for the taliban of course secretary tillerson is executing a policy from president trump michael semple that took some eight months with him to come up with it and even when he announced that policy he didn't seem entirely convinced about what he was doing he said my original instinct was to pull out and historically i'd like to follow my instincts do you think with an uptick of violence president trump down the line could change his mind. well the the strategy is not just a blank check the strategy of course is based upon afghan partners also looking up and delivering success that this strategy depends upon the successful reform and improvement of the performance of the the afghan security forces they also the better performance inside the afghan government which is necessary if you want to win the cooperation of the the afghan population as mere weiss was was pointing to so they. mean as it happens i think president trump was speaking extremely almost fully on that when he said that. instinct told him one thing but actually the circumstances oblige him to do something else and maybe m

trumpet administration may well signal a turning point in this war do you agree with that michael semple we've heard about a tough approach to pakistan how much of the rest of the trump strategy is new in your in your view. yes david is absolutely right to take the developments of the past week into a wider context the the taliban over the past two months how found u.s. air power under pressure from not just the u.s. special forces but more the afghan special forces they found them devastating they have failed as david said to take any major government position during the year but importantly they have been suffering really severe losses to such an extent that they've had to reconsider their whole tactics taliban military hoped that by the end of this year not only would they be taking provincial capitals but they would be operating with larger military formations and now they've realized that as soon as their forces start to come together into large groups they get picked off so what we have seen in the past week is a message from the taliban ok you've escalated you've hurt us we are go

for the taliban of course secretary tillerson is executing a policy from president trump michael semple that took some eight months with him to come up with it and even when he announced that policy he didn't seem entirely convinced about what he was doing he said my original instinct was to pull out and historically i'd like to follow my instincts do you think with an uptick of violence president trump down the line could change his mind. well the the strategy is not just a blank check the strategy of course is based upon afghan partners also. delivering success that this strategy depends upon the successful reform and improvement of the performance of the the afghan security forces and they also the better performance inside the afghan government which is necessary if you want to win the cooperation of the the afghan population as mere weiss was was pointing to so they. mean as it happens i think president trump was speaking extremely almost fully on that when he said that. instinct told him one thing but actually the circumstances oblige him to do something else and maybe many people

government you've mentioned artificial timelines being unhelpful my question though to you michael semple is your estimation now how long might this take well you sort of answered the question yourself are they saying that the artificial timetables have been a been a problem. the the willingness to end this conflict is already there afghans on both sides of the war are already fed up with the fighting the toll which is being taken in terms of civilians afghan security forces taliban themselves is completely intolerable that tells me that if we have some political progress it may surprise people at how how quickly it develops so i don't want to name i don't want to name a survey year year after one year to year three years four years that we're going to say afghanistan is broadly at peace but i would say that that rapid progress is actually possible even over the next year neal was. michael mentioning a record number of civilians killed in twenty sixteen three thousand four hundred ninety eight lives and so far this year up until july one thousand six hundred civilians what is the mood of

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has now pulled out of its a three cornered flight ok michael semple we'll have to leave it there but we thank you for joining us on al-jazeera. well if you're watching us on facebook live what you'll see in a moment is the heroine of world war two you've probably never heard of that's coming up on facebook and also ahead on the news grid in just a moment the u.s. president donald trump plays hardball with congress over immigration as the fate of young undocumented migrants hangs in the balance that stories coming up in just a moment. with. hello there we're seeing some very heavy showers over parts of turkey recently so we know out of this weather system here the southern parts of turkey is where we've seen the heaviest of the rains and here some places have we reporting over fifty millimeters of wet weather that system it's continuing its journey east it's not it does so it's also causing a few showers to sprout up a bit further south so lebanon's seeing some fairly wet weather at the moment that gradually will ease there was the whole system runs its way eastward so still the risk

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in las vegas those windows don't open generally although some expensive rooms have balconies but semplelyhoot out that window and then aim the barrel of this weapon out toward that crowd but how long he was there, how long he planned something like this, going to be a huge concern and interest to law enforcement. >> they're already starting to work the time line backwards, to figure out working backwards from the moment of the shooting, then going back in time, when he did check into the hotel, when did he get to las vegas from mesquite, when did he get that weapon, when did he buy the ammuniti ammunition. those are all going to be key investigative steps to try to figure out what went on here. >> there's a lot of rumors online about a woman being there, so i mean, pete, did i hear you correctly, they believe that this woman marilou danley was actually at the hotel or somewhere near the scene? >> to be clear about this, savannah, this is witnesses have said they thought they saw the two of them together at the hotel. i've not heard from law enforcement whether, in fact, she was there. >>

in las vegas those windows don't open generally although some expensive rooms have balconies but semplelyhoot out that window and then aim the barrel of this weapon out toward that crowd but how long he was there, how long he planned something like this, going to be a huge concern and interest to law enforcement. >> they're already starting to work the time line backwards, matt. you're absolutely right, to try to figure out working backwards from the moment of the shooting, then going back in time, when he did check into the hotel, when did he get to las vegas from mesquite, when did he get that weapon, when did he buy the ammuniti ammunition. those are all going to be key investigative steps to try to figure out what went on here. >> there's a lot of rumors online about a woman being there, so i mean, pete, did i hear you correctly, they believe that this woman marilou danley was actually at the hotel or somewhere near the scene? >> to be clear about this, savannah, this is witnesses have said they thought they saw the two of them together at the hotel. i've not heard from law enforcemen