david beasley, executive director of the world food program, we wish you luck ahead.ou so much for making the time. >> well, thank you very, very much. we will get it done. >> woodruff: despite american presidents and military leaders providing years of positive assessments that the u.s. was winning the war in afghanistan, behind the scenes, there were clear warnings of an unsuccessful ending. those harbingers-- stories of failure, corruption and lack of a clear strategy-- are the focus of craig whitlock's new book "the afghanistan papers: a secret history of the war." and craig joins us now. thank you so much for being here. congratulations. this is a definitive book. craig whitlock, you interviewed over a thousand people, and you had access to documents at your newspaper, the "washington post" had to sue to get. and they tell a very different story in many cases from what the public has been told over the last 20 ears, don't they? >> yeah. these documents were interviews with the -- the core of them with more than 400 officials who played a key role in the war. from

david beasley for coming and sharing your experience with us director as well for the food program. the the news continues here now just here after football rebels, and of course there is our website al jazeera. don't com. going to stay across all the stories have been telling you about the situation in afghanistan. evacuations, to the u. n. rights chief warning about treatment of women there and others, they will, me, ah ah, ah, get them going to get ready and some people a month on the talk to the community because they're going to foot by the job. got it. if i choose to sell you the football, but you can show the passengers do the police and one day on battle, but to be democracy, montgomery boot but 440 chica. a munificent attorney said he got all is just a packet of boise it don't go in and touch me. say park. ok. so put all this will be this. he did a city buried, deport democracy. so this capital that i see this our, the current jumps. so got, you know what you did you put it in my god, plenty of money i bought my god. bless you. need at least seem to be going to do whatever

david beasley says his organization needs more funding to help growing number of people who now need assistance. the number of people in afghanistan that are now on the break, salvation his spite. not just because a conflict, but covert economic deterioration and you've had back to back droughts. so we're $200000000.00 short of what we need for the number of people that are now marching to the breaker starvation that numbers now for the teen 1000000 people. so we need $200000000.00 to reach these people. if we don't, we will have absolutely a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe. couple airport. does it impact our operations? we bring all the food that we bring in to afghan is stand by truck. and so we can reach the people, we're reaching 5000000 now, but we need the extra money to scale up to the needs that are absolutely catastrophic right before. very nice. so if we get the money will reach the people, in fact, in every area that we are now, we're getting the cooperation from all of the, the leaders in authority in those area, whether it's a taliban or others, we're receiving the c

david beasley the executive director of the un's world food programme told fox news this week that theso far being cooperative in letting his organization fulfill their humanitarian duties when we're not there many of these countries the extremist groups terrorist groups come in and exploit they use food as a weapon of recruitment and a weapon of war we use food as a weapon of peace. a weapon of hope, a taliban official tonight says the group is waiting on a signal from the united states to ultimately take over kabul's airport adding it's something that could be done this weekend in doha qatar tree angst, fox news. an east bay man who was evacuated from afghanistan just one week ago has learned that a relative died in the kabul attack gave his amberleigh joins us now live tonight from san leandro after talking with that man and amber, sadly to other relatives were also hurt in the bombing that's right, heather that man tells me to relatives are recovering from head injuries tonight he shared with the photos and a video. we must warn you that the images are graphic. he's very intelligen

we had a similar conversation with the director of the world food program david beasley, and said wee to work with the taliban, they are in control of afghanistan. so the hope you talk about that some people may have left with thinking there could be a future for their family members who could not it out, the dark reality is that most likely sharia law will be implemented across the country and the next two years in afghanistan will look very much like the late '90s where you saw a country that was consumed by violence and a world where music is outlawed, women are not allowed to go into secondary education, and there is an extremely -- a society that is focused on religion and the ideals of the taliban. and it is upsetting to the people who have fled, because they understand that they are leaving their lives and their country behind. >> kayleigh: trey, kaylee here, we know the repercussions extend beyond the reality in afghanistan border by no fewer than half a dozen countries at a strategic crossroad with china, iran, nuclear pakistan. we have heard criticism from the western europ