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With skepticism as they disavow their history of tor error and misogyny, trying to portray themselves as legitimate global players. >> the taliban's pr offensive is now in full swing. their spokesman claiming today that while their ideology has not changed. >> on the basis of maturity, on experience, our vision, there are a lot of differences. >> when the taliban previously ruled afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women were forced to wear burkas, schools for girls were closed. women unaccompanied in public places could be beaten. today when asked if afghan women can go to work -- >> yes, with reg...

Execution of 22 unarmed afghan commandos as they tried to surrender in june. this denial comes as cnn obtained not only video of what happened, but eyewitness accounts. >> five of them. but the taliban still claims it's not real. before we show you the full video, it's just very disturbing to see. anna coren joins us from kabul. anna, you were able to get a response. how did they respond to your reporting? >> reporter: the taliban is on a pr offensive to discredit our reporting, to say it is false, that the footage is fake and basically government propaganda. for the record, we spoke to five e...

>> reporter: yeah, look, the taliban is launching a pr offensive trying to discredit our reporting, saying that the footage is fake, that it is government propaganda. we must warn our viewers that it is extremely disturbing. take a look. as you can see, a group of commandos walking out hands in the air surrendering, and are executed seconds later. the taliban denies that this ever took place, that they have never executed soldiers who have surrendered. but cnn spoke to five eyewitnesses who confirmed that this massacre took place. the ministry of defense has described this as war crimes but th...

Graphic. anna coren live in kabul this morning. so what's the taliban saying, anna, about what we just saw there? >> reporter: yeah, john, the taliban is on a pr offensive to try to discredit our reporting, saying that the footage is fake, that this is government propaganda. we contacted them before the report went to air, but after our story was published, they said that this was just false. they issued a statement in various languages saying that they have never executed commandos who had surrendered. now, for the record, cnn spoke to five eyewitnesses on camera

Some of the video we're about to show you is disturbing. new this morning, the taliban denies its fighters executed 22 unarmed afghan commandos who were trying to surrender. even though the slaughter was caught on video. the incident is emblematic of issues that could playing afghanistan. >> anna coren is live for us. how can the taliban deny what the world can clearly see for itself? >> reporter: yeah, the taliban certainly on a pr offensive to discredit us and our reporting. we contacted the taliban before our story went to air, they said the footage was fake , that it