very strange and we were rocketed in kandahar. was trying to write a blog post about general betray us. they rock the power until it was out. i got a military flight. especially as a journalist you have to wait around. i've never seen anything like it. c-span: how do they treat you? >> guest: they treated me well. almost everyone, there are a few exceptions. but most people have always treated me with the utmost respect for. c-span: what would you tell someone when they want to do what you have done? when you talk about the reporters -- are they part of this in the military he came out and said that i had been in that case, that was john burns. when he comes out and attacks your work, it is not something that someone takes very lightly. this is a pretty serious thing. c-span: what does he think you have done wrong? >> guest: it is interesting. i have learned subsequently that he had hung around the generals before and have heard some interesting things and did not report them. first he wrote a blog about this in 2004 with general

staff sergeant robert bales murdered 16 people, mostly women and children, in kandahar province last year. we have this report from the hearing in washington state. >> sergeant robert bales showed no apparent emotion as he appeared -- admitted to the late-night rampage through two afghan villages. when the judge asked why he killed 16 civilians, bales hesitated for a moment, then replied, "i have asked myself that question a million times since then. there is not a good reason in this world for doing the horrible things i did." on march 11, 2012, bales, who was on his fourth combat deployment and had twice been wounded in action, allegedly drank alcohol with fellow soldiers and took prescription drugs and steroids. he was reportedly desponding over the state of his marriage. he crept out of the u.s. outpost in the pen joy district -- on july district -- in the panjwayi district. in one home, on elderly woman fought with bales in an apparent attempt it perfect her family elderly woman, and elderlan fought with bales in an attempt to protect her family. she was killed. by pleading guil

do you have connections in kandahar?nd finally, if you do, you might -- [inaudible] you might consider making a comment on the brookings constitution if you want to encounter that. the u.s. government is a very firm belief on many people it is really just about questions and nonquestions. [inaudible] a question. ab excellent point about economic and my question there is recognizing the need for jobs and the youth population what role were youth themselves playing in the economic situation in afghanistan in term of entrepreneurial activity. starting their own businesses. try to address the economic problems that you rightly highlight. thank you. >> just on the question of 1400. we have our strongest can -- kandahar one of our founders flew in for the weekly meetings. he was at the time -- and he would -- from kandahar he would fly in weekly and he wouldn't misone meeting from 1400 meetings. and he has been sent on launch pushing us to visit as soon as we can. we are planning to go and visit kandahar and the provinces. the

robert ailes murdered 16 people in kandahar province last year. .eaction in the afghan capital rob reynolds reports from the hearing in washington state. showedeant robert bales no apparent emotion as he admitted to along litany of murder and mayhem perpetrated on a late-night rampage. when the judge asked why he killed 16 civilians, he hesitated for a moment and replied, i have asked myself that question a million times since then. there is not a good reason in this world for doing the horrible things i did. who had twiceales been wanted in action allegedly drank alcohol with fellow soldiers and to prescription drugs and steroids. he was despondent over the state of his marriage. he went from house to house, shooting, stabbing, and clubbing members of civilian families in their homes. most of the victims were women and children. in one home, an elderly woman fought with bales in an apparent attempt to protect her family. he killed her and said some of the body's on fire. 11 other afghans were shot but survived. " whenanswered, "yes sir asked if he was guilty of each charge. he was required

in a separate attack the same day, a roadside explosion hit a minibus in the southern province of kandahar. 11 passengers were killed, including eight women and two children. with no afghan or international troops in the area, officials say the militants deliberately targeted civilians. >>> indonesia is promising to do everything in its power to tackle the fires that have blanketed singapore and parts of malaysia with a dangerous haze. the president on tuesday visited emergency services to offer his support a day after making a rare public apology to neighboring countries. nhk world reports. >> reporter: the president on tuesday visited an air base near jakarta. in a public relations effort for audiences at home and abroad, he was shown giving encouragement to the emergency services dispatched to attack the fires. some farmers on the island are burning patches of forest illegally to fertilize the soil and kill insects. the smoke is carried by seasonal rains to malaysia and singapore. thick haze forced malaysia on sunday to declare a state of emergency. two days earlier, singapore said poll

>> security checks like this one in kandahar help keep ordinary citizens safe from terrorist attacks. officers put their lives on the line checking car seats for hidden explosives. on police do catch the suicide bombers they can become the victims. afghan security forces still number 300 50,000, 1% of the population. >> i'm glad that we are taking over responsibility now. our police officers are sons of this nation and they will serve us better than foreigners. the foreigners always act in their own interests. >> the afghan troops are often poorly equipped and the pay is meager. there are fears that it will prompt them to accept bribes from warlords. they painted a picture of optimism. president hamid karzai said they would meet with them in neutral ground and qatar. hours later, they officially opened eight atari office. -- a qatari office. >> we encourage them to engage positively and ensuring long- term peace and stability in the region. >> the lawless border region remains a base for militants. just a few kilometers from the ceremony, the danger they still pose was apparent. anoth

>> security checks like this one in kandahar help keep ordinary citizens safe from terrorist attacks. officers put their lives on the line checking car seats for hidden explosives. on police do catch the suicide bombers they can become the victims. afghan security forces still number 300 50,000, 1% of the population. >> i'm glad that we are taking over responsibility now. our police officers are sons of this nation and they will serve us better than foreigners. the foreigners always act in their own interests. >> the afghan troops are often poorly equipped and the pay is meager. there are fears that it will prompt them to accept bribes from warlords. they painted a picture of optimism. president hamid karzai said they would meet with them in neutral ground and qatar. hours later, they officially opened eight atari office. -- a qatari office. >> we encourage them to engage positively and ensuring long- term peace and stability in the region. >> the lawless border region remains a base for militants. just a few kilometers from the ceremony, the danger they still pose was apparent. anoth

particularly in the taliban heartland areas of kandahar provinces where they started, the key battles have been fought where the taliban have suffered their greatest. >> ifill: the u.s., this cannot happen without continued u.s. pressure and involvement. >> with u.s. support at this point. u.s. and our nato allies we're not leading the operations or planning the operations we're providing support, we're standing by the afghans. what they're showing and sometimes they suffer tactical setbacks on the battlefield they are always going back, going back to the places where they have been pushed out of taking that territory back and pushing the taliban further back on their heels. >> david sedny, david lamm, pam constable thank you very much. >> >> brown: still to come on the newshour, senator rand paul on immigration reform; a new study finds schools are failing to educate teachers; violent clashes over religion in myanmar; and poetry that gives voice to afghan women. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: leaders at the g-8 summit pressed for syrian

in a separate attack the same day, a roadside explosion hit a minibus in the southern province of kandahar. officials say militants deliberately targeted civilians. >>> computer hackers have targeted government websites in south korea. the site for the presidential office was among their targets. the cyber attack coincided with the anniversary of the start of the korean war. spokespersons for the presidential office say the hackers left messages on the site praising north korean leader kim jong-un. technicians returned things back to normal after about six hours. the hackers also hit websites for the ruling party and a newspaper. the government advised officials and the public to take security measures. in march hackers breached a number of websites and servers at financial institutions in south korea. investigators later determined north korea was responsible. >>> the president of brazil is trying to get in front of a nationwide protest movement that's shaken her country. she says her government will increase funding for public services. >> she spoke at a meeting of local governors and an

army forces out there in the kandahar province of afghanistan. a video from bunk 530, and you see them taking cover behind the berm of the road. we see a machine gunner ahead of them, and he is unloading across the road. laying down some fire so that his other buddy s cies can hone and try to take out the opposition. a few seconds in, you see the machine gunner readjusting as if he has a gun jam, and then you hear a thud right next to him. listen. >> oh! >> i heard that. it soundings like to me it was a grenade launcher they launched across the road. >> cease-fire. >> you hear everybody yelling cease-fire, to see if the enemy had been neutralized across the road. you don't hear any return gun fire, and sounds like they took out the opposition. now, this patrol eventually gets up on the road again and starts to make their way to the few vehicles down the road to take cover. they say they stay to the road, because there is a high threat of ieds buried in the dirt on either side of the road. >> can you imagine how terrifying that is. they have just

from the streets of kandahar. operation to rule the day. british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. not far from crosstalk here in r t but for now the u.k. chancellor george osborne is set to announce even more sweeping national cuts in its upcoming spending review he's already said that almost a twelve billion pounds need to be show from government budgets and he's going to tell the british people just who is going to suffer the most. the story once a place of sanctuary now a patent symbol of austerity person a small garden was where stephanie boucher will often sought refuge from her financial ways it was here she'd raised a family but when her son moved out she was caught by the new government scheme that's the bedroom tax days in social housing with spare rooms let's face it cuts to the housing benefits all moved to somewhere smaller less than a month ago and the fifty three year old grandmother of one killed herself by stepping in front of a meetin

military official is accused of illegally handing over afghan prisoners to a man known as a riot kandahar the chief interpreter for u.s. special forces in the region but that arrest being linked to multiple cases of torture and killing. almost ten thousand people had to flee giant floods in central europe a tarantula rains that that leaves nine dead many many more missing on the river as you can see right dangerously high levels are there in germany in austria in switzerland and the czech republic in fact in prague the old town troops are setting up protective barriers and sandbags to keep national treasures above water . and it's thought that an ammonia gas leak may have caused the slaughterhouse a blaze in northern china which killed at least one hundred twenty relatives of some of the victims accuse the owners of ignoring safety rules amid reports fire exits were blocked police say they have a number of people in custody including a senior workshop employee more than three hundred people were inside when the blaze erupted on monday early a third of the most. well thanks very much for w

military officials accused of illegally one hundred go or are going to prison as much does as a carrier kandahar e three is the true interpreter for u.s. special forces in the region and the arrest is being linked to multiple cases of torture and killing. almost ten thousand people had to flee giant floods in central europe torrential rains left at least nine dead and several more missing rivers are a dangerously high levels and germany austria switzerland and the czech republic in prague troops are setting up protective barrier is in the historical center made warnings things could get worse. they sought an ammonia gas leak may have caused the slaughterhouse blaze in northern china which claimed at least one hundred twenty lives relatives of the of some of the victims accuse the owners of ignoring safe fuels and made reports fire exits were blocked police say they have a number of people in custody including a senior walk shop employee more than three hundred people were inside when the blaze started on monday morning only a search of them escaped. he travels to the ice fields of the white seed

separate attacks in afghanistan one soldier was killed by a homemade bomb in the southern city of kandahar in the east of the country a shooting and a bomb blast killed two nato troops and is civilian working for the international military coalition at least sixty eight nato service members have been killed in afghanistan since the beginning of two thousand and twelve. five al qaeda members working in baghdad to make sarin and mustard gas have been arrested four were shown to the media iraq's defense ministry says the extremists planned attacks on western targets and in iraq using remote controlled drones and is also suspected of being used by syria's rebels according to the united nations. at least four people were killed in an attack on the largest prison in my new jersey capital according to officials an inmate grabbed a gun from a security officer and shot three guards and a civilian were members of the list militant group movement for unity and a jihad in west africa were stationed outside the prison and then entered the building after nigerian it troops were at the prison to help the

from the streets of kandahar. operation to rule the day. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lobo modern day exit is christian communities in the greater middle east i've been on the decline for the past century particularly over the last decade what accounts for this arab nationalism the advent of the arab spring or the logical outcome of western meddling and outside interventions. across the christians in the arab world i'm joined by michael maloof in washington he's a senior reporter for the world net daily and a former analyst for the defense department also in washington we have matthew feeney he's an assistant editor at reason twenty four seven and in london we crossed todd he is the president of arab lawyers association in the u.k. our gentleman cross-talk rose and if you can jump in anytime you want michael can you just give us a broad stroke history of what's happened to the christians in the middle east over the last century will focus the last ten years later go ahead. well i think the christ

immature more future it's a project contract workers have already begun to work on last month alone kandahar yard produced eleven million pounds worth of scrap but the obvious question is why not leave those vehicles to the afghans and that's not the only. concern opponents of the plan have it's a huge waste of taxpayer dollars seven billion gone done no one's benefiting the americans aren't benefiting the afghans are benefiting so it's a huge waste of money it's a huge environmental waste because there's a lot of toxins in those amounts so yeah some of the scrap metal will be used on the market sold for nothing but environmental waste it's huge and in the political ways to mean it's a huge blow to the afghan people to say we don't trust you enough to provide both the equipment and the ability to keep that equipment restored and maintained going forward now this move isn't completely out of line with historical precedents the military left behind millions of pieces of equipment in iraq and moved all the rest to afghanistan well with the u.s. planning its ultimate exit from the entire region

separate attacks in afghanistan one soldier was killed by a homemade bomb in the southern city of kandaharin the east of the country a shooting at a bomb blast killed two nato troops and a civilian working for the international military coalition at least sixty eight nato service members have been killed in afghanistan since the beginning of two thousand and twelve. five al qaeda members working in baghdad to make sarin and a mustard gas have been arrested iraq's defense ministry says the extremists planned attacks on western targets and in iraq using remote controlled drones also suspected of being used by syria's rebels according to the u.n. . the death toll from a new series of tornadoes that swept through oklahoma and in neighboring states has risen to twelve with dozens of others injured some critically three people have been confirmed dead as a result of flooding in the state of missouri in the aftermath of the storms oklahoma has barely had a chance to start recovery from the lethal twisters two weeks ago when a mile wide tornado killed twenty four people and a leveled communities.

separate attacks in afghanistan one soldier was killed by a homemade bomb in the southern city of kandahar in the east of the country a shooting and a bomb blast killed two nato troops and a civilian worker for the international military coalition at least sixty eight nato service members have been killed in afghanistan since the beginning of two thousand and twelve. five al qaeda members working in bad. dad it to make a sailor and mustard gas have been arrested iraq's defense ministry says the extremists planned attacks on western targets and in iraq using remote controlled drones sarin is also suspected of being used by syria's rebels according to the u.n. . and coming up max kaiser and stacy herbert explore some of the more unconventional ways of forcing people to pay back their debt that's coming up right after the break. a u.s. senate committee has passed a bill that if signed by obama will love the u.s. to put a lot of weapons into the hands of syrian rebels this seems rather odd because many of the factions that are revolting seem like bad people to be arming in fact one rebel facti

separate attacks in afghanistan one soldier was killed by a homemade bomb in the southern city of kandaharin the east of the country and a shooting and a bomb blast killed two nato troops and a civilian working for the international military coalition at least sixty eight nato service members have been killed in afghanistan since the beginning of two thousand and twelve. five al qaeda members working in baghdad to make sarin and of mustard gas have been arrested iraq's defense ministry says the extremists planned attacks on western targets and in iraq using remote controlled drones sarin is also suspected of being used by syria's rebels according to the u.n. it. well coming up after the break our team meets a woman on a mission to find families for better children. distractions one thing the media does very well we all tend to focus on one space issue of the moment and ignore the rest geale those are definitely worth the media attention but let's not ignore the fact that the food people eat around the world is an attack from multiple fronts antibiotics are often overused and cattle which c

montenegro: the coordinates are for kandahar province.s per hour. is that speed constant? yeah. too slow for a missile or a jet. hodgins: too fast for a copter. montenegro: it's an mq-9 predator drone. target? uh, no idea. this is pelant. we have to assume the worst. the mq-9 carries enough ordnance to take out a city block. any habitable area in the vicinity would be densely populated. a hit would be devastating. booth! you got to turn this drone around now. redirect the drone. i can't get onto its nav. we're locked out. the drone's system has been corrupted. it won't acknowledge anything i send it. try "lyceum." (beeping) montenegro: we've got the drone's video feed. can you get us a satellite image of the nearest populated area? yeah. the drone's flight path will take it directly to those buildings. saroyan: what are those dots? they're head scarves. they're girls. i'm enhancing. saroyan: they're young. based on the size differentials, they're pre-teens. lyceum. pelant is taking out a school. (indistinct conversation) (speaking native

the area near the pakistan border in the northwest and then in the northeast, and kandahar, very largertant province, is not doing all that well. but remaining is a single biggest problem i think the afghans have and that's not what their military, it is with the police. they are not good and i don't see them getting good any time soon. >> jack, there was a let are released on thursday, from the inspector general from afghan construction and he reports that several western companies are actually cheating hundreds of afghan workers out of some $69 million. we know that us aid and dod have had similar nonpayments. we've had dramatic lengthses the afghans said they would go to to try to get payment. why are we still relying on contractsors? >> because we don't have the sailors marines there to supervise this. we had almost no contractors administering at the end of the world war. but today we have contractors. for two organizations to be involved, the first the defense department and i'm talking about the second of defense and second when all else fraails, congress. they write the checks

bales formally amended to killing nine children and seven adults during a nighttime attack on two kandahar province villages in march 2012. defense attorneys say bales may have suffered a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder from four tours in iraq and afghanistan. appearing before a military judge, bales expressed regret for the massacre, saying -- his trial last year featured the video testimony of more than a dozen afghan witnesses and victims. the witnesses, including several children, recalled being shot at and seeing their loved ones murdered. a hearing is set for august to determine if bales will be sentenced to life in prison with or without the chance of parole. the u.s. military is sending a massive new contingent of guards to help contain the revolt of hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay. the miami herald reports the army reserve is deploying 125 troops to assist the holding of prisoners in solitary confinement and the force feeding of 39 hunger strikers. president obama has formally unveiled his latest picks for top foreign policy posts, the new nat

but michael was in kandahar that night and michael stayed. he went out on the embed. he was unafraid. that merciless reporting he did on general mcchrystal and his staff became the book "the operators." michael's merciless reporting on the presidential campaign became the book "panic 2012: the sublime and terrifying inside story of obama's final campaign." michael did not write to make trends friends with the people he covered. he wrote and reported in a way that was meant to be unvarnished and what he meant to convey no matter if it bothered people to hear it. >> i think what i've tried to demonstrate and without seeming like too much of a, you know, jerk, is that you can do this kind of reporting. like, if you're a young reporter out there, you can do this kind of reporting. you can uncompromising and hard hitting and fair and accurate and honest and you can still -- people will pick up the phone again. >> yeah, fair and accurate and honest being key to it. you better be absolutely right and have nailed down every single detail and sourced everything. crossed every

united states are effectively war zones and night raids are a part of daily life like they are in kandaharafghanistan, and, you know, we -- when you combine that with the privatization of certain law enforcement functions and par amilitarization of the u.s.-mexican border, everything is militarized. this tamerlan tsarnaev kid in boston in custody for the bombing, they wanted him sent to guantanamo despite the fact he's a u.s. citizen. there's a knee-jerk military reaction to things to crisis, and that's something we really have to confront in our society, but it's threatening our democratic existence, i think, when everything becomes a paramilitary solution. it's a very, very serious problem. >> yeah? go to the other side, yeah. you pick because i can't see with the lights on. make an effort to get to the back too. >> thank you, for speaking today, and i was wondering -- i heard a report that the cia said they would transfer drone programs to the pentagon, and i heard this this morning, and i worchedder the lack of a public explanation, that obama says he will give about the obama program,

. -- of kandahar. it may not work to standards that the west and western countries are used to.works of their terms and it is growing. their economy is growing at almost 100% since we have been there. it will not be a first-rate nation it any time in the future in my lifetime. it may get to the point where they get out of the bottle -- bottom 10. that is a reason to be hopeful. host: we are moving between syria and afghanistan. i will go back to syria. this is from our twitter page. .ou can follow us on @cspanwj where are the muslim nations stopping assad in syria? guest: one of the reasons the united states has made the move on the rebels is because the islamic states saw that the most progress being made by the rebel forces to remove the assad government was being made by islamic groups. they started moving their money and supplies that are sending them to these islamic groups. the united states would like them to reduce the support for these islam and groups and get back to general interest organizations, our umbrella groups over a number of secular organizations. host: a u.s

. >> kandahar could fall back? >> we could find a reemergence of violent extremist groups. >> the difference between winning and losing is what we do between now and 18 months, would you agree? >> the difference is certainly what we do between now and the end of 2014, but also, i think, the commitment we make beyond that. >> i think we need a residual force to maintain confidence and capabilities the afghans do not have, so we can end this war well. the election in 2000 14 in afghanistan -- how important would you say that is, in terms of developing a safe, secure, prosperous afghanistan? >> i think it is a key component. self about confidence, governance, writes. >> don't you think the enemy will do everything they can to disrupt that election? >> they will, and they are doing it now. >> if sequestration is fully implemented, how would you describe the kind of military we would have 10 years from now? >> that is the effort the secretary has us undergoing right now. at full sequestration -- >> you said some dramati

sergeant robert bales has never denied that he alone carried out two separate nighttime rampages in kandahar province last march opening a fire on sleeping civilians, most of them women and children, killing 16 and wounding six others. his lawyer says bales is thankful the plea deal will spare his life and that he has another motive or admitting to everything. >> he thinks it will be better to have closure for his family, for the military, for our government, for the afghan government, for the afghan people. >> reporter: but the plea deal isn't a lock. the judge will likely spend hours questioning bales on every detail of the allegations against him, a potential tripping point, according to former j.a.g. lawyer, charlie swift. >> what could undo the entire deal if the judge says no. >> reporter: when the story broke it strained belief that a lone soldier in a remote outpost fueled by alcohol, steroids and sleep aids could carry out two separate murderous rampages. his wife told matt it couldn't be her husband, the father of their two children. >> it's unbelievable to me. he loves children an

we use them to great effect in kabul and kandahar and other places and in afghanistan, and we ought to be able to do better with them on the border of mexico. we're doing something. we need to do more. they can be a great force multiplier as well. this is a little bitty plane. this is called a cessna. it's called a c-206. it has enough room to carry two people. we have got i think about 17 of them. we saw one in -- i think in arizona. we saw a bunch more in texas. the -- it's really not cutting edge technology. it's just cost-effective. you can put these planes out for a while. they don't use much gas. they are a good platform for surveillance. unfortunately, out of the 16 or 17 that we have, only one of them has a surveillance system. you can actually look at and find out what's going on on the ground. it's like sending out an airplane doing maritime surveillance, mr. president. occasionally we do search and rescue missions. we send out to the vast ocean with binoculars to look for somebody maybe in a little skiff or a life preserver. it's like finding a needle in a haystack. when we

. >> kandahar could fall back? >> we could find a reemergence of violent extremist groups. >> the difference between winning and losing is what we do between now and 18 months, would you agree? >> the difference is certainly what we do between now and the end of 2014, but also, i think, the commitment we make beyond that. >> i think we need a residual force to maintain confidence and capabilities the afghans do not have, so we can end this war well. 2000 14 inn in afghanistan -- how important would you say that is, in terms of developing a safe, secure, prosperous afghanistan? is a keyk it component. it is about confidence, self governance, writes. >> don't you think the enemy will do everything they can to disrupt that election? >> they will, and they are doing it now. >> if sequestration is fully implemented, how would you describe the kind of military we would have 10 years from now? >> that is the effort the secretary has us undergoing right now. at full sequestration -- >> you said some dramatic things. do you