Taliban gains ground near Afghanistan's capital

The Taliban captured a key city near Afghanistan's capital on Thursday. Ghazni is the tenth provincial capital in the country to fall to the extremist fighters. CBS News foreign correspondent Roxana Saberi reports from Kabul. Then Christina Goldbaum, a New York Times reporter in Afghanistan, joins CBSN to discuss what the loss of this city means for Afghan government forces.

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