can come into the body in a variety of ways. there s not much you can do in case of an accident. that s why international officials are ringing the alarm bells, you hear them at the highest level, the secretary general of the united nations saying that russia s occupation is suicidal, the head of the international atomic energy agency saying the plant is already out of control, the head of the world health organization saying we are on the brink of a nauk lyrica tsa fee. officials at the highest levels are warning us that urgent action must be taken. zaporizhzhia is a ticking nuclear time bomb. unless we take urgent action it will detonate. that s a pretty dire warning and another thing joseph points out is that the russians know all of this. they know precisely what the risks are and what they re doing. joseph, we thank you so much for being with us this morning. thank you. a deadly month in afghanistan, the u.n. mission there reporting the highest number of civilian casualties
power plant as tensions there escalate. we are live on the ground in ukraine. and a widening drought and a water crisis in the west, can desperate measures reverse the damage. plus clarissa ward touring a taliban stronghold in rural afghanistan and the site where a helicopter full of u.s. special forces was shot down. so he s taking me to the spot where he says his brother shot down a chinook. is vital to our health and wellness, only the sleep nunumber 360 smart bed keeps you cool, then senses and effffortlessly adjusts for your best sleep. and tells you exactly how well you slept. your sleepiq score. our smart sleepers get 28 minuteses more restful sleep per night. so, you can be your best for yourself and those you care about most. don t miss our weekend special. all smart beds are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. ends monday.
counterinsurgency doesn t work or nation building doesn t work. actually, i disagree. we did counterinsurgency in world war ii. we just did it after the armistice. that s what the marshall plan was. it was building nations that would be durable and resilient against the threat of communism. i think in rural afghanistan, which is most of afghanistan, it has not worked. and generally speaking, dissatisfaction with the government was a greater factor than fear of the taliban. they might dispense harsh justice, but they dispensed justice. the u.s. counterinsurgency strategy in afghanistan failed according to general mckiernan. and we now know there were many who saw it failing as a strategy in real-time. as one member of general stanley mcchrystal s afghanistan assessment team told government investigators, implementing an
kabul today, the horrible situation facing women who think their rights may be abused and eroded, the message from america is, we don t and we cannot care about that and put our forces in harms way for that. i think that is thejoe biden message which is dumb as dirt. and let me tell you why i think joe biden has been wrong for almost 20 years on this stuff. joe biden doesn t see the existential threat from afghanistan to the american homeland. how did we get attacked 20 years ago, september 11? the taliban gave al-qaeda safe haven to plan and plot against america. the soldiers who were there, the british soldiers, the nato forces, the american forces, were there to give capability to the afghan military said that the taliban would take over the country and give safe haven to radical islamic groups who would attack us. when the caliphate was formed syria and iraq 20 countries got hit in 2000 people got hit. we pulled out of iraq. here is what we re trying to tell the american people.
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. in afghanistan, the leader of the resistance group fighting the taliban says he s willing to enter peace talks. beyond kabul we have a special report from rural afghanistan on life under the taliban. and we ll hear from the head of foreign relations for the resistance movement in afghanistan. also in the programme. football s world cup qualifier between brazil and argentina is dramatically abandoned after a row about covid quarantine rules. and tributes to former girls aloud singer sarah harding, who s died at the age of 39 after being