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Weather.com on the weather channel. breaking news in afghanistan, the u.s. embassy is on lockdown after a series of attacks today in the capital of kabul. taliban militants are claim responsibility for the coordinated attacks. shelling and gunfire have been heard near the american and british embassies, the nato bases as well as the afghan parliament and president hamid karzai s palace. we want to take you live to kabul and nbc news senior producer, sohel uddin to update us on what s going on. what s the latest you can fill us in on? reporter: well, the very latest is that the latest taliban statement that i ve read. that you know, the today s attacks in kabul, which is still going on still in the capital, have stopped in the provinces where they were attacking earlier today. the main reasons for this is the koran burning, the attack in kandahar of the 17 children and women and people who were killed there. and also, the shots of soldiers ....
Supposedly urinating on taliban soldiers. now, the very latest is, is that the three areas in kabul were under attack. two of them are still under the attack, near the hotel, and also the parliament area. so far, we ve been told that 14 police and civilians were wounded in all of today s attacks. and you know, there is stability in one of the areas, but they haven t secured two of the areas. in fact we just heard a series of three explosions, about 20 minutes ago. and sohel, as we re reporting the u.s. embassy is on lockdown. what to we know about the americans inside the embassy and their safety? there are no reports, the u.s. embassy did release a statement a couple of hours ago, condemning the attacks and saying this does not help the peace and stability that they want to leave behind in afghanistan. but there is no report there are ....
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Past 2014, but it will be the end of a war or combat phase and part of a long term partnership between the united states and afghanistan. it s interesting that you bring up the notion there is some semblance of an increasingly stable government there because anecdotally when i think of afghanistan and in particular hamid karzai we think of a frayed relationship between the u.s. and afghanistan. a government that is very corrupt. what is the latest as far as our relationship with hamid karzai. it was under duress after the shooting and the koran burning. ironically, the shooting had less impact on public opinion than the koran burning. there are the beginnings of institutions not only at the national level which is foreign to afghanistan but at the regional local levels where to some extent you ve got a building of trust between the afghan people and government, but that needs to be nurtured ....