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the us and south korea have carried outjoint military exercises over the waters around the korean peninsula. now on bbc news, its hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. taliban rule was re—established in afghanistan almost a year ago. for afghans, its meant the return of repressive religious authoritarianism and new levels of economic impoverishment. the mullahs seem ready to absorb indefinite isolation to reimpose their orthodoxy. but is that a sustainable strategy? my gu...

to absorb indefinite isolation to re—impose their orthodoxy. but is that a sustainable strategy? my guest is fawzia koofi, former deputy speaker of the afghan parliament, now a democracy activist in exile. is there any glimmer of light in afghanistans darkness? fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. its good to be with you. well, its great to have you in this studio. im sure you wish you were speaking to me from kabul, from afghanistan, but you have been in exile since the tal...

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Someone broke into the house or drunk driving, he would be there in a minute, unquote. Now the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is out there calling Michael Cohen a liar. Do you think Michael Cohen is a liar . Well, listen, theres certainly been a breach in the relationship. So when i said that, i meant that because i had known michael for ten years, known the president for a very long time and my guess was that they were very loyal to each other. When your house gets raided and your apartment ...

The international community, when it saw the taliban take over at the end of last summer, it made a decision to try to isolate the taliban regime? we saw the reserves of the afghan government frozen in the united states. we saw the curtailment of much of the aid assistance at that particular time. some of it, of course, has been restored, but some of it has not. so, there is a sense in which the isolation strategy is one of the causes of the massive humanitarian suffering today. i dont think so....

Change michael cohens calculus? >> what i also did say is that the isolation strategy of michael cohen -- ive said that a couple of times publicly, is probably not the best strategy either. im not on the presidents legal term. so i dont know what theyre legally allowed to do and not allowed to do and im not exactly sure what michael is being targeted for. the president is indicating in a tweet yesterday it might be related to the medallions and the taxi cab licenses that michael had. so me its n...

People, jake, dont run for office is because they dont like every single thing theyve done in their lives put on "state of the union." here we are now. my guess is this is a riff that will continue. im not sure what the criminality is here. to me it doesnt look like its criminal. when i step back and try to look at it objectively. and i think the president is frustrated because hes got a great economic plan going. hes got great things going on whether its in north korea, the potentiality of a de...

>> the president spoke up about this program. he said its the best way. was he lying about it the whole time, what he thought about it? im afraid so. >> i think it was a political decision. i dont think he ever bought into it. >> meanwhile this week, mora la -- more alarming news, the u.s. has brought fighters and tanks into syria, and after saying they were going to isolate russia after its invasion of ukraine, the white house administration is reaching -- >> i spoke to vladimir putin for the t...

This program. he said its the best way. was he lying about it the whole time, what he thought about it? im afraid so. >> i think it was a political decision. i dont think he ever bought into it. >> meanwhile this la -- more alarming news, the u.s. has brought fighters and tanks into syria, and after saying they were going to isolate russia after its invasion of ukraine, the white house administration is reaching -- >> i spoke to vladimir putin for the third time in less than a week. i made clear...

Obamas isolating putin will see tremendous solidarity of the allies but germany is not fully on board. it undercuts the strategy. >> germanys not fully on board. and i think american corporations are not fully on board. im not sure that isolation strategy can work. taking it back to syria when i was watching dr. nancys report, think were relying on russia to be our partner in peace talks on syria? russia is now rearming assad and not a partner for us on foreign policy. >> i was thinking a lot ab...