taliban could regain a political foothold in afghanistan as soon as next year afghan president hamid karzai says the taliban leader could run for presidency in the twenty fourteen election but the militants would have no to have to renounce terrorism and violence first so nato is putting out its combat terms by the end of term without government policing for peace talks before there was trouble however the taliban are refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american puppet and they recently announced and retinas to enter politics and have opened an office in doha to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. also a contributor afshin rattansi says nations conduct in the war zone is only helping the insurgents gain ground and it's clear. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all the thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan and the taliban on the mall obama is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pullout of course lots of people are asking there hundred fifty thousand nato troops ther

has been sending to afghan president, hamid karzai. that's taxpayer cash. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell has been following this story. >> hamid karzai confirmed the cia has been dropping off bags of cash at the national security office for years. he says, it isn't millions. it is 30e7b8$00,0$300,000 a mon. that adds up to $36 million by karzai's account over years. we checked with the white house state department and the cia and none would deny this report. that goes to a confirmation. i asked one official if payments had been delivered every day to karzai's office. he said, we never said it was every day. one interesting footnote. iran had been delivering payments to karzai until about a year ago. they cut him off because he was getting too close to the u.s. >> that was nbc's andrea mitchell reporting >>> now, it is time for your "first look" at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. >> sandra day o'connor says it was probably a mistake for the court to take the infamous bush v. gore case. her comments come 13 years afte

first of all, hamid karzai will no longer be president. i don't know who will and whether he will be better or worse, or whether it will be more or less core runtion. >> well, you know, being there the last year, i think and traveling and seeing what i saw, the narrative of poims is an easy one to make. an eye, and we've all looked for ways in which there might be hope. you know, a new generation that has grown-up over the last tenniers. they're very impressive, 30 and 40-year-olds that populate the bureaucracies. but they're very able people. there's natural resources which great hope lies with them that they might enrich this country. but despite these glimmers of hope, i kind of as describe to the pessimistic one, i think t is going to be very difficult over the next few years. >> rose: can it slide into being a failed state. can it slide into being some kind of haven for terrorism or have they all moved to africa? >> no, i think that's definitely a real danger. there's a number of transitions going on. there is the military one which w

in afghanistan even though the white house will neither confirm nor deny it, president hamid karzai admitsr the last decade or so, they have been -- he's been receiving bags of cash delivered by c.i.a. agents. what that means, of course is we can no longer complain about karzai being corrupt because it turns out we're the ones corrupting him. what i want to know is what do we get for all of the money we gave karzai? president obama's named a new transportation secretary charlotte, north carolina, mayor anthony fox did such a great job with the democratic national convention in 2012 and the nba's jason collins has come out of the closet. the first nba player to do so. all of that and more coming up right here. good reason to stay tuned for current tv. iq will go way up. (vo) current tv gets the converstion started weekdays at 9am eastern. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in

somewhat incredibly hamid karzai today confirmed that the cia has been dropping off bags of cash at his national security office for years. he says it isn't millions. it's only $300,000 a month. do the math. if you multiply that over ten years it adds up to $36 million by karzai's own account. the new york times was first to report the payments today and said the cash was delivered sometimes in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags. u.s. officials say the money is used to buy the loyalty of warlords as well as cover some off-the-book operations. we checked with the white house, state department and cia, none of whom would deny the report. in washington speak that goes to a confirmation. i asked one official if payments of cash had, in fact, been delivered every day to karzai's office. he said, well, we never said it was every day. one interesting footnote, by the way, iran had also been delivering payments to karzai until about a year ago when tehran cut off karzai supposedly because he was getting too close to the u.s. brian? >> andrea mitchell in our d.c. bureau tonight. andr

are just getting ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the afghan president hamid karzai says the taliban leader could run for presidency in the next year's election he made the comments days after his return from qatar and with the afghan government agreed that the group can open an office in doha if they renounce terrorism and nato is pulling out his troops by the end of cars i the afghan government pushing for peace talks however the taliban are refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american puppet and they hope to use the doha office to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. contributor afshin rattansi says nato is conduct in the war zone is only helping the insurgents gain political ground. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all the thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan if the taliban on the mall obama is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pullout of course lots of people are asking there hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people ar

again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't very much that cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this affectively to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do that why negotiate with the so-called puppet government when we can talk to be occupiers themselves but there's divisions within the taliban as well do they actually hold negotiations or do they fight until the occupiers the u.s. forces leave the country there are also divisions within the obama administration about this because while this war has been incredibly credibly costly to the united states and the taliban have long been an enemy for the u.s. many factions in the administration see the political solution as the only possible sort of way forward i mean it's been more than clear that military might isn't enough to eradicate the taliban so somehow talks have to take place but at the end of t

word that the cia handy living bags of money to ask hamid karzai for years. the shocking new report just out. while you were sleeping he stole thousands from a church safe now he's back with this message. >> i am sorry for hurting you and stealing from you. will you please for give me? >> a powerful lesson in forgiveness coming up. >> when we take a break national average 3.50 for a regular gallon of unleaded, unchanged from yesterday. ♪ ♪ can you hear it? ♪ fueling the american spirit ♪ no matter when, no matter where ♪ ♪ marathon will take you there would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. i'm really gd that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they're looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. >> a knocking new report that for more than a decade the cia has been delivering bags full of cash dire

here we are portraying har inging hamid karzai as the properly elected afghanistan.e trying to fight corruption. and at the same time an agency of the government is dropping off millions of dollars, sometimes inpping bags to the president. no accounting clearly, being used for purposes maybe semigovernmental purposes bribing lawmakers. but with all the corruption swirling around the country, don't quite know whose pockets it's been going guess the big question is are we at least getting what we'revó >> p what we've been paying for in afghanistan is not with the millions of dollars that have been channeled to mr. karzai personally but with the $500 or $600 billion and the lives of americans and also the effort of our allies. a small-scale payments to the president shouldn't b@áe the key issue. but if we're dealing with him, we have somebody who has accused us of working with the taliban has accused us of rigging the election that he mself stole, it's a bit bizarre. so the answer no we're not. one of the reasons we're doing it apparen is that the iranians are doing it

. >> afghan president hamid karzai has met with you in your of qatar in doha. ash the ennio -- the emir of qa tar in doha. the taliban will be allowed to have in office if they end their ties with al qaeda. >> in portugal, authorities were called to rescue more than 100 campers trapped by a river that overflowed its banks. >> and palestinian president mahmoud abbas has marked the day by planting olive tree in the west bank town of ramallah. the day is commemorated every year in remembrance of six arab citizens killed in 1976 during protests against israel's annexation and occupation of palestinian land. 80 years ago today, hitler's regime launched its campaign of perseution and terror against the jews here in germany. >> on april 1, 1933, the propaganda minister called for a nationwide vote -- and nationwide boycott of jewish- owned businesses. rooms quads pointed -- painted stars of david on doors and windows. they put anti-semitic signs up. despite large, anti-jewish sentiment among germans, many ignored the boycott. it was ended the same day. >> but that did

in so-called ghost money that's flowed from the cia to the offices of afghanistan's president, hamid karzai. according to "the new york times," the secret bags of money are dropped off every month to buy influence. but there's little evidence it has worked. instead, some u.s. officials saying the money has fueled corruption and empowered warlords undermining washington's exit strategy from afghanistan. >>> there's a taped phone conversation of boston's bomber suspect tamerlan tsarnaev that includes talk of jihad. russian intelligence intercepting the 2011 call with his mother where tamerlan also mentioned a possible trip to palestine. cia until the days following the marathon attacks. nbc's michelle franzen has the latest. >> reporter: a key focus for investigators centers on tamerlan tsarnaev's visit to dagestan in 2012 and what he did during his six-month stay. authorities tell nbc news they are weighing russian reports on what they learned about tamerlan while visiting family. the big question sunday for lawmakers, whether tamerlan received training during his trip. >> i suspect that ult

is pushing all parties to start negotiating now, pakistan has accused the afghan president hamid karzai, of being "an impediment to the peace process."analysts say all this makes the process of reconciliation that much harder. the problem is how to cobble together a government that has all of their stakeholders buying in. many of these countries for decades have very different geopolitical interests when it comes to afghanistan. >> as officials praised the progress of the afghan forces, the u.s. military concedes that the afghan air force will not be ready to take over air operations until at least the end of 2016. of considerable assistance coalition partners will still be needed. >> it will take time, the afghan air force to end up as fully operational. >> u.s. officials don't want to predict the outcome of peace talks, but they do feel obligated to push for reconciliation at every opportunity. secretary john kerry will be pushing his counterparts to find a political solution to the military campaign in a tennis fan. al jazeera, the state department. >> the trial of the former preside

. >> afghan president hamid karzai has met with you in your of qatar in doha. ash the ennio -- the emir of qa tar in doha. the taliban will be allowed to have in office if they end their ties with al qaeda. >> in portugal, authorities were called to rescue more than 100 campers trapped by a river that overflowed its banks. >> and palestinian president mahmoud abbas has marked the day by planting olive tree in the west bank town of ramallah. the day is commemorated every year in remembrance of six arab citizens killed in 1976 during protests against israel's annexation and occupation of palestinian land. 80 years ago today, hitler's regime launched its campaign of perseution and terror against the jews here in germany. >> on april 1, 1933, the propaganda minister called for a nationwide vote -- and nationwide boycott of jewish- owned businesses. rooms quads pointed -- painted stars of david on doors and windows. they put anti-semitic signs up. despite large, anti-jewish sentiment among germans, many ignored the boycott. it was ended the same day. >> but that did

sources close to hamid karzai says the president believes the units are outside his control. there are accusations some members of the local police have been targeting locals with impromptu checkpoints or abusing civilians under their care. >> they need to continue to professionalize themselves and remain as transparent as they have been, but certainly becoming a more professional force and a more disciplined force. that is the way ahead. >> the afghan national security council appears unconvinced. it has delayed a request to recruit and train another 45,000 new officers and has not said when a decision would be made. al jazeera, northern afghanistan. >> for more on our afghanistan coverage, our website has more information. israel says the cyber attacks on government websites has failed to cause serious damage. the attack follows a warning by anonymous it would target is really sites. israeli defense and education ministries were hacked as well as some media outlets. a new vote will test the popularity of the longest serving government in the balkans, and virtually unchallen

which secretary kerry appeared to have smoothed somewhat during his recent meeting with president hamid karzai. still, another 11 afghan civilians, including ten children, died today in a nato attack in kunar province, bordering pakistan. perhaps reinforcing complaints that the collateral damage in afghanistan has grown too costly. meantime in the chicago suburb where anne smedinghoff was raised, ribbons were tied to trees in honor of a young woman who impressed so many with her dedication to others. as friends like nbc's atia abawi, who worked with her in afghanistan, reflect on a young life full of meaningful contributions. >> anne was making a difference in the country and the afghan people really respected her, the ones that she touched, the ones that knew her. >> reporter: anne's parents released a statement saying they are consoled knowing that she died doing a job she loved and that she was serving her country by trying to make a difference in the world. >> ron mott in kabul tonight, thank you. >>> still a lot of anxiety tonight over north korea as both the united states and china made

tens of millions of dollars off the books, in american cash, to the office of afghan president hamid karzai. the officials told the paper the main goal is to maintain access to karzai and his top aids. some say it's undermining u.s. efforts to end the war. >>> a major milestone at the world trade center today. the placement of the final two sections of the spire. the skyscraper will become the tallest building in the western hemisphere. installation of the 408-foot spire began in december, after 18 pieces were shipped from canada and from new jersey. >>> a more somber milestone in the region today as well. it's been now six months since superstorm sandy slammed ashore. many coastal communities are still recovering. new jersey's governor is expected to announce later today nearly $2 billion in federal help to keep the momentum going. >>> time for the weather across the nation. aside from the drenching in the southeast, look for some showers and thunderstorms in the upper midwest, from minneapolis to milwaukee and kansas city. showers from seattle to portland. up to 6 inches of snow in the ca

we're not seeing any of it. >> you met with hamid karzai. >> i got summoned to hamid karzai. >> how did same tribe from the same lineage. and very similar kind of guy. charismatic, educated, enormously cultured. but from a very particular elite of the country. and he did no better than -- than karzai this time. and he's constantly obsessed with the idea that the afghans see him as they now remember sharshuja which is a puppet. a puppet ruler put in by foreigners. his entire legacy is he thinks in doubt. unless he distances himself from america. which is why you're getting this very strange talk back going on, biting the hand that feeds him. not because he's mad or crazy which is one of the kind of theories. >> off his meds. >> essentially what you get the pakistanis briefing, saying this guy is nuts, crazy, should be removed. the reality is he just doesn't want to be remembered as a puppet. he's got a year to show he's an independent ruler. wants to be remembered in afghanistan as someone that has his own policies, own ideas. i find him good company. he's charismatic, witty, full of zes

believe the afghan president will make forceful statements but little else seven percent think hamid karzai is hand will be forced when he will have to band nato airstrikes while the remaining few believe the date for nato troops to leave will be brought forward so had to r.t. dot com and have your say. now another nato led campaign where thousands of civilians were killed was of course an iraq cross talk in the next hour if it's time for those who sanctioned that campaign to face trial. the way the world is set up is we prosecute developing leaders or rebels for war crimes but we don't we can't do it for major powers because they have too much power in the system and i guess that's what people think they're just simply too powerful the prosecute here is what happened the britain and the us invaded iraq and even killing rebels what we would call some terrorists. that was unnecessary so anyone who died in that war. died unnecessarily because it was aggression right so bush and blair killed probably hundreds of thousands of people the problem that we have in international affairs is that some

groups looking to hit back at coalition soldiers a small percentage around seven percent think that hamid karzai his hand will be forced and will have to band that nato airstrikes in just six percent of you believe that the date for nato troops to leave will be brought forward had to r.t. dot com and tell us what you have to say about the subject. reports are emerging of israeli and a jordanian police arresting activists in response to the massive cyber offensive by the hacker group anonymous the computer attackers have said their aim is to disrupt and erase israel from cyberspace in protest over its policies towards the palestinians artie's eating english to has more. the information is coming from a palestinian twitter account from the palestinian authority presidential advisor on the technology and communication who said that israel has retaliated to the daylong how king attack on israel by arresting several palestinians and several of the west bank towns they have the attack on israel is going on for the entire day. twenty eight meijer israeli sites have been down including the knesset's sit

influence in running the country president hamid karzai has confirmed the shipments but claims that their scope are being exaggerated details from. both u.s. and afghan officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to the new york times and said that for many years the cia had paid tens of millions of dollars in what they say was ghost money to the office of president karzai the afghan government has received billions of dollars in u.s. taxpayers money but the officials say that the secret cash went to few corruption in the country the cia apparently delivers the cash every month in suitcases backpacks and plastic shopping bags the official said much of the money goes to paying off warlords and politicians many of whom have ties to the drug trade and in some cases the taliban the result of that appears to be that the agency empowers the same networks that american diplomats aligned for spent agents say they're trying to dismantle president karzai was asked about the goetia money and knowledge to see bin get he basically dismissed the payments as no big deal saying those are monthly small

plains were called in by officials to defend police under attack by the taliban afghan president hamid karzai had said he'd banned his security forces from asking for nato airstrikes back in february. i'll be back with more news after a very short break stay with this is all t.v. my family in moscow. i'm going to. climb in sochi to know your city in europe i'm the host of the twenty forty in the winter the pick a. song. thank you. so much. thank you. dog days are. right days it. takes. to see it so it's true. more news today violence is once again fled up. these are the images of world you've been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day. look. i i live .

spark attacks from groups looking to hit back at coalition forces just over ten percent think that hamid karzai is hand will be forced and you'll have to ban nato airstrikes and a very small amount if you believe that the date for nato troops to leave will actually be brought forward. this week saw a dramatic escalation on the korean peninsula with threatening a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. a response was not lifted. swarming to the north coast but washington's canceled a planned intercontinental nuclear missile test to avoid further inflaming the situation. as this report. to north korea's bellicose threats washington responds with an even more intense buildup of military power in the region to that north korea responds with even more threats even though defense secretary chuck hagel called north korea real and clear danger the white house. from north korean military forces suggesting that it may be just rhetoric but while north korea talks washington acts apart from f. twenty two fighter jets and other bombers that it sent to the region for the ongoing military exercises with south k

afghan president hamid karzai has been in qatar over the weekend where he reportedly tried to kick start peace talks with the taliban the group recently announced a vet it ready to enter politics and has opened an office in doha washington a welcome to the move as it has long been pushing both sides towards talks and of the nato withdrawal at the end of two thousand and fourteen so far the taliban has refused to talk to president karzai calling him an american puppet but security analyst deep pocketed puffy thinks that it is wrangling between america and the afghan government that is really getting in the way. informal contacts have been taking place in doha for the last couple of years but then those informal talks did break down for two reasons accuse the americans of being shaky and vague. they wanted an exchange of prisoners president obama didn't want to have anything to do with any exchange of prisoners because of mainly congressional pressure but also outside the congress from his opponents and secondly president karzai himself suspect that he was being sidelined because the ameri

backed government led by hamid karzai it's about a crusade of nationwide attacks targeting international air bases and diplomatic buildings with the aim of inflicting as many human casualties as possible this is foreign troops near their withdrawals from the country after battling the taliban for twelve years nevertheless the group's violence still. still flourishes claiming lives weakly inside afghanistan and neighboring pakistan. he was familiar says three more detainees are joining the hunger strike in the u.s. guantanamo bay detention center bringing the total number of protesting inmates to one hundred out of one hundred sixty six held there the strike started eighty one days ago over a growing abuse allegations and indefinite detention without charge also coincides with the obama administration's recent decision to keep the facility open despite election campaign pledges to close the controversial site. t.v. networks in the us seeing a slump with a new research poll saying audiences are tuning out in greater numbers the pew study shows viewers are starting to shy away from news net

run for the presidency of afghanistan next year that's according to the country's current leader hamid karzai over the weekend karzai approve the opening of a taliban office in qatar on the condition that the group renounce terrorism this comes as afghanistan prepares for the pullout of nato forces next year. maybe a concerted push in the u.s. for more gun control to december's deadly school shooting but a tone in the state of georgia is going against the tide and noodle says the head of every household in nelson is now required to own a gun and the bullets local officials insist is to deter criminals while in texas and leaders are holding back from commenting on an organization that is handing out shotguns and training people to use them. the gun control debate is focus on what type of arms americans are allowed to obtain and bear and thanks to a groundbreaking technology entire gun pods can be manufactured with a license one to use students working to make sure everyone can make a gun at home as marina port my experience. from the state of the union in youngstown a while we're no workers ar

in by officials to defend a local police post under attack by taliban fighters afghan president hamid karzai had said he had banned his security forces from asking for nato airstrikes back in february over the highest civilian casualties. or up next we're not seeing the dark side of the world's finances and the suddenly being the focus of the kaiser report just a moment on here on. what if one third of the population of a capital city of a small arab country took to the streets in protest while the mainstream media would scream the people of nation x. are crying out for democracy we have to intervene and take their oil i mean help them but the earth shaking a large protest isn't an arab country it's in paris france and for traditional marriage yes protesters in paris claim that they had eight hundred thousand people on the streets of france's capital and even though the police said that half those numbers for a city of less than two point five million people this was a huge protest for a card list the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and show that's liberal values ar

attacks from groups looking to hit back at coalition soldiers around seven percent think that hamid karzai his hand will be forced and he will have to band nato strikes in his country and then trailing just a little bit behind six percent of you believe that the date for nato troops to leave will be brought forward in american troops will come home sooner rather than later now you can head to our tea dot com and tell us what you think and have your say there. and for more analysis on this let's now cross live to jason did who is the news editor at antiwar dot com jason thank you very much for being with us now according to u.s. officials we're getting a little bit of a discrepancy here that this raid was launched after they were attacked so in response to an attack do you think that this missile strike was justified. you know not at all certainly not i think even if the stories of them coming under attack are true it's certainly not justified to kill a bunch of innocent bystanders in retaliation and more importantly than whether or not it's justified is whether or not it was wise and i wou

about forty six percent forty two percent of you think that there's going to be much rhetoric from hamid karzai but not much else so a lot of bark no bite then seven percent think that this will force president karzai to ban it nato air strikes in his country and then a small sliver there in green five percent say that it will bring forward two thousand and fourteen at nato withdrawal date bringing united states troops back to the united states a lot sooner than usual you can of course go to r.t. dot com and tell us what you think we're always interested in hearing what you have to say. reports are emerging of israeli and a jordanian police arresting activists in response to the massive cyber offensive by the hacker group anonymous the computer attackers have said their aim is to disrupt and even the race israel from cyberspace in protest over its policies towards the palestinians are it in english to has more. the information is coming from a palestinian twitter account from the palestinian authority presidential adviser on technology and communication who said that israel has retaliated to th