general gordon davis gave an update on operations in afghanistan, including the current role of u.s. troops, afghan forces ability to protect their country, and cobb at efforts against the taliban and isis. from washington journal, this is 35 minutes. for the past couple of years on thanksgiving, we have been joined by u.s. service members and military brass from afghanistan and we want to welcome major general gordon davis joining us from kabul, afghanistan. happy thanks giving and thank you for your service and thanks for being with us. you and your viewers, happy thanksgiving to everyone out there. it is a pretty nice day here. host: the me begin with news, this is the front page of the new york times. as you well know, saying the airstrike that hit the hospital in afghanistan on october 3 was avoidable. resulting in the depths of 30 individuals, mostly patience. operated by doctors without borders, what happened and what can be learned? the question,for i would have to first tell you that frankly, my mission is very different from the one that was involved in that operation. i c

. >> afghanistan's interior minister stocked about the future and stability of his yesterday atking the carnegie endowment for international peace and washington, d.c. he also took questions from the audience. this is about one hour and half. >> it gives me pleasure to welcome you to the session. i also want to extend a warm welcome to the speaker this afternoon, mohammad umer daudzai . as all of you know, he played an important role in politics. having served twice as the chief of staff and ambassador to two of afghanistan's most important and problematic neighbors, iran and pakistan, and finally as afghanistan's minister of the interior during the year 2014. our focus today on afghanistan could not be timelier. president obama has recently made important decisions with respect to the continued u.s. troop presence in the country. these decisions serve as a continuing reminder of the high sacrifice that the united states and its nato allies have made to rebuild post-9/11 afghanistan. unfortunately, for all of us, and especially for the afghan people, this task is by no means complete. t

discussion on afghanistan in the future prospects and as solid you know, have a reserved twice as the chief of staff as an ambassador to two of afghanistan's most problematic neighbors of iran and pakistan, and finally afghanistan during 2014 that was an important 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 contr

time isis's new foothold in afghanistan. >> their aim is to have their networks all over the world. when i saw these young children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, i was thinking the war will never end. >> and later tonight, in pakistan, the taliban are wreaking havoc in karachi with crime, kidnapping, and targeted assassinations. >> could you point out the areas where the taliban has a strong presence? >> frontline is with the police unit hunting the taliban. tonight, two new reports, one exclusive hour of frontline. >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontline is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs an

from afghanistan's side was the release of four taliban commanders unconditionally. i did not see the logic. the release of taliban commanders and the peace talk. , theyan, in response commanders,taliban which we didn't even know they were in pakistani presence. it was a joint operation of u.s. forces in pakistan forces. they released 60. there is a demand of four, and the released 60. the 60 commanders are leading the more inside afghanistan and killing people on a daily basis. here, i am accepting the blame on that. talking about a piecemeal approach, and very , having clearty policies on where to start and where to go. that is all the past now. things are changing. , it'sthe situation changing. ,hat is different now is that after the taliban, in order to provide an opportunity to itsstan to rebuild tarnished image internationally, the taliban are trying to increasingly get inside afghanistan. they're trying to get a hold of the geographic pocket, the political jogger fee, so they can establish there. -- geography, so they can establish there. they have been denied that opportunity.

fighting in afghanistan so while this was the work in progress there were all of these soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen coming to arlington cemetery. at a distance it looks like any other part of arlington cemetery, but if you zoom in a little closer, talking to some of the people who visit, look at some of the things people bring their, bring their friends and comrades, it is quite different. there is a lot going on closer to the surface, the people who have come to rest in the past dozen years with all their lives before them, here they are buried at arlington. my thought when i set out on this book was not to try to tell stories of all the people buried here. more than 900 men and women killed in iraq and afghanistan who are buried there. i had to pick and choose who i am going to focus on, what i am going to write about, the most recent wars. that was the approach i took. the idea was to say what is different about the most recent wars, how are they compared to earlier conflicts, how did you see that play out in this one little poster stamp of perth? >> it is more alive, v

assassinated that afghanistan took a with a promise of a corporation so it took many more months through 2012 that i taught for the second time that maybe they would be willing to help us. at that stage they asked us to present a road map and to my surprise is the first demand was for the four top taliban commanders and conditionally but here i confess as the afghan ambassador i did not see the logic between the commanders and the peace talks. so in response to that demand at least 68 taliban commanders apparently they were arrested we demanded for they released 60 but most of those are now leading though war so here i am also excepting a blame on us with a piecemeal approach to be very much personality driven of where to start and where to go. but that is in the past and the situation is changing. what is different now that in order to provide an opportunity they are increasingly trying to establish themselves to get a hold of that geographic pockets to put their leadership inside afghanistan and leave it there. then there denied that opportunity. hearing that happen in that geo

sitting over there. new york filmmaker and the film is about afghanistan, haiti, new keeper tells the story of individual characters in the countries who were fighting and challenging. the film is 90% shot. 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

there was a huge influx of people killed in fighting, our people killed in fighting in afghanistan. so while this was a work in progress, there were all of these soldiers sailors and marines airmen coming to rest at arlington cemetery and as i said, at a distance it looks like any other part of arlington cemetery but if you zoom in a little closer and start looking at the names on the grays, talking to some of the people who visit their, and a special look at some of the things that people bring their to leave for the friends and comrades and loved ones, you see it's quite different. it's alive. there's a lot going on there. the motions are closer to the surface. the people who have come to rest there in the past dozen years our young, yo, unit come with af their lives before them. here they are buried at arlington. so my thought what i set out on this book was to not to try to tell the story of all the people buried there. more than 900 men and women killed in iraq and afghanistan who were buried there. i had to pick and choose who am i going to focus on, what am i going to write

general from afghanistan to talk about the operations in that country and u.s. troops that remain in afghanistan. this tweet from david roth, you can send us a tweet at http://twitter.com/cspanwj. he says we have nothing to fear but fear itself, fdr are great socialist leader was true in 1933 and more today. to enter the about roosevelt room yesterday, this was the photograph with the headline "obama seeks to ".assure skeptical public there was subtext to his statement as well. feels anxiety in the wake of the attacks and does have a plan for defeating the terrorists of the islamic state and if given enough time, mr. obama understood that the audience was skeptical although he once enjoyed the benefit of the doubt he does not anymore. his response has been criticized by republicans and democrats. new polls showing most of the public has lost confidence in the president's handling of the terror threat. this morning from a former moscow bureau chief for the new york times and a white house reporter, inside today's times, also available at nytimes.com. brandel from butler, oklahoma. are

soldiers on these sorts of missions. 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 too dangerous to go to charkh, so i 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 united nations start

about four years with new york filmmaker who sitting over there. 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 history

missions in afghanistan. in iraq or afghanistan, the profile was similar. the distances were longer. at the complexity of the mission, we have done in iraq and afghanistan are much more complex missions. the real credit in the bin laden raid goes to the president and his national security league and the cia, and those folks that located the compound, and the president in making the tough decisions to go do the mission. i am proud of my guys. they did a marvelous job. this mission was something we had been trained. and all of these seals were hand-picked to do this job. i will not call it routine. nothing about it was routine but it was not the hardest part of the raid. the hardest part was the decision made by the president and the intel. charlie: they did not know if he was there. mr. mcraven: we did not. this was part of the intel buildup to figure out whether or not the man -- there were arguments on both sides as to whether or not it was bin laden. we thought it was a 50-50 chance. the president called me friday. we had thought about doing the mission on saturday that we had weather

children in afghanistan. >> it was really really shocking to see these young children learning how to kill and what is jihad-- how to use weapons. >> ifill: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made >> ( translated ): they wanted to weaken the french passion to welcome the world to its doorstep, diminish the pride that we have to be a country that exchanges with all cultures. they've already lost that fight as today, by standing up firm, determined against terror. this as planes hit syria with more bombs in. brussels the french defense minister invoked a never before used provision in thein the eurn charter. all countries said they y wouldw provide aid.ce >> ( translated ): it's the vers first time it's been used. i feel that that's an important point to make.n now what's this actually going to mean in practice, well, either taking part in france'spo operations in syria or iraq, ora by easing the load or providingr support for france in other1 o

withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. we will speak with author phyllis bennis as well as retired colonel andrew bacevich, about obama's endless war. in the islamist government of the turkish president erdogan has regained its poetry majority, but opposition protest are continuing. turkish people do not celebrate the result of the election cheerfully. although a political party has received almost 50% of the votes, why? because significant number of the people are living in fear. everybody is uneasy over how far can the ruling party go. i can assure that nobody needs to be afraid or concerned because we are here. amy: we will go to patrick cockburn in istanbul to find out what the comeback victory means for the country. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in a major policy shift, the white house has announced a team of special operations forces they say numbering less than 50 will be sent in to syria. this marks the first sustained u.s. troop presence in syria since president obama launched a bombing

news. the u.s. embassy in kabul, afghanistan, taking dramatic action warning of a possible attack in the next 48 hours. americans in the afghan capital being urged right now to use extreme caution as officials deem the threat, quote, very significant, active and credible. also breaking this hour, sources telling cnn that investigators are now looking into whether the eighth paris terrorist, salah abdelsalam, escaped to syria. and now we're also learning of a planned second wave of attacks against transportation networks, schools and jewish targets in france. we're covering that, much more this hour with our guests including the chairman of the house armed services committee, congressman matt thornberry. expert analysts also standing by for late-breaking developments. let's go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. she begins our coverage. what are you learning, barbara, about this threat, this new threat of an imminent attack in kabul maybe in the next 48 hours? >> wolf, the u.s. embassy issuing this warning earlier today. there are some 10,000 u.s. troops plus a good deal more

afghanistan and has spent a total of nearly four years on the ground in the two countries. mostly doing front-line combat embeds. he has reported for more than 20 countries, including pakistan, russia, israel, china, japan, turkey, morocco and saudi arabia your bill rausch is the political director at iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. as political director bill supports the development of their annual policy agenda and advocacy campaigns through trust relationships with veteran service organizations and government agencies. bill is a former army major who served 17 months in iraq, it has broad experience working with veterans and veterans issues from his work on several major political campaigns to serving as team red, white and blue chapter captain for his local community in alexandria, virginia. bill has appeared on "nbc nightly news," c-span's "washington journal," and msnbc's coverage of memorial day 2015. class with major general mark graham, he is the senior director at rutgers national call center and director of vets4warriors. general graham has lost two sons to two different

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. >> presi

, 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 authorities, diff

, "man, that's ( bleep ) up." the story begins in afghanistan where america's been at war since 2001, and so far, they've nearly spent $1 trillion. when spending starts to get out of control, you need some oversights. >> to keep an eye on all that money, in 2008 congress created an independent special inspector general. the agency has been tasked with fighting crawled fraud and waste. >> special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, or sigar. >> trevor: sigar s-i-g-a-r. it's sigar. and that's right. sigar had to be brought in to monitor america and their money. america has so much money, that they have to pay someone to watch them spend money. ( laughter ) tell me that is the most boiler thing you have heard in your life. that is so gangsta. >> the pentagon is under fire this morning for a natural gas filling station in afghanistan. >> the idea-- become less dependent on costly foreign oil imports. >> while afghanistan has natural gas, it lacks the transmission and local distribution infrastructure. and investigators could find no natural gas vehicles in afghanistan. >> trevor

afghanistan for-- been in scan for 140 years. there's no military solution. we need a comprehensive solution led by the people. we need more diplomacy, we need more political initiatives and negotiations. the military option is always there, but i think a stable middle east, and if we're going to ensure our own national security in the united states, we have to look at this from a multi fast edit point of view. look at all the options and then have a vote to determine what the best course of action is. >> reporter: you have the distinction of being the only member of congress to vote against military action in afghanistan after 911. with that in mind, what is your solution to syria and iraq? >> let me say to you that that resolution was a blank check. that said any president, not just president bush, but any future present, is authorised to use force against any nation organisation, individual, whenever for ever, whenever. >> reporter: in a letter to the new york times you wrote this. you said greater involvement in syria and iraq will not make us any safer, but it will cost more li

joins us live. what do you have for us? >> 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

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. their status is still not a

is happy with the proposed change. >>> a pentagon report regime an expensive mistake in afghanistan. why this gas station cost 8,000 times more than originally planned. >> israel this week is marking 20 years since the prime minister rabin was assassinated, an israel ultra nationalist killed him, angry over his making peace with the poils. many so you him as the last hope to the resolution. education minister in rabin's cabinet agrees that the assassination closed the door on the best chance for peas and shifted israel to the right. >> at the time, we thought that the shock waves of this assassination would change public opinion in israel, and would strengthen the left, the labour party, and its associates, but that didn't happen. it didn't happen, because there was a continuous period of terrorist attacks over the worst time in strehl, attacking buses, children, discotheques turning public opinion away from trying to reach peace. this is one of the great moments which was missed, one of the great opportunities, which will not come again in the foreseeable future. >> perez was sworn

captain fgrobert was awarded the medal of honor. 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 capt

, including we travel to one of the remostest provinces in afghanistan where people say they've been neglected by the central government. plus the controversial whale shows being stopped at one u.s. animal park but not until 2017. >>> hello again, welcome back. the top stories. russia's sports ministry says it is not surprised by allegations that drugs cheating is widespread in russian athletics, but it has rejected claims that the doping is state sponsored. european observers say myanmar's historic election was generally transparent, but more reforms are needed. so far the n.l.d. has won 54 lower sets out of the 62 that have been announced so far. the united nations is warning political violence in burundi could escalate into mass atrocities. the fifty says the country is calm and urged the u.n. not to impose sanctions because they would be ineffective. the israeli prime minister netanyahu and u.s. p.m. obama has met. they've talk past disagreements and focus on how to make israel feel more secure. they tried to send a message of unity on the israeli-palestinian conflict. >> we cond

borders hospital was hit by u.s. 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-general conway. bevans is a tea party

senate and the president. a report came out from the inspector general in afghanistan that a gas station that should have cost anywhere from 200,000 to $500,000 cost $43 million. so, where is is the house? where is the senate? where is the president and where were you? >> that's right. first of all the oversight on this is not just limited to that spending in afghanistan has been an issue for years in terms of the money being misspent. the oversight committee supposed to have oversight over how that money something spent. both the exexpense oversight committee and overall. i hope' they will take that inspector general report and do something about it. >> it's too late though. it's $43 million. this is why so many people are talking about outsiders. it's sort of like y'all had your chance. and this is the kind of spending it doesn't go for education it doesn't go for infrastructure, $43 million. it's this is the tip of the iceberg. >> first of that you will issue in afghanistan is not the first time we find wasteful spend disblg of course not. >> there sorry examples of it elsewhe

. also coming up: >> afghanistan is better for me, but they take afghanistan from me. >> not giving up, we meet the refugees who say they have little to lose as they make the dangerous trip by boat to europe. >>> day one of the apec summit in manila, protests on the street turn violent. >> a beauty product that is scarring nigeria's economy. >> a police raid in the paris suburb of saint denis is now over. the operation which began in the early hours of wednesday was linked to friday's attacks in the french capital which killed at least 129 people. two suspects were killed and at least seven arrested. andrew simmons reports from the scene of the raised. >> once again, gunfire and later on explosions in paris saint denis, a residential suburb looks and sounds like a war zone. it's a raid by security forces under the cover of darkness and they met fierce resistance as more than three hours of gunfire continued. >> since 4:00 this morning, french special forces police carried out an operation to neutralize terrorists. seven people were arrested, two people have died. >> pleas say one of th

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afghanistan. so what we saw -- charlie: which is? mr. morell: which is the original al qaeda leadership group. they were under so much pressure from the united states of america that they were hunkering down and withstanding the onslaught. they are now moving back to afghanistan for the first time. there is the building of al qaeda training camps in southeastern afghanistan for the first time since before 9/11, so we are beginning to see the rebirth. the united states of america and afghan forces recently raided a couple of places. few people know that, but it happened. it is because of concern over those camps. a significant rebound in yemen and beginning rebound in afghanistan. charlie: and it is happening in mali right now. mr. morell: what you are seeing in mali is a long-standing al qaeda affiliate. they have been very active there and took over it when there was a civil war going on, and the french had to come force them out with the french army, so yeah, absolutely. charlie: vladimir putin. the president today said he is an outlier, he has a coalition with iran and is not part of

wars in syria, afghanistan and iraq. , then to congresswoman barbara lee of california. >> september 11 changed the world. our deepest fears now haunt us. yet i'm convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the united states. amy: that was 14 years ago when congresswoman barbara lee stood alone voting against the u.s. 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 par

have learned anything from 15 years of war in iraq and afghanistan, it is that local people and nations have to secure their own communities. we can help them, and we should, but we cannot substitute for them. amy: hillaryclinton also proposed an intelligence surge and called on companies -- technology companies to work with the government on issues of encryption. a growing number of officials have called on companies to offer government agencies a back-door into their encrypted tools in the wake of the paris attacks, even though officials have not presented any evidence that the paris attackers even used encryption. to see our recent interview with pulitzer prize-winning journalist glenn greenwald on encryption, mass surveillance and the aftermath of paris, go , to democracynow.org. in britain, prison authorities are investigating the death of 21-year-old transgender woman, who was found dead in the all-male leeds prison in west yorkshire last friday. vicky thompson had identified as female since her mid-teens. she and her lawyer had repeatedly asked for her to be relocated to

of war and political persecution. let's take a look at two examples. ♪ >> number one, afghanistan, refugees could face repatriation. they would be sent back to a country where germany is still involved in a military mission. human rights activist and aid workers say security in afghanistan is worse than a decade. police officers and civilians increasingly being targeted. the taliban and is on the advance, threatening not only women, but everyone claiming the right to an education. turkey,number two, critics say the turkish president is responsible for the growing destabilization. they see turkey on the brink of civil war and pick -- dictatorship. president recep tayyip erdogan is not only fighting the kurds, opposition is being targeted. the german interior minister said that germany has given afghanistan millions in development aid. it ought to be considered safe by now and people should stay there. ?sn't that rather cynical say it is.ld i would say it is dangerous to send those people back there. i talked to and afghanistan refugee this week. he told me those people are being se

medal of honor for saving lives in afghanistan. >>> pushing isil out of a key strong hold. >>> and a powerful storm now moving east. millions of americans could soon feel the effects. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america live in new york city. i'm del walters. 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 whe

afghanistan war hero. a young man who actually tackled a suicide bomber while serving in afghanistan to save the lives of others. he is retired army captain florent groberg receiving an award for his heroic actions three years ago. he saved the lives of several soldiers, but in the process suffered life-threatening injuries. captain groberg described what happened to our very own medal of honor recipient colonel jack jacobs. >> i just remember waking up and kind of like laying there. and my leg, i'm looking at my fibula. it's sticking out. my leg's burning. foot's all messed up. and i'm just kind of like, whoa. i must be stepped on an ied. >> captain groberg's ceremony will be coming up shortly. we will, of course, carry that very important ceremony not just for this young man but for the so many others, men and women, who serve this country and for all of us who have the opportunity to get a glimpse of this event. >>> but right now i also want to turn to some breaking news in the war against isis. a major offensive launched in iraq today that includes intense u.s.-led airstrikes, th

the university of missouri. >> 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 states, travel