migration in human history. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 2:30am in the afghan capital kabul where monday marks a year since the taliban swept back into power. the 15th of august 2021 marked their takeover of the country and caused thousands to try and leave in fear of what could lie ahead. and leave in fear of one year on life for women and girls is very different with harsh rules restricting education and employment. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet, who was in kabul last august, has returned there for this special report. it s a man s world. afghanistan is a conservative country. but the rules are now set by the ultraconservative taliban. spaces which had opened up for women have now been slammed shut. we met three generations of women whose lives speak loudly about their world. many are afraid. they don t want to be identified. this woman used to be a senior official in the finance minist
and pakistan, resulting in the largest mass migration in human history. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore, and 3:30am in the afghan capital kabul where monday marks a year since the taliban swept back into power. the 15th of august 2021 marked their takeover of the country and caused thousands to try and leave in fear of what could lie ahead. one year on life for women and girls is very different with harsh rules restricting education and employment. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet who was in kabul last august has returned there for this special report. it s a man s world. afghanistan is a conservative country. but the rules are now set by the ultraconservative taliban. spaces which had opened up for women have now been slammed shut. we met three generations of women whose lives speak loudly about their world. many are afraid. they don t want to be identified. this woman used to b
the world s biggest oil producer s net income has almost doubled year on year. oil prices are up in the wake of russia s attack on ukraine and increasing demand after the pandemic. at least one person has died after an explosion rocked a shopping centre and caused a fireworks warehouse to catch fire in armenia s capital, yerevan. videos on social media show large clouds of black smoke in the sky and people running away as a building collapsed. north korean state media is reporting that the country s leader, kim jong un, has been sent a letter from russia s president, vladimir putin, with mr putin saying the two countries would expand their bilateral relations. according to media in pyongyang, president putin says closer ties would be in north korea and russia s interests, and would help strengthen the security and stability of the korean peninsula and the northeast asian region.
the world s biggest oil producer s net income has almost doubled year on year. oil prices are up in the wake of russia s attack on ukraine and increasing demand after the pandemic. at least one person has died after an explosion rocked a shopping centre and caused a fireworks warehouse to catch fire in armenia s capital, yerevan. videos on social media show large clouds of black smoke in the sky and people running away as a building collapsed. to north korea now, where state media is reporting that the country s leader has received a letterfrom russian president vladimir putin seeking to establish closer ties between the two countries. scott snyder, who s a senior fellow for korea studies at the council on foreign relations, said president putin could be seeking to use north korean labour in areas of ukraine that russian forces have seized. i think it represents a possible convergence of interests between russia and north korea.
oil giant aramco has announced record profits of more than $48 billion for the second quarter of this year. the world s biggest oil producer s net income has almost doubled year on year. oil prices are up because of russia s attack on ukraine and increasing demand after the pandemic. and a tropical storm is heading northeast in the pacific ocean off japan s tohoku region, after making landfall and causing damage in central japan on saturday. weather officials say the atmospheric conditions are expected to remain unstable for much ofjapan, and warn of more heavy rain, flooding and mudslides. to europe now, where several countries have been engulfed in a wave of deadly wildfires recently, triggered by record temperatures and drought across the continent. in france, officials in the south western gironde region have said a majorfire that had been dubbed a monster fire has been brought under control. 0ur correspondent