which will report to an annual kabul ministerl conference. my partner and the partner of international development will be closely involved in that proces so the kabul conference has tablished a roadmap for more professional, functioning and mature institutions. there will be other important milestones this year. including parliamentary elections, the nato lisbon summit and president obama's review. her majesty's government will help put in place the conditions for a stable, secure and increasingly prosperous afghanistan. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to thank the foreign secretary for his statement. and welcome him back to london and thank him for the advanced side of his statement. we all join his words of condolence and pride in the remarkable work of our armed forces. their bravery, their fortitude and their intelligence is an example of the best of this country. we welcome the kabul conference for a chance of the afghan government to match its commitments that the international community made in london in january. thoughtful engage

in kabul, they again insisted the u.n. must do more to stem corruption. >> opponents call the karzai election beset with fraud. the trade in opium remains one of the country's biggest problems. and next, how the poppy seed helps finance not just the taliban, but also some people in high places. the heroin trade begins in afghanistan. the crop is 7,000 tons, valued at 2.4 billion euros, exploited to arm taliban fighters. but the drug trade is not fully of their making. >> my work sets out to show that even though the taliban may profit, in fact it is the government and regional leaders who profit the most. so why would the taliban have a benefit? it's far more widely dispersed. but they need profits from the drug economy. local authorities can offer protetion from smugglers, or make sure poppy crops escape raids. amid karzai installed leaders into key positions. and he is now powerless to stop them using their offices for illegal purposes. >> the black market is closely tied. that means drug production and smuggling. presid

the major general is responsible for keeping kabul safe. the enemies of afghanistan will do their best to show the international community there is no peace or security, he says. those enemies succeeded. the suicide bomber killed three people here. the remnants of the bomber or the victims remained on this street long after the attack. this will give you a sense of the scene of a suicide explosion. over there, there's body parts from the suicide bomber, we won't show you those. over here, a motorcycle that was either hit or used by the suicide bomber. a sense of fear. obviously, worried about the journalists. the air around here smells acrid. do you and your family trust the government and police to keep kabul safe? >> i don't think so. every time, everybody minute, i feel like i'm dying. or they're coming in kabul. >> reporter: violence remains the fundamental problem here against afghans and americans. but what hillary clint what the afghan government want to do this week, move beyond the violence and figure out how they can help the afgh

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you might drive around two people in kabul, but outside in kabul, but particularly in logar province, i was there this month, bill. it is a very, very dangerous place where they went. so they are certainly looking at why those two navy personnel were even out in logar province. >> let's switch to a story just breaking now. this is the cover of "the london guardian." one of several papers that gotten ahold of some 90,000 bits of classified information leaked by at least one military insider. the scope of this is huge, but is there anything new or damning here? >> reporter: well, i think it is absolutely massive, bill, and it will create a lot of tension. the national security adviser just put out a release, saying this threatens national security. there's a lot of detail in this. not really anything very new. but listen to this, pakistan's military spy service has guided the afghan insurgency. how a secret unit of special forces hunts down taliban leaders for kill or capture without trial. how the u.s. has evidence that the taliban has acquired surface to air missiles. again, not all o

the peace jerg a in kabul and now the kabul international conference. the track that president karzai has for keeping these promises unfortunately are not very good. he has not, in fact, done much of what he has promised to the people of afghanistan. they are quite cynical about this conference and other conferences like this. >> lehrer: let's be specific here for a few moments. mr. dobbins, the president said, okay, afghanistan can take over the security of the country by 2014. is that a do-able thing? >> i'd say two things. first of all it's an aspiration not a commitment. secondly it's afghanistan taking the lead not taking over. >> lehre okay. >> as a point of reference, iraq took over the lead for security in iraq more than a year ago. we kept 140,000 troops there throughout that year. we're only now reducing down to 50,000. we're going to keep 50,000 there for another 18 months. so taking the lead isn't the same as taking over. >> lehrer: can he take the lead? >> i think it's a reasonable goal. that by 2014. that's four years from now. they'll be

today, more than 70 nations came to kabul to give him that backing. in return, he promised to take control of security in just four years, repeating a pledge that his troops will take over for foreign forces in 2014. welcome news for many. >> if the aim of the whole international community here is for the afghan national security forces to be able to take over their own security by 2014, and what he said and the prime minister said and i said is that within five years, by 2015, british combat troops will not be involved in combat operations in afghanistan. >> america and britain want the president to do more to stamp out corruption, but the big theme is putting afghans in charge. >> in the middle of this scrum, president, and also the u.s. secretary of state, hillary clinton, on one of the announcements being made at this conference, this is as much about style as it is about substance, showing the world that they support president karzai and also that they have a plan to bring the troops home. >> but past promises have been broken, so i caught up wit

mandy clark has the latest tonight from the afghan capital of kabul. >> reporter: kabul is getting ready. this week delegates from 44 nations will arrive here for an aid conference in, and the afghan president wants to show that he's in control. but the insurgents sent a message of their own. a suicide bomber killed at least two afghans and injured 20 on this busy street. the leader of the taliban ordered his followers to kill any afghan who works with foreigners. security is still the urgent need here, and increasingly it's the u.s. that is shouldering that responsibility, as secretary of state hillary clinton made clear today in an interview with cbs news. >> we have redoubled our efforts working with the afghans to improve and field a much more professional military. we think that we now are putting into place the pieces of a successful strategy. >> reporter: that strategy-- sending more troops into the heart of afghan cities-- has been costing a growing number of american lives. >> this is a very hard struggle, and general petraeus has said very clearly that it's likely to get worse

. >> the headline -- tighten security in kabul ahead of an international conference. germany's conservatives are under pressure after the latest resignation of a state premier. and in the tour de france, a broken chain hens the lead to the hands of the lead to the defending champion. violenceonties abatedn afghanistan just one day ahead of an international conference in the capital, kabul. monday, two nato soldiers and six afghan policeman were killed in separate roadside bomb attack in the second part of the country. in kabul itself, security has been boosted for international gathering aimed at targeting afghanistan prosecutor. >> kabul is unlockckome of the biggest conference the city has hosted in decades. security forces have to ensure the safety of foreign foreign ministers and security will be high on the agenda. germany's foreign minister says afghan forces must take full responsibility by 2014. >> of course, we know that we won't have european standard in afghanistan. our goal is to have a country that can ensure adequate security, and from which no terror th

he left kabul on a tuesday.hey had a great meeting and he was telling them, "we have to pull out so you are going to have to maintain peace there. but he also said, "i can't give you arms right now" but they were really clamoring for them. by saturday, after he was fired, the nuristan elders met with the taliban. >> charlie: the taliban? >> the elders. said that this was a seamless transition from their perspective, they had lost all contact with the high command who had befriended them and part of their role was survival. it doesn't matter so much who you affiliate with, it's your relationships that are going to eventually secure who you are going to be -- who you're going to work with. >> charlie: listen to this. this is a tape of an interview i did with general mcchrystal, december 9, 2009, talking about the elders. here it is. >> the concept of long-term strategic partnership is critical. when i go down into remote areas, i'll be asked by elders, "are you going to stay?" and i will respond, "yes, we will, al

>> andrea mitchell in kabul. we'll talk to you again tomorrow night. andrea, thanks. >>> when we continue here in just a moment, new protection for women. what's being called a breakthrough in the fight against a deadly disease. later, a story you've got to see. the people who saw it once already and stepped up to make a difference. >>> tonight we have the results of some major research that could help millions of women around the world and is a gel women can use themselves to protect against infection from the virus that causes aids. there's a broader meaning to this story. this news comes from an international aids conference and our chief science correspondent robert bazell has details. >> reporter: the trial was conducted in south africa which has 5.7 million of the 33 million people infected with hiv, the virus that causes aids. the majority of new cases in south africa are among heterosexual women. the study found that a vaginal gel containing an anti-aids medication inserted with a simple applicator cut the infection rate among women by 39%. res

quickly, the kabul conference. the kabul conference is going to have several focuses. the one i want to draw our attention to is the reintegration program, which has finally been announced and which is now, the money has been assembled, a good chunk of money and we all agree there is no final military solution to this war. there has to be a a way to get taliban fighters off the battlefield and this is the route. secondly, you mentioned the december review process. that is a review process and the president will look at how the policy is done and make his own judgment. it would be inappropriate for me to foreshadow him but we are thinking not to wait until december. as a matter of fact only this week and last week i sat down with my colleagues at the national security council staff and we talked about how to do this, and we will be continuing that discussion in kabul next week with secretary clinton and myself in general petraeus and ambassador eikenberry. and in addition, we are going to have another one of our civilian military exercises in kabul in the fall, one that

s exploding as in kabul but the afghan government is in control of kabul and it will be much more in control in the taliban area after this effort is made than it is now. and what i point to as perhaps the most important part of this, the afghan army is not only going to be there as partners with us and other coalition forces, but it's going to be in the lead. those words are very significant words. they are significant to the american people. they are significant to the afghan people. and you'll notice in the kabul conference declaration that came out of kabul a few days ago that those words were focused on. timetable for when afghan forces will be in the lead in providing security for their country. when that phase transition is going to begin and when the goal is to complete that phased transition, a beginning point and an ending point and the words of the lead are important because i think when the afghan forces are in the lead, the taliban propoganda that the united states is there in order to dominate afghanistan will be shown for the lie that it is. the propoganda tool that th

bbc news, kabul. >> b.p. han given 4 hours to check the cap over their well after seepage was detected close to ocean floor. the cap was lowered four days ago and appeared to stop the flow. the u.s. coast guard is monitoring the situation and has asked b.p. to submit its plans for opening of the cap. james reynolds reports from washington. >> under the sea, the cap is still in place. engineers are checking carefully for leaks and in particular seepage along the seabed. for the fourth day the cap appears to be holding. >> we've had no indication of oil being released at the site, and at the same time there are measurements being taken, it's constantly monitored for boc's, volatile organic compounds and there is no independent education there is any release we're seeing expressed at the surface. >> so what exactly is happening on the seabed? the flow of oil was shut off last thursday when valves on the new cap were closed. watching for signs of leaks, were robots keeping an eye on the pressure inside the system

fifteen power political heavyweights from around the world gather in kabul to find ways of handing more control over to afghan forces stabilize the conflicts trick and contra stories have stepped up security for the event which will bring together over seventy nations. calls mound for a bigger funding in the battle against aids but while scientists remain split over how to deal with the so-called epidemic others claim it's nothing more than a wife style disease this comes as delegates meet at an international aids conference in vienna aimed at providing universal care for patients. and ending wells discrimination president obama is determined to extend unemployment benefits slamming republicans for courting the rich with tax cuts as the senate prepares to vote the bill would help millions struggling to survive after the financial crisis but will cost the government billions of dollars. on the back shortly with more updates for you here in our team but let's take a look at what's happening in the world of sports with. hello and welcome to sport an artsy coming to you from the russian cap

well we're now returning to afghanistan and the international conference taking place in kabul and as a container screen russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has addressed no it's less now is it and that was in a communique of the forum which today the documents that has been prepared by the government of afghanistan. provides the necessary tools for it there is a lot of. interest to suppress the terrorists and to form the. worst is in afghanistan to maintain security. and drug trafficking and ensure state reconciliation and. stated mr. potential. international presence in afghanistan is to help tackle these tasks first solar providing security and also want to know what the conditions of completing this mission of these forces is fulfillment of the mandate of the security council is some pertinent to the situation not only in afghanistan but also in if innocent of pakistan and. establish closer corporation in struggling. terrorists shred of this so on and in general to normalize relations between these two neighboring countries and the cute task is to . control the drive drug traf

from the afghan capital kabul. still ahead this hour here on our see issue may be no spring chicken but she sure has a lot of stamina. meet a woman who claims to be a hundred years old find out who she is and what's stopping her from play by the title of the oldest living on thoughts later in the program. the united nations says plans by the world's wealthiest nations to cut spending on aids could jeopardize recent progress in fighting the disease the warning came as news international aids conference which is underway in vienna. demanding treatment for all. this in the austrian capital for us. it's the third day of the aids two thousand and ten conference in vienna and already we've seen some controversy in the days leading up to the official conference we heard from a greek who challenging many of the fundamental assumptions that a lot of us told about hiv and aids and about the forms of treatment though those views were met by many of the mainstream scientists with widespread criticism that has been a lot of deb

update on the international conference in afghanistan from our correspondent tell you know who is in kabul for us i still have for you this hour she's made to the ripe old age of one hundred thirty and shows no signs of slowing down on the eve of georgia's challenger have her be the world's oldest woman find out her secrets later in the program. running out of nations has plans by the world's wealthiest nations to cut spending on aids could jeopardize recent progress in fighting the disease the warning came at an international aids conference which is underway in vienna as activists are demanding treatment for all i see sarah ferguson the austrian capital for us. it's the third day of the aids two thousand and ten conference in vienna and already we've seen some controversy in the days leading up to the official conference we heard from a greek who challenging many of the fundamental assumptions that a lot of us told about hiv and aids and about the forms of treatment no though their views were met by many of the mainstream scientists with widespread criticism that has been a lot of debati

country's economy's black sector and that was our case a time ago reporting from the afghan capital kabul have russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says moscow is working to support afghan security in different areas . we're committed to supporting you in efforts on stabilizing afghanistan we will continue to allow transit of international cargo and personnel to afghanistan through our territory so we're working on additional measures to keep afghan forces together with our partners we're also helping restore the afghan economy this year russia wrote off the remainder of ghana stansted eight hundred ninety one million u.s. dollars we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance. that more now on the international conference in kabul i'm joined by a political ax print from the russian a category of sciences here thank you for being here with us all this conference certainly has a very ambitious goals there but how realistic is it you think to hand over power to afghanistan to all provinces there by twenty fourteen you know presidents always loath to talk about the period beyond the

our nick schifrin is in kabul tonight. nick? >> reporter: sharyn, just a few miles south of me there is a massive manhunt with helicopters and troops who have fanned out to search for two of their own. it's not clear what two navy personnel were doing driving alone at night, but they found themselves in the middle of a district that is virtually controlled by the taliban. in the last year, thousands of troops have surged into the southern gateway to kabul. but there aren't enough troops to be everywhere, and the taliban control large pockets of land. the two navy personnel found themselves in one of those areas after leaving kabul on friday afternoon. they drove in an armored land cruiser into the district of charkh. they stopped at the bazaar and continued on when sergeants launched an ambush and tried to take the troops alive but the americans fought back. residents say in the end the two americans were overwhelmed and taken by local insurgents. the u.s. called local reporters and promised to pay $50,000 for information leadin

>> john hendren in washington, thank you. >> let's turn to nick schifrin in kabul. nick, what could the fallout from this leak be? >> reporter: i think as you heard martha say, the u.s. believes the fallout is pretty unequivocal. the national security adviser says it not only puts soldiers at risk, it threatens national security. speaking anonymously one is, quote, repulsed by it. it is putting soldiers' lives at risk.se that t there is a sense there's nothing new. it may be the saving grace, despite this massive leak and unprecedented view into the afghan insurgency and pakistan. much of this is nothing new. we knew the difficulties the u.s. has had with the afghan taliban, in terms of it getting stronger. a lot of the documents simply display how strong they've become. the region may prove the most interesting reaction. as martha reported already, pakistan says it doesn't reveal the realities on ground. some pakistani officials on background are even more angry. they're questioning the timing of this leak and wonder if it's actually directed at them, given the med

twenty eight fourteen representatives from seventeen nations and organizations have been meeting in kabul to discuss how to bring about stability and the transfer of power. aids activist to universal treatment and more funding at an international conference in vienna. could undermine recent progress in research some scientists also gathering in the austrian capital a challenging conventional views on the causes and effects of the disease. and police in southern russia are looking for a. sense of terrified don't keep saying over the sea the whole thing is a p.r. stunt now facing animal cruelty charges and if convicted could be jailed for up to two years. as our top stories more from me and less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime it's sports updates with dmitri. you know they're welcome to the sport of it here not it things for joining us this hour let's take a quick look at the headlines. staying across the ocean for seventeen years he signs the longest deal in n.h.l. history with the new jersey devils. another two years with this team yoakum of will lead the world cup bronze me

there were no active banks in kabul in today in 2001. today there are 17. almost everythingling is cash payments i would like to submit for the record this list of thing that is we are trying to do so as to save time. only 5% of afghans hold bank accounts almost all in the big four cities. 95% of the people rely on howala system and the articles in the washington post and wall street journal left the understandable impression that that huge flow of money going through the airport was all illegal or drug traffic. some of it is. but it is also required to fund their economy. total imports to afghanistan last year, $8.8 billion. total exports $2.2 billion. how is this paid for? the trade deficit which is 50% gdp, 50%, it requires these large cash flow movements. now, how do we regulate them? it is declared. we originally thought, and part of my team is right behind me. we thought maybe we could get some control over this directly. we are doing a lot in the gulf, dubai is the major port of call for this cash movement. we are working closely with the government

nick schifrin is in kabul. we begin with john hendren in washington. >> reporter: good morning. most of the tens of thousands of documents are what's called raw intelligence submitted by junior officers. but u.s. intelligence, as well as everyone else are now sifting through them. this flood of documents was written through january 2004 to january 2009. underfunded and undersupported, despite a taliban insurgency at that growing strongerer and fiercer. the white house immediately condemned the leak saying those conditions were exactly why the president announced a new strategy and a troop surge this year. still, the white house is struggling to stem the damage. >> it will create a lot of tension. the national security adviser

stories this hour representatives from seventy countries and organizations have been gathering in kabul to discuss how to bring about stability and security over to the local forces afghan president hamid karzai said he's determined the country will be ready for the transfer of power in four years. aids activists demand universal treatment of an international conference in vienna on the u.n. spending cuts could undermine recent progress some scientists also meeting in the austrian capital but challenging conventional views on the causes of the disease as well as the link between aids and hiv. children woman claims she's one hundred thirty which would make her the oldest person alive but she's struggling to prove it. she was born in one thousand nine hundred and she. needed to help confirm her ripe old age. with more developments more news in less than half an hour from now in fact i should say fifteen minutes from now let me tell you about the sports sports news next with. hello there and thanks for watching the sport here on r.t. and this is what is coming up spot on cheers gar go seco

is going to happen i believe because it's all you know policy on afghanistan is not being made in kabul it's being made in washington and it's all about not foreign policy it's about politics ok obama's choices are very limited right now could we see the repeat of history. well yes i think so but i have to say i mean first on such of nato i mean nato is already leaving i mean you have this again saying we we are in afghanistan what date what was it why do you why do you know what's yours what's the we can't solve it you know what it is in afghanistan effectively as a coalition of the willing as usual mostly britain and america and britain by now i mean the rest are doing the minimum possible to maintain a relationship with the united states which keeps the united states in europe which they still regard as essential in a way which some of them will candidly admitted probably that this is not really about afghanistan at all it's all about european countries believing that they still depend on american security terms and therefore have to help america but as you say in the end the decisio

is supposed to be one of the safest places in all of afghan emma stone and of kabul is an up peoples then you can surely buy that the rest of afghanistan is just ten times worse than that well in all counterinsurgency campaigns when you insert more troops the first thing that happens they see a spike in violence and a spike in deaths and it's to be expected there's no way to stop that that's the nature of conflict d. in kabul the general security situation has been declining over the last year and it's because this is when now is the time with the most of it thirty thousand promised troops of president obama there or they're going to afghanistan right now so that's why we know it because the troops this is what they're doing there but i was going to increase now and there's going to be more desta come and the u.s. secretary of defense says the leaking of classified documents related to the war in afghanistan could lead to even more deaths among the troops but when he leaves who published the material online rejected that accusation saying the pentagon is trying to distract attention

that the americans after having helped pakistan would do enjoy being in and installed a government in kabul basically took off in the middle of the night. that is unlikely to happen this time i think another thing that one needs to be careful about is that pakistan may or may not have some kind of a relationship with the taliban but pakistan has never historically been able to control the taliban. when they were in power initially or when they're out out of power and and seeking refuge in distant parts of the border region the third thing is that the majority of people inside pakistan do not favor at all about kind of government inside pakistan itself and it's highly unlikely that they would support any kind of a taliban dominated government in afghanistan because of its effects on pakistan so i think the last one is very critical within the last year the pakistani population has supported this really in government and the military in mounting a huge campaign against the militancy against the insurgency because they do not want this kind of government inside pakistan the way they treat wome

is supposed to be one of the safest places in all of afghan and i stand in of kabul as an up peoples then you can surely buy that the rest of afghanistan is ten times worse than now well in all counterinsurgency campaigns when you insert more troops the first thing that happens you see a spike in violence and a spike in deaths and it's to be expected there's no way to stop that that's the nature of conflict d. in kabul the general security situation has been declining over the last year and it's because this is when now is the time when the most of the thirty thousand promised troops of president obama there they're going to afghanistan right now so that's why we know it because the troops this is what they're doing that i was going to increase now and there's going to be more deaths to come. there's always more on the main stories we're covering plus plenty of extras on our website r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's waiting to be discovered right. at in our man who hijacked a passenger plane in moscow has been detained find out how you did it and what he wanted. was demonstr

. >> reporter: the two servicemen were headed back to their base in kabul when they apparently ran into taliban fighters. they are searching for the navy men when they disappeared in kabul. >> it serves to remind the challenges we have and also the service and sacrifices that so many make. >> reporter: army specialist shay stanley is back home of a making the ultimate sacrifice. >> he did anything they told him to, he was just always willing to sacrifice for other people and he made sure the job got done. >> reporter: as evidence of tough times ahead, documents printed in the new york times said, the taliban is stronger than at any time since 2001. they say the war is hand strung. they will not count this counterinsurgency as an out period. they are not contradicting anything that is known about the war but a lot of people say the administration has tried to be transparent and this information shows they were not. >>> well an 8-year-old girl visiting has died in a san jose apartment fire. it broke out this morning on the 1600 block of hamilton avenue in willow grove. the fire damaged 6

nick schifrin is joining us this morning from kabul.. good morning, rob. this conference for the first time used a year to describe when the afghan security forces will be able to take over, that is 2014. now, president karzai here in afghanistan has said something similar to that, hoping that his forces would be able to take security in the next five years. this is the most concrete commitment that afghanistan has made to be able to transition to its own forces. that means u.s. forces and the other international coalition forces here will be able to step into the background, into a more training role. it is a very optimistic goal. the police here remain a very corrupt force and seen as such by the afghan people. and the army here remains too small and too weak to really take over security. nonetheless, u.s. is hoping that this will turn into a date that everybody is looking forward to and everybody works towards so that u.s. troops can slowly begin to move out of the country beginning next summer. now, just one more note about this con

military is searching earn afghanistan for the two men south of kabul. >> it serves to remind of the challenges that we have and also the service and sacrifices that so many make. newly leaked classified documents portray a war more grime. it shoes in fine detail why after the u.s. spent $300 billion, the taliban is stronger than it was in 2001 and says the war is hamstrung by the questionable competence and loyalty of afghan police and soldiers but it does not cover the effects of increased troops in afghanistan this year. >> are these documents new information that we haven't heard before. >> apparently the times says nothing conflicts with what we may know but puts it in one place. >> it's a distressing one for people to hear this. >> especially when you hear things like the taliban using perhaps shoulder mounted heat seeking missiles to bring down aircraft and could they be the missiles that we provided to help fight the soviets. >>> transit commuters could face more delays. about 200 ac transit drivers called in sick last week. that is about twice the number of sick calls. union

. >> nick schifrin is live in kabul this morning. >> reporter: a busy day. good morning, rob. good morning, vinita. afghan president, hamid karzai, has viewed the that his hope t security forces will be able to take control of security in the country in five years. but he never used the date 2014. that is now the date that he hopes that his police, his army, can take control of all 34 provinces across the country. that is a very ambitious goal. afghans here widely think of the police as corrupt. and the army here is not ready or large enough to really take control of security. but nonetheless, the u.s. is definitely hoping that the afghans can hit that date. u.s. troops, obviously, would begin to be coming home and take a more training role when that day hits. >> nick, there has been discussion about who is to blame for the fragile security situation in that country. >> reporter: yeah. the afghan government has long wanted the u.s. and international community to admit that some of its decisions here, some of its -- the way that it's spent some of its money, has not been very e

. >> reporter: the two servicemen were believed to be headed back to their base in kabul friday when they apparently ran into taliban fighters. u.s. military forces are searching eastern afghanistan where the two navy men disappeared south of kabul. >> serves to remind the challenges that we have and also the service and sacrifices that so many make. >> reporter: army specialist chase stanley is back home surrounded by family and friends after making the ultimate sacrifice. >> he'd do anything you told him to. didn't matter the job. he was just always willing to sacrifice for other people. and he made sure the job got done. >> reporter: as evidence of tough times ahead, leaked classified documents to the new york times say while the u.s. has spent nearly $300 billion on the u.s. war the taliban is stronger than any time since 2001. documents also say loyalty by the police and army. >> thank you very much, don. >>> san jose apartment fire has killed an 8-year-old girl who was visiting from north carolina. the fire broke out around 1:30 this morning in an apartment on the 1600 block of

shifting power international political happy waves gather in kabul to find ways of handing more control over to afghan forces to stabilize the conflict stricken country. calls mount for a bigger funding in the battle against aids but while scientists remain split over how to deal with the so-called epidemic others claim it's nothing more than a wife style disease. and and doing well for discrimination president obama is determined to expand unemployment benefits slamming republicans for courting the rich with tax cuts as the senate prepares to vote. this is already coming to live from moscow in marina joshua welcome to the program handing afghan security back to afghans and that's what's being discussed as the country's capital kabul host its biggest international conference in decades events expected to produce an agreement on shifting more control to afghan forces that tell you no it's always there for us all work is being shifted over to the afghan forces the one that will set for that during the last conference on afghanistan which to place in london earlier this year is now being i