Republicans being forced to rethink grand plans for a big celebration followed the u. S. Conventions on aljazeera. Hello and welcome again to everyone im come out santa maria youre on rewind were revisiting some of the best and most influential programs from more than a decade of documentaries in the aljazeera archive as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on since. I can 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there it followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 1978 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned the guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahedeen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islamic rebels against
Them away from the streets. Where the only thing they knew was to carry guns and fight now instead of guns they killing cricket bats. This team has now carried their bats around the world. In cricket the name afghanistan is associated only with success and progress. But no one could have guessed just how good this side was about. Afghanistans cricket team was formally recognized by the sports world governing body in 2001 at the time they had no world ranking and no home ground like did have was a supremely talented generation of players and so began one of the most unlikely journeys and sports in history. The european Channel Island of jersey was afghanistans next stop with the financial backing of the international and asian Cricket Councils the team were and sit into division 5 of the World Cricket League the lowest tier of the international game. Pushkar or kabul they certainly wasnt but a familiar scene was soon so unfold afghan cricketers celebrating a tournament win on foreign so
God to send the rain. 7 and for a time it seems their prayers are answered. The bear is jubilant tonight shower is insufficient to stop the catastrophe but given the circumstances people here believe every drop counts you see in human son ignacio bolivia still hands on aljazeera other us mass shooting 5 people dead. And a sense of betrayal and anger with some of the new 1000000 indians the foreigners in a land they call their work. Hello again welcome back what we said a lot of tropical activity here across much of Southeast Asia over the last few weeks thats going to continue as we also begin the week were going to be watching 2 particular areas over here towards the eastern part of the philippines notice the clouds right there over that system is going to slowly develop and make its way towards the northwest but we dont think its going to be making landfall in the philippines just bring a lot of rain across that region and then to the west of the philippines this system is going to t
Aljazeera. And. Hello and welcome again to 31 santamaria here on rewind were revisiting some of the best and most influential programs from more than a decade of documentaries in the aljazeera archive as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on since. Like a 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 178. 00 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned a guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahideen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islam and rebels against russian backed government forces. It was the beginning of 4 decades of violence and unrest for that troubled country
Them away from the streets. Where the only thing they knew was to carry guns and fight now instead of guns they killing cricket bats. This team has now carried their bats around the world. In cricket the name afghanistan is associated only with success and progress. But no one could have guessed just how good this side was about. Afghanistans cricket team was formally recognized by the sports world governing body in 2001 at the time they had no world ranking and no home ground like did have was a supremely talented generation of players and so began one of the most unlikely journeys in sports in history. The european Channel Island of jersey was afghanistans next stop with the financial backing of the international and asian Cricket Councils the team were and sit into division 5 of the World Cricket League the lowest tier of the international game. Are all kabul is certainly wasnt but a familiar scene was soon so unfold afghan cricketers celebrating a tournament win on foreign soil com