salaries and can t withdraw money from banks, so they re selling their possessions just to make ends meet. our afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani sent this report from the city of mazar i sharif, as ex government forces begin to work with the taliban. lifting off, the taliban s new air force. on board, their fighters. in the cockpit, theirformer enemies pilots from the previous government. but as the group announced an amnesty, others decided to stay on. you are both sitting here very calmly, but do you recognise that it s quite a strange situation for two people who were trying to kill each other now to be working together?
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there s wally waving. she s leading the crew. reporter: so it came as no surprise when wally funk lead the charge on launch day. i was told, eight stories of stairwell. so i had gone to my doctor, and he had big stairs. i practiced. we are at t-minus 15 minutes. reporter: but when launch time was put on a brief hold, wally did what wally does. time s passing, and so i hit the button, i said, what s the hold-up? we re lifting off, and we re going up, and i m looking out the window, and i said, wow! there goes the ground! reporter: the dream of a lifetime soaring skyward at 2,500 miles an hour. and then everything stopped. oh, that s great! reporter: this is what it looks like. wooo! oh, i love it! i love it! reporter: .when your dreams come true, 351,000 feet above the earth. and it s the greatest feeling
literally. lifting off. there is a lot of hype about billionaire richard branson taking a trip to the edge of space a few hours from now. it s really a space race between branson and bezos even though they play nice. there is a lot of ego attached to this. what do you make of the hype? yes, and we now know the launch is slated for 10:30 a.m. eastern time. delayed a little bit due to weather. whenever it happens we will be showing it live. it s a milestone in the space race, even though? partly a giant commercial for richard branson, him wanting to get up there before jeff bezos does on july 20th. yes, you know, this is promotional for his company. but it s also i think promotional for something bigger about the notion that these u.s.-based companies are achieving incredible accomplishments, making it further and further along with private exploration of space. so it s a big moment for branson and then in a couple of weeks a big moment for bezos as well and