southern afghanistan. okay. so they're telling me that isis just infiltrated southern afghanistan. >> you know why? >> i'm simply saying for two or three days we've said it's working. >> because they're being pushed back. they're going to one place they can find protection. >> you know what we should do? push them back into syria. stop trying to kill them. let syria deal with their problem that they started. that's where they came from. push them back there. >> but pushing back isn't a philosophy to win a war. that's just, like shuffling around like a shell game. you have to destroy them. you have to annihilate them so they are no longer in existence because otherwise then they crop back up and they get a new name they hire a new york pr company, and now it's not isis or aqap. it's somebody else. >> let me ask you one thing about taking your eye off the ball when you were talking about the priorities and stripping to your undies in a snowstorm or whatever that was. the fact that we have so many western nationals

this village happened to be sort of the epicenter of the taliban in southern afghanistan. it was sort of the epicenter of insurgency against the united states military. and so i took office on to kabul and became interested in how did a village become like this? it was so bizarre. i went back through the archives, historical archives. i found tribal elders what but fled from the village and they begin to reconstruct things and it turned out that back in 2001 which is one -- which is one the u.s. invasion was, this was an american stronghold to this village had welcomed the u.s. military with open arms because they have suffered so greatly under the taliban. something happened between 2001-2008 when i visited that completely turned it on its head. so i became obsessed with this idea of trying to understand how things could have gone so wrong. i went back down to the countryside and started anything people and asking this very question, when did things go badly? when did the war come back? the result essentially is the book which has interviews with hundreds of people. i spo

this village happened to be the sort of epicenter of the taliban in southern afghanistan. it was sort of the epicenter of the insurgency against the united states military. so i took all this in, i had all my notes, and i went back home to kabul, and i just became really interested in like, how does a village become like this right? this is so bizarre. i went back through the archives the historical archives i found tribal elders who had fled from that village, and i began to reconstruct the story of the village. and it turned out that back in 2001, which is when the u.s. invasion was that this village was actually a pro-american stronghold. this village actually had welcomed the u.s. military with open arms because they had suffered so greatly under the taliban. and something had happened between 2001 and 2008 when i had visited that had completely turned it on its head. and so i became obsessed with this idea of trying to understand how things could have gone so wrong. and so what i did for the next three years is i went back down into the countryside and started intervi

two afghan soldiers were arrested today in connection with an attack on a wedding party in southern afghanistan least 28 people were killed when a house was hit by artillery fired from military check points. most of the victims were women and children. eight soldiers are still under investigation. >>> business owners in afghanistan are hoping for a better future but many worry the new political leaders will not be able to change the dire economic situation. jennifer glasse reports. >> reporter: this factory in kabul can produce 150,000 juice packs a day. and the owner is proud his product is home grown. >> we're the only company in afghanistan to use afghan fruit pulp. >> reporter: we first met him two years ago, right after a suicide truck bombing next door destroyed millions of dollars of that juice pulp. then he wasn't sure if he would rebuild, but he has, and he's expanding. >> as a business not a smart move at all. it's not worth to invest with such a high risk but afghan being inhabitant of this country, i think it's a smart move. if i don't do it who will? >> reporter: he employs about 3

. >>> there has been a bomb blast at a packed mosque in southern afghanistan.as in the shikarpur district. police are saying at least 20 people have been killed and 50 injured. police are saying the roof of the mosque collapsed, trapping several people. local media suggest a suicide bomber may have triggered the blast. the police say they are investigating. let's get more on this from shahzeb jillani, in karachi for us. can you tell us more about who caused this explosion? thatv they discovered a suicide bomber? >> reporter: we haven't seen a claim of responsibility from any militant group yesterday, but we know that a sunni extremist group has previously carried out audacious attacks against shia targets in pakistan. now, this place, shikarpur district, as you said, is about 500 kilometers north of karachi. this is not a region known for militant violence for taliban activity, it's unusual for this kind of attack to take place there. there were scenes of chaos when the reports started emerging. rescue teams had real difficulty getting close to the casualty sie

afghan officials say islamic ex-treimerex- extremeists is inside southern afghanistan. isis is now fighting the taliban there. an afghan military official told the associated press, isis is recruiting new members in afghanistan. more than a dozen have already been killed in fighting. >>> an illinois teen pleading guilty to charges he tried to support isis terrorists. officials say 19-year-old mohamed hamzah khan invited his family in his plans to travel to the middle east to join isis. he was arrested at chicago o'hare airport in october. khan's mother condemning the terror group, saying it brainwashes muslim youth. >> we condemn the brainwashing and recruiting of children through social media and the internet. and we have a message for isis. leave our children alone. >> khan faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. >>> attorneys for accused boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev are asking a judge to suspend jury selection in his trial for at least a month in light of the terror attacks in paris. defense lawyers argued that right now it would be all but impossible

i was out on the ground with them and several chapters of the book in southern afghanistan and just to kind of put a face on this to have an american officer standing next to an arab office talking to groups of afghan villagers and to have the arabs say this is not the way. the kit jakarta, look at dubai. there is a better path for you and the children to still be proper muslims and followers of islam and by the way take a step further and look what the united states did for germany and look what it did for japan, look what it did for korea. that kind of a voice immediately undermining the ideology and frankly the ignorance the taliban was espousing was the tynes of u.s. soldiers. the other piece i have become passionate about is girls education peer we need to take that out of this kind of feel-good humanitarian realm and put it squarely on the national security round. it is a national security issue. no ideology can suppress 50% of its population and oprah's 50% of its population. i think the more we put brave leaders like la la la -- the nobel peace prize the nobel peace committee d

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of the four years he spent as one of the few western journalists in the taliban hotbed of southern afghanistans reported presence of isis in the region? >> yeah the area where i spent years reporting down in the south is where we're hearing some of the most disturbing reports about black flags going up over taliban groups. so the white flags are coming down, the black flags are coming up and they're fighting each other, some of these extremists good news for the afghan government. good to see your enemies shooting at each other. but on the other hand it means that there is this new sort of even more extreme version of jihadist ideology being bred in the south, making it perhaps a little more difficult for mainstream, more moderate taliban to negotiate at this point. >> what do you think the average afghan wants the future to look like? is it a strong government out of kabul? is it a return to the taliban? is it some kind of a mix of both? >> well here in kabul where i'm sitting right now, it's pretty easy to have afghans over to my house for dinner parties. they all want to see a moderate demo

elements and society and businessmen and anybody who wanted to have a decent life in the southern part of afghanistantaliban. they made the gains after 1994 not so much because the force of arms but because the people came over to their side. they were an antidote to the ills that had befallen the ills of the country before that. before that was mission creek. so it wasn't enough to try to set afghanistan on a correct islamic path they wanted to rule the country and the members of the northern alliance that comprised of ethnic minorities within afghanistan, unlike the near majority pash toons, they were continuing to fight a civil war which was still continuing at the time of 9/11 and we were able to seize upon for part of the war, the war in the north. >> so in your answer to abby just a moment ago, you said the war got away with us and we repeated the mistakes of the soviets and now they are back to this essentially terrorist safe haven. and with all of our money and lives an time what did we accomplish in afghanistan? >> i think the jury is still out on that but i fear the verdict is that we've ac

. >>> isis has expanded its reign of terror into southern afghanistan.hters have clashed with the local taliban and are recruiting new members in the country. more than a dozen people have reportedly been killed in fighting between the taliban and isis. >>> a new study reveals that you may be able to lose weight by lowering the thermostat. this is not something you should be telling my father. it's a study published in the journal "cell metabolism" reformers found being in a room as cold as 53 degrees, produces cells that rev up your body's calorie burn. shivering for ten minutes could be just as effective as weight loss and exercise. >> why are we telling the world this? >> this is great news for me our furnace broke last night. i woke up this morning and it was 57 degrees in my house, which accounts for the new svelte allison you're seeing. 57 i've got to get that fixed. >> what do you keep the house at normally? >> i like at least 68. but i prefer 70. >> thrifty husbands around the world are cheering i can lower the heating bill. this is great. and wi

officials tell me there are reports of isis fighters claiming to be isis fighters showing up in southern afghanistan, it is this issue of the export of their terror. rebranding. people claiming to be isis going into the fight in other places. that's one of the big concerns for the u.s. because if these types of export fighters if you will can come to the united states carry out attacks here claiming to be isis it is a serious concern for momentland security. michaela? >> now to the cries nis yemen. rebels holding the president captive have reached a tentative deal agreeing to reform its constitution in order to get rebels to abandon government buildings. who controls this key u.s. ally? how much power does their president have? cnn senior correspondent nick paton walsh got access to the presidential compound. incredible access you got. >> in the capital this morning it appears as though the deal is holding to some degree. a key element of it is yet to be realized we are expecting and part of the deal was that the houthis would immediately release the presidential chief of staff. that has not happene

their control in the southern philippines is almost holding the national government hostage to them and their whims. >> afghanistan's parliament is voting on the president's cabinet. >> mexico's attorney general declared that all 43 students who went missing in september are dead, saying they were killed by a gang which mistook them for rival criminals. many don't believe that account. we have a report from mexico city. >> mexico's attorney general said there's no doubt what happened to the 43 students. the evidence allows us to determine that the students were kidnapped, killed, burnt and dumped in a river. he cited 39 confessions including this man's felipe rodriguez said gang bosses called him to dispose of the students. in addition to the confessions the conference was completed with slick produced videos and reenactments all to add weight to the attorney general's argument. it's unlikely to convince a skeptical country. protests continue to call the government's argument into question. so far forensic experts have only identified the remains of one of the students. fire experts say there's no way 41 person were

it has expanded in eastern libya and in southern yemen, it is expanding in places like afghanistan whichal province in its caliphate. it has affiliated itself with boko haram in nigeria. it is creating territories around places where terror activity is taking place and they're part of a bigger caliphate. they're looking for territorial expansion. they're looking at humiliating the west breaking their security. isis for now is focused more on territorial expansion, taxing people, selling oil and what not, bringing these fighters from around the world. there's going to be a time when some of those fighters are going to come back some of them may come back and notice. we don't know what plots are in place for fighters when they come back. hopefully they won't come back and notice but if they do they might have something in mind. >> talk about news that the juror dan government is willing to trade for a pilot that's held hostage. >> sure. the jordanian pilot, his aircraft was downed a few weeks ago, and isis threatened to behead him. he comes from one of the most prominent families in jordan

afghanistan has been without a government since ghani and abdullah abdullah agreed to share power after disputed elections in september. >>> thousands of protesters have been on the streets of the southern yemeni to rally against shia houthi rebels. they're demanding that the houthi leave city and government institutions, which they have taken over. >>> russia's government is preparing to make huge public spending cuts as part of an economic rescue package. the kremlin will use savings to pump out $35 billion into the economy, which has been battered by falling oil prices and western sanctions. the crash in russia's currency the up ruble has led to credit agencies to cut russia's credit ratings to just six. >>> days after being sworn into power alexis tsipras holds plans that include negotiation on bail out deals. that has fears for many but there was positive news for hundreds of government cleaners. >> on wednesday, they were in shock. greece's new finance minister made it his first task to rehire some 600 cleaning ladies, his department dismissed 18 months ago and replaced with cheap workers. >> it doesn't perhaps do anything for greece that some cleaning ladies are going back to wor

afghanistan? why do all terror roads seem to go through that country today? >> well, that and southern syria. we are talking about a failing or failed state. they are payed the meager salaries. and then of course there is the increasingly deadly and increasingly sectarian complex that has rackeded the country for years. little complex but worth listening to. the side of the muslim divide lchlt they moved in and taken over the streets. and you see their check points in many areas. they are the enemies of al qaeda and sunni tribes here and some say, in fact, that al qaeda have done quite well out of that because many have rushed the to join them to bolster their ranks because they're scared of the shiite. this is so volatile, this capital city that this morning the chief of staff of the yemeni president was kidnapped in the city center itself. it isn't known precisely who did this. there are claims from supporters of the presidential administration that armed men were behind that and there are suggestions that they say this happened as a move to try to prevent a new constitution being put in pl

afghanistan. still ahead, why he was there and who the government says took his life. >>> we're learning more about what happened the moments before a fitness model was hit by a train in southernlifornia. why authorities say he was breaking the law when he was killed. >>> welcome back. the time is 4:44, this as we take a live look outside in oakland and you can see that yep, there's a little bit of fog all over the east bay this morning as well. >>> japanese leaders are vowing this morning to save the lives of two hostages being held ransom right now by isis militants. in an online video released this morning, two extremists claiming to be with isis threatened to kill the hostages in orange jumpsuits. we're choosing not to show the video because it is isis propaganda. what they want, $200 million in the next 72 hours. the two hostages have been identified as a military contractor and a freelance journalist. senior u.s. defense officials say they have no active plans to evacuate the u.s. embassy in yemen, this despite much violence there. intense fighting sprang up near the presidential palace after rebels took control of state-run media. at least three people were killed. u.s.

troops home from afghanistan and have them patrol and secure the southern border." "congress should actually work for their pay instead of their usual shirking. good luck with that." retreating a tweet from hollywood republican chuck woo lery -- he wants "to get americans to understand we are a constitutional republic, not a democracy, and what that means." winston-salem, north carolina, outline for independents. caller: good morning, sir. what i would like from our congress is the truth host:. host:and the truth on what, jamie? caller: everything. if you don't have the truth, you don't resolve the problems our country faces. then he give you an example. for the most part, the vast majority of americans think that the federal reserve is part of the federal government. it is a private inking cartel -- banking cartel. why can't we have the truth on who is truly behind pushing immigration policies and's country? -- policies in this country? host: how does congress go about regaining your trust? who are the people telling the truth on capitol hill? caller: none of them.

humanities council in which veterans of three wars vietnam iraq and afghanistan were reading the odyssey was a scholar from the university of southern main maine map. the odyssey is a book about coming home from war if there ever was one. that's the book and i was again quite struck and pleased by how passionate these participants were about that text and how revealing they felt it was. so there are some dimensions of these timeless attributes of the humanities but we also need to be very attentive to the ways in which our current cultural circumstances has shaped all of these questions and i think combining the best of what lawton said the timeless with their current dilemmas challenges opportunities. i think that's where the real power of this material comes out. >> thank you. is there such a thing as quote cultural literacy unquote today underlies civic engagement and ideas about the public good? >> absolutely the reason i mentioned more than once in my talk this tradition american political tradition historical and philosophical political theoretical is that literacy in a democratic context involves a deeper point is with those

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