if you compare the afghanistan i arrived in early 2002 to the afghanistan today there's obviously been immense economic development. there's been immense social development. you can't make a plausible case that our intervention over the past two decades has really moved us in an appreciatable direction. and so the core reason for this peace process is simply choosing the most plausible of a variety of exceptionally difficult all quite possible to fail policy options. but because i was asked to speak for five to ten minutes i won't stop there. i'll very, very briefly identify what i think a plausible or potentially successful peace process from the current moment could look like, and i'm not going to get into the level of detail, i'm not going to talk about sort of what the afghan settlement might look like in detail but rather the process. i really think that the -- a settlement in afghanistan is actually the end state of three separate somewhat linked peace processes. somewhat linked in the sense they all have to end together in order to be sustainable, but they don't really need to s

afghanistan. remind people about your job specifically. guest: i am the inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. spenthat means, we have $132 billion over the last 18 years trying to rebuild that country, to make it self-sufficient so we could keep the taliban and terrorists out and never be a launching point. i don't do the reconstruction, i have a staff of about 200 auditors, criminal investigators, accountants, et cetera afghanistan,e in the rest are in the united states and we try to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. host: are we closer to that goal? guest: are we -- we are getting there. not as close as we would like it to be. we have accomplished a lot over those 18 years. agencycy is a temporary that will eventually go out of existence. job.uld have done a better andve been here before cited some examples of the horror stories but at least we have an inspector general who works full-time in our staff does a pretty good job of trying to prevent fraud. host: party your job is to put ou

if you compare the afghanistan i 2002 to then afghanistan today, there has been immense social development. you cannot make a plausible case that our intervention over the last of the last two decades has in appreciable, positive direction in terms of the political resolution of the underlying conflicts which let us there to begin with. the core reason for this peace process is simply choosing the most plausible of a variety of exceptionally difficult, all quite possible to fail policy options. me toe you only asked talk from five different -- five to 10 minutes i will identify what a plausible, potentially successful peace process from the current moment could look like. i am not getting into the level of detail, i will not talk about the afghan settlement but the process. a settlement in afghanistan is the end state of three separate, somewhat linked peace processes. somewhat linked in the sense they have to end together in order to be sustainable, but they do not need to start together and they do not necessarily need to move in parallel. the first of the three processes is the u.s.-tal

not justin afghanistan -- just in afghanistan. how we design programs is broken. how we reward people is broken. we just do it again in afghanistan. it is like on steroids, all these problems. host: 130 billion we have slated for reconstruction. guest: we spent $700 billion on the war. host: how much goes to the government or how does it get to the government? is it cash? guest: that's another good point. cashof the money we spend we do the contracting. money that we call on budget where we cut a check to the afghan ministry of finance and they do the budgeting. if you think we are bad in our contracting, if you think our incentives are bad, go to afghan government contracting and holy mackerel. you have never seen anything like afghan contracting. the government is improving. but still, we lose visibility. i, because we have law enforcement authority -- i think the viewers should know this. , fbi and irse agents who can make arrests. but i lose my legal authority to do that if the money goes on budget. one of the risks because of the afghans committing crimes wit

army and also served in afghanistan. so he comes at it from a very personal point of view and brings the tools needed to tell this story. we're very excited to have him with us. let's give a big welcome to matt farwell. [applause] >> thanks. >> thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. so let's dive in. there's a lot to talk about here, and we only have five hours. so -- [laughter] >> make it last. >> let's make it last. we'll make it worth it. as i mentioned, a lot has been written about, stories have been told. there's been no lack of kind of media saturation for this story -- >> right. >> but this kind of brings everything together. what made you want the tackle this project specifically? >> well, when i started on the story, there was no media saturation. it had been suppressed, effectively, by the pentagon, the white house, the intelligence community and, ultimately, by a complicit press itself. and so i worked with a guy named michael hastings who wrote for rolling stone. he wrote an article

there is no shortage of trouble in afghanistan.st bailout, justly, the pakistanis can take care of it, and the indians can take care of it. the afghans himself, they are pretty well capable of taking care of themselves, they haven't been successfully invaded by a foreign power ever. they have driven everyone off. so i think they can do okay if we leave. >> do you think americans think we are in a worry now? >> or do you consider us being in the work right now, you consider the wear-and-tear which has no end or beginning, you feel like, are we a country at war currently? >> i think regular civilians in afghanistan, iraq, syria, yemen, sudan, ethiopia, and tanzania, rwanda, they all sure feel like were at work. in the philippines, yes. they should feel like were at work. i think we do and they get warm and fuzzy the national guard in the beginning of a movie or with a $3.5 million contract or whatever the dollar figures. i just threw that off at the top of my head to do nfl promotions. we generally shy away from what were means going

not justin afghanistan -- just in afghanistan. how we design programs is broken. we reward people is broken. we just do it again in afghanistan. it is like on steroids, all these problems. host: 130 billion we have slated for reconstruction. guest: we spent $700 billion on the war. host: how much goes to the government or how does it get to the government? is it cash? guest: that's another good point. cashof the money we spend we do the contracting. money that we call on budget where we cut a check to the afghan ministry of finance and they do the budgeting. if you think we are bad in our contracting, if you think our incentives are bad, go to afghan government contracting and holy mackerel. you have never seen anything like afghan contracting. the government is improving. but still, we lose visibility. i, because we have law enforcement authority -- i think the viewers should know this. , fbi and irse agents who can make arrests. but i lose my legal authority to do that if the money goes on budget. one of the risks because of the afghans committing crimes with u.

>> josh had an interest in afghanistan for a while prior.proposed the central asia trip to me, and i agreed to it. he said we won't go to afghanistan, okay maybe we'll just dip in for one day, but about a week after we had landed in kyrgyzstan, josh started talking about his plan was that we essentially going to make our way down to the border of afghanistan and that that was his intention with the trip. he believed that the taliban in afghanistan were misrepresented in the west, so he saw this as he's going to get in and sort o no good guys in the war against the taliban and that he wanted to document their perspective. why didn't you say, are you crazy? what are you thinking? >> i did say that. and he just said essentially you're dumb, to be quiet. >> reporter: so why didn't you say, i'm pregnant, no. you're dumb, i'm out of here. >> i westeish i had the strengt do that. he made it difficult for me. he kept the passport. he didn't give me access to money. i think i recognized that things were so bad that i didn't want to deal with it. >> r

but there is a lot of spticism, because of the experience of iraq and afghanistan, from critics of e president that this is warmongering.e' and tha lot fear that this kind of rhetoric mimics the kind of rhetoric that the american public heard in the escalation towards the iraq war. >> i thi there's me grounds for that, but i wouldn't overdo that. iran wants toh establramilitaries that it controls -- hezbollah in lebanon --th also get power in the respect of parliament. and so they literally have hezbollah and his coalition have a blocking veto .in the lebanese parliame they'd love to have a similar situation in iraq. not somethin by the way, the iraqis want to embrace, by any means. in fact, they realize they have to have a relationship with the country to their east that is, again, double its size and is very importantno to them, ecally, and in a variety of other ways. and they do not want to end up having a war between the united states and iran on their soil, and i fully understand that. but the dynamics are very, very difficult and very tricky.i >> bhink what you just said is, in

difficult to prove it from the time i spent in afghanistan-a -- afghanistan, i have been a commander there and i am confident. if you want to think about this in terms of term insurance once you stop paying the premium, you no longer have insurance and what we are doing in afghanistan to date in my judgment is a commensurate level to the threat. >> thank you for your apparent. we also know that i along with others are going to submit additional written questions for you and i hope you will respond to them within 30 days. the subcommittee will reconvene in a closed session next wednesday, may 15 at 10:00 a.m. to receive testimony from u.s. intelligence community. the committee is recessed. thank you. which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you can watch all of this hearing on our website, sees and.org. on the home page, type "defense budget" in the video library window. we also have house and senate floor speec

a hospital in herat in western afghanistan. many of the girls and young women being treated here are maimed or burned beyond recognition. they say they had an accident at home, or fell. sahib-jan is just 13 years old. sahib jan: there was a pot of boiling water on the stove. it tipped over and it burnt my lelegs. reporter: the girls are afraid to tell the truth, says dr. asem haidari. dr. haidari: they've self-harmed. and why? because of their domomestic situation. they've been forced into marriages and their husbands are violent. reporter: sahib-jan's husband bought her for the equivalent of 1000 euros. he used her r as cheap labor, o milk cows and feed sheep. she lived in a cramped and filthy room and was given leftovers to eat. sahib jan: i didn't know what it would be like to be married. i'm just a child. reporter: many young girls end up pouring petrol l on themsels and setting themselves on fire. an actct of sheer desperation. their families forbid d them o tell anyone. back in the hospital in kabul, zarifa has brought al

within afghanistan actually is very low.hink the conditions are set, you know, i've met president gani when he came before joint session of congress, i've heard him speak. i appreciate the leadership that he brings to bare, this is such a history of corruption in that government that not only do they have a local outlook or tribal regional outlook but part of the reason is they have low expectation of national government is it doesn't perform, it doesn't deliver. gani is trying to whoirnt that, you know, part of what we have seen is that the fact of the matter is there are people who live inside afghanistan that are sympathetic to the taliban or that needs to be ultimately settled by the people of afghanistan and i think that's one to have reasons we can play a constructive role in qatar is bringing the forces together so that they cease two things, end of fighting and the second is that they understand that the united states will not tolerate any kind of entity, any kind of entity that plans coordinates or conducts attacks

soldiers, including two green berets, died in afghanistan on the night of june 9, 2014. the pentagon concluded the deaths were an "avoidable" accident, known by the contradictory phrase "friendly fire." it was the deadliest such incident involving u.s. fatalities in 18 long years of on-going war in afghanistan. it wasn't gunfire that killed the u.s. soldiers. it was a pair of 500-pound bombs dropped right on top of them by a u.s. warplane. you're about to hear what happened that day from three of the soldiers who were there, including the green beret commander. they dispute the official version of events, and warn it's going to happen again. it started just after sundown on a sweltering night, with a fierce firefight. >> brandon branch: bullets whizzing by, kicking up all around you. >> henry "hank" montalbano: at certain points, it would die down, but it was unrelenting at other points. >> derrick anderson: it looked almost like a fireworks show, where they were shooting down at our positions. >> whitaker: were you scared? >> branch: absolutely. i think you would have t

. >> when i went overseas -- when i was packing my bags for afghanistan. >> reporter: the 37-year-oldayor of south bend, indiana, deploys his military service as both a sword and a shield, whether taking questions about his experience or quieting anti-gay protesters, afghanistan is also his answer. >> it's one more reason why it might not be a bad idea to have somebody in the white house who actually served. >> reporter: his time as an intelligence officer in the naval reserves and a six-month deployment to afghanistan makes his already gold-plated resume shine even brighter. yet buttigieg rarely talks about why he joined the service after graduating from harvard and studying as a rhodes scholar. turns out it was 2008 and he was volunteering for the barack obama campaign in iowa, where he said he saw many young people signing up for the army or national guard. >> i might have dragged my feet on that forever if i hadn't that experience in iowa and saw that some communities were almost emptying out their youth into the military and some were barely serving at all. >> reporter: now he's

talked about afghanistan. my question is as you know that are going eace talks afghanistan. he taliban doesn't accept government presence in the talk these talks succeeded, one main demand is the withdrawal of forces from afghanistan. nd u.s. forces, u.s. officials and afghan officials say they tolerant with fghanistan 20 terrorism organizations, how do we deal with others in afghanistan? >> look, no one has suggested hat the united states is going to leave afghanistan without our beingrterrorism interests addressed. i think we're very helpful to the afghan people and those of have served there are proud of that, our fundamental and counterterrorism interests in south asia in a south asia strategy. that's not negotiable in our counterterrorism interests. quickly identified the position of the taliban which is a complete withdrawal of all u.s. forces. interests are to make sure that our counterterrorism nterests are addressed as well as some other principals that i'm sure that the state department will insist upon in the dialogue. in a very important principal that we have in

citizens who have fought in syria account for a great part of these militants and afghanistan is far from the only hot spot on the islamic terrorism he for instance according to the information in possession of the f.s.b. such regions as north africa and asia have become places where islamic terrorists have been steadily gaining foothold and now the following piece of information revealed by board nick of makes things even more concerning apparently terrorists have developed and obtained all means necessary to produce chemical weapons and to carry out chemical attacks. we have obtained reliable data providing that bandits are testing new means and methods of conducting subversive activities criminals have materials to colleges and infrastructure for creating chemical weapons and biotoxins the use of unmanned aircraft in order to deliver projectiles and world terrorism are not limited to the well physical warfare if i may say so for instance according to board think of islamic state has been bolstering its so-called cyber departments they have been expanding their ability to bring dow

government does not want people to know what is really happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sums of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well know that people a space to have exactly this kind of information. may day rallies in major cities around the world were marred by violence as protesters of all stripes clashed with the police. it's. going to and europe anti-capitalists were prominent in the may day violence our correspondent and her style of witness the unrest in paris and berlin. well may day started with violence can fool the protests the official protests even began those protests

after five years of reserve duty he deployed to afghanistan in 2014.y cnn show buttigieg was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks. it was largely a desk job, but he also worked as a driver and armed escort. >> look, it's not like i killed bin laden, i don't want to overstate what my role was, but it certainly was something that was dangerous, you know, people that i knew unfortunately were attacked. >> reporter: do you think you would be able to make this run as credibly without this military service? >> well, i think at a moment when obviously people are looking for contrasts it helps me demonstrate the difference between how i'm oriented and how the current president is. >> reporter: jason mccray still remembers the day he met buttigieg at their training in south carolina. he didn't know the man assigned to be his battle buddy was also an indiana mayor. >> one of my early memories is he had an ear bud in and he was learning a language, i think it was dari. i don't remember other folks that were picking up a langu

when cricket was by the taliban in afghanistan being one of the elite 10 teams to contest a world cup. it have been unthinkable but there rise over the past decade has been extraordinary 2 years ago afghanistan was awarded test match status one of only 12 teams to play the most prestigious and respected form of cricket but it's in the shorter forms of the gang they're most dangerous and this team has a genuine chance of upsetting bigots aims in the 50 over to side world cup. several of these players have lucrative indian premier league and australia big bash contracts and play county cricket in england but the star is the man considered the world's best one day spin of rashid khalidi you must be so excited about this world cup you're one of the superstars of the game now exactly definitely very excited to be in the world cup squad in the biz and doing my country especially in my 1st 50 or you have the you have the skill you just need to utilize that and hopefully the guys are good one of them is working hard and definitively it won't be too far that one is i will be in top ranks. thei

both in afghanistan and iraq. their primary mission is to inspect materials that are being shipped back to the united states from a war zone. also for hazardous materials or pieces or items that should not be coming back into the united states. she deployed twice, once to afghanistan and iraq. she is now an officer in the united states coast guard. our second woman, retired navy commander tammy jo schultz. we know her as a southwest pilot who a few months ago successfully landed a southwest airliner that had taken off from laguardia. the engine blew leaving a hole in the fuselage. she successfully landed that. she was one of the first women in the navy to fly high performance aircraft. quite a story for this woman. >> center spot is a marine sergeant. she is one of 36 women marines who were permitted to serve in vietnam. she was a clerk. you can see from her picture, she did a lot of other things. volunteering at orphanages and things of that sort. she was able to travel around vietnam emily was a flight nurse dur

he deployed to afghanistan in 2014 just as president obama was announcing a troop withdrawal.ed by cnn so buttigieg was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks. it was largely a desk job at the bagram air base but he was also a driver and armed escort. >> it's not like i killed bin laden. i don't want to understate what my role was, but it certainly was something that was dangerous. people that i knew, unfortunately, were attacked. >> do you think you'd be able to make this run as credibly without this military service? >> well, i think at a moment when, obviously, people are looking for contrasts, it helps me demonstrate the difference between how i'm oriented and how the current president is. >> reporter: jason mccray still remembers the day he met buttigieg at their training in south carolina. he didn't know the man assigned to be his battle body was also an indiana mayor. >> he had an ear bud in and was learning a language. i think it was dari. i don't remember other folks picking up a language. >> he was interested in afghanistan and was

troops to leave afghanistan?uest: absolutely, american troops should start withdrawing and we hope the peace process continues and we are pleased the donald trump administration is pursuing that but we do not need to have a massive military presence in afghanistan for the peace process to continue. guest: the problem in afghanistan was ever scope was too broad. when we use it as a platform to kill osama bin laden, if the military had played a better role in the conversation, that would have been the decisive point for withdrawal under the boundaries of the 2001 bill said. host: john in tempo, florida -- tampa, florida. >> as a civilian i have the highest respect for our veterans and it breaks my heart that the same bad actors that got us into the unnecessary invasion in iraq 16 years ago are the same bad actors pushing us to go to war unnecessarily with a much larger country of iran, which probably four years has sent sleeper cells across the porous mexican border. there will be buses blowing up in the states if

>>ace it for promise of afghanistan we were always to broad for a focus. the military had played a role in the conversation on the boundaries beyond the 2001 au m mf. >> good morning go ahead. >> as an ordinary us citizen i have the highest respect for our veterans and it breaks my heart that the same bad actors that god us into the unnecessary invasion of iraq , 16 years ago are the same bad actors pushing us to go to war unnecessarily with a much larger country of iran which probably for years has been housing the sleeper cells across the border we go to war with iran it will be a much biggerer disaster and the invasion of iraq these bad actors are corporate, they control the republicanol party which controls our politicians. so sadly we do not need to go to war withh iran it is a disaster it is not in our interest as the iraq invasion was not in our interest. please keep our veterans to do the service they are intended to do to protect americact. >>host: your assessment on iran quick. >> it is a dog and pony show right now. we are still blocked from twi

government does not want people to know what is happening in afghanistan. united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sons of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that the law that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. the u.k. prime minister has sacked her defense secretary gavin williamson accusing him of leaking secret plans involving the chinese tech giant while way williamson though strongly denies it was him. frankly russia should go away it should churchill brad lied to pay tribute to the help said this feds are going to answer my you know no one you regret using that kind of casual lang

government does not want people to know what's happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advise of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disaster is failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sense of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well know that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. the football champions league now which has just seen the first leg of a thumb a final losing to i.x. and liverpool thrashed by barcelona does a merino get his reaction to the game's past makes his predictions for the second leg and his are to show on the touchline later on r.t. . liverpool's rave in the approach i've been seeing in the past twenty years and many teams

government doesn't want the public to know the full truth about what's happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. operations for victory day are in full swing in russia this year high on the russian car manufacturer are a swell debut in its latest model the senate coverage that will take place at the military parade in red square it's expected to carry the defense minister himself in front of the troops party's morag as the a ticket for a test drive. i've seen a lot of pretty thing

forces from afghanistan. in australia newly reelected prime minister scott morrison has been sworn into office a week after his conservative coalition won a surprise victory is cabinet includes ken wyatt the 1st aboriginal person to become minister for indigenous affairs and in argentina activists are renewing efforts to legalize abortion lawmakers have said that they would introduce a bill to legalize determination of pregnancies up to 14 weeks a similar motion passed the lower house of congress last year but was defeated in the senate due to opposition from malicious groups. to european politics next and a clash over who should take the e.u. stop job german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel mccollum stand divided on the issue backs a process by which the biggest parties so-called lead candidate takes the post in this case the head of the european people's party who also happens to be a fellow german but no crime is calling for the selection process to be changed when it comes as governm

is still involved in afghanistan 17 years later. the president said great nations do not fight endless wars. center pausenator paul and i ind legislation to honor those that fought and to bring our troops home. do you anticipate the forces coming home from afghanistan anytime soon or are we looking at an indefinite situation and how would yo do you explain thet policy and conditions for u.s. withdrawal to the american people in a clear and simple way? >> the current policy remains the south asia strategy. our best chance for peace coming into this is probably the best in 40 years taking place right now the policy is to fight and talk we are fighting the template and. we've been doing this for a long, long time. i think we are making progress. >> i think the numbers are that they control half the country right now. i want to change territory with them i think the areas we have the presence is of greater value and presence to the afghan people. >> i don't think anybody would want to withdraw forces from afghanistan or the broad middle

they are given the same treatment a soldier killed in iraq or afghanistan. i've been to many funerals where the old guard is performing a funeral for a soldier killed in .orld war ii, korea, vietnam sometimes, those funerals are small. they do not have any relatives. someone killed in world war ii, 18 years old, did not have a wife or children -- in some ways those funerals are as much for us, the living, as they are to honor those who died. we want to commemorate their service and lay them to rest on their own soil. all those young soldiers are looking at the way we honor our fallen heroes from 70 years ago. they know they take away from that the lessons our nation will pay any price, they will never stop looking for those fallen on the battlefield. it is a powerful message. host: a couple minutes left with you. president trump's introduction last week of his new overall overhaul of the immigration system in this country. you have worked on that effort. are you supporting the president's plan? guest: i think it is a step in the right direction. i want to re

could ever win in afghanistan or fully you know impose a government of its liking in afghanistan was always a pipe dream and it's now coming home to roost you know in the most bloody horrific fashion. you know the. the afghan forces that the u.s. has trained while we hear figures that there are. three hundred thousand of them we also hear that the ones who are doing the real seventy to eighty percent of the real fighting are the afghan commandos and they've never managed to increase their forces between maybe twenty one twenty two thousand so then when you hear figures that forty five thousand afghan security forces have been killed in the last five years and yet this force of twenty twenty something thousand troops is really doing nearly all the fighting i mean that is just an incredible attrition rate u.s. commanders in afghanistan said a long time ago that the losses the afghan their afghan forces were taking were unsustainable but they have only got worse since they said that a couple of years ago so this is you know if the u.s. does not you know make some kind of face saving pea

government does not want to people to know what is happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that the law that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. on the football now this week saw the first leg of the semifinals in the champions league more in your own gives his reaction to the games and his predictions for the second leg in his show on the touchline you can watch the full episode later right here on r.t. . liverpool's rave in the approach i don't think in the past twenty years and many teams in the champions league

government does not want people to know what is happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advise of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disaster is failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to create these extraordinary sounds of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. within the semifinals of the u.s. for champions league at the halfway stage our star pundit football coach just say marino gives his thoughts on the first and second legs he also tells us how children nowadays that dream of being a football manager not just a player you can watch the full episode of on the touchline here on r t a later this is a quick preview for you

to whether afghanistan cricket say. opening world cup match against defending champions. it's working with the french government to arrange the return of. stolen during the colonial era but one of the challenges is being able to look after the items once they arrive in reports from. this is what remains of the palace of what was once the most powerful kingdom in french speaking africa we were given rare access to the album a palace of 48 hector maze of compounds rich in history and culture dating back hundreds of years. ago it is himself a prince mature who is explaining how the apple makings conquered their enemies sold their people to slavery and took hundreds of wives. is asking france to return thousands of artifacts looted from the country during the colonial wars many of them thought to be from the kingdom of apple me these stars represent the spirits of the oval making and they date back to the 1600s the obama people considered these and other stolen artifacts to be at the heart of their culture and that's why they want them back. the current king holds a position

of the most important stories and find out how they've moved on today were rewinding to 2013 and afghanistan 5 years ago filmmaker melech to may travel to the remote's north of the country to see one of the most dramatic social changes to take place in the previous decades under the taliban women had been banned from work and education but after 20013000000 girls were able to return to school on to the taliban have been toppled from power by u.s. backed afghan forces today's rewind film focuses on 2 young girls from the minority tuckman community and jobs john province on the border with tut minustah on high ethical and nuria a both keen to take advantage of the new found opportunity through these girls melech says out to explore the future prospects for girls' education in afghanistan and the efforts of a minority to educate its children from 2013 his pencils and bullets. part of the plan. yeah i don't know what yeah. that is that that. they're the dead to me so you know. what tyler said. sorry lalla glasto. to. this day and maybe all that had to battle to is that what they're selling their

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the future of afghanistan is tied to what is happening here in doha there has been talks between the taliban and the u.s. what do we know about what progress has been made. so. how about us meeting again this is the sixth round they made about six weeks ago where they discussed the first two points of kind of a four point process the first two points being that this should be a foreign trip with rule in afghanistan that the u.s. should leave and from the u.s. side they want the taliban to ensure that afghanistan cannot be used as a staging ground for foreign attacks now they did get through the majority of how that would work six weeks ago or they just had to work through some logistics not a meeting again to formalize that but we understand there is some sticking points around the name of the taliban so yesterday when they met it was some disagreement with the taliban saying we want to be in this in this kind of formalization of these first two steps we want to be agreed to be called the islamic emirate of afghanistan that was their name when they were in power and the u.s. saying w

government doesn't want the public to know the whole truth about what's happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people a space to have exactly this kind of information. to go back to a story we brought just a little a hearing is underway at a london court where wiki leaks founder julian assange legal team is expected to challenge a u.s. extradition request with editor in chief christine have some had this to say the head of the ruling. the image of faith leaders just to feel that i have faith in the people. in the people who are here for. we

it takes a couple of days to deploy to afghanistan.ane with him in charge. we got stranded in bulgaria for a day, got left in kyrgyzstan for a couple of days, and i got to know him during that time. once we got to afghanistan, he and his unit went on to an area that saw some of the most sustained combat while we were deployed. and i went to first marine division's headquarters and oversaw combat operations from our combat operations center. on thanksgiving day, i heard that he had been killed. he got me safely to afghanistan but we weren't able to get him home. >> he died in his 20s, not even 30 years old. >> yeah, it was eight years ago now. >> i'm sorry. let's talk about, of course today is about honoring those lost and those who served us. you also want to make the point that today is about all of us not directly tied to service, talking about how we can help those veterans who are alive as well. "usa today" reported on the u.s. army's twitter account that tweeted to people essentially how serving in the military has affected their

military, for the state department, and for the cia in wars in iraq and afghanistan.ckwater, the name, became known and understood around the world or infamous for american hubris because they had a series of incidents, massacres, mismanagement, and violence that occurred in afghanistan but most memorably and unfortunately in iraq. by the end of the obama administration, the bush demonstration, rather, erik prince was forced to change the name because it becomes toxic after nisource square. amy: that was the killing of 17 iraqi civilians with this land of blackwater guards in a square in baghdad where they opened fire. >> right. he became too toxic and blackwater became too toxic so they changed the name and then he was forced to sell. once the obama administration comes in, they make it very clear that blackwater was no welcome in the government contracting world. so he had to find a new gig. amy: jump for to that meeting in the seychelles. >> in january 20 17, week before the inauguration of donald trump, erik prince gets on a plane and goes to the seychelles where

it's exhibits are a reminder of afghanistan's conflicts from the soviet invasion to the civil war the brutal reign of the taliban and the u.s. led intervention that followed. its organizers have worked on the project for eight years they say a place for remember and such as this is long overdue in a country that has been ravaged by war for four decades. unfortunately in afghanistan as i you know there was not a policy of remember this for you know dollars of war victims that we have in this country so this is a small center it is of course a tribe it to the war victims and as for them you know to come here and to share their stories and of course at the same time get acknowledged which is very very important and in a context like afghanistan. the contents of memory boxes put together by relatives tell the story of individual victims like little same killed by a car bomb four years ago. outside on the streets the conflict rages on and civilian deaths have spiked making a place like this memory center all the more vital. we move on to a radically different kind of preservation of cultur