i was thinking about afghanistan future. afghanistan's next generation. what we have next? these children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire? this would be afghanistan? i was thinking maybe the war will never end. never. and the people will keep suffering from war. >> narrator: isis in afghanistan may still be in its infancy. but the movement has already shown how quickly it can grow. and its commanders here have grand ambitions for the next generation of isis soldiers. >> (translated): the garden of the caliphate wants a river of blood from us. faith and belief demand blood. you must sacrifice to gain eternal life. god will expand this beautiful caliphate everywhere. >> coming up next... across the border in pakistan, frontline is with a police unit fighting the terror. >> these taliban members sound the alarm to tell people in the area that the police are here. >> in the streets of karachi.. >> you can see these two guys being shot, shots being fired on them. >> the battle against the talibn >> they were trained for traditional polic

year in afghanistan politics. it could not be timely your obama recently made an important decision with respect to the continued u.s. troop presence in the country. as a continuing reminder of the sacrifice and blood and treasure that the allies have made for post 9/11 afghanistan especially for the afghan people this task is by no means complete and the recent crisis and the efforts at reconciliation about the prospects of success it is in this context to understand the political terrain as part of the united states and its allies. and then to be working so long enough. so now i will leave the podium for his remarks and welcome him once again. [applause] >> they give for that, a deduction. and good afternoon to all of you. >> they keep forgetting we this opportunity to be here today. with the continuous said generous contributions with the common cause and our side between the two partners. to show you your sacrifices to not waste it i see many faces and many friends here. with my colleagues as they work togethe

serving in afghanistan. host: our guest is major general gordon davis joining us from kabul. john from utah on the democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you general for your service, and happy thanksgiving, and stay safe out there. i just have a question. i am a big study of history. these people in that part of the region of the world have wars for hundreds of years. i don't think there has been peace since 1490. this is a religious war we are in. these people fight for hundreds of years. how can we even imagine shaping that fight when we are part of that fight against their religion. we bring people in. and thee a holy war world scenario where we fight them. it justoing there, promotes that en. how can we ever that-- that end. how can we ever hope to end the war? guest: happy thanksgiving. that is a tough question. here is a lot of violence but it is less than over past centuries. century was inh fact quite peaceful. there were some struggles at different times and certainly here but th

between afghanistan and pakistan. that relationship should not be affected by our friendship with the united states and their animosity. that should remain bilateral and be independent. i think we were successful. we were having good relationships despite the huge international presence, iran participated generously when we have problem of trade we could do it. now, as far as the aspect is concerned we don't like the nuclear weapons in our neighborhood. india is nuclear. very problematic never had. it looks like we're sitting on an atom bomb. we don't like it, but we cannot do anything about it. >> just wait for the microphone. >> political and social activist. since he loves discussions i highlighted a few points. first, what is the ground reality? there are rumors of both local government and international forces were involved intentional. since you were really involved can you tell us the three big achievements in the 3rd as for my information you will be running for presidential election. we need to know right now

serving in afghanistan. host: our guest is major general gordon davis joining us from kabul. john from utah on the democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you general for your service, and happy thanksgiving, and stay safe out there. i just have a question. i am a big study of history. these people in that part of the region of the world have wars for hundreds of years. i don't think there has been peace since 1490. this is a religious war we are in. these people fight for hundreds of years. how can we even imagine shaping that fight when we are part of that fight against their religion. we bring people in. and thee a holy war world scenario where we fight them. it justoing there, promotes that en. how can we ever that-- that end. how can we ever hope to end the war? guest: happy thanksgiving. that is a tough question. here is a lot of violence but it is less than over past centuries. century was inh fact quite peaceful. there were some struggles at different times and certainly here but th

and i say in the book, until, there is no memorial for iraq and afghanistan. until there is, section 60 is the memorial. so you see, people are still in the service, they come there to visit their friends. they come there to leave things. is the focal point for families who have lost family members in iraq or afghanistan. spin do you think they will not get a memorial because everybody is focused on that area and that is sort of what they are used in? >> no. i think, every war we've ever had has a memorial, and i think iraq and afghanistan will. but it takes, it takes a long time. i mean, look at the vietnam memorial. it took 20 or 30 years, you know, for that to take root. and it takes time for things to settle down for the stars to begin hearing -- the scars to begin healing, that sort of thing. i think iraq and afghanistan are two recent for there to be any other memorial at the moment but we will get around to it. i don't have any question about it. yes? [inaudible] i'm not aware of anybody else's building right now, are you? have you been in touch with th

that it is more based in afghanistan or partly in afghanistan. this becomes one part of china's interest. government, we started the dialogue with china. ministry talk to the of interior and security. i was clearly seeing they were very much concerned about the etim and needed help from afghanistan. first meetingmy with china, i realized they were so misinformed in pakistan that the security forces is limited to kabul and not the rest of the country. when they realized that was not the case and it was a force controlling the remotest part of afghanistan. they asked for help. there were two other reasons which was more economic. one was in pakistan and the other was in afghanistan. in pakistan, it is the economic corridor that is linking them with china. that corridor is not just a road, it is a huge area which includes roads and network of roads that will link to afghanistan and pakistan. how could they invest $46 billion in that corridor if corridor risk to the within the region of one kilometer -- 100 kilometers. interest inkeen dissolving the

that competition between saudi arabia and iran is not limited to afghanistan. .t is wider in afghanistan we don't have any sectarian problems that we have ever had. had we deal with that? the rivalry? the president,t they wanted to let the americans figured with soviet matches. i think we should make good use of both of them. looking at the negatives to rivalries, they have rivalries that might be negatively affecting us. let's look at how we can take a good advantage of those ,ompetitions for reconstruction economic roles, trade, and other trade relationships. we cannot live in a part of the world without good relations with saudi arabia for obvious reasons. iran is also our neighbor. we cannot live in that part of the world without good neighborly relations with iran. we must have a more constructive them together. taking advantage of resources, resources.and i'm sure you must be aware in the past 14 years 55,000 afghans have graduated and are back in afghanistan and working in the system. are mine and your brothers and sisters. we should look at that more positive aspect rather than l

i was in afghanistan at the time of the operation. a source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. he also told me it was too4 0 dangerous to go to charkh, so i0 n e x t drove as close as i could - to the provincial capital. this is the video i shot just days after the operation. >> at first it seemed like another footnote in the war. but after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. i found a short reference to the operation in it. >> the operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties (15 deaths and 13 injured). >> fifteen dead. how could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and afghan military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world? the report said that the international and afghan security forces denied civilian casualties. i knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if i'd any chance of finding out the truth. in 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan the

iraq and afghanistan, it should. that is another thing. section 60 is characteristic of the most recent wars. the marines always do their part and then some. you really see what sacrifice they made and you also see something else that is characteristic of recent wars, the importance of special ops. it has become increasingly important in all that we do because there are so many special locks people out there, you see fighting, doing things out in the world. they are very well represented, section 60, many of them. not just people killed in action. it is also every war, go back through every war, there are almost as many people who died in training and accidents as die from bullets. you see a lot of that with special ops guys because it is high risks of, jumping out of airplanes, the parachute doesn't open. there is a disproportionate number of chopper pilots in section 60 from iraq and afghanistan. that is a way you get a round. every -- it is just a when, section 60, for every aspect or recent conflict, with your eyes open, you see everyt

c our aim is to capture afghanistan and have sharia law here in afghanistan. a but they are not like this. they say, we want to go to europe, we want to go to other countries, and they're tackling the world. they're not tackling only one country or one province or district. >> brangham: najibullah quarashi, thank you forst joinii us and this terrific piece of journalism. >> you're welcome. >> ifill: frontline airs tonight on most pbs stations. m and a news update before we go.u on the heels of the parisri attacks, there's been anotherhe major bombing in nigeria. the red cross and the government say at least 32 people were killed in the northeastern city of yola. another 80 were wounded. officials say it bears the hallmark of boko haram. the islamist militant group has killed thousands in the last six years.an >> woodruff: on the newshour online: as countries all over the world face these active threats of terrorism, a new survey reveals how ordinary afghans feel about the islamic state in their own homeland, a place where they're still battling the taliban. yo

the film is about afghanistan. it tells us stories about individual characters in the country who are fighting back in challenging. it is 90% shot, we have have been to haiti, afghanistan and new guinea twice. we are currently raising money to finish it and do a rough cut. here's the short clip of the film in progress. thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [applause]. >> i know how difficult it is to raise funds for journalism projects that are not going to be profitable. one of the things that has always struck me about anthony's work is that he is a quintessential underdog journalist and set out to do a documentary with a global focus that tells history from the perspective of those were being targeted rather than doing the targeting and it is not going to make a lot of friends or money. i think if we lose the institution of independent filmmaking, independent journalism that is motivated by nonprofits but the desire to tell the hist

amy: in afghanistan, the longest war in u.s. history that president obama has just promised to make much longer by reversing the withdrawal, the taliban control more of the country of afghanistan than they did when the u.s. was attacked in 2001. at the same time, yet the taliban who has about enemies of the islamic state. >> exactly. phyllis and i have appeared on a few panels from time to time and i have to say, we frequently disagreed, but i agree 100% with everything that she just said. to say that, american decision-makers have sought to fix -- and i use that term in quotes -- parts of the islamic world with a intervened, the consequences have almost without exception been catastrophic. amy: we also have with this, patrick cockburn, who is going to come on after the break to talk about what is happening in turkey, the stunning entrenchment of the president tayyip erdogan who is cracking down on dissidents, the return of the islamist government to power, in the parliament, and overall. patrick, before we talk about turkey, sp

that was not unusual in iraq or afghanistan. the potential he was wearing a suicide vest was medium to high. charlie: did he think anybody knew where he was? mr. mcraven: absolutely not. but we didn't know that. you asked the question about it we know whether or not the pakistanis knew that bin laden was there, were they going to tip bin laden off? we didn't know that. intelligence has shown that was not the case for going into the compound we were not certain, or whether or not the compound was rigged with explosives. the premise was unless bin laden has his hands in the air and you can determine he doesn't have a suicide vest on, you need to shoot him. charlie: and that determination -- there is controversy of who fired the fatal shot. mr. mcraven: the issue with bin laden is you can imagine you are just landed in this compound, guys are wearing night vision goggles. it is dark. they have had to engage in individuals on their way up the stairwell and blow some doors down because they were barricaded. the adrenaline is pumping.

are people riding citibikes around afghanistan? is that what's happening? worse they couldn't just cut their losses and go home. they were going to make this gas station work, damn it. >> it cost $700 to switch over a car to natural gas, more than the average afghan makes in a year. >> which explains why the u.s. was forced to convert 120 vehicles just so someone could use the station. >> trevor: wait. so they realized that they made a station that no one needs, so in order to fix this, you build a reason to make it necessary. it's like giving a group of amish people tvs because for some reason you built a tv repair shop in their barn, in afghanistan, which doesn't make sense, but i'm angry! ( laughter ) now it's all pretty bad, but it gets so much worse, all right. guess how much the least-useful gas station in the world cost to build? >> the station was estimated to cost between $200,000 and $500,000. >> trevor: that's an estimate. that's a hint. >> a pentagon review found the u.s. paid $43 million for it. >> trevor: they spent $43 million on a gas statio

a sergeant who served in afghanistan said he had few resources to help when he came back. >> i came home in a recession, jobs were really hard to find. i had a really hard time adjusting back to civilian life. we were such a community inside of combat that when i came back to the united states, it felt like i was a small fish in a big pond. it was really hard to come home to. >> what did that mean for you? i know that you have described struggles with post traumatic stress. how did that exhibit itself on a daily basis for you? >> the first six months coming home, i just spent in my apartment, with the shades drawn, drinking and watching combat videos from my head cam that i took in afghanistan. from there, it just really looked at like alcoholism, and not being able to interact with people on just a basic level. >> did you feel that you were supported by the v.a. and by the army as you were going through all of this? >> the v.a. and army were doing their best. i think they're flawed in many ways, but i think they were doing their best. the most support i got were from other veterans. >>

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we event in haiti, afghanistan papua, new guinea, choice. we're going in the process of trying to raise money to finish it, to a rough cut. if anyone has money come see me afterwards. here's a short clip of the film in progress. thank you. [inaudible] [inaudible] [applause] >> i know how difficult it is to raise funds to do journalism projects that not going to be profitable. and one of the things that always has struck me about anthony's work is that he is a quintessential underdog journalist and set out to do a documentary with a global focus that tells history from the perspective of those who were being targeted, rather than doing the targeting. is not going to make a lot of friends, not going to make a lot of money. and i think that if we lose the institution of independent filmmaking, of independent journalism that's motivated not by profit but my desire to tell history from the perspective of those who are victims of it, then we have a totally bankrupt society when it comes to open media and media freedom. so i hope and i believe that

if you gave the mujahedin the missiles to shoot the soviet planes out of the sky in afghanistan, the soviet helicopters and the fact that they've been shot out of the sky isn't a secret once it happened but you are trying to do is hide the u.s. thinker prince on the operation so it's ayn rand portend legal distinction. i think in the information age it's getting harder and harder to keep those things separate. >> host: as you described jsoc has pushed forward and the limits of what might have been seen as the limits before. >> guest: that is true. jsoc sends people to the facility facility with a heavy operated training course and it has expanded the number of people that are operating under cover and it's so getting into the intelligence side of things, the cyber warfare side of things, so increasingly the sort of behemoth is increasing on the territory that we would have thought was the arena in which the intelligence surveillance agency -- >> another strange fact is that the cia is a known organization or acknowledged organization that that testified occasionally to congress. thei

air strikes in afghanistan. a moment to remember the victims, and calls for an investigation into what went wrong, and the bill going through britain's parliament that could have the government watching every move citizens make online. online. >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the soundbites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. . >> welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international room an activist shot in the face after being critical of burundi's president, refuses to back down. first the stories making inside in the american minutes. the u.s. transportation department hit takada with a 70 million penalty for failing to disclose defects leading to eight deaths and 100 injuries worldwide. it could grow to 200 million if they fail to comply with federal demands >>> for the second time in four decades a republican has been elected republican of kentucky, belting attorney

invasion of afghanistan. now she is calling on congress to repeal the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for military force saying they have used as , blank checks for endless war. she will join us from washington. then to paris. climate activists are preparing for a massive march ahead of the u.n. climate talks. will authorities allow it to happen? all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in france today, at least seven people have been detained and two have been killed after a series of gun battles and a police raid on an apartment in a northern suburb of paris. authorities said the operation targeted a belgian man accused of masterminding the paris attacks that killed 129 people friday. abdelhamid abaaoud was initially said to be in syria. early this morning, french police stormed an apartment in st. denis, where a woman reportedly killed herself by detonating a suicide vest. a second suspect was killed, reportedly from gunfire and a gr

investigators could find no natural gas vehicles in afghanistan. converting a gasoline car to natural gas runs about $700, more than the average annual income in afghanistan, which explains by the u.s. was forced to convert 120 vehicles just so someone could use the station. even by pentagon standards, members of congress say it is outrageous. >> mr. speaker, that must be a humdinger of a truck stop. what should have only cost $500,000 cost 140 times that amount, charged to the taxpayers credit card. yet there are no answers or explanations. mr. speaker, it's now since been reported that afghans don't even use the gas station because the cost of the gas. no one has been held accountable for such wasteful government spending, not surprisingly. this is getting to be normal for government spendocrats. >> the pentagon shut down the task force that oversees so there was no one left to answer questions about why the project went so wrong and why no one did a simple feasibility study before embarking on the idea. special inspector general wrote: the penta

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visit ncicap.org] >> live later, a look at the future of afghanistan with the carnegie endowment for international peace, speaking with an afghan politician. we will get his view in about half an hour and -- about an hour, actually, and on capitol hill, the house quieter than usual today, with members on trips or in their districts until next week. the senate, live coverage from in about 30 c-span2 minutes, as senators continue to debate spending for military construction projects and v.a. funding. also a vote on the next director for the european bank for reconstruction and development, and a vote on defense authorization. businessrsons having before the honorable supreme states, giveunited their attention. -- boldly comes with the internment of japanese americans and world war ii. he took his case all the way to the supreme court. >> this week on "landmark orematsuwe discuss k versus the united states. after the attack on pearl harbor, president roosevelt sent an evacuation order, sending japanese-americans who lived close to military installations to internment camps throughout th

but the afghanistan taliban have been stepping up their attacks inside of the country. a few weeks ago in the beginning of the autumn, they briefly took police of a provincial capsule, and took goods and increasing goods and weapons and troops on their side. they may be planning something against the capital. >> we know that the iraqi mi military is a huge disappointment to the u.s., and nearly 3,000 personnel in the iraq, and trained by the u.s., and they sort of disappeared when isis came into mosul, and what about the afghan military, armed and trained by the u.s., can they get the job done? >> highly doubtful, wolf. obviously, because there are elements of the afghan military very food and willing to stand up and fight, but the problem is that they are fighting for a state they don't believe in. afghanistan is a tribal culture, and ethnically-rifen culture, and not a culture in which a unified entity like in kabul can survive in a long time. and they are not in a position to truly protect foreigners, and especially american, and also not in a position to protect the

as the returnans invited afghanistan. world leaders credited him to inspiring g7 and g20 meetings and organising a monitoring system to pave the way for euro >>> fro appreciation and respect has grown a fondness for our former chancellor. helmut sh-mitted was a person whose advice and judgment meant something to me >>> he died at his home at the age of 96 >>> now a global view segment. a look at how news outlets are reacting. let's start with the moscow times, with the editorial entitled the kremlin and the crash, putin's dilemma. the crash of a jet flight puts russia in a position of admitting that it was the tart of a terrorist attack. it says if vladimir putin admitted it. it would lead the russian people to back an anti-i.s.i.l. campaign. the taipei times calls for a change to security. in an article titled airport security, it's les predictable. the paper refers to the current style of doing things such as security theatre. not enough is being down, and a global standard is what is needed. >> the telegraph of britain

it paid 43 million dollars to build a gas station in afghanistan. that's about $42 million more than it should have cost. >> reporter: the details come from a scathing, and i don'tous that word lightly, a scatsing report-- scathing report from the general for zan reduction. it is dialled dod's compressed natural gas filling station in afghanistan and il-conceived $43 million project. the gas station seen in this photograph has two pumps, four hoses and dispenses natural gas. it was part of what the independent investigator found was a deeply flawed plan to help afghanistan to take advantage of its natural gas reserves and burn cleaner fuel. the station was estimated to cost between 200 and $500,000 but when it was completed in 2012, the total bill came to $43 million, an 8000 mark-up. one of the projects is an cumbrousing miscalculations. it was all ill conceived. while afghanistan has natural gas, it lacks the transmission and local distribution infrastructure, and investigators could find no natural gas vehicles in afghanistan. converting a gas le

projects in afghanistan. when you get off the core mission you are going to wind up in a place like this. >> tucker, if they don't do it in afghanistan, they are doing the same thing every place else and doing domestically in the united states. as i talked with senator rubio we have empty buildings. there is so much waste and nobody cares and i think until there are actually indictments for fraud because can i cannot believe that you can take this much money and that there isn't some fraud some place. we need a few indictments. we need a few grand juries to investigate. where is this money going? who is signing away? who is agreeing to this. >> at least if this happened in the united states and as you know it does every single day there is massive amounts of waste in the federal bureaucracy at least that money goes to american citizens and corrupt union boss and not afghan war lord. that's the really upsetting thing. we shouldn't have been doing this in the first place. >> you and i arguing about two differen

>> reporter: thousands of people paraded through afghanistan. they walked kilometers carrying the coffins of those seven people who were beheaded. they were abducted several months ago. they were found in the city. thousands of people now at the gates of the presidential palace. members of ethnic groups from around the country. they are standing side-by-side. they are calling for justice. they blame the presidential palace. they say that the palace has sold out the people of afghanistan. they want security, they're calling for unity and they have been calling for the resignation of the president and his chief executive officer. this is the largest demonstration anyone can remember in history in recent history in afghanistan. people out reynold about the murder of these men women and child >>> we see a lot of violence in afghanistan. how does this differ? >> reporter: i think the people feel like they're not secure at all. the fact that it was a minority group, it's not clear who exactly carried out the killings. some people believe it's members

maryland, the captain was injured in afghanistan during a suicide bomb attack. this is 20 minutes. ["hail to the chief" plays] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, along with the medal of honor recipient captain florent groberg. ♪ >> almighty god, we hear your words, how can we repay the lord for his goodness to me? today, we remember you're good to us sacrifice of all our soldiers. heal our hearts from the tears of their grieving families. be with us as we honor the actions of our heroes. we give thanks for their sacred calling to serve, to protect, defend our nation and our way of life, without counting the costs for it made this soldier be an example for future generations. may his life serve as a beacon for our young men and women who run to the sound of the guns for the sake of humanity, for the sake of the nation they have come to love. in your holy name, we pray, amen. >> amen. president obama: please be seated. good morning, and welcome to the white house. a little more than three years ago, as captain florent groberg was recovering from his wounds

for example, if it's in iraq, it would report or afghanistan, it would report to the u.s. central command commander who is the sort of the combatant commander for that part of the world who runs that part of the world as you obviously know because you wrote a book about those guys. and then it's obviously from him and it goes up to the pentagon and to the white house in very short order. but it really works, it really works for the secretary of the defense and for the present. >> and the difference what jsoc does or military division does, what's the real difference? >> guest: there's certainly an overlap between two those two organizations now and you'll often find members of each organization on the same battlefield as they were in the same -- in the same embassy doing some of the same work. the obvious difference is joint operations command is a lot bigger and a lot more fire power, the special activities division you would expect to be working in battlefields in which the united states is not at war with perhaps slightly shady characters in the military and different a

. >> medal of honor, he tackled a suicide bomber in afghanistan. today he receives the nation's highest award. this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. this morning, as many as 30 million more americans are in the crosshairs of a dangerous storm system. high winds, heavy rain and thunderstorms are moving east. as john henry smith reports, the storm caused damage in the rookies and the plains already. >> tornadoes, blizzards, even a wind swept wildfire, this fast moving storm system produced a little of everything and its impacting a lot of people. >> tornado on the ground. >> one of the twisters touched down in norwalk, iowa. >> it was time to go in the basement. >> around sue city, 40 miles an hour winds along with hail and heavy rain damage would buildings and flipped three tractor trailers. at one point, tornado watches were posted in parts of missouri, nebraska, cans, and iowa. winds of up to 60 miles per hour swept one wildfire through parts of oklahoma, leading to evacuations and destroying homes, and in many state

in remote parts of afghanistan, isil is finding sanctuaries to grow stronger. ays. >> you can see the full documentary isil and the talibantable here at al jazeera later on sunday at 20 hours greenish meantime. >> people until turkey re at the polls for the second time in five months. the general election was called after the ruling ack party failed to form a coalition government in after the election in june. here is how the full main parties performed in that june 7th election. of the 550 seats in parliament, the ruling ack party secured 258. that's almost 41% of the vote, but not quite enough governor alone. the second republican people's party or the chp got 131 seats. the nationalist party or the mhp got 79. the proceeded proceed kurdish people's party got 80 seats or 13%. in recent polls, support for the akp party has only occasionally reached the coverage in% which would give it the the 276 seats it needs to govern on its own. the htp has to security at least 10 percent of the vote if it's to get back in to parliament at all. the current poll suggests it

one of the heros in the war in afghanistan today received the nation's highest military honor. president obama awarding captain floerant grow berg, flo groberg, the medal of honor. al jazeera's jamie mcintyre is live at the pentagon. tell us more jamie. >> reporter: you know, del, how these things go, the ceremony just completed about an hour ago at the white house. at these ceremonies where you receive the medal of honor, you don't speak, the president tells your story, and that's what happened today, as president obama recounted the events of the day in afghanistan back in 2012 when captain flo groberg was in charge of a security detail escorting senior officers on foot when he saw a man walking backwards who looked suspicious. the president picks up the tail from there. >> the man spun around and turned toward them, that's when flo sprinted toward him. he pushed him away from the formation and as he did he noticed an object under the man's clothing, a bomb. the motorcycles had been a diversion. at that moment, flo did something extraordinary. he grabbed the bomber by his ves

military have in maybe seeing women in their campaigns in afghanistan and iraq? >> i think honestly when the first came across the desk of folks in the pentagon, their reactions ranged from just stupid vacation, like what is this and what does have to do with me? i don't understand what this is -- stupid vacation. and what he asked me to do come at the kind of eye roll, some politically correct requirement or something like it came to me, you're the senior woman, you explain this to us. what was interesting thing that i found is coming to take that sort of high level reaction, talf, leaving from bafflement to skepticism to then when you started you go down to people on the ground and to talk to the marines who first worked with him the engagement teams, the first time the marines and helmand and elsewhere started to be able to access the female population in afghanistan through the female marines and first of all a lot of good information, like really having a much better picture what is really going on in the area of responsibility or started to engage those wom

and afghanistan. small, but still there, certainly. >> rose: when you moved to syria, what are our options in syria? the russians have changed the dynamics of the game. >> they've added a huge additional level of complexity to the whole affair and it's important to note right off the front that russia is hitting the people, our guys, more on the ground even more than islamic state with their air power and that's largely because the forces that we have been supporting have generally been seen as a greater threat to the russian air base and the sea bass i -- sea base on the mediterranean coast. >> rose: are they the same moderate forces as in 2011 or a different group of moderate forces? >> that's obviously something i couldn't go into, charlie. others have commented on that and i'll let them speak for themselves. >> rose: all right. but is there, from your assessment, a strong enough moderate force to -- for us to support or do we have to, you know, essentially rebuild and try to create a group that it

i talked to and afghanistan refugee this week. he told me those people are being sent back, a majority of those people will get into the hands of the taliban because the country is in economic hardship. these are the only ways for them to make 11, joining the taliban or isis. , joining theing tele-ban or isis. >> the government is once again going after the kurds. can we see the turks seeking refugee -- refuge in europe don't deserve it? judy: i think turkey is going through a dangerous time. president recep tayyip erdogan is doing everything possible to destroy the remnants of democracy. it was thriving. the rule of law was taking shape. now going back would be an invitation to prison. we have a real problem with turkey now. german chancellor angela merkel discovered that when she went to visit president recep tayyip erdogan, pleading for help. it's going against our own principles. >> resolve the paradox for us. german chancellor angela merkel has been seen throughout this crisis as the voice of reason and moral principle. why w

he deployed to afghanistan twice. first as a platoon leader and then a couple of years later when he was hand picked to head up a security detail. and so on an august day three years ago, that flo found himself leading a group of american and afghan soldiers as they escorted their commanders to a meeting with local afghans. it was a journey that the team had done many times before, a short walk on foot including passage over a narrow bridge. at first, they passed pedestrians, a few cars and bicycles, even some children. but then they began to approach the bridge and a pair of motorcycles sped toward them from the other side. the afghan troops shouted at the bikers to stop, and they did. ditching their bikes in the middle of the bridge and running away. and that's when flo noticed something to his left. a man dressed in dark clothing walking backwards just some ten feet away. the man spun around and turned toward them. and that's when flo sprinted toward him. he pushed him away from the formation. and as he did, he not