supporting whatever he did they were welcoming and supporting and they were giving the space for mujahideen and their children were fighting against the government then supported by soviet union but when it comes to the taliban because people of afghanistan have experienced the taliban regime and kind of have the decent smell of what they want in this country they don't have a lot of local and popular support at the local community and so therefore in many local communities people would like to see the international forces as a signal as a macit for tol'able not to come to those villages i think that's that. if i could but i think one of the perhaps most obvious things in common that at least i see in both the how the soviets and the americans in gauging your country is that both try to remake afghanistan and our own image both put a lot of emphasis on the women's rights because that was also a very very major issue for the saudi if they believe in the emancipation of women they actually encourage the women's participation in the labor force and if i'm not mistaken the nine hundred eighty s

by american efforts to undermine women's rights in afghanistan was they have investment in the mujahideen group and i think it is fair to say that they specifically sought back in the eighty's to weaponize that culture of aggressive masculinity and intolerance towards education especially education among the girls now that was kept under certain restrictions while the soviet troops were still in big cities as you pointed out but once they withdrew i think the taliban took over very quickly and from what i understand from your biography you were already a young strong educated woman at a time what was it like for you to see all those gains reversed almost not overnight but i assume over a matter of a couple of months absolutely it was not a nice moment to see a lot of. young women in afghanistan and girls are deprived of their basic basic right like their rights to get out of your home and go to see a. dr it was something that money hundreds of women in afghanistan actually hundreds of thousands of women experience if you're good to see a doctor you had to be accompanied by a male company

by american efforts to undermine women's rights in afghanistan was they have investment in the mujahideen group and i think it is fair to say that they specifically saw back in the eighty's to weaponize that culture of aggressive masculinity and intolerance towards education especially education among the girls now that was kept under certain restrictions while the soviet troops were still in big cities as you pointed out but once they withdrew i think the taliban took over very quickly and from what i understand from your biography you were already a young strong educated woman at a time what was it like for you to see all those gains reversed almost not overnight but i assume over a matter of a couple of months absolutely.

by american efforts to undermine women's rights in afghanistan was they have investment in the mujahideen group and i think it is fair to say that they specifically sought back in the eighty's to weaponize that culture of aggressive masculinity and intolerance towards education especially education among the girls now that was kept under certain restrictions while the soviet troops were still in big cities as you pointed out but once they withdrew i think the taliban took over very quickly and from what i understand from your biography you were already a young strong educated woman at a time what was it like for you to see all those gains reversed almost not overnight but i assume over a matter of a couple of months absolutely it was not a nice moment to see a lot of. young women in afghanistan young girls are deprived of their basic basic rights like their rights to get out of your home and go to see a doctor it was something that money hundreds of women in afghanistan hundreds of thousands of women experience if you're good to see a doctor you had to be accompanied by a male company and

experience was in afghanistan and we know the british and american governments funded back to the mujahideen that would become yes there's no mention of that a little bit no because obviously what we're trying to do is tell a story about what was going on here between two thousand and three and two thousand and six and we did the last sequence is two thousand and one of the videos because hundreds of hours of videos and no interrogations where they said. what about when so and so was fighting of course with the british back money there was no i mean literally if there was that was like a lot of effort is no one arguable hero does go by prince mohammed bin nayef who just act in july by mahmoud bin selman just tell me a little bit about his appearance and of course then the devastating footage which long long we've talked about but you use it there in the end about the rick suicide bomber against him so he'd been he'd been very successful as minister of security within the ministry of interior. and one of the things that it was to his credit was the way in which it cleaned up the way in which

experience was in afghanistan that we know the british and american governments funded back to the mujahideen that would become yes there's no mention of that a little bit no because obviously what we're trying to do is tell a story about what was going on here between two thousand and three and two thousand and six and we did the last sequence is two thousand and one of the videos because hundreds of hours of video yes and no interrogations where they said. what about when so and so was fighting of course with the british back money there was no i mean literally if there was that was like a lot of effort is no one arguable hero does go to prince mohammed bin nayef who gets to act in july by mahmoud bin selman just tell me a little bit about his appearance and of course then the devastating footage which long long we talked about but you use it there in the end about the rick suicide bombing against him so he had been he'd been very successful as minister of security within the ministry of interior. and one of the things that it was to his credit was the way in which it cleaned up the way in

cyberspace and these days so keep in mind there is an influential iranian opposition group known as the mujahideen corps and the k that is working to capitalize on these demonstrations the sanctions will become greater and greater and greater this president does not intend to turn his back on freedom fighters. that is of course president trumps personal attorney rudy giuliani addressing an antique a rally in the suburbs of paris over the weekend calling for regime change in iran the state department has previously stated that giuliani does not speak for the u.s. government or even president trump on matters of foreign policy when he makes such remarks but several members of trump's inner circle have supported this group for years especially after it was dropped from the u.s. terrorism list and twenty twelve many k. is widely hated in iran for its use of violence and the fact that it sided with saddam hussein in the iran iraq war in the one nine hundred eighty s. that were left up to a million people dead they're also widely believed to have links to israeli intelligence services that's according t

it m took a decade for the mujahideen before they became al-qaeda. it took two years tops to get maybe that number to syria and iraq. so the power of social media is there. but then the question becomes is this good or bad for democracy. if you look back at the lathe '90s when -- late '9 0s when we talked about the internet, the internet was going to do what? >> [inaudible] >> bring the world together. it was buy a coke, everyone hug each other, we're on the internet. the long tail doesn't just bring people to low frequency products, it also brings extremists around the world together over time or people to poles overg time. socialal media has had the opposite effect. internet brought everybody together, and social media has pushed everybody apart in their own directions, in their own performance -- preference bubbles. so it comes down to social capital. we always have institutions, we have economic growth and development s and the third part was social capital. this is the secret sauce of american democracy. robert putnam talked about it during the

stalemate militarily this is a stalemate the fact that the who these are not just a bunch of wild mujahideen running around in the mountains of northern yemen but they are a quasi state actor with increasingly capable weaponry means that you know this is somewhat a conflict on par with both sides can't really overcome each other on the best of fields which will be the only solution and this has been merely a solution since two thousand fifteen the only solution to this conflict is a political one where everybody sits down and i think the iranians play a very important role in tipping the point and making sure that there will be a political solution to this conflict where the m.b. is a part of the solution and you know if you look at the statements made by the money the head of the courts was from iran over the last. actually today i think it was in the morning he was saying you know the united states will no longer be actually safe in the red sea which kind of suggests that he meant you know u.s. troops and u.s. facilities can attack in the red sea went from from yemen to her i think it's a