During his trip through Asia Scott Heide of opponents from tokyo. During his two days in japan theres no question that President Trump and Prime Minister they have grown close as friends trump calling the relationship extraordinary calling trump a precious friend and they have also strengthen the alliance between the two nations to a level not seen before but its not just because they like each other after a summit meeting on monday they both underlined why they think that alliance is critical standing together against north korean aggression. Theres no point in dialogue for the sake of dialogue with north korea now is the time not for dialogue but for applying maximum pressure on north korea we completely agreed that for north korea to change its policy japan and the u. S. Must take leadership closely collaborating with the International Community so that we can enhance pressure on north korea through all possible means the era of strategic patience is over. Some people said that my rhetoric is very strong but look whats happened with very weak rhetoric over the last twenty five years look where we are right now the two agreed more pressure needs to be applied to north korea saying that should come from russia and china Prime Minister announced tougher unilateral sanctions against north korea assets of thirty five people and groups will be frozen early in the day the president and first lady met the Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the imperial power. Japanese citizens abducted and taken to north korea is an issue Prime Minister has worked to keep alive a way of showing strength against the provocations of north korea and something he wanted to highlight with President Trump in town the leaders met with a group of abductee family members and one abductee who was returned to japan fifteen years ago most of those taken have been gone for thirty to forty years trade was also discussed in trouble again raise the question of the trade deficit between the u. S. And japan weve started the process and its gone on for a long time but i know that we will be able to come up with. Trade deals and trade concepts that are going to be fair to both countries the first leg of President Trumps trip to asia drew to a close with the state dinner at the next stop seoul on tuesday got hotter aljazeera tokyo. Donald trump is blaming Mental Health issues for a mass shooting in the u. S. State of texas a vigil has been held for the twenty six people who died when a gunman opened fire in a Church Police say the death toll may rise. Lebanons Justice Minister says there will be no action on the resignation of Prime Minister. Until he returns from saudi arabia how do you met king salam in riyadh on monday after announcing his resignation there two days earlier iran and its ally the lebanon based shia Group Hezbollah the q saudi arabia of being behind the move. Iraqs harz court is a clear that no regional problems can break away that so in response to septembers kurdish secession referendum the Central Government in baghdad had asked for legal clarification after what it called a misinterpretation of the constitution by kurdish leaders catalonia deposed president colors pushed him on has been released from Police Custody in belgium he and four former ministers handed themselves to police in brussels off to spain issued a european arrest warrant they were all released under strict conditions. Now two thousand and seventeen will be one of the three warmest years on record the uns Weather Agency made the announcement of the cop twenty three Climate Change conference in germany these are the first un climate talks and President Trump decided to pull us out of the twenty fifteen house climate agreement fiji is presiding over this conference thats promised has called for urgent action as the island suffers the effects of Climate Change those are the headlines on Al Jazeera Taliban Oil is coming up next. We started this thing i know who the taliban were and i didnt know how radical they were or just what they were about. One of the things of the talabani is is they didnt have a clue about oil and gas business the idea was was to bring him over and establish credibility with it with the taliban that we were a real company. Marty miller secretly invited to a group of taliban leaders to unit cows headquarters in sugar land texas. No press coverage of the event. I have some the statues that i got in indonesia was a mere figures of the people carved out of iron wood and the people are naked. And i had one of these professors islamic professors check my house out when he saw these things he said i dont think thats going to work with the dollars bond. So why would this for you guys and black trash bags in the eyes of put workers in the south thats all it is the burkas on the statue. Marty miller was a Vice President of oil company unocal. They wanted to build a huge oil and gas pipeline through taliban controlled areas of afghanistan. But how did these negotiations influence u. S. Foreign policy towards the taliban. Thanks. To. The Afghan Capital of kabul is preparing for a new era of Foreign Forces have mostly was drawn up Afghan Soldiers and police will now be responsible for security in the country. But in twenty forty five thousand of them were killed in battles against the taliban. But the taliban hasnt always been an enemy of the west today their former foreign secretary lives in a heavily guarded house in one of kabuls better suburbs. During the ninetys he was involved in discussions with the American Oil Company unocal. I will take my advice you in a. Little less of need just for action. Then one of the one jewish. That turns it into a little cutting a lot of the whole thought it would be fabulous go commit it as the can he was. If the but the levy of it i to hire as that i was at it he out of it by the homes but us and with us here i will have my psyche of. Those if i there was a bit i think of the lesser love. Since the soviet invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine the country has been in a state of constant warfare. During the afghan insurgency the mujahideen received extensive weapons support from the United States and britain in their struggle against the russians. The soviet occupation ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. Two years later the soviet union also collapsed. You know cows c. E. O. Joint imo saw an opportunity in the fall of the iron curtain. At the time the soviet union broke up and china opened up which happened more last same time read a very senior guy. Kind of cruising the former soviet union to look for opportunities. We realize that turkmenistan had a huge worlds last gas reserves which were produced by the soviet union but after breaking up they were not produced any longer because russia had his own gas supplies to bring to market from siberia so mr john was stock was reserves and no market. Unocal wanted to build two pipelines one for oil and one for gas the pipelines would go from to many stunned through afghanistan pakistan and india a distance of well over seventeen hundred kilometers Construction Costs would be close to ten billion dollars. Of john is done could earn four hundred Million Dollars per year in transportation costs which would more than double the afghan governments income at that time the whole area is just and in turmoil you know the pakistanis dont like the afghans afghans dont like the fact stan is the turkmen are skeptical of both of them and then youve got india and pakistan all is just a mess and there. Was a case there was a power vacuum after the withdrawal of soviet forces under local rules for all of the territories in a for tractate civil war i think i said. Because only. In the north people gathered around the Northern Alliance and its leader Ahmed Shah Massoud the socalled lion of publishers. In the south and east another Movement Began to assert itself in as nic passed to new areas. They called themselves the taliban and was supported militarily by pakistan then in conflict with india. The pakistanis were trying to impose their will on the future of afghanistan and they wanted to ensure that afghanistan was not going to be a strong viable nation state that could in any way reconnect as they have in the past was india. Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad omar was a war hero from the years of insurgency against the soviet union. Pakistan decided it was going to assist of Mohammad Omar and this group which had no name and what they provided was money and weaponry. Training ammunition trucks tactical advice and then eventually they provided the tal of the students religious students afghans and pakistanis getting what he came to being thirteen sousing. Madrassas oswins in the northwestern frontier province. And joining going in the fight. Before becoming an attorney julie some of those who worked as an Intelligence Analyst at the pentagon who sources in afghanistan warned against you know cows close relationship with the taliban. Worldwide there was a very broad perception that unocal was wrecking with the u. S. Government to promote the taleban as the most likely source or at a stable single group in trolling afghanistan. And there was so i think an after the. Or hopefulness on the part of sound that if this pipeline could be put fairly it could be a source of stability or development for afghanistan and i personally dont like the idea that that stability would mean that the taliban would be in charge. With the civil war raging marty miller went on his first journey into afghanistan. At the time there were six or seven war lords that were feuding with each other and it was you know if afghanistan was not a real safe place to be. The first thing i notice is the devastation. You kind of reminded me of the pictures id seen out of. Germany post world war two. Be a taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there werent a stick of furniture in the house all the we we slept on the floor and i and i had to use kind a little traveling road show sort of thing course you would have slide projector yank if there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts and sean some things and some just basically to describe the project and and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. The message was always you guys will quit fighting with each other and form a government to get you in recognition that allows us to attract the world back to me to be financial. Then we may have to deal. But the taliban were on the offensive and drove the Northern Alliance concept of the cities of my zone in shoneys on to build. They dont control most of the country. Mohammads not too long president during the soviet occupation had been spared by the Northern Alliance but the taleban showed no mercy not below was first tortured castrated and then harmed alongside his brother. The execution was a clear sign of what kind of regime had seized power in kabul. Julie sirs travelled in secrecy took a bullet nine hundred ninety seven in order to learn more about the new regime. I had gone into kabul when i was held by the taliban secretly basically dressed as as an afghan woman in a burka. They seemed very foreign to me certainly many afghans are conservative muslims but even among them they generally do not support the sort of extremism that the taliban stands for i see the taliban really is an alien force. Their attitude toward women or a number of human rights issues i found disturbing but i think it was that larger political issue of them being backed by the pakistanis that was most disturbing to me. When the time i came in to talk about it did you feel your own good but need to have a good experience with. The man said that he just for this. Working studying learning in seminaries and the mother says they couldnt they had it was cuba to to get a living well paid to nice and community that was the top of my. Americas concern about afghanistan had been minimal before the unocal pipeline project but one and just negotiations spocks the Clinton Administrations interest in the country. Id probably go to washington d. C. Or once every six state weeks and i would typically meet with the state department the n. S. A. And cia. The cia was was very you know they have this shadowy image i guess you call of that i found very straightforward and very professional and i think the Clinton Administration was really committed to helping you know American Business and be successful. We enjoyed and really strong support from us to. You know come out wasnt the only oil company that wanted to build. Pipeline in afghanistan option time company breed us was also trying to do a deal with the taliban. Well but he does but its better than the meal was over list of things of the hands of all of them is of no is this is the president had to let an authorization from to cry kid will come to the can deal with the results of that as. The taliban delegation arrived at unocal is headquarters in december ninety ninety seven. Martin came home one day and said would you thank about having a group of taliban and a delegation come to our home for dinner. Didnt know what to say at the time i had to thank it trailer and i was pretty naive maybe they come in and say how americans come in realize that were. Average regular people maybe it would you know be good for them to to do this and i and i agree to do it. On a multi million did their utmost to avoid offending the taliban visitors and removed all the religious pictures and figures. But they did not remove the Christmas Trees the air that the taliban came to our house there was a Charity Fundraiser thing and we had seven Christmas Trees in our house and the tali just blew their mind they couldnt figure out what that was all about and i think they were trying to. Make a connection between a Christmas Tree and the birth of jesus christ and you know that you just try to make a religious can. Action with whats his Christmas Tree all about. They never did understand that thing. As a whole there was to consider its going to different from. Eastern culture but this fall into the enough says i would be i would be focused society and the progress toward me. Knew i was impressed on that. Dressed in their newly acquired jackets the afghans visited one of you know cals offshore platforms. And fresh and i got as they were amazed they were stunned to see these platforms in the gulf of mexico over seven and live three hundred feet of water i think just the magnitude and the complexity of things that they were very well blown away by. The next leg of their journey to the visitors to omaha nebraska where they met one of americas foremost experts on afghanistan Petroleum Resources. The United States were trying their best to talk to the taliban who are obviously beginning to take over the whole of afghanistan the state department asked me to talk to the talibans and they brought them in here. And so this room instead of having guys in suits and ties like they always had before these were taliban and you know skull caps and turbans and long beards and i really had to say they are afghans no problem and so i told him i showed him all this neat whiz bang a satellite imagery and stuff and if youre looking at our country yeah were looking at your country where you is and you can do this to show you how to do this all you need to do is come over here and get educated in this stuff. The taliban teams journey ended in washington d. C. Where they met leading officials at the state department. The state department was still hopeful that this was going to be a part of a International Combined effort that would be profitable for unocal profitable for the afghans commercially and financially profitable for the afghans in terms of development and education profitable for the region. The taliban were interest in the project they were keen on making it happen they never did sign a Cooperation Agreement or anything like that because they were afraid to sign anything without knowing specifically the mullah omar was was behind it. There are hardly any pictures of the mysterious taliban leader. In these really have footage of him moon omar tries to hide behind a blanket. And. I was in khandahar the first time he was there and they kept saying that they were going to go talk i think i asked if i could go seen and they said no no no. Youre not seeing shots of to see them all over your. Mind you know khalid was in dialogue with the taliban about the pipelines another actor began to assert themselves in afghanistan with sama bin laden. This song of a saudi construction millionaire was a local hero because he participated in the insurgency against the soviet union. He returned to afghanistan in nine hundred ninety six after having be forced to leave the sudan. Now he was preparing for a new war global jihad. Wayne sallade one cant check the good heart in consequence a concept called believing thousand and six he found it was sometimes not any nice kelly eager to sue the taliban moved in to kandahar to be protected. As a rival back in afghanistan coincided with my own to work with the un. Never met the salad a lot and i saw him once in the bazaar then as a convoy car passing by but i never you know we didnt labor he thing we didnt know each other were looking at the other so. That first year that he was in the area was the time when hes still in a fight his relationship with Mullah Mohammad omar. Natoma the rhythm of the. There was a lot of work in those you know. Well you make sure the mood up i say you have to do the job to the honeymoon that must you know when to interfere or to go home oh mr costello. In the afghanistan marty miller and you know col how did the cia did the training of local workers who were to be employed on the socalled peace pipeline. Wed like to hire locally so we had Employment Opportunities for the afghans in fact one of the things we didnt khandahar as we established a Training Center we have found an old abandoned warehouse that we outfitted then we brought some equipment any a welding equipment. To those who were needed for the training. Without being aware of it marty miller had established his Training Center in the same street as a sawmill bin ladens house. And i never heard of the guy before you know who it was looking back on it. Kind of gives me the creeps this is think about i was act most of that guy. Was someone bin ladin was also busy building training facilities. To be a child is to be innocent and caffery but it comes to an abrupt end at the burden of young children. With a mother behind bars for siblings misspend for each other and decide whether to stick together or split the family in the hope of a chance across the Us Mexico Border the other side of the border a witness documentary at this time im just you know the nature of news as it breaks because you can see there in the. The of shia militia vehicles the dust you can see on the horizon there the peshmerga telling us are actually tanks with detailed coverage when the mine closed in one thousand nine hundred for many people lost their jobs davening is the author making money from around the world this is supposed to last for a month but people tell us that it only lasts for eight days if you look around this is the only ford available in this household. Tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin this is precisely the moment where we hear allies that nothing worse first will be in three years the devastating impact to save the banks means also save the deposits for ordinary citizens and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders are the people who needed to learn over us our gora from democracy to the markets at this time on aljazeera. Element of the problem in doha with the headlines on aljazeera north korea has dominated talks between the u. S. President donald trump and japans Prime Minister shinzo in tokyo both leaders said the time for dialogue and what they called strategic patience is over. Theres no point in dialogue for the sake of dialogue with north korea now is the time not for dialogue but for applying maximum pressure on north korea we completely agreed that for north korea to change its policy to japan and the u. S. Must take leadership closely collaborating with the International Community so that we can enhance pressure on north korea through all possible means. Trampas blame in Mental Health issues for a mass shooting in the u. S. State of texas a vigil has been held for the twenty six people who died when a gunman opened fire in a church and police say the death toll may rise. Lebanons Justice Minister says nothing will be done on the resignation of Prime Minister. Until he returns from saudi arabia king solomon and riyadh on monday after announcing his resignation two days earlier iran and the lebanese shia Group Hezbollah accuse saudi arabia of being behind the move. Iraqs highest court has declared that no regional problems can break away thats a response to september the kurdish the session referendum the Central Government in baghdad had asked for legal clarification after what it called a mis interpretation of the constitution by kurdish leaders catalonia was deposed president carters urged him on has been released from Police Custody in belgium he and four former ministers handed themselves to police in brussels after spain issued a european arrest warrant they were all released under strict conditions. Twenty seventeen will be one of the three warmest years on record the uns Weather Agency made the announcement of the cop twenty three Climate Change conference in germany these are the first un climate talks since president truman decided to pull the u. S. Out of the twenty fifteen paris climate agreement and donald trump is commerce secretary Britains Queen elizabeth and a top aide to the canadian Prime Minister are among the thousands named a new leak of offshore accounts the socalled power dies leaks contain thirteen million files from a bermuda based law firm. Oil continues next. Osama bin ladin was busy building training facilities. Bin laden eventually became responsible for organizing the flow of foreign fighters between chechnya bosnia and the arab world for the taliban these soldiers were useful reinforcements in the fight against the Northern Alliance this enabled bin laden to strengthen his alliance with the taliban and to recruit soldiers for his holy war on the western world. But first. Yes this is yes but here i am. No survivors are left out of the novel from. What i can buy over there as you know if you think youve got it on and. On the seventh of august nine hundred ninety eight a bomb exploded at the u. S. Embassy in nairobi. Similar tenuously a bomb detonated in neighboring tanzania two hundred twenty four people died in these terrorist attacks and Building Four thousand were injured. Ill call you to trademark was established siri the tax triggered by suicide bombers. I dont think i was terribly surprised when i heard about what had happened because in law who was there he was able to do it and he was being protected by the taliban. The young spy wanted to learn more about bin ladin and visited his enemies the Northern Alliance it was a perilous journey on horseback. Along by roads. My interest in what was going on in the n. T. Taught on areas because that was the area where we did not have a lot of the information in my stance from back in washington is that a lot of officials and policy makers were just writing off the resistance to thats how bond. She met Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Masood who asked for support from the west in the fight against the taliban and al qaida. During her visit go to unique insight into what was to come. Northern alliance prisons were full of foreign fighters from several countries their goal was to participate in the global jihad. She was especially shocked by what the prisoners told her about the close relationship between pakistan the taliban and al qaida. Sued urgently wanted to alert the west he wanted more people to know about the taleban and how they were interacting with bin ladin and to emphasize that we were opposing bin laden that we should really realize that he and the taliban were sharing the same goals and resources in funding. But judy says report was not well received by her bosses at the pentagon. The state department was even more annoyed people were saying they were very upset about my trip and i was told i simply wasnt going to be able to stay and that they werent going to give me my security clearance back so essentially they fired me. The Clinton Administration continued in its efforts to influence the taliban regime. We were in the middle of trying to. Get them to modify their behavior and im a believer and you talk to your friends and your enemies talking is not acceptance of those practices. From day one the Clinton Administration was trying to push back and first you know control and then pressure the taliban or seeming to change and of course that escalated once some of bin ladin left sudan and went to afghanistan and id say ninety six. Bombings of ninety eight were conducted from there so its very much on the forefront. The problem of Osama Bin Laden stood in the way of any agreement about future oil and gas pipelines. He had declared war on america and this on the ten years bombings of our embassies and his kenya really put us on a war footing with a sound and then from that point on we were actually trying to kill him. On the twentieth of august nineteenth ninety seven president clinton ordered the launch of cruise missiles against several ill call you to bases and i understand. Four of the bases were destroyed you know twenty five. Were killed but you saw bin laden himself escaped i remember when president clinton sent cruise missiles and afghanistan. I just thats what i told. My. Lawson the more directors it was time that this this one got to go anywhere anytime soon. At that point unocal withdrew from the pipeline project but the french Intelligence Analyst. Argues that the idea of an oil and gas pipeline lived on. The states where it was thinking they were pressuring the taliban to release bin laden. By negotiating about the pipeline the same sign the taliban were thinking they were calling the United States is not in by discussing with them by phone. Or my home are the five line issue was a leverage in preserving his country from u. S. Strikes and avoiding to take a decision on on bin laden. Osama bin ladin was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. A strategy memo from bin ladens close aide mohammed ought to have was found to join the investigation of the nine hundred ninety eight east Africa Embassy attacks this memo written by mom and dad says it states clearly that as far as its higher than where maintaining relationship in some way was with American Businesses over his project or u. S. Diplomats. Theres security i tell us your body is guaranteed thanks. To a thing was. Nothing to it the terror attacks against east african embassies tested the relationship between the taliban and al qaeda leader. His presence in afghanistan. Became a bank card at a trip. That in the early between a kind of sign and then my stomach meeting. A lot. If you had to pick that pedestal to be part of it was she was a victim of statics or very valuable was her blood because you know sid valuable the low bass line near oh i thought but the kind you oh by the way you know she was there was something. The g. It kind of like that you know. And just sort of for together it was just as you were just on the saudis have been there but you know. The men found or sometimes you call the fire you from a harness for you for the van or for the guy if you use that he. Added that is. Towards the end of the ninetys the pipelines were no longer on the agenda or in talks between the u. S. And the taliban. The u. S. Asked thirty times for Osama Bin Laden to be handed over but the taliban gave no clear answer the toughest when essentially nowhere in the taliban the more we would close and the more they push back the more we push them on alqaeda expelling us salad bin laden they more they would fish back. They just got more designed. To keep. Not one of the to be a teacher who took. No manowar the honey you. Tell you bought up for them but you know that nobody. Doesnt own the fish will reach one hundred not with you but your way nor does any one of the dogs but the company. When george w. Bush came to power in two thousand and one he renewed attempts to get bin ladin extradited and get started with the construction of the oil pipeline. By that unit. It was out of the picture but others tried to revive the plans. W. Bush he had this direct connection with the oil industry and he was to try to be more pissed resist with the type of. Ill call you made a special documentary about the prelude to september the eleventh. American born adam gadahn is the films narrator an attack on afghanistan had been fined for a long time the americans are boiling mad about a number of things the Islamic Emirates domination of Strategic Energy reserves as well as the route of a proposed gas pipeline from the caspian sea. And most of all its refusal to hand over osama. In berlin in july two thousand and one a final dramatic meeting about the taliban was arranged between representatives of the United States government and all the players in the region. At points during these talks theres a u. S. Representatives that will make this to mate and that will have entered the car because of holes in the carpet a bomb. The americans had informed their allies during a meeting in germany of their plan to invade afghanistan in the autumn before the first snowfall which is what the eventually did so we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike. I own. I was there in nine eleven in new york it has already begun to end today and i found that there were a tragic and tired of the people of the United States and some people by the way dang i was. Not all of the news but i knew. I was on the about with so i begin to tell you that that is that if i would beat each other i know or them but it would. By this time an obvious juice. The signature was there to tell you about us or the speaker of. The class. The taliban offered to extradite Osama Bin Laden to a third country but now the americans had decided to remove both him and the taliban. On the seventh of october america and britain attacked. The Northern Alliance exploiting the resulting chaos and the taliban regime unravel. On the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of kabul failed. With us backing canid karzai was inaugurated as president his brother had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plans. Soon after nine eleven couple of moms suddenly we hear that state governments from the region got together and basically decided to revive the project. That means that even without knowing the fate of the constant term the stability all these countries at come to the same conclusion they had reached before nine eleven the spy plane was crucial that. The interests. After years of war there is still no pipeline the taliban is back in strength and reluctant to negotiate about peace. They class the kind of on government who brought a new government and the title of democracy in the himalayas but. They did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency i guess they dont have it installed by the International Community is still going on. The war against the taliban has made the building of the pipeline impossible. The afghan north also has some oil after the pipeline was shelved john ivo who had left unocal considered investing in an oil and gas project in mazar e sharif. Look at afghanistan the Political Risk is amazingly high. Theres a logic risk in the most our area is moderate but the reward part is also moderate when you put all that together and thats why its not an entertaining Investment Opportunity for a large company. There are a geologist who argued that the countrys Petroleum Resources our knowledge of them previously known. Afghanistan has the best geology in that part of the world for both Mineral Resources and hydrocarbons thats pretty spectacular why are they so poor theyve not been able for develop those resources first they didnt know about them and then the past thirty years of war nobody has been able to do much. One afghan who tried to develop the countrys Oil Resources and an early stage was King Mohammed zahir shah. After thirty years in exile he returned a lot of afghanistans old history has been forgotten. Mohammad zahir shah became king when he was only nineteen years old in one nine hundred thirty seven he gave the u. S. Firm inland Exploration Company exclusive rights to Oil Extraction in the Northern Areas of the country. They were also given the rights to build a sixteen hundred kilometer pipeline. But the Second World War put a stop to these plans. Older afghans recalled the kings reign is a time of peace economic progress the introduction of democracy and education for women. And naomi. Cahn shah made new attempts to restart afghan oil and Gas Production in the fiftys and sixtys a series of test wells were drilled and american soviet geologist mapped the countrys resources. Will join frodo was enough. Afghanistan at the end of the seventys as part of the atlas afghanistan project. He got a unique insight into the maps of Mineral Resources. There was one american geologist me and two hundred fifty soviet russian geologist. So when i left afghanistan in late Seventy Eight i was actually be ported by the communists who had taken over the government i left having sent my maps out of the country in a diplomatic pouch came back to the United States and i worked on the Mineral Resources in afghanistan ever since. West of mazower alshehri other remains of a canister finally from the soviet era. The plant is still in operation but no longer produces as much as when the russians were there. Mouthing about on the roof i dont. Care whose or not that hold only shasta million goes down as it has sought asylum laws passed through our. Commission. Why should i mean a. Law. In two thousand and seven and experienced oil geologist rediscovered this area. Hed previously worked for unocal but he now worked as head of the norwegian aid project oil for development he wanted to help afghanistan with a new oil more. True to his dissuaded from traveling to the north but with an armed escort he went anyway. At one gas plant he discovered a brick dont room where documentation of soviet oil and Gas Production had been hidden. Behind the secret wool lay old maps and seismic so these that showed afghanistans oil and Gas Resources was significantly greater than the outside world was aware of made history in those areas so although the all thats on the air this is ultimately a sister to. Or the mask in the eye was below total shit the whole fourteen years after thirty and a lot of them did in the midst of a lot of the order. The Administration Offices for oil and gas in Mazar I Sharif allocated in old soviet buildings. Chief engineer mohammed to john f. Tariq has made it his lifes work to preserve the dusty archives. Several times he saved maps and documents from destruction. The boy we cannot cut it out and im going on the ground and here at home i will not. Know where i was going not because you got enough i was really young and stuff when i think. 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The United States once hoped the peace pipeline would unite the warring parties in afghanistan they still do amazingly enough they still want to build it. Americas arch enemy iran also wants to build an oil and gas pipeline to india tehran is in a hurry the aim is that a new peace pipeline should be completed in twenty seventeen. But again it has to go through taliban controlled areas peace with the taliban is more important than ever. Was a risk. Over again is not impossible that the taliban will come back to power. They are an element and theyre not going away and in order to have. I mean same peace not necessarily had prosperity in afghanistan theyre going to have to be part of that fabric of society the more you can bring them into the tent and encourage moderate elements to emerge the more stable afghanistan will me. Were going back i have to say i was terribly naive. Henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope and other a look at the weather across the americas now in south america lots of showers across western parts of brazil extending into peru and then through bolivia also is where the front across parts of pargo just clearing the through paraguay but still affecting Rio De Janeiro further south its looking largely dry and fine but across more central and southern parts of argentina we will see rain developing as head on through tuesday so some rain likely here remote rio should see some brighter weather conditions developing by that time now as we head up into the caribbean for you on this is nothing much to say really i think through central areas will mean may see more in the way of cloud in the risk of some showers but otherwise plenty of brunt surrounded by i think possibly for hispania over there will be a fair amount of cloud at times up through the isthmus a few showers coming in off the Caribbean Sea there was when she got through could temperatures not looking too bad plenty of sunshine here fine conditions for mexico city too with temperatures that in the twentys moving up into north america you can see this cold front moving through pushing into wards and that atlanta is pretty active feature at the moment to some quite nasty storms through it now if you look at the forecast extends towards the eastern seaboard to get through into monday with new york there with highs of nineteen fine for the South Atlanta sunshine and it should be a nice day in miami. 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