u. s. thought that they could try to pull off over the last 20 years while the u. s. is trying to engage in nation building. i mean the u. s. rem, militarily, we were entirely successful with every engagement with the taliban and insurgent force and afghans. and keep in mind that this is a political defeat, not a military one for the u. s. i was a, it was a loss of will and lack of thinking. we didn't have a, we ended up fighting a 20 year war and not a 20 your so much as a one year war 20 times over. so there's a real distinction there. obviously, the russians have a lot of experience in afghan and like the united states, it was not a pleasant part of russian history to the russians want to, will they be able to have the basing and touching just on and his biggest and to be able to build the type of build up the type of infrastructure necessary for an incursion against and remember in the cold war when the russians were last, they are totally extended. bickerson were part of the soviet union, not really any more. so the question is, the big question, the biggest question of all is to the russians really want to repeat this? is

u. s. am eastern parts of canada, and that's thanks to on re as it's to rem things moving north up that east coast. now we take a closer look, it's expected to make landfall in southern parts of new england. it will be the 1st hurricane to hit the area in 30 years. and we have had warnings out for new york for connecticut and massachusetts, as it works its way in land. we've already seen coastal flooding. we are likely to see no more flooding as we are expecting 200000000 because of rain to fall in areas . and the damaging winds to kick in. now it isn't predictable storm but come mondays expected to swing out to the north east, taking the wet and windy weather with it to eastern parts of canada. now elsewhere we are expecting some severe storms to roll across the canadian prairies and into the mid west, edging into the great lakes. by the time we get into monday for the west, it is looking fine and dryer. we are seeing wet weather though, for the florida panhandle, with the scattered storms and showers here, but much of the weather can be found in mexico as we move to central america, that w

u. s . as the airport remains operating charlotte bellis reports from common. some of these rockets were intercepted by what's known as the c rem and missile system was actually only installed early july by the form, asking government and by the americans because they were worried about rocket attacks by the telephone. now of course, the telephone are in control and it is working to stop broken tech. why? another school? so actually heard it this morning, around 645. it sounds like the quite a distinctive sound. so that's one of the 1st times that the, the c ram has been used to stop rockets, the white house saying that the operations are continuing uninterrupted. there are still see 7 teams coming and going from ask and if space but the evacuation, if it's a certainly on the tailing of pakistan's army says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in an attack along the afghan border attack his fight at a military post in bush your district, it is the 1st cross border sultan taught upon seas cobble over 2 weeks ago. at least one person has been killed off to hearken either struck the u. s. gulf coast . the store made land for as a ca

himself into rem president, he was quickly accepted by the united states and least 50 other countries has been as well as legitimate presidents. madura responded by cutting ties with the u. s. who he accused of working with quite whoa, and then refused to allow humanitarian aid set by washington to help with an ongoing food crisis. with us under former president, donald trump reacted by imposing crippling sanctions on missouri government. and then as well as main lifeline oil exports. the political crisis led to a lack of investment, food shortages and the migration of up to 5000000 van as well, and thousands of whom were considered part of a skilled workforce. ah, let's, i'll bring in our guests for inside story. joining us via skype from the venezuela capital card, i guess, is phil johnson, who's a senior analyst at the international crisis group from new york. vanessa women is the founder and ceo of a symmetrical, and that's a political risk research and strategic communications firm and from metadata and venezuela pull dobson, who's an analyst at venezuela analysis dot com. thanks for joining us on inside story. phil over to you 1st, previous attempts at negotiations b