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He has in the last week. can he politically sustain u.s. forces and a counter terror plan that we always needed there, which is the ability to do the missions like wee did geps bin laden. >> absolutely. lets take a moment and listen to president karzai who is the afghanistan president on exactly this question. >> the afghan investigation team did not receive the cooperation that they expected from the united states. therefore shall these are all questions that well be raising and raising very lo...

It. >> the general afghan question, why do you think it is that people feel that you talk a good game but they dont buy it? >> its because weve been there for ten years and people get weary. and they know friends and neighbors who have lost loved ones as a consequence of war. no one wants war. >> no one wants war and we are war weary. when you hear the president using that language of war weary necessary, you hear jon soltz talking about the connection to a failed strategy, is that what is happe...

And low deficits and actually if you look at the u.s. plans for reducing the deficit over coming years, in many ways theyre actually steeper than what were going to be doing in the u.k. so different starting points. different measures on occasions but the same desanything and a -- destination and very good shared understanding as we try to get there. >> ive got joey jones from sky news. >> mr. president, can i ask you both whether you have information about apparent car bombing this afternoon? a...

Direction of growth and low deficits. if you look at the u.s. plans for reducing the deficit overcoming years, in many ways they are actually steeper sth e what we will do in the uk, different starting points and different measures on occasion but the same destinations and a good understanding as we try to get there. i have joey jones from sky news. >> and mr. president, can i ask you both, whether you have any information about a car bombing this afternoon at camp bastian and on the general afg...

Of what is going on in asia and southeast asia, tell us about the goals vis-a-vis the white house? >> we have seen the president focus on the asia pacific region during his administration. so, there has been question about the relationship between the united states and the uk, this trip very much stressing is that so-called relationship as you talked about, and of course the basketball game was for fun and laughs but there will be a state dinner tonight. so the administration really rolling out ...

When i came into office, there was drift in the afghan strategy in part because we had spent a lot of time focussing on iraq instead. over the last three years we have refocused attention on getting afghanistan right. would my preference have been that we started some of that earlier? absolutely. that is not the cards that we are dealt. we are now in a position where given our starting point, we are making progress, and i believe that we will be able to make our -- achieve our objectives in 2014...

Ill say it again. assad will leave power. its not a question of if, but when. and to prepare for that day, we will continue to support plans for a transition to support the legitimate aspirations of the syrian people. more broadly we recommitted ourselves and our leadership to the goal of global development. along with our international partners we have saved countless lives from the faminen in the horn of africa. you have done a lot to bring life saving aid tot people in africa. we are committi...

At how do we effect the transition in a way that does not result in a steep cliff at the end of 2014 but rather is a gradual pace that accommodates the developing national security forces in afghanistan. although you asked it to david, i want to make sure that i just comment quick online the economic issues. this is a question that david and i have been getting for the last two years. we always give the same answer, but i figure its worth repeating. the united states and great britain are two di...

prime minister david cameron. mostly business, anyway. after they caught a game in the ncaa basketball tournament, president obama welcomed the british prime minister and his wife in a ceremony fit for a king. right now theyre meeting in private on world issues tough to talk about. iran, syria, the debt crisis. stop me any time. they will be honored tonight at a state dinner as well. in a little over an hour from now, he and the president will be stepping into the rose garden for a new...

In the crash, died of his injuries. this weeks violence follows other high-profile atrocities from earlier this year, including american soldiers urinating on afghan corpses and american troops burning copies of the koran. >> the united nations says 2011 was the deadliest year on record for civilians in the afghan war with 3,021 killed. 3,021 afghan president hamid karzai this week says he is "at the end of the rope", asked the united states to confine its soldiers to their bases rather than let...