the moment in 2001 when the hardline islamist taliban regime was driven out of kabul. america s response to the 9/11 attacks, with the uk and other nato allies. the united states military has now begun strikes against al-qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. years of fighting followed in provinces across the country. this is helmand in the south, where some of the fiercest battles were fought. hundreds of british and foreign troops died here. thousands of afghan soldiers. the taliban were kept at bay. but not defeated. finally, the us signed a deal with the militant group last year. agreeing to fully withdraw foreign forces. they are leaving amidst
clarion. so this was never, this was not a war that he wanted to remain engaged in, so he is basically effectuating the policy of 0bama. i5 he is basically effectuating the policy of 0bama. is your view, the policy of 0bama. is your view. then. the policy of 0bama. is your view, then, that the policy of 0bama. is your view, then, that the - the policy of 0bama. is your view, then, that the nato i view, then, that the nato forces, the us forces should remain in afghanistan at least until a harder line on pakistan is taken and affected? bill is taken and affected? all riaht, is taken and affected? all right. so. is taken and affected? all right, so, this is taken and affected? fill right, so, this is kind of a chicken and egg problem, because the two countries that really matter most when it comes to pakistan is quite frankly the united kingdom and the united states, albeit for very different reasons. neither the united states or the united kingdom has had any stomach for this, a
rising violence. this is one of the roads that leads out of kabul. in the province just beyond, the taliban are battling afghan government forces. that s how close the fighting is to the capital. battles are being fought in more than half of the country s provinces. hundreds are dying every day. thousands being displaced. every day, more areas are falling to the taliban. but the group says there is no violence. it told the bbc that hundreds of afghan soldiers are defecting to the taliban a claim the government denies. from their political office in doha, a taliban spokesman also told me that residual foreign troops would be considered an occupying force. all foreign forces should withdraw from the country, whether they are a contractor, adviser or trainers. because they were a part of occupation. that s a violation. we will react.
in afghanistan. you know, to call it what it is bluntly, this was a defeat and it was a defeat that was purchased on the instalment plan stopping at every point along the way over the last 20 years, we made decisions about what troops would or would not do in afghanistan, how many trips there would be, where they would be, what their mission would be, what their mission would be, what their mission would be, but at the core of this, israeli pakistan, the taliban are not independent at is to call this an insurgency, it s really a proxy war, and without an effective pakistan policy to punish alice done for continuing to support the taliban and other militant groups that pakistan uses to prosecute as palestinian afghanistan, we re pretty much doomed to see a return of the taliban. , ., , i. taliban. sorry to interrupt you there, taliban. sorry to interrupt you there. but taliban. sorry to interrupt you there, but you taliban. sorry to interrupt you
scared of going to jail, he has been there before. but this time around he refuses to go because he believes it was an injustice to be sentenced to a prison term without having gone to trial. afghanistan s troops patrol their country alone as all but a thousand troops pull out after nearly 20 years. and mesmerising aerialfootage of sheep on the move goes viral. we will have more on that. in miami the demolition of a tower block has been brought forward due to safety fears about storm ulcer. 2a people have confirmed dead so far, search and rescue efforts for