want to go home. what is the issue with new zealand and why are you still in afghanistan? how long do you think you ll be there? yeah, so new zealand i m sure you guys have heard has done very well with covid management. they have been very strict orders throughout. you get back into the country or apply for an emergency allocation to get back into the country. it s like the lottery. i didn t get any spark and got here and we thought okay, running out of time. let s apply emergency application and they rejected us. they said frankly you are outside some kind of 14 arbitrary day window that we have. even if you were inside it, you haven t met the threshold. you haven t proven that you couldn t get treatment in afghanistan, which we were
up. she joins us now. i couldn t get your story out of my head all weekend. congratulations, there will be a baby. what s interesting is you write you thought you would never be able to get pregnant and now here you are. tell us about that time when you had to leave qatar and wanted to get home. it is so surreal the situation we find ourselves in. i was a journalist in all jaziri covering afghanistan. i asked the taliban what will you do to insure to protect women and children and i got pregnant and it was the beginning of quite an unpredictable situation where i went back to qatar where it is illegal to be pregnant and not
married. i had no way to get out. new zealand s borders were closed and i thought what am i going to do and where do i go? we went to my partner s country, belgium for a while. i need a tourist visa and we both from work visas for afghanistan. i contacted some taliban people that i trusted and had known for a while and said what do you think? will it be a problem? i will come and there will be a bump and people will know. and yeah, they said look foreigners and that s between you and congratulations, we re happy for you and you are welcome to come and if you have any issues you can call us. dana: if i were new zealand i would want you back. you are an amazing young woman, incredibly brave journalist about to have a baby and you
numbers scratched off. portland was gutted by defunding to appease rioters in 2020. our staffing issue is going to play a role in our ability to address this. we know the problem is bigger than we can handle right now. carjackings were also big up way up in the country last year. part of a larger spike of violent crime but again pretty different to go around and see a lot of these cars chopped up in homeless encampments. you see that in portland zbl. shocking. that s what you get when you defund. thanks so much. dana: pregnant new zealand journalist stuck in afghanistan has turned to the taliban for refuge because she says her country won t allow her to return home because of strict quarantine rules. she wrote in an op-ed when the taliban offers you a pregnant unmarried woman safe haven you know your situation is messed
you have grown-ups acting like grown-ups. what you have to have, eric, is these grown-ups, the lawmakers, to sit down and talk to each other and stop talking around each other. as they talk around each other, crime again is running rampant, eric. eric: and it has been increasing sadly and we are seeing the effects of that. ted williams, thank you. dana. dana: pregnant journalist said she is stuck in afghanistan because of covid rules in her home country of new zealand. we ll talk to her about her ordeal next. more than 9,000 cars were stolen last year in portland, oregon and many were dismantled in homeless tent camps. how local officials are wisconsin. some of these are well organized. we see some that they have a very clear system for how they