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Afghan president. take a look at those two pictures over there. on one picture there was a clock that was removed by the afghan they didn t want to show the people of afghanistan that the meeting didn t take place at kabul. it took place at bagram military base. what does that say that they have to meet at a bomb shelter rather than at the afghan president s offices in the capital? it certainly speaks to a much more tense security situation in kabul. no doubt about it. we know the taliban is continuing to gain ground and to cause attacks there in kabul. it certainly speaks to a more dangerous security situation and it s embarrassing from a pr perspective because you have the u.s. state department picture being accurately depicted and president ghani and the presidential office sort of ....
but it s been a very violent day. much more violent, much more furious than the protests yesterday. we have a final death toll we believe of six dead and 30 wounded. perhaps six different protests across the country. so it seems to have escalated significantly today. and president karzai actually put out a statement, right? what did he say? reporter: yeah, he put out a statement this afternoon. a lot of people are waiting to see what he ll say. he said he condemned the burning and he ordered an investigation into what had happened and he appointed committee of senior clerics to find out what was going on. i think the key thing was that he condemned the burning. that s actually our ben farmer in kabul there. we apologize. it s not always easy to link up technically, but we will stay with ben on this story. ben, i apologize. we lost your audio. an american woman who reported on the violence in syria has now become a victim of it. marie colvin worked for the sunday t ....