afghan plans to attack libyan forces. libya s new leaders have given gadhafi loyalists to surrender on saturday or face more force. this is the third time mubarak is in court. he faces charges as well as his two sons faces charges on corruption. the storm swept across the country in japan with record rainfall causing land slides and flooding. 56 others are still unaccounted for. a shark killed a body border on the west coast on sunday. the beach has been closed since the attack in australia. it is the first fatal shark attack in australia since february. those are the top stories from cnn. world business today starts now. good morning from london. i m charles hartson. give from hong kong. i m andrew stevens. the top stories today this monday, the 5th of september. markets tumble as the jobs report is released. dominique strauss-kahn is back on french soil. what does the public make of his return? and it s been a bumpy ride for the u.s. economy, but coney islan
afghanistan, there s focus on some degree of nearly making sure security is okay and making sure governance moves in the right direction and developing an economy which will underpin their future. the problem with that a year on is that again the taliban is stronger and there appears no evidence that they re willing to do the core thing, which is to turn their back on al qaeda. isn t that the case? again, that s the main mission to make sure afghanistan can t become a safe haven again. they are indeed stronger. and yet the president approved additional forces. most of which are there but there is still additional forces yet to come this year. we ve said for many, many months this would be a very difficult year. you pointed out the losses that have occurred in the month of july, the highest ever. we recognize that. this is a tough fight. we think we ve got the resources right, the strategy right, and there s also a regional piece to this. a lot of effort going on pakistan side.
you said a year ago the central mission was to get at those who threaten us. our central mission is not to protect the women who could be brutalized in the taliban come into power in any fashion. the taliban are incredibly unpopular with the afghan people as we speak as they have been for a long period of time. the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al qaeda. we have to make sure there s not a safe haven that returns in afghanistan. afghanistan has to be stable enough, has to have enough governance, has to create enough jobs and have an economy good enough so that the taliban cannot return to the brutality of the kind of regime that you just showed. however, the united states could still withdraw and do so having achieved the mission and women like those on the cover of that magazine could still be in danger. certainly the long-term goal is to make sure that with respect to the population in afghanistan that there s a
leadership and he has actually directed his military to take on the insurgent threat in his own country. he s made great strides. we recognize that part of that is to focus on the network and the other afghan they operate in that tribal area. they do. they have a safe haven there and that causes us great problems in afghanistan as well. we anxious to have that addressed as weaddress is well known to him. this won t happen overnight. it s too early to say what the outcome would look like specifically. suffice it to say we have to be in a stronger position in afghanistan vis-a-vis the insurgency overall. we have to continue to develop this relationship and evolve this relationship with pakistan. there s a regional approach here and certainly india, which is
significant and yet at the same time i think the strategy is right. the release of these documents best that i can tell have not affected the strategy. many of them were very, very old. that said, we have to work our way through exactly what the potential impact would be and i think from my perspective we re headed in the right direction. the reality is still the same whether news or not, the disillusionment among the american people with the fact the taliban is stronger and not weaker. go back a year ago you were on this program and i asked you about the mission. here s a portion of what you said. we re rebuilding this nation. to a certain degree there s some of that going on. is that what the american people signed up for? the american people signed up for support at getting at those that got us a to the degree that the afghan peoples security and the ability to ensure that a safe haven doesn t recur in