forces that magically do what the afghan government wants and doesn't do but the afghan government people don't want those u.s. forces those magical us forces don't exist if the dad can't people and government on the staff like this from happening they're going to have to send u.s. forces out of the country let's say the still no agreement on this if if there is no agreement the u.s. is going to pull out but cobbles not ready that will things by itself yet is it. well the end of the story i think the key question is is there going to be a political accommodation in afghanistan or not if there is not the war is going to keep going one way or the other u.s. forces afghan forces people are still going to get killed sure what for what reason exactly what is being accomplished by keeping the war going the u.s. admits that in parts of afghanistan where they've been operating the afghan taliban the insurgency is going to resume control when the u.s. leaves so what is the point of continuing the war wanting to get a political agreement dead ends the war the afghan government has been demanding th

afghans cannot sustain it. the big change in columbia is when they expressed and showed that they have the political will to take on the traffickers. you have to have that will. we have a country that does not appear to have the political will. it can be because of the enormous corruption that has occurred because of the narcotraffickers. go, butually have to let me thank everyone. i think it is worth wrestling with this because like it or not, there will be a large element of blame placed on us. 2014, we will be in the process of pulling out. we will be very interested if you could give it some thought to myme back and talk cochairman and myself. we are happy to do that. if you want to write us something that we might be able to incorporate, we are looking for ideas. thank you for caring and for what you do. thank you for being here today. this hearing is adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> on the next "washington journa

i would expect those would be aimed at afghan security forces. afghan official.diswels innocent civilians. the taliban murder all an awful lot of civilians in this country every day and every week and every month. their own policy is to kill and maim at murder in order to instill fear. are they having that effect, though? are they able to achieve the perception of insecurity? if it is correct, if the intelligence is correct, they are not having that effect on the people of afghanistan. what they're having on the people of afghanistan is they're hardining the people of afghanistan against the taliban. not in favor of the purpose or the aim. >> sir, we have time for you to quickly wrap up. >> i'm sorry. i couldn't hear you. >> we have time for a quick closing remarks. closing remarking. okay. first of all, thank you for the opportunity. here is my basic kind of message. basic observation from me over here from what i've seen over the years. what i saw this past summer, and we lost soldiers. the united states lost schooled jeers, nato lost soldiers. we lost half as

drones and without american help the afghan army could collapse but the u.s. first needs the afghan president to sign off on a key security pact something he has been refusing to do so far. now our position continues to be that if we cannot conclude a bilateral security agreement promptly then we will be forced to initiate planning for a post twenty fourteen future in which there would be no u.s. or nato troop presence in afghanistan there's also the issue of talking with the enemy the consensus seems to be that the afghan war could only end in a negotiated settlement with the taliban not a military victory but that's proven elusive the taliban are internally divided and the rift between kabul and washington has reportedly empowered hardline commanders who want to keep on fighting at the expense of those who support peace talks the u.s. war has succeeded in toppling the taliban regime and many afghans have seen their lives improve but those gains could easily be lost depending on who wins control over afghanistan a country that's once again could be up for gra

and afghan police. wolf i think on a prominent in the scones that probably says yes he's taking rest. but it's for a higher purpose in the higher purpose is clearly some form of pretty cool. the solution was to tell about it. the people of aniston are no strangers to the threat of drone strikes off the brake on auntie international report on pirates and london's plans to switch gears in the joint development of the unmanned war machines i a. if you're just joining us welcome to the program here or not it's a national of britain and francaise set to make new technological and financial experts to develop the latest line in the full cutting edge drugs. the production of the new credits the tight turns one begin for at least another three years for the two countries along their own alternative to the infamous us made on nine pints. despite the controversy surrounding the use of drones both sides insist they are essential for that matter trees. however one ninety one activist told the spirit of the internat

other afghan women with high profile media careers has been killed. chima azari as was akiba, they were both murdered. loneliness is another enemy. gaining acceptance by locals is tuft. many afghans struggle to accept that one ever their own women is so outspoken. >> i feel that the identity has broughtenned. this hegemony, i feel it depends on their scope. they want to focus on the scope of how afghan are you, and how much am i more than you. and i think that the scope should be, where are we going? like what is it now? and what is possible? and i believe that nobody really owns culture. even if people try to take it by force and we all share in culture and what i do in art and cinema is, i'm sharing in culture. >> preparing for the first ever unsensorred screening of the movie she is having a dress tailored for the event. to kazemi it is an opportunity to make a statement. this outfit may shock how are afghan women really dress. it was in honor of her mother. it was a more tolerant time although only a small elite wore such clothes then. >> she had

-afghan relationship with the united states?or is it just another chapter in a tumultuous alliance? i'm joined by zalmay khalilzad, he was u.s. ambassador to afghanistan from 2003 to 2005. and david sedney. he was deputy assistant secretary of defense for east asia from 2007 to 2009. obvious question, is this, mr. ambassador, the break? >> i hope not. i don't think so. i think karzai is about two months left in his presidency. the afghan people as you mentioned want a security agreement as demonstrated. the candidates without are running for president to replace president karzai all of them have said they will sign the agreement. they are willing to express that, i'm told, to the u.s. ambassador should the u.s. ambassador ask them. so the challenge for us is are we going to wait out president karzai and sign the agreement with the successor or do we use karzai's intransigence and i think very unpopular stance in afghanistan as an excuse, if you like, and go to a zero option, so-called zero option and say no more troops after 201

afghan relations. tries to president karzai into signing a crucial security deal eight civilians most of them children killed in a nato raid just around the corner. but for the meantime here on r t it's taken moscow officials more than a decade to get permission to visit the only russian citizen kept behind bars or guantanamo bay at the delegation was told his case will be reviewed in the near future russia says the notorious prison violates the basic rights of detainees and should be closed down our correspondent. has more from washington. visit securing the release of the only russian nationals held at the detention center for over twelve years without charge reveal. the human rights commissioner reiterated russia's position on the detention center in guantanamo bay in his meetings with officials from the defense department and from the department of state he said that russia's position is that this detention center be closed down as soon as possible this detention the mere existence he said of this

but afghans are very resilient as well.nd i think they have have also demonstrated over the past 24 hours that they came out in the streets, right next door to the place where this incident took place, demonstrated, protested and said we will not give up. and we will continue against terrorism. >> you talk about the soft target of this particular restaurant. both of you have spent time there, it's a very popular place, pam, tell us about it. >> it was really my home away from home on my trip, my many trips to afghanistan in recent years. the owner was a wonderful lebanese businessman, a friend to all of us. not only charming and a genial host but truly generous and kind person. and you know he would never let us pay for dinner because he thought of us as his friends. every time i went to afghanistan i would always have a farewell dinner with my friends at his restaurant. i must have been there, you know, 50 timesment and i always felt that it was my comfort zone. i always felt it was a place of warmth and civility and also

still wants its troops to be able to carry out attacks and raid afghan homes all while be immune to afghan prosecution present karzai is reluctant to approve the deal demanding the ending the strong airstrikes as a precondition for any agreement or get a chance calls on the u.s. to stop bombarding civilian areas have been falling flat and a presidential aide recently spoke out asking how many more innocent afghans have to die so gets the attention of u.s. officials on the issue of child casualties of course is especially disturbing i just margaret howell has been looking into that and let's now get more on this so margaret wednesday's air strike is of course just the latest incident of civilians being killed by american fire is it will just last week an accidental shot by u.s. special forces on the dry bloody stain ground on afghanistan's helmand province a four year old boy lay dead and troops say they mistakenly shot the child in the dusty weather the toddler's death is just a painful reminder that there are still serious collateral damage since the afghanistan invasion began more than a

you're watching r t tonight afghan outrage over the deaths of children in another american airstrike but nato officials insist it was an operation to disrupt the insurgency we report. a key syrian opposition group refuses to take part in next week's peace talks as moscow brings together iran and syria as foreign ministers to try to help with the groundwork for the conference. and can't see eye to eye on this spy case hopes fading for germany and the u.s. on a deal to stop snooping on each other as the route of bugging the berlin leadership rumbles on. over again even just after nine pm here in moscow just as the new money was kevin now in our top story afghanistan's president hamid karzai has ordered an inquiry into the u.s. air strike which killed eight civilians seven of them children the night raid targeted a residential area north of kabul despite the government's pleas for american forces to stop hitting villages he did from artie's arabic channel reports from the region. as a result of american barman's in afghanistan there have been a lot of civilian casualties one women worst

afghan government and the people of afghanistan. demand. that the american. government should decide the security i mean with that when they when i decided to stabilize that country because the afghan army and i can see the security forces and the government of afghanistan or will be not able to confront it to the taliban and to battle the taliban by. itself because of. a great need for american presence in afghanistan after twenty fourteen and now the taliban are able to. to do to we have destroyed and they are able to target. many. to try to get afghan and foreign forces and different parts of the country and the taliban will boast their presence in afghanistan if the american forces leave afghanistan at all or at political analyst to be picky me thank you so much for sharing your views with us and for describing what the situation is like on the ground for a lot of afghans now. and coming up in the program here nancy international the battle for the north pole intensifies as climate change opens the region to increasing trade damaging and even military com

us forces don't exist if the afghan people and i was stopped. bands like this from happening. didn't you say us forces. our hearts are happening now. you weren't there yet. why should there be a political process continues the war in afghanistan. the key obstacle of western policy then had to do sleep deserved the hot sun and resembles that of changing the afghan prisoners at guantanamo for the u s soldier bolted for dell is being held by the jaundice was at that happened we know the us government is in serious political crisis the war. throw in a moment speaking to me in the voting age it's no wrapped up just a matter of fact whether to accept another new constitution. critics say yes result was said to secure the manatees grip on future governments get the muslim brotherhood refused to publicly the sham referendum that puts the army before the nation. but as shearing day one of the bombing killed eleven people this could lead to cairo aunties beltran is the high pile of in the buildup to this vote the full loss of this confusion would get thre

now the afghan afghans are saying they have no evidence to suggest that, and they simply have to releasehese men. the americans say they gave them evidence, and that the review board does not have the authority to simply release people, and that only a court of law in afghanistan should be doing that. now, there has not been a release date, but this is likely to be an extremely big row between the two, who already have deteriorating relations. just to complicate matters even more, the afghan human rights association who deal with detainees across the country, have said that this is much more legally intricate than that, and that the americans may have a final say as to whether or not these men could be released. so this argument is likely to go on in the coming days. that was jane ferguson in kabul. s there anything the united states believes it can do about this? >>ing with, certainly the u.s. has not made a public comment about this the president. we are expecting a couple of briefings in the next few minutes here in washington. but certainly the an mid separation has to move forward,

today is outside of afghan law. and outside the agreement and it was two nd dollars damage to the future relationship that's true she eighty eight prisoners whom the united states guns and as a treat to see county. i find the strained relations between the two countries ought to be an eighteen point four will be spent on the currency refused to sign and i need to secure edt the ballot to back the united states could play most of its troops out after two pounds and twenty. they most wanted true and pure to the tape. this client is still quite the option and anti tank and sentenced to eighteen can be until after the peace and in cheek elections in ukraine. and i'm just irritated and said that the united states has passed the shares gave no location of how much longer in the coming nine the band stopped short of the pc business. when i find it needed him to change topics mccain said he was optimistic a team stormed the beach and then on tv i can do it in command after the meeting. i'd say. i am convinced. as result of

still wants its troops to be able to carry out attacks and raid afghan homes all while being afghan prosecution president karzai is reluctance to approve the deal demands it and the airstrikes as a precondition for any agreement. now agent in other news this hour here in our to international military backed leaders get their way of referendum a landslide but not everyone is convinced about the next constitution. coming up later we hear an expert opinion on whether the current regime will outdo previous governments in going too far with change. one of the main syrian opposition groups is again refusing to take part in the long delay peace talks scheduled in a week moscow is hosting iranian and syrian foreign ministers trying to pave the way to the elusive negotiations are all scotus following the fresh round of syrian diplomacy the syrian national coordination committee has decided that they won't attend the talks on syria in geneva starting next wednesday now that not one of the most influential factions in the opposition movement but there are hopes that there isn't a domino effect with other

to afghan control in march of last year and since then, a review board has been set up here by the afghans to look into the cases of 88 prisoners that they said they had plans to potentially release to at least look at the evidence. that review board came out real estately and said there simply wasn't enough evidence and in some cases none at all to continue to detain these men and since then, president karzai sent out the intelligence services, asked them to go and look over the case files of these men again. now today, he host add senior judicial meeting at the palace, where the intelligence services came back and said that 72 of the prisoners had insufficient or no evidence against them, that they should be released as soon as possible, the remaining 16 apparently do have convicting evidence potentially against them and they should go to coat and be tried by a prosecutor. that's what the afghans are saying here, is that they can no longer keep these men, but of course, surely, this is likely to in sense the americans who have been vocal about this subject saying this is in breach of the

rate afghan homes all while being immune to afghan prosecution for his part president karzai is reluctant to approve the deal demanding that ending the airstrikes is a precondition for any agreement. in other news tonight egypt's military leaders get their way with a referendum landslide coming up a bit later we hear expert opinion on whether the new document though heralds big changes to the country's political climate. you know secretary state john kerry is called syria a magnet for extremists he's been speaking in the last couple of minutes his comments come just a few days before the geneva two peace talks are due to start the syrian government officially confirmed no it's participation but one of the main syrian opposition groups is again refusing to take part in this long delayed conference has been hosting the syrian and iranian foreign ministers trying to pave the way for these elusive negotiations a correspondent paul scott is following this latest fresh round of diplomacy the syrian national coordination committee has decided that they won't attend the talks on syria in geneva s

i think the afghan people will be very upset. he already hear from the afghan people that they weren't dangerous criminals to be tried court not released arbor trail. so the whole thing is that we can allow the afghan legal system to do its job are not asking that these people be tried in america we're not asking that americans to the top were asking the train judges make these decisions and the prd as being implemented. today is outside of afghan law. and outside the agreement and it was due. and don't stand next to the feature list. st st eighteen prisoners whom the united states considers a threat to security off of the straining relations between the two countries woe to the breaking point kristin because ace refusing to sign a bilateral security deed. with all it's about the united states devoted most of its troops out of the top fourteen. when most flawed and troops are due to a sids. the site has called the so called pseudo option and in good stead. suggested d can't wait until after the presidential elections in april. en

afghan president accused the u.s. of trying to get rid of him. >> there were a lot of stories in the british media of the plans in washington to bring a change into the structure of gompance in ag, to weaken the government of afghanistan and to go to the strong daylight in afghanistan and to put through them to afghanistan. >> now excerpts from u.s. defense secretary robert gates book is true. gates rights about special envoy, richard holbrook's attempts. holbrook and others extended support to many of hamid karzai's changes. the presidential palace's deputy spokesperson reacted with an, "i told you so", what secretary of states revealed in his book. it was further proof the righteous nous of hamid karzai's claims that there were deliberate efforts to disregard and manipulate the genuine afghan people. >> hamid karzai was also accused of foul play at the time. evidence of a campaign to rig the vote in this favour was widely reported. >> new allegations of interference could further discredit the election, leaving the

at midnight for moscow afghan outrage over the deaths of children in another american airstrike but makes officials insist it was an operation to disrupt insurgency we report. the u.s. secretary of state says syria is a magnet for terrorists and head of the peace conference in geneva as moscow brings together rand and syria's foreign ministers to try to help with the groundwork for the talk. and see eye to eye on this spice hoax fade from germany and the u.s. in a deal to stop snooping on each other as the route of a bugging the pearly leadership rumbles on. this is r.t. international my name is kevin zero in a very warm welcome so if you just joined us this morning our top story afghanistan's president hamid karzai is no order of inquiry into the u.s. airstrike that killed eight civilians seven of them children the night raid targeted a residential area north of kabul despite the government's pleas for american forces to stop hitting villages he had seen from r.t. the arabic channel reports from the region. as a result of american barman's in afghanistan there have been a lot of civilian

afghan outrage over the deaths of children in another american airstrike but nail fishelson insists it was an operation to disrupt insurgency. moscow pushes for iran to play a key role at the upcoming peace talks in syria as a russian foreign minister brings together his counterparts from tehran and damascus. and can see eye to eye on their spies pope's fate for germany and the u.s. on a deal to stop snooping on each other as a route over bugging the berlin leadership rumbles on. which ninety coming to you live from moscow on marina josh welcome to the program i'm ganna stands president having karzai has ordered an inquiry into the us air strike which killed eight civilians seven of them children the ny raid targeted a residential area north of kabul despite the government's pleas for american forces to stop hitting villages nato though claims only two civilians died in a water described as defensive air support to afghan forces and military chiefs were quick to spread the blame for the deaths saying that local district and prevention officials were formed in advance of the operation a

tonight afghan outrage over the deaths of children in another american airstrike but nato officials insist it was not ration to disrupt insurgency. ok syrian opposition group refuses to take part in next week's peace talks as moscow brings together iran and syria as foreign ministers to help with the groundwork for the conference. and can see ita wireless spice hopes are fading for germany and the u.s. on a deal to stop snooping on each other as the route of a bugging the berlin leadership rumbles on. even when i'm kevin o. and it's now eight pm here in moscow our top story than this from r.t. international afghanistan's president hamid karzai has ordered an inquiry now into the u.s. airstrike which killed eight civilians seven of them children the night raid targeted a residential area in the north of kabul despite the government's pleas for american forces to stop hitting villages terek movie deal and from arabic channel reports from the region. as a result of american barman's in afghanistan there have been a lot of civilian casualties one women worst was killed and seven children along

the afghan outrage over the deaths of children in another american airstrike that nato officials insist it was an operation to disrupt insurgency. il ushe for iran to play hero and the upcoming peace talks in syria as the russian foreign minister brings together his counterparts from tehran and damascus. and you can't see eye to lie on their spines. hopes fade for germany and the us on a deal to stop snooping on each other as around for more flooding the whirlwind leadership rumbles on. i am mr team that took me to watch the mosque out with me read to her. afghanistan's president karzai has ordered an inquiry into the u s air strike which killed eight civilians seven of them children. the nine ring targeting a residential area north of kabul despite the governance means for american forces to stop hitting villages local journalists aren't my inner demon reports from kabul for our tea. i then told obama to kimball marlins and that in afghanistan. i had to have been a loss of civilian casualties while the women was the was killed and seven children. that along with one civilian use in god

forces that magically do what the afghan government wants and doesn't do what the afghan government people don't want those u.s. forces those magical us forces don't exist if the dad can't people in government stuff. like this from have been in there going to send u.s. forces out of the country. project happening you know you're about ending the civil war in syria why shouldn't there be a political process to end the civil war in afghanistan a key obstacle is western also. he then hasn't moved seriously just started the talks starting with various levels of exchanging the afghan prisoners at guantanamo for the us soldier for go as being held by the job as long as that doesn't happen we know that the us government isn't serious about a political process to. name a man speaking to me earlier voting egypt's now wrapped up just over an hour ago in fact on whether to accept another new constitution critics say yes result will serve to secure the military's grip on future governments the ousted muslim brotherhood refused they've called it a sham referendum that puts the army before the nation vi

today is outside of afghan law. and outside the agreement and it would do and don't stand next to the feature relationship. st st eighty eight prisoners whom the united states considers a threat to security. also the straining relations between the two countries. woe to the breaking point. kristin because ace refusing to sign a bilateral security deed with all it's about the united states devoted most of its troops out of the top fourteen. when most foreign troops are due to a sids. the site has called the so called pseudo option and in good stead. suggested d can't wait until after the presidential elections in april. end of the deadline set by the united states hotspots the visiting officials gave no indication of how much longer the government might tweak and still sort of seeing releasing the business would try to find his name the talks and talks. gates said he was optimistic that it would soon be reached on the long delayed by lax security agreement. off to the meetup site i am convinced. its result of our lon

i am going to include afghans in our allies. if we go back just to 9/11 and say we went in unexpectedly after the al qaeda elements that were there, we suddenly found ourselves having toppled the taliban government without having really thought what next. now we have a country that had been through about 20 years of war at that point. it was badly damaged and very little infrastructure or personal capital, into human capital in terms of government or whatnot, and we thought we could do things more cheaply than we did. we thought the germans would do the police, the italians would do the courts, the americans would do the army and a few other things and we would slide out. that was not realistic. it was going to take a huge effort. in our haste and sometimes our ignorance, we allowed a number of nontraditional leaders, warlords in many cases, to gather economic, political, and sometimes military power. we allowed them to get into places, sometimes where they had been before, and what that signal to the afghan population was that,

are there not billions of sellers going into afghan coughers.n the contrary, we dispersed less than $300 million against mechanisms maintaining control of funds. >> some analysts we spoke to say the report is ignoring the bigger problem, making sure afghan security forces can protect their country. whether or not u.s. forces remain there. afghan president hamid karzai has not signed the bilateral security agreement or bsa that would let u.s. troops stay to help with training or security support. whether u.s. troops remain, the u.s. official says the u.s. needs to continue investing in the afghan people. there has been a huge amount of progress. certainly there needs to be better oversight. you can't have oversight if you don't have the people, the political commitment here in the united states. >> the states are high. making sure the $100 billion in afghan reconstruction it money well spent, and not thrown away. >> now, a new medical report blamed vodka for early deaths in adult men. researchers found 25% of russian men died before 55, due to he

a flight from moscow afghan outrage over the deaths of children and another american airstrike that makes the officials insist it was an operation to disrupt insurgency. we report us equity stakes as silly as a magnet for terrorists ahead of the peace conference in geneva. it also brings together running series for witnesses to try to help with the redwoods and come see article on him in spite of faith and yet many in the us and appeal to stop snooping on each other as the route of them hugging them with amy bishop rumbles on the eye. it's not the one named kevin who would avert what could keep the kids joined us this morning our top story. afghanistan's present hamad karzai has now ordered an inquiry into the u s airstrike that killed eight civilians seven of them children. the migraine tied into residential area north of kabul. despite the government's plea for american forces to stop eating them and choose to read my new team from allah to guide the channel reports in the region. as it is all about etiquette of our minds and that in afghanistan had the hubby and i loss of civilian casu

the deadliest attack on foreign civilians since the afghan war began. officials say three americans are among 21 people killed when a suicide bomber and gunman struck at a restaurant just as people were sitting down to dinner. the white house is condemning the attack, which happened in the heart of kabul. our report tonight from nbc's annabel roberts. >> reporter: a deadly, bold attack by the taliban in a part of the city people hoped they were safe, protected by afghan police. 21 people died including 3 u.s. citizens. >> this was a very good restaurant where many foreign nationals go to this restaurant. it was very unfortunate and very, very, very extreme act of violence against humanity. >> reporter: one of the americans killed worked for the u.n. >> this is totally unacceptable, and this is a violation of international humanitarian law. >> reporter: the two other u.s. citizens worked here at the co-ed american university of afghanistan. they have not been named, but their families have been notified. today the white house condemned the attack saying

so i think we lost confidence amongst many afghans during that 2001 to 2004 period. the taliban saw opportunity. they came back in and they said, look what is happening, you are going back to the bad old days and the americans are not going to solve your problems, and they started to find fertile ground, not initially in huge places but slowly. and so they were able to grow up their political power and in some cases military, and so we made mistakes in not seeing that happen early enough, not reacting to it strongly enough when we did, we were under resourced in many ways, but probably most we were underresourced in understanding. we didn't study the problem enough, we didn't learn the language enough, we didn't take a long-term truly consistent focussed approach to it. >> rose: we did not leave a residual force there. do you believe if there had been a residual force perhaps 10,000 people or more soldiers that we would not see the conflict we see today? >> there is no way to guarantee that but i think the chances are that we would have a better situation there now.