i you prefer the taliban government? of you prefer the taliban government? of course afghanistan had not become denmark but it did not need to be denmark, it needed to be on a path toward reform over time with sustained commitment, conditionality of assistance, all sorts of mechanisms we could have used for reform in afghanistan. look at what you have now. the current head of the taliban government, he encouraged his teenage son to commit mass murder by suicide. and we delude ourselves to think that is going to be better? you delude ourselves to think that is going to be better?— delude ourselves to think that is going to be better? you do have american intelligence _ going to be better? you do have american intelligence at - going to be better? you do have american intelligence at the - going to be better? you do have - american intelligence at the weekend saying at the weekend that under the taliban al-qaeda is not regrouping, do you believe the intelligence? {iii do you believe the intelligence? of course not. look at the united nations reports and prev

the taliban from various blacklists, should recognise the taliban government, and you should agree to sit down with the taliban and recognise that they are in power today. are you ready to do that? if the taliban agree to put a timetable for a referendum or for elections so that the people can choose the character — determine the character of the state, we will sit with the taliban. but if the peace process is actually inviting us for allegiance or for accepting this illegitimate, criminal syndicate called the taliban, we will never bow. we are ready to give more sacrifices and i think if the international community recognises this cruel, inhumane regime, it will further reinforce the conspiracy theories that the handover of afghanistan was an international — a western — conspiracy to prepare for the new cold war and the collateral was afghanistan and they victimised the republic and the population of afghanistan. the west owes us, the west is guilty, and they have to help the afghans create a legitimate state. recognition of the taliban will intensify the civil war, it will lea

and how different the taliban of today is from the taliban of 21 years ago? guest: that was an alarming development. when the taliban was first in power, they gave sanctuary to terrorist organizations like al qaeda. these groups take advantage of the sanctuary of the taliban regime to try and attack other countries outside of afghanistan. many of them were neighboring countries. pakistan, uzbekistan, but most famously the attack on the u.s.. now they are back into power in one of the questions people have is will they give harbor again to international terrorist and what kind of freedom will they allow them. it is clear that there are some international terrorist but unlike the taliban, who say they are trying to change their country inside. the head of al qaeda, it is not clear how many people are there. there has not been an attack organized in afghanistan like they were when they were first in power. some people think the taliban will give harbor to some of these people but not engage in international terrorist activities. the answers we have gotten or not

and the new taliban. what is the difference? i am trying to figure out, is what we are seeing the new taliban? he said the previous taliban, the old taliban, the classic old guard, all they had done was to travel from condo heart kabul and he said the new taliban has been to beijing and moscow. they have traveled the world. [indiscernible] -- was killed in a drone strike because he was returning from iran. he was in the uae where he was running a business. the point is the old taliban had very limited experience. the new taliban, same mindset in terms of religion and politics. but they have seen the world. they like the new world they are seeing. the old taliban, the genesis are very rigid. very dogmatic. tribalism has more an impact on their worldview. other than religion. having that -- from a militant philosophy -- [indiscernible] the religious conservative movement, but it had become was a militant -- movement which was different from the original movement. very uncultured. they were not trained in an

there should be a point of contact to the knowledge of everyone to speak to the taliban, defend the taliban, defendant journalists, and discuss everything on a case-by-case basis. if a congressman from a nonprofit calls one of the taliban leaders and so stop abusing the journalist, it cannot happen that way. you have to have a system and a protocol and go through that. most importantly, every abuse needs to be documented. just like the pictures go out on social media. what happens, what are the current evidences, are they photographed? -- sooner or later these people will stand before a court, and if you do not document this, these people will not go without being held accountable for what they are doing right now. there is no diplomatic pressure. nobody is directly engaging with what the taliban is saying. this will be the repercussion. let the journalist or the production will be cutting the budget whatever access she has. all of this needs to be put in place for a crime there needs to be punishment. to my best knowledge the taliban are not being given any response to whatever they are do

who still needs their help because the taliban -- iran taliban is the pakistani taliban war because some of them have given sectioning of the tribal. in this case, it is military leave that seems to be more important than the ideological connection of the taliban. that is one insight. secondly, i am deducting from this that they have masters and they listen and try to save their partners because they need the military. they want the respect. that affects leverage. to push them back, there might be some cooperation. we have to be extremely careful of what that means. they have no evidence to support that but you never know if there was some internal support that allowed us to hit right in the heart of kabul. there might be some support from the taliban. some fraction of taliban needs our support. for being partners, somebody in the region like turkey who can help the iskb effective. that is another thing we can use a terrorist to help taliban and in return you see progress on issues of our interest. >> thank you hassan. i have one last question. had a few q&a questions online. viewer

you have chosen to focus on the taliban's _ focus on the taliban's failings. i was thinking more about your situation. when you were forced to flee from kabul, you took to your panjshir valley home and told them you would build a resistance and topple the taliban but obviously, one year on, you have failed.— obviously, one year on, you have failed. no, we have not failed. have failed. no, we have not failed- we — have failed. no, we have not failed. we did _ have failed. no, we have not failed. we did build - have failed. no, we have not failed. we did build the - failed. we did build the resistance, we did not give up, surrender, change out narrative and we are still fighting and we broke down one helicopter, we broke down one helicopter, we have prisoners in our custody and, as i said. it was a massive conspiracy to handover afghanistan to the taliban. the very fact that we are still fighting and we have not given up is eight magnificent hope for the afghan people. we magnificent hope for the afghan neale, . ., magnificent hope for the afghan n-eoler .,

it later the same taliban issued -- we see the taliban always lie. amy: before we end, i want to ask you about the astonishing figure of 95% of the afghan population is hungry right now and what you think needs to be done? >> i think what needs to be done is put pressure on the taliban. because what is causing the situation, the taliban is the real cause of what we're seeing and afghanistan. they basically do not allow the economy, the society to function. when you do not allow women to take part in society, when you minimize what men can do -- for example, industries are close. how society can function when part of -- half of society, half the population can't function at all and the rest of the society and economy is sanctioned what the taliban believes society should be and how society and people should act, i think that is a cause. we need more international attention from international sanction on the taliban to force them to accept, reverse this inhumane laws. otherwise, people of afghanistan continue to suffer under the taliban. amy: zahra nad

at the taliban office. so how we operated we made sure that before we announced our presence, when we did announce our presence we were given a reminder. which was useful. we used that to film our general shops in the streets because if you are filming in the streets in most places in afghanistan you'll get stopped. and you'll get questioned, and you have to show your papers and accreditation. it takes a long time. it's hard to get work done. what we did before we got our taliban minder, we had to make sure we slipped under the radar before the taliban knew of our presence anywhere because we were local. we could operate this way. that's when we did our interviews. making sure there was no link between our contributors, who would be killed for some of the information they were giving us, us, and the taliban. that's how we did it. host: do you think you could return to afghanistan? guest: i would love to return to afghanistan but i don't think these revelations and what we have exposed have gone down very we

the taliban are back. they're not internationally recognized, but they're more powerful than ever. 20 years of war. only for the taliban to return to power once again in ah oh for dickie. he lived with a call for his murder. so men, rashid is now near relief, survived in 2 years ago. in an interview, he told us, living in a story about sugar is with our literature. song. 15 minutes on d, w. india. and the transition to green energy a world without lithium, ion battery, unimaginable but good concept for recycling and reusing. are locking to indian startup and their ideas for used energy storage. both minutes on d. w with business d. w. news live from bullitt, kenya analysis. it's next president william brito when the tightly contested res, several election officials say they won't stand by the results also on the program . but taliban sing and celebrate in the streets to log a. yes. and they take over of afghanistan, about millions of afghans struggle with survey.

before the collapse of taliban there were a number of media outlets that were pro-taliban because of the freedom of speech and the freedom of broadcast back then they could openly express their pro-taliban opinion and discuss that group in any particular way that they preferred to, given the credit for attacking the international peacekeeping forces in nato and the american forces in glorifying with the taliban was doing. this used to happen before their collapse of the country on august 16. after the collapse, the number of media outlets that actually became more bold in terms of broadcasting, they receive more freedom, they did not face any threats from the government or the army or any other institution they used to regulate the media. this category of media outlets became more bold and started broadcasting with absolute freedom. they received more funding and are now broadcasters because they have the taliban group on their side, and institution that they use to defend for several years. on the other, we have the category of relatively standard or moderate media in afghanistan. t

but now they're sending that money to the taliban without asking the taliban what they do with the taliban what they do with the income they have from the union. which is an away, a very discreet way, it's consolidating the taliban rule. the conditions for supervision, monitoring and also accountability, what we're seeing, this so—called humanitarian assistance is helping the taliban to consolidate. commencing the afghan people should be led by, but the west is guilty and what they are doing is sending $40 million a week without knowing where it goes. to million a week without knowing where it goes.— where it goes. to be clear, do ou where it goes. to be clear, do you want _ where it goes. to be clear, do you want that _ where it goes. to be clear, do you want that flow _ where it goes. to be clear, do you want that flow of - you want that flow of international assistance money to stop? t international assistance money to sto - ? ., international assistance money to sto - ? . ., international assistance money to sto? . ., ., international assistance money tosto? . ., ., ., to stop? i w

the taliban were keeping the stories quiet. we also found out in the western country suicide rates advocated since the taliban took over.y this is another story they don't get out. we spoke to doctors who are told are not allowed to register certain suicide cases and most of the suicide cases. in the north of the country coming out from the provinces with afghan and my direction met that we could access and we could get to the checkpoint if you speak the language. we found in northern province of a forced marriage this is not a forced marriage where parents forced their children to get married this is taliban fighters objecting girls and young women and taking them for marriage. they usually turn up at family homes if the parents don't have permission they just take the girls and beat the family up. >> what did the taliban promise when they took over? >> they promised to protect women's rights, they promised education they promised women would be allowed to continue to work and it was in the very first press conference that the

is taliban fighters in the sites? the presidential power services, sir, these pictures explosive on the out 0 mm. of current last year was very clear. collapse of their stay, immediate collapse of they say. and then it was it was our, it was, it was, it was very, very hard. i saw all of them crumble down in front of it brought me suddenly to that realization. but when i be an exact person ah, move kind of pictures. will you allies this through the thing that, that thousands of war cannot describe me so how many people fleeing gown from their plates like barts that's, that's how african life is. how a nation will desperate because a nation was, was surrender to the wolf to in vic, no, one of us in berlin officials are taken aback by the speed of these development cindy's, as it's in the, it's alice doing everything we can to ensure german citizens and former local employees can leave an hours riser to move no caffeine in remaining germany and local employees are to be flown out from cobble airport cuff to oscar floorin

but there are taliban checkpoints. these taliban checkpoints do stop cars and they do take telephones, check telephones. not so in the city. but in the city they still have to get through them. while we were there, one of the young women working with a male colleague, sometimes they'll take male colleagues for security and safety, they were stopped at a checkpoint and arrested for simply being in a taxi with each other because they were unrelated. they were taken to a police station and the young man was badly beaten. host: what happens to the families that these women leave behind? guest: well, if a young woman has been accused of immorality and moral crime, the tragedy is that she is often carved out of her community and sometimes from her family. so it depends what has happened and why these women have fled. other times their families are supportive. but usually for safety reasons and security reasons, they can't have contact with their families for a long time. host: do these women ultimately leave afghanistan? is

sometimes hear because in my view the taliban have always been the taliban. and so there is actually a fair bit of consistency between what they said earlier and what they're doing now . you're right though that there was a kind of turning point in march when the taliban decided to officially bar girls from secondary schools. now of course, in about half the provinces are so girls are actually attending secondary schools, but, but officially across the country, that band remains in place. and you know, i think that was a moment where you saw the amir and circles around be near the supreme leader done in kandahar really trying to assert themselves within the movement. and so one year into the evolution of the taliban regime, it's still very much work in progress in terms of who's in control and how it all works. well, given the splits, then we're seeing within the taliban themselves. muska, let me ask you, is this causing division on the ground within communities role within communities? no, because when you look at it as, as communities, they all want the sam

women have been forced out of the workplace since the taliban since the taliban returned to power, the inmates she had been guarding are now running the prison. alia left work, assuming her career was over, but to her surprise, she was called back to herjob. then a month later, she disappeared. i want to find out what happened to her and what the taliban authorities are doing about it. herfamily hasn't heard from her for eight months. i visited their home in herat, western afghanistan. until the return of the taliban, alia had been the family's main breadwinner. alia's eldest son also worked at the prison, but was not called back by the taliban. the family reported alia missing in october, the taliban said they would investigate, but no information has come to light in eight months. seeing a little boy separated from his mother was absolutely gut wrenching to watch and for him to describe how he can't go to bed at night because he wants his mum, it's really, really difficult to see. the fact that alia can be missing for eight months without a single bit of information as to where she h

this is a taliban off. this is a government of the taliban for the taliban. and we were witness of a demonstration of voice is off descent on saturday morning when a group of about 40 women assembled in the road that runs past the ministry of education and authorities here allowed them to march for approximately 500 meters. but then some taliban fighters started firing life shots to disperse this very small crowd. a very brave women. and what is happening here that people just stay indoors, try to voice. they are concerned more on social media or behind wards because they are really afraid of these new rulers out there who know how to ruin with a gun, but don't really know how to serve a people in crisis that you've been covering up yellowstone for many years on what strikes you most about the country to day what i really find hard to come to terms with is that on the one side there is without a doubt increased security. i myself am the last couple of years i was here. i couldn't walk the streets out of fear of suicide attacks or better erupt in just like tha

the taliban say they are different _ afghans. the taliban say they are different taliban - afghans. the taliban say they are different taliban to - afghans. the taliban say they are different taliban to the i are different taliban to the ones that ran the country in the 1990s. are they? it’s ones that ran the country in the 1990s. are they?- the 1990s. are they? it's a aood the 1990s. are they? it's a good question. _ the 1990s. are they? it's a good question. i _ the 1990s. are they? it's a good question. i am - the 1990s. are they? it's a good question. i am of - the 1990s. are they? it's a good question. i am of the j the 1990s. are they? it's a - good question. i am of the view that partly yes, partly know. i am of the view that taliban version one in the 1990s still carries certain stigmas and ideas and mentalities that is not very afghan like, let's put it that way. even some islamic scholars have issues with that and would like to have a discussion with them over those issues. version two, obviously, has suffered in some regards. for example they are still tolerant of some

this is afghanistan, one year into taliban rule. i've come here to investigate the disappearance of a woman. under the last government, alia azizi was a successful career woman as a high—ranking prison officer. hard—won freedoms are being rolled back following the taliban's victory. women have been forced out of the workplace. since the taliban returned to power, the inmates she had been guarding are now running the prison. alia left work, assuming her career was over, but to her surprise, she was called back to herjob. then a month later, she disappeared. i want to find out what happened to her and what the taliban authorities are doing about it. herfamily hasn't heard from her for eight months. i visited their home in herat, western afghanistan. inaudible dialogue until the return of the taliban, alia had been the family's main breadwinner. alia's eldest son also worked at the prison, but was not called back by the taliban. the family reported alia missing in october. the taliban said they would investigate, but no information

the taliban had set up extra checkpoints across kabul. arifa and her group told me they hoped to stage a demonstration. they're having problems leaving their homes. one of them left a voice message to tell me that there were two talibs right on her street. because the talibs do not want women protesting today. ♪ ♪ in the end, the women decided to avoid the streets, but they still wanted to get their message out. >> arifa (in dari): >> navai: >> arifa: (voice trembles) >> navai: arifa had brought with her a work by the poet mohamm sharif saeedi, written for the women of afghanistan. >> arifa: (applause) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> go to pbs.org/frontline to read more about the treatment of women under the taliban. >> should the responsibility not be on men to behave properly here why should the responsibility be on women? >> and to explore all of our reporting on afghanistan. visit the complete frontline archive, where you can stream more than 300 documentaries. connect with frontline on facebook, instagram and twitter and stream anything on th

who by the taliban? because that was partly i think why their enemies were willing to put down their guns in many provinces because the taliban promised not to kill them. it's been enforced unevenly. the united nations and human rights watch and other organizations have identified a dozens, in some cases, more than a hundreds of violations. so the amnesty people have been killed, people can dragged out of their homes. it's worth noting though, that really this is been one of the most peaceful changes of regime in the recent tribute decades of african history. i mean, the last time there was when the taliban were swept out of power. you know, the mass killings, you know, people mass graves in the desert and we just have not seen that kind of thing. although, you know, it's difficult to tell from a distance because exactly as you say, media reporting has been more restricted. you know, i've guessed and is falling down the rankings of media freedom. and just, you know, in the last 24 hours i was receiving m

this is afghanistan, one year into taliban rule. ayearago, women's lives were radically transformed overnight. they've been driven out of work, into their homes, afraid to even step onto the street alone. women like alia disappear, and the authorities don't seem to be the least bit concerned. if the taliban want us to believe that this time, their rule will be different, they'll need to provide actions to meet their words. hello there. the peak of his current heatwave across england and wales will be reached during saturday afternoon. i was around 36 degrees. it is a hot recant generally. the met office extreme heat warning remains in force until the end of sunday. there will be plenty of sunday. there will be plenty of sunshine up and down the country. maybejust of sunshine up and down the country. maybe just an old isolated shower. there are your temperatures. high 20s in the north, low to mid 30s england and wales. an increasing chance of showers in northern ireland and scotland during the day. a few showers developing across cen

the taliban have created have come true. with military extremist groups and al qaeda, but also for my contact inside afghanistan and my wide network across afghanistan i know there have been a lot of military extremist groups from central and other countries using afghanistan. my concern would be that it may get out of afghanistan and put global security at risk. when it comes to the settlement, the doha agreement was signed and i went to talk with the taliban. i have realized they are not the same taliban with whom we work engaged -- we were engaged before. they have expedited the war. we have started negotiations and they have started the war, attacking cities, like in october 2020. this was against the commitment. when it comes to women and human rights, they are not up to scratch. what they do it when it comes to eliminating women's rights is they invest that time and energy on changing the economy or the security situation, trying to redefine a foreign relations policy, the situation would be different. but since they h

the taliban have created have come true. with military extremist groups and al qaeda, but also for my contact inside afghanistan and my wide network across afghanistan i know there have been a lot of military extremist groups from central and other countries using afghanistan. my concern would be that it may get out of afghanistan and put global security at risk. when it comes to the settlement, the doha agreement was signed and i went to talk with the taliban. i have realized they are not the same taliban with whom we work engaged -- we were engaged before. they have expedited the war. we have started negotiations and they have started the war, attacking cities, like in october 2020. this was against the commitment. when it comes to women and human rights, they are not up to scratch. what they do it when it comes to eliminating women's rights is they invest that time and energy on changing the economy or the security situation, trying to redefine a foreign relations policy, the situation would be different. but since they h

the taliban has broken its own promises. meaning many women have been forced to leave their working lives behind korea's ruined education, worthless, many, and are struggling to survive and put food on the table for their families. the mentors from a past life coolest on safari is looking at work certificates of her time as a police officer in kabul. you know that isn't my job was so valuable to me. i loved my job. but when the taliban came, they did not allow us to go to work st. go back to your houses. we held many protests. we asked them to allow us to go to work hard by promising to wear the job . but they pointed their guns at us and told us to get lost. i learned some of the hanging coolest on was one of more than 20000 women police officers who was sacked by the taliban last year. now she works as a cleaner to make ends meet half an hour. so i guess i usually work from 8 am till 4 pm. it's a really boring job, but i have no choice. i mean, no other income. yes, we die. if i don't work in my lesson, company, not workin

iskp have become the new taliban. it is a must like a vicious cycle? h0. have become the new taliban. it is a must like a vicious cycle?— must like a vicious cycle? no, i do not a . ree must like a vicious cycle? no, i do not agree with _ must like a vicious cycle? no, i do not agree with that _ must like a vicious cycle? no, i do not agree with that because - must like a vicious cycle? no, i do not agree with that because the i not agree with that because the talilban are backed by strong islamic ideologues across the islamic ideologues across the islamic world. they are backed by a massive number of scholars in afghanistan. they have a religious pace and a religious background in the side the country and outside. yes, i can say that iskp right now is the only threat to the taliban. the taliban are much stronger much better. ., . , the taliban are much stronger much better. ., ., , ., better. unfortunately, we have run out of time- _ better. unfortunately, we have run out of time. thank _ better. unfortunately, we

is taliban fighters in the sides? the presidential power services, sir, these pictures explosive on al jazeera, i'm of current and last year was very clear collapse of their stay, immediate collapse of they say. and then it was it was art that was, it was, it was very, very hard. i saw all of them crumble down in front of it brought me suddenly to that realization. but when i be an exact person ah, lose kind of pictures. will you alive? this for the thing that that thousands of world cannot describe me. so how many people fleeing gown from their plates like barts that's, that's how african life is. how a nationwide desperate because a nation was, was surrender to, to walk to in victoria rushed in. berlin officials are taken aback by the speed of these development cindy, because it's in the, it's alice still doing everything we can to ensure german citizens and former local employees can leave an hour size or to move caffeine in remaining germans and local employees are to be flown out from cobble airport, cuffed hours

robert, the taliban is seizing control talks with the taliban are now critical to save them . when cobble wakes up on the morning of august 15th 2021. the taliban are at the gates of the city president ashcroft. granny had vowed to defend cobble to the very end. we started the morning, not thinking that this is going to be the last day in cobble. honda alamo him is national security adviser, one of us, rav connie's closest confidence away. he has bad news for the president. the afghan army has told him they cannot defend cobble. i had this hard to heart discussion with the military leaders. it was clear they didn't believe that was possible. the president didn't know that's what his military leaders were thinking. the problem was nobody wanted to sound weak because if any military leader was heard to say or any political leader was heard to say that this was not doable, it would immediately collapse. but there is one final plan to avoid chaos and bloodshed. now they're not every one of the afghan government's top negotiators is scheduled to meet the taliban in doha. i was book

the taliban are back there. not internationally recognized, but they're more powerful than ever. 20 years of war. only for the taliban to return to power once again in ah ah, pick off what's going on here with who do they think they are? good questions. you can find the answers here. all the games, whole, the goals. the point is legal, highlighted through he minutes on w. for dicky, he lived with the coal for his murder. salman rushdie is now near relief, survived in 2 years ago. in an interview, he told us living in a, with our literature, song in 75 minutes on d w. b. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner chat. hot spot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot d w, travel off we go. ah, this is d w use and these are our top stories. kenya's electoral commission has declared william brutal the window of last week's presidential election. formerly deputy president, rita ran a title contested, raised against.

and its allies pushed back against the taliban. but the islamist extremists remain still controlling rural parts of the country. shooting films in afghanistan during this time, especially outside of the cities is dangerous. but royal for that, from herat dares to do it. anyway. she told herself the basics of filmmaking through reading and learned the rest directly on set her films tell the stories of afghan women like sariah, a police officer from carbone. she wants to help a woman who has been sentenced to death by village elders for adultery. in doing so . she herself comes into conflict with the powerful tribal leaders soon after. i got rid of all my huh. you said you don't global transition. he got the quote of joy. sure. i've got he heard him. i've been to target him. drop a done. well, we'll talk. tomorrow i go it on nasha mowbray for they don't cronyn the fool shows how freedom and the rule of law are undone by tribal traditions. and an extremely conservative interpretation of islam. this especially affects women who break t

in terms of the taliban, this is an embarrassment to say the least for the taliban. in front of the international community, the taliban has vowed to not allowihadist groups to use afghan soil to plot attacks. on the other, it has been an embarrassment withinhe jihadist community, so there's a different kind of debate going on online on these platforms where they are saying, especially supporters of isis, taliban and al qaeda, they were saying was the taliban involved? where they colluding with the u.s. to prove their cadet jewels -- there credentials to mark so there is contention within the jihadist hardliners and international community. there was rumors that taliban was offering support to al qaeda but both groups have denied that . but this is the first concrete evidence that there was a high profile al qaeda figure there. sia: let's focus in on that doha agreement struck in 2020 between the taliban and united states. the taliban called saturday's drone strike a clear violation of the agreement, but so did the u.s. of secretary of state accused the tele-band of

these remich emerett as the taliban called their government. once to enforce agenda, segregated society where teenage girls and women mainly stay at home. ha, ha ha. i will try my best to continue with my classes here. but i asked the slammy camera to open goals. school is still great to alberta for that we can study properly. again, it doesn't, it was that i'm not the specific doing businesses about that. i'm sad. i ask our government to open schools so we can all study the rights of women and men should be equal but does but overshoot. my mother, this used to be a place of learning for more than 8000 girls after that. now there are only 2000 students in grades 7 to 12 are at home. the teachers keep going, but everyone knows that when the girls finish this great, all these would be doctors will be banned from school. oh touch some other are in the i feel for the future of our children. i feel that leave will be as an literate in the future. you mothers are in the another, a country without education does not have a future. i mean, the future o

the taliban is the same taliban they were over 20 years ago, and if there were any doubts about that, i the fact that we see that zawahiri was sheltered in the middle of kabul by the taliban leadership, that should lead to rest any doubts as to what the taliban is about, the fact they are still allied with al-qaeda. there is some suggestion, and we are talking about harbouring foreign terrorists here, and the point has been made that the taliban, 21 years ago in fact, granted al—zawahiri citizenship within afghanistan, so again perhaps that is bouncing around on the head of a pain a little perhaps that is bouncing around on the head of a pin a little bit as to who is or isn't eligible for bohar bit as to who is or isn't eligible for doha arrangements. but i suppose the point about the agreement if was that it was going to be the model that allowed the current situation to develop, for the united states to get out? yes, i think that's right. i think this shows the doha agreement was meaningless. you can drive a truck through it, and that is exactly what the taliban has done, and anyb

and the taliban after 20 years was back in control for ever since coming back into control and taliban of presided over an economy and freefall, international 8 was caught, the new leaders were sanctioned and their access to foreign currency reserves or blocked. the resulting economic collapse triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters with unprecedented levels of food and security and malnutrition. and cobble d w, sandra pate, us one meant some of those struggling and just a warning to those at home. you may find the images in this report distressing. ah, this is chassis a, b, b o. she was born just before the taliban returned to power chassis as trip between 2 curses that challenged the best efforts of doctors hearing cobble with trying to help her. you see a newman jamita why she is suffering from both severe pneumonia and severe malnutrition. her pneumonia has actually caused her malnutrition much lacy maloof. she had money that essentially probably knows who that is because i for them the prognosis of children like her with severe malnutrition is not very good as th

the taliban celebrates a first anniversary of the return to power in kabul. since then, afghanistan's economy has been in freefall, there is a humanitarian crisis, and the struggle for education for all continues. kenya's deputy president was declared the winner of the election. supporters of his rival -- in protecting the marine life of the world's oceans. and your national conference convening with the aim of finally reaching agreement -- international conference convening. it's been one year since the taliban seized control of the afghan capital of kabul. the world watched as the country's government collapsed, its president fled and afghans scrambled to get on the last planes out. deep issues persist, including those for women and girls and also severe shortages. today is a national holiday. this was the scene in kabul, the flags flying in the main -- taliban flags flying in the main square. our correspondent was there. reporter: today is the first anniversary of their independence as they see it, the combination of their struggle against the u.s. led int

but the taliban of tax continued to stabilize the government. and the group started taking territory by the end of the decade, a controlled much of the country in 2020 u. s. president donald trump fulfilled a campaign, promised to pull u. s. troops out of afghanistan. a deal was made, but trumps advisors. convinced them to keep a small force in place. when joe biden took office and 2021, he finished what trump started announcing a complete withdrawal. afghans security forces collapsed as the taliban stepped up its attacks and rapidly took more territory. on august 15th, the group finalized its takeover by capturing the countable cobble scenes of panic and chaos, played out as people massed at the airport, desperate to flee. some made it out. many did not. the us led occupation and the experiment in democracy was over and the taliban after 20 years was back in control for ever since coming back into control and taliban of presided over an economy and freefall international 8 was caught, the new leaders were sanctioned and their access to foreign