certainly we can set aside partisan differences at a time when north korea, iran, and the taliban are questioning our will and our leadership. now is the time to come back to the table, meet our responsibility by providing the department of defense the resources and certainty it requires and answering those questioning america's resolve. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 1. the clerk: an act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles two and five of the concurrent resolution for the budget for 2018. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: i would like to respond briefly to the majority who touted what he claimed would be great benefits coming from the republican tax reform bill. colleagues, and i say to the public that's following this, this isn't tax reform at all. what this is is a grab bag full of special interests goodies for multinational corporations, powerful political supporters, and lots of people who are in a position to have vast

fifteen years after the afghan taliban blew up the bridges of bummy and the international criminal court gave a nine year prison sentence to a man who helped destroy the fabled shrines of timbuktu in mali it was the first time the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage was judged to be a crime. ancient sites have now been rebuilt and akio logis of returning to the rubble of ancient treasures elsewhere but given the atrocities often committed alongside that destruction can take his will also be mindful that many here rich sites are no longer just to risk distant nations. and al-jazeera there is a very very heartbreaking about such a lot of being destroyed let's take this on we can. associate professor of history and anthropology at the state university and former director of scientific and cold conversation conservation of the journal department of antiquities joins us from athens in ohio welcome to the program what is your sense of what is happening here and what is the main reason behind it why are these cultural relics targeted in such a way. i mean obviously in terms of groups li

strengthen its own capacity to maintain security and create the conditions for reconciliation with the taliban and an inclusive government that accounts for the ethnic diversity of all afghans. we know this will take time. but if we failed to exercise vigilance and undertake action against the terrorist threat, wherever it is found, we risk re-creating the safe havens from which the 9/11 plot was hatched and carried out. we earned proportionate contributions to truth and other forms of assistance as we seek to eradicate a terrorist threat that will not be confined to the place where it was born. nato's support mission is essential to our shared goal of ensuring that afghanistan develops the capability to contribute to regional stability and prevail over terrorist threats including al qaeda and isis. even though isis is on the brink of complete extension in iraq and syria, the threat of isis and associated terror networks will persist in our own country and others. isis is looking for new footholds where they can find them. including the region of west africa. we must take action so they do not

deserts in the east of the country people had to flee their homes running from crossfire between the taliban and islamic state militants now they live in makeshift tents of the does it would to us. approaching. other than not the one we call on the government and international forces to help us out with a whole lot worse we don't even have access to medical care but doing back would cost us our lives our women and children are in a bad condition how can we live in these tents during this cold winter. emanuel micron is on a three day tour of africa the trip kicked off a makino facet where the french president didn't get the warmest the welcome. round. grantley. to. these with an ocean has been following that african maria perhaps not the star would have hoped for. well yes i have to say it wasn't told smooth and read about cohen's trip to africa started with an attempted attack on french troops on the ground as security sources told reporters that a grenade was thrown into military car and although it wasn't hate the mass h. was very clear perhaps the president of the former colonial rule was

desert in the east of become tree people had to flee their homes running from crossfire between the taliban and islamic state militants now they live in makeshift tents in the desert with winter fast approaching. the one we call on the government and international forces to help us out with a whole lot more we don't even have access to medical care but doing back would cost us our lives our women and children are in a bad condition how can we live in these tents during this cold winter. kurdish troops fighting in syria who said that they would have no problem joining government forces if they're allowed to form a federal state in the north of the country the statement comes after turkey claimed donald trump has promised to stop arming kurdish forces but there's apparently no clear position on the matter in the white house once we started winning the campaign against isis plan and part of the process is to always wind down support for certain groups and now that we're continuing to crush the physical caliphate that we're in a position to stop providing military equipment to certain groups. k

desert in the east of the country people had to flee their homes running from crossfire between the taliban and so-called islamic state militants now they live in makeshift tents and that this is with winter approaching. the government and international forces to help us. we don't even have access to medical care but doing it would cost us our lives women and children are in a condition how can we live in these tents during this code when. now the agricultural giant monsanto is in the limelight again as the e.u. commission votes in favor of a food license extension for a weed killer inflict account we'll bring you the details after this break. anyone else seems wrong. why don't we all just don't call. any. yet to shape out just to come out to. an engagement because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. is doing an actual job is like basically it's like the euthanasia clinic tromp is the euthanasia doctor america is being euthanized and he's doing in a way worse with the least amount of pain but that's not that's not cruel i mean he's doing

desert in the east of the country people had to flee their homes running from crossfire between the taliban and so-called islamic state militants now they live in makeshift tents in the desert with winter fast approaching. other than now they want we call on the government and international forces to help us. we don't even have access to medical care but going back would cost us our lives our women and children are in a bad condition how can we live in these tents during this cold winter could his troops fighting in syria have said that have no problem joining claims donald trump's promised the first certain groups and now that we're continuing to crush the physical caliphate that we're in a position to stop providing military equipment something that the air is hated washington is king nato ally turkey i thought is more account of explains. as the proverb says you can't ride two horses with one back side makes sense right unfortunately it doesn't stop people from trying the president authorized or part of a fence is not something that is acceptable for our friend certainly over the specter

journalist and academic in lahore joining us via skype akhmed rushy to rise to an author on the book taliban militant islam oil and fundamentalism in central asia and in london nadia relief and protection manager at amnesty international a very warm welcome to all of you thanks for being here with us on inside story first was give an idea of what's actually happening in pakistan at the moment where the protesters may have ended their citizens but are they going to be coming back out onto the streets. well i think it's. much deeper roots that the question of religious tolerance. the government apologized about the role. that it took a change the wording. to learn about. the cumulation a program to build up to the election next year. in the. mental part. of the corporate military united of course but there's a lot of speculation that some of the party that been. military particularly. the leader. of a militant group that piped in kashmir i was responsible for the mumbai probing into. it made great from her correct and. it will be starting a religious movement also. group. this country by prote

host: how powerful is the taliban today? about the land it has taken back, do you want to put it that way? the : well, that is one of significant findings of our latest quarterly report. the taliban have increased, this i will say - largest, most control they have over the country, we identified quarterly report this year. it's hard to identify because areas they control, districts they control and then districts they have influence on. likewise, same thing for the government. data ght now, i think our is that as of august, 2000 17, 54 districts under insurgent control, increase of six districts over the last months. so about 3.7 million afghans, the population. now live in districts under influence.ontrol or north korea general nicholson wants to retake that territory in two years, realistic? eked guest: it could be done, it will be a hard job and a hard task, new strategy on that and he has additional training and he has additional authorities, so we are, again, cautiously optimistic. we will -- my job is basically referee

he served two tours of duty in afghanistan, right on the front lines in the war against the taliban. he's been a tremendous figure in support of veterans charities, including the walking with a wounded, a charity he was a founder, the infected us, and so prince harry's popularity if the british public has soared in recent years. he is really seen today as a born leader. i think there is tremendous celebration in the u.k. over today's announcement. >> shannon: a lot of broken hearts now that it's official. he apparently is moving forward with an american, which makes us -- listen, we are interested in this. not everybody but a lot of us, we like to watch the royals, we think it's interesting. she'll become a duchess. it's a lot of fun to watch. both of them talked today. i want to play a little bit of what meghan had to say about the queen. >> it's incredible. i think, you know, a, to be able to meet her through his lens, not just with his honor and respect for her as the monarch, but the love that he has for her as his grandmother, all of those layers have been so important for me, s

here, the taliban and the insurgency gets most funding from the drug trade f. we don't do anything about that, we'll win. host: in the report, before we get to calls, you have status of here and headline connol reconstruction pipeline, $120 billion dollars afghanistan relief and reconstruction. you have a chart here breaking everything down. to our viewer what is we're looking at here and what significance is. guest: that particular chart ries to break down just the reconstruction number. if you look at the war fighting, figure think the higher you have quoted, comes from brown and harvard university, is about $sec700 billion. reconstruction, money spent to pay salaries of afghanistan and civil d police servants, that is to build oads, pay salaries of civil servants, build clinics etcetera, that is what that down tshows how much money is for security ssues, about $70 billion of that $120 billion goes to the police and the security forces military and then the rest aid, to humanitarian civilian operations or 2k3w06ernance. host: what is your sense coming the rec

led invasion that marked the end of taliban power there. former afghan president hamid karzai thank you for being here at headquarters and bonn after more than sixteen years of u.s. and nato forces being in your country how would you describe the security situation the security situation unfortunately is and what we desired for years the greater part of the country under the control of the local intell forces and violence is on the rise and on the increase of sixteen years for compared against extremism and terrorism we still have new. terrorist groups emerging in afghanistan die shows him or. we have a question as to. why donald trump the current us president has decided to send more troops to afghanistan and in the past you have said that you oppose this idea but in two thousand and nine when the troops in afghanistan were increased you were president then so what has changed i opposed it then too if the u.s. presence in afghanistan contributes to the safety oh and security of our people contributes to bringing peace to afghanistan contri

>>host: how powerful is the of taliban u today?. >>guest: that is one of the significant findings of the report that the taliban has the increase of the most controlled have over the country that we identified in the quarter of the report this year. it is hard to identify the areas they control the districts that they control to have influence, on. but right now addison of an increase of nine districts over the last six months so 3.7 million afghans now live-in districts under insurgent control. >> and now trying to take 80 percent ofte that territory back. is the realistic?. >> it could be done it is a hard job and a hard task but there was of a strategy on that with troops for training and additional s authorities. so again we are cautiously optimistic so basically the referee i am here to see what happens in a report on that and we are optimistic. >> good morning. there are a few issues. i get my a information from college professors to keep my eyes open so the clinton machinecc suppose of the wine and dine the the taliban to get

and since the taliban, we had development projects in afghanistan and we did have a number of scaled assets to come to their workforce and market. and we do have, households gave access to our education inside and outside the country. decides that, the technology is one of the main competence for business development in his country so now they afghan women have access to technology using the small health phrase so one of those abilities that we do have in afghanistan is that afghan women are not able to speak other languages either past june or something but now they are. [inaudible] and they can talk in different languages and can access international markets easily.so what the challenge is in afghanistan is with the private sector so of course we do have the challenges that access to finance because you do need to provide the number of banks and county to get the access of finance and then there is also some cultural things in afghanistan that we are not able to get a good project or a approaching easily with the government of afghanistan so we do need to do more hard work to reach

he fought the taliban in afghanistan. hats off to him. that's all i can come up with right now. >> kimberly: he served his country in the military. juan, you are into food. i don't know if you would like this tidbit. the royal couple said they were roasting a chicken on a cozy night at kensington palace when this happens. >> jesse: they are just like us. >> kimberly: just like us. i was impressed by that. >> juan: do you think they were personally roasting the chicken or having it roasted? i am all for it. i thought the most interesting thing i read about this with prince harry said he had gone to his brother and expressed how many years, he said to have been 20 years. his mom princess diana died when he was 12. that he was emotionally locked up and conflicted and he wasn't really able to love or speak to people or do his best work and that he went into therapy, three years of therapy. it's helped him a lot. i think he credits that part with allowing him to be emotionally open to falling in love. that's great. the second thing that intere

growth in taliban controlled areas? now they're doing it to finance it because they can't get but the primary financing back there was to pakistan and iran and iraq in different areas. there were trying to play their own political gains within the taliban. so now we are being told that the taliban were the ones who started the opium issue. i truly believe it was marketine plans from insurance industries right from the start. chief narcotics. now they've got major portion of america basically hooked on opioids to the doctor's office is mostly, and now being told it's a different story. correct me if i'm wrong, was the taliban against drugs and alcohol and does the taliban about opium growth in their controlled regions before 9/11? >> guest: for a brief time the taliban stop the production of opium. i think they did it for political reasons. he wanted to get recognition by the international community. the taliban at the time was a government. so they could raise funding, raise money through various and sundry methods. but

survive and you know if they're religious suddenly invaded by or turned into a training camp for the taliban you know the drones are actually a good thing so i think it's important to kind of realize the complexity of the place and. yet at thirty the u.s. senate runs that have come in our innocence in this but i think in general ward singers that you know some people don't like the imagery because it reminds them of the constant conflict their countries don't and since the late seventy's the final theme of the exhibition not only looks at destruction of thousands of homes by nato was in the middle east but the mental and physical damage done to the soldiers who are returning home after fighting for tony blair and george bush jamal penn twenty is an iraqi kurdish artist whose piece looks at the legacy of saddam hussein i did this project get to show the war gun show the people there are not in by killing only forgot because the system and the ideology of saddam was inside the people and also in the psychology of the people by saying after said there is money as there saddam's you can do same

afghanistan --in during the taliban, we did not have access to education. we had so many good development projects in afghanistan, a good to comef afghan females into the workforce. household women got access to higher education inside and outside the country. the mainy is one of components for business development in this country. afghan women have good access to ,echnology using smartphones wi-fi. we do have the language barriers that afghans are not able to speak other languages than their home language. but they can build skills and have access to international markets. the challenges for afghan women access tovate sector, finance. we need a good number of bank guarantees to get access. also, we are not able to get good projects from the government of afghanistan, so more hard work needs to be done to reach those opportunities. transportation is also one of our targets. women did not get access to transportation easily. i cannot even travel to other evennces -- could not travel to other provinces of afghanistan. the taxation is also one of the biggest p

. >> we do know there is a taliban strong hold about a kilometer from here at the base of these mountains. >> across the world, people watching this broadcast are celebrating. how do you feel? [ cheering ] >> the insurgents have finally amassed there are attacks inside. >> fire! >> come on, hustle up! grab it and get ready! ooh! >> these are locals here who are handing out whatever they have and you can see the children of families running to collect international aid organizations are trying to take a more organized approach. ♪ ♪ >> it's really want a matter of if, but probably when when it comes to north korea. >> we have little aziza. she's not happy because she says her father got left behind. [ shots fired ] >> they're opening fire on targets below. they're protecting the helicopter, but it's terrifyingly intense. they are traumatized after a week trapped on the mountain. the problem is we're flying over isis front lines. this is the only protection we have right now, the aircraft and its precious cargo. >> all of a sudden this area filled with smoke. there is concern there may b

in afghanistan eleven soldiers have been killed in two taliban attacks in the west and south east of the country now the latest in a series of attacks by militants and terror groups in the country casualties amongst afghan soldiers have been on the rise since nato and its combat mission in twenty four to discuss the situation and afghanistan that was. sat down with afghan president hamid karzai a former afghan president hamid karzai thank you for being here at the headquarters and bonn after more than sixteen years of u.s. and nato forces being in your country how would you describe the security situation . the security situation unfortunately isn't what we desired for years the greater part of the country under the control of known cold until forces and violence is on the rise and on the increase of sixteen years for compare against extremism in terrorism we still have new. terrorist groups emerging in afghanistan has emerged. we have question as to why donald trump the current us president has decided to send more troops to afghanistan and in the past you have said that you oppose

host: how powerful is the taliban today? about the land it has taken back, do you want to put it that way? the : well, that is one of significant findings of our latest quarterly report. the taliban have increased, this i will say - largest, most control they have over the country, we identified quarterly report this year. it's hard to identify because areas they control, districts they control and then districts they have influence on. likewise, same thing for the government. data ght now, i think our is that as of august, 2000 17, 54 districts under insurgent control, increase of six districts over the last months. so about 3.7 million afghans, the population. now live in districts under influence.ontrol or north korea general nicholson wants to retake that territory in two years, realistic? eked guest: it could be done, it will be a hard job and a hard task, new strategy on that and he has additional training and he has additional authorities, so we are, again, cautiously optimistic. we will -- my job is basically referee

guest: well, it has been 16 years since the taliban was overthrown and the u.n. brought in a new government, which officially took

and also training them to work to fight against the taliban. another thing they are doing is trying to expand and professionalize the afghan air force. the united states has provided many aircraft. they are in the process of bringing in more than 150 black hawk helicopters to train afghan pilots to fly them in a combat field. and a number of other things. one thought is by adding more troops, they will be able to advise afghan troops at a more basic level and in the field, so to speak. it will be mostly advising and training rather than engaging in direct combat, but working much more closely at a lower level with afghan forces themselves. nother priority, which does directly involve the troops but is a top priority for both the afghan and the american governments is improve the leadership of the afghan military, particularly fighting corruption and poor management at the top of the afghan defense forces. plate. very full again, a remains to be seen how far it is going to go. certainly, the u.s. and afghanistan are very much on the same chart a

guest: well, it has been 16 years since the taliban was overthrown and the

going to the taliban. if that is a serious problem. if that is the -- that is the proverbial elephant in the room. we are never going to win in afghanistan if we don't focus on the whole narcotics problem. host: john will be with us in 25 minutes. at our facebook page, charlotte's -- charlotte writes "leave, we have only spent -- suffered 2400 dead. the syrians are bombing the taliban so we can build a pipeline where we pretend we care about the links to terrorism. we got into a real fine mess." "as an afghan american, i would like to give two options. afghanistan definitely needs the u.s. to stay there. they have not been able to stabilize the country and they have countries like pakistan and iran as their neighbors and they want afghanistan to be unstable for their own interest. if the u.s. leaves, afghanistan will go down. " scott is calling from west virginia. what is the name of your town? caller: rothenberg, west virginia. give us your opinion on afghanistan. caller: if we want to put starta first, w

i looked up to al-qaeda, the taliban, anyone that was trying to protect muslims, protect the honour of muslims. what made me particularly depressed about 7/7 was that shahara islam was on the bus. and she had been a classmate of mine in my lower class. i just thought it was very unfair that somebody should lose their life that young. an innocent muslim dies and an innocent non—muslim dies. that was how we justified it. it's wrong but that was the way of thinking back then. by the time of 7/7 she was married to john georgelas, he was an american convert she had met online. he was clearly intelligent, he was charming, he was my first love, and we were best friends. my way of contributing was raising sons that would grow up to be in the mujahideen army or scholars and academics, i wanted them to contribute to the cause. they moved to the united states and had children. after the arab uprisings in 2011, the family moved to egypt. john thought it was an ideal place to raise their sons as jihadists but tania was starting to have doubts. one day for some reason one of my sons came in with a

russia, that putin has been very aggressive, certainly in the middle east, in south asia, by arming the taliban, in our own backyard in latin america. he's on center stage right now and it's of great value to him, for sure. >> daniel, there was a business insider article written about two days ago, and it suggests that a u.s. intel official warned israelis that putin had, quote, leverages of pressure on president trump. do you buy this? and what does this mean? >> i read that, as well. and i'm at a loss to explain it. i mean, it's just so out of the norm for something that any intelligence official would ever discuss with a foreign lnz partner. we just wouldn't do that. so, i guess we just need to hear more about, you know, what was said. i would like to hear about maybe who the person was, but i found the whole report quite odd and ? do you have any sort of insight on it at all? >> you know, if you watch president trump's behavior over the last year and a half, he is rude and belligerent and belittling of just about anyone he comes in contact, with one exception. and that's vladimir putin, who

is cases the taliban the afghan government and the u.s. military as for the last of these the prosecutor's office has revealed dozens of instances of torture and ill treatment allegedly carried out by u.s. forces members of u.s. armed forces appeared to have subjected at least sixty one detained persons to torture cruel treatment outrages upon personal dignity one site notorious for abuse in afghanistan is the cia salt pit prison described by the media as a sadistic dungeon with barbaric conditions where torture reigns with little oversight the cia actually referred to it as enhanced interrogation techniques which included sleep deprivation isolation cold showers and rough treatment. so what are the chances the i.c.c. will eventually bring the u.s. military u.s. officials or the cia to justice actually zero the i.c.c. was created in one nine hundred ninety eight by the rome statute with the us among signatories but in two thousand and two a year after the us invaded afghanistan the bush administration with the true from the treaty i signed

in afghanistan, the taliban is still strong. they have not been defeated the way isis has been. host: general nicholson said they want to roll it back in a two-year timeframe, is it feasible? guest: put this way, it is the reichel. general john allen, -- it is right. general john allen endorsed term strategy and said, do not think of this as trying to win the war overnight or defeat the taliban category weight, that is -- categorically. but if we can reverse the momentum. government of afghanistan held probably 75% of the territory and population centers. now it is down to 60%. still all the big cities but not all the big roads and on the countryside. in thendline has been wrong direction, which enables a lot of the bad guys and pakistani intelligence to keep supporting the taliban. we have to help convey that they will hold on cannot be defeated and once that occurs, which i think we can do by using our air power more assertively, i think a lot of actors may reassess their incentives and their own calculus about where this is headed, so there could be a virtuous cycle. that is

al qaeda has confidence we know from many reports moving back into afghanistan with the taliban and they may not have been wmds in iraq but incontrovertibly we know al qaeda was pursuing before 9/11 multiple research and development efforts that were compartmentalized, that often competed against one another in biological, radiological and even nuclear. nuclear was not even in the half-baked round but for that reason i think some of these leopards have changed their spots. if they can gain any of these weapons, they would use them. as i said earlier, revenge and retaliation. we've killed a lot. we've killed any number of fathers, uncles, cousins, wives. al-zawahiri's wife was killed in an airstrike. their desire to do revenge, the desire to reverse the progress that we've made in the war on terrorism burns larger for any of these groups that can gain access to those weapons , i don't have any doubt. two data points. fortunately , they were four years ago so we don't know if their ongoing but in may 2014, really unrelated, in turkey, turkish police arrested what was then emerging as the a

the other criminal gangs as international terrorist organizations such as we do isis, al qaeda, the taliban, get these people off the streets, out of our communities, jail them at guantanamo or some place safe until we can get them into the courts and get them removed from our country. we need to do a lot more. i commend the president for what he has done so far. we need to secure our borders completely. and we need to wage war against these criminal gangs. griff: sheriff, thank you for taking time and your officers being out there every day. thanks for taking the time. >> thank you. griff: the mainstream media spending yet another week bashing president trump. >> the president off the rails because he isn't getting enough. >> he is infested and an entire national party. griff: american people are entire of it says a new poll. whys does the media keep up with this unhinged coverage? you know how so many people can't keep their cool? >> call me elf one more time. >> he's an angry elf. [laughter] griff: turns out, being angry can be really bad for your health. we are going to tell you all abo

and heavenly hopes taliban has spelled salvation for a belgian church. we begin with dino told mix ups which is literally explosive the croatian born artist runs a tattoo shop in no way and is already known for his expressive pencil drawings but now he's added a spark to his art instead of using a pen he paints with gunpowder with his fiery wook he's lit up instagram and has almost half a million followers tony has created some stunning portraits but he also uses the medium to raise awareness for environmental and health causes however he says his biggest goal is to bring people together through his paintings sounds a little bit like a campfire. better lungs burning on canvas than real ones burning from tobacco smoke fans are viewed this video around seven million times on instagram. and this burning lion spread through the internet like wildfire. both other creations of dino tomic an artist living in norway. he makes art with gunpowder. he carefully arranges the blank grains of gunpowder and then sets fire to them. and the image burns itself into the pa

with bin laden's associates into the mountains of afghanistan which at that time was controlled by the taliban. >> a year ago bin laden took refuge here in afghanistan. afghanistan is perhaps the only country in the world that will accept him. >> for his first television interview, he figured he'd have a world audience. >> mr. bin laden, you have declared a jihad against the united states. can you tell us why? >> the arrogance of the united states regime has reached the point that they occupied arabia, the holiest place of the muslims, who are more than a billion people in the world today. >> what are your future plans? >> you'll see them and hear about them in the media. god willing. >> on the 8th anniversary of the u.s. deployment in saudi arabia, osama bin laden's forces bombed two american embassies in grosso. >>> the building behind the embassy crumbled into a tangled mass of steel, a passing bus, its windows blown out, people on board, blown up. >> almost simultaneously, 450 miles away, another deadly blast, the target, tanzania. >> the attacks become the hallmark of al qaeda demonstrati

accusing them of failing or in fact allowing pakistani soil to be host for the haqqani network and taliban just as he launches what he describes as a pronounced a new strategy for winning winning in afghanistan a winning strategy that the president hasn't quite spelled out but certainly regards pakistan is not a cooperative partner in that venture the pakistani interior minister just a couple of days ago said that he was pledging that that the government was committed to not allowing its soil to be used for violence against any other country and that that is something that the american administration simply does not believe and as a result the it in keeping with that position the troubled ministration has been making their references and their overtures to india asking the indians to be more engaged in the afghan fight even more irritating for the pakistanis to africa was the ball was full of finance ministry ignatius is in custody accused of corruption and he appeared in court today after the new president was sworn in as lawyers say that he's been mistreated but the police to do this und

the taliban have infiltrated afghan forces in the past. in june, 7 person soldiers were wounded. three were killed by an afghan soldier. >> the biggest threat to u.s. forces is green on blue or afghan on u.s. forces. >> reporter: that's where guardian angels come. service members whose job is to watch over any gathering of nato and afghan troops. >> the guardian angels provide security for advisor counter parts to advise. >> reporter: in southern afghanistan half are nato guardians. >> we're bringing in a new u.s. army unit. these will be advisors embedded in the brigades and italians similar to what we've been doing with special forces for the last two years. >> reporter: a third of u.s. deaths this year have been inside jobs. for guardian angels that means keeping body armor on and staying vigilant inside the wire. >>> it was an emotional day in argentina where relatives aboard a missing submarine held a demonstration in support of the crew members. the submarine has been missing for ten days with 44 people on board. the president of argentina says an international search will

the taliban have forces in the past. in june, seven american soldiers were wounded in northern afghanist afghanistan. three americans were killed in a separate incident in eastern afghanistan. >> the biggest twlet currently is green on blue or afghan on u.s. forces. >> that's where guardian angels come in. benjamin ransom, whose job it is to watch over any gathering of nato and afghan troops. >> the guardian angels advise the ana. >> in southern afghanistan, almost half the nato troops are guardian angels. they will need more to protect the soldiers president trump has deployed to afghanistan. >> we're bringing in a new unit called the security forces assistance brigade. these will be the advisers embedded in the afghan army, similar to what we've been doing with the special forces in the last two years. >> a third of the deaths have been inside jobs. forrd their body armor on and staying vigilant, even inside the wear. hans nichols, nbc news, khandahar, afghanistan. >> it was an emotional day in argentina, where relativ

al qaeda we know from many reports, moving back into afghanistan, the taliban and there may not have been wmd in iraq but we know that al qaeda was pursuing before 9/11 multiple simultaneous research antigovernment efforts that were compartmentalized and competing against one another, chemical, biological, nuclear, not even half-baked but it was serious. for that reason i think none of the leopards changed their spots. if they could gain, a second reason why they would use them. revenge and retaliation, we killed osama bin laden, any number of fathers, uncles, cousins, ayman al-zawahiri's wife and daughter, the desire to exact revenge, the desire to reverse the progress we made in the war on terror, large for any of these groups the gained access, two data points, four years ago, we don't know if they are ongoing or not but may of 2013 completely unrelated, turkish police arrested a cell of al qaeda arm in syria, a dozen men were arrested, sarah nerve gas they perfected and it was toxic enough to use, a weapon that was used in the 1995 attack, that was derailed so there is a clear re