Resignation of lebanons Prime Minister on saturday during a visit to saudi arabia. Beirut this wasnt just an opportunity to talk the meeting between the saudi king so man and saddam had eighty was as much an attempt to deny reports the lebanese Prime Minister had been detained by authorities in the saudi capital after he announced his resignation on saturday how did his political opponents have been suggesting how d. D. Was forced to step down and is under house arrest in riyadh how did his decision to quit as Prime Minister brought down lebanons Coalition Government a government that included hezbollah did blame hezbollah and its patron iran for meddling in arab affairs this plunged lebanon into a new political crisis and there are fears it may be at the forefront of the regional saudi iranian rivalry. And lebanon are divided into similar parties similar talks one is. And the other is this which means if things will be worth it means that can lead to confrontation between the two parties like what happened in two thousand and six two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and which can happen so thats why we should find a solution to keep or to save the decision. It might be a while before that happens lebanons president michel aoun has been meeting with representatives of the countrys security agencies he is supposed to be holding parliamentary consultations to appoint a new Prime Minister but the constitutional process is now on hold. We have been told by the president that we wont take any decision before know what the circumstances of how the reserves of nation from the Prime Minister himself. It will be hard to find a Prime Minister to replace her according to lebanons power sharing deal he must be a funny muslim and if internal stability is to be mentally he must be a consensual figure able to bring the rival parties together but this is not just a Lebanese Internal matter. The saudi minister for gulf affairs ephemera us upon says lebanon will no longer be the same after heady days resignation he says lebanese leaders have to choose between peace and terror in other words they have to move away from hezbollah a party that has allies members in government and parliament as well as an armed wing the risk of an open ended political crisis is real and with that lebanon risks again being a battleground for others wars senator al jazeera beirut. Shares and several saadi arabian businesses have fallen in the wake of a major crackdown on corruption the arrests are widely seen as an attempt by the crown prince to consolidate power u. S. President donald trump has voiced support for saudis and leaders tweeting i have great confidence in king saul man and the hamad bin month the u. S. For says its investigating how it handled the criminal records of the gunman behind Sundays Church shooting in texas twenty six people including children were killed when former Devon Patrick kelly entered the church and opened fire the air force says it failed to hand over information about kellys previous Domestic Assault charges to a National Database the United States and turkey have partially resumed processing visas the us stopped issuing visas in turkey last month after a local consular employee he was arrested in a stumble in response turkey suspended its own normal immigrant visas for u. S. Nationals it comes on the eve of his visit to the us by turkeys Prime Minister been alejandro. The u. S. President is on his way to south korea after wrapping up his first leg of his asia tour the Nuclear Threat posed by north korea dominated Donald Trumps discussions with japans Prime Minister shinzo are they both leaders agree the time for dialogue and what they call strategic patience is over and those were the headlines ill be back with more in thirty minutes next on aljazeera and its taliban oil to stay with us. We started this thing i know who the taleban were and i didnt know how radical they were or just what they were about. One of the things of the talabani as is their they didnt have a clue about oil and gas business the idea was was to bring him over and establish credibility with it with the polygon that we were a real company. Marty miller secretly invited a group of taliban leaders to unit cows headquarters in sugar land texas. No press covered the event. I have some the statues that i got in indonesia and there are figures of the people carved out of iron wood and the people are naked. And i had one of these professors islamic professors check my house out when he saw these things he said i dont think thats going to work with the dollars bond. So why would this you guys black trash bags in the eyes and put workers on the stuff thats already in the burkas on the statue. Marty miller was Vice President of oil company unocal. They wanted to build a huge oil and gas pipeline through taliban controlled areas of afghanistan. But how did these negotiations influence u. S. Foreign policy towards the taliban. Thanks. To. The Afghan Capital of kabul is preparing for a new era of Foreign Forces have mostly was drawn to Afghan Soldiers and police will now be responsible for security in the country. But in twenty forty five thousand of them were killed in battles against the taliban. But the taliban hasnt always been an enemy of the west today their former foreign secretary lives in a heavily guarded house in one of couples better suburbs. During the ninetys he was involved in discussions with the American Oil Company unocal. I will take my advice you in a. New just for action. Being one of the one jewish. That turns it into. A love as on who the whole for the world to be for those who commit it as the full he wants. It but the lady of etiquette like a high horse that i was at the out of it by the homeless but i said listen here i will have a place like you. Know if i do is that they think it will last a lot. Since the soviet invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine the country has been in a state of constant warfare. During the afghan insurgency the mujahideen received extensive weapon support from the United States and britain in their struggle against the russians. The soviet occupation ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. Two years later the soviet union full song collapsed. You know cows c. E. O. John imo song opportunity in the fall of the iron curtain. At the time the soviet union broke up and china opened up which happened more last sametime read a very senior guy. Kind of cruising the former soviet union to look for opportunities. We realize that turkmenistan had a huge worlds last gas reserves which were produced by the soviet union but after breaking up they were not produced any longer because russia had his own gas supplies to bring to market from siberia so turkmenistan was stock was reserves and no market. Unocal wanted to build two pipelines one for oil and one for gas the pipelines would go from to many stunned through afghanistan pakistan and india a distance of well over seventeen hundred kilometers Construction Costs would be close to ten billion dollars. Of gonna stun could earn four hundred Million Dollars per year in transportation costs which would more than double the afghan governments income at that time the whole area is just and in turmoil you know the pakistanis dont like the afghans afghans dont like the fact stan is the turkmen are skeptical of both of them and then youve got india and pakistan all a is just a mess in there. I think there was a power vacuum after the withdrawal of soviet forces under local rules foot of the territory in a for trusted civil war i. Realize. It is only. In the north people gathered around the Northern Alliance and its leader Ahmed Shah Massoud the socalled lion of publishers. In the south and east another Movement Began to assert itself in s. Nic past two new areas. They called themselves the taliban and was supported militarily by pakistan then in conflict with india. The pakistanis were trying to impose their will on the future of afghanistan and they wanted to ensure that afghanistan was not going to be a strong viable nation state that could in any way reconnect as they have in the past with india. Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad omar was a war hero from the years of insurgency against the soviet union. Pakistan decided it was going to assist Mohammad Omar in this group which had no name and what they provided was money and weaponry. Training ammunition trucks tactical advice and then eventually they provided the tal of the students religious students afghans and pakistanis getting what he came to be inserting sousing. Madrassa stoss was in the northwestern frontier province are joining going in the fight. Before becoming an attorney julie susan worked as an Intelligence Analyst at the pentagon who sources in afghanistan warned against you know cows close relationship with the taliban. Worldwide there was a very broad perception that unocal was wrecking with the u. S. Government to promote the taleban as the most likely source or at a stable single group in trolling afghanistan. And there was so i think and after all. Our hopefulness on the part of sound that if this pipeline could be put fairly it could be a source of stability or development for afghanistan and i personally dont like the idea that that stability would mean that the taliban would be in charge. With the civil war raging marty miller went on these first johnny into afghanistan. At the time there were six or seven war lords that were feuding with each other and it was you know if afghanistan was not a real safe place to be. The first thing i notice is the devastation. You counter reminded me of the pictures id seen of. Germany post world war two. Be a taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there one is stick of furniture in the house all the way we slept on the floor and i and i had to use kind a little traveling road show sort of thing course you dont have slide projector yank is there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts and showing some things and some just basically to describe the project and and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. In messages always if you guys will quit fighting with each other and form a government to get you in recognition that allows us to attract the world back to me to be financial. Then we may have a deal. But the taliban were on the offensive and drove the Northern Alliance concept of the cities of my zone in shoneys and to build. They dont control most of the country. Mohamed does not belong president during the soviet occupation had been spared by the Northern Alliance but the taliban showed no mercy not buddha was first tortured kus treated and then harmed alongside his brother. The execution was a clear sign of what kind of regime had seized power in kabul. Julie sirs travelled in secrecy took a bill in one nine hundred ninety seven in order to learn more about the new regime. I had gone into kabul when i was held by the taliban secretly basically dressed as as an afghan woman in a burka. They seemed very foreign to me certainly many afghans are conservative muslims but even among them they generally do not support the sort of extremism that the taliban stands for i see the taliban really as an alien force. Their attitude toward women or a number of human rights issues i found disturbing but i think it was that larger frame geopolitical issue of them being backed by the pakistanis that was most disturbing to me. When the time i came in to talk about it did you can do your own good but need to have a good experience with. The taleban man said bitterly just today its. Working studying learning in seminaries and the mother says they couldnt bear it was not capable to truth at the end of the day to nice the community that was the problem mark. Americas concern about afghanistan had been minimal before the unocal pipeline project but orland just negotiations spocks the Clinton Administrations interest in the country. Id probably go to washington d. C. Home once every six state weeks and i would typically meet with the state department the n. S. A. And cia. The cia was was very you know they have this shadowy image i guess you call of that i found very straightforward and very professional and i think the Clinton Administration was really committed to helping you know American Business miss obsessed. We enjoy and really strong support from us. You know crowd wasnt the only oil company that wanted to build. Pipeline in afghanistan auction time company bree dos was also trying to do a deal with the taliban. All but he does when his father and the meal was over the littlest of things off of the hands of. The duties of a no is this is the president had a lot of. From the guy kid who will come to the can deal with the results of that as. The taliban delegation arrived at unocal this headquarters in december ninety ninety seven. Martin came home one day and said would you thank about having a group of taliban and a delegation come to our home for dinner. Didnt know what to say at the time i had to thank it trailer and i was pretty naive maybe they come in and say how americans come in realize that were. Average regular people maybe it would you know be good for them to to do this and im great to do it. Carlin and marty miller did their utmost to avoid offending the taliban visitors and removed all the religious pictures and figures. But they did not remove the Christmas Trees the year that the taliban came to our house there was a Charity Fundraiser thing and we had seven Christmas Trees in our house and the tali just blew their mind they can figure out what that was all about and i think they were trying to. Make a connection between a Christmas Tree and the birth of jesus christ and you know you just try to make a religious can. Action with whats his Christmas Tree all about. And they never did understand that thing. As a whole there was to consider its going to depend on. These for going to church but the phone to the United States i would be i would be focused society and the progress to me. Knew i wasnt impressed and. Dressed in their newly acquired jackets the afghans visited one of you know cows off shore platforms. And fresh and i got is they were amazed they were stunned to see these platforms in the gulf of mexico over seven in like three hundred feet of water i think just the magnitude and the complexity of things and they were very well blown away by. The next leg of their journey to visit just to omaha nebraska where they match one of americas foremost experts on afghanistan Petroleum Resources the United States were trying their best to talk to the taliban who were obviously beginning to take over the whole of afghanistan this state department asked me to talk to the talibans and they brought them in here. And so this room instead of having guys in suits and ties like they always had before these were talabani and you know was skull caps and turbans and long beards and i really had a ok there afghans no problem and so i told him i showed him all this neat whiz bang a satellite imagery and stuff and if youre looking at our country yeah were looking at your country where you is and you can do this to show you how to do this or you need do is come over here and get educated in this stuff. The taliban teams journey ended in washington d. C. Where they met leading officials at the state department. The state department was still hopeful that this was going to be a part of a International Combined effort that would be profitable for unocal profitable for the afghans commercially and financially profitable for the afghans in terms of development and education profitable for the region. The tali bhangra interest in the project they were keen on making it happen they never did sign a Cooperation Agreement or anything like that because they were afraid to sign anything without knowing specifically the mullah omar was was behind it. There are hardly any pictures of the mysterious town a band leader. In these rare footage of him. Tries to hide behind a blanket. And i was in khandahar the first time he was there and they kept saying that they were going to go talk i think to ask if i could go seen and they said no no no its youre not seen of to see them all over our. You know khalid was in dialogue with the taliban about the pipelines another actor began to assert themselves in afghanistan with some a lot of. This song of a saudi construction millionaire was a local hero because he participated in the insurgency against the soviet union. He returned to afghanistan in nine hundred ninety six after having be forced to leave the sudan. Now he was preparing for a new war global jihad. Wayne started by capture the good hearted and consequently captured a couple using thousand and six the funked it was some of the not any nice colleagues eager so the time. To him to kandahar to be protected to. His arrival back in afghanistan coincided with my own to work with the un. Never met the salad a lot and i saw him once in the bazaar then as a convoy car passing by but i never you know we didnt labor he thing we didnt know each other were looking at the other so. That first year that he was in the area was the time when hes still in a fight his free lation ship was Mullah Mohammad omar. Natoma the rhythm of the. Shivers and out with. Well you make sure the movie showed up i want to thank you jeff gordon with the job but when im going to miss you more when the interview took on the whole ill miss the cut what. In afghanistan marty miller and unocal how did the cia did the training of local workers who were to be employed on the socalled peace pipeline. Wed like to hire locally so we had Employment Opportunities for the afghans in fact one of the things we didnt khandahar as we established a Training Center we found an old abandoned warehouse that we outfitted then we brought some equipment any a welding equipment. To those who were needed for the training. Without being aware of it marty me that had established his Training Center in the same street as a sawmill bin ladens house. And i never heard of the guy before i know who it was looking back on it. Kind of gives me the creeps think about i was acls to that guy. Was someone bin ladin was also busy building training facilities. Like the book itself or is it an innocent when theyre on line we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that u. K. 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Youre watching all of us there im still robin these are all top stories saudi arabia says lebanon will be dealt with as a government that has declared war against it it follows the resignation of lebanons Prime Minister on saturday during a visit to saudi arabia the saudi minister for gulf air said the lebanon based iran backed Group Hezbollah has committed acts of aggression. Has been accused of launching a Ballistic Missile from yemen targeting the saudi capital on saturday the Saudi Foreign minister says the missile fired from yemen was supplied by iran meanwhile hutu rebels in yemen are warning saudi and their arti airports are within firing range and could be targeted next. Year you know what. We call on all passengers an airline not to be at any saudi o. U. A airport at their legitimate military targets for our missile and we shoulda nor responsibility after such a warning the continuation of the aggression against the forces is to search for strong and diverse ways to respond to such aggression and to tear it. Shares in several Saudi Arabian businesses have fallen in the wake of a major crackdown on corruption the arrests are widely seen as an attempt by the crown prince to consolidate power u. S. President donald trump has voiced support for saudis leaders tweeting i have great confidence in king solomon and mohammed bin sole man the u. S. Air force says its investigating how it handled the criminal records of the gunman behind Sundays Church shooting in texas twenty six people including children were killed when former devon the Patrick Kelly entered their church and opened fire they were United States and turkey have partially resumed processing visas the u. S. Stopped issuing visas in turkey last month after a local consular employee was arrested in istanbul in response to the suspended its own immigrant visas for u. S. Nationals and it comes on the eve of a visit to the u. S. By turkeys Prime Minister in alejandro. The u. S. President is on his way to south korea after wrapping up his first leg of the asia tour the Nuclear Threat posed by north korea dominated trumps discussions with japans Prime Minister shinzo abbe both leaders agree the time for dialogue and what they call strategic patience is over and ill be back with more news in thirty minutes to stay with us here on aljazeera. Osama bin ladin was busy building training facilities. Bin laden eventually became responsible for organizing the flow of foreign fighters between chechnya bosnia and the arab world for the taliban these soldiers were useful reinforcements in the fight against the Northern Alliance this enabled bin laden to strengthen his alliance with the taliban and to recruit soldiers for his holy war on the western world. But first. Yes it is this healthy young man right here on. The surface that lets you know from the album from. What i can buy over there you know if you put the hood on and. On the seventh of august nine hundred ninety eight a bomb exploded at the u. S. Embassy in nairobi. Similar tenuously a bomb detonated in neighboring tanzania two hundred twenty four people died in these terrorist attacks and more than four thousand were injured. Ill call you to trademark was established serial attacks triggered by suicide bombers. I dont think i was terribly surprised when i heard about what had happened because bin laden was there he was able to do it from afghanistan and he was being protected by the taliban. The young spy wanted to learn more about bin ladin and visited his enemies the Northern Alliance it was a perilous journey on horseback. Along by roads. My interest is what was going on in the n. T. Top on areas because that was the area where we did not have a lot of the information in my stance from back in washington is that a lot of officials and policy makers were just writing off the resistance to the taliban. She met Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Masood who asked for support from the west in the fight against the taliban and al qaida. During her visit go to unique insight into what was to come. Northern alliance prisons were full of foreign fighters from several countries their goal was to participate in the global jihad. She was especially shocked by what the prisoners told her about the close relationship between pakistan the taliban and al qaida. Sood urgent he wanted to alert the west he wanted more people to know about the taleban and how they were interacting with bin ladin in. The size that we were opposing bin laden that we should really realize that he and the taliban were sharing the same goals and resources in funding. But judy says report was not well received by her bosses at the pentagon. The state department was even more annoyed people were saying they were very upset about my trip and i was told i simply wasnt going to be able to stay and that they werent going to give me my security clearance back so essentially they fired me. The Clinton Administration continued in its efforts to influence the taliban regime. And we were in the middle of trying to. Get them to modify their behavior and im a believer and you talk to your friends and your enemies talking is not acceptance of those practices. From day one clinton is trying to push back and first you know control and then pressure the taliban regime into change and of course that escalated once a son of bin laden is less sedan and went to afghanistan and i nine hundred ninety six the bombings of ninety eight were conducted from there so it was very much on the forefront. The problem of Osama Bin Laden stood in the way of any agreement about future oil and gas pipelines. He had declared war on america and this on the ten years bombings of our embassies in tanzania and kenya really put us on a war footing with a sound in line and from that point on we were actually trying to to kill him. On the twentieth of august nine hundred ninety seven president clinton ordered the launch of cruise missiles against several ill call you to bases in my country stop. Four of the bases were destroyed in all twenty five you dont parade just were killed but you saw bin laden himself escaped i remember when president clinton sent some cruise missiles and afghanistan. I just thats when i told. My boss in the board of directors it was time that this this one got to go anywhere any time soon. About point you know cow withdrew from the park blind project but the french Intelligence Analyst. Argues that the idea of an oil and gas pipeline lived on. You know states what was fixing. They were pressuring the taliban to release bin laden. By negotiating about the pipeline the same sign the taliban were thinking they were calling the United States about midnight and by discussing with them i think. A mile mark the pipeline issue wasnt leverage in preserving his country from us tryst and avoiding to take a decision on midnight and. Osama bin laden was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. A strategy memo from bin ladens close aide to mohammed ought to have was found to join the investigation of the nine hundred ninety eight east Africa Embassy attacks this memo written by Mohammed Attas it states clearly that as far as a tie down where maintaining relationship in some way with American Business is over his project or u. S. Diplomats. And their security a tighter security guarantee. The terror attacks against the east african embassies tasted the relationship between the taliban and the al qaeda leader. His president going to. Making a big part of that if. They get in there in the early between a kind of sign and then my stomach meeting. A lot of. If you had to pick a pedestal to be part of it was she was a victim of that absurd idea of there was a blog you could get over sid valuable no baseline near zero thoughts but the kind you oh by the way those shooter was on thursday. The gee it kind of letter you know. And just sort of figured it was just as you were just on the saudis have been there but you know. The men found or sometimes you call the father you know someone has flown in from with another brother for the if you lose a he also knows and it is. Towards the end of the ninetys the pipelines were no longer on the agenda or in talks between the u. S. And the taliban. The u. S. Asked thirty times for Osama Bin Laden to be handed over but the taliban gave no clear answer the tox went essentially nowhere in the taliban the more we would close and the more they push back the more we push them on alqaeda expelling a salad bin laden they more they would face facts. They just got more designed. To keep. Not follow in the to be a teacher you talk to no man no or the honey you. Tell your bottle. For them that you know that nobody. I mean those up in the bush will reach one hundred not for you but your way nor the tell you one of the dogs for the company. When george w. Bush came to power in two thousand and one he renewed attempts to get bin ladin extradited and get started with the construction of the oil pipeline. By that unit. It was out of the picture but others tried to revive the plans. W. Bush he had this direct connection with the oil industry and he was to try to be more persuasive with the type of. Ill call you made a special documentary about the prelude to september the eleventh. American born adam gadahn is the films narrator an attack on afghanistan have been found for a long time the americans are boiling mad about a number of things the Islamic Emirates domination of Strategic Energy reserves as well as the route of a proposed gas pipeline from the caspian sea. And most of all its refusal to hand over osama. In berlin in july two thousand and one a final dramatic meeting about the taliban was arranged between representatives of the United States government and all the players in the region. At points during these talks theres a u. S. Representatives that will make this tomato and that will have entered the car because of holes in the carpet a bomb. The americans had informed their allies during a meeting in germany of their plan to invade afghanistan in the autumn before the first snowfall which is what the eventually did so we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike. I am i am. I am. I was there in nine eleven in new york it has already begun to end today and i found it their way tragic and tired out of the people of the United States ns and picked on by the way of being i was. Not beloved in this but i need. Not just on the above of the so i begin to get it that is that you want to beat each other i know or dont but it. By this time its an obvious juice. This initial words are there to tell you about us so to speak to. Cross over. The taliban offer to extradite Osama Bin Laden to a third country but now the americans have decided to remove both him and the taliban. On the seventh of october america and britain attacked. The Northern Alliance exploiting the resulting chaos and the taliban regime unraveling. On the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of kabul failed. With us backing canid karzai was inaugurated as president his brother i had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plant it was. Soon after nine eleven in a couple of moms suddenly we hear thats governments from the region got together and basically decided to revive the project. That means that even without knowing the fate of the guns that turned the stability all these countries ive come to the same conclusion they had reached before nine eleven the spy plane was pretty sure that. The interests. After years of war there is still no pipeline the taliban is back in strength and reluctant to negotiate about peace. They cost the kind of ongoing me who brought i knew going into that the title of democracy in the himalayas meant dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against they dont have been installed by the International Community is still going on. In the war against the taliban has made the building of the pipeline impossible. The afghan north also has some oil after the pipeline was shelved john ivo who had left unocal considered investing in an oil and gas project in mazar e sharif. Look at afghanistan the Political Risk is amazingly high theres a logic risk in the miss arias moderate but the reward part is also moderate when you put all that together and thats why its not an entrusting Investment Opportunity for a large company. The rigi only just to argue that the countrys Petroleum Resources are knowledge of them previously known. Afghanistan has the best geology in that part of the world for both Mineral Resources and hydrocarbons thats pretty spectacular why are they so poor theyve not been able for develop those resources first they didnt know about them and then the past thirty years of war nobody has been able to do much. One afghan who tried to develop the countrys Oil Resources and an early stage was King Mohammed zahir shah. After thirty years in exile he returned a lot of afghanistans old history has been forgotten. Mohammed zahir shah became king when he was only nineteen years old in one hundred thirty seven he gave the u. S. Firm inland Exploration Company exclusive rights to Oil Extraction in the Northern Areas of the country. They were also given the rights to build a sixteen hundred kilometer pipeline. But the Second World War put a stop to these plans. Older afghans recalled the kings reign as a time of peace economic progress the introduction of democracy and education for women. Kinshasa made new attempts to restart afghan oil and Gas Production in the fiftys and sixtys a series of test wells were drilled in the american soviet geologist mapped the countrys resources. Will join frodo was enough gonna stand at the end of the seventys as part of the atlas afghanistan project. He got a unique insight into the maps of Mineral Resources. There was one american geologist me and two hundred fifty soviet russian geologist. So when i left afghanistan in late Seventy Eight i was actually be ported by the communists who had taken over the government i left having sent my maps out of the country in a diplomatic pouch came back to the United States and i worked on the Mineral Resources in afghanistan ever since. West of mazower alshehri other remains of a canister finally from the soviet era. The plant is still in operation but no longer produces as much as when the russians were there. Mouthing about on the roof i dont understand. That whole. Shaft million goes down he hasnt passed. Passed through our. Solder mission. So why should i mean a. Lot. In two thousand and seven and experienced oil geologist rediscovered this area. He took previously worked for unocal but he now worked as head of the norwegian aid project oil for development he wanted to help afghanistan with a new oil more. Guided too long to his dissuaded from traveling to the north but with an armed escort he went anyway. At one gas plant he discovered a brick dont room where documentation of soviet oil and Gas Production had been hidden. Behind the secret wool lay old maps and seismic surveys that showed afghanistans oil and Gas Resources was significantly greater than the outside world was aware of made his decision and i felt there was so much all that on the air this is ultimately a sister. Or the mask in the eye was below the top or shift to the old fourteen years after thirty and a lot of them did in the midst of a lot of the order. The Administration Offices for oil and gas in Mazar I Sharif allocated in old soviet buildings. Chief engineer mohammed to john attardi has made it his lifes work to preserve the dusty archives. Several times he saved maps and documents from destruction. Lavoy million i thought you could come and i got on the ground and here at home i will model no one can not be forgotten by water young girls so forth and. There i was young good hard time going to any other girl didnt shut down after how much you can do you know how i dont know hardly any and she asked me how much of a mind he really knows when the last year only last night a lot of yes oh my gosh he is american not like a young girl letter he could have knowledge no knowledge if. Any muslim. Oh you dont know i dont i dont know what i want on behalf of the majority. Leader and. Despite little money and poor health i have tardy has systemized to finals and preserve the valuable data for the future i dont know one of the rugby league i love it or going to are they not wanted or india could make about what he did i know no. Doubt about it i but i reckon youre right i mean theres just not a need no more no no no no no please. You may have to be on the way mad mad cow but hell be good at what all morning long we will get those coming out he could come for china. Or whatever you think that. The United States once hoped for peace pipeline would unite the warring parties in afghanistan they still do amazingly enough they still want to build it. Americas arch enemy iran also wants to build an oil and gas pipeline to india tehran is in a hurry the aim is that a new peace pipeline should be completed in twenty seventeen. But again it has to go through taliban controlled areas peace with the taliban is more important than ever. Was at risk of deja vu all over again its not impossible that the taliban would come back to power they are an element and theyre not going away and in order to have. I would say peace not necessarily have prosperity in afghanistan theyre going to have to be a part of that fabric of society the more you can bring them into the tent and encourage moderate elements to emerge the more stable afghanistan will be. Looking back i have to say i was terribly naive. Henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope over experience and that hit me right between the eyes and the borders a lot of content in that petty little comment i found it proved to be true. Welcome to look at the weather in the americas now across north america had an active cold front moving through still affecting the eastern seaboard there so washington seeing some cooler conditions moving in highs of just eleven and the risk of some showers to the southwest of looking pretty warm for Atlanta GeorgiaMiami Florida also a cooler conditions for dallas texas and the temperatures there for denver just one degree above freezing as we head on through into choose a denver see some sort of recovery taking place so pretty chilly across more northern parts of Northern Plains and into canada for calgary and winnipeg theres a maximum temperature of course low Pressure Center moving in towards the Pacific Northwest down into central parts of america few showers coming in off the caribbean so move northward so were going to see some brighter weather for much of mexico yucatan peninsula looking fine mexico city seen plenty of sunshine central islands across the Caribbean Sea some heavy rain so for his spine yet it could be quite wet at times cuba should be sticking in the Sunshine National confined northern parts of south america plenty of showers plenty of showers too across western parts of brazil and this frontal system is breaking out across parts of paraguayan through into reality should brighten up here from respecting highs of twenty four. Tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin this is precisely the moment where we hear allies that nothing worse first will be in the way the devastating impact to save the banks means also to save the deposits of in their recent history and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders are the people who needed to learn the less i go or from democracy to the markets at this time on aljazeera. This time the differences. And the similarities of cultures across the world. Aljazeera. This is aljazeera. This is the aljazeera news our life my headquarters here in there are coming