demand. selling chains for tyres in the coldest winter in a decade. tough stuff, in threadbare clothes. translation: it is tough stuff, in threadbare clothes. translation: translation: it is so called, you can t see the translation: it is so called, you can t see the road. translation: it is so called, you can t see the road. you translation: it is so called, you can t see the road. you can t - translation: it is so called, you can t see the road. you can t walk| can t see the road. you can t walk and the heater in cars don t work. these are the lives people live here. it is so called, but he said it is going to get colder still. he s been out, his eyebrows are frozen, and my face feels like it is going to imagine if you live day in, day out in conditions like this. this is the only way to reach his home, there s no road. nothing is easyin home, there s no road. nothing is easy in this life. this is what life
it is the country s coldest winter in a decade. we will hear from a number of people who are experiencing this. here s one man in the mountainous hindu kush region. translation: it gets so cold, you can t see the road. - you can t walk and that heaters in cars don t work. snow in afghanistan s mountains replenishes ground water and is beneficial to agriculture. and the hindu kush which curves through afghanistan and cuts into pakistan and tajikistan is no stranger to harsh winters. this one is different. lyce doucet is there. it s so cold, he says it s going to get colder. my face feels like it s going to fall off, imagine if you lived day in, day out in conditions like this in addition to the afghan people who have died, about 70,000 livestock have also
thank you very much. now to afghanistan where freezing weather has killed 124 people in the past two weeks. january has seen temperatures dip as low as 34 celsius in parts of the country. it is the country s coldest winter in a decade. here s one man in the mountainous hindu kush region. translation: it gets so cold, you can t see the road. - you can t walk and that heaters in cars don t work. snow in afghanistan s mountains replenishes ground water and is beneficial to agriculture. and the hindu kush which curves through afghanistan and cuts into pakistan and tajikistan is no stranger to harsh winters. lyce doucet is there.
beauty, but brutal. we re travelling through the massives of the hindu kush, through the world s second highest road tunnel, the salang tunnel, a place of legend. it s an engineering wonder, but a death trap, especially in winter, in avalanches and accidents. the only highway rescue at this spot is sakhi mohammad, selling chains for tyres, in the coldest winter in a decade. tough stuff, in threadbare clothes. translation: it gets so cold, you can t see the road. - you can t walk, and the heaters in cars don t work. these are the lives
you cannot see the road. - you can t walk, and the heaters in cars don t work. these are the lives that people live here. it s so cold, but he said it s going to get colder still. we ve been outjust four minutes and my eyebrows are frozen and my face feels like it s going to fall off. imagine if you lived day in, day out, in conditions like this. this is the only way to reach saki mohammed s home. there is no road. nothing is easy in this life. this is what life is like here. literally lived on the edge. even for the littlest, with little coverfrom this biting cold. a home made of mud with the warmth of a large family. translation: i have heard people died of cold. -