and inject a sense of urgency. mr. speaker, there's a clear an end point to our combat role, after 2014 the u.k. will continue to have a major strategic relationship with afghanistan. a development relationship, diplomatic relationship and trained relationship. above all a vital measure of security interests in eventing afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for international terror. although our forces will

already today the security of the national guard is basically provided by afghans for afghans. i've been there many times over the last couple of years. i find that number pretty staggering and i hope others will too. >> given the raw materials of such a high proportionate number of illegal drugs, what progress is being made to get farmers to grow more than just poppy? is the prime minister confident that the afghan government will continue this work once we've left? >> we are seeing progress on this. i mean, britain is invested in the distribution project in helmand. one of the things i learned of going to this country repeatedly over the last five years is actually if you want to do something about poppy cultivation you can talk all you like about destroying crops and the rest of it. the real key is actually building roads because you got to enable the afghans to get their produce to market. if they don't have a legitimate produce to get to a relit jat market the drug dealers will collect their poppy at the end of the harvest. it's about roads and about government capacity as

is imminent already today that security is provided by afghans for afghans. having been there many times, i find that fact pretty staggering and encouraging and you should too. >> given that the raw material, high proportion of illegal drugs on britain streets starts in afghanistan what progress is being made in getting farmers to grow other things other than poppy and is the prime minister confident the afghan government will continue this work once we left? >> we are seeing progress on this. britain is invested in the wheat seed distribution project. one of the lessons of going to the country repeatedly in the last five years is if you want to do something about poppy cultivation you can talk all you like about destroying crops. the real key is building roads because you have got to enable the afghans to get their produce to market. if they don't have legitimate produce to get to legitimate market the drug dealers will prey on them and give them their poppyseed at the end of harvest and the job is done. it is about roads and government capacity as much as t

we believe in the afghan firms and the afghan employees. again, it is 1,500 kilometers under maintenance. our employees have moved up the ranks so that the deputy taskforce manager is -- we could take that over for another six months, maybe a year. the point is sustainability also means funding. we have worked with the afghan ministry of public works, ministry of finance, as well as our road fund. the minister of finance has indicated he feels roads can be funded, major roads can be funded through fuel taxes, something along those lines. this is now on president karzai's desk. the issue is whether it is filed under public works or an independent authority. i think that planning for things, as we have discussed earlier, having foresight into whether these roads can be maintained in -- and i believe the answer is yes. the crack we talked about is being prepared by afghans under that maintenance task order. i think it is a real example of sustainable success and looking at sustainability and the progress the u.s. has made for roads. >> one mor

military and our afghan forces. we also need to expand our comfort shl source network throughout the region and i think more importantly we need to try to move counter narcotics from a national security issue, if you will, to a law enforcement issue. and what i'd like to do in closing, two months ago in february, outgoing departing ambassador iken barry summed up i think eloquently dea's operations in afghanistan. i'll be very brief but he said here and i quote, dea's mission in afghanistan led the way in rule of law efforts designed to impact the insurgency where it hurts the most, raising funds and tackling corruption. dea's mission combines growing law enforcement capacity with realtime mission effects. through drug lab raids with elite forces, undercover operations, using modern investigative techniques and pursuit of shadowy money trails that fund much of the insurgency, dea's work is what can be accomplished in afghanistan with a well-designed, bilateral relationship. and again, chairman, i will defer to my go

buy afghan products, build afghan capacity. you address this a little bit in your opening statement with regard to the 3000 students you said graduated from a training course, and you say you have local firms engaged in retraining efforts. i would ask you both, how do we get afghans engaged in the sustainability i talked about in my opening statement? this road, the next time there is a crack and you all are gone and we begin our withdrawal, who is going to fix it? can they afford it? do they have the technological capacity to do it? i would just like to hear from 1st, mr. hakki quickly, what are you doing exactly to ensure that there will be this ongoing support by retraining and developing this expertise, what are the challenges you see by this stated policy, the afghan first policy, and do you see any unintended consequences from that? i think mr. walker alluded to some of those earlier. if you could respond to that, mr. hakki. >> yes, senator portman. the afghan first program is not something we are very familiar with. that

military and our afghan forces. we also need to expand our comfort shl source network throughout the region and i think more importantly need to try to move counter narcotics from a national security issue, if you will, to a law enforcement issue. and what i'd like to do in closing, two months ago in february, outgoing departing ambassador iken barry summed up i think eloquently dea's operations in afghanistan. i'll be very brief but he said here and i quote, dea's mission in afghanistan led the way in rule of law efforts designed to impact the insurgency where it hurts the most, raising funds and tackling corruption. dea's mission combines growing law enforcement capacity with realtime mission effects. through drug lab raids with elite forces, undercover operations, using modern investigative techniques and pursuit of shadowy money trails that fund much of the insurgency, dea's work is what can be accomplished in afghanistan with a well-designed, bilateral relationsh. and again, chairman, i will defer to my good fr

a joint raid by nato and afghan forces has left sixteen militants dead in the south of the country the operation comes in response to renewed taliban activity asked foreign combat troops began their withdrawal from afghanistan nato as new military commander in the country general john allen warns of tough times ahead for more after the afghan president's half brother who ran the south of the country was recently gunned down by insurgents one of comic cars ice top advisors has also been assassinated anti-war activist brian becker thinks the u.s. led coalition is losing its grip on afghanistan. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the telegram but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of karzai as brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of the karzai regime necessar

afghan police lead the searches. nato believes afghan candy -- afghans can deal with their own people better than foreign troops. by 2015, the idea is they will do it alone. one of the villagers hope things will improve without the insurgents around. >> the taliban steals food. i'm very poor. if i protest, they say you support nato. >> this is what progress lookalike in afghanistan. so much so, there is to be a further cut in british troops with a few hundred soldiers. but native troops still far outnumber the afghan troops. what is needed to hand over a village like this to the local troops altogether? >> a regular police presence. that's what we need. regular patrolling. people of confidence to be able to come and talk to the police. >> but in this village, the police seemed willing to help themselves to food, just like a taliban. they did find a taliban and decisions-in a melon patch. -- a taliban munitions patch they were sniping at the soldiers operation we joined. the afghan forces lacked much and british offic

there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight on fords on the other side of the wall looking for them this is the call the military training center in the ports before i mean here at halfway through a ten week program the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern crude or province of afghanistan's most violent corners some of this out of nigeria for you must understand hard so they can talk a lot of pressure that day by day we're making it on us the afghan national army has already come a long way it's rates have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops on start from moves of recruits the trucks of the higher wages and extra books the soldiers insist we are all united in their desire to be back to tell you about a certain city. or ethnicity then yeah my we are older brother and we're all calling my gun and he. was right the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of women soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahedeen unit made up of our veterans so this is all

afghan police lead the searches. nato believes afghan candy -- afghans can deal with their own people better than foreign troops. by 2015, the idea is they will do it alone. one of the villagers hope things will improve without the insurgents around. >> the taliban steals food. i'm very poor. if i protest, they say you support nato. >> this is what progress lookalike in afghanistan. so much so, there is to be a further cut in british troops with a few hundred soldiers. but native troops still far outnumber the afghan troops. what is needed to hand over a village like this to the local troops altogether? >> a regular police presence. that's what we need. regular patrolling. people of confidence to be able to come and talk to the police. >> but in this village, the police seemed willing to help themselves to food, just like a taliban. they did find a taliban and decisions-in a melon patch. -- a taliban munitions patch they were sniping at the soldiers operation we joined. the afghan forces lacked much and british offic

if the afghan forces are you know you've reported attacks by afghan forces killing u.s. forces how we'll can these people be here part of the afghan forces because they need to take your own employment is extremely high in the country these people want your. iraqis want your of so they become part of the forces if americans who are out which would have been poorly built to the americans only road or. maybe even more people will to their own people despite you being very insistent that there is actually no pullout no withdrawal the actual talk of u.s. led forces being pulled up by a bomb. with these timetables it's actually really giving encouragement to the taliban to fight even more it's sending the wrong message could be could be right but i think they're determined anyway and i've written no recently but all maybe a year ago i called a high level u.s. commanders on the ground below the top commanders. including general officers it meaning the afghan war is lost it cannot be won and our center mysel in this is a fair american wages war is not just a win them but to wag

latest operations led by nato and afghan forces sixteen insurgents were killed in the country's south the raid comes in response to renewed taliban activity as nato begins a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan the plan is to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of two thousand and fourteen nato's new military commander in the country general john allen warns of tough times ahead for the war effort. earlier this month the afghan president's half brother was assassinated by one of his own guards in a separate incident one of cars ice top advisers was also gunned down and to war activists brian becker thinks the coalition may be losing ground in afghanistan while the number of casualties rise. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the telegram but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the

as i understand it he was a dog the mayor of kabul way back in two thousand and two by afghans. implying that he controlled what he actually controlled with kabul and. apparently they still thought i mean he even when for example they have these elections that he appears to win although of course it's disputed i mean he only travels around the courtesy of nato forces whereas other kind of it's can't get around in the same way so it does appear to be extremely limited and it's also repeals that he's had to do with former warlords so the power is curtail that way but above all he does seem to be entirely dependent on nato and after all if you think about it he was picked almost exactly ten years ago by the united states to be the interim president and unless the united states was incredibly farsighted to pick the one who the afghans would have chosen unless that's true you have to assure him that he remains seen as being the man the americans picked ten years ago ok jim brann from the stop of all coalition many thanks. meanwhile the change at the top the nato in afghanistan with g

there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall looking for them this is the called the military training center in the courts parking lot i mean here if we threw a ten week program the officers don't cut them it is slack when it's over the be deployed eastern queen or province afghanistan's most violent corners and i've decided to let the zero muster start hard so they've got a lot of pressure that day by day we're making it on us the afghan national army has already come a long way it's weeks of swelling to about one hundred seventy thousand troops and stuff moves of recruits in trucks of the higher wages and exploit hurts the soldiers insist we're all united in their desire to beat back the tide of history and see the city worth missing men in the army our older brother and we're all calling my son. was right the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first of a class of women soldiers has just graduated. and even the mujahideen unit meet up with me and say soon this is all good news to us milit

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transfer of security is just to the afghan forces and these these incidents are making one thing very vividly. visible and that is how does this transition take hold and whether the afghan security forces and the afghan responsible units would be ready to take over this this is a very very different war and i don't think we can define a definitive line both of which one can find success but nevertheless the timing is very very important as you say the timing is very important here perhaps you think nato should reconsider pulling out obviously violence on the rise. i think there's no guarantee that this trend of nato transfer will continue smoothly i i can see. reversals a time in the future and perhaps certain provinces are so volatile and so critical that they may have to delays some of the transfers i don't think this will continue on as scheduled because we should not our parade on schedule as we should operate on realities on the ground here and those in washington and in europe should be secondary. should take a second place to reality and results on the ground but as we were jus

horses counterinsurgency efforts they'll start firing at anything that moves injure or kill innocent afghans and they'll destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contract is. the lack of accountability has forced the united nations working group on mercenaries to push for specific international measures to regulate their activities especially now as u.s. military forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan the number of contractors is set to grow dramatically you know as. so many military and security functions to these security companies they are not regulated in that they are not controlled and this is were we are extremely concerned that what we are calling is for relation to the national at the international level so that. companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their activities saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable but so far the u.s. justice system has largely failed to do so for seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and

and they took began sobbing over control of afghan provinces to local security forces but many question if they're really up to the job. and crowds of protesters have converged on the spanish capital of madrid after marching from across the country well they're angry at soaring unemployment the high is still in the euro zone and that the government's failure to tackle the recession artie's if you make sure is in the center of madrid where demonstrators have set up camp. a lot of people in the spanish media and the other protesters themselves are referring to this is the spanish revolution you have to keep in mind the fact that spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone in fact its youth unemployment is the highest in the european union it's more than forty percent so almost every other young person in the country cannot get a job but it's not that they're not it's not that they're not trying it's just it's just impossible for them to do it so this entire movement which is called the fifteen m. movement started on may fifteenth of this month and since then thousands

you know starts handing over control of afghan provinces to local security forces but many question if there are the times. also this week the phone hacking and police bribery scandal was taking to the british parliament rupert murdoch his son james and former u.k. c.e.o. rebecca brooks were all grilled by british lawmakers for several hours the trio said they were deeply sorry for what happened but the new allegations of emerged got the news international cherami james murdoch misled and he's saying he was unaware of the true extent of illicit phone tapping by his company's reporters and murdoch's now three. legal challenges in the u.s. over claims the voice mails of nine eleven victims were also targeted meanwhile back in the u.k. the scandal appears to be spreading beyond the murdoch empire with claims the sunday mirror tabloid may have also gotten some good news voicemail messages but as our he's got a cheeky on reports critics believe you she was just the tip of the iceberg in a world that may no longer value individual privacy. as the scandal over phone hacking by the murdoch med

we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way and scrapes have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to be back with taliban militants or agency regardless of age or ethnicity many are what we are old brothers and we are all calling my one. god by the call of duty is also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever close of women soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahideen unit made up of more than veterans. this is all good news to u.s. military planners have set a two thousand and fourteen getting into hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army and so is a much better reputation of the police force is even featured in a recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming at the expense of quality i

the taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's m.p.'s local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack. the murders come less than a week after how many cars eyes half brother seen as the most powerful figure in southern afghanistan was gunned down the taliban is stepping up its assaults on afghan officials as nato troops begin to withdraw on sunday the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces but anti-war activist brian becker says the wave of afghanistan's summations only proves that the us has achieved nothing during its war there. when by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cann

buy afghan products, build afghan capacity. you address this a little bit in your opening statement with regard to the 3000 students you said graduated from a training course, and you say you have local firms engaged in retraining efforts. i would ask you both, how do we get afghans engaged in the sustainability i talked about in my opening statement? this road, the next time there is a crack and you all are gone and we begin our withdrawal, who is going to fix it? can they afford it? do they have the technological capacity to do it? i would just like to hear from 1st, mr. hakki quickly, what are you doing exactly to ensure that there will be this ongoing support by retraining and developing this expertise, what are the challenges you see by this stated policy, the afghan first policy, and do you see any unintended consequences from that? i think mr. walker alluded to some of those earlier. if you could respond to that, mr. hakki. >> yes, senator portman. the afghan first program is not something we are very familiar with. that

that was a former afghan m.p. doll sold tons of talking about the impact the war is happening on afghanistan's civilian population. now noways intelligence service says there's no evidence that anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or elsewhere the thirty two year old who admits killing seventy six people last friday claims he was part of a wider mission was loyal insists that whatever he is insane and didn't know what he was doing but it's obvious that laura and it reports his anti immigration message is one that has chilling echoes across europe. and ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people to prevent the massacre to which he freely admits was a justified strike against the political left for supporting open borders and multiculturalism and even though the staunchest of hardliners condemned for a fix horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe other groups all expressed their condolences and then are quick and separate themselves

next the taliban claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's m.p.'s local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack or those murders come less than a week after how many cars i was half brother around the country was gunned down the taliban's stepping up its assault on afghan officials right now just as name. combat troops begin to withdraw indeed on sunday the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces with more on the situation unfolding in afghanistan let's talk to on the war. here brian very good evening chief thanks for being an r.t. international these latest attacks on senior official show that the taliban is still a substantial force to be reckoned with without the mind of nato forces doing the right thing by withdrawing now. well the nato forces are facing. a dilemma they're on the horns of a dilemma they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency

the afghans then then does karzai so this the killings of his brother killing. it is a message and we may look maybe perhaps to see car safely. he has no credibility is not a leader of afghanistan he is america's has been for over ten years ok characters ask a retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel many pounds to us thank you for having. now meanwhile there's a change at the top of the nato in afghanistan with general david petraeus leaving to take over as director of the cia he's being replaced by general john allen hello this see the gradual chance for assad's ability to security from nato troops so local forces because jason what like reports there's concern afghan forces are too divided illiquid and lacking in training to fend off the taliban on their way. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall looking for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't count the minutes slack whe

afghans are taking responsibility for their own security.his ceremony is designed to send the message that they are up to the job. who have british t helped train and are now stepping back, a public show of confidence. despite the handshake, there are lingering doubts -- at least about the afghan police. >> there are some allegations of corruption. it would be foolish to deny exists. we're trying to eradicate that in the police. if we get it wrong, the police could push the locals away. >> the clock is ticking for the afghans to get it right. for nato, it marks the beginning of the end. the exit strategy will see all british combat troops leave by 2015. afghans are now having to contemplate what the future without nato might look like. this is another province that has just been handed over. unlike helmand, there has been little fighting here for the last 10 years. they're still waiting for the dividends of peace. bombs and bullets are not the biggest killers here. it is diarrhea and on nutrition. international aid keeps this possible going.

and the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and is even featured recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming in the expense of quality starters more than eighty percent of troops are literally the big problem in the bill he can read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertion it's today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords still command loyalties along regional ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i start usually. we will be here late ninety's fighting each other really killing each other these people are waiting in. groups to control it in yet another obstacle for a young army but still has much to prove before it can stand on its o