i travelled 500km to kandahar, in the south of the country.ways been seen as the conservative heartland of the taliban. me walking around here would have felt unimaginable a few months ago. and now, late in the afternoon as the sun's setting, we are out and about, walking around quite freely. it's clearly a different place, a different time — and a different country. but despite the surprising calm on the streets, there was a hidden threat here that was worsening by the day. widespread drought and economic crisis and sanctions against the taliban have created a situation where an estimated 98% of afghans are going hungry. i went to the paediatric unit of mirwais hospital to see for myself how families here were coping. everywhere you look in this ward, there is a mother praying and it feels like that's all they have now. every baby and child in here is in a critical state and we just don't know if they are going to make it. like four—year—old munir, many of the patients in the ward were from the rural provinces surrounding kandahar city — area

i travelled 500 kilometres to kandahar in the south of the country.en seen as the conservative heartland of the taliban. me walking around here would have felt unimaginable a few months ago. i'm now late in the afternoon as the sun is setting, we are out and about walking around quite freely. it's clearly a different place, a different time and a different country. but despite the surprising calm on the streets, there was a hidden threat here that was worsening by the day. widespread drought and economic crisis and sanctions against the taliban have created a situation where an estimated 98% of afghans are going hungry copy i went to the paediatric unit of this hospital to see for myself how families here were coping. everywhere you look in this world there is a mother praying and it feels like this is all they have now. every baby and child and here is in a critical state and we just don't know if they are going to make it like four—year—old munir, almost everyone in here are from the rural areas surrounding kandahar that have been cut off by years o

after kandahar, i was sent to bagram and was held approximately a year.he worst things i saw were prisoner that was a taxi driver. his hands were tied above his head to the top of a cage and was physically beaten until he was killed. i was subject to sounds of women screaming in the next cell that i was legibly was my wife being tortured while agents -- i emphasize fbi because they are always the ones that kind of get out of being accused of being involved, but the fbi was involved from the get-go. they waved pictures of my children in front of my face while i was being tortured and i heard the sound of a woman screaming. they threatened to send me to syria or egypt did not cooperate. by the time i'm said to guantÁnamo and spend the next two years in solitary confinement in a windowless cell without any meaningful access to family, to phone calls, visits -- any of the thgs that a normal ordinary decent convicted prisoner gets, we had no access to even though we had not been charged. in that sake, it was 2005, eventually i was told that i would be going ho

if it cottage news coming from a conduce in kandahar, you're actually the 2nd national security advisor of donald trump to be on going underground. you say in your book the room where it happened, the afghanistan deal that's trumps one time will prove who is right. and the full extent to the deal may not become apparent until after trump leaves office. what is your assessment as a former national security adviser of the by the administration, the foreign policy, especially on afghanistan? well, i think this is one of those few instances where bind and trump agree on on policy both wanted to get out of afghanistan at both the ignored the consequences. i think many people saw it were foreseeable at what biden did was take trumps deal out, which was flawed in many, many respects and essentially adopted it as.

if it carnage news coming from couldn't do is in kandahar you're actually the 2nd national security advisor of donald trump to be on going underground. you say in your book the room where it happened, the afghanistan deal that's trumps one time will prove who is right. and the full extent to the deal may not become apparent until after trump leaves office. what is your assessment as a for the national security advisor of the by the administration, the foreign policy, especially on afghanistan? well, i think this is one of the few instances where biden and trump agree on on policy both wanted to get out of afghanistan and both ignored the consequences. i think many people thought were foreseeable, what biden did was take trumps deo, which was flawed in many, many respects and essentially adopted it as is on policy, disregard of the advice of senior advisers and the pentagon state department, the white house. and i think the consequences have been plain to say return to afghanistan to control by the taliban and everything that's flowing from that, including the likelihood of foreign terrorist

the ambassador, thanks so much for coming on a rick carnage news coming from condos in kandahar. you're actually the 2nd national security advisor of donald trump to be ongoing on the ground. you say in your book the room where it happened, the afghanistan deal that that's trumps one time will prove who is right. and the full extent to the deal may not become apparent until after trump leaves office. what is your assessment? as a former.

in october, a suicide bombing of a shi'ite mosque in kandahar claimed the lives of 50 worshippers.s husband was killed. translation: what should i do now? i no longer have him. my partner has gone. i feel completely devastated. the family now face an uncertain future. translation: it was rumoured that the schools were being - bombed and my children were very scared. i told them to go to school and they said no. they were meant to protect us and then a bomb went off. is that what you call protection, bombing ordinary people? afghanistan is a country shattered by decades of war. sanctions on the new regime are biting hard. as the humanitarian crisis deepens and violence continues, the taliban are struggling to even begin rebuilding the fragile country. yalda hakim, bbc news. prince andrew is demanding a trial byjury. he formally denied all the allegations against him as he gave a court in new york his official response to allegations of sexual assault. virginia giuffre accuses the duke of york of forcing her to have sex more than two decades ago at the london home of the convicted se

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is treated like kandahar occupied territory by policemen who know counterinsurgency and only counterinsurgency. we've seen this in the mass surveillance of americans. the entrapment scandals. everyone says the great thing about war, drought history, the people i, theodore roosevelt, and we need a good war. we need a good war to revitalize our masculinity and to bring us together. i mean, because we heard that about world war 2, the greatest generation, even in britain, i imagine, is fighting the stalls for that time. but the reality is, in actuality, that's true sometimes. but the dark side of it is and the stronger side is that things are lost, that it justifies the government grabbing more power that never gives back. and it gives an excuse to sort of pull away the rights, the liberties that any democracy is built on. and i think that's the blow back of war and it's multifaceted, and that's why i say, you know, empires and decline behave badly. and empires always come home. this is historically and philosophically just factual. again, the idea that you are teaching recruits at west point is

in october, a suicide bombing of a shi'ite mosque in kandahar claimed the lives of 50 worshippers.ave him. my partner has gone. i feel completely devastated. the family now face an uncertain future. translation: it was rumoured that the schools were being - bombed and my children were very scared. i told them to go to school and they said no. they were meant to protect us and then a bomb went off. is that what you call protection, bombing ordinary people? afghanistan is a country shattered by decades of war. sanctions on the new regime are biting hard. as the humanitarian crisis deepens and violence continues, the taliban are struggling to even begin rebuilding the fragile country. yalda hakim, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: a year on from tragedy, the families who lost relatives at sea, help others learn safety basics. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman schoolteacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the han

if it carnage. news coming from a condos in kandahar, you're actually the 2nd national security advisor of donald trump to be on going underground. you say in your book the room where it happened, the afghanistan deal that's trumps one time will prove who is right. and the full extent to the deal may not become apparent until after trump leaves office. what is your assessment as a former national security adviser of fee by the administration, the foreign policy, especially on afghanistan? well, i think this is one of those few instances where bind and trump agree on on policy both wanted to get out of afghanistan and both the ignored the consequences. i think many people thought were foreseeable when biden did was take trumps deal, which was flawed in many, many respects, and essentially adopted it as his own policy disregarded the advice of senior advisors and the pentagon state department, the white house, and i think the consequences have been plain to say that returned afghanistan to control by the taliban and everything. and so flowing from that, including the likelihood of foreign

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other day and he doesn't talk about this but he was one e of the army rangers and parachuted into kandaharirport in october 2001 after spending the night in the hospital with his wife who just had a baby. i get angry when people say we never should have been, because the main reason was to find osama bin laden, which we did, and he is upset. he did not really specify why. he just said i don't trust what is going on. and i feel like a lot of it is intelligence failure. we should have known that the taliban was making deals with all these provincial governors or mayors or whatever for months, since trump made his deal with them, and there's a lot of corruption, and what would they do when they knew that we were leaving, that we were planning to leave? but i'm just upset. i'm ashamed about how people are reacting to taking afghan refugees is awful -- refugees. it is awful. they are not all the same and it worries me our country is turning into tribes, basically. i cry for my son, what he went through. i did not sleep the whole time he was over there. and he did go over for a good purpose, so