and, queen of the mountains the norwegian climber who is on the verge of setting a very special record. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 4:30 in the morning in afghanistan, where dawn is breaking on the one year anniversary of the taliban s return to power. august 15th, 2021, saw thousands flee the country out of fear of what lied ahead, but many more where left behind, their daily lives changed beyond recognition. no more so than for country s women and girls, who are now subject to harsh, more conservative rules that restrict their education and employment. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet was in the capital a year ago as the taliban retook the country she s returned to kabul 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 s
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
the taliban s heartland was in southern afghanistan, around the city of kandahar. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is there. he s reported extensively from across the country before and since the takeover, and he sent us this update about how things have changed. two things stand out, the way that the taliban stance has grown increasingly hardline over the course of the year, and how different the experience of living under the taliban has been for different afghans. a lot of it depends on how they define freedom. for many teenage girls, they no longer have the freedom to go to school. anyone wanting to publicly criticise the taliban runs the risk of arrest, torture or even death. and many are deeply despondent here. but there are others for whom freedom has a very different meaning. villagers who are already living by deeply conservative values. for them, freedom means being able to plough their fields without being afraid of being caught in the crossfire of a gun battle. and for th
altitude which is a specialist bicycle retailer in waterford city. some breaking news from afghanistan in the last few minutes and it has been another mosque attack, this time in the city of kandahar. seven have been killed and 13 injured according to a doctor from a provincial hospital we are hearing 13 have been injured, and the attack was at a mosque in kandahar, a shia must. a spokesman for the taliban government s interior ministry said the authorities were collecting details. it took place in kandahar, tearing through the mosque in the southern city during friday prayers, causing very heavy casualties, as you would expect, the mosque was probably pretty full at the time.
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