Leaving families scrounging for food and sustenance we asked how much. Welcome to. Glad you could join Us Afghanistan has begun releasing the 1st of 400 taliban prisoners as part of a deal agreed between the u. S. And. The release of the prisoners was a Sticking Point holding up eventual talks between the government and the taliban many of the prisoners are accused of serious crimes and the only released after the council of prominent elders called by president bush of connie gave the go ahead. Even though grannies signed the eventual order approving the release he called the prisoners a danger to the world heres what some of them had to say as they left prison. I was detained here for kidnapping i spent almost 80 years in prison. But only by call on my plate is when the president ordered our release and call on them to embrace a permanent ceasefire and to stop the bloodshed. So that we can all live peaceful lives. The lives of our youth have been made musical journey to war and the future looks bleak as well let them study it and make a good life. When yes. I was detained here for being a taliban member my crime is assassination and i want a permanent ceasefire and peace and today i am released by the order of the president. So lets get more on this now from kabul joining me on the line is correspondent. Ali good to see you president ghani has said that these prisoners are a court danger to the world yet he ordered their release is he really on board with this entire process towards peace. So ive been talking to some people about this people who attended the judge god that made the decision about the release of these 400 prisoners and one of the attendees you know she said that she felt like there was pressure put on the president and she actually wondered she said what specifically was the pressure that made him within 4 days have people you know assemble 3000 people and decide to release these people these prisoners and of course the big question about these prisoners is that even the attendees in the jeddah guy in the gathering last week there was no actual details or biographical information about who with these 400 prisoners are you know there was no details even their names where theyre from where theyre going back to what crimes theyve been accused of it just said that these are 400 high value prisoners where thats all a bond but high risk for us that they want released as a precondition to the interim of on talks which are technically supposed to start in 2 days time so it really was one of these things you know the way the president put it is were at a crossroads we either release these prisoners and move ahead with the Peace Process or we see if the top taliban live up to their threat that they would make the war war wars if we dont do this from the way youre describing it appear that all the cards stacked against the of gone government and in favor of the taleban bearing in mind that the taliban has called the of gone government or us puppet i mean does the of con government really have any cards that they are holding for any future peace talks. You know that this has been the tarnal question since this Peace Process began i think some of the cards that they held were you know this prisoner release has been delayed for months at a time you know this was supposed to happen and in mid march and now were in mid august. And you know i would assume that the government felt that they had some cards in their hands by by delaying the release and staggering it and saying that you know they had conditions to it but whats happened since then is that violence has surged all over the country the big cities are relatively safe from tall abott attacks but in the districts in the provinces in the villages youre seeing daily daily reports of civilians being killed of Security Forces being killed so there really are a lot of questions about what cards the government has to play at this at this state which under this essential question of security. To these. Peace talks whenever theyre out how do we also see overdrawn of Foreign Forces from the country where will that leave security not gonna stand. So i mean if we if we look at it theres really theres only a few 1000 Foreign Forces left in the country and they very much been at least the way they explain it isnt a training and advising role. But of course this is this is the fear of the government and of the people the biggest fear is that and i think why theyre sort of feeling compelled to move ahead with the Peace Process is that we dont end up with what happened in 1909 in 1990 where in the soviet union ended their occupation they withdrew their forces the Covert Mission by the cia and it and then we were left with you know a handful of warlords who essentially basically started the civil war and so this is this is the biggest concern of the people and the government you know when these Foreign Forces do finally leave that were not in some kind of a vacuum that there are assurances or guarantees or the possibilities of support when needed. And that really like piece of scum of the taliban. In kabul thank you very much for that. Humanitarian tragedy is unfolding more than a 3rd of the country is underwater and at least 160. 00 people are reported dead after the worst flooding in more than 2 decades heavy monsoon rains have caused at least 2 rounds of flooding beginning in late june millions have been affected at a time when the country is already dealing with the impact of the covert. For the families caught up in the situation the floods have made an already difficult existence. 2 small bags of rice and some lentils. Thats all russell can buy with whats left of the familys savings. The village of low had john has been flooded for weeks russells family has been living in a makeshift shelter his mother has a few onions to add to the meal 14 year old russell is not happy. I dont want nothing to eat again oh my own. 4 children and their parents sit down for their meager meal their mother managed to find 3 pieces of bread which she gives to her husband and oldest son russell is ravenous. For the want to buy before the flood we had food stored away now theres never enough no matter what i do. After eating russell goes outside floods are common in bangladesh but this year there were several now according to unicef 1300000. 00 children are starving if they try catching fish these children used to get food in school but the schools have been closed for months. Listen stopped when the virus hit. Then the floods came. In school we had afternoon cookies id sure like some now. The padma river has turned into a seascape. Russells father is a fisherman and lets his son uses a boat but now the currents are too strong to cast the nets thats why the family has no income. The ride through the village reveals the disasters extent one 3rd of bangladesh is now under water a 1000000 and a half people displaced russells family home has also gone. Up much of the flood came so fast it was scary we took just a few things when we returned the next day it was all gone and everything washed away by. Now in low had junk people fear of the future experts warned the food shortage could lead to sickness among children Russell Heads out to the Emergency Shelter hes hungry again but hes a teenager and if he had money he says hed buy something different. Like 40500 football jerseys give them to all my friends id get the number 10 my friendly moan would get number 8 and no one would get an item that would be so cool. Then it starts raining again this years monsoon has brought the most rain in a decade not good news for the people of bangladesh. And this record flooding is of course happening in the middle of the cone about a spend make earlier i spoke of professor am safe from the institute of water and flood management of the buying of those university of engineering and technology i start about asking him how about us measures what impacting the flood recovery. Its a very crucial time were experiencing flood as you know that there are this super cycle on home front in the middle into the. Landfall in bangladesh and part of a media and then these at the city has are again calm so all this makes it challenging for either stirrer management. And budget and people has to go to shelter under this big 19 and any that it was a very long time so they take shelter some of the roads and involvement has also been a challenging task to provide the relief to the flood Vulnerable People and many houses damaged. Damaged this childrens are also not able to go to school so all this makes it very difficult situation to and of these 2 discussed or even single. Right and by now theres been no one countries unfortunately no stranger to flooding i wonder how the government is being able to deal with this situation. All men try their best actually because this is the door that this is a very. Trying situation that we have seen the juster of. The shia telling this more also i mean to say the least but theyre acting for their good byes to give. Money to the people and theyre planning to give more seats and also the teens for the Building Construction but still i think as you mentioned that more than 1000000 people either affected about one 3rd of the countries so that for it is very. Difficult to actually capture on disturbia or support the old. Professor from islam from the violation of 1st invented outing and technology thank you so much. Thank you. 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