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marjah is enveloped by past loss, future pain and, for his mother, anger and grief. two more of her sons were arrested, forced into the afghan army, and died fighting. a fourth was killed in an airstrike. they said they were here to make a better afghanistan for women as well. why did your son join the taliban?
to make their families safe at home and to help afghans build a nation that would never again be a haven for groups like al-qaeda. one of the biggest battles was in helmand in 2010, in the cotton and opium fields around marjah. cultures collided. you can see their fear as british troops took over their home. the plan — quick victory — turned into grinding guerrilla warfare. after three months, the us commander called marjah a "bleeding ulcer". this is marjah now. the war ebbed and flowed across it until the end. now it's over, this man went back to the war damaged home he is too poor to repair. his brother, who planted the tree, was killed fighting for the taliban.
this is marjah now. the war ebbed and flowed across it until the end. now it's over, this man went back to the war damaged home he is too poor to repair. his brother, who planted the tree, was killed fighting for the taliban. marjah is enveloped by past loss, future pain and, for his mother, anger and grief. two more of her sons were arrested, forced into the afghan army, and died fighting. a fourth was killed in an airstrike. they said they were here to make a better afghanistan for women as well.
with a clear enough mission — to destroy al-qaeda and to punish the taliban for harbouring them. it is what happened next that is harder to understand and to justify — a war that could not be won, that cut across all the hopes they said they had to make afghanistan into a better place. the troops in afghanistan were told they were fighting to make their families safe at home and to help afghans build a nation that would never again be a haven for groups like al-anda. one of the biggest battles was in helmand in 2010, in the cotton and opium fields around marjah. cultures collided. you can see their fear as british troops took over their home. the plan — quick victory — turned into grinding guerrilla warfare. after three months, the us commander called marjah a "bleeding ulcer".
used tear gas and water cannon in one of the most forceful crackdowns since protests began 5 months ago. at the aspen summit in bangkok the u.n. secretary general. has urged mir in marjah solve the refugee crisis violent clashes with the military 2 years ago so hundreds of thousands flee to neighboring bangladesh called facilitate the return of the rohingya muslims minority. in france 100000 homes are without power as. batters the atlanta coast the weather service says strong winds will continue throughout the day the storm is then expected to lose strength later as it moves east. air pollution in delhi has reached the highest levels so far this year authorities in the world's most polluted city have declared a public health emergency the smog caused more than 30 flights to be diverted from
a demonstration in the capital the army says the group is a threat to national security but critics fear the crackdown is producing a new generation of radicals. in sports a family making waves and one of sailings toughest races a couple will compete against each other when they set off across the atlantic this weekend the most difficult part may be leaving their little son at home. and. celebrating one hundred years of a modern drum kit and why kick drum snare and hi have to are the heartbeat of the music we love. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us two journalists and in marjah held in connection with their reporting of the wrong hands or crisis are expected. file
where the state of new jersey and the new york city's mayor is office the elections were a key test of voter sentiment exactly a year after donald trump won the white house. the united nations says trafficking networks are preying on children in refugee camps in bangladesh the country has been overwhelmed by the arrival of more than six hundred thousand were fleeing me in marjah the last two months children make up more than half of the new arrivals in the bangladesh camps. long lines of cars have formed at gas stations in yemen's capital sanaa after the price of fuel jumped overnight this after a saudi arabia's announce announced it would close all air land and sea ports to yemen the u.n. has called on the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen to allow food and medical supplies into the country where seven million people are facing famine. meanwhile the rivalry between saudi arabia and iran continues to escalate we are at has
a speedy way has encouraged radicalism in the autonomous zone and unfortunately because of this crisis now we're looking at further delays which could help cause further radicalize the population so using the island of mindanao has a significant muslim population a predominantly catholic country yes we're looking at a promise of i'm not quite sure of the numbers but it's fairly small even on the island and the muslims are. fairly small minority in the philippines and they do feel discriminated against and that has of course also driven the radicalization of these of this population we saw beaches of the city of marjah it's been badly so bombed and looks pretty completely devastated thousands of people have been displaced how much of a trade do extremists those in the region on the whole it's been a threat for a while and the problem is that. the destruction of the city could of course drive regulation further and made in our island where it's very easy to hide in the
so-called islamic state of the city five months ago more than a dozen people were killed and hundreds of thousand more displaced heavy shelling has left much of what obvious fent to influence. underdog why the story i'm joined by journalist noir hope he is a journalist was reported from my dhabi welcome florian and the philippine government says that it has. removed all the extremists from the city of what i did us first what these people and look for say there were a local extremist group who took over the city almost by accident when the police came in to arrest the leader of another terrorist group they then exploited the seeds are very hard to dislodge they've been fighting for months and months there was very heavy destruction of the city and the amount a group exploited that to try and radicalize the displaced population and turn against the government and the city of marjah is on mindanao and in the south in
men and women into harm's way. one pressing question about that right now is can the movies maybe help with that? >> okay, listen up. this is going to be tough. i'm not going to mince words about this. this will be tough. this will probably be the toughest mission that any of you will all experience. this is the real deal. marjah is taliban ground zero. this is going to be ieds everywhere. this is going to be their best guys, and they're going to be prepared. they know we're coming, gentlemen. they've known we're coming for weeks. so don't be under any illusion. this will get ugly. we're going to lose, guys. i am not going to lie to you about that. there will be casualties.