because they do not want to be seen to be running a government. that is failing catastrophically to the detriment of his own people. immediately, as soon as the taliban took over, it was pointed out by a lot of commentators that china and russia see opportunity in afghanistan? there are huge mineral resources, there's big marble deposits, - there will be no shortage of people queueing up to examine _ the opportunities there. i think one of the i other problems is... and i am no afghan expert, believe me, but one - of the things we have seen in terms of the conflicts we have seen over the past few decades, j the idea of a centralised government that knows exactly which bits, - what they are doing in the extremities. i some people have compared it. to a kind of narco gangster state, what have you, and certainly it is full of regional people . who often have different i agendas to anyone talking to the international| press at the centre. so the idea that you can reason. with one entity which has control over the whole country i think is a bit naive. _ mina, how concerned are...