week giving special reference t afghanistan, saying women an girls have been erased fro public life under the taliban, and singled out afghanistan as the most repressive nation i the world for women and girls. in afghanistan, the taliban ha restricted education for girls after the sixth grade, women are banned from public spaces, parks, and gyms. the associated press reports that despite the extreme crackdown on women s freedoms, 12 groups of women did gathe to advocate for their right to an education, to mar international women s day, and about 200 small business owners, all women, meant to exhibi their impact of the taliban has ha on their work. they have been more than 3 taliban barring women from public life and severely limiting thei rights since the taliban takeover of afghanistan. in pakistan, authorities ban and suppressed women sta protest, in the eastern city o the local government imposed a ban on protest of gatherings o rallies or any kind of women
taking equipment and vehicles with them. what do you make of these conclusions? a couple things. first of all, the taliban takeover of afghanistan is a complete disaster, no doubt about that. what s clear is the mistake we made over the course of 20 years, not over the course of one or two or six months, but over the course of 20 years was that we believed we could reshape afghanistan fundamentally by the use of the military and u.s. resources. long after it was clear that that wasn t going to work we kept trying to do it at enormous costs, in lives certainly, in money. president biden made the decision that should have been made a lot sooner. we weren t going to be successful. now, in that, it was a terrible situation. we had a lot of people in afghanistan that we wanted to get out. no matter when this war ended or how it ended, that was going to be true. if we had stayed there, we would
be living in downtown kabul. the u.s. drone strike that killed him, the biden administration says, is proof that so-called over the horizon missions from outside afghanistan can work. but the u.s. intelligence community is severely hampered by not having american eyes and ears on the ground according to the cia s top former analyst on afghanistan. we have a growing terrorist threat in afghanistan. i will say i think we need to keep this in perspective. it s nothing like what it was before 2001. al qaeda is still a shadow of itself. we still have that ability to take them out. reporter: and a year on from the taliban takeover of afghanistan, that country is spiraling, facing crises on multiple fronts, erin an economic crisis, a humanitarian crisis, a medical crisis. all of that further fueling the debate about the 20 years of war in afghanistan and its dramatic
the bbc news website as well as a special report on the one year of the taliban takeover of afghanistan. you can reach me on twitter i m @richpreston. hello. after a week where, somewhere in the uk, we ve recorded a daytime high of 30 celsius or above every single day, we re finally seeing the heat come to an end. moving into the new week. could see 30 celsius somewhere in eastern england today, but it will be cooler than it has been through the weekend. thunderstorms becoming more of a talking point for us, as we look into the days ahead. we could see some just about anywhere across england and wales today but by no means everywhere, so some areas will remain stubbornly dry, while others get some quite intense downpours. eastern scotland perhaps getting some thundery showers. further north, it s the more persistent rain for central and eastern scotland and for northern ireland. it s cooler here, but still,
calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. and yet the taliban s emirate seems more focused on controlling the lives of its citizens, especially women, who have seen so much of the progress they ve made over the past 20 years disappear. on saturday, in defiance of taliban laws, dozens of afghan women took to the streets of kabul to demand their rights, chanting bread, education and freedom. but instead were met with bullets as taliban security forces fired live rounds into the air to try and disperse them. on the one-year anniversary of the taliban takeover of afghanistan, few afghans are celebrating as they struggle to feed their families and find themselves living under increasingly oppressive rule. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, kabul. still ahead on the cbs weekend news, 4,000 beagles looking to start a new life in a forever home. home.