infrastructure not in the country with these potential strikes from the united states coming offshore or over the horizon and some other parts of the region and in counterterrorism what you require when you are looking for people or individuals as targets, you are trying to get very precise intelligence, and so when you are not on the ground, when you don t have that infrastructure in place it just makes it harder. it doesn t mean it s impossible but it is just going to increase the ability or complicate the ability of the united states to engage in those operations.- united states to engage in those operations. ok, we will leave it there. those operations. ok, we will leave it there. thank - those operations. ok, we will leave it there. thank you i those operations. ok, we willj leave it there. thank you very much forjoining us. it s notjust kabul airport where people have been gathering to try to leave afghanistan since the taliban took over the country. thousands have also travell
thank you very much for being with ours. ., ~ i. ., ., with ours. thank you for having me. it s notjust kabul airport where people have been gathering to try to leave afghanistan since the taliban took over of the country. thousands have also travelled to the border with pakistan, in the hope of getting out. but many aren t being allowed through. 0ur correspondent, shumaila jaffery reports from the afg hanista n/pakistan border. this is the border point. thousands of desperate families, trying to escape into pakistan. these are people who knew they had no chance at kabul airport. they are desperate to reach safety. but there is chaos here, too. just a few are being let across. these families left almost everything behind. with small children in tow, exhausted from walking in the baking heat, the elderly and sick pushed on wheelbarrows. as the taliban flag flutters at the border, people tell us they don t trust their country s
demonstrated when we took out some of bin laden in pakistan, and others elsewhere, all of those were taken out without the results of any troops on the results of any troops on the ground. our reconnaissance ability to strike direct targets anywhere in the world when a threat arises, we have that capacity and we have done it and we are going to continue to do it. having troops on the ground or having troops withdrawn, takes the target of their back. now we won t have any more of these kind of killings that we shall have the ability to reach out any time we identify a thread. it s notjust kabul airport where people have been gathering to try to leave afghanistan since the taliban took over the country. thousands have also travelled to the border with pakistan, in the hope of getting out via the land border there. but many aren t being allowed through. our correspondent, shumaila jaffery reports from the afg hanista n/pakistan border.