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of freedom of expression. they were in fact p. s of things going wrong during the campaigning period. nothing like that happened on election day. there was a few incidents, not violent incident and a way, but we are waiting to see exactly what happens tomorrow when the election results back to france and saudi arabia of held a joint phone call with lebanon. and what's seen as a significant gesture towards resolving a diplomatic crisis. the call was made as french president in many omicron visited, saudi arabia, the kingdom and other gulf states, withdrew the ambassadors from bay route last month, angered by a government minister who criticized the saudi lead war in yemen. the minister resigned on friday. so africa government is working to scale up code 19 vaccinations that you own. the chrome variant is driving another wave of infections with the number of new daily cases nearly quadrupling in just 4 days. thousands of

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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. the economy is basically collapse. people are really struggling. this is a countdown 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 enough gas down. 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, i get it. i wish to get my promotion was that the mother had all about non whole dollars by the shop. not on a good. what was the answer? 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 the what i go below the, the santa and we had a little in 2nd. there's the state of the economy. the whole financial system collapse or assets are frozen. 8000000 was. 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 a service locally? shall jay hi de g mon monday she oh, how did you saw the modem polymers? so the us 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 have set limits on

withdrawals, and everything's getting more expensive, especially important like fuel because the currency, the f connie has dropped to an all time low against the dollar, from civil servants to construction workers. people just aren't getting paid. mister janice will let you know when the bank bundy shut that up on the top of the versus a little over the summer. like we should have got the put him in the to you for a country that had a budget of 11000000 and 2019. and now having literally nothing, it's a humanitarian crisis, and we can't be numb to the jewish and no matter who's empower not a single country has officially recognized the taliban government. but the afghan people are also hurting from this isolation. the un another international agencies are still working and if god has done to deliver food and supplies, that's the main way help us getting to the afghan people right now. but if ghana

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 telephone or the reality of the country right now. and if you say that you care about the people that are honest on, then you need to deal with the people who are the leaders now. so who are the leaders? while they've named an interim government made up entirely of senior taliban members. home health and i could and he's reacting prime minister and is on a un sanctions list. 0 dean her connie, who's designated a terrorist by the u. s. is the interior minister. am harmonia croup, the son of the taliban founder is the defense minister. is also the taliban supreme leader, him to la quinta, who have ultimate authority over the group, but he's rarely seen in public. so 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 would be them. what is the policy of the talent? how they are artists in 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 on a 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 in next 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. we're not going to get in your way, but there have been several instances where they do actually come out you and sometimes they're violent with it. and sometimes it's just, it's just a verbal confrontation, court, poor certain areas. now they are, crushes off out of prison themselves and probably in, in certain areas. they have stoughton, they're due to it. but that does not indicate any departure from the core on the mental principles of their ideal. and had art taliban officials killed for alleged kidnappers, and hung their bodies up in public. an uncommon or 2 journalists were beaten when covering protests led by women. and what about the situation for women? while they're definitely been changes, the women's affairs ministry is now the ministry for propagation of 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 or confusion knows who the restricted by the taliban family members or the individual afraid to be active until friday because of from my own organization. her up on 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 2 of them for them as well. and could have been shallow model help the 1st time kind of on the page that schools are going to close or gross. the baby experiences weren't exactly the same as now. rate fixed. and the women of some waited 6 years and never got. so you think,

but it's not 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 and they're like when we come peace will be here. p and violence will and bombings will stop. but they haven't quite been able to deliver on that because an affiliate of isolate, a group known as i s k. p has stepped up attacks since the taliban took over. there was a suicide bombing at couples. international airport that kills more than a 180 people. another attack at a military hospital killed 25. and i s k p have claimed responsibility for at least 2 attacks. i'm sure mosques were since were killed. oh, 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 you use to do. and then on the other, you have to figure out how to,

at the very least try and 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 did you do this to your own wife? was to tortured her and then gave her at the end of that time, he looked at me and said, hey, 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 from you should let your phone number and id gone from the call and he told me, i can find you way. i can find your family. he scored and threatened me many times . he continued to run tripping. i was didn't get my relatives, she's my location and ended up renting out another house and 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 that i live on. there the enemy of all the women who worked in the previous government, especially of human judges. because it's, 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 in to help and give them a sense of family. ah ah, this is she, i mean, every shipment weakening devante to to suddenly the, the distemper dispute about it more for it in she made it early and brilliant guzman, the brave mia discussion h. e. big does or, and their negatives kitty b. e of a snap a

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a culture to serve. so my dream was when i opened a roster on most to her 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 people, especially for my homeland ah, with i worked about 2 years and then i decided to open the office. i decided to name the rest on the month because it has to me the money to

dump linked over to snap benefits. 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. pretty proud that i have were suffered along with now. they're being called is it proficient? ah, i opened russell. no. i did not even think about how much i may go. 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

ah ah hello there. let's have a look at the weather across north america. and we've seen some exceptional heat for this time of year across large areas of the u. s. and a significant lack of snow in places like colorado, for example, there's more snow in hawaii than it is in denver. instead we've got drought conditions persisting here, but temperatures are going to come down thanks to a weather system. it's going to slam, once again into western areas of canada is a bit of a low in that. but look at that a winter. we storm is going to pull in once again by the time we get in to monday, we're going to see significant snow in british columbia,

some of the rain edging down into washington. so it's going to be wet for seattle at the beginning of next week. now a lot of that system is going to push across the southern parts of canada. we are going to see the wind pick up as well. and with that we will have blizzards blown across towards the mid west. we gonna see the snow pick up as well across eastern parts of canada towards the maritimes. very wet across that southeast corner of the u. s. now, new york has seen some dry a days, but is going to get very wet indeed with possible snow. by the time we get to choose a and the temperature will dip right down. now was he had to central america. it's rather dry from northern parts of mexico, but it's wet in south. ah, we know what's happening in our region. we know how to get to places that others and not. and so i'm going or the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. on counting the cost on the kron puts oil and stock markets into

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