people were killed by celebratory gunfire, ie, taliban shooting into the air to celebrate alleged victory. 17 people just in kabul alone today after reports spread that the taliban had taken the puncture valley. that s something that we can t confirm but some taliban officials are saying. remember, these two groups had been fighting one another for more than two decades. meanwhile in kabul a group of afghan women attacked by taliban fight erstwhile protesting for their rights saturday. the taliban fire intoed the air and used teargas bringing their demonstration, the second of its kind in many days to an abrupt end. what rights women will have under the taliban is a huge unknown as you know. the taliban says they will have the right to work and right to go to school but that is not a given and the reality, anita, that we just don t know. we still don t have an official government in afghanistan.
equipment the u.s. gave the government of afghanistan to fight the taliban and now at the disposal of the taliban. the so-called afghan resistance, however, says they are in control. afghan resistance meaning members of the former government and fighters who moved into this patch of land when the taliban took cattle. they were hold up there when the taliban in power between 1995 and 2001 and it is from there that they began their triumphant move to kabul when the military teamed up with them after 9/11. to prove the point that they are still there and control, the former afghan vice president, one of the former president ghani s right-hand man, looked to have been shot in puncture valley and uploaded on the internet friday. that doesn t appear to have spooked the taliban, one afghan news agency is reporting that 17
griff: anita. anita: heavy clashes, that s how the situation has been described as the taliban fights opposition in one of the last strongholds in northern afghanistan. ryan shilko live from london with the details, hi, ryan. reporter: hi, anita, yeah, the taliban is in control of nearly all of afghanistan as you know, but there has been one last very strong pocket of resistance, one patch of land that has not been under the control of the taliban for these last couple of weeks. the area is called the puncture valley, to the north of the capital kabul and today the taliban, at least some taliban officials are saying that they are in control of that area. this video purports to show taliban in the vicinity of the valley, note the hump v by the way next to the taliban, that s