kabul killed ayman al zawahiri. the taliban spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs says an investigation as to whether zawahiri was even in afghanistan is still ongoing. if it s determined that ayman al zawahiri was living here in kabul freely, what will the taliban leadership do about this? we will wait for the facts to come out before making decisions. reporter: but it is a problem if you do have the leader of a foreign terror group living within your borders, isn t it? that is absolutely a problem that the sovereignty of a sovereign state has violated. reporter: zawahiri s apparent death is a serious complication for the taliban leadership, which is asking for international recognition and access to global financial systems. following last year s takeover, the country s economy collapsed after the u.s. froze billions in assets, triggering what the u.n.
effort to get putin, who are you really destroying? you are destroying the united states. that is exactly what they have done. when you attack and destabilize the global financial systems, you are attacking and destabilizing the united states, not prudent. you cannot see this right now, because there s so much hysteria, particularly on social media, but when that hysteria lifts, when the cloud finally evaporates, it will be obvious at the biden administration s response to the invasion of ukraine is the single most damaging thing any american president has ever done to this country and to the world. not to speak to him, but to us. and a lot of countries that didn t deserve it. it is hard to see that now. but someday we will assess this moment with clear heads and when we do, we will be horrified. in the meantime, we were happy to talk to the chief economist at the u.n. pacific capital. he joins with his reaction to inflation. you wait to feel vindicated over something as horrible as
decades of war that ravaged europe before the international rule of order was put in place. we cannot go back to that. we cannot. the gravity of the threat is why the response of the west has been so swift and so powerful and so unifying, unprecedentedly and overwhelming, swift in puni punishing and costs are the only thing that will get russia to change its course. within days of his invasion, the west has moved jointly with sanctions to damage russia s economy. russia s central bank is now blocked from global financial systems, denying kremlin s access to the war fund it s stashed around the globe. we ve aimed at the heart of russia s economy by stopping the imports of russian energy to the united states. to date, the united states has sanctioned 140 russian oligarchs and their family members seizing their ill-begotten gains, their
decades of war that ravage europe before the international rule-based order was put in place. we cannot go back to that. the gravity of the threat is why the response of the threat has been so swift and so powerful and so unified, unprecedented and overwhelming. swift and punishing cost are the only thing that will get russia to change its course. within days of his invasion [applause] the west has moved jointly with sanctions to damage russia s economy. russia s central bank is now blocked from global financial systems denying kremlin s access to war and aimed at the heart of russia s economy by stopping import of russian energy to the united states. to date, the united states has sanctioned 140 russian oligarchs and family members seizing