Start this panel. L right, we aro we had a little technical difficulty, so what we will do we are going to play along here. Let me introduce my panel here to my immediate left is the founder and ceo of the afghan newspaper el triatos. Next to him as his brother, a freelance filmmalker and filmmaker and video editor. These are afghans living in the u. S. And covering afghanistan, everything whats going on there. Lets talk about some of the challenges you Face Covering afghanistan with the taliban in charge . Good afternoon. I am very happy, thank you for hosting this panel. I think a challenge and afghanistan to the media have a long history, when we started in afghanistan after 2021, there were many challenges. It was not supportive for artists and media in afghanistan. There were powerful people who had a big problem with the independent media, especially artists who were following corruption, pulling the government to accountability. So in 2021, there were a lot of journalists and it
Military reporters and editors conference, highlighting challenges of reporting on conflict zones. We were watching live coverage on cspan. What brought you there initially . So i had in my head that we should do a story first off, i should say i had an obsession that is probably selfdefeating for a reporter of always wanting to do the story other people are not focusing on. For instance, now everyone is focused on israel, focused on ukraine, and obviously i want to be focused on the things no one else is interested in, but i become stubbornly obsessed with things no one is paying attention to, and that was the case with niger. We went to benin first and were going to do a story of how the u. S. Military has a presence there, things people do not know about, military affairs, and then we were going to go to niger for the kinder, gentler side of what the u. S. Military is doing in that area, and we were going to show the Terror Networks converging on niger from all different sides with
Is snow on the way . We have a ring so makes it will turn into heavy snow through the northern mountains, down to the San Juan Mountains and to rather your pass up to one foot of snow tomoow, in town we have an increasing clouds and temperatures topping out in the low 60s this afternoon. It is a warm start to the day, a lot of melting snow this weekend from last week and we will see more today, the upper 50s to the low 60s, englewood 61. In brighton, 61. Heres your first alert, a chance for snow in denver tomorrow, more about that come their. Wolf creek pass and some of the places in taos southwest colorado affected by the shows. The tunnel looks okay take a look at arapahoe road under i25 that was after the weekend long closure that was planned through early this morning. But they got done early. Look at the overall map a lot of green, south west and east we will keep a close eye on that all week as we get closer and closer to holiday travelers heading out to the airport. At least 27
Good evening everyone. I am the Senior Vice President and it is my honor to host james and were doing this in partnership with the center for the study of the presidency and congress. Reword just talking upstairs wonderful things about the presidency and congress that was founded by the late david capture and he was a remarkable man who was well loved and he loved live to see the building which was terrific he started scsi as over 50 years ago and for years and with less opulent surroundings to say the least. We would be doing this in a basement with no windows windows, we never would have gotten here without david so it is an honor to be working with the center and of course, to have my friend James Kitfield here who has written another Remarkable Book you although his biography you dont have to read it one of the of best military reporters to work in this town one of the best authors and the respect of the people that he interviews and writes about one and his readers and fellow jour
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