Polls for snap elections. A tight race with justin trudeau hoping his handling of the pandemic will keep him in power. Although the taliban are showing increasing signs of repressive government, some women are not backing down. A group of brave activists protesting outside what used to be the ministry on sunday. The taliban closed it and replaced it with their feared ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. The protests come after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. Translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them as well as by not allowing them to go to school. You cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. Now, a private preschool opened on sunday in kabul with both boys and girls attending. That s a rare sight. The taliban insist that public secondary school for girls will be allowed, but they say they have to set up what they call safe transportation first. Well, for
Eyes. It s the story of rapid action with ongoing consequences. The desperation in afghanistan today, the withdrawal of american troops, the return to power of the taliban, it all began with a decision immediately after the 9/11 attacks to respond with war. We ll show you through the lens of the nbc news archives how america went from a quiet week in september 2001 to a military footing that would last for 20 years. Along the way, we ll hear from a veteran of afghanistan and iraq, now congressman jason crow and we ll ask him the question that used to be almost taboo. Was the decision to invade afghanistan made in too much haste? did we rush into war? our story begins on september 10, 2001. When president george w. Bush used his fighting words for an altogether peaceful cause against a very different enemy. There are too many of our kids in america who can t read today. Maybe not in this school, but around the nation there is just too many. And now it s time to wage war on illiteracy fo
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