President donald trump has warned north korea its nuclear and missile programs are putting it in grave danger trump has wrapped up his visit to south korea with an address to its National Assembly he emphasized the role of the u. S. Military in the region pushed a message of peace through strength and slam north koreas leadership as a cruel dictatorship filing not to be intimidated today i hope i speak not only for our country. But for all civilized nations when i say to the north do not underestimate us and do not try this we will not allow American Cities to be a threat with destruction we will not be intimidated aljazeera is Tony Berkeley has more now from salt. The change in tone was a little bit of a surprise from President Trump when he addressed the south Korean Assembly on tuesday his tone was more measured more straight he wasnt actually antagonizing the regime as hes done in the past with fire and fury speeches and threats to totally destroy north korea this time he was hard line in his comments he described north korea as a cult regime he said they were pursuing Nuclear Weapons for their ultimo ultimate objective and that is the total control over the Korean Peninsula and he said that america will not let that happen he was very clear about the strength of america he said that previous u. S. Administrations perhaps said allowed restraint he said restraint should not be seen as a sign of weakness that would be a miscalculation and he threatened that if any American Cities were attacked they would respond and he described the American Military might in the billions of dollars that the u. S. Is spending on its military hardware he criticized the north about life for people in great detail he said that people were living in misery he said the north is spending more money on statues and towers than it was on feeding its people he said people were starving there and he said they were good people and he did offer also a carrot he did say that there was a but better path that can be offered for the future but it begins with the denuclearization and the stop to the Antiballistic Missile Program well earlier trump was forced to abandon attempted visit to the korean Demilitarized Zone he tried to reach the area by helicopter but had to turn back due to bad weather the zone is the boundary separating north and south korea trumps now on his way to china. The u. S. Is calling on the United Nations to act against iran over the firing of rockets from yemen into saudi arabia on saturday a Ballistic Missile was launched toward riyadh from territory held by really in back to the rebels. The u. N. Has criticized saudi arabia as blockade of yemen calling it catastrophic saudi arabia has blocked all yemeni air land and sea ports in response to the missile attacks from across the Border International aid groups are calling on riyadh to provide access. And the u. S. State department is calling on saudi arabia to carry out its anticorruption drive in a fair and transparent way dozens of prominent saudis including leading businessmen and princes were detained in recent days as part of an investigation led by the crown Prince Mohammed bin sound man russia has rejected the findings of a un inquiry into a chemical attack in syria in april un investigators concluded the Syrian Government was responsible for the use of sarin gas in the rebel held town of honshu a coon more than eighty people died a third of those with children the democrats have won the governorships in two key u. S. States in whats being seen as a rejection of Donald Trumps policies democrat phil murphy took the swing state of new jersey replacing outgoing Republican Chris Christie and in virginia Ralph Northam will take over from a fellow democrat maintaining the partys hold in the state victories are a moral boost for the democrats have been term elections next year twitter is doubling the one hundred forty character limit that means longer tweets for all those struggling to condense their messages the boost to two hundred eighty characters will be available in all languages except japanese korean and chinese twitter says those languages were able to express more information in a single character than others those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after taliban oil that sort of battle. We started this thing i know who the taliban were and i didnt know how radical they were or just what they were about. One of the things of the talabani as is 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 taliban that we were a real company. Marty miller secretly invited to 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 was a mere 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 can see in a. New just four hundred. Im out of. Being one of the one jewish. That turns it in here for the i love my son who the whole thought it would be for those who commit it as a call he wants. It but the letter of it about a high winds that i was at it a little bit by the homeless but i said listen here i will have a place like you. Know if i there was 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 mujahedeen received extensive weapons 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 has sunk collapsed. You know cows c. E. O. John im a 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 and there. Was a guy there was a power vacuum after the withdrawal of soviet forces under local rules for all of the territories in a for tractate civil war i think i said. Because 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 was 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 all of Mohammad Omar and 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 being thirteen sousing. Madrassa stoss was in the northwestern frontier province. And 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 accounts 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. 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 his first johnny into afghanistan. At the time there were six or seven warlords 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. The counter reminded me of the pictures id seen out of. Germany post world war two. Be the taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there one a stick of furniture in the house and all the we we slept on the floor and i and i had a it was kind a little traveling road show sort of thing course you would have slide projector yank if 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. The message was 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. Mohammads not too long president during the soviet occupation had been spared by the Northern Alliance but the taliban showed no mercy not below was first tortured castrated 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 bullet 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 feel your own go back needed to have a good experience with you or me. To tell you my man said bitterly just today its. Working studying learning insanities and the mother says they couldnt bear it was not capable to true to their lives well the day to National Community that was the top of my. Americas concern about afghanistan had been minimal before the unocal pipeline project but one of them just negotiations spocks the Clinton Administrations interest in the country. Id probably go to washington d. C. Or 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 obsessing. We enjoyed and really strong support from us. You know crowd wasnt the only oil company that wanted to build. Pipeline in afghanistan option time company breed us was also trying to do a deal with the taliban. Well but he does when his father and the meal was over a little set of rules of the hands of. The duties of a no is this the president had to know not an oath was a form to cry kid will come to the can deal with the results of that as. The taliban delegation arrived at unocal 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 trail and i was pretty naive maybe they come in and say how americans coming realize that were. Average regular people maybe it would you know be good for them to to do this i am a great to do it. On a multi million 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 air 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 couldnt 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 that youre just trying to make a religious can. Action with whats his Christmas Tree all about. They never did understand that thing. As a whole there wasnt considered its two different from. Eastern culture but the fall into the enough says i worry i want to focus society and the progress toward me. Knew i was impressed on that. Dressed in their newly acquired jackets the afghans visited one of you know cals offshore platforms. And fresh and i got as 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 in the complexity of things that they were very well blown away by. The next leg of their journey to the visitors to omaha nebraska where they met 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 the 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 taliban and you know skull caps and turbans and long beards and i had to cater 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 all you need to 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 and 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 were hardly any pictures of the mysterious town a band leader. In these really have footage of him moma 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 i asked if i could go seen and they said no no no. Youre not seen short of to see them all over war. You know charlie was in dialogue with the taliban about the pipelines another actor began to assert themselves in afghanistan with sama bin laden. 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 sallade one cant check the good heart in consequence a concept called by using thousand and six he found it was some of the not any nice colleagues eager to see the taleban moved in to kandahar to be protected. As a rival back in afghanistan coincided with my own to work with the un. Never met this i will bet a lot of 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 solidified his relationship with Mullah Mohammad omar. Natoma the rhythm of the. There was a lot of work in those yugo. Well you know each of them which i dont i want to thank you jeff but it was the judge on the honeymoon. Most of all when the interview took on a whole almost a kind of 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 in some equipment any a welding equipment. Tools that 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 this is think about i was act most of that guy. Was someone bin ladin was also busy building training facilities. Discover the world of aljazeera. The best films from across on the network of channels for the like this is going to be good but theyre not going to be fresh perspectives and new insights. To challenge and change the way we look at the world. Cup. How does the real world at this time on aljazeera. Being located outside that rest of us. Tricks fair of influence to bring a different perspective to global and then. When you pay your way and lists a Covert Military in the financial document you see the people in those words and his policies are affecting. The emotional life faces the situation theyre living in. The u. S. Can identify with the story. I was told by the Pakistani Army to the americans and we got held in guantanamo the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u. S. Forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they had a paper that said they were innocent. Or talked or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. Of one tunnel no twenty two at this time on aljazeera. Hello im down in jordan in doha with a quick recap of the headlines here on aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has won north korea its nuclear and missile programs are putting it in grave danger trump has wrapped up his visit to south korea with an address to its National Assembly he emphasized the role of the u. S. Military in the region and pushed a message of peace through strength he slammed north koreas leadership as a cruel dictatorship not to be intimidated by today i hope i speak not only for our country. But for all civilized nations when i say to the north do not underestimate us and do not try we will not allow American Cities to be a threat with destruction we will not be intimidated when earlier trump was forced to abandon an attempted visit to the korean Demilitarized Zone he tried to reach the area by helicopter but had to turn back due to bad weather the Demilitarized Zone is the boundary separating north and south korea about to arrive in china. The u. S. Is calling on the United Nations to act against iran over the firing of rockets from yemen into saudi arabia u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley has called for necessary action to hold the Iranian Regime accountable for violations on saturday a Ballistic Missile was launched toward riyadh from territory held by iranian backed rebels the u. N. Has criticized saudi arabias blockade of yemen calling it catastrophic saudi arabia has blocked all yemeni land and sea ports in response to that missile attack from across the Border International aid groups are calling on riyadh to provide access fuel prices in yemen have increased more than sixty percent of cooking gas prices have doubled. The u. S. State departments calling on saudi arabia to carry out its anticorruption drive in a fair and transparent way dozens of prominent saudis including leading businessmen and princes were detained in recent days as part and best occasion that by the crown Prince Mohammed bin. Russia has rejected the findings of a un inquiry into a chemical attack in syria and april un investigators concluded the Syrian Government was responsible for the use of sarin gas in the rebel held town of handshake and. More than eighty people died i thought of those with children but those were the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera all the time about a stretch of time to watch. 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. The forces that are already here. But right here on. The surface are left out of the novel from. What i can buy over there you know if you think you can force it on and. On the seventh of august nine hundred ninety eight a bomb exploded at the u. S. Embassy in nairobi. Similar to a bomb detonated in neighboring towns and. 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 in what was going on in the n. T. Taught 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 so those are 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 and to emphasize that if we were opposing bin laden that we should really realize that he and the taliban were sharing the same goals and resources and 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 can jaw and then pressure the taliban regime into change and of course that escalated once a son of bin ladin left sudan 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 style. Four of the bases were destroyed in old twenty five you dont parade just were killed but you saw bin laden himself escaped i remember when president clinton sense 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 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 without him by discussing with him i think. A mile mark the pipeline issue was an average in preserving his country from u. S. Strikes 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 mohammed ought to have was found during 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 was with American Businesses over this project or us diplomats. And their security a tighter security guarantee. The terror attacks against the east african embassies tested the relationship between the taliban and the al qaeda leader. Has the president going to. Became a bank card at it. And they did in there in the early but when a kind of sign and then my stomach needed. A lot of. If you had to pick that pedestal to be part of it was she was a victim of thirty six or so you know sort of blood because you know sid valuable no baseline near zero affords by define you oh by the way you know she was there was one taxi. The gee it kind of that is you know. And just sort of together it was just as you were just on the saudis have been there but you know. There are the men found us and then to call the fire you from a Hunger Strike in front of the. Fire if you use that he. Said that 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 the taliban the more we would close and the more they push back the more we face them on alqaeda expelling us out of bin laden they more they would face facts. They just got more designed. To keep. Not in the to be teach you talk. No man no or the honey you. Tell your butt up. For them but you know that nobody. In those up in the bush will reach one hundred not to do but do away nor does any one of the dogs of 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 first visit 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 fined 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 would make this its amazing that well have enter the carbons 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 thirty nine and they were 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 and innocent victims by the way dang i was. Not beloved in this but i need. Not understand the above of the so i begin to tell you that the good stuff about to beat each other i know or dont but it. By this time some obvious juice. This initial words are there to tell you about us so to speak to. Cross over to. 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 attack. The Northern Alliance exploiting the resulting chaos and the taliban regime unravel. On the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of kabul failed. With u. S. Backing comic karzai was inaugurated as president his brother had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plan it was. Soon after nine eleven 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 guns that turns the stability all these countries at 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 class the kind of on government who brought a new government and the title of democracy in the himalayas but. They did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against they dont have it installed by the interNational Community is still going on. 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 most aria is moderate but the reward part is also moderate when you put all that together and thats why its not an entertaining Investment Opportunity for a large company. There are a geologist who argued that the countrys Petroleum Resources and 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. Mohammad 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 and american soviet geologist mapped the countrys resources. Will join frodo was enough. Afghanistan 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. As it passed saw. Passed through our. Commission. Why should i mean a. Lot. In two thousand and seven and experienced oil geologist rediscovered this area. Heated 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. Along 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 though there is so much all the time here this is ultimately existed. Well the mask in the eye was built of our ships the whole 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 we cannot cook and i got on the ground and here at home i will not. Know what i was going not because you got enough i was really young girls so when i think. That i was young good im not im going to cheat and any other girl didnt shut down after how much you can do you know how im not here yet she asked me how much are you might be in a night when the last year only last night a lot of yes i know not as he is american not like a young girl letter he called her the knowledge your knowledge if. Any muslim not a woman. 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 tarty has systemized the finals and preserve the valuable data for the future i dont know one of the rugby league i love talking to our very. Own got me going to haunt people i know no. Doubt about it i but i reckon youre right i mean theres just not a meeting no more no no no no no we. You may have to get on the plane mad mad come. Home we will give. Her. Everything that. The United States once hoped for the 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 to draw on is in a hurry the aim is that the 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. 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Hello there were seeing a fair amount of clouds and some rain over the middle east at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture is this weather system here gradually drifting its way eastwards and it has been giving us some fairly impressive rainfall totals more of them as we head through the next day or so behind it is not looking too bad forcing beirut maximum temperature around twenty four degrees and just dropping a fraction as we head through into thursday that weather system there doesnt really head very far even on thursday just working its way steadily towards the east working its way across the caspian sea there so back you can expect to see one or two more showers now here in doha no major changes for us over the next day or so were looking at a top temperature of around thirty two degrees so it really is quite pleasant at the moment for salada were also at thirty two but we do have this area of trout wet weather thats working its way towards us and it does look like its going to be rather gray and damp there as we head through thursday as we head down towards the southern parts of africa well here are active area of low pressure is now just drifting away towards the east so things are not drier than they have been so many of us then seeing some settled weather as we head through thursday twenty one degrees the maximum there actually matching the temperatures that were expecting to see in cape town most of the weather on our shot well thats in the far northern parts of our map here especially across. 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