the aid agency, doctors without borders, is voicing outrage over an apparent air strike on one of its hospitals in afghanistan. the attack saturday killed 12 staffers and 10 patients. they say it amounts to a war crime. the group is calling for an independent inquiry. meanwhile, the united states is trying to determine if an american gun ship is to blame. the u.s. defense secretary promising the investigation will be thorough and transparent. my reaction, i think, was the same that anybody s would be, which is that this is a tragic loss of life. your heart can only go out to innocent people who were caught up in this kind of violence. as far as the united states is concerned, and as far as our forces are concerned, that we be fully transparent about our
fully transparent about our investigation, and also that we hold accountable if there is someone to be accountable, anybody responsible for doing something they shouldn t have done. and they are demanding an independent investigation. on its website the group responded to comments by some afghan officials that taliban were taking shelter inside the hospital. we are disgusted by the recent statements coming from some afghanistan government authorities. these statements imply that afghan and u.s. worses working tonight decided to raise to work together. this amounts to an admission of a war crime. now, an executive director from them explains why her organization is demanding a third party investigation. listen. for this to happen, it s
hospital as a war crime. they say they re disgusted by afghan authorities saying taliban was in the hospital. what s being said about that, and what s the latest on the investigation underway by the u.s., nato, and the afghan authorities. we heard doctors without borders call for an independent investigation. that s not going to happen, is it? reporter: i don t know if any international party is going to be able to investigate this. as you said, nato and the u.s. military are conducting investigations into it, and msf sees that as tantamount to investigating their own possible war crimes. here in afghanistan there are a lot of officials who are repeating these claims that the taliban were inside the compound. msf says they have no reports of insurgents firing from the