trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but the president has been under pressure from the afghan government and some u.s. lawmakers who mistrust the taliban and think it's too early to withdraw american forces. and for more on this i'm joined by a pit us man who's been covering the afghan conflict for us since 2001. president trump says he's called off the secret meeting with taliban leaders have we heard from the afghan government yet what's their reaction they pretty much agree to this whole calling off thing because the afghan government was very apprehensive of this emerging framework agreement between the good. i did states and the taliban simply because they were excluded right from the start like in doha we saw 9 rounds of talks exclusively between the americans and the taliban and not too many details did emerge for the f. government elected government you know to basically have their word who are to within these talks and that's what they really want they want an ethic and that an afghan owned pea

trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but the president has been under pressure from the afghan government and some u.s. lawmakers who mistrust the taliban and think it's too early to withdraw american forces. and for more on this i'm joined by the us man has been covering the afghan conflict for us since 2001. and president trump says he's called off the secret meeting with taliban leaders have we heard from the afghan government yet what's their reaction. they totally support this move they were very apprehensive of these emerging framework agreement between the united states and the taliban and they have even go as far as saying look at can only be us the electic ethic and government that needs to own it and delete these negotiations with the taliban and they also made it very clear that they would push forward with elections presidential elections scheduled for september 28th because they say you know we need leverage at the conference table once we get back there so this is obviously quite a turnarou

trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but the president has been under pressure from the afghan government and some u.s. lawmakers who mistrust the taliban and think it's too early to withdraw american forces. and for more on this we're joined by a journalist in kabul hi ali president trump says he has called off a secret meeting with taliban leaders what are we hearing there from the afghan government what's their reaction. so the one government is saying that basically you know they would only accept a reasonable piece of an appropriate peace that would include a cease fire that would keep the taleban the thing any attacks that would harm upon millions and that would require face to face talks with the one government have been left out of the process in the 9 rounds that have been held and the hot then also saying that this is further proof that the september 20th presidential elections need to go ahead because to them only a democratically elected government government turned speak directly with the te

trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the afghan government. and some u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on the road. and there. has been following the story for us from all thanks for joining me as we heard the taliban reacted to president trump's decisions saying that canceling the pace talks would harm the u.s. more than anyone else what i mean by that well i do not think that the decision by the us i think the taliban what they're actually trying to do is they want to get the maximum are out of the deal the negotiations. ended gradually i believe so what exactly the taliban mean here that you have to agree to all duns and obviously all these 3 parties the taliban the u.s. and the afghan government they all want to get the maximum out of a potential agreement. taliban on trying to show their strength in the battlefield there have been a docking they have launched various attacks in afghanistan just to pressure the u.s. but apparently president grump bel

a bill that could help that protests and patrolling together in northeast in syria take a shine u.s. troops prepare for the creation of a state so. donald trump has council secret meetings with the taliban leaders because of a bomb attack which killed 12 people including a u.s. soldier the u.s. president tweeted unbeknown to almost everyone the major taliban leaders and separately the president of afghanistan were going to secretly meets with me at camp david on sunday unfortunately in order to build forts that bridge they admitted to an attack in kabul that killed one of our great great. soldiers and 11 other people i immediately called off peace negotiations he tweeted or the taliban claimed responsibility for thursday's suicide bomb attack saying a foreign military convoy was targeted the blast destroyed cars and shops not far

of u.s. troops have been deployed in guyana which shares a border with venezuela and is part of a so-called humanitarian outreach program led by the u.s. air force providing services to locals but also training for military personnel as well or his blood goes to of come. u.s. military has returned to guyana after many years on a joint military exercise slash humanitarian mission there's nothing quite like a humanitarian mission led by guys who specialize in bombing things it's like having a drug rehab center run by drug lords but small details the important thing is that guyana is important to you on a sits in a strategic location on the north edge of south america and on the caribbean and the look what a coincidence it borders venezuela i mean what are the chances of that in the same venezuela that has u.s. bases all around it here here here here brazil is in thing that it's open to hosting a u.s. military base a mile and israel is like the center of a do nothing of u.s. bases same that israel or t

trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the afghan guy. raiment and some u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on the road. now some of the other stories making news around the world turkish and u.s. troops have conducted their 1st joint ground control in northeastern syria as established what it calls a safe zone in the area aiming to keep kurdish fighters away from its border turkey also wants to resettle up to 1000000 syrian refugees in the region. sudan has sworn in its 1st cabinet after the ouster of longtime ruler omar al bashir led by prime minister abdullah hum docket includes 4 women among them the foreign minister the cabinet as part of a power sharing agreement between the military and pro-democracy activists. 4 crew members are missing after a cargo ship capsized off the u.s. state of georgia the 200 meter long vessel reportedly caught fire shortly after leaving port then rolled on its side authorities are investigating what caused the ship to overt

has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the afghan government. u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on the road. so take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world turkish and u.s. troops have conducted their 1st joint ground patrol in northeastern syria and has established what it calls a safe zone in the area aiming to keep kurdish fighters away from its border turkey also wants to resettle up to 1000000 syrian refugees in the region. hong kong riot police again fired tear gas and rubber bullets at anti-government protesters on sunday activists set up barricades smashed windows and started street fires and one of hong kong central districts earlier tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in front of the u.s. consulate urging president donald trump to liberate hong kong. the powerful typhoon has lashed the japanese capital tokyo leaving at least 10 people injured the storm has caused major disruption to transport bringing train servic

has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the afghan government and some u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on the road. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world turkish and u.s. troops have conducted their 1st joint ground patrol in south in northeastern syria and christmas stablished what it calls a safe zone in the area i mean to keep kurdish fighters away from an order of turkey also wants to resettle up to a 1000000 syrian refugees in the region. 4 crew members are missing after a cargo ship capsized off the u.s. state of georgia the 200 meter long craft carrier reportedly caught fire shortly after leaving the port then rolled on its side authorities are investigating what caused the ship to overturn thousands of people marched in bosnia is the 1st ever pride parade in the capital sorry i ever went off peacefully despite fears of violence prompted by muslim groups who organized counter rallies is the latest coun

his pledge to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the afghan government. and some u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on the road the. russians have been voting today in regional region regional and municipal elections some observers say the elections were neither free nor fair more than 7000000 were eligible to relates lawmakers to the moscow of holland president vladimir putin cast his votes in the capital where demonstrations have erupted in recent weeks protesters were angry after authorities banned several allies of opposition leader and it's in a valley from standing a police crackdown so around 2000 people the times. for more on this let's bring in our correspondent our until he's in moscow arrant we'll only have full seconds tomorrow but do we have any results i thought well russia is quite a large countries around which we want to get the official alexion totals but looking here at moscow which is actually the most closely watched races we're seeing that voter

trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the afghan government. u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on the road. let's take a look at some of the other story so making news around the world turkish and u.s. troops have conducted their 1st joint ground patrol in northeastern syria ankara has established what it calls a save zone in the area aiming to keep kurdish fighters away from its border with turkey also wants to resettle up to 1000000 syrian refugees in the region. the powerful typhoon fox i has lashed the japanese capital tokyo leaving at least 10 people injured the storm has cost major disruption to transport bringing train services to a standstill and grounding flights about 400000 people have been advised to evacuate their homes. the hurricane that ripped through the bahamas made landfall on the east coast of canada on sunday for downgraded to a tropical storm dorian still cause damage whipping up waves and flooding waterfront areas the storm lashed t

u.s. forces. they land, american troops vanishing in the desert sand. these u.s. forces are shadowing, watching the iraqis as they drill. they storm this small space, not unlike the cave us, the corners they'll soon be sent into, to flush out isis. these iraqi commandos will be at the front line against isis here. >> the fact that they're able to do this on their own speaks a lot to their capabilities. >> in the middle of the desert, we're shown the unmanned drones. they are guarded, fueled and ready for flight. in the skies over iraq eight hours at a time. this is where they're actually operating the drones that are doing surveillance right now over the iraqi desert. the mountains and the caves where they believe these isis fighters are still hiding. you can see this private first class is looking at some terrain right now. we are allowed inside, a rare view of what it is they see. the kind of terrain they're scouring. and we are about to see for ourselves what's playing out right now, deep in the anbar desert, where isis fighters cross over the syria border into

completed in one thread of talks with taliban representatives in qatar last week the deal centers on u.s. troop withdrawal in return for security guarantees and dialogue with the government several people have died and dozens are missing after a fire on board a commercial scuba diving boat in the u.s. the coast guard says the boat was found on fire near santa cruz island off the coast of southern california most of the 34 on board were sleeping below day when the fire broke out 5 crew members have been rescued so far they were found on the boats talked. those are your current headlines you can always check out our website but later the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost we'll see a bit later but i. hello i'm come out santa maria this is counting the cost on al-jazeera the weekly look at the world of business and economics this week india $15.00 of the most polluted cities in the world are on the sub continent we take a look at the health costs to one of the world's fastest growing economies it's also already under pressure from a trade war now the antigovernment protests

u.s. marks 18 year since the september 11th, 2001, terror attacks and calls into questions withdrawing troopsica's long war. the suicide car bombing near the u.s. embassy in kabul left an american soldier dead, killing others nearby. it happened just two days before leaders were set to discuss removing 5,000 u.s. troops from the country. president trump tweeting saturday night: i immediately canceled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. what kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? secretary of state mike pompeo paid his respects saturday night during the dignified transfer of 34-year-old army sergeant first class ortiz. the president also weighing negotiations with iran. >> they would like to be able to solve their problem -- they've got a big problem. they're getting killed financially. >> reporter: there is speculation he might meet with iran's president rouhani at the united nations later this month. on saturday iranian officials announced they will continue to advance the use of centrifuges. the u.s. backed out of the agreeme

>> with u.s. troops, they have a fighting chance.ank you very much for coming on. back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." "the beat" with ari melber starts now. >> thanks to you for joining us. and my thanks to amman mohyeldin and chris jansing who was in for me last week. now, we see these horrific images. nearly every building has been flattened to pieces. the category 5 hurricane stayed over the bahamas for nearly two days. it's left at least five dead. that number is projected to rise. as dorian approaches the florida coast, later tonight bill karins will give you an update with everything you need to know stateside. also, later tonight on "the beat," we have a report on how donald trump is making you, the american taxpayer, subsidize his hotels. >>> also, new

u.s. troops will go do that. that will be an interesting mission for u.s. troops. because essentially not a direct threat to u.s. forces, not a direct threat to the united states. but a threat to saudi critical infrastructure. read that to mean protecting saudi oil fields. >> i'll push back a little bit. some of those facilities in the kingdom of saudi arabia and uae are dual facilities of both saudi arabia and the united states. like the arab oil company. in the uae there is a huge air force base there. so part of the defensive requirement is to protect u.s. military as well as ex-pats who are living over there working in the oil facilities. having said that, though, this is a very dangerous approach. because you can't protect all critical infrastructure in any nation. it's very challenging. saudi arabia has six air defense battalions within their military. the united states is limited in the number of air defense units we have in our military and they are spread all over the world places like north korea, europe where there is a missile threat against some of our

total number of u.s. troops that have served there, peaked in 2011 with 110,000 troops.ps have died in the two operations. of 20,543 troops have been wounded. current cost $892 billion in the future cost of the war including u.s. conflicts in the middle east, $1.8 trillion. those are facts, those are numbers. we will leave it there. there's much more to talk about. next up we will talk about who president trump is calling the three stooges. ♪ what might seem like a small cough can be a big bad problem for your grandchildren. babies too young to be vaccinated against whooping cough are the most at risk for severe illness. help prevent this! talk to your doctor or pharmacist today about getting vaccinated against whooping cough. talk to your doctor or pharmacist today "have you lost weight?" of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go. at national, i can lose the wait...and keep it off. looking good, patrick. i k

inside iran want to repeat that there are already u.s. troops inside iran the u.s. has long had its eyes set on trying to impact regime change in iran and much of what you've seen the u.s. doing with regards to iran has been on a covert level we've seen a report in new yorker by seymour hersh that a u.s. source told him that u.s. marines were operating in the blue key missouri and kurdish regions of iran have you ever heard of that report i've never heard of the report and never read the article nor do i intend to do you have any. as to whether or not as the u.s. ambassador i don't have any interest as to whether or not u.s. marines are actually operating in iran right now and i said i had not heard of the report and i didn't intend to read the article in the new yorker if i gave you this article right now walked it over would you look at it i don't think so honestly congressman because i don't i don't have time to read much fiction. we have teams inside iran and these include joint special operation forces most elite commando unit it has been given executive author

inside iran want to repeat that there are already u.s. troops inside iran the u.s. has long had its eyes set on trying to impact regime change in iran and much of what you've seen the u.s. doing with regards to iran has been on a covert level we've seen a report in a new yorker by seymour hersh that a u.s. source told him that u.s. marines were operating in the blue key missouri and kurdish regions of iran have you ever heard of that report i've never heard of the report i've never read the article nor do i intend to do you have any. as to whether or not you as the u.s. ambassador i don't have any interest as to whether or not u.s. marines are actually operating in iran right now and i said i had not heard of the report and i didn't intend to read the article in the new yorker if i gave you this article right now walked it over would you look at it i don't think so honestly congressman because i don't i don't have time to read much fiction. we have teams inside iran and these include joint special operation forces most elite commando unit it has been given executive

>> wolf, very quickly, the big change here tonight, u.s. troopsritical saudi infrastructure. very different than anything they've done so far. >> but if the iranians hit those troops, obviously that could further escalate this military situation. barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you very much for that report. >>> prince harry and meghan, the duchess of sussex, on their first foreign trip as a family with baby archie along for the ride. our 18 year old was in an accident. usaa took care of her car rental, and getting her car towed. all i had to take care of was making sure that my daughter was ok. if i met another veteran, and they were with another insurance company, i would tell them, you need to join usaa because they have better rates, and better service. we're the gomez family... we're the rivera family... we're the kirby family, and we are usaa members for life. get your auto insurance quote today. only marco's can deliver. america's most loved pizza. hot and fresh, and right to your door. every day at marco's, get two medium, one-topping

u.s. to withdraw troops. senior afghan official confirmed to me this morning that president ghani had been informed in advance that the taliban had been invited to camp david and that it was the u.s. that called off ghani's visit. it was not a cancellation made in protest by ghani. i'm told the reason for the u.s. calling it off goes deeper than trump's tweet in which he claimed it was the thursday bombing that caused him to call off the talks. the chain of events also suggests that is the case. our charlie d'agata is in kabul, afghanistan, this morning with more. charlie? >> reporter: well, margaret, moments ago we put the direct question to president a gunspokt ghani inviteto camp david. three times we asked. each time we were told no comment, which just underlines the sensitivities over that issue here. what i can tell you is this is an impromptu press conference called in direct reaction to those tweets and developments overnight. now, the other takeaway is when president trump openly criticized the taliba

afghan security forces took over the war in 2014, but thousands of u.s. troops remain due to continuing instability. since then the taliban has steadily gained more power and territory. taliban mill can't control -- military control more than in 2001 when the u.s. invasion happened, giving more leverage at a crucial time and a crucial seat at the negotiating table. >> that's where we begin. senior foreign affairs correspondent and "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan has more on that part of the story. the big question now is why was this meeting really canceled. >> reporter: good morning. i'm told by both u.s. officials and senior afghan officials that the reason goes deeper than the president's tweet which claimed it was all due to the deadly bombing on thursday. negotiators went back in to talks right after that bombing, and neither side had actually agreed to a cease-fire. a senior administration official i spoke with told me it did, though, become a parent that the taliban negotiators at the table did not have full command and control of the fighter

u.s. offering only 5 at this point and also who controlled the area turkish sites wanted to be on the turkish troops call troll the u.s. prefer rather to have american troops french and british to have more 3rd party control so those issues are still pending between both sides but at the end of the days just to manage a very complex relations not a long term solution it's not a way forward to have stability in the country or in the northern part of syria there's always a risk because there's still be dishing between both sides are still in a and b. to somehow this all with this risk but now there is this a gauge and. the kurdish. forces decided to pull back a little bit especially their heavy weapons their main minister millet and they backed away from this area in the past few days to pave the way for this live to start but that the other day you had the men bish. mother for example where they miss to see a lot of. tissue between both sides so now the stakes are higher because especially the u.s. they want at some point to be able to be with their forces from this area but now they became more invo

agree with those diplomats who wrote the letter you're referring to that the actual departure of u.s. troops needs to be pinned to milestones in the peace process because what's important is to actually get to a cease fire and political settlement that brings peace to the country without that a drawdown could be a disaster but i really think this deal has been mischaracterized as leaving regardless of what happened. well anyway we do understand wish that part of the provisions of the deal are kept secret for the time being because it's not set in stone but however let's try and read into the possibilities and scenarios once there is a deal what becomes of the taliban what kind of role do you think they would accept to play in the afghanistan in the future if it is not the lead role in the country . well besides it has been a hide and seek sort of game between the taliban and the americans none of them have been coming clear in terms of that position i can remind you some of the taliban leaders previously after grounds of talks talked about resolving the avalon aadmi overhauling the hope of d

u.s. pulling out some troops from afghanistan in exchange for the taliban meeting certain conditions but a major setback here with the bombing that claimed the life of one u.s. service member, 11 other people when a car bomb expoed plo -- exploded on thursday. the special envoy to afghanistan already announced he was heading back next week. unclear if those will continue. >> okay. we know you will come back to us if you get more information. let's discuss with our analysts and our reporters, cnn militariagist and former pentagon and state department spokesman is with us. before we begin about how he revealed this on twitter. i want to ask you about the significance. this jd of tidea of trying to g taliban leaders to the u.s. for the first time. >> reporter: truly remarkable. we have not allowed them on u.s. soil since we started combat operations in 2001 and for good reason because we don't want them to rule afghanistan again. they are very much and have been the enemy, at least one of our enemies in hafrg. this would give them, regardless of whether the talks were successful or not, this

one gets the impression that there are more u.s. troops around in china than there are u.s. troops left in the united states but don't have the map for you for america that isn't enough the us needs to develop alternative operating the cations the pentagon will continue to develop new concepts build a distributed and resilient force posture and field new capabilities to counter these threats honestly the drug metaphor seems remarkably apt the pentagon recently boasted that it has luke asians in more than 160 countries after some sort of military presence in 84 percent of the countries on this planet and yet not enough they just need more crave more. amid the ongoing trade war between the united states and china many battle lines have been drawn and bond reset a former fox news host is being accused of colluding with the enemy after her line of patriot here which she say stands for american values was found to be made in china. absolutely we don't want to be in tune to the chinese we don't want to be this servants. and again someone needs to make trying out playing fair of the

u.s. does want to bring the troops back that's just just pulling troops out without some kind of arrangement afghanistan is not good enough because that the u.s. cannot afford to afghanistan fall apart so even if there's a sort of a cooling off time even if there's a time when the taliban have to reflect on what went wrong the afghan government is going to be coming up with some proposals they everybody's going to have to work out what happens with the afghan elections which are shuttle to take place at the end of this month but face tremendous challenges that they in terms of the security so it strikes it strikes me that there's going to be a period in which you can't go forward but there's going to be a reflection on there's going to be another attempt at this perhaps with a different format and i think in particular there will be pressure on the taliban to to lower their expectations and to get honest with their own people about what can be achieved in such a deal to the bahamas where thousands are fleeing the destruction left behind by hurricane dorian one of the strongest storms ever to

his soldiers to protect the kingdom that beheads and crucifies another country not only hosting u.s. troops but the u.s. is largest overseas bases germany which agrees with britain and the usa that iran was behind asymmetric attacks on saudi arabia that cause record breaking spikes in oil prices well we went to the use of about just be drawn member of the bundestag dealing deputy chair of foreign policy in arms exports 7 doug dillon on the site of where the berlin wall once stood i have just start with iran and in your capacity as the left group deputy chair foreign policy and arms exports and disarmament do you agree with people in the angular merkel c.d.u. who say there's a moral duty to be there in the straits of hormuz to protect shipping from iran and i think we're there's a moral duty to deescalate in the region at the persian persian gulf because at the moment a stationer's very explosive and we have to. we have to make more pressure that all the military ships will go out of the region why do you think britain was so quick to offer support to the united states and donald trump over

feels he needs a foreign policy with him it was notable that the schedule for the withdrawal of u.s. troops over the next year over the next few moments did seem to hew very closely to the campaigning schedule ahead of the 2020 presidential election are going to orient has left a humanitarian crisis in its wake there are thousands of people fleeing their destroyed homes and the bahamas aid is coming in but it's hard to distribute because of ruined roads runways and ports saudi arabia's king solomon has replaced the energy minister with one of his sons prince abilities and salma that said no one of the kingdom's most important positions france abilities will replace khalid al ahli who was dismissed as chairman of the state owned company around co a few days ago joint u.s. and turkish patrols are getting underway in northern syria in areas covered by a planned buffer zone for it he wants to extend its military presence along the border and allow displaced syrians to return home us back to kurdish forces withdrew from the area under last month's agreement. u.k. prime minister boris johnson has

u.s. should use its troops to defend its allies. so in all of those ways, public opinion remains robustly supportive of alliances. the second way in which we have tried to maintain this order is through an open economic system, based on the concept of trade. and, again, the u.s. public is more supportive of trade now than it has been at any time we've asked questions about trade. including belief that trade is good for the american economy. 87% of americans, that's a large number, 87% of americans think trade is good for the u.s. economy and good for american companies. finally, one of the we did in this report, we've been asking the question, which comes from gallup so it goes back to 1946, which u.s. play an active role in foreign affairs or stay away? this year as last year, we have reached near record high. 69% of americans think we should play an active role. then we're asked, what do you mean by an active role? when you say an active role does it include or exclude the following? it means alliances, international trade agreeme

trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but he faces resistance from the government in kabul as well as from some u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on their own. let's get more on this story now we are joined by peter xmen who has been following the latest developments and you know as we heard there the taliban actually. they reacted to this saying that canceling the peace talks would harm the united states more than anyone else what exactly do they mean by that is a threat i would say yes definitely it is a threat they just carry on fighting as we speak now sara there are a serious clashes in to northern provinces of afghanistan so the war hasn't stopped why the negotiations were on the now we can see an even bigger uptick in violence in afghanistan and the threat is look we are ready to fight longer than you do this is quite a turn around especially bearing in mind the fact that the tribe of ministration said that it was on the verge of reaching a deal in these talks u.s. secretar

general assembly we go to the country with the largest number of u.s. troops in europe germany to hear its left party dealing slam any possible angle of merkel plan to join donald trump's and boris johnson's soldiers against iran plus bricks at the berlin wall and microwave meals with suede supporting artists funny now all the support coming out today is going underground a festival remarks the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china an event covered in nato nations not so much for the lifting of $850000000.00 out of poverty as the triumph of a brutal state that today abuses human rights in on kong the chief villain appears to be hong kong chief executive kerry lamb joining me now from the new people's party headquarters and on kong is one of our cabinet ministers regina thanks so much for coming on the show before we get to what's going on in all kong how is our who is the special administrative region going to be celebrating 70 years of china that will be flecked waiting ceremonies and celebrations as usual and the hong kong government sending a l