mourning the death of kandahar's mayor. his family question is whether his sacrifice was worth it. >> i think i have given up on my country. i do not see a light at the end of the tunnel. >> welcome to our viewers on psb and around the globe -- pbs and around the globe. medical staff have been forced to flee. rescuers reached the hospital. they found 21 survivors. our reporter has been to the hospital. his report contains some distressing images. >> what happened here at this hospital over the past amadeus is one of the most terrible incidents of this entire revolution -- over the past four days is one of the most terrible incidents in this entire revolution. we were told we would have to wear surgical masks inside for our own safety. the hospital staff ran away yesterday -- days ago because of the fighting. seriously ill people kept being brought in. here, they died of their injuries entirely on treated. -- untreated. the stench of death is too strong, too strong for the efforts of this volunteer. scenes that took place he

having left the lights of kandahar behind, the shadowy threat this u.s.medevac team regular face were only further obscured by darkness. 25-year-old staff sergeant kyle clark hopped out of the chopper to survey the scene. >> i jumped out, was on the ground maybe 15 seconds, they took off, and then pretty much you're out there by yourself, you have no idea what you're walking into. >> reporter: a few minutes later they loaded casualties on two helicopters. time was their biggest enemy. these flight medics refer to having a so-called golden hour, just 60 minutes to get the seriously wounded to a hospital. >> blood sweep on the patient, figure out where he's bleeding from, once you figure that out, you fix things as you come across them. >> reporter: little was known about the back story, how five afghan police officers wound up with multiple gunshot wounds. patients come in here, what are you trying to do, just stabilize them? >> yes, trying to get them to the next echelon of care. >> reporter: daylight offers a better sense of how the flight medics of task

first shout out to gi jew in kandahar.laughter] [cheers and applause] by the way good luck with that nickname out there. kandahar air field, when people say -- and by the way this is writing that i did on the plane i can blairly read my -- blurry. when people talk about war and they say they are in the (bleep) i didn't realize that the (bleep) came in pond form. or would be placed close to your dining hall. to bagram air force base i'll never forget our night at the clam shell or the fact that one of your soldiers told me that my mets hat was considered an unacceptable risk and that's why i was given this one. i very much appreciate that. [cheers and applause] to the period to operating base dbir ron mow it was the best cho in town, no question. it would be nice if someone warned me that it could get hot enough there for my ass cheeks to fuse together. [laughter] to the pilot of the osprey would have been nice if we closed that back hatch. [laughter] to fob deli, no it was not pretty mild that day. [laughter] but thank you

>> reporter: of course, building a road in kandahar requires more than just heavy equipment.ot-so-subtle message, and create a smokescreen for soldiers building the checkpoints. >> the taliban, you know, they're angry that we're here. they might spray a couple of shot at us but they can't stop us. >> reporter: first lieutenant mark bedrin says though they were shot at twice, that's not their real worry. >> the hardest thing-- the hardest thing i think about this whole war is the i.e.d. threat. it's scary and demoralizing to the guys to walk around and be afraid of those because they're so lethal and you never know what kind of i.e.d. area you're in. >> reporter: this was once a taliban operation center and you can see just across the road here a checkpoint billion by coalition forces. this is the idea for the coalition to come in and control more roads and thoroughfare, build checkpoints and get rid of the taliban. it took just a day to push to the river, plowing right through crop land, and unearthing one of the ever-present conflicts that makes this war harder to win-- the

having left the lights of kandahar behind, the shadowy threats this u.s.y medevac team regularly face were only further obscured by darkness. 25-year-old staff sergeant kyle clark hopped out of the chopper to survey the scene. >> i jumped out, i was on the ground maybe 15 seconds, they took off and then pretty much you're out there by yourself, you have no idea what you're walking into. >> reporter: a few minutes later they loaded casualties on two helicopters. time was their biggest enemy. these flight medics refer to having a so-called golden hour. just 60 minutes to get the seriously wounded to a hospital. >> blood sweep on the patient, figure out where he's bleeding from. once you figure that out, it's just... you fix things as you come across them. >> reporter: little was known about the back story-- how five afghan police officers wound up with multiple gunshot wounds. when patients come in here, what are you trying to do, just stabilize them? >> yes, we're trying to get them to the next echelon of care. >> reporter: daylight offers a better sense of

especially kandahar which is the crossroads of five major cities. all of those has been significant in the center of gravity since alexander the great. afghanistan is what is considered old persian of through asia that is part of the silk road that the british so intent on controlling it. twice. it is significant and that is what we wanted people to know and understand. not just a one clemson time but for centuries and remains exceptionally diverse and nine -- dynamic where soldiers are serving. >> >> there is a lot of four books. toward the end, it was intents. great job. >> thank you very much. it took a lot of hard work again. the biggest challenge is because of the security requirements what they actually did an accomplished it is nothing short of phenomenal. people buy it because they want to know what the soldiers are doing that was a very consistent question how much do they contribute? there relates directly to the units that we saw all are that you read about in the book or that we helped to build so they truly considered us almost afghans

special operations need to look at southern afghanistan, what southern afghanistan is, especially kandahar, it's the cross roads to five major cities. all of the five major cities in afghanistan. it has been significant in the center of gravity sense the time of alexander the great. it is where everything travels from persia to asia. it was the old silk road which was part of the reason the british were so content on controlling it twice. it's hugely significant about the area. and that's what we wanted. that's what we wanted people to know. it's just the one. it's been for centuries an exceptionally diverse and dynamic place where the shoulders are serving. any other questions? got to be somebody. yes, sir? >> this was one the best -- towards the end, it was intense. it was a great book. >> thank you very much. it took a lot of hard work. again i think the biggest challenge for me was because of the security requirements, having to tone down a lot of men what they actually did and accomplished. it is nothing sort of phenomenal. and i'm hoping that people buy it because they want to know w

nobody wants to go to kandahar, because -- you know, nobody wants to take that risk, because they know- i mean, they kill these people by putting bombs in the turban. this is a new innovation. so the real point is does -- is the u.s. going have a partner to which it can transition to? in other words, when it leaves, will there be a partner who is sufficiently strong enough to hold the country together? >> rose: and it looksincreasing. >> yeah. >> rose: some say the thing thee governance part of it. >> that's the piece. ev if you take karzai's half-brother, one these people who was assassinated, these are deeply unpopular people. they -- you know, they rule in the way that warlords or mafia bossesdo. theyre not popular people, but this is what we've built, you know. >> rose: even though they wereny effective? >> you know, they were effective at carrying on dayo day. they were effective at helping the americans find people that they wted to kill and capture. >> rose: and they were noteffecr because of corruption? >> mostly. corruption and failed dysfunctional governance. nothing works. s

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he joins us now from kandahar air field. seth, how was news of the chinook crash taken there? >> well, anthony, it is a devastating blow, both emotionally and psychologically. we were at a couple of different bases over the weekend, and where there were television sets, they were on, tuned into news channels. people are looking for any sort of information. and it was, of course, the only thing troops were talking about. also, from an operational perspective, at least from what we could see, there were bits of changes as well. i was riding on one of those ch- 47 chinook helicopters today. i took the very same ride across kandahar in a chinook a week ago, and actually fell asleep while i was on the helicopter. today there was absolutely no sleeping at all. i was sitting next to an army aviator who told me that the pilot was trying to make it a very difficult target to hit. he was flying incredibly low, sometimes just a hundred to 150 feet off of the ground. we were going at about 140 miles per hour. you would look out the side of the window and you would see only sky and a secon

we joined them on a medical mission on black hawk helicopters in kandahar. compare afghanistan to other places you've flown. >> busy. i mean, it's busy, it's hot, it's harsh and you've just got to keep your head about you at all times because if you really do get complacent and lazy, they can grab you. >> reporter: this afternoon, the medevac team airlifted two afghans seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. how common is it for you to pick up afghans? >> very common. we do, of course, all u.s. coalition forces, enemy prisoners of war, afghan, local nationals, afghan national army. basically anyone in the country that needs medical evacuation we go ahead and handle. >> reporter: while the priority is stabilizing patients, this weekend's helicopter incident is adding a new focus. a crash like the chinook crash raises your awareness. >> yes. >> reporter: how so? >> we've been here since months and you kind of get in your rhythm and it makes you more wary like, wow, people are still dying here everyday. >> reporter: missions continue across afghanistan and

just one month after that meeting in kandahar september 11th, 2001. states reel from the attacks, those who know about that meeting at that kandahar campfire reel over what may be about to come next. overnight the most important question for the united states government becomes how far along is al qaeda in its pursuit of a nuclear bomb and how can the united states stop them from assembling one? >> that's a piece of cake if you have enough material. if you look at the hiroshima bomb, you know, it was 50 kelo grams of hgu. the oklahoma city bombing was two tons. if you about back and look at the devastation, the two-ton bomb, think of 13,000 tons versus two tons. it's -- it's inconceivable. even if you look at the hiroshima pictures, it's inconceivable. >> if you have the material, it's not hard to build that bomb? >> no. >> ralph moet larson had been planning on a new cia posting in beijing, but after 9/11, just after 9/11 he is drafted personally by cia director george tenet to lead a new effort instead. >> that is one of my most vivid memories. he s

a month later, even kandahar, the taliban's hometown, is overthrown. >> kandahar, that was the last urbanonghold of the taliban and al qaeda, less than 90 days after 9/11, there were only 410 americans on the ground in afghanistan. about 110 cia and approximately 300 special forces. >> reporter: 400 americans. >> right. >> reporter: on the ground, and they toppled the government of the taliban. >> well, 400 americans that were in partnership with our afghan allies. and that was really the key. >> reporter: the cost to america to drive out the taliban? less than $1 billion, and one u.s. cia officer killed. relatively speaking, it was a very cheap and low-risk victory. what happened after that? >> well, i believe that we as a nation and as a global community failed to secure that victory. >> reporter: the quick victory in afghanistan wasn't secured in large part because of pakistan, and its porous border. al qaeda and the taliban crossed over and established a new sanctuary next to afghanistan. and then, in what has been called an even greater strategic mistake, the united states found a ne

built in kandahar and helmand.y dispersing and disaggregating this process down to the regional level, we have had a huge uplift in southern postern in the last six months. the numbers are starting to change. initially, the success has been in the police then in the army. the third piece is trying to get after it literacy, the illiteracy issue. two years ago, nato -- even though we have been in afghanistan as a mission as isaf, the nato training mission is -- one of the things we realized right away is literacy in afghanistan is bunched at the two ends of the age spectrum. children are going to schools that have opened since 2001. the generation that went to school prior to the soviet invasion in 1979 have a degree of literacy. and the age group you want in your security forces, 18 through 40, there is a 14% literacy rate. >> is that countrywide or in the south? >> it is worse in the south. the areas they took over shut the schools down. what you have now is when you take a few officers that you can clean who have

one of the few things the air force admitted is this strong call the beast of kandahar.t conducts surveillance. one of the great questions about, why does the government need a drone that does not fire a missile? the taliban does not have the missiles to take them down. the suggestion was that maybe we were flying in over iran or north korea. from what i anders down, that was the drum that did the surveillance on the bin laden rate. -- raid. tavis: is there stuff the american people would be repulsed by it? >> absolutely. one of the most important narrative threads in my book is this issue of, what national security secrets should be kept secret and what does the public have a right to know? that is central to what i write about. i relay several programs which have been declassified. i talk about them from firsthand witnesses, nuclear programs that were reckless. one of them was a dirty bomb test on the edges of area 51. it contaminated the land. plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years. the department of defense when they did the test said it was a safety test. as i wr

. >> another generation of young veterans earn the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad. they continue right here at home. today we're saying to our veterans, you fought for us. now we're fighting for you. >> the administration says there are more than a million unemployed veterans in the united states. one-fourth of them enlisted after the september 11 terrorist attack. >>> a 9-year-old boy is now reported in critical condition, after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while leaving the giants game. a woman was injured. at this hour, suspect was in custody. amy hollyfield is live at san francisco general where the young victim is treated. amy? >> the parents are by their side. they're in town from philadelphia. they were here for the giants-phillies game last night. it was on their way home from the game that the boy was hit by the truck. police arrested 21-year-old andrew vargas of hayward. they found him in hayward a couple hours after the crash. he's charged with leaving the scene. dui. they think he was over the legal limit. and open container. he's in jail. the ba

centers that we have built in both kandahar and helmand.gregating this process down to the regional level, we have had a huge uplift in southern pashtu in the last six months. that is starting to change. initially, the success has been more with the police and in the army. -- a van in the army. the third piece is trying to get at the illiteracy issue. two years ago, nato training mission -- even though we have been in afghanistan as a mission as isaf, and the u.s. for 10 years, the nato training mission is only 22 months old, barbara. and one of the things that we realized right away is that literacy in afghanistan is really bunched at the two ends of the age spectrum. children are going to schools that have opened since 2001, and then the generation that went to school prior to the soviet invasion prior to 1979 have a degree of literacy. and the age group that you want in your security forces, 18-40, there is a 14% literacy rate. >> is that countrywide? or just the south? >> it is countrywide, and it is worst in the south. the taliban and

. >> for the first time in a month, kandahar lee charlie beck made an appearance. on july 26, the chief was supposed to be at an unveiling of a billboard in east los angeles. and the controversy of the matter was hot. giovani had just been eliminated as a suspect. sanchez and norwood were now the suspects and when the chief didn't show up at that billboard unveiling, some had the peeceps perception that he didn't want to talk about that anymore. >> this was one of those cases? >> sure. absolutely. nothing to hide. i am more than willing to talk about anything. >> the sting of the ramirez matter had gone away? >> this is the nature of police work. >> he wouldn't go into details, but is he convinced that sanchez and norwood indeed are the right suspects? >> it's a great case. the district attorney accepted it. filed charges. i believe in the case. >> ramirez remains in state prison, parole violation. he won't get out until next march. sanchez and norwood are in isolation in county jail. separated and except for their attorneys have no phone calls or visitation rights

kandahar. i said i want to open the school. they said we want to open the girls school. absolutely. have at it. they were so proud of themselves. they took me downtown. here on the day they opened school, these little kids, little boys with long shirts on an girls are little shawls over their head and white blouses, just completely white and long plaid skirts and little black shoes and little white socks and little book bag. it was like somebody took dehydrated students and poured water and poof, they all popped out. these guys were so proud. i doubt any of them had been to school. they learned to give the american thumbs up. as they walk down the street, we heard some people, the taliban were upset with this. they very much fear education. real education. they though what it does to free people's thinking. we had u.s. army special forces, marines, navy seals along the street with automatic weapons and grenades and bandoliers of ammo and these little girls and little boys walked alongside these foreign soldiers very proud. they knew who were the good guys and who were the bad guys.

are they able to fight and hold ground in cobble and kandahar? i would tell you that there are not. as a team, the enemy has been set on retreat. the ability to conduct this spectacular attack, anyone who is willing to blow themselves up can kill a lot of people. we have seen that in mumbai with the world trade center, with 9/11 coming up, with spain, in london. you will not be able to direct that fully with the security forces. a lot of that will really have to be addressed long term through the reconciliation process through education process. but as far as the ability to totally disrupt a society, the insurgent threat, the taliban, it is increasingly limited in the places that they can do that in afghanistan. i think it is actually great. at the intercontinental hotel, the response in kandahar, that is a success story for the afghan forces. we did not have to go in and deal with it. they dealt with it. afghanistan will be needing in support for a long time. there will not have an air force that is fully functional for a number of years. but troops on the ground were largely afgha

passengers were injured some of them critically the incident happened early in the morning just outside kandahar city on the main road from the capital meanwhile an explosives packed rickshaw detonated near the vehicle of an afghan intelligence agents agent i should say killing two and wounding three. the rebels say they have finally captured the strategic alternative they get in the east of the country and they've been fighting for control of the industrial town for the last week comes after rebels seized the country's main oil refinery in the city of zawiya the territory still under his control has been decreasing dramatically in the past weeks with opposition fighters closing in on the capital. at least six people have been killed and fifty others injured in pakistan after an identified gunman ambushed a bus carrying plainclothes commandos they were heading to carry out a raid following a tip off when they were intercepted by armed men who opened fire vehicles attacked on three sides earlier fifty were killed and eighty five wounded after a teenage suicide bomber detonated his device in the m

. >> another generation of young veterans earn the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad. they continue right here at home. today we're saying to our veterans, you fought for us. now we're fighting for you. >> the administration says there are more than a million unemployed veterans in the united states. one-fourth of them enlisted after the september 11 terrorist attack. >>> a 9-year-old boy is now reported in critical condition, after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while leaving the giants game. a woman was injured. at this hour, suspect was in custody. amy hollyfield is live at san francisco general where the young victim is treated. amy? >> the parents are by their side. they're in town from philadelphia. they were here for the giants-phillies game last night. it was on their way home from the game that the boy was hit by the truck. police arrested 21-year-old andrew vargas of hayward. they found him in hayward a couple hours after the crash. he's charged with leaving the scene. dui. they think he was over the legal limit. and open container. he's in jail. the ba

nato troops and afghan police have left four officers dead and four others injured just outside kandahar city the local police chief says the victims were members of an anti taliban initiative manned by locals wanting to protect their own villages the local police chief said the men were reportedly mistaken for insurgents the incident follows last month's move by nato to begin handing over control to local authorities across afghanistan. syrian tanks and armored vehicles have stormed several north western towns near the border with turkey expanding the military offensive to crush protests it comes as president bashar offload out he will not relent in pursuing what he called terrorist groups in the country earlier he met with the turkish foreign minister who pressed him to end the crackdown on anti-government protesters over fifteen hundred people have reportedly been killed since the uprising began in march. the u.s. drone strike has killed twenty one suspected taliban and al qaeda militants including foreign members in northwestern pakistan the group is believed to be behind a number of

passengers were injured some of them critically the incident happened early in the morning just outside kandahar city on the main road from the capital meanwhile an explosives packed rickshaw detonated near the vehicle of an afghan intelligence agent killing two and wounding three people. a missing russian communication satellite has been found by the us space surveillance network after failing to separate from its booster rocket the device never reached its designated orbit experts now fear the satellite will not have enough fuel to reach its working position the russian space agency is investigating what went wrong and find his will now try to use the u.s. data to establish a communication link with the express and for the satellite was prime to be one of europe's most powerful and provide coverage across almost all of russia experts are hopeful the device could be salvaged and serve at least a portion of its planned fifteen year working life. now the sounds of the jet engines are going roaring around moscow over the past few days with flying machines tearing up the skies archie is out the mox

troops and are going to police have led four officers dead and four others injured just outside kandahar city the local police chief says the victims were members of an anti taliban initiative he said the men were reportedly with taken for insurgents the incident follows last month's move by a native to begin hundred handing over control to local authorities and cos i've got stuck. up to date up next as more civilians reportedly die in nato air strikes in libya serious questions are being asked over the legality of the alliance's intervention and he spoke to the former editor of the british newspaper the sun who says that leave it was a good p.r. stunt for the british government as he shares his insights into the conflict. today i'm talking to kelvin mackenzie former editor of the song newspaper columnist he's spoken out against the military intervention in libya saying that libya is not worth an ounce of british bloods mckenzie that's a very strong position to take i mean the government reckons that as strikes prevented a massacre in benghazi usually that's worth a few british bombs and

afghan police and nato forces has left four officers dad and four more wounded in a district after kandahar and local police chief said the medical report of the mistaken for insurgents and witnesses claimed they were praying when they came under fire. syrian troops have taken control of the eastern city of derails or which has been a front line for the past four days it comes as president bashar vowed he will not use the response to mass protests across the country earlier he met with foreign minister and a masochist who pressed him to end the crackdown on demonstrators meanwhile the united states called on tuesday for more international sanctions against syria more than seventeen hundred people have reportedly been killed in the country since the uprising began in march. an american drone attack in pakistan near the afghan border has killed twenty people pakistani officials say most of the dead were afghan militants belonging to an insurgent group is one of us has repeatedly called for the u.s. to stop the strikes saying they're a violation of the country sovereignty and drone attacks hav

forces shot dead four afghan police officers after mistaking them for insurgents and a district that kandahar hundred fifty nato troops have been killed in afghanistan this month alone. at least seven people including a child were killed in two explosions in the city of peshawar in northwest pakistan police suspect female suicide bombers carried out one of the attacks earlier a bomb exploded at least around tare officers to work peshawar lines near areas where taliban and outside the militants operate bomb attacks mainly aimed at security forces have been on the prize says the killing of osama bin laden you know . the u.s. is putting more pressure on the syrian government by imposing sanctions on its main and immobile phone operator measure comes after poll were reportedly killed in a coma and continued down on the opposition activists say the army used tanks and fired guns on protesters on wednesday more than seventeen hundred people have been killed since anti-government uprisings began in march. colombian police have arrested a woman who base a set of businesses to launder money for mexico

five people dead and injuring dozens some of them critically it happened just outside the city of kandahar on the main road from the capital officials say reckless driving is the most likely cause of the crash such accidents are common occurrences in the country where rows and vehicles are often poorly maintained. over ten thousand people gathered in india's capital in support of a prominent activist who is on his fifth day of a hunger strike. says he is physically weak but will not renounce his fight demanding tougher anti-corruption laws campaigners started in jail after being arrested for planning a protest without police approval because arias says indians are fed up with the government driver with government bribery and has threatened to starve himself to death in parliament passes his legislation. twenty years to the day history was in the making here on the streets of moscow the city was under military curfew of the second day of an attempt to overthrow mikhail gorbachev then president of the soviet union argues tom burton looks back at the attempted coup that proved petal in the co

four others injured just outside kandahar city the local police chief says the victims were members of an anti taliban initiative he said the men were reportedly mistaken for insurgents the incident follows last month's move by nato to begin handing over control of the two local authorities across afghanistan. the sexual abuse case involving a seven year old girl has shaken one small russian town in the country's far east outrage was triggered after judges allowed the suspected paedophile to walk away free. cove reports on how mothers and activists are taking matters into their own hands as hundreds of child abusers escape justice every year. and mother in grief your own news was that if i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family will leave on the first floor with curtains constantly drawn go to work every day sick with fear for my daughter which are on the website. it was hard for that is to admit she trusted someone who harmed her daughter she brought the man into the house is a common law husband to live side by side w

these are the images the world seeing from the streets of kandahar. both of her a little bit of. it was. stacy herbert you know of people. what is the root cause behind all these riots stacey herbert so it's more the riots in the street i might add and the riots in the markets headline reads quantitative easing is good for the rich bad for the poor quantitative easing the bank of england's recession busting policy of buying up billions of pounds of bonds may have contributed to social unrest by exacerbating inequality according to one city economist because they missed diagnose the problem back in two thousand and eight they felt that there was a liquidity problem in the markets instead of an insolvency problem the big banks max they misdiagnosed it to the public this is what they told the public because the evidence suggests that q.e. cash ends up overwhelmingly in profits thereby exacerbate an already extreme income inequality and the consequent social tensions that arise from it and you also point out that real wages adjusted for inflation have fallen in both the u.s. and u.k.

forces shot dead four afghan police officers after mistaking them for insurgents in the district of kandahar more than fifty nato troops have been killed in afghanistan this month alone. at least seven people including a child were killed in two explosions in the city of peshawar in northwest pakistan police suspect female suicide bombers carried out one of the attacks earlier a bomb exploded near a police van carrying officers to work peshawar lines near areas where taliban and al-qaeda militants operate followed stocks mainly aimed at security forces have been on the rise since the killing of osama bin ladin in may. activists in syria say the army has stormed a town near the turkish border and detained at least eight hundred people this comes despite the u.s. tightening sanctions against syria's main bank and mobile phone operator washington put pressure on president also after eighteen people were reportedly killed in homes in a continued crackdown on the opposition activists say the army used tanks and fired guns on protesters and more than seventeen hundred people have been killed since