with the world, with the international community which is something that they want, and we know they need, that is not going to happen, if they continue on this course. cnn s donna bashear is here with more. what if any reasons have they given for doing this? reporter: for the first time since that announcement on women s university education in afghanistan was made on tuesday, we have now heard directly from the taliban s minister for high education. he spoke giving a press conference on this issue and said that the taliban had come to this decision based off of violations of the taliban s islamic values in his words, namely dress code violations by female university students and also what we described as unsanctioned interaction between men and women at universities. take a listen to what he had to say.