blinken is going to be his secretary of state in january. of course i know tony blinken, i also know very well sullivan, who is going to be the national security advisor because i work with someone i was in the government, they re both very, very sensible, knowledgeable people with a great deal of international experience. so i think it s a, it s a very good side. tony monken always, they supported wars in syria, libya, afghanistan, and iraq. did you send this book? because i don t know if this isn t a policy recommendation book about afghanistan, i don t know what it is. we sent this to move might bump a 0 and tony blinken. oh i haven t. i haven t sent the book to either of them, but attorney blinken is quite familiar with my views and even more familiar with my views is jake solvent because he was working directly for secretary of state hillary clinton, when i was in the state department and we worked together on this quite a bit. so they, they know very well that i was a s
i think what biden has said is just a repetition of long term or long time u.s. policy about wanting to have a counterterrorism presence in afghanistan. but once he examines the current situation, he will see that there is a choice between maintaining the agreement with the taleban and keeping those troops there. so i think when he realised when you evaluates everything, if there is reasonable progress in the negotiations and support for it from the regional countries including russia, then i m sure that he will go ahead with a troop withdrawal. i would assume that he will advocate the same thing and 2020 that he did in 2000 because he did support the original war famously. joe joe biden. well, they have been rocket attacks scores injured or dead in kabul in just the past few days. a horrific inquiry in australia of showing the torture and killing by australia s defense forces of farmers and prisoners and civilians. yes, we just, i know the book starts with the ancient afghan
i don t know what it is. we sent this to move might bump a 0 and tony blinken. oh i haven t. i haven t sent the book to either of them, but attorney blinken is quite familiar with my views and even more familiar with my views is jake solvent because he was working directly for secretary of state hillary clinton, when i was in the state department and we worked together on this quite a bit. so they, they know very well that i was a strong advocate of a political settlement to the u.s. troop withdrawal from the very beginning. for me, there of course, doesn t mean i agree with you, expect a job in the new administration is not up to me waiting to hear if anyone is interested in my doing it. because when you say then the you want a withdrawal, perhaps a phased withdrawal, even joe biden, very quick to say that trump has been wrong to withdraw troops from afghanistan, and that joe biden cited the erroneous reports apparently of russian bounties. on a u.s. troops heads, that s ver
when so many find themselves worlds apart, just to look for common ground time after time they were going underground 24 hours after afghanistan and the un co-hosted a conference to safeguard development project after a charity save the children found over $26000.00 children have been killed or maimed as a result of the u.s. u.k. war in afghanistan, coming up on the show. what fate lies in store for the so-called graveyard of empires? as u.s. president trump withdraws thousands more troops from afghanistan. a country used as a battleground by foreign powers. for decades,, we ask the former senior adviser to the u.s., special representative for afghanistan, and i want everyone needs to know as little rocket attacks, kill or injure scores in kabul. all this and more coming up in today s going on the ground, but 1st rocket attacks on the capital. kabul greeted the news of president trump finally fulfilling part of his election promise to draw american troops from 1000 years and
johnson s health secretary matt hancock offered $60000.00 pounds pay off for dead frontline n.h.s. staff joining me now from cumbria in the north west of england is the former president of the u.k. faculty of public health president ashton john thanks so much for coming back on so how grave is the situation right now because the u.k. apparently faces errors incompetence is it mel fees it s all on the part of bars johnson s government well i think you know we re looking at or is of commission and . misleading communication. at least with regards to things like the deaths insisting normally presenting the hospital that s not including. fully and keeping us in the dark about what s going on in the prisons. seems to be cooking up as an issue so i m very bothered about this there seems to be an erosion of troops and a general feeling that you know we don t know what they re saying they re not being straight with us even though i m trying to ski said you couldn t quantify media bia