60 Minutes
Negotiating with the Taliban | Let There Be Light | An Island Off an Island
Season 54, Episode 13 · Aired 2021-12-12
Synopsis
Negotiating with the Taliban – When the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan in August, the Taliban immediately seized control. The international community acted quickly – freezing Afghan assets and foreign aid to pressure the Taliban to negotiate. To date, those negotiations haven't happened. Today, 38 million Afghans find themselves facing one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Afghanistan to discuss the crisis with one of the new Taliban ministers, talk with suffering families and meet with the humanitarian groups left to pick up the pieces and negotiate with the Taliban to avert a global catastrophe. Let There Be Light – NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the world's most expensive scientific instrument ever launched into space. At $10 billion, this complex and powerful telescope will explore distant exoplanets and see near to the beginning of time itself. Before its planned launch later this month, Scott Pelley gets an inside look at NASA's flagship space telescope. What mysteries will it help humanity unravel? And what could go wrong? An Island Off an Island – Jon Wertheim ventures to a 90-square mile jewel of land off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Fogo Island's population was decimated when its only industry, cod fishing, went into steep decline. Now, an eighth-generation Fogo Islander has returned home with deep pockets and a plan to bring the place and its people back
In the series
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Key cast
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Also in season 54
- S54E01 9.11 the FDNY
- S54E02 Take the Fight to the Night | Rep. Liz Cheney | King of the Deep
- S54E03 The Facebook Whistleblower | Unforgiven | The Final Act
- S54E04 Deepfakes | 1,000 Children | Deep Springs
- S54E05 Robert Gates | The Green River Drift | Whither Ye Olde English Pub
- S54E06 Prince V. Spy | Running Dry | Michael Keaton