into friday's mass stabbing in the town of solingen in western germany. a suspect who turned himself in is said to have confessed to carrying out the attack. the authorities say the man — a 26—year—old syrian — is suspected of being a member of the islamic state group. the russian founder of the telegram messaging service, pavel durov, is expected to appear in court later on sunday. french media is reporting that the billionaire was arrested on saturday at an airport on the outskirts of paris. you can get more on those stories on the bbc news website and app. now on bbc news... afghanistan: for the sake of my sisters. gunfire woman gasps gunfire continues

breaking news now — and taliban fighters have reached the afghan capital, kabul. all flights have stopped. thousands of people continue to try and get into the airport and onto a flight. women have been completelyi marginalised since the taliban have come back to power. girls after primary—school age cannot go to school. women are not able to work. female university students are being told to go back home. the taliban have been trying to stop women in the afghan capital, kabul, from protesting against the restriction of women's rights. human rights groups criticised an all—male gathering of more than 4,000 taliban leaders. girls�* education and women's rights barely rated a mention. hours after girls started arriving, the de facto authorities announced they needed to go back home. how do you erase 20 years of women's rights? they've now been left devastated by news that we've just received that secondary schools for girls will not be reopening. i've seen girls crying.

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you will be teaching a girl in afghanistan a bit of education, a bit of maths, a bit of information. what are the things we need to be aware of when we're presenting...? confidence. mm—hm. confidence. those girls need to feel safe with you. and that will come through your attributes and through these skills, and they will look forward to it. what if you're not happy at all? should we fake it? i mean, what if we are feeling pressured mentally? what if... 7 yeah. in your personal life? yes. 0k. for that moment, just cut out...

yeah. ..my real life. i have worked as a journalist for years, and i have written stories of victims of war, which is totally different. this is a, erm, positive, happy project. if you're happy to give it a go, that's great. 0k. yeah. in three, two, one. action. speaking in pashto i have two sisters back in afghanistan. they cannot go to school and university, and... not only them. each girl in afghanistan. i know what they are going through. continues in pashto

applause how do you feel that went? i felt good. if you had to think of a criticism, what would it be? my speed. it was fast, i think. i couldn't tell when you were taking a breath or when a sentence was coming to an end. so, if you felt that it was slightly fast, then maybe it was just slightly fast. ok, so think about that. it was a good day. i was so excited about it. this project is something i am...in love with. i was about to cry many times today, but i controlled myself. i really hope we can do something for the teenagers in afghanistan, especially girls. they have suffered a lot.

we received 170 calls for help in the two days after school and universities were shut for girls. now, we get roughly seven to ten new calls every day. i was not in a good place myself. i didn't leave home for 90 days when my friends were arrested. assalaamu alaikum. each time i leave home, i'm afraid. if i say i'm not, it's not true.

i don't tell anyone what i do. only my mum knows. i started going to home schools. as a psychosocial counsellor, i teach girls how to be the best version of themselves, even at the worst time. i tell them to write about their experiences. i tell my students, "do not say the word �*taliban�*. "instead refer to them as �*the government�* "for your own sanity." i said, "the government are afraid of you. "that's why they might never open schools. "but you have to study. "you have to fight. "are you ready for that?" today, we had a meeting, and we talked about a project to cover the second anniversary

of taliban coming to kabul, but i wasn't able to talk. it triggered me a lot, that i was shaking all day long. tearfully: it's been a long time. it still feels like. . .today. gunfire on phone this was the day taliban came to kabul. i was literally shocked. i filmed this outside my window. gunshot ah! one week after taliban came to kabul, suddenly it was midnight. everybody was sleeping. my family and i was sleeping. i got a call from the uk government — they told me to leave to airport in minutes. because i was working with the bbc,

i was a journalist. i had the opportunity to leave the country. i didn't have any suitcase. i didn't have my backpack packed. i had nothing. my family, they were not ready for this. my dad... my dad was crying. and this was the first time i saw my dad crying. indistinct chatter car horns honk i left to the airport. there was gun—shooting sound and... gunfire she gasps gunfire continues just being a journalist, i tried to record things on my way to the airport. people, they were just

literally sleeping on roads, and kids and women. it was just so scary. i cannot forget that night. i was waiting to enter the airport for 48 hours. night and day, i wasjust standing. no food, no water. i couldn't even come back to home, because everybody was pushing each other to be able to enter the airport. and i don't know if i was lucky or not, because i don't believe leaving my country, leaving my family behind was luck. but... but i had to.

well, i haven't seen any pictures of the new flat i'm moving to. i really hope that i can make it a home, because it's been months that i'm living in hotels.

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call to prayer on 15th of august, as much as i was preparing myself and my students, we felt utterly helpless. we had a simple conversation. schools were supposed to open. i told them, "they may not open schools any time soon. "will we stop studying? "will we stop fighting ? " i said, "i know that this will turn you into women "who would never raise a talib". girls don't have anywhere

to go to socialise. so, they say, "here is where they can at least have fun". women and girls are at home all the time, like during corona. for many, life is getting up every morning, praying, preparing breakfast, cleaning the house, helping prepare lunch, cleaning again. still, the day is too long. they spend six to seven hours a day just thinking what to do. their lives are financially hard, too. one day, one of my students came to me for counselling. i saw blood dripping on her clothes. she had cut her veins. i said, "god help me". she said it's the second day. they don't have anything to eat at home. she said it's easier to die than to see her nieces

and nephews suffer like this. she is better now. she comes to my classes, writes stories. for me, it's like i have won the nobel prize. ijust told simon. well, he was very calm about it. like she is... hello! hi. ok, erm, sojust... there's some technical issues, so they've asked us to delay by a week, which is obviously a shame, but it gives us a bit more time to get things ready. mm—hm. one more thing. because we already know. who is doing which episode, the episode that you are doing, you'll say, "ok, this— "was for me this week. "next week, you will have alia,

and we'll have much more - "exciting stuff for you. " yeah. so, that they get to know you guys as, like, people that they recognise. mm. yeah. yeah, you can say, "next week, we'll be learning english and maths, "and also hearing about women's — the women's suffrage movement". so that... inspirational stories. yeah. cos we want them to come back. yeah.

salaam. tomorrow, i never imagined this world could bring me so muchjoy. tomorrow is exactly two years since i started my work with these girls, and it has transformed me from the dark, fearful, and pessimistic person i was into a courageous and creative woman. these girls have helped me more than i have helped them. we are like a family. we support each other during hard times.

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yeah, yeah. erm, i think so. dari, take one. wait. she speaks in dari dari, take two. dari, take five.

they clap nailed it. yeah. well done, everyone. good job. we've got some good stuff. so, this is exciting. it's really exciting. it is, it is. sahar: when the programme first started, my sisters and other afghan girls, they were all so happy. i received many comments on social media, and they were telling me how helpful this programme is for them. it's also nice that we've been invited to the uk's schools to talk about the dars programme in person. all right. hello, everybody! so, i'll let sahar tell you a bit about afghanistan, because that's where sahar is from. i don't know if you guys know

anything about afghanistan, or anybody else is from afghanistan here? what's your name? sara. so, i don't know if sara knows anything about afghanistan. i don't know if she has been there. you have been there? well, living, studying, and working in afghanistan is totally different from uk. it's so challenging. you have to fight for your rights. because basically now, in afghanistan, girls don't have the right to go to school. i have two little sisters back in afghanistan. they cannot go to school, which is so heartbreaking for me. and that's why i'm working with this project is so exciting. what happens if girls were able to be taught at home? it's not enough. even our programme, it cannot fill the empty place of school. but we try to, you know, keep their hopes and dreams

alive by this show. it's been more than two—and—a—half years since the taliban took over. sadly, schools are still closed. ..teach people, erm... but we, the bbc, decided to go ahead with the second series, which is very great news for us and for afghan girls. bye, guys! thank you! bye— bye! have a good day! so nice to meet you. and things are slowly getting better for me, as well. i found a permanent place, and i've moved in. we're like a family. we support each other during hard times. the other day, they surprised me with cake. their kindness leaves me speechless. all: # happy birthday to you # happy birthday to you...#

and i feel powerful with them. i hope for the day that we can live as free and equal humans under these skies. hello there. well, it's another rather breezy day for this time of year, but not as windy as it was at the end of last week. there's yet more wet weather to come

in the forecast too. most of that is out towards the north and the west because further south and east, it should stay largely dry. but we've already seen the best of the sunshine this morning, such as here in northamptonshire, a rather chilly start to the day for this time of year too, many of our temperatures back into single figures. but here comes the rain. it's slowly pushing eastwards across much of scotland, northern ireland and northern england, particularly heavy for southwest scotland, northwest england, where the ground is already saturated. few patches of rain across wales and for southwest england. it's windy for the time of year, especially for these irish sea coasts, but largely dry across southeast england, central southern england and east anglia, just turning cloudier through the afternoon and temperatures still below the seasonal average. now, overnight tonight, the bulk of that rain clears. a few showers for northern england, southern scotland and maybe some scattered showers too for the far southeast of england, but lots of clear skies and it's a milder start to the day tomorrow than it was earlier on this morning. now, tomorrow, bank holiday,

of course, for many of us. high pressure builds in from the south, so it is looking mostly dry. any early showers across the far south and east of england and across northern england should gradually clear. there'll be a lot of sunny spells around, largely dry, not as windy as it is today and so temperatures will be that little bit higher. in fact, we'll see back to the seasonal average. high teens, low 20s, could get a 23 or 2a celsius in the best of the sunshine across parts of southeast england. but here comes another weather front. that's going to be sinking southwards and eastwards as we head through tuesday. but towards the south and the east, we've got a southerly wind just pushing some warmer—feeling air our way. some uncertainty still on the timing and position of this weather front towards the north and the west. a scattering of showers, also some sunny spells. heavy rain under the front, but for much of england and possibly for eastern areas of wales, it remains dry. there'll be some sunshine and it will be feeling warmer again. temperatures here in the mid—20s.

and the peak of the heat in the southeast is likely to be on wednesday, 28 degrees, but further north and west it's cooler with outbreaks of rain. bye— bye. live from london, this is bbc news. israel launches a wave of air strikes against hezbollah in lebanon, saying it was preempting plans for a large—scale attack. hundreds of rockets have been fired into israel. the israeli military released this footage of what it says is strikes on hezbollah rocket launchers in southern lebanon. 100 fighterjets took

part in the operation. in other news, german police say a syrian man has confessed to carrying out a mass stabbing attack in the city of solingen. telegram founder pavel durov is expected in a french court today after being arrested on saturday when his privatejet landed in paris hello, i'm nicky schiller. we start with a major development in the middle east. there's been an intense exchange of fire between israel and hezbollah militants. israel launched a wave of air strikes against hezbollah positions in lebanon, saying it was pre—empting plans for a large—scale attack. israel's prime minister has promised to do everything to protect the country. these are the latest pictures coming from northern israel. hezbollah said it fired hundreds of rockets towards israel in its first response to israel's assassination of a senior commander in beirut last month.