which gives a kind of for i mean does the purpose of afghans that the afghan security forces are losing their man and their or maybe and frustration of the opposition groups and their their circus skills and that much access to bridge. and side inside of their bases. there is kind of losing support or a hope for the future negotiation to i think an hour or so for any kind of military going to where the afghan government together we did initial community so it's it was not a good news despite the afghans were expecting that there will be really peace talks and from both a particular from the opposition side there is some kind of. fighting or at least will be reducing the rent was coming. but what that didn't happen. it was a discouraging week last week and more losses after afghan forces we should form an afghan police and in kabul was was not a good news david said me in washington d.c. two months into the new trump strategy and perhaps more importantly sixteen years into this war is the u.s. winning. i think this is a really interesting time there's been some serious developments over

it's afghan led. involves the taliban rejecting terrorism and supporting people who have attacked this country. it involves them to stop killing the afghan people and live by the constitution. that's a pretty low bar if they choose to rejoin the political process. if they don't, we're going to make it extremely uncomfortable for him by training, advising, assisting the afghan forces. and i think what we don't want is some transient success. so we pushed this forward in a way, in an implacable way, because that's a better waito end it faster, rather than stringing it along. if it addresses your question. >> and i understand my question is unanswerable at a certain point. i guess put it one different way. when the president says no blank check, what does that mean? where does the check stop? where does the commitment stop? >> one point is, sir, that secretary general when he was getting off the plane when we came out of theater said he's going back to brussels to build more support. in other words we're

it's afghan led. involves the taliban rejecting terrorism and supporting people who have attacked this country. it involves them to stop killing the afghan people and live by the constitution. that's a pretty low bar if they choose to rejoin the political process. if they don't, we're going to make it extremely uncomfortable for him by training, advising, assisting the afghan forces. and i think what we don't want is some transient success. so we pushed this forward in a way, in an implacable way, because that's a better waito end it faster, rather than stringing it along. if it addresses your question. >> and i understand my question is unanswerable at a certain point. i guess put it one different way. when the president says no blank check, what does that mean? where does the check stop? where does the commitment stop? >> one point is, sir, that secretary general when he was getting off the plane when we came out of theater said he's going back to brussels to build more support. in other words we're

but it's afghan led. it involves the taliban rejecting terrorism and supporting people who have attacked this country. it involves them to quit killing, to stop killing the afghan people and live by the constitution. that's a pretty low bar if they choose to rejoin the political process. if they don't, we are going to make it extremely uncomfortable for them by training, advising, assisting the afghan forces. and i think what we don't want is some transient success. so we push this forward in a way, in an implacable way, because that's the surest way to enthis faster rather than stringing it along. if that addresses your question. >> it does to some degree. i understand my question is unanswerable past a certain point of the we don't know what it's really going to take to break the taliban. but that does put us in the position. i guess put it one different way. when the president says no blonk check, no open-ended commitment, what does that mean? where does the check stop? where does the commitment stop?

last week i met with 21 afghan generals. from the afghan national security force. and they too were expressing unanimous support of the new strategy and they have a lot of confidence in this new administration. and in addition to the u.s.-led security opposite we agreed that an international effort must be utilize utilized through nato and other stakeholders like india. and knowing that india needs to be leveraged in the future as well. so mr. secretary, i know you were in india. can you explain to us what their role and how we can leverage them moving forward and the whole of government support. what does that look like? what do you envision? >> senator ernst, the afghan people have come to have a deep in abiding affection for the indian people. there's a collaboration there. based on a very generous and enduring indian government support for development. for hospitals, schools, for roads. for all the sinews that pull a society together. especially when it's been shattered the way that one has been. the afghan society has been since the soviet invasion. they are g

abhorthan half of afghans repo the afghan unity government.i understand preventing afghanistan becoming a safe .aven for terrorist groups i appreciate the work you are doing. since the new strategy is just more of the same except we have removed the timetable because we have little hope of success within any identified time period. sec. mattis: senator, we have removed the timetable that gave hope to the taliban. we are going to get support and advice and assistance to the afghan military. effective,hem more the afghan military will worsen the situation the taliban face. in the same conditions secretary clinton established for the taliban. stop killing people, stop supporting international terrorism and live by the constitution. wouldl be an afghan reconciliation -- led reconciliation. sen. warren: it is a low bar we are driving toward and we are losing. sec. mattis: i would disagree with the last point. sen. warren: you look at the numbers. the drug trade is up. corruption is up. no support for the government and people keep dying. tell usour

afghan capability, us capability employed in support of afghans in an integrated way. long-term, 6 or 7 years from now, completely transform the afghan air force as transition from mi 17 helicopters to you a 60 helicopters which includes an attacks variant. over the past few years we feel to the a 29, a fixed wing attack aircraft and md 5s which are small helicopter. the afghan special operations mission is indicative of where we believe they are forced to which is an effective ability to bring afghan special operations forces and we expect the progress in the afghan air force. it has come a long way in the past two years and in the next 6 or 7 years we expect the afghan air force to provide the support the afghans need. >> my time is up, thank you for your service. >> senator gillibrand. >> thank you for your service. i want to associate my remarks with chairman mccain in terms of the strategy. we know from donald trump that he has an unspecified increase of 3 more troops but most of come from remarks and statements by the afghan president, i am concerned american peo

forces and the afghan people. i'm confident that there will will endure longer than taliban. see that with all due respect general is not just the afghan government in the small minority to the afghan government is a trillion dollar u.s. taxpayer support tens of thousands of u.s. servicemembers, nato allies allies, support monetarily and militarily from those countries as well and we are in our 16th year with no end in sight to them having a very hard time understanding and being able to could explain to my constituents with the game-changer is that i'm hearing today that will make this different going forward. and i mean no disrespect but i'm just not hearing it. >> i'm asking you this question. >> i think it's a fair question and it's a fair question to debate why this is different why we should stay up to 16 years but i certainly think from a military perspective why were recommended we stay we look carefully at the 20 groups that are national terrorist groups. 20 of its 90 we recognize around the world and the

the afghan army, doesn't mean much if afghan politics fall apart. afghan politics have fallen apart several times. how is the political effort different this time around. -- around? sec. mattis: congressman, having just returned, i noticed sitting around the table from me at my --tings were new commanders new ministers of interior and defense, proven people, people that the nato officers said we fought with these guys, it is great to have them in place. to the coredown level commanders, these are all proven young officers who have grown up in this fight. they are not holdovers. not kept around from past wars. there is also an effort underway right now to remove many of the officers who are over the hill and replace them, give the young officers an opportunity to come up to levels they demonstrated they can handle this fight. aat can only reflect political reality, because of the nature of that society right now. as you know, it is a society that has been shaken since the time of the soviet invasion. group that now recognizes they basically have one

the only factor of doing that but because the afghan people were supportive the afghan people wanted a change and the region supported the united states and its allies with tremendous goodwill they all began to help us in the beginning of my government my troubles to those countries when it when afghanistan had nothing no government nordman station no means no money nothing wherever i went for example when i went to moscow russia sent me a plane took me to moscow brought a back and helped china do the same you don't if everybody india turkey europe the arab countries why isn't that environment there anymore because something has gone wrong and that something has gone wrong is because of the forces who are there to improve things but things do not approve so naturally there are questions and questions are founded on. fundamentally strong evidence of wrongdoing how would you characterize u.s. destabilization of your government and of afghan democracy we know from wiki leaks cables that hillary clinton said we need to do everything we can to rebalance the playing field tilted. at that t

afghans the afghan forces needs to clean up their own soldiers who are helping inform and said which has been happening for a long time i think that's the the biggest failure of the afghan government afghan security forces that they cannot support people who are helping the opposition forces from and sat and so they cannot support military vehicles for coming in from districts of it and frustrating. security forces bases and multiple ages. i think that the security forces and afghan government needs to look at that their intelligence loop to screen out who or helping them and terms of providing intelligence or one of bringing them to the doors of their bases that's that's i think what the afghan government needs to focus on in the coming years this is been a consistent problem hasn't it david certainly there are elements within the afghan security forces who are helping the taliban or trading with the taliban giving away their weapons giving away their ammunition maybe giving away humvees i don't know. it's been a problem but it's a fairly minor problem it's wrestle problem of giving

otherwise it will be extremely uncomfortable to revise the afghan forces. i think what we don't want is a transient success so we push this forward in a way to end this faster rather than stringing along. and that answers your question. >> i am understand my question is i'm answerable passed a certain point. >> but put another way the president said no blank check for open ended commitment so what does that mean? where does the check or the commitment stop?. >> and he said he is going back to brussels to build more support so more people will be aligned with us with financial and troop contributions because we have replaced uncertainty also means we will see a declining use of american mentors as the army is up. we cut back too soon to pull the training wheels off before it was ready. this was a concern from the intelligence agencies when we pulled them down to that level so we will have to make up for that and inherit aware that lies now but it is not the unending commitment you will see the declining number of forces with the improving capability on the p

part of the process is currently on the afghan side, the afghan president leverages, take it clear to political leaders, especially in the north, but some extent in the west that are red lines they are not going to interestsand your will be respected. part of this is necessarily going to be horse trading. united states is going to have to sweeten these kinds of deals, and we have at our disposal for a great deal less than what we're spending for an advisory presence a fair amount of freedom for deal sweetening. mike is the expert for budgeting, so i will trade into this with fear and trembling. didcommon kentucky when rule of thumb for the cost of keeping an american in a combat zone for year is about a million dollars. if we are talking about an ofisor presence in the area $24,000 -- 24,000, that is about $1 billion. you would use that by 10,000, you have a lot of economic aid to create an incentive for those within afghanistan to cooperate with a deal. this is a very complicated political engineering process which is one of the reasons why i find it frustrating that we ave basically

military organizations that are supposed to integrate with the afghan army and with the afghan police in order to -- in order to improve their capability. okay. so we deploy and we're spread out, we have to reduce -- because of the boots on the ground restrictions we had to reduce the size of the u.s. forces. we were taking risk. we had security force teams which were senior officers, senior ncos that had to develop a personal relationship with the afghans that they were working with and they had to make sure -- because that was their security. there's only, you know, ten or so at any given time that are walking into candax of 500, 600 afghan soldiers. so you have to rely on that personal relationship that you develop and that was one of the things that a lot of them did. so one of the challenges i would talk about is having on june 8th of 2013 when i got a phone call from my squaun dron commander he said i need you pull your teams back from the other side of the wire, we were in a base surrounded by afghans so i had to pull my teammates back. he said colonel clark and major leonard w

that we've not made but i think needs to be made strongly is the afghan government needs to perform better its military its police need to do better and its overall governance efforts have to improve in order to improve increase confidence among the people that the afghan government is the right solution for their future so this is really a complex situation where you need progress militarily with pakistan with the parliament and with the afghan government you've mentioned artificial timelines being unhelpful my question though to you michael semple is your estimation now how long might this take well you sort of answered the question yourself are they saying that the artificial timetables have been a been a problem. the the willingness to end this conflict is already there afghans on both sides of the war are already fed up with the fighting the toll which is being taken in terms of civilians afghan security forces taliban themselves is completely intolerable that tells me that if we have some political progress it may surprise people at how how quickly it develops so i don't want to name

ministry of defense says that ten afghan soldiers ten afghan fighters were also killed in that attack after the detonation of the of the vehicle but the taleban storms that army base and of course it was in the middle of the night just before three o'clock in the morning so many of those soldiers would have been asleep and the afghan taliban saying that they had taken control of the base for a brief time we're not exactly sure what the status of the situation is now but it has been a very brutal week for afghan security forces earlier this week on tuesday in paktia and in and in gaza and our province eighty people were killed in two separate taleban attacks sixty five of them afghan security forces police afghan police and they have targeted the attack last night the afghan army but of course jennifer we've seen it ups in violence by various groups mainly the taliban twenty seventeen hospitals attack military bases attacked the seems to be this ongoing upsurge it sort of wave as doesn't it ups and downs but they all continuous attackers the just don't go away. that. that's right the t

some sort of armored vehicle was used in that attack of the two zero five afghan army corps which is in charge of much much of southern afghanistan is now investigating the incident and how it could have happened it's really been a deadly week in afghanistan jennifer has that there's been a string of attacks just this past week alone. that's right not just this attack in kandahar in the early morning hours but on tuesday in paktia province a taliban attack two huge car bombs one a police vehicle another humvee an army vehicle attacked a police headquarters as well as a police academy and in that attack sixty were killed more than three hundred wounded. a v a police vehicle a humvee in that attack of those the dead more about forty of them were police i include ing the police chief president ashraf ghani did attend his funeral on wednesday and he said that the taliban must come to the peace table if they do not extend their hand of peace then the clerics the people the people the army the military will stand united against them but of course we had this attack today and then another a

during the taliban attack in the middle of the night at about three am and chast afghan army base in my one home to about sixty afghan army soldiers only two of them escaped the attack unhurt first the taliban blew up what they called an armored vehicle at the base and then they stormed the base a fierce firefight ensued the afghan ministry of defense say ten taliban fighters were. killed in that fight but forty three afghan soldiers killed nine wounded six are still missing only two. escaping that unscathed this is the third major attack by the taliban on afghan security forces in the last three days one hundred twenty people have been killed and all the bulk of them afghan security forces on tuesday the taliban attacked impact in eastern afghanistan detonating two humvees that they had presumably captured in previous engagements with the afghan security forces in that attack. sixty people have been killed for that forty of them police three hundred injured and on the same day in gardez another attack on the headquarters there on a district headquarters there killed twenty people fi

well that's exactly what the afghan military is investigating tonight the afghan army two of five who are in charge of much of southern afghanistan looking into how that attack happened just before three o'clock in the morning in southern afghanistan and my wand on a small military base there home to about sixty afghan army soldiers the taliban attacked exploding car bombs and then assaulting the base in that assault forty three people forty three afghan soldiers killed nine injured six still missing and only two soldiers of the whole base take a skate that attack an injured ten afghan taliban were also killed according to the ministry of defense here in kabul and that attack. propecia waited we believe because those cars were humvees now the minister of defense was asked about that how they how they not only that attack but the ones from the ones earlier this week and guard is that you mentioned though the worst attack this week that killed more than sixty people that's that also used humvees and a police vehicle captured from afghan security forces and that's a continuing problem he

another five afghan police killed as well so the afghan afghan security forces under a terrible assault this week here in afghanistan that of course comes after two attacks on tuesday left sixty dead and packed again three hundred wounded the taliban claiming responsibility for that and gosney on tuesday twenty dead and we understand the fighting there is still ongoing as the taliban continue to engage security forces and government troops in the in the in gaza in the east well for the maybe i will leave it there thanks for the update. well still ahead here hold out is it a us university. a white supremacist amid growing racial tensions in the country also the human the u.n. human rights chief warns of security council intervention if the perpetrators of atrocities against the rich. are not punished. welcome back the weather across much of southern and eastern china and taiwan is looking jerry not too bad to be got a circulation just on the edge of your screens there which is typhoon land that's heading towards japan in the coming days but for this region gerri things are looking fairly

another attack in the afghan capital just twenty four hours after a suicide bombers targeted a shia mosque in kabul. state rex tillerson arrives in saudi arabia once again to try to end the blockade against carter. separated from their families and left homeless by. refugee center deescalation in northern syria plus. i'm andrew thomas in sydney all australians a recent survey suggests as many as one in four people here but despite this country being one of the most multicultural in the world. we begin in barcelona where thousands of people are protesting on the streets after spain's prime minister announced moves to impose direct rule over catalonia that angry that is taking steps to suspend the autonomy of a castle and regional government he's asked for article one five five to be triggered which would mean castle and his leaders including its president carter. and a snap election is called measures must now be approved by spain senate next week says madrid had no choice but to take these unprecedented actions. the government has had to trigger article one five five of the constitution th

war against afghans basically to no effect. watching the whole size of that full interview with daniel ellsberg and watch it a bit later here on this channel the. british police have been caught on camera dragging and mistreating a disabled eighty five year old woman at a truck in protest. believe he believed. you mean to tell me you came out the house this morning to drug an eighty five year old in a cross the road. so there's no way that you could have an officer on the legs. next time you would make some you drag eight five year old. i couldn't believe i. believe. the driving. because looking. at the looking i remember. a police released a statement by insisting no complaint has been received over this incident over the pensioner says her shoulders were bruised and she was so traumatized she says she's been well struggling to sleep ever since there's also a massive online backlash against the police and anti fracking campaign or a member of britain's green party hit out. similar to the issue of police brutality in the usa po

taliban fighters have killed forty three afghan soldiers in the assault in the middle of the night at a military camp in reap set off two suicide car bombs at a base in the district of kandahar followed by hours of gunfighting one hundred twenty people have been killed in a series of taliban attacks this week jennifer dos is following developments from kabul. the taliban attack the afghan army base in southern afghanistan in my want near the helm on the border in the early hours of thursday morning killing forty three afghan soldiers there elsewhere in afghanistan at about the same time five soldiers killed five police killed the numers and six killed in northern province that of course coming after earlier this week two separate attacks in eastern afghanistan gardez impact and in gaza killed another eighty people as well most of them afghan security forces some of them civilians the gardez attack involving a two suicide car bombs also wounded three hundred people security forces as well as civilians but the fact that these attacks have taken place in the north in the east in the sout

up taliban attacks killed one hundred twenty people in just a few days with at least forty three afghan troops the latest casualties. the un voices concerns that kurds are being driven from their homes in areas retaken by iraq's forces. and scientists one of the looming ecological armageddon is new research reveals the flying insect population is shrinking like never before. the confrontation over catalonia is intensifying spain's government says it will suspend the region's autonomy after its president refused to back down on independence a prime minister mariano rajoy will hold a cabinet meeting on saturday to trigger article one fifty five of the constitution a measure that's never been used before which allows madrid to impose direct rule of the catalonia they've bought is in barcelona. spain political crisis is deepening after failing to comply with the spanish government catalonia stripped of its total me. q four in the absence of a clear response we note that he has not answered our request and therefore we will continue procedure of triggering article one five five of the consti

well unfortunately of that the afghan government and european union signed agreement in october last year based on which european countries can do turn countless number of afghans to afghanistan and unfortunately afghan government have agreed to that but the argument was based conditional to voluntarily return. not really for stability turn who refuses who didn't go through the due process but unfortunately in our investigation we found that huge number of afghans were foreseeability turned or how do you are saying that we will deport you to afghanistan anyway but you have two choices whether you sign in a document to say that you are voluntarily do turning in to turn for some cash assistance or you are not going to give you cash assistance and we will deport you anyway and many of these people had to sign that document in order to receive the cash assistance so while the number of civilian casualties and internally displaced people and also kill immunology is going very high in afghanistan the number of afghans deported from europe is also increasing while from our point of view it

strategy and the afghan government.

only is the afghan government facing a resurgent taliban you also have other anti-government forces as well creating unrest in afghanistan. let's take a closer look at the recent attacks and of forty three soldiers were killed on thursday after the storm the military campaign in my once district setting off two suicide car bombs before a gun battle flashes also attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern province of gaza only on thursday the group was responsible for an ambush in the northern province which killed six police officers on wednesday on tuesday taliban suicide bombers carried out a wave of attacks targeting police compounds and government facilities killing at least seventy four people well some of those the former afghan ambassador to france and canada he says the attacks show that afghan security forces have been ineffective. the afghan issue is becoming more complex there are more regional players involved i think there are reports that the russians have a new agenda that the iranians now feeling more heat from washington may also alter some of their agenda. t

but on a cloud this is a live from london also coming up in the program another attack in the afghan capital just twenty four hours after a suicide bombers targeted a shia mosque in kabul. u.s. sector state rex tillerson arrives in saudi arabia once again to try to end the blockade against gaza plus i'm malcom webb in the town of come in and the democratic republic of congo where last month thirty nine refugees from burundi was shot by soldiers following a demonstration will be talking to the security forces and the surviving refugees about what happened. there let's listen in to kathleen's regional president colors personally speaking right now the cabinet. really. put an end to that demand and has a now it's a series of mean measures. that says patient that mean an end of our self-government and an end to the will of catalogue people what cattle and people this fall you did through the polls because government has ended in their offices. the spanish government with the support of the socialist party and. has taken the worst power. anyone could take center franco's dictatorship and

it has been a tough fight since the afghans took over.nment now controls less than two—thirds of the country. and that is not the only challenge for afghanistan. it is one of the most corrupt countries on earth. tens of billions of dollars are reckoned to have been stolen by government officials. the country is also grindingly poor. no wonder the president of afghanistan, ashraf ghani, says he's got the toughest job in the world. president, very, very good to meet you. very goot to meet you. president ghani, thank you very much indeed for sitting down to do this interview. you are one of the few world leaders who says he gets on with president trump. what is it about mr trump and about you that means you two can do business together? the first thing is shared interest. if you do not have shared interests, you cannot develop a common language. we are able to have a dialogue, not a monologue. and that has really been key. president trump has been extraordinarily thorough in terms of the hard questions and the arguments that we were able to

to notify later the ongoing fight between islamic state militants and afghan and u.s. forces means we can go back to our home. meanwhile the cia has made public its file on a militant who was tortured and died in a u.s. jail in afghanistan and the group had he for four rather was originally backed by the u.s. state department and then fell out of favor only to find itself back in the good books when it through its support behind the new government in kabul. american investigates. oh vermont captured by the cia back in october of two thousand and two under suspicions of having connections to the afghan militant group has the been. the group was founded in the one nine hundred seventy s. and enjoyed western aid and funding as it was one of the major militant groups fighting the soviets in afghanistan. in one nine hundred eighty five they were even invited to meet president reagan in the white house. decades later the group suspected member of mine was confined to the notorious cia black sites in a salt pit to provide an understanding of salt while thirty three of its wor

ambassador to france and canada he says the attack show the afghan security forces are ineffective. she was becoming more complex there are more regional players in i think there are reports that the russians have a new agenda. now getting more heat from washington may also alter some of their agenda. and the pakistanis have had in many years which has not. prime stability and security. and what the afghan government is on what to make sure that there is better management and better leadership at the head of the security forces and also in middle management. the commanders need to make sure to protect their forces to protect their bases i think that is actually. in the same time the project of strengthening the african forces in order to protect afghanistan and to stabilize afghanistan to go on. iraqi forces of claim control of the whole of kirkuk province after intense fighting against kurdish peshmerga the army says it's kept at the last. bill problems with the help of a shia militia stephanie now reports from the front line. the new front line opened early friday iraqi forces tog

taliban fighters have killed forty three afghan soldiers in an assault in the middle of the night at a military camp a group set off two suicide car bombs at a base in the my one district of kandahar followed by hours of gun fighting one hundred twenty people have been killed in a series of taliban attacks this week jennifer glass is following developments from kabul. the taliban attack the afghan army base in southern afghanistan in my want near the helm on the border in the early hours of thursday morning killing forty three afghan soldiers there elsewhere in afghanistan at about the same time five soldiers killed five police killed the numers and six killed in northern province that of course coming after earlier this week two separate attacks in eastern afghanistan borders impacted and in gaza killed another eighty people as well most of them afghan security forces some of them civilians the gardez attack involving two suicide car bombs also wounded three hundred people security forces as well as civilians but the fact that these attacks have taken place in the north in the east

from moscow america's top diplomat suggests moderate taliban members could take up a part of the afghan government making a stark shift in u.s. policy their security so. a lot of the social media successes. as a you tube executive is pressured for appearing on the channel way back in twenty thirty . v.o.i.p. family feuds of accounts of the independent standoff that's causing division not only in spain but now also in neighboring fronts too. and shine a laser at its leadership plans for the next five years cementing the current communist president in power and forecasting where the country is likely to head over the coming decades. it's all we are not international. it's well into the twenty fifth of october thanks for tuning to us first and rex tillerson secret visit to afghanistan is not only signaled a significant shift in attitudes towards the taliban it's also the reporters a little puzzled too we'll tell you but first spot the difference here the official picture that was released by the afghan government following the president's meeting with the u.s. secretary of state and then l

america's top diplomat suggests that moderate taliban members could make up a part of the afghan government marking a start shift in u.s. policy there and the security concerns also take over your material situation here that there is no or sufficient water or health clinics human rights groups say they are still concerned for the syrian city of brac despite it being finally liberated from islamic state and the ip family feud over catalonia independence standoff that's causing division not only in spain but now in neighboring france saying. that i welcome you with r.t. international this wednesday afternoon off top story this hour rex tillerson secret visit to afghanistan is not only signaled a significant shift in attitude towards the taliban but it's also left reporters a little puzzled because the difference here here's the official picture that was released by the afghan government following the president's meeting with the u.s. secretary of state but later the u.s. also put out a photo and you'll notice that in the afghan on the right there a large clock and a fire bell a raised the st

the idea is to open up the afghan government to scrutiny.ng the decision—making process of government to be audited. that includes all of the high spending departments which are listed at there. it is also about allowing ordinary citizens to hold the government accountable. —— up there. ashraf ghani put him in charge of the administrative office of the president. it now has the power to audit government departments to get rid of corruption. the rest of the operation... but the agenda is much more wide than that. we are working on each task. each government system allows me or anyone managing in it to see the operation of any worker. opening it up so everyone can see how decisions are being made. and ashraf ghani says that applies across government. their reason overarching reform of the recruitment process. —— there is an. they are empowered and are being supported. i am they are empowered and are being supported. lam not they are empowered and are being supported. i am not in any part of the process. when they do theirjob, i sign. it is bli

america's top diplomat suggests that moderate taliban members could make up a part of the afghan government marking a stark shift in u.s. policy there and its security concerns. are see social media successes singled out as a good chief executive was criticized for appearing on the channel back in twenty. or so to come the v.i.p.'s family feuds over catalonia independence standoff that's causing division not only in spain but now in neighboring france and china plays out his leadership plans for the next five years cementing president she's power and forecasting where the country is headed. welcome you with r.t. this wednesday afternoon our top story this hour rex tillerson secret visit to afghanistan has not only signaled a significant shift in attitude towards the taliban it's also left reporters a little bit puzzled because spot the difference here here's the official picture that was released by the afghan government following the president's meeting with the u.s. secretary of state but later the u.s. also put out a photograph and you'll notice that in the afghan version on the right he