are now inside afghanistan and the fact that the taliban the afghan forces now are without the large support that they had of nato over the past ten years. and now they re in the fight alone. he gave the example of helmand where the north of helmand where a couple of years ago, you have 30,000 to 40,000 nato troops securing the area. now you have a much smaller number of afghan forces there. and again, helmand, northern helmand, one of the places that the taliban have been pushing to try to secure territory on the ground for themselves. so the broader picture, he gave me, of the of what the afghan forces face here is a much increased offensive by by taliban/al qaeda/isis. and essentially now the government forces here are taking on an international [ inaudible ] nic robertson live in kabul, afghanistan. thank you very much, and we will stay in touch with you as this investigation continues. a reporter for the
the wall of the hospital, this is something that you can see on the battlefield. reporter: i want to be clear and understand clearly because the details are important here. the taliban were firing from inside the compound, on the wall of the compound, outside of the compound? right from the walls. not from the inside but from the walls where they were took their position. reporter: this is where the air strikes were called in by the special forces, afghan special forces, to target the taliban who were by the walls on the outside? yeah. reporter: but a building on the inside was hit. actually, the building outside was hurt so that that damage was extended to the inside. reporter: doctors without borders say that it was precise. the plane came back around several times and kept hitting the same building inside the compound. as i said, this issue has to
standards. reporter: months after the end of his trial, still no verdict announced. only a hint from the president that jason and other americans in iranian jails could be part of an exchange for iranians convicted in the u.s. on charges related to nuclear technology. translator: if the americans take the appropriate steps and set them free, certainly the right environment will be open, and the right circumstances will be created for us to do everything within our power and our purview to bring about the swiftest freedom for the americans held in iran, as well. reporter: jason s mother says all her son ever wanted to do was report. he loves iran, and he took it took it upon himself to try to show modern iran to the western world that s been closed out for so many years. reporter: cnn, abu dhabi. you re watching cnn newsroom. and still to come, after ten years on the job, german
welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m george howell. there has been another school shooting in the united states. students at northern arizona university are grieving after a fight turned deadly on campus early friday. police say four people were shot multiple times. two separate student groups got into a confrontation. the confrontation turned physical, and one of our students, steven jones, 18-years-old, produced a handgun and shot four of our other students. one of our students is deceased. the other three are being treated at the flagstaff medical center. reporter: the suspect is charged with first-degree murder. police say he is cooperating with their investigation. in the united states, the president, barack obama, made a stop on friday in roseburg,
washington post is marking a very grim milestone in iranian detention. jason raisain, a dual citizen, has been held 545 days. longer than the american hostages held in iran 35 years ago. becky anderson looks at the case. reporter: june, 2009. protests rock tehran after the disputed election saw the radical president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, return to power. a young reporter, jason razian, had just left iran. i wasn t so much fearful about being detained but was told wednesday his to stop working. they revoked my press pass a couple of days before it was set to expire. reporter: but he went back and began working for the washington post. in the spring of 2014, he and his iranian wife talked with cnn s anthony bourdain about the