. >> nina? >> i agr with much of at my colleagues said. i do not think the speec rticularly work. but at this point, i think the message he was trying to nd abou the exit strategy was both to themerican people, thawe are not in forev, and to the afghan government. certaiy the taliban and al qaeda kn that if they can succeed, their only routeis to wake us out in some wa at is not ns to them. t if youan persuade the afghans that they real have to get with this progra because we will be gone, u will have de something. >> don't think thiss so much about afghanistan tually, its pakistan. i think height have gotten out cept thatis aides kept saying that if y get out, e messageo pakistan is "were out of here," and the pakistanis will ju say, , we will make our deal with t vil, and the isi will strengthen the ties to that taliban but because he hedged it and sa that we are out in 18 months, the pakistani reaction was, gee, maybe ty are not serious. >> that ancipates the question i had. you ve problems with al qaeda in pakistan, pblems with t liban in pakistan. what the do about tt if you

we have a report from nina nannar of independent television news. >> reporter: despite last minute appeals for clemency from his family and the foreign office akmal shaikh's life was ended here by lethal injection in the early hours of this morning, the chinese authorities in the end refusing to accept claims that shaikh was mentally ill, hours later the chinese ambassador left the foreign office in london after what was described as a difficult conversation, china accused of failing in its basic human rights responsibilities. refused to even undertake a medical assessment prior to proceeding with this execution. by any standards of human rights at the beginning of the 21st century that cannot be acceptable. >> >> reporter: akmal shaikh a 53 year old father from north london was convicted of drug smuggling after 4kg of heroin was found in his suitcase when he arrived in urumshe in northwestern china. supporters say it had been planted there by professional criminals taking advantage of shaikh's bipolar disorder, but today the chinese foreign ministry said they'd seen no evidence that shaik

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