— taliban regime? well, in his rall , taliban regime? well, in his rally. high — taliban regime?lly, high octane rally, - taliban regime? well, in his rally, high octane rally, on l rally, high octane rally, on the eve of his inauguration, he raised again the fact the united states has continued to send money to afghanistan, even with the taliban, which has not been recognised by the american government. that money does not government. that money does not go to the taliban directly but to fund humanitarian projects, and not intended to benefit the taliban but donald trump and elon musk raise questions about whether the money is going to the taliban, should they be sending that money? and at the rally he railed against the american military equipment that fell into the hands of the taliban when the american suddenly pulled out in august 2021 and he warned the taliban that unless they give military equipment back, he will cut aid to afghanistan. he is starting the administration with tough words for the taliban. the taliban in their statement about the exchange said it had been the

you left weapons behind to the taliban, classified documents to the taliban, you left behind embassy employees to the taliban, and now three years later your own ig, inspector general, concluded your state department has been unwilling and unable to learn from its mistakes. my question is, have you read the ig report and have you held your own state department accountable? >> mr. chairman, first with regard to the documents, we have in place at every embassy, including in afghanistan, a process by which sensitive documents are destroyed in the event of an evacuation and shutting down the embassy. we began that process on august the 1st. and then when we got to august 12th, before the collapse of kabul, we proceeded with the emergency destruction of all remaining sensitive documents. that process was complete by the 14th, the day before kabul fell. that's a process we engage in wherever we have an emergency -- >> is the fact is, they should have been evacuated long before. you were negotiating entered -- as the taliban entered kabul, the embassy should have been, as the military advis

as the taliban surrendered kabul -- was surrendered to the taliban on august 14, 2021, you, sir, were vacationing in east hampton, new york. i do not say that with delight. i say that as a fact. mr. secretary, to preserve optics, you sacrificed the safety and security of our service members, diplomats, citizens and allies. you treated terrorists as diplomatic partners and created an environment ripe for chaos. and on october 26, 2021, an isis-k terrorist detonated a suicide bomb at the hamad karzai international airport. murdering 13 heroic u.s. service members and over 170 afghan civilians. my heart goes out to the gold star families and i pray for them every day. it was the deadliest day for the united states presentation in iraq -- i mean in afghanistan since 2012. and the saddest thing, sir, is it did not have to happen. mr. secretary, it's time that we again remember the fundamental principles of diplomacy. peace may only be obtained through strength. this catastrophic event which the beginning of a failed foreign policy that lit the world on fire. i welcome your testimony. and i

certainly there were areas where the taliban had deeper roots and allies, but the taliban victory was not due to affinity for their ideology, but the erosion of faith in the government and the international community's ability to improve the lives of ordinary afghans. ambassador newman previous previously spoke to the multiplicity of us policies over the course of the 20 year war. one of the issues with these policies was their siloed nature. counter terrorism and later counterinsurgency operations and priorities were built without enough consultation with other u.s. funded development, governance and human rights initiatives. in many cases, these projects actually undermined each other. at the same time, afghans did not perceive the distinction between coin development and government projects. they were all part of the same political economic shifts that were reshaping the country. this is particularly true during the third year when the amount of money being spent and the speed needed to spend it increased while the us government insisted it was not nation building throughout the wa

she says the taliban doesn't see women as human beings.

when approached, the taliban declined to comment to the bbc.ountry since 2012. back then, she was a young girl riding a school bus when she was shot by the pakistani taliban. she was targeted because she spoke out about girls education. now, muslim leaders and scholars are doing the same. 0ur correspondent speaking at that conference where malala yousafzai was speaking in a slamming thread at a conference on the education on women and girls. —— speaking in a slammer badi girls. —— speaking in a slammer bad i do conference on the education of women and girls. we are monitoring the developing situation in la where winds are increasing in strength which will be a huge concern to firefighters doing their upmost to buy two of the raging places. you are watching bbc news. —— to battle the raging blazes. hello there. temperatures above freezing. mind for some of us through the week and mostly dry thanks to high pressure and we will have some issues with mist and fog, particularly at night where winds will be lighter under this area of high pressure ac

when approached, the taliban declined to comment to the bbc.en in the same room as malala yousafzai. this is one of a handful of trips she's made to the country since 2012. back then, she was a young girl riding a school bus when she was shot by the pakistani taliban. she was targeted because she spoke out about girls education. now, muslim leaders and scholars are doing the same. 0ur correspondent speaking at that conference where the ukrainian president has said that kyiv is ready to hand over north korean soldiers to their leader if he can organise their leader if he can organise their exchange for ukrainians captive in russia. he their exchange for ukrainians captive in russia.— captive in russia. he said, in addition to — captive in russia. he said, in addition to the _ captive in russia. he said, in addition to the first - captive in russia. he said, in addition to the first captured | addition to the first captured soldiers from north korea, there will undoubtedly be more. it is only a matter of time before our troops managed to capture

the taliban, the taliban relation with pakistan was so obvious, the sanctuary was so obvious and it becamene of the critical points of disagreement between the afghan leaders and with the united states actors on the region and also with the united states leaders, what kind of measures the us will be taken against against pakistan. and that's why a review of tools of diplomatic application and aid need to be properly done to see if those are the two important and effective tools to apply in those situations. because in every cycle, pakistanis could manage to come to visit to washington and be at the at the white house. and it was a critical and important leverage that was not properly in my view used throughout. and that probably is something that downplaying or underestimating the level of leverage the united states have had and have in this situation with the on and off partners across the globe, which are mostly based on short term interest rather than on values. thank you one follow up question on a slightly different part of your statement. you made the observation that there may have

when approached, the taliban declined to comment to the bbc. she's made to the country since 2012. back then, she was a young girl riding a school bus when she was shot by the pakistani taliban. she was targeted because she spoke out about girls education. now, muslim leaders and scholars are doing the same. the remote island of greenland found itself thrust into the spotlight this week — with donald trump showing a renewed interest in taking control of it — and his son donald trumpjunior flying in for a four and a half hour visit. greenland's geographical position between the us, europe and russia means it has huge value — in terms of security and natural resources. the island has had a troubled history with denmark, which first colonised it 300 years ago. our special correspondent fergal keane has been talking to greenlanders about what they want for their future. it is one of the world's last wild frontiers. glimpsed in the short winter sunlight, we're travelling into a place of pristine beauty. this place is so remote that it's hard to imag

and the taliban. particularly, about the afghan government and the team of negotiations that elevated the taliban to the status of credible actor. transparency is owed to afghans regarding the decisions and actions taken during the process. understanding the root causes of this moment is a failure by afghan leaders and the u.s. is essential for afghans both in the country and diaspora to heal and move forward. >> the failure to prevent or mitigate the double standards, this was probably one of the most significant diplomatic failures of the last two decades. that warrants further study. the commission's work can help families of war victims and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to understand what happened and why. after two decades, despite all the sacrifices, they ended up under the same brutal regime that they were living under before. leaving the afghan populace traumatized and angry at their own political leaders for their profound failure. they embraced the view that their lives and faith, on

when approached, the taliban declined to comment to the bbc. she's made to the country since 2012. back then, she was a young girl riding a school bus when she was shot by the pakistani taliban. she was targeted because she spoke out about girls�* education. now, muslim leaders and scholars are doing the same. a quick recap on the fires in la. you can see the scale of the damage from the fires which have burnt whole neighbourhoods from the inland hills all the way to the pacific coast. 16 people have so far lost their lives. and the forecast is that perhaps that death toll may rise as people go in, authorities are using cadaver dogs to go through some of the houses where people may have perished. the biggest buyer the palisades fire, has expanded in the last while, even as they have made some progress to contain the spread, and the concern now is that the forecast is for further high winds in the next few days, as firefighters continue efforts to bring those blazes under control, one of them is contained. stay with us for the latest here on bbc

the president's team is trying to free handful of americans held by taliban in afghanistan.hey are considered wrongfully detained and there is talk of a trade. >> brian: we are sending humanitarian aid to taliban right now? >> peter: there is a lot of foreign aid going out of door, i'll check on the numbers. when you ask folks around here, they will tell you there are people in every country that need help no matter who was in charge. we will check on the exact number. >> brian: that might be leverage you need, how would you like to lose the money? that might be better. >> peter: there are 15 people left ins guantanamo bay right now. is this something president biden is prioritizing just getting the number down to 14 and trading this guy or about getting these americans home. have they determined this on only way to get americans free from taliban control or is there an aid component to it. we don't know what the thinking is. maybe give a big foreign policy address at 2:00 and fill us in. >> brian: we'll see. we'll have our vcc's rolling. >> lawrence: right. people running t

and the fact that he was being held by the taliban in afghanistan. but ryan corbett is a case we know well. >> he and his family have been living in afghanistan for more than a decade before the taliban took over the country back in 2021. corbett then went back to afghanistan after they had been evacuated the following year, and that's when he was detained by the taliban. his family has been fighting for him to be released for the biden administration to get him released for quite some time. there are two other names, kate, that have often been discussed as part of possible trades. george glassman and mahmoud habibi. >> they have unfortunately not been released today, but they were part of the different combinations of trades that the biden administration was trying. and i spoke to a senior biden administration official yesterday who said that at every turn, the taliban essentially rejected every single outreach. now, qatar was very central to this exchange as well. they hosted negotiations and discussions between u.s. officials and the taliban for t

yes. in fighting the taliban? yes, so first, this _ in fighting the taliban?fighting the taliban? yes, so first, this isn't what the l so first, this isn't what the american public wanted when they elected trump and disapproved of president biden's handling on immigration, they were not voting for a dismantling of the us refugee programme, historically has always earned bipartisan support. and what we saw monday was really shocking, which was that trump immediately suspended refugee flights and cancelled them, and these individuals, these people, these families of us military service members had already been vetted. i served on the national security council, refugees come to the us and have the most intense and, hence a vetting. so these types of signals trump is sending will quickly overplay his hand and lose the public support from the limited mandate he had to secure the border but also restore order throughout the immigration microsystem. figs throughout the immigration microsystem.— throughout the immigration microsystem. as you rightly sa , microsystem. a

and had to evacuate when the taliban took over.hanistan. we have had contact about every two weeks, short calls. and it's very difficult because his conditions are not livable. he is physically declining. he told me on a call that i would not recognize him. and i spoke with him yesterday. he called us at 5:30. i never know exactly when he will call and to be woken up by this type of call i never know what is he going to say and he was extremely frustrated. that he is still being held and he wants to come home and be with his family. he is an amazing dad. he said i feel bad for all that. of course everything i can i am a mom. this is what moms do. and i want my children to have their dad back to be part of their lives. >> ainsley: everyone watching say a prayer we can bring ryan home safely father and husband. clearly amazing wife. keep fighting. thank you so much, anna. >> thank you. >> ainsley: more "fox & friends" straight ahead. ♪ is do not use vyvgart hytrulo if you have a serious allergy to any of its ingredients. it can cause

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just hearing taliban holding more hostages than reported.y on the top leaders, may n bigger than the ones we had on bin laden. they just released two american hostages as part of prisoner exchange struck by joe biden. ryan corbett detained in 2022 and we also know of at least two other americans being held hostage, but it sounds like that might be just the tip of the iceberg. lisa, this is infuriating, but not surprising. >> but is absolutelyp du infuriating. a tale of two presidents president trump his first term with congressman texas hunt with handed to a taliban leader if yo wu harm a single leader, i w kill you and handed it to him and walked out the door appeared to the past four years underis joe biden, what did we seek a botched withdrawal fromin afghanistan with service memberd leaving americans behind as you pointed out. repeatedly turning his back on americans during every single press conference and refusing tr answer questions like completefe and total power to. fortunately, president trump back in the office withpr deterrence a

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i spoke with, added pressure to the taliban. of course, now the trump administration will pick up this effort to try to get at least these two others. george glassman and mahmoud habibi out. there could be other americans as well. of course, we have heard president trump speak often about his desire to to to get americans home. >> and he will have a new special envoy for hostage affairs who will be leading that charge as well. alex. thank you. alex marquardt making good on his promises. after a day where president trump pardoned over a thousand. january 6th rioters, what other parts of his agenda will he look to carry out? we'll discuss that after this quick break. >> i wish my tv provider. >> let me choose what i pay for. >> i wish my. >> tv provider let me choose what i pay for and let me pause my subscription when i want. sling let you do that. >> choosing customize your channel lineup or watch for free. >> sling let my mornings cough congestion. >> i'm feeling better all in one and done with mucinex. kickstart. >> headache.

saying "just hearing the taliban is holding more american hostages than has been reported.ounty on bin lidden and the taliban released two -- bin laden and they just released two hostages and one was detained in afghanistan in 2022. we know of at least two other americans being held hostage. but it sounds like it might be just the tip of the iceberg. lisa, this is infuriating but not surprising. lisa: it is. afghanistan is a tale of two presidents and you have with president trump during the first term according to texas congressman wesley hunt that he handed a photo to palihapitiya taliban leader and if you harm a single hair on an american, i'll kill you. handouted to him and walked out the door and have the past four years under joe biden is terrible botched withdraw from afghanistan leaving americans behind and you just pointed out and turning his back on americans and every single digits press conference and going to answer press conference and president trump is back in office and back to the tale of deterrence and strength and i believe whole heartedly that president

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and the taliban. what we've learned. >>> tonight, a u.s. border agent shot and killed in the northeast. one suspect dead, another in custody. we'll have late details. >>> new wildfire evacuations in southern california, and this time, in san diego. multiple wildfires there. and now dangerous winds returning to the los angeles area. >>> the new report tonight about those popular weight loss drugs, when it comes to dementia, infexs, and substance abuse. >>> also tonight here, the newest members of the baseball hall of fame just revealed tonight. >>> and remembering the last surviving member of an iconic band. you'll know their music. >>> good evening. we're back in new york, and we begin tonight with this dangerous and brutal cold in the northeast and across much of the country tonight, and what has become an historic winter storm across multiple states tonight. the first ever blizzard warning for parts of texas and louisiana. snow and freezing rain from texas to florida to the carolinas. whiteout conditions. this is the texas panhandle right

under the ruling of the taliban.end what's going on there is not the solution. the world has to work together as much as they worked together 20 years trying to convince them that we are bringing peace to afghanistan and building a nation here. and then they left in the hands of the taliban and failed in their mission. they have to come back again and work together hand in hand, both parties actually. democrats and republicans and others so that the countries of the nato to find the solution for the afghans and go back to the people that they promised for 20 years to stay with them and betrayed them and left them behind. >> ibrahim, tell us about the title, "hollywoodgate." that was a plate in afghanistan that the americans had control. tell us about that and how that came to be the title of your film. >> so according to the taliban, this place where the movie takes place is a previous cia base. the cia has not confirmed nor denied, which means it was a cia base inside the kabul airport on the military side. that bas

i from the taliban after they took control.— from the taliban after they took control.ok control. i guess we hope that this is just a _ took control. i guess we hope that this is just a matter - took control. i guess we hope that this is just a matter of i that this is just a matter of a misunderstanding. certainly programmes like refugee resettlement, they are the gold standard in terms of how we that individuals, families who have gone to a different country, they applied to the united nations, they have gone through extreme vetting for the fbi, department of homeland security, cai, interpol, they waited their turn. and only when those applications have been processed had they come to the us. it's very difficult for that we heard from president trump even this morning, we heard from vice president vance that they draw the line between legal immigration and other pathways for the refugee resettlement has always had pipe arguments support for the weave hope that we will be a better restart resettlement quickly as possible. you mentioned _ quickly as possible. you mentio

anchor: the taliban tried to kill her because of the teenager because of her advocacy for children's. leaders signed a declaration for their commitment to empower girls through education. still to come, why this year's sick season is hitting people hard. and what a core of ice in antarctica can tell scientists. >> this is pbs news weekend from our studio in washington, home of the pbs news hour. anchor: the cdc says that nationwide, the number of people going to doctors with things like the flu, rsv, and covid, is surging. what better time to check in with an epidemiologist. it is what we are seeing now the standard respiratory virus season or is there something unusual going on? >> like you said, it is no doubt ugly out there. there are a lot of sick people with coughs, fever, sore throat. especially in the south and hi west. these levels are not unusual. we have seen the same level of sickness before the pandemic. what is unusual is that covid is not necessarily dominating. the main culprit right now is flu. it accounts for many more hospitalizations. this is definitely a shift fro

and while the taliban have been occasionally fighting i.s.i.s., they've certainly the taliban have been, according to the un, there are 20 terrorist organizations that are based there now. so whether the taliban has the capacity or the inclination to go after these terrorist groups is an open question. so i think one factor is the fact that the taliban are now back in power in afghanistan, and now you have a formerly affiliated with al qaeda terrorist group that now controls syria. and there's some debate about how they change their spots or not. but the fact is, some i.s.i.s. prisoners were let go when the assad regime was toppled. and secondarily, there are a bunch of, um, camps of and prisons that are containing i.s.i.s. prisoners in northeastern syria, which people are concerned, you know, may come under attack and there may be more prisoner releases. so some of this is to do with circumstances in the middle east, and some of this is to do with the fact we still don't know the precise motivations of the new orleans attacker. he obviously had a very troubled personal history, and he

and afghanistan's taliban has freed two americans in exchange for a taliban figure.ed by the taliban in august of 2022 while on a business trip. the corbett family in a statement thanked both president trump and president biden for their efforts in freeing him. it's not clear what william mcconstituency was doing in afghanistan when he was detained. the taliban prisoner cohen mond had been sentenced to two life terms in california on drug trafficking and terrorism charges. america's top diplomat on his first day on the job. marco rubio was confirmed by the senate last night as the secretary of state. big changes expected at foggy bottom. senior national correspondent rich edson is at the state department tonight. >> the yeas are 99. the nays are zero. >> after unanimous senate confirmation on inauguration day, secretary of state marco rubio introduced himself this morning to department employees. >> my sincerest hope and my prayer is that we will as a nation be able to leave the future generations with a country and a planet safer and better than the one that was lef

we pay billions of dollars to essentially the taliban, afghanistan. and that's given by biden, the same man that took away $50 trillion to $60 trillion worth of value of the united states. probably our most valuable asset, took away our most valuable asset. this can't be allowed to happen. we're now a nation of commonsense. when he does that, 625 million acres, this can't be allowed to happen. most people probably know about it but wouldn't have told me. reporter: you vowed to bring down the crisis at grocery stores really fast but then you mentioned to "time" magazine that bringing down prices would be very hard. what will the american people expect? mr. trump: it's hard to bring down prices when somebody has screwed things up like they did. we'll bring down energy. energy is what brought it up, energy and bad spending is what brought it up and energy will bring it down. we'll have prices down. i think you're going to see some pretty drastic price reductions. as an example, food, bacon, ham, apples, everything has gone through the roof. it's one of t

lovely the, this is the, the us loan states mission into afghanistan after $911.00 attacking the taliban regime with a scalar commission under the scan government corruption that ultimately to lead us with tools and the return of the tele, by so many people weren't killing people were on the, on the government more than the final part of afghanistan, the price of peace investigates the devastating human cost of the world. and the failure to secure lasting peace phone. i'll just say around the i'm about to send and the top stories on all to 0 is there any ministry is intensifying it's offensive in janine refugee come in the occupied westbank is covered at drone strikes and deployed more troops to the area of.

i didn't support it, but they were terms that president trump in his first term set with the taliban, terms that i thought gave away the store to the taliban, because there were no concessions from them on what we were to get from the united states, the government of afghanistan was not at the table when the terms were negotiated, and now we're seeing the fallout from that. i know that no one is watching for gaps in u.s. national security policy more closely than president xi and the people's republic of china. now, mr. hegseth identifies china as our peer competitor, something that i think all of us on the armed services committee, and probably everyone in this chamber, agree with. but if mr. hegseth is so concerned about china, then he should realize that nothing will encourage president xi's aggression more than seeing america abandon our allies and partners. mr. hegseth cheese china's -- sees china's ambitions as, quote, a fait accompli. yet he doesn't seem to recognize his own inconsistencies on these foreign policy positions could tribute to this. a question i would like mm mr.

and specifically for the taliban and the group. and we were doing very well and we would have been out ask we would have been respected and i think it's one of thehe reasonst was so badly handled that withdraw where people are jumping onto airplanes and falling off the sides of airplanes and 3,000 feet in the air and nobody has seen anything like that, it's the worst. russia wept and attacked ukraine and they saw that and said these guys are incompetent and don't know what they're doing but we know whatnc we're doing now and that's going to all end and we have a great military they say nott well, sir. not well. i took them out. whatat happened, nothing, got criticized and if you have an acre and you have a big deal going for them on the line and that's the strength and my manufacturer and don't manufacture things and we have our gas more than anybody in the world. and we're going to have more of it too. they took away 625 million acres of offshore drilling and nobody else does that. they they they have it and i'll put it back on da

they are forced to stay in amman like the taliban five. united arab emirates, where do they end up? in the afghan taliban government. this is totally irresponsible. president biden is bernie the house down on his way out. stuart: the us is in talks for an alleged usama bin laden associate separate from who is being released from gitmo. mayor eric adams is touting, decreased in the last year. >> horrific incidents the commission talked about the last few days, you have this new yorker, it is out of control. we know they are doing a good job fighting crime. the perception many new yorkers feel 1/4 for december, 15.5% decrease. stuart: fair enough about people in new york city do not feel safe and it is very hard to get around that. brian: people of new york city are being mocked for feeling not safe. arrests are down because they don't arrest anybody anymore. they don't have qualified immunity and don't want to be sued for $32,000 a year. the other thing they have a problem with is beyond perception, a guy over the weekend has been arrested

the taliban is in charge. the taliban might be searching for them. >> absolutely.se are people who are themselves. >> or are family of. >> people who've. >> served with alongside. >> american military. >> in afghanistan. >> or worked for the embassy or. >> development agencies, or spoke. >> up on. >> behalf of human rights. >> and so these are. >> the good guys. >> who've lost out to the. >> taliban. and the taliban is. >> very clear. >> that they. >> want to get them. they're threatening. >> them. >> and their lives are at risk. >> have you reached out at all to michael waltz, who is the president? president trump's national security advisor. he's a green beret, and he has spoken about the need to get afghan partners out of afghanistan. has he has he taken your calls? has he been open minded to to hearing about this? >> we have had great success on both. >> sides of the aisle in congress. we had excellent entrÉe into the biden administration. >> and so we would like. >> very much to establish contact with trump officials and get their agreement to put a pause on o

nobel peace prize winner, malala yousafzai, urges muslim leaders not to legitimise the taliban governmenteaking at a summit on girls�* education in islamabad in pakistan, the campaigner says the taliban doesn't see girls as human beings. now on bbc news, it's sportsday. hello, and welcome to sportsday. i'm mark edwards. lift off for the amorim era — manchester united beat arsenal on penalties despite being down to 10 men for half the match. advantage australia — the hosts take the lead in the multi—format women's ashes series. bristol keep their last 16 hopes alive as they edge past benetton in the champions cup. also coming up on sportsday... sabalenka sees off sloane stevens in style at the australian open — she's into the second round. back from the brink, robertson stuns higgins at the masters fighting back from 5—1 down. hello, and thanks forjoining us on sportsday, we're going to start with football in what's been a dramatic day of fa cup 3rd round action — none more so than at the emirates where manchester united beat arsenal on penalties despite having diogo dalot sent off on the

it was last year the taliban closed every single beauty salon.ty salon — and i talk about beauty salons because i know the importance of having a space for women where they could just be together. and then, in sudan, where, you know, so many have been raped and killed. and in ukraine, when i was there last year, ijust heard stories of people like me, who have been raped and feel embarrassed to share their stories, not having enough support. and if we can act early on to protect women and girls, that is the best way. but we have to empower them before, you know, in times of peace, we have to empower them, to listen to them, and that's how we can prevent it. you've had incredible success in the work you've done in ukraine. can you tell us about that? when dr denis mukwege and i won the nobel and after that, we got to know each other more and we wanted to do something for all survivors. and that was — when we were talking to survivors, a lot of them, they are either like, you know, displaced or don't have somewhere to go, some of them are rejected b

in a perfect world we would be able to close the gap between us and the taliban.id that, we are not area. we are working on it. as far as specifics go it is best not to talk about it in public. amna: is there any deal -- you seem to be pushing for this one senior official. is there a deal in which not all three americans come home? mr. carstens: again, i don't want to get into the specifics. amna: on to syria, i need to ask you about austin tice. you yourself travel to syria after the assad regime had fallen. in the month plus since the assad regime has fallen, have you learned anything else about where he was held or where he might be? mr. carstens: after damascus fell on the eighth we were able to find more information and were able to take information we had for years and overlap it to get a sense of where he might be held. we came up with a list of about six places we believe t might be or had some relation to, and from december 8 two about the 20th, we were working with people who could go to the prisons, the secret prison sites , and conduct investigations.

biden administration has had negotiations in doha, qatar negotiating with the taliban about a possible al afghani for three americans that the biden administration believes are held by the taliban right now. back to you. >> brian: wow, so we might exchange gitmo guys for two of our guys in afghanistan? >> peter: this was a senior al qaeda leader who has been held for years. so this is a big gut check for president biden. how badly does he really want to get the population of gitmo down? is it worth trading -- releasing a senior al-qaeda leaderboard? >> brian: we know those two leaders that obama went went back to leading the taliban. >> lawrence: battlefield. these guys would do the same thing. thanks, peter. >> ainsley: thank you, peter. >> lawrence: doesn't make any sense at all. it's unbelievable. >> brian: burning the house counsel on down on the way out. >> steve: he has said we never leave people over there maybe that's part of his calculus why is he joining it now. if you joined us at the top of the hour, joel kaplan one of meta's big bosses now came on the program to reveal at

. - we refuse to let the taliban deprive girls of their future. - [bianna] a call to action after 1,000 days since the taliban banned afghan girls from going to school, i speak to nobel laureate, malala yousafzai, and. - when terrorists are shooting at you, you just leave everything behind. - [bianna] remembering nova, founder of the music festival, ofir amir, tells me about surviving hamas's attack and his new exhibit documenting that day.

on her school bus.— the pakistani taliban on her school bus.turn to the country only _ school bus. she is a return to the country only a _ school bus. she is a return to the country only a handful. school bus. she is a return to the country only a handful of| the country only a handful of times since. it was the biggest rape trial in french history. gisele pelicot waived her right to anonymity and became a global icon. dominque pelicot was found guilty of drugging and raping his wife, and inviting 50 men into their home to abuse her while she slept. gisele's daughter caro—leen darian stood alongside her mother in court and told her father that he would "die alone like a dog." caroleen believes that her father also drugged and abused her. she's spoken to the bbc in herfirst broadcast interview since the trial. anna collinson has more. don't really remember the father that i thought he was. i looked straight to the criminal, to the sexual criminal he is. caroline darian received a phone call from her mother in november 2020 that changed her life

drivers, the guides, interpreters were not left to the tender mercies of al qaeda and the tamm -- taliban. together we were able with senator mccain, senator kennedy to pass a special immigrant visa that has resulted in thousands of these people who worked with us to be able to live. in many cases be able to seek safety in the united states. as i say, these are not things that people necessarily see in the news or on the internet, they are not going to raise campaign money for their goals using them, but they are the things that make the difference. i guess my last piece of advice that i leave to the people that are coming in the next congress is to focus on thinks that bring people together rather than divides them. look for ways to solve problems rather than create new ones. over the course of the last 28 years i have seen this formula work. and i hope in the new congresspeople will employ it in way that is will make a difference. heaven knows we need to do it. thank yretiring congressman earl blumenauer. we're talking in the right off of the house ways and means committee hearing room

the international criminal court's top prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for taliban leaders. crackdown on women's rights since taking back control of the country. a prosecutor said gender-based persecution by the taliban supreme leader and the head of the supreme court amounts to crimes against humanity. >> the status quo for women and girls in afghanistan is unacceptable. they deserve accountability before a court of war. anchor: in thailand, marriage equality is now the law of the land. they have the same marital rights as heterosexual couples. 200 register their unions during a daylong celebration at a bangkok shopping mall. thailand is the first country in southeast asia to legalize same-sex marriage and the third in all of asia after taiwan and nepal. on wall street, stocks rose after comments from trump about lower interest rates and oil prices. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 400 points. the nasdaq added 44 points. the s&p 500 closed at a new all-time high. the academy of motion picture arts and sciences announced its oscar nominations this morning. >

since the taliban we gained power and i've gotten it done 3 years ago. so we can get back to our focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, restoring 3 x version on our platforms, us social media, a company a match. i had made it some more duration policies turned out to be politically biased censorship. besides it's ending fact checking operations that damage the company's image. the you're watching our team to national reaching you live from our new center. with moscow, i have michael boucher now western powers of gathering germany to discuss the additional funding for ukraine. the us is expected to locate another $500000000.00 in military assistance as a last ditch effort before donald trump takes office next week. as he has pledged to cut down support for key if the packet good inside the future aid will depend on john's approval. up to date, the united states and our allies and partners have collectively committed more than $126000000000.00 and security assistance to ukraine. since russia's full scale invasion in february 2022 will be a f

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going there to americans and, and i've gotten that return home after a prisoner swap between the taliban i'm washington con, behind return from california. either way had been serving a life sentence on drug and terrorism challenges. he was detained during fighting in eastern afghanistan 2 decades ago. going us present, joe biden agreed to the swat broken by castle just days before leaving office. okay, you are up to date monday. thanks for joining us. don't forget our website. i'll just do it. don't call much more the invitations on the new trump presidency. obviously, i don't. com. is the website address, say with the serial number to 0 with this is i'm thanks, bye for now. the, for this neighborhood in the city of the days of oppression. so somebody and something happens. take something away. last time i saw l. v was in the hospital, the they met of at this out on the st. john were the same. awesome. i looked all the way down s l v g s me and knock you are right? yeah, i'm all right. you say, but i didn't know. i thought we're going to all get well in the hospital right there, but tha