this is a high-priority for wife.ent ghani and his mrs. ghani and i chair a called womenting and security. w work togethere on these issues frequently. we called women and security. appreciate the congress on funding these initiatives. thank you. >> thank you so much. it is great to see you back on american soil. thank you for your continued service. i want to thank your family for their support of you, and for sharing you and your talents in a leadership capacity in a difficult theater of operations. so thank you and your family very much. i like to pick up where we left off in afghanistan when i visited a couple months ago. understandthan most that a general had directed the establishment of the first ranger battalion many years ago. that was established in the army. he said this unit was to be "an elite light and most proficient infantry in the world. a battalion that can do more with its hands and weapons than anyone. wherever it goes, it must be apparent that it is the best." today the army continues with the abrams charter. we know t

ghani is under ghani's control. you've had rgprosecutions of senior level people and talk about investigations of a lot more. now, he's really leaning forward with this public discussion of the additional prosecutions. if those go forward, even if somewhat not perfectly and not all of them, that will be an important milestone, if he doesn't, if those turn out to be hollow words and he can't summon the political will to carry through, then it's going to be a long step backward for his credibility. so we're still a little progress of things that are good, but some that have to deliver still. >> you pointed out that this is beyond the security piece because this is a strategy that puts the political and diplomatic elements of national power at the forefront. it may be the first one that's done that and hopefully it will be adopted but with the military clearly playing a supporting role, in politics and diplomacy up front, that's how we're going to be successful. >> i'm paul with u.s. news and report. christopher, the w

this is a high priority for president ghani and his wife, mrs. ghani. and i chair a meeting on a quarterly basis all women insecurity and all the ministers come to this. my wife has attended this meeting. we work together on these issues frequently. and we appreciate the support from this committee and the congress on funding women's initiatives. they've been important going forward. >> thank you mister chairman.. it's great to see you back on american soil. i want to thank you for your continued service but i also want to take the time to thank your family was with you today as well for their support of you and for sharing you and your town. in a leadership capacity in a very difficult theater of operation so thank you and your family very much. to pick up where we left off in afghanistan and i visited a couple months ago and you better than most understand coming out of second range battalion, you understand that general clayton abrams has directed the establishment of the first ranger battalion, many years ago and that has established in the army and

he went to san jose state, and now he is the [laughing] chief advisor to president ghani. so you are now working with the man who was the president of the college you attended. >> yeah, i didn't -- i never thought that would happen, but it's great. he's a great man. and now we work on a number of project together. >> what are some of those projects? >> mainly irrigation. >> irrigation -- california's going through a drought. i know afghanistan has had some terrible droughts. >> well, that's what brought me back here, learning from the experience of what california is going through. they have done a lot of research, universities out here -- uc davis. we have been visiting the research stations of uc -- the kind of seeds or the saplings or the different technology that are used here, how we can adopt it to the situation in afghanistan, how we can transfer some of the technology back then. then we come to the fresno. here we were talking with the research stations. they are working mainly on pistachios. >> pistachios in fresno. >> yes. and likely, in afghanistan, we have wild

ghani is -- under ghani control you have prosecution of senior level people. and talked about investigations after lot more. now he is really leaning forward with this public discussion of the additional prosecutions. if those go forward, even if somewhat perfectly and not all of them, that will be an important milestone. if he doesn't, if those turn out to be hollow words and he can't summon the political will to carry through, then it's going to be a long step backward for thinks credibility. we are still a little progress of things that are good, but some that have to deliver still. >> i'm glad you pointed thought is beyond the security piece. because this puts the developments of international power at forefront. maybe the first one that has done that and maybe it'll be adopted. but with the military clearly playing a supporting role in politics and diplomacy upfront, that's how we will be successful. >> and back, yes. >> paul with u.s. news and world report. there is a 3-day review from the pentagon due next week about how it is planning it fight isis. pe

but mps allowed nusrat ghani's bill to move forward, although it will not become law.use. many working to be heard, at the speaker had to make this plea for forbearance. can i appeal to members, please not to keep coming up to the chair and asking where they are on the list. not doing so explicitly and not doing so by the backdoor, by asking whether it is all right if they go to the louvre, may i have a of tea? cani to the louvre, may i have a of tea? can i eat a biscuit? —— the loo. i will do my best to accommodate everybody in the time available, but i appeal to colleagues to show a little bit of patience and some regard for the chair trying to concentrate on the debate. i will get you in if i possibly can. for me, this referendum was a massive peaceful revolution by consent of historic proportions. this bill at la st historic proportions. this bill at last endorses that revolution. from the 17th century, right the way through our history, through the parliamentary format which gave the vote to the working class, the suffragettes who got the vote in 1928, and then of

approach to ghani's thb has been fight, fracture, talk. we need to keep pressure on them, i articulated ways to do this, through special forces, to increase control. through diplomatic engagement with pakistanis to increase pressure on that. this would be a whole government approach but the objective would be an eventual reconciliation. this will take some years, i believe. senator nelson: does that reconciliation include the taliban? gen. nicholson: ideally, the taliban would reconcile and that would remove their support for groups. senator nelson: how does the taliban reconcile with the government of afghanistan when they're being aided and abetted by russia to work against our efforts? gen. nicholson: you're exactly right this requires a whole-government approach. senator nelson: so you don't see a dynamic between isis and the taliban? gen. nicholson: they're ideologically in conflict and then in practical matters, they're vying for control in certain areas, but i don't see an effective effort by the taliban against isis. senator nelson

ghani wants to do it, our support has to be support for him. the second is to recognize that fighting and negotiating our parallel tracks. americans get really hung up with the idea that these are alternatives. they are not alternatives. you do them side-by-side. the clearest formulation i ever heard about that was from the late israeli prime minister rabin. how can youce, negotiate with these terrorists, and his answer was i have to negotiate as though there were no terrorism and i have to fight terrorism is that there were no negotiations. in other words, you do not like yourself be put into a position where you weaken your fighting because you're having negotiations even of they aren't going anywhere. yourself into a position where you cannot negotiate because you of not one new war yet. you have to pursue but then parallel and your paper makes a very important point we did not discuss which is the need for a third-party voice to work between people because it is hard enough to do this kind of thing at all. it is hardest to do it with partie

. >> reporter: this is the day abdul hamid al ghani and his family have waited years for-- they're drivingards the airport in erbil, northern iraq. >> i feel great, actually. i feel like a big burden is off my shoulder and i can take my family to a place where i can feel safe, and i can take care >> reporter: abdul hamid and his family are finally coming to the u.s., on special immigrant visas, issued to iraqis who worked for the u.s. military. he spent nine years as an interpreter for the u.s. army, at great personal risk, even finding himself on a kill list back in 2006. yet he still proudly wears the american flag on his hat. did you like working with the americans? >> oh i loved it, i loved it. the brotherhood they have, this type of mentality, like we are one team and one fight, they never gave me this impression like you are not one of us, or you are just an interpreter and you're going to do your job and they're going to leave me behind. >> reporter: three weeks ago, with bags packed and having sold everything he owned, he got the news that president trump's executive order on immig

ben brown then, and eleanor ghani at westminster as of britain leaving the eu has cleared the commonsw business secretary clive lewis has resigned from labour's front bench — the mp for norwich south said he couldn't back the brexit bill, defying the leaderjeremy corbyn. the bbc has uncovered fresh evidence of the length of time some patients remain in hospital waiting to be discharged, often because of a lack of suitable home or nursing care. the government has denied claims it's struck a special deal with the conservative surrey county council, leading to the cancellation of a referendum on raising council taxes to fund social care. tara palmer—tomkinson — socialite and friend of the royal family — has died aged 45. back to the problems now with the nhs... the bbc has uncovered fresh evidence of the length of time some medically fit patients have to remain in hospital, unable to go back to their own communities because of a lack of support. half of acute hospitals in england responded to a freedom of information request for details of their five longest delays in discharging patient