live from cnn world h headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching in the united states, canada and around the world. i m brynn kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. fresh fighting was reported saturday in afghanistan s panjshir value i why, the only territory the taliban haven t captured. panjshir is home to the national resistant front which has been opposing the taliban for decades. the fighting intensifies. in the capital the company s fragile economy got a small boost saturday when the largest currency exchange market opened for the first time in three weeks. ordinary afghans have been starved for cash because banks are limiting withdrawals. journalist ben farmer is in kabul and joins us by phone with the latest from there. let s start with the fighting in the panjshir. what is the latest on the conflict there? it looks as though we may have lost ben. we might try and reach him again later on. now earlier, i spoke with ben and so we re going to play a littl
world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. afghanistan s valley now the focus of taliban efforts to completely take over the country but anti-taliban forces are fighting back. panjshir is the only territory not under taliban control. fresh fighting was reported saturday with both sides claiming successes. cnn cannot independently verify the accuracy of those reports. and the largest currency exchange market reopened for the first time in nearly three weeks, but banks are limiting withdrawals. ben farmer is in kabul and is joining us by phone. so let s start with that fighting, what is the latest on the conflict there? we know that there have been several days of heavy fighting in panjshir, and as you said both sides have said that they have had successes and victories, but all we know independently is that the taliban have penetrated into the valley as far as a hospital which is run by an international aid charity. and it is a significant way into the valley. so th
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