Our top story this hour. Shifting loyalties in afghanistan. Taliban insurgents are making bold advances in the countrys heldman province. And part of the reason the Afghanistan Government seems to be losing ground there is because of soldiers like these defectors from the afghan army who have joined the taliban. For more on all this, Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh joins us now life from kabul. Nick, why are these soldiers swapping sides and choosing to fight with the taliban instead, and how likely is it that afghan troops will be able to regain this lost territory . Reporter well, the reasons these men, who spoke to us, gave was really the corruption in the ranks of the afghan army, the lack of resources theyve been receiving. Frankly, widely acknowledged problems by the Afghan Government themselves and even u. S. Officials admit to about twothirds of personnel losses the afghan may have suffered. Its a widespread issue and particularly right now its acute because
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