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mm. welcome to portal. i'm sandra gammon back with more great content from the digital side of al jazeera as our website, social media and podcast. now this week it's all about afghanistan. we've got a film about the struggles of some young african refugees in norway and the woman who helped them. we'll show you that a bit later. but let's begin with what's been happening in afghanistan since the taliban took over november 23rd marks their 1st 100 days in power. so for this episode of start here, my team and i decided to take stock. we looked at how things have changed under the new government and the desperate situation now facing millions of afghans as winter sets in. ah, let's talk about afghanistan. and what's happened since the u. s. pulled out. and

the taliban took over. there was the desperate scramble to leave and there were fears about what might happen to those who couldn't. and there were so many questions about what like could be like under the taliban. we've seen protests bombings, economy as basically collapse. people are really struggling. this is a count down to catastrophe. the taliban have now been in power for a 100 days. that's a 100 days to figure out how to run a country of almost 40000000 people. so if you've not been following the story, here's what's going on with her. let's start with how almost everybody in afghanistan, 95 percent, don't have enough food to eat. more than half the population are at risk of

starvation. that's 23000000 people and includes 3000000 children under the age of 5. ah, as christian, i get it. i wish to get them a promotion was that the mother of this yacht had? no no, hold on about shop, not on the water. and when you combine that with freezing wind conditions, you've got catastrophe, poverty, hunger and tough winters are nothing new and got us down. but right now, 2 things are making the food crisis so much worse. first, there's a terrible drought over with the, you know, we're lucky to the what go below the, the sound, i know we had a little and 2nd, there's the state of the economy. the whole financial system collapse or assets are frozen. age many was scott, so what happened was when the taliban took over the u. s. fro is more than $9000000000.00 of afghan assets. that's basically money and investment held in the

us. at the same time, foreign financial aid was also cut pretty much overnight. now you have to realize that under the old government, 75 percent of its budget was foreign aid. and that money is just not there anymore . the economy of, of, on the phone was completely artificial. it revolved around aid. and to, to see that, that on day one, the aid, the assets, the loan, everything gets caught. how are you in the service move? what single coalition j a 100 gina? bit, bundis you. oh, how did you self model this voluminous, did that, like you said, the u. s. and others don't want the taliban to get their hands on any of this money, but it's crippled be economy? one of the big problems is a major shortage of cash in a country that runs on cash. the banks don't have enough and upset limits on

withdrawals, and everything's getting more expensive, especially in ports like fuel. because the currency, the afghani, has dropped to an all time low against the dollar, from civil servants to construction workers. people just aren't getting paid much those. the 4th of the danish, the villages johan going are told one, the one who no been the room or shut that one the top of the birth or a little kid was so little were so more like i'm just had a good the put it in your per her, a country that had a budget of 11000000000 and 2000. what 19 and now having literally nothing. it's a humanitarian crisis and we can't be numb to the situation. no matter who is in power, not a single country has officially recognized the taliban government. but the afghan people are also hurting from this isolation. the un and other international agencies are still working in afghanistan to deliver food and supplies. that's the main way help is getting to the afghan people right now. but if canister needs so

much more than just emergency aid, it needs to be able to trade like any other country, whether anyone likes it or not, the taliban or the reality of the country right now. and if you say that you care about the people of honest on, then you need to deal with the people who are the leaders now. so who are the leaders? well, they've named an interim government made up entirely of senior taliban members. mohammed house on a kind, he's the acting prime minister and is on a un sanctions list series. connie has designated a terrorist by the us is the interior minister and harmonia group, the son of the taliban founder is the defense minister. there's also the taliban supreme leader here to law akins adar, who has ultimate authority over the group. but he's rarely seen in public. the who's really in charge and what their plans are. it's just not very clear. we don't know who is playing the song. you know, nobody knows who plays the,

you're unable to communicate what exactly they are doing, what exactly are there so far? and with them what as a policy off the talent, how they are, just like the polar bond do not have experience or funding or personnel to deliver sophisticated government services. and there's also confusion about what the new social codes are, which so many people were worried about when the taliban came to power. the leadership of said that people's rights will be protected in accordance with islamic law. at least their version of it. that is our vision for, for a future of the sun, where we are an open society, a diverse society where people have freedom of movement, freedom of expression, and all the other rights that islam has given to every single individual. the problem is they haven't really specified what they mean by that. all we know is what's happening on the ground. and what's happening on the ground is a mixed picture. what they're saying at the top isn't reaching the bottom. they

said dress how you want, do what you want, go about your life are not going to get in your way. but there have been several instances where they do actually come at you and sometimes they're violent with it . and sometimes it's just, it's just a verbal confrontation, court poor certain areas. now there are crushes off out of prison, and probably in certain areas they have stoughton there. but that does not indicate any departure from the core on the mental principle. idea in head art taliban officials killed 4 alleged kidnappers, and hung their bodies up in public. and in cobble, 2 journalists were beaten when covering protests led by women. and what about the situation for women? well, there's definitely been changes. the women's affairs ministry is now the ministry for propagation and virtue and prevention of vice. female aid workers have been restricted from doing their jobs and more than 30 provinces. women are mostly back

at university, but they have to study separately from men. women can continue their university, but axis has been widely restricted. a confusion was restricted by the taliban family members or the individual afraid to be active until friday because of from my own organization her up on the phone. i have samples of all 3 and are even fewer answers for teenage girls. in most provinces, they haven't been allowed to return to school. the taliban say that's temporary, but there's got to them from amazon and thought, well, and could have been shallow model help. the 1st time kind of on the stage that schools are going to be close or girls. the baby chances were exactly the same excuse as now rate fixed and the women up dennis from waited 6 years and never got so you think but there's no trust. ok, so what about security?

because that's something the taliban said they can handle. that was the one thing that they kept typing themselves up about their like when we come. peace will be here. p violence will and bombings will stop. but they haven't quite been able to deliver on that, because an affiliate if i saw a group known as i s k. p has stepped up attacks since the taliban took over. there were the suicide bombing at cobbled international airport that killed more than a 180 people another attack at a military hospital till 25. and i asked cape eve claimed responsibility for at least 2 attacks on sheer mosques were dozens were killed. i now remember it wasn't very long ago that the taliban were the ones carrying out attacks. so one of the big challenges for the new government is how to navigate this kind of role reversal . on the one hand, you have to deal with this arm group that's doing all the kinds of things used to do. and then on the other, you have to figure out how to,

at the very least trying to operate better than the former corrupt government. that you are fighting all along and they haven't been able to really succeed in either metric. the taliban though. say it's still early days. rome was not built in the day. what we are asking is the for time thing is right now afghans don't have time. their lives are at stake, and after a 100 days with the taliban in charge, there are still so many questions about afghanistan. future questions that the taliban need to answer, but plenty of others that the u. s. and the international community need to answer to after the taliban took over, one group of women had a very particular reason to be scared. women who had worked as judges, many got threats from the men they'd sent to prison. but we're now free our news podcast. the take spoke to some of those women. here's a short clip. ah,

during the time i talked to him and i asked him, when do you do this to your own wife? was to tortured her and then given her at the end of that time, he looked at me and said, even when i get out of prison, i will do with you what i did my own way. he told me, i've got an order for me. she let your phone number and id gone from the goal. and he told me i can find you way. i can find your family. he's gordon taken me many times. he continued to run for b. i was given good, my relatives. ben had changed my location and ended up renting out another house in . i went to a place. no one can find me. but of course i don't feel safe now. it's not just that murder was trying to find it all the time on there. the enemy of all the women who worked in the previous government, especially the women judges. because if i live on, don't accept of woman as

a judge. you can subscribe to the take on spotify, apple or wherever you got your podcasts, and i really recommend you listen to that full episode. okay, up next is the film we talked about earlier out of norway. it's about several afghan teenagers who fled their country. well, before the recent political turmoil and ended up in norway alone, one norwegian woman though, stepped into help and give them a sense of family. ah, ah, this is she? i mean, every hint. then 15 divided to 2, suddenly the, the distemper dispute about it more for it in she made it already and william smith, the brave media discussion h. e, a big done or, and their negatives kitty b. e of the snap a

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a culture to serve. so my dream was when i opened a roster on most to serve teachers, but only it was always a little typo to follow up with them. with my contact with united states, your 1st name would be on the market. and i really feel proud when i serve, especially for my homeland ah, with i worked about 2 years and then i decided to open the office. i decided to name the restaurant the month because it has to me the money

to dump linked over to snap and a connects people. i always feel responsible to hire people who are in especially the 15th. i received a call from a i received a we have a gun cook, now use the shape of the month. sorry for you, proud that i have were suffered along with now. they're being called as a professional. ah, i opened the us and i did not even think about how much i make it should be public service because there is a spiritual connection between cooking food and 7 people. well that's it from portal this week. i hope you liked what you saw. remember, there is lots more great video and audio content on our website and social media channels. i'll be back next week until then. see you online. a

with a hello there for a stranger. the extreme heat continues across those central and western areas. those heat wave conditions are stretching across to the east, however, but part is gonna remain clear dry and very hot. the temperature about 10 degrees

above average here and for alice springs. and that heat is expected to last well into next week. it will start to cool down from next weekend, down in the south, however, we are seeing showers continue, but for the storms we have to head to that southeast corner. it's going to clear up in sydney on sunday, but we will see thunderstorms return on monday and it's going to be rather wet and stormy next week for much of the northern and eastern areas over strategy. and i was the hop over the tasman. see, it's a washout for western areas of the south. finally we've got a warning out for heavy rain here that's going to last through to sunday and that rain pushing across into easton areas. it's going to be wet for christ church from the start of the week. still within showers up in the north island and as we head over to southeast asia were sent within the showers, across much of indonesia and malaysia. it's very dry for indo china for a change all the way from vietnam to thailand, but we've got heavy rain for java that she weather update.

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