. >> these border guards are called the mujahedeen, secondary to the army and report to the saudi minister of the interior, but their job is crucial. >> we are considered the second line of defense after the border guards. ouring task is to prevent smuggling activity. >> the mujahedeen unit has been around since the establishment of saudi arabia. many follow the foot steps of their forefathers. >> you can track a smuggler, but they are usually deeper and more spaced out. >> so far there hasn't been an exodus of yemenis trying to escape into saudi arabia, but if a ground offensive is launched or the wars continue, those patrolling this border could find themselves dealing with an in flux of refugees. al jazeera. >> the parliament in pakistan is debating whether or not to send forces back to the saudi led cam lane in yemen. iran's foreign minister met with pakistan's prime minister on thursday calling for peace talks. we have more from islamabad. >> the iranian foreign ministers into islamabad have created a perception that perhaps a diplomatic way could diffuse the crisis in yemen all this

our task is to prevent smuggling activity. >> the mujahedeen unit has been around since the establishment of saudi arabia. many personnel follow the foot steps of their forefathers. >> you can track a smuggler, but they are usually deeper and more spaced out. >> so far, there hasn't been an exodus of yemenis trying to escape into saudi arabia, but if a ground offensive is launched or the war continues, those patrolling this border could find themselves dealing with an influx of refugees. al jazeera. >> secretary kerry accuses iran of meddling, supporting the houthis and ran has called on the so you had led airstrikes to end. what could all of those things be leading to? >> i think it's not a discovery by kerry and the american administration knew all the time the way iran was meddling with this situation in yemen. you can remember that there were at least u.n. security council resolutions, four of them which would have prevented iran from meddling. they have been caught two times ships carrying tons of cam anything elses and rockets to yemen. i think we have to take this, kerry's statemen

. -- microbial mujahedeen. perhaps it can be labeled as passive bioterrorism. terrorists are deliberately disrupting disease prevention systems in place i.e. vaccines incentivizing obstructionist behavior including committing violence against health care workers as well as sacrificing children to did these. and they are murder should they succumbed to illness or death. the insidious form of bioterrorism does not require the need for manipulating pathogens or even mimic the effects of an endemic to these were successfully westernized the first polio rather deliberately denying prevention measures for diseases permitted to run its course unfettered. additionally, finds an obstructionist acts taking place we seen a 2014 nearly 90 related killings of health care workers that when not to vaccinate children. 80 of those health care workers targeted and killed were in pakistan or 10 in nigeria. in short the effects of preventing access to health care or is to immunize children due to violent extremism into nine childr

and and' jordanian or like jihadi activities and 1980s he went to afghanistan to join the mujahedeen in afghanistan. what happened was that immediately. there was a strange encounter between osama bin laden and others, clearly like the differences between them terms of what jihad would mean and why we have the jihad. osama bin laden and then. and would define that with al-qaeda and isis today. other times. osama bin laden. or al-qaeda sees the anything and the name indicates al-qaeda. so it will join the jihadi movement. they want to trigger. repeat the word that we are a trigger. that we will want to popularize jihad. and to encouraging those muslims to join in the jihad. on the other hand focus odd the shiites and he thinks that and are challenged by the shiites so he sees shia as the threat that has always exist and has to be dealt with. they believe that it is the enmeeft west and focuses on the west. focuses only to encouraging people for more based on the consent and you know. for example. syria. will you find affiliated al-qaeda. hearts and minds. trying to impose itself so it

prior to my comment most of my colleagues had dirty work with the mujahedeen by going overland throughkistan but that tax and assorted disappearing for a month. this is great in many respects, but for me, working weekly i had to deliver a film and had to go from kabul to pakistan to europe to new york within 24 hours, go to the lab and a four letter word, film something quite foreign today. there is very manually driven and the challenge was more logistic as well as editorial. so the beginning -- i am going to bookend this conversation tonight with the withdraw of the soviet army now better for us tonight to call them the russians at the 2013 with trout of the american spirit that way we can kind of compress everything in a similar topic. so here you have an afghan soldier handing a flag of friendship to the departing russians, which another element here that i had to quickly deal with was the ambiguity in the gray area. this is essential for anybody working in the region and whether it's africa comes southeast asia, china, europe, you have to embrace ambiguity. keep in mind the russia

a bomb just behind a group of children targets prosecutors say were chosen to quote, awaken the mujahedeen and the holy warriors. these children weren't innocent to him. they were american. the defense began closing arguments much like the trial, saying, quote, dzhokhar tsarnaev stands ready by your verdict to be held accountable for his actions. telling jurors they agreed with the government on the who, what when, and where of the bombing, but that we very much disagreed about the why. they contend it was tsarnaev's older brother tamerlan who was the mastermind and the money behind the attack telling the jury, quote, we don't deny that dzhokhar fully participated in the events. but without tamerlan, it wouldn't have happened. now deliberations begin in the morning, and the process not expected to take long at all. in fact, there could be a verdict in just a couple days here. that's the latest live in boston. jay gray now back to you. >> jay, thank you. >>> well just ahead, it really adds up. travellers left more than half a million dollars in loose change at security checkpoints in 2013.