afghanistan. throughout all our efforts with held fast to the conviction that for peace process to be sustainable, it must be inclusive. in fact, we recently held a workshop in istanbul with top women negotiators from afghanistan, most of whom had each participated in various components of the peace negotiations including many who joined the first dialogue with the taliban in doha. a couple months ago. it is been a turbulent week in washington, to say the least. a week ago, many of us had anticipated that there be a -- there would be a u.s.-taliban agreement between the united states and the taliban, which was going to initially be the topic for today's discussion. that deal is now uncertain. while the u.s.-taliban talks have been ended, at least for the time being, the urgency of finding a way to reduce violence and achieve a legal settlement -- a political settlement of the conflict remains. the taliban and afghan government backed by the u.s. and nato allies are in a military stalemate. other g

in afghanistan. there's a vegetable soup of the militant organizations that have a presence in afghanistan. >> sometimes you have to deal with the world the way it is and there's not a lot of great choices here. last question, a withdrawal from afghanistan, what assurances could you give, and you can't predict the future that this would result and then we have a taliban controlled afghanistan. >> what animates all of the diplomacy is the president and the secretary is commitment to the security of the american people. so any peace deal is going to be structured to ensure that afghanistan cannot and will not reemerge as a threat to america. on the hypotheticals, i don't like answering hypotheticals but let me put it this way. they say they want to be a legitimate part of the international community. they argue that they want to attract the foreign direct investment. they say they've learned lessons from the isolation of afghanistan under the taliban rule in the late 1990s going to have to be a governm

of afghanistan over it. the democratic ideals, for women's rights may fall back with the disengagement of the united states and afghanistan. can we say women are yet again at stake with the history of afghanistan? >> as mentioned before, i want to read one other question on that platform. it is not pakistan, what are the chances of supporting the taliban? the commentary suggests that. starting to address those questions. >> they are all good questions. we don't have time to do them all justice. the one that was directed toward me, i think it is entirely understandable by women in afghanistan are concerned. completely understand that. the personal perspective, policy. from the perspective of analyzing what the us policy options are, what the us is likely to do. the united states did not engage afghanistan. number to the united states will not make a decision about its exit from afghanistan based fundamentally on iterations regarding afghanistan. i'm not saying that is a policy proposal, recommendation which i

sincof afghanistan. since may of this year development and humanitarian partners have sustained attacks by the taliban that resulted in a loss of life and injury staff these are senseless attacks on people who dedicated their liv lives. we ask your secretary's calls for the taliban. this week's attack by the taliban on energy. we are happy to note that they constructed a power plant providing immediate backup supply of energy. attacked from civilians as well as those that several facilitate and advance the economy and standard of living for the afghan people that must stop. earlier this year the u.s. embassy in kabul led to the review of all civilian assistance which directed the department and agent needs to focus on three objectives from supporting the afghan peace process, preserving stabilization of the afghan state and assisting afghans transition to self-reliance to create conditions for the political process. the strategy in afghanistan aligns with and supports the objective by accelerating the pr

i'm peter lavelle after almost 2 decades of war and occupation american military involvement in afghanistan appears to be winding down a deal with the taliban we'll see a bill majority of american troops leave while still allowing a sizable contingent to remain just what exactly is washington's geo political interests to be in afghanistan will america's longest war ever end. talking up to an extent i'm joined by my guess it is our guardian in kabul he is the director of center for development of peace studies in lake jackson we cross to daniel mcadams he is the executive director of the ron paul ince. for peace and prosperity and in boston we have max abrams he is a professor of political science and northeastern university as well as author of rules for rebels the science of victory in militant history all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate danny let me go to you they're talking about a peace process in afghanistan. talks between the united states and the taliban and it not very many people are happy about it ok be

where he knows this is going to be an issue on the table so you may get peace of eventually in afghanistan but you're getting more war in the white house over the war in afghanistan so it's it's very very confusing i've never seen a white house in this much disarray peter ok in design let me go it's go to our guest in kabul i mean a decade ago at the beginning of this decade there was 100000 american troops in afghanistan now with this proposed plan i don't even know why they call it peace because it's only as with those troops remaining peace will not come there is still an occupation there in the eyes of many but if we go from 100000 troops to $8500.00 what is the 8500 going to do the 100000 couldn't do go ahead in kabul. who are media were to back to 2001 i remember person bush assertion in the senate and he was telling that we're going to afghanistan to do 4 fundamental things number one we have to cripple terrorism in the country because that had been have been the sponsor for the day and we have to them 2nd was the sustainable economic development there was the forces improvement in

afghanistan were on their way to the world cup. the kept a no rules mungle told me that you should scratch me that i'm dreaming or know if you qualify for the world cup. so i said the rules mungo you qualify for the work i mean when you play in the work of. scientists is getting ready to go to the t 20 world cup in the west indies afghanistan ranked as one of the 12 best sides in the world but i draw well that could hardly be toughened up against it 6007 world champions india and one of the favorites to win the tournament south africa i think these 2 countries in the in the in the in the in my mind number one in number 2 in the morning and right now cricket bowling batting feeling everything is 100 percent but our players is very mature and they appeared in different conditions but we will be not easy for the. for india facade we give our top tank every single one of them and i'm hearing them when they're talking among themselves they want to talking about winning the game our nation has all it wants to win the world cup that's ano

cross talking afghanistan i'm joined by my guest. he is the director of center for development and peace studies in lake jackson we cross to daniel mcadams he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity and am boston we have max abrams he is a professor of political science at northeastern university as well as author of rules for rebels the science of victory in militant history or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate daniel let me go to you they're talking about a peace process in afghanistan. talks between the united states and the taliban and not very many people are happy about it ok because either too many troops are leaving or too many troops are staying and i don't even know what this process is because the afghan government kabul government wasn't even involved in it i mean what is this a half a glass full have a glass empty what does it mean to you other than we need to get out of there after almost 2 days. go ahead daniel.

is not occupying afghanistan. any further conversations about troops if i were giving advice would be this conversation would be with the minister of defense of afghanistan and the chief of army staff. it's how the redeployment of u.s. troops is to be done in a safeway. the agenda on piece is how to come forward to supporting the emergence of an afghan settlement so we don't need it to return to the foreigners talking with the taliban. it's been a very important conversation. now it's important to jump ahead to what is supposed to be achieved. the inter-afghan conversation. the worst thing to do would be to go to qatar and carry on with conversations and empower the people who got through over the past year. let them reflect, let people think about how they overplayed their hand. open up a conversation to all possible addresses for the taliban, who are prepared to get involved with peace. the touchstone of getting involved with peace is having it pointed to ending violence and and the killing of afghans. i believe

afghanistan is landlocked. no other country can have access to it, without going through the territories or airspace of pakistan, iran, a tiny bit of china or plastic. there also essentially landlocked to which we have access only to china and russia primarily. there is a little rude but i will not go into. that is the main picture. that means, the landlocked position is in many ways at the origin of these conflicts and the dilemma that afghanistan finds itself in. when they found itself in conflict with the newly formed nation of pakistan, over ethnic and border issues, the united states led with pakistan therefore could not aid the military and it turned to the soviet union. the decision to turn to a distant power to protect itself against its neighbor, have the results that we know. as a cautionary tale, afghanistan trying to turn to the united states, unlike the soviet union, does not have a border where the, will also be a cautionary tale. alliance with the state reliance on the united states for 30 is not

to the country of afghanistan.ort of my thing is, is to educate people about the law through my cases. i do that in afghanistan, i do that in the us and i agree with you, that is one thing that is happening, and lawyers need to step up to the plate in afghanistan, in the us and in every single country and fight for their clients because democracy is really being attacked and our due process rights are being attacked. we have to fight for it. the fight continues. kimberly motley, i thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thank you for having me. thank you very much. hello there. we‘re in the middle of a run of really unsettled weather with no end in sight, really. rain at times coming our way over the next few days, with some fairly strong wind around at times as well. now, looking at the satellite picture, we‘ve got some shower clouds heading our way for today. this area of cloud, just to the north, is going to be bringing some rain across parts of the uk on friday, and then as i spin right the way across toward

but i thought that the ones i wanted to bring to afghanistan but it's not afghanistan. coming fled at the age of 5 with his family to germany he studied law and worked as an expert in constitutional law but his passion is surfing the 32 year old trains in berlin with a set of skate board his i mean to qualify for the 2020 olympics representing the country of his birth afghanistan. is concerned one of the afghanistan that i know is a beautiful afghanistan incredible unique landscapes and a hospitality that is 2nd to none. a mystic a spirituality that is ever present and with our trip we wanted to show this afghanistan. these are show that afghanistan is much more than war terror and suffering. and light to surface travel to the pangea valley one of the few regions that were not captured by the taliban here in front of locals who have never seen a surfboard before they plunge into the raging river. that's why. there were so many people around us children cheering us on rejoicing with us and giving us advice telling us where to go where we should try to serve so in the end

a peace process in afghanistan. talks between the united states and the taliban and it not very many people are happy about it ok because either too many troops are leaving or too many troops are staying and i don't even know what this process is because the afghan government couple government wasn't even involved in it i mean what is this a half a glass full half a glass empty what does it mean to you other than we need to get out of there after almost 2 decades go ahead daniel. what's fascinating is they need a peace process in the white house because if you look at the fighting over this document john bolton wasn't invited to a to a recent meeting of top aides he wasn't even invited he was uninvited pump aoe the secretary of state refuses to sign off on the deal nobody knows what the deal looks like except his interlocutors and carter the white house is at war with it so far over this policy and the president is facing a reelection where he knows this is going to be an issue on the table so you may get peace of e

he had offices in afghanistan. and he had distribution networks in 22 countries around the world. >> it became clear that haji bagcho was kind of the godfather. he was really the man in the shadows that was in charge. the other people that were more well known, they kind of worked for him. >> the money that he was making, the profits were going into houses, going into vehicles. a significant portion of it was going to support terrorism. it was going to the pakistan taliban, into the afghan taliban. >> there is untold numbers of people who died because of that heroin. >> and the money that was being generated from those heroin sales was going to people that wanted to destroy the united states. so in 2005 we decided to target haji bagcho. our goal was to get evidence that would allow us to prosecute him in the united states. every penny you can take away from an insurgency that is targeting people, you are going to do it. the dea has always prided itself in going after the biggest, baddest targets in the world. we ar

the first three articles within the constitution of afghanistan talk about how afghanistan is an islamicdoes not onlyjust respect people that are of the muslim faith was also people of other faiths as well so i think the taliban in those five horrible years when they ran afghanistan, they were very specific about what women couldn't do. women couldn't go to school or get healthcare go outside without a man. so in my opinion, they need to be specific about what women's rights they are going to adhere to. someone needs to hold them to the buyer and say, i going to follow for instance the elimination of violence against women act which is a law that detects women, that is consistent with islamic values. stop saying these vague things and they know what they are doing, they are being vague on purpose. i would take you back to the united states, you reference the fact that your husband got shot in the face in milwaukee when one looks at the us judicial system today, one sees as far as many are concerned a systemic dissemination against african—americans inside the system, whether it's killing

afghanistan that if i wanted to win that war afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth it would be god it would be over in literally in 10 days now when you hear the president saying that mr clinton can you imagine these peace talks being revived as long as president trump is president. well it's going to take some strategic leadership on all sides of this conflict to to resume these talks i think it's going to take a much more sensible approach to these talks me clearly just getting a bunch of people around a room in secret in doha trying to hash out some sort of deal is it's not going to work. and this deal could have been potentially destabilizing so see you here invariably in a situation where you either resume peace talks and try to gain a successful outcome from this war through peace and quite frankly from the united states nato perspective if afghanistan's no longer a platform for international terrorism and ideally if it if afghanistan is a place where the rights of all afghans men women and children included are respected then that's quite frankly a successful ou

forces in afghanistan. here's what he said. >> in the current environment, current environment today, the level of violence asocial with the insurgency we and the afghans agree some degree of support is necessary. that's why we have forces on the ground inside afghanistan today. again, i want to make sure when i spoke about afghanistan securing itself in the future, i was very clear, i'm not affixing a time horizon to that or specific conditions. i was just answering a question. right now it's our judgment that the afghans need support to deal with the level of violence that is associate with the insurgency today. if an agreement happens in the future, if the security environment changes, then obviously our posture may adjust. >> much more than monetary support. >> that's right. that's the level of support we are providing today. one thing i'm sure, based on even since my time in afghanistan, many of you recall we had 140,000 coalition forces when i arrived in 2013. out 15,000, or 22000 total coalition and

in afghanistan and iraq, currently have 14,000 troops in afghanistan.terms of national security adviser john bolton who either resigned or fired, one or the other. does that give you hope that donald trump is going to keep his word and get our troops out of afghanistan? >> i do have hoping that. one thing that does bother me, i'm trying to find out what transpires with this whole thing with talks with taliban. as far as i am concerned, to think we would sit at a table with the taliban, the taliban burn women and children alive, they murder, the taliban killed my son. there is no such thing as forming a peace bridge with the taliban and. it is ludicrous behavior. here we are or of the same. we've got leaders who have been managing this war and i say and it's because that is the term they use. you don't manage a war, you win a war. you manage a business. these leaders who sat around draped in linen and restricted rules of engagement and patted themselves on the back and told themselves they are great humanitarians, how many casualties, civilian casualties

iraq, somalia, syria, afghanistan. all containing terror groups or stopping ideologies from spreading. how long do you expect the u.s. military will be able to continue to do this, while taking -- keeping the central focus. first of all, where we are in terms of numbers is not the complete story. we are deployed much closer to what i would describe as a sustained great today that we were two or three years ago. we are at or about one or two deployments as well. this is not true in all cases. for those of you who have sons and daughters, and special operations, who say that's not large, that -- it is a one-to employee ratio. we are personally focused on renewing our special operations abilities to make sure we meet the imperatives of the national defense strategy. 18 months ago, our special operations community has begun to reorient. about,sions you talked we are trying -- read -- reorienting special operations nothere we are focused on being complacent and looking back to make sure we get the balance right. ien i came

afghanistan to chase biggest schools all. for the world but never with so much riding on the outcome. it was now that all their hard earned experience of life and cricket came together they held their collective nerve and the winning runs were scored with just 3 fourths to spare. afghanistan were on their way to the world cup. kept a nose mungle told me that you should scratch me that i'm dreaming or know if you qualify for the world cup. i said the rules mungo you qualify for the ok you know you've been the work of. scientists is getting ready to go to the t 20 world cup in the west indies afghanistan ranked as one of the 12 best sides in the world but i draw well that could hardly be toughened up against it 6007 world champions india and one of the favorites to win the tournament south africa i think these 2 countries in the in the in the in the in my mind number one in number 2 in the morning and right now cricket bowling batting feeling everything is 100 percent but our players is very mature and they play are doing then

when we look at afghanistan, we have a challenge. -- the right capabilities? when we look at afghanistan, we have a challenge. we have to look at our level of effort in dealing with extremism in south asia relative to the challenges we have from west africa to southeast asia and we have to approach afghanistan in the context of a national defense strategy. which we spoke about a minute .go so the direction that we embarked on a few years ago was to say, look, we need a politically, fiscally and militarily sustainable solutions to violent extremism in the context of the national defense strategy. so we have re-looked at our posture in africa, in the middle east, and in south asia. in that context, general miller was asked to describe what would be an appropriate counterterrorism platform in afghanistan that would allow us to maintain a partnership with the afghan forces in pursuit of our mutual objectives to disrupt region?extremism in the he described as capabilities, the infrastructure necessary to support those capabilities, and th

i don't know i mean the only thing i can say is that the government of afghanistan is very very weak it's not responsible it has to duty to give to account for what is happening in this country what about safety there are 16 candidates and a stand just in august 74 a day have been killed perhaps the most deadly campaign ever how safe do you feel being a presidential candidate in afghanistan after the most the longest american and there is a very well let me say that since i've become a candidate. for the past months of campaigning is still there government have not provided. security requirements which ought to be given to to cut a different kind it's by the tough fight of the people is concerned well let's see what happens because again all good they have given deshawn is that day off the election will be fully secured but of course it all really cut if it pays on to political understanding between the afghan government and opposition in order to position we don't know because afghan government decision is not clear that's not transparent so therefore the people it off was son do no

in 1979 the serviette army in thinking afghanistan. hundreds of thousands of afghans sought refuge in neighboring pakistan. in the years that followed more than 3000000 afghans were forced over the border and into refugee camps. it was here that a generation of young afghans found themselves playing and watching a new game that was already a longest operation passion in pakistan. that game was cricket. these days rice armont see. are key members of the afghanistan cricket same both were brought up in refugee camps near the shower in pakistan's northwest frontier province that earliest cricketing memories seeing t.v. pictures of the 992 world cup a tournament that was won by pakistan. i was in the bad a bear refugee camp when we 1st went there we used to play a game that's like baseball but then came the 992 world cup and suddenly cricket was everywhere everyone was talking about it we all started playing and i became good very quickly i was in school in the oven i was in the refugee camp and. in pakistan when the 1902 world cup i was i

we're going on the run of the day afghanistan elects its next president coming up on the show does the spirit of the line of timeshare live on 18 years after 911 and the assassination of the man who warned the usa of the imminent attack the younger brother ahmed shah masood runs to be the next president of afghanistan we speak to him just days after a u.s. military attack that killed or injured at least 70 civilians and we continue our series looking at a new generation of u.s. congressional candidates. challenging the status quo ahead of the 22 idea lection with a democratic candidate didn't north carolina campaigning for a socialist america told us of all coming up in today's going on the ground before us today the country britain and the united states bombed catalyzing the killing wounding or displacing of millions goes to the polls what happens in afghanistan has shaped the course of the 21st century from $911.00 towards all around the world while the us is brown university estimates around 150000 were killed after 911 in afghanistan the u.k. saw 13000 of its own soldiers killed or

it won't use afghanistan as a base for attacks on other countries. let's bring in our guests moshtarak a haim is a founding member of the afghan think tank afghanistan affairs unit and worked on the afghan peace process in london hamid hacky me a research associate at chatham house and former international policy advisor to the afghan ministry of foreign affairs and in alexandria virginia in the u.s. john you watch syria expert in afghanistan of the united states institute of peace welcome to your wish how significant was that tweet about trump who was willing to meet with other and with us the afghani at camp david. significant given because apparently everything was seemingly sorted out between the polygon and. when he came to kabul he even showed a copy of the peace agreement that was about to be signed between the sides and then president of money was all prepared to fly out to the united states so this these the seabees of the tweets that came last night i think it tests busy sort absolute heart at least for the time being with the ongoing peace

in cricket the name afghanistan is associated only with success and progress.but no one could have guessed just how good this side was about. afghanistan's cricket team was formally recognized by the sports world governing body in 2001 at the time they had no world ranking and no home ground they did have was a supremely talented generation of players and so began one of the most unlikely journeys in sporting history. the european channel island of jersey was afghanistan's next stop with the financial backing of the international and asian cricket councils the team were entered into division 5 of the world cricket league the lowest tier of the international game. ball this certainly wasn't but a familiar scene was soon to unfold afghan cricketers celebrating a tournament win on foreign soil now. more talk is followed in asia africa even south america the refugee camps where it all began suddenly seemed a long way away before. ford was that i've got to get back to something else i thought of it oh we had a coach who told us that cricket would give us the chance

i'm with you afghanistan peas campaign. the peace process and el salvador which un implemented and it's a little bit differently with columbia and that's not the case in afghanistan. do you see a role for the un outside of the agents who talk about the need to monitor? house is going to work since they probably think they're winning right now. what role -- who does the monitoring that you mentioned? you >> for u.s. government funding i met an agency that can do the monitoring and i evaluate it if it's u.s. funds should beat the usa. but by the time we come in we are like that war about the police and detectives and it's a chalk outline that has been stolen. but i think there is a role for every government agency and a role for every international agency for strong monitoring and evaluation and we talk about that in the past and have concerns about how well do you and does the job of monitoring the value of a lot of program in afghanistan. we have concerns are going to starting another audit for the bank on how they monitor

so the war in afghanistan continues. we remember, of course, how it began.n after the terrorist asack taxeses of september 11th -- attacks of september 11th, 18 years ago. president bush used a bullhorn to tell the world that the people who brought down the twin towers would be hearing from america soon, and sure enough, the campaign was launched. since the first american troops hit the ground in october of that year, more than 2,000 have been killed is and thousands more wounded. in addition, more than a thousand allied soldiers supporting the u.s.-led effort have per riched as well. so has the longest war in american history produced the desired results? in other words, is the direct military action in afghanistan as part of the overall war on terrorism actually making america safer or not? plus, what does it mean that one of the biggest hawks in the trump administration has gone? well, here to talk about that is retired army lieutenant general douglas lute. he served as assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for the iraq and afgha

how's the peace process in afghanistan collapsed in a tweet the u.s. president pulls off talks with taliban leader did donald trump take twitter diplomacy to find that reasons behind the decision this is the inside story. and welcome to the program i am hashem. talks to the war in afghanistan appear to be making progress the taliban and the u.s. came up with a draft deal nearly a year of discussions in qatar and they're back as chief negotiator sounded up to mystic when he revealed that detail so the afghan president last week but now a breakdown in a suite the u.s. president canceled a secret meeting with taliban leaders and the afghan president at camp david donald trump blamed the taliban car bombing that killed an american soldier and 11 other people in kabul on thursday he doubted the group wanted to negotiate a meaningful agreement by the taliban warned the u.s. that americans with suffer more than anyone else for canceling the talks tony berkeley is in kabul for us. privately i think the afghan government is pleased that these talks are being ca

afghanistan are strong enough to deny afghanistan is a safe haven. >> brennan: the talibanry >>, do,imes. but the point is that you may want a war over. you may even vote, a fact brought home to me repeatedly over my 40 years of service. c fight this war again, and i know yeuÑ don't get do-over, but woud you have done something differently? rom what you did, learn from the lessons of the reality on the battlefield, that sort of thing. but i think the fundamentals of forcing al-jubeir -- forcing al qaeda and those groups out of save havens, ensuring the taliban do not give them safe.Ö haven, those goals should be foremost. any other goals we then attach to those should be secondary. don't let them distract youçó fm that primary goal. >> brennan: you think america got distracted? >> i believe we did, whether it was the war in iraq or we are back there and we're trying to do perhaps some people say too much in the country. you have to embrace the culture you're in. you don't surrender what we'reçó ab bannot w in and saurn oundulture a nf ae enerat.ave to acd rsourcen whatr resours are n

afghanistan were on their way to the world cup. kept in the rules mungle told me that you should scratch me that i'm dreaming or know if you qualify for the world cup. so i said the rules mungo you qualify for the ok you know you play in the work of. scientists is getting ready to go to the t 20 world cup in the west indies afghanistan ranked as one of the 12 best sides in the world but i draw well that could hardly be toughened up against it 6007 world champions india and one of the favorites to win the tournament south africa i think these 2 countries in the in the in the in the in my mind number one in number 2 in the morning and right now clifford bowling batting feeling everything is 100 percent but our players is very mature and they played today and then and in the different conditions but we will be not easy for them. for india or for. every single one of them and i'm hearing them and they're talking amongst themselves they want to talking about winning the game our nation has all it wants to win the world cup that's anothe

media organizations in afghanistan iraq to t.v. they showed him cabinet photos and saying that around the table predominantly all the. candidates were from a single isn't a group the same thing. if you look at it from the security perspective afghanistan's intelligence organization is divided among different is the new groups they're all vying for power and that means that flow of information about the taliban movement for to follow on attacks is hampered because of the is divine . on the other side if you look at the taliban intelligence very secretive we don't even know who is the head of taliban's intelligence while afghan government is constant changing the head office intelligence the defense ministry is changing so all this has resulted people saying we don't trust the government to be. able to bring peace to a fractured divided situation whoever wins this election they will have to in some way reach out to the taliban in order to maintain security in the country surely surely and i think that that will happen when. donald tr

out the taliban console's via tweets from president trump so what does this mean for the people afghanistan. kashmir has been under the new total with patients blackouts and inherently folks the region so special to all of them states us more than a month ago. is that i mean i'm just getting in and coming out. better strategy of all how fast those storms out on new ager in just a moment i'll be back on top of the hour and of course you can check out the latest 10 years have non-self website that's called follow us on twitter he doesn't use a good. i am ill and i'm getting a little brand new w. from buying this book explosive device it's about topics that affect us all want to push climate change and the turn. color is such that. the. natural riches of precious resources. and a rewarding investment. farmland has been called the ethiopians green gold. the country has an abundance of complacency to international try and the government is after export revenues. high profit margins. not everyone benefits from the booming business. when i saw the elbows are clearing the land i was devastated can