lost between president karzai and the americans. president karzai doesn't want to be undermined by external forces or some other news making headlines around the world this out of the states to send stealth fighter jets to a military base and so it's a joint ongoing military drills between the two these exercises have heightened tensions with north korea blames us escalating students in the region and young recently threatened washington with missile strikes weeks after carrying out underground nuclear tests. political satirist. was met by mobs of supporters being granted bail on sunday mr stand trial for broadcasting biting criticism of president morsi and just leaders on the thirty's recently instigated a campaign to crackdown on dissent in the country warrants have been issued for five permanent members of the opposition of the protests in the muslim brotherhood headquarters in which. rebels which overran the central african republic capital bangui last month the caretaker government elections run for twenty six to rebel. the new

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these airstrikes come amid repeated pleas from the afghan government of president karzai to stop killing civilians because in course those words they fuel insecurity and instability they further alienate afghans from their government which many afghans see as a puppet government so president karzai although he does all his power to allied forces to washington specifically but he clearly understands that those civilian casualties more violence in afghanistan and undermine his government even further these are the types of attacks that infuriate the local population like the one in september last year nato killed eight women or in may a nato airstrike killed an afghan family including six children and two women earlier this year president karzai banned afghan forces from calling in air strikes although his order appears to have been ignored by international forces now these attacks also undermines u.s. efforts to negotiate an agreement to stay in afghanistan past twenty four thirteen although president karzai is appears to be prepared to strike a deal he knows what kind of a backlash it ma

if you multiply that over ten years it adds up to $36 million by karzai's own account. the new york times was first to report the payments today and said the cash was delivered sometimes in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags. u.s. officials say the money is used to buy the loyalty of warlords as well as cover some off-the-book operations. we checked with the white house, state department and cia, none of whom would deny the report. in washington speak that goes to a confirmation. i asked one official if payments of cash had, in fact, been delivered every day to karzai's office. he said, well, we never said it was every day. one interesting footnote, by the way, iran had also been delivering payments to karzai until about a year ago when tehran cut off karzai supposedly because he was getting too close to the u.s. brian? >> andrea mitchell in our d.c. bureau tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> back in this country there was a big announcement this morning, a first of its kind. a male athlete, an active player in a major american sports league has come out as gay. hi

to the afghan president harmid karzai.orrupt and if the report is true it proves it what exactly is the cia doing here? joining us now from washington fox news senior political analyst brit hume. we call the cia. of course, they are not going to comment on anything. that's what the cia does. very disturbing and i don't think that we should be spending all this blood and treasure on corrupt criminals and if they are accepting bags of millions of dollars of cash. what else could they be well this is the question whether this is the sort of thing cia does. yes it is did. if afghanistan is a place to care about. there was a time we needed to care about afghanistan. then we have to have influence there. you get it however you can get it if you have iran in there bidding on karzai's loyalty, perhaps we have to bid, too. it looks as if one of the problems with this guy is he doesn't stay bought but he certainly didn't stay bought for iran which apparently gave him a great deal of money the same way we did. when it came time for m

so there's no love lost between president karzai and the americans and president karzai doesn't want to be undermined by external forces. well just ahead for you we report from germany on the growing displeasure there coughing up cash to support others also a room with a view russian scientists promise a moon base observatory in the very near future stay with us. today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. corp through. the europe's financial troubles dragging on that germany is seen as the economic john that's keeping the eurozone afloat and having to pay to help struggling countries so so still can the burden of the sort of diety tax introduced after reunification with the country's east. found out is making many germans feel far from well off. over the past twenty years they have germany have received billions in taxpayer money to help with development after unification but now both paying the taxes here in the western part of germany say they think of paying pretty much for too long. it's time to finish this up we need this money more than th

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karzai confirmed receiving the money during a tour o europe today. >> yes.office of the national security adviser had beenhe united states government for the past years,g amount though. used f various purposes. >> in fact karza own barbara starr, our pentagon reporter in 2010 the his office ju];st like iran was. now, while it's unclear whether president karzai has personally spent any of thisdevelopment certainly raises some serious questions about the in the afghanistan war. joining me now to discuss the implications is peter galbraith, a former u.s. a.m.mbassador and deputy united nations special representative in afghanistan, now at the center for arms control and nonproliferation. peter, nice to see you. i want your reaction. are you at all surprised by the news that the cia was dropping off bags of cash to president karzai's i wasn't totally surprised because it's the of we sometimes do but i think this is all very unwise and it's indicative of theproblems that we're facing in afghanistan. here we are portraying har inging hamid karzai as the properly

so there's no love lost between president karzai and the americans and and president karzai doesn't want to be undermined by external forces and analysis take a look at some other international news in brief for you this hour in mali three militants and one soldier have been killed in renewed fighting and turn back to that after the regional governor's residence came under attack from as one hundred fighters french and government troops initially seized of the city from the rebels in january this comes just days after president orlanda announced that french troops would stay in the country until the end of the year. in morocco thousands of workers have rallied to protest against of the economic policies of the islamist led government marchers there demanding the prime minister's resignation as unions are furious over high unemployment and the planned reforms of the pension system the moderate islamist party came to power in the two thousand and eleven elections following an arab spring uprising in the country. according to syrian state media rebels have set up to nine oil wells abla

stoke the main source of tension between afghan leaders and foreign forces in february president karzai told his troops not to call for strikes and demanded that nato avoided hitting populated areas the attacks are also deeply resented by the afghan public and have even seen taliban support grow and now looks at how relations have soured between the u.s. and afghanistan. is airstrike moment repeated pleas from the afghan government of president karzai to stop killing civilians because in course those words they fuel insecurity and instability they further alienate afghans from their government which many afghans see as a puppet government so present course they although. he does owe his power to allied forces to washington specifically but he clearly understands that those civilian casualties there are more violence in afghanistan and undermine his government even further these are the types of attacks that infuriate the local population like the one in september last year nato killed eight women or in may a nato airstrike killed an afghan family including six children and two women ear

so there's no love lost between president karzai and the americans and and president karzai doesn't want to be undermined by external forces. israeli soldiers clashed with palestinian demonstrators on saturday at a rally marking an event known as a land day protestors at a west bank border crossing her older brock said troops who retaliated with tear gas and stun grenades the annual gathering commemorates an event almost four decades ago when israel announced plans to seize new land for settlements six palestinians were killed back then by police and the unrest is now remembered as a major flashpoint in the arab israeli relations are to talk to palestinian legislator most stuff about gucci who believes his people can use the united nations as leverage to fight for their cars. status of the occupied territories is done to disputed territory but status of palestinian state this would mean a lot if we the palestinians if the palestinian officials proceeds with implementing more actions within the systems including gold to the international court of justice and demanding punishment acts

the karzai government has repeatedly tried to ban airstrikes or tried to limit airstrikes in civilian areas and really it hasn't had any impact at all on made of the the only thing that has is when general mcchrystal is in charge and he seemed to be the one u.s. commander out of well over a dozen now that seem to get that killing large numbers of civilians was causing a lot of additional problems for the occupation forces now causing those additional problems let's turn to that a little bit aside from me because as government aside from the people do you think that this will cause more reaction from the taliban will we see more intense fighting as a result of this. well we might but i think the long term effects are the bigger deal in that civilians who had relatives that were killed in this sense a dent are more likely to support the taliban fighting age men who are maybe on the sidelines are more likely to join the taliban after an incident like this and. you know they've said all along that even airstrikes that kill militants tend to acri eight more militants than end up killing an

we have been talking -- talk a little bit about hamid karzai.ia because president obama said we have any evidence of chemical weapons use in syria. that's the red line. he said it. we didn't put words in his mouth. that will be a game changer. okay. we found him. now what? >> he said it five times in eight months. he made the red line comments and i think they would say right in the response of the administration, we're not sure if we found them. we likely found them. >> bill: or we found a little bit. systemic. >> we don't know. they're talking about the chain of custody of the sarin gas. they're saying look, we need to be able to prove a link from who disseminated it to who targeted it. it was there. we need to find samples in the ground, in the soil, showing that what gas was used and confirming who was responsible. they're holding a very high standard for this. >> don't forget, they asked assad to cooperate in the investigation. >> it would be nice if he would hand over some samples. so what you're dealing with is the administration is askin

welcome to of a began prophet hamid karzai's world.ording to a story in "the new york times" the c.i.a. has been delivering tens of millions in cash to mr. karzai without apparently getting much of anything in the way of influence in return. at the white house press secretary jay carney told reporters if they had questions on the story take them to the c.i.a. >> i have no information on that report. i can tell you that, you know, as we have said many times we and our afghan partners remain committed to our shared strategy and goals of a fully sovereign afghanistan that is not a safe haven for al-qaeda. >> that is like george bush dodging a shoe. but karzai was more open telling the reporters, i quote yes the office of national security has been receiving support from the united states for the past ten years, a small amount which has been used for various purposes. like helping wounded afghan soldiers paying the rent, that sort of thing. now if you believe karzai's aides, officials telling the time, that ultimately the biggest source of

when karzai as the u.s.ilitary leader in 2002 for help to remove a warlord turned governor in western afghanistan who was enriching himself through smuggling, karzai argued to washington that doing so was essential to establishing the authority of the central government. the request was rejected on the grounds that u.s. troops were not to engage in what was called green on green activity. even if one side was the president on who our nation was depending. since we were not going to provide the muscle to remove the warlords, karzai engaged over the following years, in a rational act of self- preservation. by the time we and our nato partners got wise about the damage the warlords were having across the country, karzai had moved into their camp. let's fast-forward to 2009. you know the stakes. obama campaigned on afghanistan being the good work. general stan mcchrystal told him that if it did not commit to a surge, the taliban would not be possible. you know what obama did. 30,000 more troops. but with a deadl

talks before there was trouble however the taliban are refusing to speak directly with president karzai describing him as an american puppet and they recently announced and retinas to enter politics and have opened an office in doha to facilitate peace talks with the u.s. also a contributor afshin rattansi says nations conduct in the war zone is only helping the insurgents gain ground and it's clear. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all the thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan and the taliban on the mall obama is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pullout of course lots of people are asking there hundred fifty thousand nato troops there and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases the continuous drone attacks and the atrocities committed by u.s. and nato allies of troops of course do catalyze protel about support it was only in the past week or so that the u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province drug ations of complicity in kidnappin

that adds up to $36 million by karzai's account over years. we checked with the white house state department and the cia and none would deny this report. that goes to a confirmation. i asked one official if payments had been delivered every day to karzai's office. he said, we never said it was every day. one interesting footnote. iran had been delivering payments to karzai until about a year ago. they cut him off because he was getting too close to the u.s. >> that was nbc's andrea mitchell reporting >>> now, it is time for your "first look" at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. >> sandra day o'connor says it was probably a mistake for the court to take the infamous bush v. gore case. her comments come 13 years after the ruling where she voted with the majority to give george w. bush the presidency. now, she tells us >>> lgbt activist dan vafasavag says the conversation over jason collins coming out isn't about gay people. >> ultimately, this comes down to is who straight people are. this isn't about whether jason collins or other athl

it goes to hamid karzai. >> there is also this question of who is watching the watcher. we don't have congressional oversight. congress can't get anything done right now. we can't even rely on our elected officials to count the money and being sure it's being spent properly. we can't rely on the congress to go to afghanistan and make sure it's being done. we're relying on intel and there are leaks and really good reporting from journalists that's how the american people are finding out what'sing are going on over there. we don't even have anyone else to help with the transparency there. >> i would support hiring money over there if it's hiring more air traffic controllers in that country. >> cenk: you might be right. lauren is right. the less transparency you have, the more likely the crooked stuff is going to happen. that's where bad stuff breeds in the darkness. the night is dark and full of terrors, another game of heroes reference ♪ nana, nana ♪ the c.i.a. money is being used for different purposes. this is afghan officials. this is hilarious: >> cenk: they're not us

an age of bombing run against the taliban but a residential area was caught in the blast president karzai who strongly condemned the killings had earlier banned afghan security forces from calling for strides support of the u.s. led operation is losing popularity among afghans ahead of the twenty fourteen coalition pullout from the country onto the bandages you can report on how nato its tactics are shooting its own strategy of. these airstrikes come amid repeated pleas from the afghan government of president karzai to stop killing civilians because in course those words they fuel insecurity and instability they further alienate afghans from their government which many afghans see as a puppet government so president karzai although he does all his power to allied forces to washington specifically but he clearly understands that those civilian casualties steer more violence in afghanistan and undermine his government even further these are the types of attacks that infuriate the local population like the one is september last year nato killed eight women or in may a nato airstrike killed a

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

now i don't know president karzai might have a different opinion on that but i. also know. the question really is one of the americans doing by five continuing the sort of operation my feeling is that the american government has to demonstrate for domestic reasons that it's. going to lead to orderly fashion leaving behind what happened or at least american rhetoric a stable government able to project force. that government through without the ability to project force then it's that government's fault not our fault we did all we could. finally. central government collapses once the u.s. forces and its allies have left what we're saying is that vacuum will be filled by the taliban. you know the term taliban really doesn't know we're going to rise for a vacuum will be filled by sectional tribal groups that control different parts of the country. will there be a civil war or will the country break and. are. controlled by different people something like that's going to happen but there will be no unified. professor of middle east history just a university in the states thank you

plus a daring taliban attack claims dozens of lives in afghanistan just a day after president karzai offered the militants a chance to enter politics and many other stories just around the corner for. the international world in the very heart of moscow. thanks for joining us here on our. show live in moscow where the presidential race has kicked off in venezuela although there are seven candidates running for the top job the spotlight basically is between just two of them and that over the acting president nicholas my daughter and opposition challenger and. take a closer look at the leading contenders here on our sea for example we're talking about a. president maduro pledging to ultimately preserve the legacy of the ball of vireo and revolution and build socialism is biggest trump card is the blessing he received from the late chavez who did name him as his successor and the former bus driver managed to work his way up to finance minister and vice president during the chargers' era well let's discuss the issues here with. capello's his trademark baseball cap he does like to suggest

has been to afghanistan encompasses the region explains what's behind karzai is a recent announcement. he's made this point numerous times before calling for the taliban to participate in elections is that stand is so open and democratic that even mullah omar working to disarm essentially could run for office of course the reality is that this is a complete political nonstarter because the taliban have been very clear in their position they do not see the karzai government as being legitimate they have openly called it a puppet of the united states they refused to hold any sort of negotiations much less view the constitution as legitimate or offer any sort of candidate so again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't very much that cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this affectively to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do that why negotiate

even president karzai has the knowledge that. he is or is support of ave mil- to-mil relationship to address these disputes. i am optimistic that we're moving in the right direction. >> that is encouraging. you have talked a fair amount this morning of what our presence might look like post- 2014. can you talk about the commitment of our nato partners that 2014 and how robust might be and whether there is agreement about what the presence should look like? the defensed minister ariel in brussels and at that time, the ministers agreed they would contribute between 80-12,000 forces for post-2014. say that our coalition partners are very much looking to see what the u.s. contribution will be post-2014 before making a commitment. in many cases, our coalition partners will meet u.s. air and naval support before they can commit. that means specifically casualty evacuation and medical evacuation post-2014 which they cannot provide but would need that to be in place an order for them to be committed to post- 2014. is there anything we sh

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

and he was going to meet with karzai the next day. i think general pinford is great, admiral cunningham. i think they're a good team. i think all of the chips are in place to make it happen, and i asked at this meeting at the pentagon, i asked what -- that's my first question, how are we proceeding on this agreement. they said the president had talked to karzai the day before and told him, you know, we need to get this done now. i'm saying get it done this spring, the downside, what we would lose, all of what we've invested there, the blood and treasure that have gone into it, it would be tragic. and i saw real positive things on my trip to afghanistan. this was the most positive. we've made really good gains there. you don't hear about it. what we hear about here are the tragedy, the suicide bombers. i mean, they blew one up as we arrived at i.f. headquarters. but i see a positive future if we can get this agreement and leave the status of forces there so they can provide enough security. the taliban can't beat the afghans. they don'

when karzai as the u.s.ilitary leader in 2002 for help to remove a warlord turned governor in western afghanistan who was enriching himself through smuggling, karzai argued to washington that doing so was essential to establishing the authority of the central government. the request was rejected on the grounds that u.s. troops were not to engage in what was called green on green activity. even if one side was the president on who our nation was depending. since we were not going to provide the muscle to remove the warlords, karzai engaged over the following years, in a rational act of self- preservation. by the time we and our nato partners got wise about the damage the warlords were having across the country, karzai had moved into their camp. let's fast-forward to 2009. you know the stakes. obama campaigned on afghanistan being the good work. general stan mcchrystal told him that if it did not commit to a surge, the taliban would not be possible. you know what obama did. 30,000 more troops. but with a deadl

taliban financing and the opium trade president karzai heading released within hours and the cia then helped persuade the obama administration to back off its anti-corruption push possibly because they didn't want the cia connection discovered in the alleged corruption scheme because that would be a story of a dog chasing its tail in washington. now anti-war campaigner richer backer says the billions of dollars that washington has already poured into afghanistan have no way helped the country's people. it's really amazing when you look at the cia operations in afghanistan which really began that in two thousand and one of the one nine hundred seventy nine the one nine hundred eighty s. the cia lied just operation and some tire history was carried out in afghanistan and the billions and billions of dollars that have flowed and yet today in two thousand and thirteen afghanistan ranked exactly last so it really indicates what about the corrupting influence that the cia interventionists head over all of these years and continues to have today and they're spending a vast sums of money the