welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. ever since the taliban seized power again in 2021, millions of women and girls have lost access to education and other freedoms. the country is now facing a humanitarian crisis, with its coldest winter in a decade. temperatures are as low as minus 31 degrees celsius. the united nations estimates that 97% of afghans are living in poverty. some 20 million people are facing acute hunger. two thirds of afghans are in need of humanitarian assistance, including clean water and sanitation and, yet, the taliban is refusing to lift the ban on female aid workers. that ban was confirmed in a statement to the bbc today. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has travelled to the salang in the hindu kush to see how bad things are. a winter wonderland of aching beauty, but brutal. we are travelling through the masses of the hindu kush, through the world s second h
latest bit of information and these documents? after he left these documents? after he left the white house these documents? after he left the white house mike - these documents? after he left the white house mike pence i the white house mike pence insisted he had not taken any secret documents home with him but the revelation that documents have been found at joe biden s residents prompted mike pentz s aids to look a little closer and they came across about a dozen documents with classified markings at mr pence s home in indiana. following the discovery of those documents, not only a joe biden s residents and garage but also at mara lado, the florida residents of donald trump, that is prompt questions about whether another special prosecutor should be appointed to look into what is going on here. there has already been a special prosecutor appointed to both the trump and biden cases. this is a serious matter, make no mistake because classified documents supplied to the senate inte
from the president s aids. there is a question here that i m sure the trump white house is aware of. if you go back to the obama interview with chris wallice in which he says that hillary clinton didn t intentionally have her e-mail problem and it wasn t intended then a couple months later comby using almost exactly that same language. this is where i want you to go. that is where and i remember a lot of questions being asked at the time! the feeling is out there i mean i have seen this in print that the fire storm that is following this isn t there and wasn t there for president
he is on safe political ground. that s certainly true and it s true of any president. he is also safe framing it as a media fight versus real america. he could speak about it in that way. once you go beyond that and contradicting all of your aids along the way it makes things more complicated and messy for you. the white house has also reached a point, and i say this with no glee at all. i think everyone want to trust the word coming out. you want to believe it is real. they are making a statement that this conversation between comey and the president, it didn t happen. it didn t happen the way it s being reported. the only two people who know are the two people who were in the room at the time. the president has a history of saying thin things to his aids which turn out not to be true.
we saw this when he was briefed. he didn t tell his aids and his aids went out there and attacked cnn. we were right. he was briefed. it later came out. and i think it causes more problems for him. i think in part because he was und undermined a week earlier. so you get this situation where he built a situation for many many years and need to make sure he is preserving it as an honest broker. and there s also a credibility problem as well. you can see time and time again his aid is trying to defentd him and they are throwing him under the bus. a lot of his aids are coming to his defense. you won t see it much coming