Interview was the circumstances, really, that he wants the americans there in a training role. and on the outlier, he does want them to fight the insurgency, which he says in pakistan. he hopes the americans will be able to their special operation missions to get the insurgency, the taliban that won t talk. and he says most of those are actually across the border. he also mentioned he will talk about the immunity, that he needs to talk to the afghan people. but in the end, it s the afghan people who are going to decide whether or not they will be willing to give the american troops that immunity. the u.s. government insisted both starting with leaks and then publicly from the white house and then personally from the president today that there will be zero troops if there isn t an immunity deal. do you get the sense that president karzai believes that,
Kids born today have some kind of tour of duty in afghanistan in their future is basically in the hands of president hamid karzai right now. and the only person outside the u.s. government who has talked to him at length on this subject any time recently is now our guest. joining us is atiyah abaoui. atiyah had an exclusive and sitdown interview with president karzai in kabul last month. great to have you i don t here. great to be on. thank you, rachel. in terms of a potential agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan, for a long-term presence for u.s. troops, what from talking to karzai, what matters more to him, the number of americans who are still in the country or the circumstances under which they re there, where they are and under what law they re subject to? i think what matters to president karzai most from our interview was the circumstances, really, that he wants the americans there in a training role. and on the outlier, he does want
The question of whether american kids born today have some kind of tour of duty in afghanistan in their future is basically in the hands of president hamid karzai right now. and the only person outside the u.s. government who has talked to him at length on this subject any time recently is now our guest. joining us is atia abawi. atia had an exclusive and sitdown interview with president karzai in kabul last month. great to have you i don t here. great to be on. thank you, rachel. in terms of a potential agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan, for a long-term presence for u.s. troops, what from talking to karzai, what matters more to him, the number of americans who are still in the country or the circumstances under which they re there, where they are and under what law they re subject to? i think what matters to president karzai most from our interview was the circumstances, really, that he wants the americans there in a training role. and on the outlier, he does want
Elizabeth miller. the president obviously anticipated the french pullback, even under sarkozy there was less of a commitment. now you have the first socialist president from france in a generation. and he has a starkly different attitude towards afghanistan and these nato commitments going forward. that s right. it looks like he s making good on his promise to pull out 3400 french troops by the end of this year. there might be a compromise where he ll say i m pulling them out of a combat role. we ve been through that ourselves with our own troops. you can take a soldier in a combat role and put him in a training role and he s still in afghanistan. the bottom line for the white house, this is not good because it shows a lack of commitment from the european allies in afghanistan. will this require us to stay longer than the president would like to? we were anticipating that there is going to be an accelerated withdrawal from a combat position. they still will have the 2014 target dat
reporter: yeah, you can add to that senior u.s. official, you can also add to that chinese state media. now remember, andrew, that this has befr benever been reported. ever since chen guangcheng fled last week after 18 months on house arrest, that has never been reported in state media. that has all changed in the last few minutes. xinhua, state-run media, is now confirming this. chen has left the embassy of his own volition, and they re demanding the u.s. apologize to china for one of its citizens being allowed to enter the u.s. embassy in beijing. so china taking a tough line here, saying to the u.s. you should never have harbored chen guangche guangcheng, but also confirming that chen guangcheng has left the embassy voluntarily. we re hearing reports that he s been taken to a medical facility in beijing, where he s getting treatment, but also crucially being reunited with his family. remember chen guangcheng has been suffering ill health for some time now. speaking to hi