dr. abdullah's team as well to thank you. afghan people showed a victory the national government was a necessity. it doesn't mean sharing of power, but it means working together. i am thanking 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 rem

we are expecting to hear from dr abdullah abdullah today. >> what happens next. what is it that abdullah abdullah's camp say they'll do what they need to do? >> well, in the past they had threatened to form a parallel government. that was nearly two months ago before the international community helped to broker app agreement between the two men, an entire review of the 8 million votes counted in the second round of elections. it's a critical time. tomorrow is martyr's day, the anniversary of the death of ahmed sharma, the northern alliance leader. abdullah abdullah was a senior aid and many of his supporters were northern alliance supporters. it could be a critical day. normally people take to the streets to demonstrates. it's a delicate time. if abdullah abdullah supporters decide this is enough, they feel the process is weighted against them. it could mean that afghans come out into the streets. >> no doubt this is a story we'll follow. jennifer glasse there in kabul. >> devastating floods are inundating large parts of pakistan and northern india. the death tol

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

abdullah abdullah. 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

dr. ghani the president of afghanistan and mr. abdullah abdullahef executive so it's not going to be a core presidency, it's going to be one president with a chief executive and a want it in and a government that has to function. >> ashraf ghani and what are the immediate challenges for him? the economy is in a dire straight and some reports say the country cannot pay e bonuses to workers without finding donations. >> reporter: the economy has suffered in the past few years precisely the income dropped, the investment completely froze and now we have to start from below zero again and i think being in the international communities commitments have to be coming back because they have commitments to afghanistan and afghanistan needs to work with the international community and vice versa so we can meet all our obligations, this is not just a one-way street. we have to function as a government and they have to function as allies and we have to work together and we need to reciprocate. >> how do you think the ongoing fight against the taliban and the h

dr. abdullah, the foreign minister, you know, abdullah's been tracking the bin laden group for years because they were fighting the bin laden group on the front lines with the taliban. and also, you know, the karza is in kandahar, they're going to be people who have information about what was the final disposition of where mullah omar was and what was the final -- where was bin laden? i mean these are the people who are going to really know what happened on the ground. c-span: and what's's your suspicion as to how the united states got the tape? >> guest: that is a very good question. i just have no idea. i mean, they aren't saying, so it'sit sounds like somebody left the house in a hurry and just left a tape and maybe it was mislabeled. i mean, you work in you know how often tapes get mislabeled. whatever. i don't know. it was just -- it was a mistake. somebody left it there. c-span: is there a moral to all this story? >> guest: people who have got -- who believe that god is really on their side, you know, it's very unlikely that god has decided to get on your side. i mean, i don't think go