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Amid a continued surge in killings in Panjshir province of Afghanistan, former president Hamid Karzai slammed the Taliban for clashes in the region between the National Resistant Forces (NRF) and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and said it is about time that the bloodshed must stop.
it has led to tens of thousands of avoidable deaths. and i want to see russia repelled from ukraine. at the same time, the longer the war goes, the higher level of human misery, you know, six months of this, it has already produced unbelievable amounts of destruction and death, both the military and civilians, both sides. two years, three years, four years, we saw what happened in syria, a nine year battle. and i guess the question is, what is your assessment of the way this ends, given this offensive and what it might mean, in terms of what a possible outcome could possibly be, that will actually head into this war? first of all, i think one of the reasons why zelenskyy, to get their peace negotiation in the previous months is that they saw that any areas russia was taking, that russia was occupying. they were the populating those areas. they were shipping ukrainians into russia, or they were just leveling the place. and, so any negotiation the
plans, ukraine s not gonna get those back. and frankly, those people are gonna live under serious misery. i think what ukraine wants is to gain back as much territory as they possibly can, to be in a much stronger position when they enter into any peace negotiation. and that, hopefully, it s how this can in. end. ben rhodes, thank you for your time tonight. that is all in. the rachel maddow show starts now. thanks, my friend. much appreciate it, and thanks for joining us this hour. very happy to have you here. we ve got it, we ve got it. comes out tomorrow. but we ve got it. here s how it starts. my lead deputy, robert khuzami, revved an urgent phone call from a top official at the u.s. department of justice. the midterm elections were less than two months away. the results would determine not just which party would control the house and senate, but also if the next two years of the trump presidency would be plagued by investigations. he spoke with a high level trump political
At least thirty-one political and intellectual figures from Afghanistan will discuss the ongoing political as well as humanitarian crisis and put forward a critical perspective on the Taliban s rule in a Vienna meeting which is scheduled to take place on September 15 at the UN office in Vienna.