with the afghan taliban. they actually sometimes swear allegiance to the afghan so for most people i would say they are all the same. they certainly talk the same. when you meet them they say we have the same names, we might do different operations, but we believe the same thing which is a very radical islamist -- they swear allegiance to more markets. they have this weird relationship with pakistani intelligence which is they are all actually -- what is the word? children of the pakistani intelligence services. and of course they do have relations with many militants so you could put them all in the same basket and they have relations with the al qaeda. >> those are things -- [inaudible] >> you see people try to make that argument. i don't really buy that. the afghan taliban has been a bit more, i would not call the nationalists, there islamists, their nationalists but they do keep to themselves. they haven't done a great deal of international terrorism in afghanistan. i would say they allow all foreign price

, the pakistan taliban. obviously isi is controlled by the army. it is part of the army. so my question is, are you saying that the pakistan army is the right enemy? one. and two, whether they are the right enemy or not definitely behind all the chaos and what's going to happen again if afghanistan has her strategic depth or something like that. so understanding all of that, why did they keep supporting the pakistan army by funding by veteran and by having a true dialogue with the army so it is just, i don't understand. >> wow, this is really also why i wrote the book because there's a lot of debate inside the military, the project really between parts of the american government, between the military. because they are on the ground they mostly know what's going on when you talk to them they are the most rank. cia has its own opinion and diplomat tend to say no, no, there's no proof they are not part in the taliban. so you've got this model in side the american executive, which is struggling and which i think

the taliban sends a message to the government.th korean president apologizes for the ferry and announces plans to break up the coast guard. a syrian activist tells al jazeera how he survived a chemical attack. ♪ two dead, dozens injured and libya's government in chaos, fighting swept across the capitol tripoli and they launched an attack on parliament and demanded suspension and we will be live at tripoli in a few minutes but first here is his report. >> reporter: attack on the general national congress, the country's parliament and tripoli in a war zone. heavy may sine guns, grenades and weapons were used and fumes of black smoke rising in the air. according to witnesses gunmen driving vehicles stormed the gnc building say they were members of the brigade with bases by the airport and this is in the eastern city of benghazi. and they told al jazeera they declared an open war on the government for supporting what they called extremist and terrorists. on friday forces loyal attacked the bases at benghazi and left dozens of people d

the pakistani taliban are pashtun so they are along the border. what's interesting is i think they have allegiance and they have similar thoughts so most of the pakistani taliban actually cut their teeth and learn to be fighters with the afghan taliban. and actually sometimes swear allegiance to the taliban. for most people i would say they are all the same. they certainly talk the same. when you meet them they say we have the same names. we might do different operations but we believe in the same thing which is you know a very radical islamist caliphate. they swear allegiance to mullah omar which is the afghan leader and they have this weird relationship with the pakistani intelligence which is they are all actually what is the word? they are children of the pakistani intelligence services. they were raised and fostered by them and of course they do have relations with punjabi militants and others. i would say you've could put them on the same basket and they have relations with al qaeda. [inaudible] they are interested not in getting afghanistan

the five who were swapped were the taliban deputy minister of intelligence, who the u.s. says was a direct link to islamic groups and trained taliban fighters. a senior taliban commander wanted by the united nations for possible war crimes, suspected of the murder of thousands of shiite muslim. deputy minister of taliban's defense and chief of staff of its army who our government said posed a high risk of threat against the united states. a former province head of taliban security with ties to al-qaeda who also directed attacks against our forces. and another official with ties to al-qaeda who was also wanted by the u.n. for war crimes. when a statement from house intelligence committee chairman congressman mike rogers, rogers said while he is pleased that bergdahl is free, he says, quote, i am extremely troubled, however, that the united states negotiated with terrorists and agreed to swap five senior taliban leaders who are responsible for the deaths of many americans. this fundamental shift in u.s. policy signals to terrorists around the world a greater incentive to tak

maybe that the taliban took? cause it's clear that -- that the army sergeant was released before those at guantanamo were. >> yeah. maybe only a little bit, dana. what we know is that these five detainees were turned over to -- or we are told these five detainees were turned over to qatari custody on the ground at guantanamo bay. so the qataris had custody of them, legal custody if you will, physical custody of them, at guantanamo bay, at the detention facility. at some point prior to them being loaded on to a u.s. c-17 aircraft for that flight to the middle east. who knows. maybe once the qataris had them in hand they somehow had a way of communicating to the taliban, okay, we've got them. you know, at the end of the day, these situations are, to some extent, in the last moments before it all happened, a leap of faith that it's all going to go well. i think it is very safe to say that the u.s. military, that small group of commandos on the ground knew if it did not go well, they had plenty of backup, not too far

talibans. call theakistani taliban. [inaudible] are they the same people? >> i think they are the same, but we call them the afghan taliban because yes, they have afghan leadership, it's a more umbrella group of all the groups along the border, mostly pakistani people born and raised in the pakistan side of the line. [inaudible] >> no. the pakistani taliban are pashtun so they are along the border. but what's interesting is i think they have allegiance and they have very similar stories. so most of the pakistani talibans actually cut their teeth. they actually sometimes swear allegiance to the afghan taliban. so i think, for most people i would just say they are all the same. they certainly talk the same. when you meet them they say, we have the same names. we might be different operations, but we believe in the same thing, which is, you know, a very radical islamist -- they swear allegiance to the afghan taliban leader. and they have this weird relationship with the pakistani intelligence, which is the

everybody in the taliban or most people in the taliban were mu jahideen. in one way or another they did a fitted from the cia's eight and later become the taliban and then try to join the americans again in 2001 and more rebuffed and then went back. >> can you talk about the numbers of afghans who have died during the war? today in all the u.s. media, they're talking about the number of u.s. soldiers, which is well over 2000. but i don't know that we have that sense of how many afghans have died. >> we don't. we don't even know how many numbers are what the numbers are because it is very difficult to count and afghans who were killed by the taliban to to be counted -- they're not always counted. what we know is tens of thousands of afghans have died in this conflict and continue to die. what it means to be in afghan today is on the one hand you run the risk of hitting roadside bombs are being caught by the taliban are on the other side being caught by pro-american warlords. they get summarily executed. there are grave human rights violations. that is what i

>> reporter: we know the taliban have been demanding the release of these five people in guantanamo bayan figures. one of them was a former deputy defense minister and one a former interior minister and one a former deputy head of intelligence and another a governor of two different provinces under the taliban' not believed to have had connections with al qaeda but this is the way the taliban operates. it captures people and done this in pakistan and afghanistan. so this is perhaps nothing new but it's been in the works for a couple of years. it stalled on a number of occasions but now with the help of qataris, the middle man building confidences on both sides making this happen, not direct talks, indirect talks, again, using the qatari middle man. it has worked this time and very many things could have gone wrong and fortunate this time it didn't. >> very fortunate. mike, you spent considerable time in afghanistan four documentary "hornets nest." you're familiar with that border between afghanistan and pakistan. is that a place you can hide a captive for five years yaeeasil? >> you can

he was a political chip in the hands of the taliban. hat is held in captivity. it was the right thing to do, no question. i do want, though, to have a full public accounting of the circumstances under which he was lost to u.s. military control. and in terms of the peace process, i do not believe this is significant in any way. there are some huge issues at stage in afghanistan. the united states is now a dwindling factor in the eventual outcome. so i think the taliban and the pashtun and the, you know, government of kabul have got some real serious issue. millions of people are at risk now in the waning days of this u.s. presence. i don't think bergdahl is important in any way in that. >> general mccaffrey, weighing in on the va scandal and eric shinseki, thank you so much, i appreciate your time. >>> we're going to get a bit more on the va scandal. we talk about of course eric shinseki having stepped down, but not before he publicly apologized to all vets for what happened at the facility in phoenix. >> that breach of integrity is irres

. >>> video message from the pakistani taliban. it's leader said it will continue fighting until islamic law is imposed across the country. >>> syria's largest city shut up shop in protest of rebel fighting. >>> and a povert poster boy forl animals. >> libya's army chief has deployed armed militia to the capital of tripoli. it follows an attacks on parliament by forces loyal to a former general. two people were killed in that attack on sunday. retired general has been conducting a campaign against militias in bengahzi. the government says its actions amount to an attempted coup. tell us about these armed groups in the capital--capitol. what is going on there? >> reporter: let me start with the confirmation that the embasssaudiembassy has closed i, and they are citing security fears. there are other reports that other embassies did the same. we'll confirm them once we get it. now back to your question. the situation in tripoli is calm, however, it is very tense. the crisis that has been going on for the past three dice that started i

and the taliban. there are some more moderate taliban that would negotiate with the afghan government. >> david. rohde, thank you for coming in? >> thank you. >> talking about your own experience. >>> technology and advances in medical research have made it possible to extend the lives of terminally ill patients. >> can come at the cost of dignity and quality of life. a study recently published in the medical journal plus one shows that many doctors, themselves, don't want that type of high-intensity care. joining us is the author of the study, dr. bjperical, the director stanford's palliativ care. >> thank you for clienting me. >> what are we talking about when it comes to the high-intensity care? >> high-intensity care particularly means being admitted to the intensive care unit, being connected to machines that help you breathe. sometimes having feeding tubes and a whole variety of medications that basically means that you have to stay in the intensive care unit and have intense, high intensity sup

in the hands of the taliban. the negotiations that have taken place through the state department and the help of pakistan and others has made this day possible. but again, it comes at a price. there are five guantanamo prisoners who are being released, and they are, you know, taliban commanders who will likely be back out on the battlefield at some point. >> again, you're so right. and that's certainly something we have to keep stock in. in fact, they might be on the battlefield facing our u.s. troops. but the good news again, jennifer, sergeant bergdahl -- bowe bergdahl is released and coming home. already seen in germany, which means he's in our hands, and that's a good place to be. >> reporter: absolutely, kelly. >> jennifer griffin, thank you for the update. and i know you'll bring us more details as you get them and make them available to us. >> reporter: thank you. >> all right. good news. we go now to julie. >>> growing reaction to the resignation of secretary generic shinseki. the secretary stepping down y

the taliban is claiming responsibility. >> talks are underway in ethiopia. it is feared that thousands have been killed and a million people are left homeless since the conflicts started in december. secretary of state john kerry has arrived to africa. >> john kerry is looking at what is happening in the south sudan and hoping to bring to an end the conflict. he said that sanctions are on those involved in the conflict and seen particularly as targetitarge targeting civilians based on et nicety. he said that the sanctions would be coming from countries that are laboring sudan. the secretary of state under scored the need for deployment of troops to south sudan and stabilize the situation. he spoke about the situation that is close to the hearts, the shrinking space for civil society and if the government should stop harassing the journalists and arresting them and using the antiterrorism laws. >> more than 200 girls are still missing from nigeria. relatives are angry at the government's failure to secure their release. however, the minister of interior denied

and more pakistani schools are destroyed by the taliban. some of the hundreds since 2007. >>> well, first those deadly tornadoes, and now the floods. families across the south and up and down the east coast, try to put their lives back together after 65 tornadoes, some of the worst flooding that anyone has seen in years. these are live pictures from northwest pennsylvania. torrential rains from the coast of alabama through the eastern seaboard. rattling nerves, and making a mess of the commute. sarah has more. >> reporter: dangerous floodwaters swallowing entire communities in the florida panhandle. the rushing water ripping apart roads, stranding drivers, and flooding homes. >> we have been through tropical storms and hurricanes as you know. in 2014 and five, and we still did not have this much water. >> in pensacola, 20 inches of rain hit the area in just 24 hours. some people ditched their cars for canoes, and rescuers pulled people from rooftops. children saved by boat. >> my -- everything i own is gone. >> in mobile, alabama, firefighte

sergeant bowe bergdahl was 23 when he was captured by the taliban in 2009. w, 28, he was handed over to a u.s. special operations team this morning. in exchange for his release, five detainees from guantanamo guantbay were transferred to the custody of qatar. randall pinkston is joining us. tell us more about sergeant burgdahl's case. >> he was a private first class when he held infell into the happened near the border with pakistan. tonight, he is finally, on his way home. >> freedom came. officials say at 10:30 a.m. eastern time saturday, special operations forces with support from multiple helicopters and overhead surveillance and intelligence executed the operation. the exchange took place in eastern afghanistan. 19 taliban forces were present, but there was no confrontation, no gunfire. defense officials say bergdahl was able to walk to u.s. forces and communicate with them. he is receiving medical care and initial debriefing at bagram air base outside kabul. the emir negotiated his release in exchange for the transfer of five taliban detainees from the

the taliban don't view this as legitimate. they said they would derail the first if they could and they were unable. now, a second round, we are facing, sometime? june but it hasn't been scheduled exactly. we should expect they will pull out all of the stops to try to derail the second round because they did suffer a defeat in the minds of people when the election went on, on the first round under such good circumstances, relatively at least for afghanistan. >> the second factor is the u.s. of the international forces that was mentioned. the taliban find themselves fighting exclusively almost afghan troops and they will want to test these troops, see if they can defend the cities, parts of the countryside, and i think they will basically do what they can to, themselves, evaluate how they stack up against this afghan army fighting almost alone. >> scott, we heard jonathan betz talk about the record poppy seed harvest, a lot of opium on the world market. how much of that is funding what the taliban is doing with these attacks? >>

>>> fox new urgent for five years he endowered captivity in the hands of the taliban, but tonight the only american pow in afghanistan is a free man. i am julie bandaras. president obama speaking in the white house rose garden speaking about the release about army sergeant bergdahl. >> this morning i called john and danny bergdahl and that after five years in captivity their son bo, is coming home. sergeant bergdahl missed birthdays and holidays and simple moments with families and friends. but while bo was gone, he was not forgotten. >> bergdahl will head home soon after a five year ordeal. he is safely back with the soldiers there. he will have a thorough medical evaluation. he was handed over with two navy seals in a deal. five detaines are made. news was made to the family back in iddaho. jennifer has the latest. jennifer, the president spoke and what else did he say? >> reporter: he appeared alongsi alongside bo's parents. >> while bo was gone he was never forgoodnight. his parents prayed for him every day. as did his sister skye who prayed for his safe return. he was not forgott

>> i have a chapter about the crimes of taliban. a distinction to be made between calling attentions to the reason why the taliban reconstituted themselves and justifying the actions. my book says these are the reasons where the taliban came up again, which is a tragedy for afghans and americans. it's different from justifying the actions of the taliban, which are heinous. >> a criticism is the review says that you didn't kelent the dots enough -- connect the dots enough between pakistan, afghanistan and the united states. what do you say about that. >> i have a lot of scenes in support of the taliban. to talk about pakistan, which some commentators like to do, shifts the focus away from u and we bear a lot of blame. we killed a lot of innocent afghans in 2001, 2002 and 2003, laying the ground work for the insurgency that pakistan came to support. >> what do you think are the lasting effects on americans after a lengthy, longest war in u.s. history, what do you think are the lasting effects as americans? >> we support the afghan stat

the taliban's deputy minister of intelligence. the usair -- u.s. air force c-17 will be transporting those detainees to qatar based on agreed upon necessary terms. these five detainees are being transferred to can qatari custody and will be subject to restricti restriction. they won't be allowed to leave qatar, i'm told, for a year's time. bergdahl, meanwhile, will see a u.s. medical team at bagram air base and taken to landstuhl, germany, and brought back to the united states, arthel. >> thank you very much, jennifer griffin at the pentagon. eric? >> from our reaction to sergeant bergdahl's release, let's bring in retired navy captain chuck nash, joins us on the telephone. captain, as wonderful and inspiring news as this is, jennifer griffin just pointed out that bergdahl was swapped for five gitmo detainees, one accused of war crimes. is that troubling, or is that just the way these things are done? >> well, i think that's the way these things are done. if you look at countries that value the lives of their service people, probably you'll see tha

the taliban came forward. d risk, based on the conditions you and barbara described so adequately and peter addressed earlier. they will end up in qatar and they will be watched, they will be followed and watched and surveilled. we will have opportunity to ensure, we can trust but we will verify that everything agreed to will be followed. >> i want you to hold on, we read a statement we got in from the defense secretary, chuck hagel. it reads in part sergeant bergdahl is now under the care of the u.s. military after being handed over by his captors in afghanistan. we will give him all the support he needs to help him recover from this ordeal, and we are grateful that he will soon be reunited with his family, and he goes on to talk about the fact that he informed congress about the decision, and again, as we were talking about, that the u.s. coordinated closely with qatar to ensure that security measures are in place and that like the president thanked the emir of qatar helping do the swap. general marks, just a

the taliban, pro american war lords and the afghan government. recipe that is going to change that. >> so this looks like what? when you consider the fact that there is a country that has been in war for 30 years prior, or 20 years prior to i guess 9/11, right, then does our -- does our removal of troops or keeping troops make any appreciable difference in any way? >> actually no difference. what does make a difference -- >> that's a crazy statement. we're paying for the afghan state for, interest afghan government to exist. if we didn't pay, it would collapse tomorrow. >> so our money is much more important. >> our money is much more important. >> and that money, does the taliban see this as essentially a waiting game? you hear this all the time that they've known forever. this is a statement by mccain, this is predictable, the president's decision to set an arbitrary date for the full withdrawal of the u.s. troops, a monumental mistake, yada yada yada. it's nothing new. this is what they've been saying. there any sense that's true, oh, we'll be

after the reign of the way many people argued the taliban was popular. to then bring these people back into the fray after 2001 was to take the country back after a really dark time and was to ignore i think what was a kind of popular end tuesday as i'm about a different kind of politics which would be democratic and accountable and representative and kind of a new chapter for afghanistan. so why would you want these sort of old characters and the legacies of abuse. hispanic in the agreement when these men were appointed to the various positions i think that he was initially the head of the military figure before becoming a civilian and becoming the governor. he didn't care particularly about what the formal appointment was. he was the governor in charge of the security forces and both of them of course exercised authority and formally over the several provinces not just of the colleges thatothe colleges e supposedly the governors of. nonetheless, they didn't behave as people feared that if you did not have a renewal of the civil war of course there was p

the taliban is not popular. i think the election shows that. certainly the uprisings that are happening in various provinces show that. people are sick and tired of the taliban and they want, they just want to follow a normal democratic life. so they really would've rejected. that's why they all tell you, why isn't, why aren't you going to the source of the problem? i think it's the finance, the money and the support for pakistan. and then, of course, you still have lots of men with guns, lots of young men who are unemployed, you've got to do a lot of post-conflict work. and i think afghan itself is huge problems besides that. it can't support itself to discuss you choppy. it's got corruption. but then i think they could start to work on that. i think it's you china also think for pakistan, if they stop supporting and running these proxy wars they could start to get a grip on their own problems. i think it's time, it would be difficult but it's time to end that obsession with trying to manage their own defense through these proxy military group

even the taliban commander. the taliban are repressive.t surprised me about how he fought, he wasn't always in the taliban. he quit when the u.s. invaded in twp. because of various -- 2001. because of various forces and warlords, he fought again. that was surprising. >> you spent years living, reaching in afghanistan - something most americans will not have the opportunity to do or choose to do. what might surprise people about afghanistan. >> there are two afghanistans. there's the one we hear about in news reports. we heard about the elections. they went off well in the cities. in the countryside, where the war is fought, it's a different afghanistan. there people are caught between two sides, between the taliban and between warlords and powerbrokers on the other side. it's not something that comes about and is something that surprises me. >> there's a sense in the book that the u.s. made a lot of basic mistakes in its approach to afghanistan. is your thinking that the u.s. made a mistake in invading period, or that the strategy was wron

decision to overthrow the taliban regime. one of the issues that we face there was how to cope with the fact that there were men on the ground leading armed groups, such as the main figures in your book who later became governors and they sometime called them warlords. and so there was a question about how to have them be incorporated and whether they should be held accountable. there are issues whether there should be an amnesty for war crimes or not. one person who isn't here today who headed the sponsor of the organization, was at that time the undersecretary general of the u.n. for peacekeeping operations and, as an outside expert along with some others that we will be hearing more about, it is the chair by this gentleman. and i went to see him at his office at the u.n. to tell him that as a result my conclusion from this meeting at the state department is that the u.n. might be asked to keep untranslated peacekeeping force in afghanistan to maintain a capital free of the influence of the armed men on the ground for a non-

a month later the taliban released a video and it was confirmed that it was mr. bergdahl. he was held captive. we're not sure if it was afghanistan, pakistan, but between the two countries, but the taliban have held him. they have released several videos, it turns out not only in 2009, but they used them as a propaganda tool through the years in 2010 and in 2011 in his initial videos. he only gave his place of birth, which is idaho. his deployment to afghanistan, and the fact that he was captured in all of those videos is asked for the release of taliban detainees. bergdahl also talked about the fact that he didn't think that the u.s. needed to be in the war. of course, he was a prisoner of war, and obviously he was being subjected to coercion for any of the statements he was making. but it was always believed as analysts aj green pointed out that he would be used as an prisoner exchange. >> let's talk about that quid pro quo. this deal involves releasing five detainees from guantanamo. >> reporter: it will suggest that the u.s. is willing to make a deal in exchange for the

taliban was harboring al qaeda. decisive blows to the enemy, that's probably true of al qaeda, but not true of taliban that have big swathes of the country. >> the taliban have not been defeated, they're entrenched in the countryside. doesn't mean they're going to march into the cities and take over when the troops leave. what we are looking at is the status quo, meaning two sides fighting each other basically in perpetuity. >> i feel like i don't even have my hands around that. >> imagine the afghan government and the u.s. advisers concentrated in the cities, and large swathes of the countryside, particularly along the afghan pakistani border controlled by taliban or by warlords paid by us, pro-american warlords, who are the real authorities here. there's no real state to speak of in afghanistan. >> so then what happens. what are the 10,000 noncombat troops, what do their lives look like, and what do the lives of afghans in provinces look like five, ten years from now. >> some troops will be training afghan army to fight the taliban. >>

obama to talk about today's release of bowe bergdahl by the taliban. time there at the rose garden at the white house. we should also mention that bowe bergdahl parents are in washington as well and will be joining the president there during that press conference that he'll be holding. cnn, of course, will bring that to you live. >>> you're going to want to be with us tomorrow morning for "state of the union" can candy crowley. susan rice returns to the show. back in 2012 when she was u.s. ambassador to the u.n. she was heavily criticized for saying the attack on benghazi was due to an anti-muslim video. susan rice on cnn's "state of the union" tomorrow morning and noon eastern time. >>> cnn's new ten-part series "the s60s" guides people throug the decades. the civil rights movement and vietnam nam and kennedy space shuttle. it sets the focus on tv called "television comes of age." so let's talk about it with tv critic david b. coolie. a founder of the website tv worth watching. david, welcome to you. so much happened during that decade. what are some o

when you think of large battles village to village against the tal taliban, the 9,800 troops will not be there to do that. they are just too small to do that kind of operation. >> the whole gambit with this administration and the team at the state department you were on and i was on for a time, it was to build capacity on ground, to make sure these troops could defend themselves. do you think that at all has been achieved? >> it remains to be seen whether the afghan troops that we are actually training can hold the line against the taliban. they've never been in a major fighting seasons holding their own against the taliban so this spring, summer will be very telling. but up to now, it's been the american troops that have been doing most of the fighting and now it is very clear that the president is saying that they will not be doing so going forward. they will help the afghan troops to do that and that's really something that we don't know, whether they have the capacity or can we help them in the next two years develop that capacity. >> with less than 10,000 american troops on the g

. >> also, the taliban's campaign to destroy schools in pakistan. and the danger, it isn't over. river overflowing cresting three feet above flood stage. we are also learning that as many as 65 tornadoes touched down across the u.s. this week, they were followed by those rains that swamped florida's coast, and then traveled north. stranding drivers and flooding homes. >> we have been through hurricanes, like ivan and dennis back to back, and 2004 and 5, and we still did not have this much water. >> 20-inches of rain hit the area in just 24 hours. some people ditched their cars for canoes rescuers pulled people from roof tops. children saves by boat. >> everybody i own is gone. >> firefighters carried an elderly woman to safety after her car got stuck, and it was a similar scene moving north where another driver got trapped he had to be rescued by raft. the rain proved too much for an entire block of a street, that collapsed. sending several parked cars into a ravine. the sidewalk is gone, is everything just felt, it was like someone ripped off the side of the road. fist spottedde

the armed group said it attacks her because she was anti-taliban and secular. there are other obstacles preventing all children in the valley from getting an education, although most of the schools have been rebuilt, there still isn't enough room for all students. >> frankly, we need more schools and morel chews. there are so many students we just can't cope with the demand. >> it is clear many here are determined to learn, and although the threats of violence is very real, the facts so many young people come to classes is a sign of just how much has changed in the valley, since the end of taliban rule. elana was born in pakistan, she focused on advocate. elana, welcome. >> thank you. >> hi. >> you work with a lot of the children and communities in pack span, are families scared to send their children to school especially girls? >> i say they are in some areas probably in the northwest frontier and some of the villages in the swat valley where the taliban are still quite prominent. they are scared. the taliban is insisting that their education is against -- isla

why the taliban says it may be splitting. the commander of one of the main fighting units says his group has now left the organization because of differences over negotiations with pakistan's government. the group known as the ttp says it's in favor of peace talks. our correspondent is in karachi. just explain what's happened and what does it mean. >> reporter:. >> can you hear us? can you hear me now? no. i'm so sorry. think we'll go back to him just as soon as we can. we'll just make sure that we can get that line up before we go back to him in karachi. >>> a fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least 21 people and injured many others with some being in critical condition. the fire was in the southwestern county of janseong around 300 kilometers south of the capital seoul. most of the patients at the hospital for elderly. one patient is being questioned on suspicion of arson. reporting now from seoul. >> reporter: this was meant to be a place of safety to south koreans. but the elderly residents of this hospital,

the base. obviously, he was captured by taliban. obviously, he became a prisoner. we -- in varying different ways throughout the years it's been relayed to those of us in the media who have been paying attention to his case it might not be a good idea to report on his case, because efforts were being made to get him out. and sometimes those trying to free him, those in the u.s. government, either with the state department or the military, wereic maing efforts, and they thought that the more attention the case got, especially during sensitive times, the worse and the more difficult it could be for those trying to free him. finally it looks as though those efforts born fruit. earlier in this year, i believe in january, when there was a tape that cnn's jim shuuto and other the reported on that had been made showing berg doll, and the question is, why was this tape made? it was reported in february, approve of life video. that those in the u.s. government who wanted him freed and were willing to negotiate with the taliban, an apparent prezzer in exchange, were -- needed

by the time the army drove the taliban out in 2009, another traditional industry lay in ruins. silk trade. there have been efforts to revive it, but talk of government subsidies haven't materialized. this is one of the few factories left. most of its workers have been laid off. those left are each having to operate 12 of the machines. the owner has been holding on to stock because he can't sell at a profit. >> translator: i'm only carrying on now for the sake of these poor laborers. if the situation goes on like this, i'll also have to close this factory. >> reporter: with labor costs low, business grew, but the cross border supply stopped. with high overheads and costly raw materials, this is what is in store now. what was a thriving industry providing 70,000 jobs handed down through generations, now reduced to scrap. this one of 500 factories closed down and about to be sold. with no jobs available, there are warnings that those falling into poverty can be attracted to the taliban, for money. a worker who is about to lose his job say it may be unthinkable, but some feel there'

the u.s. and taliban. they emphasized the fact that they were the mediators and they also emphasized that point that you said in president obama's statement which is that the u.s. doesn't leave a soldier on the battlefield. so that is how they viewed the situation. through this release, they would argue they preserve the safety and security of u.s. interests. however, having said that, you have senator john mccain coming forward today praising the release of sergeant bergdahl, but also questioning how it was done saying that he wants to know more of the specifics. >> in and to that point within that statement, senator mccain raised questions about the five who were released. i suspect that that means there will be calls for briefings for folks on the hill coming up. >> i think you're absolutely right about that. we're just starting to learn a little bit more about those five detainees who were released. i am told that they are mid-to high level detainees and the goal is to make sure that they don't pose a t

after the reign of the way many people argued the taliban was popular. to then bring these people back into the fray after 2001 was to take the country back after a really dark time and was to ignore i think what was a kind of popular end tuesday as i'm about a different kind of politics which would be democratic and accountable and representative and kind of a new chapter for afghanistan. so why would you want these sort of old characters and the legacies of abuse. hispanic in the agreement when these men were appointed to the various positions i think that he was initially the head of the military figure before becoming a civilian and becoming the governor. he didn't care particularly about what the formal appointment was. he was the governor in charge of the security forces and both of them of course exercised authority and formally over the several provinces not just of the colleges thatothe colleges e supposedly the governors of. nonetheless, they didn't behave as people feared that if you did not have a renewal of the civil war of course there was p

he was held by the taliban for four years and ten months. the sergeant first class was cam chured in the first months of his first tour of afghanistan after wandering off base. president obama issued the following statement -- "on bee half of the american people i was honored to call his parents to express our joy that they can expect his safe return, mindful of their courage and sacrifice throughout this ordeal." bergdahl's parents are not doing interviews yet, but issued the following statement -- "we cannot wait to wrap our arms around our only son. we thank the emir of qatar for his efforts and of course we want to take this opportunity to thank all those in the many u.s. government agencies who never gave up. today we are ecstatic." in exchange for his release, the following detainees were transferred to qatari custody -- mohammed faisal, who is accused of war crimes. those five prisoners took off from guantanamo bay at 2:00 p.m. today eastern time. they will remain in qatari custody in qatar for a year we're told. >> thank you very much

on this mission with battle company the soldiers got word the taliban were tracking them as they pulledback to their base at night. >> it was a sense that we were now going to be hunted. and that was not a great feeling. >> reporter: as the shooting began, hetherington kept rolling, steady as always through the chaos of battle. >> and we ran up to the ridge, expecting there to be fighting. and instead we came across the scene of the scouts and a part of 2nd platoon that had suffered casualties. >> reporter: and the grim discovery involving a beloved company leader. the men were distraught. and as close as he was to them, hetherington did not hesitate to do his job as a journalist while the platoon leader got his men back into the battle. hetherington's work with junger in afghanistan won wide acclaim and is seen again in this latest documentary. but soon hetherington was on his way to his next war, libya, where at the age of 40 he was killed. his partner, junger, was devastated and learned a painful lesson about war and loss. >> i was supposed to be with him on assignment, and last minu

the spin off of tourism was destroyed by the 2-year rule of the taliban. by the time the arm oil drove out the tall -- army drove the taliban out another industry failed. the silk trade. there has been talks of reviving it. it is one of a few factories left. most workers operated three looms. they are laid off. those left operate 12 machines. the owner has been holding on to stock because he can't sell. >> translation: i'm carry on for the stake. labourers. i have shut one factory. i may have to close this. >> in better times, cheap raw materials from pakistan gave cheap materials. cross-border supplies stopped. with high overheads and the cost of materials, this is what is in store. what was a thriving industry providing 70,000 jobs handed down through generations now reduced to scrap. this, one of 500 factories closed down and about to be sold. with no jobs available in swat valley, there are warnings those in poverty could be attracted to the taliban for money, not beliefs. a union worker say it may be unthinkable, but some feel there's no alternative. >

handing over power to a new president and will of course be question marks that the talks with the talibane the sanctions and whether he'll agree to the face to face talks with the government. >> brazil court is deliberating whether to remove protestors. >> a family is clearing lands to build a place to sleep, they have few other options. >> we are fighting for housing for us because we need it. i have a big family and raise and feed my children. >> this family is not alone. look around the area, you see people building shelter everywhere. just simple places made of sticks and plastic sheets. they are working families, the majority are women and children and organized to take over the land as squatters and seeing the incomes stretched by the skyrocketing rent prices that have tripled in the recent years because of the world cup speculation. in the distance, over the tree line, the new $500 million world cup stadium in the city. >> there's a contradiction between the world cup between the foreigns and of those of people where we need a place to live. >> in just a few days estimated 2500 fam

the taliban remains strong in a lot of rural areas, a lot of places where the government simply can't project any power, but i don't think you have necessarily a situation where the taliban is going to come in, take over the government, but if it's 80/20, that still leaves 20% of the country, that means a very strong insurgency that they are going to have to battle for a long time. >> what about the point of the comparison of ferocity, people who join the taliban, i assume, are ready to get killed and kill. are people in the afghan army or wearing those new uniforms and have been trained, do they have that same killer instinct in the battlefield? >> some of them do. there have been loyalty issues, but the question is, will that killer instinct continue once u.s. troops leave? so far they have been doing very well in battle with u.s. troops, they are shoulder to shoulder in the tactical operations center, giving them intelligence packets, effectively saying here is the target, go and get this person. when the u.s. isn't doing that anymore, isn't providing those intelligence packets, wi

the taliban says it will keep fighting until islamic law is imposed across the whole pakistan.ato sees no sign of a reported russian troop withdraw from the ukrainian border. tearful south korean president apologizes to the nation once again for the world ferry tragedy and the big sport stories and world and this is one of the most celebrated with the actions of the former world champion coming up, later in the program. ♪ the libyan government is insisting that it remains in control of the country despite heavy fighting in two major cities. gunmen launch attack on parliament on tripoli on sunday and demanded its suspension, an airport in the eastern city of benghazi came under rocket attack early on monday. dozens have been injured in the violence, many of them are citizens and the man at the center of the unrest is a man vowed to end hard line malitia groups in benghazi and once a top leader for gaddafi and later fought to topple him in the 2011 u upz -- up raising and they say the actions relate to a coup and we are in tripoli and how is the government handling this, omar? >>

we report. >> this footage captures the moment the taliban blew up a school. during the two years, the armed group ruled the northern region, it destroyed more than 400 schools, many for girls. the reason the group se said ate time was simple, they were providing education that was too western and no one islamic. today the situation is very different. after the taliban was pushed out of the area by the military in 2009, more than 350 schools have been reconstructed with the help of fortune governments and international aid agencies. this girl in the 10th grade is happy to be back in the classroom. >> when the taliban was in control, they made is so afraid. i didn't go to school for two years. now they are gone and we can get an education without fear. >> the taliban isn't entirely gone from the valley and hasn't stopped targeting girls who want to learn. in october be 2012, education activist was shot in the head on her way home from school in the main town. the armed group said it attacked her because she was anti taliban and secular. >> there are other obstac

the mainstream taliban, and there is infighting. at infighting would suggest that the government of pakistan would be willing to talk to only those groups that want to continue the talks. however, it would isolate groups after this particular message. >>> thank you for that. kamal, that's our correspondent. joining us from islamabad. >>> going to news just in - russia's president vladimir putin ordered troops to return to their bases after conducting a training exercise in an area close to the border with ukraine. the situation in eastern ukraine is very tense, but the pro-russian rebels declared two regions independent following an official referendum. >>> lawyers representing former army chief rad coe mill add itch are due to begin an offense, facing charges of crimes against humanity during the 1992 to "95 bosnia war. he's accused of killing men and boys comm screben itsa, the worst massacre since the second world war. >>> thousands have been forced from their homes in serbia. we have this report. >> reporter: in the air and on th

we said that we were going to reverse the taliban's momentum. went on the offensive driving the taliban out of its strongholds. but everybody knows afghanistan is still a very dangerous place. insurgents still launch cowardly attacks against innocent civilians. but just look at the progress that you've made possible. afghans reclaiming their communities and more girls returning to school. dramatic improvements in life expectancy and literacy. that's your legacy. that's what you did. even with all of the challenges, more afghans have hope for their future and so much of that is because of you. we said we were going to strengthen the capacity of afghan forces so they could take more responsibility for their security. so you've been training afghan forces and building afghan forces up and we know they still have a long way to go but for nearly a year afghans have been in the lead and they are making enormous sacrifices. you look at the casualties that they are taking on. they are willing to fight. afghan forces are growing stronger. afghans are pro

pushed the taliban out. >> this footage - captures the moment taliban bombed a school in the swat valley>> during the two years the arm group ruled the northern region, it destroyed more than 400 schools, many of them for girls. the reason the group said was simple, the primary and secondary institutions were providing education that was too we were and nonnest lambic -- non-islamic. today the situation is different. after the taliban was pushed out of the area by the military in 2009, more than 350 schools have been reinstructed with the help of foreign governments and international aid agencies. this girl is in the 10th agreed and is happy to be back in the glass room. >> when the taliban was in control. they made us afraid. i didn't go to school for two years. now they are gone. we can get an education without fear. >> but the taliban is not entirely gone from the swat valley and has not stopped targetting girls that want to learn. last october education activist was shot in the head on her way home from school in the main town. the armed group said it attacked her because she was ant

soldier still being held captive by the taliban. let's get right to kristen welker, who's standing by at the white house. kristen, what more can you tell us? >> well, craig, according to a senior administration official, bowe bergdahl was rescued at about 10:30 a.m. eastern time in the eastern part of afghanistan by special forces. he was rescued in exchange for the release of five afghan detainees at guantanamo. now, i am told that rescue occurred peacefully, without incident. and once he was in the helicopter, once he realized what was happening, craig, i am told that he became very emotional and actually break down. right now he is being held at a forward operating base in afghanistan. he'll then go to bagram airfield and start making his way back to the u.s. so that is what the next several days are going to look like for sergeant bergdahl. we're getting some background information at this hour, craig, about how this all occurred. according to another senior administration official, i'm told that u.s. efforts to reconcile has bee