For power in the world of big Sports League team el suggest american officials were allegedly pushing for the world antidoping agencys independence from olympic chiefs so they could unilaterally apply punitive measures. A very warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me they keep good to have you with us this hour now the u. S. Army is looking for help to access and responds to foreign social media platforms with a system so sophisticated it can even understand and use land are to discover the ads online the Software Needs to interpret the sentiment within a social media post on distinguish between negative and positive false the russian and. Korean are among the languages targeted they must translate from them and back to them the pentagon wants replies to retain the original tone their request comes from the United States Army Intelligence and security command well lets not discuss this interesting slide with our guest for m i five Intelligence Officer listener sean thank
Die of that then sitting at home. Ill like to present our guest with the National Press club mug. [applause] the fare is friday November November 18 and he will sign books there as well. So leave us with uh take away dont give away everything but i read this over the course of the week but what do i get . Induce a sense of the supreme so sacrifice in a very precarious position. We really could have won in 22 countries that that momentum was more than blind devotion it was adjusted quest for heroism or mythology but there was a belief it was complected some thought they were fighting for the union some thought they were fighting to free of the slaves some thought both but there was that kind current belief that it was different from many different perspectives for a cause greater than themselves with all the research that i had did. Thanks for being here. [applause]. Good morning welcome to a eia a. E. E i a now 15 years after the and 2011 attack and it feels like yesterdays everyone of
Across kabul years before. It just simply was too dangerous. It is still a dangerous place, by the way. I dont want to sound pollyannish here. Things havent is changed for the better in afghanistan and the American People, sadly, dont know it. Relative to the american by way ofy itself part of the story, of course, is the growth in the number of students. When it opened i think it with 53 students. There is now 1,000 students there. 300 of them are women. And they have a broad number of courses. I wont go into all those. On ann a a newd campus an International Campus womens economic. Defense dollars to open up a womens Economic Development school, a. I. D. . t that why is it d. O. D. . Significantly to the security of the country, but i think basically the answer is because the d. O. D. Did a number of things including some of the commanders expenditures which helped the development of that is so essential to its security and this is part of it. At thee story we got American University
Country, which is so essential to its security. , thee story we got American University the town student talks about his life experience. The taliban was there and took refuge with his family. Younger boy at that time. As third soon as the taliban were dripping out he came back. As a matter fact, how to read and to write. Now interviewing as a job as a. Ales manager there are full fulbright scholars at the university in kabul. He wanted me to say thank you to the American People. This is as close as i could come. The Education System and afghanistan. So many of them, the number given to them is counterintuitive. So i do not use it. In terms of the lower grades, before you get to colleges and universities, before the taliban was driven out, to the extent they have been, 900,000 boys. Now a Million Students in school. 3 million of those are girls. None of those who couldve been educated before we got there with our allies. Were 20,000e teachers, all male. Is now 200,000 teachers. 60,000
And met with president karzai. Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman about improvements in the country as the u. S. And prepare to remove troops from afghanistan in 2014. From the council on foreign relations. Is an hour. Welcome to the foreign relations. Im johnathan karl. A high honor to be here with levin. Introduction. S no interduck carl levin is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services from the great state of michigan and of special interest to me, just back from a trip to afghanistan where he commanders over there and also had a one on one president karzai. Im eager to hear about that and senator levin has some tomarks about the trip afghanistan and then we will have a conversation. Levin . R well, thank you, jon. We appreciate the invitation to join you this morning and look forward to that conversation as well. Just here to share my ideas but hopefully to receive ideas that we all need in this kind of a world that we live in. Mentioned, i recently returned from