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You ve spent time speaking to people about the challenges of trying to get access to cash. what did you find out? the economic situation for ordinary afghans is very difficult. the banks are open but there are strict limits on how much you can withdraw. that limit is currently $200 a week. and of course you can only withdraw money if you ve got it in the bank. lots and lots of afghans have not been paid for a long time. the government which has a significant payroll hasn t paid its workers for two months. several people we ve spoken to haven t been paid for that long and they really are desperate. if you look around the city as well, although there are signs that normality is returning, it is not there yet. lots and lots of shops are closed. lots and lots of storefronts are shuttered. and the economic situation is difficult for a lot of people. all right. thank you so much, ben farmer in ....
Payroll is very large in afghanistan. there s a lot of the teachers, a lot of the people in the security forces, so on. those people haven t been paid for up to two months. not just since the takeover of the taliban. they weren t paid in the last days of the government. so they re really struggling. the queues outside the banks are very, very long. we saw taliban fighters trying to keep order, whipping them, using sticks to try to keep them in line. ben farmer in kabul, thanks so much. no one knows exactly how the taliban plan to rule because they haven t yet formed a government. cnn s ivan watson joins us from hong kong. ivan, we re getting a few more details trickling out about the government the taliban are forming now. what can you tell us? well, we know from officials in pakistan who have been talking to cnn, and pakistan, of course, has a very long relationship of ties with the taliban, where pakistani ....
Parlor at the moment. and all the signs which showed women in their dresses have been whitewashed over. wow. that s a dramatic symbol of the changes that are arriving there in kabul. listen, thanks so much for talking to us, ben farmer in kabul, appreciate it. and now i want to turn to cnn international diplomatic editor nick rat robertson live islamabad. the resistance in the panjshir valley, the taliban say they control it, the resistance says it s still in their hands. what s the latest on the resistance movement there? reporter: the fighting continues. the resistance movement is making clear that they re not going to budge. the taliban have released videos that show that they ve taken some of the strategic heights around the valley. this is a valley that the soviets couldn t conquer. this is a valley that the when they were in the country in the 1980s that the taliban back ....
but it s been a very violent day. much more violent, much more furious than the protests yesterday. we have a final death toll we believe of six dead and 30 wounded. perhaps six different protests across the country. so it seems to have escalated significantly today. and president karzai actually put out a statement, right? what did he say? reporter: yeah, he put out a statement this afternoon. a lot of people are waiting to see what he ll say. he said he condemned the burning and he ordered an investigation into what had happened and he appointed committee of senior clerics to find out what was going on. i think the key thing was that he condemned the burning. that s actually our ben farmer in kabul there. we apologize. it s not always easy to link up technically, but we will stay with ben on this story. ben, i apologize. we lost your audio. an american woman who reported on the violence in syria has now become a victim of it. marie colvin worked for the sunday t ....
the jewelry district, and it s popularly known as the diamond district. it s made up as narrow lanes and alley ways, and usually very, very crowded. especially at rush hour. and at the scene right now, there are lots of police personnel over here, and lots of journalis journalists, and curious on lookers. the police are trying to clear the area and get everybody away. we have seen shattered glass on the ground. and the police have covered some cars at the moment, and a few are addressing the journalists at the moment. it s a chaotic scene. can you walk us through the targeted areas and give us a brief idea of why those areas are so significant? reporter: sure. all three areas are really crowded, congested areas. let me tell you about the first area in the north which is the area of sadr. it s very close to an important railway station. remember, mumbai is a city that defends on its workforce. you have millions of people who commute into the city on local trains ever ....