Objective explanation of news events and I'm Carla's who's happy to be starting a new week with you.

First story takes us to Afghanistan, a nation in South Asia that's been wracked by war for decades and whose future even now is unclear.

U.

S President Donald Trump has called off peace talks with the Taliban and to explain why that's significant, we're taking a look at the three major players the Taliban, the United States and the Afghan government.

First, the Taliban.

It's an Islamic militant group that used to rule Afghanistan.

After taking control in 1996 the Taliban established its strict interpretation of Islamic law in the country and allowed terrorist groups like Al Qaeda toe live and operate there.

The United States faced off with the Taliban and 2001 after Al Qaeda carried out the September 11th attacks on America.

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Demanded that the Taliban turnover Al Qaeda and its leader, the Taliban, refused and the US led a group of countries to remove the Taliban from power.

That happened quickly, but Afghanistan has remained unstable and thousands of American troops have been stationed there ever since, though their number has increased and decreased over the years.

Today, there are about 14,000 American troops in Afghanistan.

The country held its first democratic elections in 2004 and it's had a couple more sense.

But the Afghan government is fragile.

The Taliban never went away, and they've continued their violent attacks throughout the country, including one that killed an American soldier last Thursday.

Before that happened, the U.

S government was scheduled to hold secret peace negotiations with the Taliban talks that some officials indicated could lead to US troops leaving Afghanistan after the bombing.

Though President Trump called off the meeting, the both the U.

S and Afghan governments have left the door open for more negotiations on the ground in Afghanistan, A CNN team was allowed to enter Taliban controlled territory earlier this year.

They found that the militant group hasn't changed much.

The Taliban is still very strict and it still wants to be cut off from the rest of the world.

We wanted to see what life is like under the Taliban.

We traveled to Afghanistan and managed to spend two days in Taliban territory way kind of often do this when we're working together, as we start off with.

Okay, what's the dream?

And then let's break it down and try to do it.

This was an assignment where they said, Listen, we've decided Thio allow you into these areas.

We will answer your questions.

We don't like you.

We don't love you being here.

But we recognize that in this moment in time, it is politically expedient for us to dio to do this.

We were obviously wearing the full facial veil than you.

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On the one hand, it allows me to be invisible.

On the other hand, it inhibits the way you interact with people they don't want us to be.

Oh, and we weren't just wearing it for security reasons.

That was, of course, a part of it.

But we were wearing it because we were required to wear it.

And that was something our host very much wanted to make sure that we understood.

We worked very closely with an Afghan filmmaker and Najibullah Quraishi.

He was really the one with TheStreet Eller reputation that allowed him to bring myself and Selma into Taliban territory.

I fundamentally believe that this story could not have been done by a man.

No one would ask your name.

No one would really asked where you were from because you were with an Afghan man.

And it would be rude, in a sense, to that Afghan man toe.

Ask personal questions about who you were, where you were from.

It was interesting, though.

Is women to be in those women's quarters have that you know that distance that the men have to create.

They were so polite, and they and they wanted to keep speaking to us.

They brought us out the best food.

They have the best wedding they had.

It was just really kind to see that very familial part of Afghanistan.

Hundreds of thousands of people in far eastern Canada are waiting for the power to come back on, and cities along the US Eastern Seaboard are busy cleaning up, all because of Hurricane Dorian.

It made landfall in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Friday morning is a Category one storm, and what was left of it after a little weakening rolled into Nova Scotia over the weekend.

It's still bringing rough surf to the Canadian province and threatening Newfoundland.

Dorian has been blamed for five deaths in the U.

S.

But its impact on the Bahamas may not be known for a while.

At least 43 people were killed there, and as many as 70,000 were left homeless.

A cruise line offered Bahamians of free evacuation of Florida.

Some had literally nothing to go home to Washington.

Smith, Smitty to his friends, no longer recognizes his backyard with the island where he's lived all his life.

Hurricane Dorian stole doubt over the eastern end of Grand Bahama Island, ravaging everything and everyone in its path.

Door in punched holes in concrete.

Tor house is from their foundations and flung Smitty's £6000 Humvee through a wall.

The damage dis Minnie's home defies description.

A wall of water crashed over this part of the island.

Smitty and his teenage daughter survived.

Many others did not.

This is the hole that Hurricane Dorian punched in the house.

Washington Smith, I should say.

One of the holes tore off his roof, said boards with nails flying over 100 miles an hour through his house.

Everywhere you go, you see, she damage you.

See how the shrapnel shred of the ceiling.

Careful, this is your nail, still kind of bored that came flying through.

And then most frightening thing is you see where the water rose to along here, came up no higher and higher until here is over 20 feet high, and it stayed this high for 50 hours, he said.

It was 50 hours of pure torture.

Little aid has reached this area in many places.

The only road in is blocked for underwater as they wait for government assistance.

Some residents, like Maryland Ling in the town of High Rock, have taken it upon themselves to organize a relief effort, distributing supplies donated.

My friends and family.

Staying busy, she tells us, keeps her from reliving the horror of the storm.

I have no words to say how bad.

Maybe one in 10 houses standing Geography Edition.

Which of these bodies of water is located?

The farthest north Caspian Sea Lake, Michigan Loch Ness or Lake by Col.

Located in the Scottish Highlands.

Loch Ness is the northernmost location on this list.

But is it the most monstrous?

The legend of the Loch Ness monster has endured for centuries, and starting last summer, a new study was carried out that took 250 DNA samples from the lake.

So what did scientists find evidence that around 3000 species live in Loch Ness and that included a bunch of DNA from eels?

Is Nessie and eel?

We don't eally know.

Scientists couldn't say whether what they found was from one giant eel or a bunch of small ones, but they did say they were fairly sure.

There is probably not a giant Scalea reptile paddling around the lake because they found no reptile DNA.

Fans of Nessie may not be, too.

Please e a sword with these results, but researchers said there may still be a monster in Loch Ness.

They just didn't find it.

Here's a court case is for the birds.

Maurice the Rooster Crows at dawn, a couple that owns a vacation home nearby want to sleep in.

They accused Marie's of noise pollution and requested that he be put inside at night so he doesn't crow in the morning.

The Roosters owner says the complaining couple would not negotiate well, accord in France decided in favor of Maurice and find the complaining neighbors $1100 in damages.

Could they appeal?

I don't know.

They might be too chicken.

They cried, uncle.

But the rooster didn't care, Uncle, They could take their house to market.

But the crowing could affect its more resale.

They can talk a doodle do about it, but they picked a fight and lost.

So Wattles is there to do but cry in your cornflakes at dawn, I'm Carla Roost for CNN.