" president ghani: "yes, because we don't have the money." necessarily defended — all along our history — our country with money and with donated metal. there are other values and there are other, you know, solid values in this country which we can mobilise to defend our country. probably president ghani then meant that if we were to conventionally defend the country we need the assistance of the west. i do not disagree with him that we badly need the assistance of the west, because we are on the frontline, global frontline fighting terrorism, fighting radical fanatic extremists, that is true. but to say without the west we will not be able to put up a fight for our dignity is wrong. even with the west you are struggling, aren't you? all the statistics suggest that after 17 years of this particular war, and goodness knows afghanistan has had to endure war pretty much on and off the a0 years, nearly half of the country is not in the control of the government. well, i completely refute the bbc‘s statistics, half of the country... it is not bbc

world news the afghan taliban has named a co-founder to lead its political office in qatar while abdul ghani baradar is expected to join negotiations with the us which looked to be gaining momentum the talks in doha were originally scheduled to run for forty eight hours but have been going on for four days now other senior leaders have also been put in to keep his ations in the taliban's negotiating team habeeb why doc is the national security analyst and a founding member of transparency afghanistan he says as appointment shows a commitment to the peace process more law brother is a senior. taliban official who was serving and pakistani prisons for the past so many years he was a close confidant to lead more omer served us a deputy to moamar he is somebody who all was favored negotiations in peace talks and therefore de pakistani government put him in prison years back and here he has this is anti pakistan narrative a does seem time favoring crees and in a strong supporter of the peace process i think this is an excellent move by the taliban this shows their commitment that they are committ

world news the afghan taliban has named a co-founder to lead its political office in qatar when abdul ghani baradar is expected to join negotiations with the us which looked to be gaining momentum the talks in doha where originally scheduled to run for forty eight hours but have been going on for four days now other senior leaders have also been put into the taliban's negotiating team david said me was the deputy assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan and pakistan under u.s. president barack obama he says there is reason for hope in the afghan peace process . the appointment of mullah baradar is a startling change. ten years ago in two thousand and nine more liberated or he led a dissident faction of the taleban that wanted peace talks with the government of then president hamid karzai the government of pakistan was opposed to those talks they arrested her held him in prison until last fall during which time he was allegedly treated very toughly and perhaps even tortured last fall at the request of the u.s. the pakistanis released more liberated are many people thought he would fade

ghani is running for a second five-year term.discuss the realities surrounding the agreement, we are joined by laurel miller, who was president obama's special representative for afghanistand kistan. she's now the international crisis group's asia group director. std barnett rubin, director of the afghanistan/pa program at the center on international cooperation. he too served in the obama administration's state department and was one of the originators of their plan to start talks with the taliban. welcome to you both. laurel, let me start with you. help us understand the significance of this draft framewisk agreement. his the beginning of the end of the u.s. involvement in afghanistan? >> it could be the beginning of the end of the american war in afghanistan. whether it's the beginninheof the end ofar in afghanistan i think remains to t seen and depends on the details that aro follow. but, nonetheless, the results of the talks of recent days are significant in several respects. first of all, it's the cleares sign yet of the u.

of troops the country's deputy foreign minister has met with afghan officials and president ashraf ghani in kabul. briefed ghani about recent rounds of talks with taliban representatives in tehran the taliban is believed to control nearly half of the country and has been behind many attacks targeting government forces well into the team as a lecturer at university and joins us live now from the afghan capital kabul last week the iranians hosted the taliban in the capital tehran for talks and this week the iranians are in afghanistan briefing afghan officials on what happened so how much influence does iran have in terms of brokering these talks do you think. well after the conference in afghanistan a you see a lot of conducive political environment in the the current iranian delegation was done on this part of the larger process you've been in the stain that the iranian government in basad in afghanistan just to put it to say that they have influence over iran the the taliban leadership and you know better shanghainese just what it did in afghanistan and just what did the national securi

abdul ghani baradar was the former right hand man of taliban founder. he spent eight years in a pakistani prison before he was released last october analysts say his appointment as political leader of the taliban's of his thing cattle shows the armed groups commitment to the afghan peace process he is somebody who all was favored negotiations in peace talks and therefore the pakistani government put him in prison years back and here he has this anti pakistan narrative and at the same time favoring preez and a strong supporter of the peace process the taliban was pushed from power by u.s. forces in late two thousand and one discussions between taliban leaders and u.s. diplomats started last summer in an effort to end the seventeen year long war and establish a unity government the u.s. envoy recently toured the region seeking help from allies including pakistan the u.s. has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing safe haven to the taliban leaders accusations dismissed by the pakistani government so this is a major major change for the power back on and

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representative- - zalmay khalilzad-- tweeted about the talks on his way to brief afghanistan's president ashraf ghani in kabul writing," meetings here were more productive than they have been in the past. we made significant progress on vital issues." despite efforts to end the" yellow vest" protests in france, demonstrators were in the streets for the 11thra ht weekend. police used tear gas and the protests continued into the evening in paris. 80,000 police were deployed throughout the country. the protests began in novemberai t a fuel tax hike but have grown to include many economic policies launched by president emmanuel macron. join us tomorrow for a report on a battle over mining titanium on untouched land on south africa"" wild coast."or that's allhis edition of" pbs newshour weekend." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned dia access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible b bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein. fami dr. p. roy vagelos a

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is now heading to the afghan capital kabul to brief president ashraf ghani on what came out of the six days of talks. it's game over. in doha now hashem obviously this is a war that's been going on quite twenty years but not far off it there have been negotiations officially or unofficially now for a while now do you see this as a breakthrough. it will have to depend on what happens in the coming days because the draft agreement will have to go through for example the institutions of the taliban we're talking about the leader. and then the council of the taliban do they all of a forgive me i'm going to have to stop here right there because the venezuelan foreign minister is speaking now at the u.n. security council let's listen in because we have a text and i will not reflect your need for that i want to share some thoughts with . mike we can even thank mr mike on it because. in the face of the failure at the. organization of american states and less on the twenty fourth of january they didn't have enough weight to impose a resolution will they. convene a meeting of the security counci

president ashraf ghani of afghanistan is calling for caution we'll hear tough twenty four surely step on that this. us troops in afghanistan their departure is the key demand from the taliban of principle us negotiators agreed to window hall although according to the chief us negotiator. no timetable has been sent the militant group accepted it demand made by the us. the taliban have committed to our satisfaction to do what is necessary that would prevent afghanistan from ever becoming a platform for international terrorist groups or individuals. the taliban have not agreed to a ceasefire. they're not even willing to talk to the afghan government so when the us envoy briefed afghan leaders hehe got a cautious respons. most we want peace. we want to phone first. but we want to plan for it that having a plan is very important because we don't want to repeat past mistake. what the afghans dread is that without a real peace deal once foreign troops are gone the taliban would continue or even strengthened their attacks? somethining the country has facedd before. that's why the afghans want

talks but what needs to happen for the polish bomb to say ok the afghan government president ashraf ghani can now participate in this process. it all depends on what the conditions are and how hard these conditions are for the soft and the managed by all other sides and a solution can be found out of on a heart condition that says they cannot talk to an entity representing the african government then they may have to look for a solution which probably means a sort of broadway's representative. gathering or a committee or a commission or a sure are that is formed by on athens including the government which could then act as and to look to her with the thought of one now obviously this is not an easy issue to resolve i think that how does all that is going to have his hands full and call you know you have to convince president romney who has been had his own conditions and unless this happens i think that we will not see a lot of progress on the items that i mentioned earlier at the summit thank you very much for your time and that you know and sites on this that is almost some odd life and

to go see asians with the us which looked to be gaining momentum victoria again the reports abdul ghani baradar was the former right hand man of taliban found. he spent eight years in a pakistani prison before he was released last october analysts say his appointment as political leader of the taliban's of his thing cattle shows the armed groups commitment to the afghan peace process he is somebody who all was favored negotiations in peace talks and therefore the pakistani government put him in prison years back and here he has this anti pakistan narrative and at the same time favoring and a strong supporter of the peace process the taliban was pushed from power by u.s. forces in late two thousand and one discussions between taliban leaders and u.s. diplomats started last summer in an effort to end the seventeen year long war and establish a unity government the u.s. envoy recently toured the region seeking help from allies including pakistan the u.s. has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing safe haven to the taliban leaders accusations dismissed by the pakistani government so this

we've heard from president ghani today after he met with u.s.ials or was briefed from the u.s. team. what is he saying about this? >> well, he said that the talks are part of or an afghan-owned strategy peace for afghanistan. but the u.s. is sitting down with the taliban and the u.s. is sitting down with the afghan government. the three parties are not yet at the table. that's going to be pivotal for establishing a final agreement, especially if the u.s. does pull out their forces and the afghan government is left there to lead. the other factor to consider is that the afghan government knows that the taliban are an extremely fractured group, and they are not sure that everyone who the u.s. is talking to is going to be able to keep a commitment for the afghan -- for the taliban at large just because they're such a large group and have many different leaders across the country. >> also, then, what does this mean for any desire from president trump to get u.s. troops out of afghanistan? so many questions. but signs of progress and that should be n

. >> the other thing president ghani said that his army would implode and the country within six monthsf the united states pulls out. the other analogy is south vietnam. rerbg it wasn't as much when u.s. soldiers left south vietnam, it was when congress pulled out funding for the south vietnamese army that that country imploded. again, the key difference is we don't have al qaeda, isis and half the world terror organizations, we didn't in south vietnam like we do now that will have said they will hit the united states again. they will unleash their training camp. i don't think for a second the taliban either has the will -- i don't trust them -- or the capability to keep al qaeda and isis at bay. >> dana: do you think president trump should address this issue when he does his state of the union address next tuesday? >> i certainly hope he does. keeping the united states safe is the number one job of the commander in chief. it's the number one job of the federal government. whether that's keeping terrorists at bay, securing our border, funding our military. that's job number one. i hope

afghan president ashraf ghani suppororted removing the u.s. military presence from the country, saying on monday that his government's goal was to bring down the number ofof foren troops to zero. federal employees are returning to work after president trump and congressional leaders agreed to a deal that reopened the government after a 35-day partial shutdown , the longest in u.s. history. trump threatened to shut down the government again in three weeks if no deal is reached with democrats on border wall funding. vermont senator bernie sanders addressed the end of the shutdown on the senate floor friday. senator sanders: there is something absolutely pathetic about what has happened. five weeks ago, the united states senate unanimously, every republican, every democrat, voted for essentially the same legislation. amy: 800,000 federal employees were either furloughed or worked without pay during the shutdown. some workers turned to food banks, filed for unemployment, or went to homeless shelters as they missed two consecutive paychecks. presid

ghani say he is concerned the americans might negotiate important agreements afghan officials are noto, potentially including the shape of an interim government outside of the u.s. elections is there any concern from the pentagon that withdrawing the u.s. troops could now put the afghan government at risk? >> absolutely. what's interesting for years we heard the u.s. was only going to negotiate with the taliban if there was an afghan face on the negotiation. it would be the afghan government really speaking with the taliban with the u.s. in some sort of support role. i heard that had really been blown up that khalazid was talking directly to the afghan people and the afghan government for a large part had been side lined so the fact he has -- i think a large part of the concern from the afghan government stems from that, the fact that they haven't been at the table during a lot of these negotiations. >> thank you so much this is a massively important story. what is going on in afghanistan? up next, roger stone, he says the one thing he wouldnever do to protect the president is lie. bu

campaigning for three days is in protest at president mamadou bihari suspending the chief justice while on a ghani is accused of failing to declare assets the main opposition party says the allegations against him are politically motivated the chief justice would likely rule on any disputed results in next month's general election if he is reinstated growing pain continues next on our air. thank. you. if you growth something positive. it's great watching our kids grow up or seeing a tree grow. it we always aware that all growth must come to an end. there's a limit nature knows no such thing as infinite growth this rule seems to apply to every kind of growth but one economic growth is somehow supposed to continue indefinitely. as one person recognized the hundred fifty years ago growth is the fundamental principle of our economic system. capitalism only works when the economy grows but karl marx recognize something else as well it is this growth that will eventually destroy the system itself. and today. every week. that point is the system about to collapse. infinite growth actually be possible. th

want both times around this last time there was a compromise a national unity government with ashraf ghani becoming the president you becoming the chief executive is that national unity government working because president danny is here as well it seems to me there seem to be rival delegations here and while you've been here he's fine your deputy mohammed walk are you happy were you informed about that. about being here it's over two decades since i have been participating sometimes i missed. was not here but mainly i have participated in davos for over two decades now it's nothing to do with intended construct but is that breaking down the internal construct and were you consulted about your deputy being fathers the point is that the national unity government started in two thousand and fourteen in will complete its full term in this decision which was made not to rid of it but it does not help stability it does not help national unity in its also. this suspect to the agreement which is that which is the basis of formation of the national unity government which is started. when it to star

withdrawing its troops from the conflict the iranian deputy foreign minister met president ashraf ghani in kabul on saturday. briefed the president about recent talks with taliban representatives in tehran the taliban are believed to control nearly half the country and have been behind many recent attacks targeting government forces into the team is a lecturer at the mora university he says the afghan and iranian governments need to forget their troubled past and move forward to ensure lasting peace. after the conference in afghanistan you see a lot of conducive political environment in the the current iranian delegation was part of the larger process you better understand that the iranian government in basad in afghanistan but it is said that they have influence over iran the taliban leadership shanghai need just what they did in afghanistan in just that the national security advisor afghanistan here sure that's going to go in that we would like to can wean a meeting between the have been going in the taliban leadership and they will not act like saudi arabia so as long as we see the c

former head of the intelligence services signed on as the first vice president candidate with president ghani mr saleh as well know as a strongly anti taliban pakistan politician i think that the taliban may be worried that with this movement towards elections they may be getting left out in the cold they said it is great to get your perspective on this do appreciate it thanks very much thank you the shooting of unarmed protesters in sudan is causing more control to see human rights groups say dozens have died during the month long demonstrations against rising prices and the thirty year rule of the president bashir the government is denying any role in the killing of protesters describing them as infiltrates is how would vote reports now from the capital khartoum. the home of doctor about the cop and how he didn't come to has seen a constant stream of mona's since he was shot dead during an anti-government protest on thursday. his house has also become a meeting place for supporters and sympathizers. who are well within what he did one of my five children he's my only son he never had a prob