at the same time both men, especially dr ashraf ghani has repeatedly during his campaign indicated that he wants to look over the peace process, and come up with more innovative ways to reach a peace agreement with the taliban, and all the afghans are tired of this. and i think there'll be some efforts, some new efforts towards extending a hand towards the taliban, but, of course, the issue of the taliban does not depend on the afghan government, but depends on the international community, on washington, and most of all on neighbouring pakistan, whether they'll continue to support the taliban as a destabilizing factor in afghanistan or not. >> thank you for talking to al jazeera. >>> now, thousands of defiant protesters in hong kong vowed to stand their ground after facing a night of tear gas. demonstrators are camped out. riot police have withdrawn from the area, protesters are demanding open nominations for upcoming elections in 2017. >> translation: i urge the people blocking the roads to leave peacefully as quickly as possible so as not to affect the traffic. i urge the organizers o

at the same time both men, especially dr ashraf ghani has repeatedlily done his campaign, indicated that he wants to look over the peace process, and come up with more innovative ways to reach a peace agreement with the taliban, and - and all the afghans, they are tired of this, and i think there'll be efforts, some new efforts towards extending a hand towards the taliban, but, of course, the issue of the taliban does not depend on the afghan government, it depends on the international community on washington, and most of all on neighbouring pakistan, whether they will continue to support the taliban as a destabilizing factor in afghanistan or not. >> more protesters gathered in hong kong after riot splits fired tear gas. thousands of demonstrators are calling for electoral reforms, and they are camped out in the busy financial distribute. outline in a number of locations. he's calling on activists to pull back. >> i urge the people blocking the roads to leave peacefully as quickly as possible so as not to affect the traffic and every day life of the community. i urge the organizers to s

dr. ashraf ghani, the new president, sworn in on monday in this new government alongside abdullah abdullaheir very first official act was to oversee the signing of this document between the u.s. and their new national security adviser, and then the nato deal that followed it. and both of these deals signed very quickly in the presidential palace today. now, these deals allow american forces to remain in afghanistan after the end of this year, supported by a small force of nato troops to continue to train and advise and assist afghan forces not to carry out combat operations. and in his speech welcoming this deal, what was really interesting about president ghani's statement was not that this is seen as some sort of continuing suppression. this is some sort of imperial relationship. but a completely new relationship with the u.s. and this is more than just a symbol. it's real substance. he says that today afghanistan has regained its sovereignty as a power and that american and other forces remain here on afghan terms from the end of this year. >> david, thanks for that from kabul. with me

both president ashraf ghani, as we have to call him, and his rival, c.e.o., dr abdullah abdullah said that they would sign the bsa as soon as they took office. to be honest, apart from hamid karzai, and a few people around him, i would say that most of the political elite here support signing the bsa, and support continuing military help from america and from n.a.t.o. because if the bsa with america was not signed, n.a.t.o. would not be supporting the afghan state and security forces. >>> if raises a question - can 10,000 american troops cover the whole country, effectively? no, they can't, and they are not intended to. the war moved on. this is an afghan versus afghan fight. you have got the afghan national security forces pitted against the taliban. n.a.t.o. and the american forces have largely withdrawn. those that are still fighting - it's almost entirely in support of the afghan security forces, and that will end by the end of the year. the american military says less than 1% of operations are unilateral, to do with false protection, getting rid of i.e.d.s, and withdrawal. this w

dr. abdullah abdullah who helped this process to be successful. today's afghanistan is different to yesterday's afghanistan. >> ashraf ghani there, the new president, of course, of the country. i spoke to our correspondent in kabul david lloyd. >> reporter: this was a speech that was full of promises to end corruption. at one point, he said, we will end poverty. reforming the judiciary. looking after widows and orfans. development change. a real sort of sense of the kinds of things that any new government would promise. and you would want to see a new government in afghanistan promising those things. but he knows that he can't do anything without security being resolved. and this is the year when the tall been have made their most concerted effort to disrupt the afghan state since they fell from power in 2001. and ashraf ghani said very clearly in this speech, we don't want any foreign fighters in afghanistan. we don't need lessons from foreign fighters in jihad. now the jihad that afghanistan remembers was the struggle against the russians in the 1980s, the islamic struggle against the russians. he said, we are an islamic state. we know about the