for money and for food and water. it is a bad situation. getting worse day by day. talking to your sister in those circumstances, how hard is that for you? it is too much. it is heartbreaking for me because this situation, i can t do for them anything. amidst the despair there are positive moments here. lessons in farsi for children, many of whom have never been to the country of their parents birth. and classes in english for adults looking to improve their language skills. as well as food, advice and support. how important is this place at the moment, given the terrible things happening in afghanistan? i think this place plays a vital role. people are becoming very, very, notjust upset, but also anxious and confused about what will happen
seniors, homeless people. the situation has clearly changed dramatically. have you been speaking to your family? yeah, their life is in danger. we don t know what will happen next. it s a shame. it s a shame for all of us. not only me, for all of the human beings, all of the communities around the world. maria s mother and four sisters are in the afghan capital. three weeks ago, my father, he passed away. now they are by themselves. on friday, before the taliban reached the city, she managed to speak to them. i m watching the situation right now. people are coming from the provinces. the girls have nothing to do but stay on the streets. they were begging
who is pregnant. so you woke up and basically tried to run out, but then the house collapsed on top of her? she says her leg hurts and she has abdominal pain. most of the hospitals here are in need of the basics. iv solutions, bandages, medications, including antibiotics and pain management medications. they re in the same situation where they ve run out. overall it s dire. you know, we re sitting here with three hospitals that are moving patients to the airport for transportation out. there s no coordination. a tropical storm here is also preventing flights in and out of the capital. the people here need help, but at the moment not enough is coming. james clayton, bbc news. i will be talking to a representative of the red cross in haiti about their efforts in the latest on the situation there. now it s time for a look at the weather with carol hello again. today we have started off on a fairly cloudy note with some
left in 1996, 97, it was the first year that the taliban got into kabul and i had to leave because my life was in danger. at that time i was a young teenage girl and i lost my mother, my two brothers, my four cousins and also i lost my dad during the russian war, i never saw him. so it was very, very difficult is a situation, i could knuckle out of the house, schools were closed, nobody could go to work, no food, no money, nothing, it was a very difficult time for me and i had no one to even bury my own mother because my brothers were hiding from the taliban to another safer place and my mum died in my arms. it was very hard for me but i managed
rights abuses, taking women and having forced marriage which in a muslim country is a very, very terrible situation, to take the girls in front of the family members and take them with themselves and having forced marriage, as well as there are serious human rights violations committed by the taliban where they killed thousands of afghan soldiers and people who were working with the afghanistan army for the past 20 years. i don t think the taliban attitude has changed, the taliban attitude has changed, the taliban attitude has changed, the taliban has become more extreme, more radical. and more fundamentalist. and more violent. yes, this is the problem that the international media sometimes