a good, a sorry, but he didn't have rattle though the chris that even though they had much longer decided to play for greater longer periods. what ash has done in such a short time is truly remarkable. ah, this is our da 0. these are the top stories ukraine's 2nd largest city khaki was under constant bombardment, but the russian military entire areas have been reduced to rubble. most people have fled. the mayor has warned nowhere is safe and every one should go under ground. fighting intensifying to the north of ukraine's capital a cave, it cranes military says its forces have retaken the suburb of mockery, but its admitted russian forces have partially taken 3 other areas near by. it grains president says there is nothing left of money or pope, after nearly a month of russian bombardment. lot of me as a lensky says, a 100000 civilians remain traps in inhumane conditions with no food, water, power,

or medicine is accusing russia of blocking much needed aid by taking bus drivers and emergency personnel hostage stand on that. the dean will meet as of today, there are about 100000 people in merry all pull in any humane conditions under a full blockade with no food, no water, and no medicine under constant shelling and constant bombardment for more than a week. now we have been trying to organize, stable humanitarian corridors for mary apple residents. and almost all our attempts, unfortunately, are disrupted by the russian occupiers, by showing or deliberate terror woman there or you grains beggars poor city. odessa is on high alert for a russian attack. families have been boarding trains to evacuate, as russian worships remain off the coast. odessa has largely been spared from the fighting, although a residential area was shelled over the weekend. mccraney, the thought is a hospitals and schools and among the targets. these pictures show

a children's hospital in the city of savannah, jeanette skin, easton, the hon screeching that was bombed by russia in the last 24 hours. in other world news, the taliban disordered most girls schools and afghanistan to shut down just hours after reopening, a spokesman for the ministry of education, confirmed secondary schools for girls will remain closed until further notice. the telephone's been widely condemned for depriving women and girls of education. human rights watch is accused uganda security services of committing what it calls heretic, abuses against government. critics. the rights group says hundreds of opposition supporters have been targeted over the past 3 years, especially around to last year's election. those are the headlines. the news is going to continue here on al jazeera after the stream. so you then, bye bye, dictatorships, to democracies, activists to corporations, control of the message is crucial. oil companies have become very good at

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hindered women's free movement. shut down and abolished the ministry of women's affairs and silenced female journalist. access education has been especially hampered less than one 3rd of afghans. 34 provinces have allowed girl schools to reopen and secondary classes due to start later this week. fe strict conditions here to share more passed on a dirani as an educator and the director for learn afghanistan. she's currently in massachusetts, in the us store. i acc, muddy is a program coordinator at women for women international. she's in the u. k. and in germany is aretha crawford is a human rights activist and economists. she's also the former mayor of the city of maiden shar, others one lassie that the table and that is for you. you can follow along in our live you tube chat and see that box over there. you can send your questions to me so i can get him in the panel and you too can be in the stream. all right, so i want to begin with this report from women from women international which store

i year a part of it says, no one hears our voices. this just came out in this basically what's changed in afghanistan since the taliban took over some of the key questions here. let's scroll down. here we go. how is your weekly income changed? over half, the income has dropped to 0. and the other half say it's been reduced. okay, how would you describe food secured in your house household to 3rd say often not enough to eat. one 3rd, say sometimes not enough to eat. have you received assistance community from the government organizations or individuals? 95 per cent say no story can. can you tell us a bit about how this survey was conducted and a little bit about what you thought were some of the most important top lines or, or items to come out of it?

i think you are the question or just i'm calling the taliban take over afghanistan in august 2021 and the subsequent to the a t t in an economic crisis acting the country ad. there has been many conversation about again, money are weighed out, including a or talking to love again, woman and then says add. this is why women for women international ab rocha, medication and policy recommendation are directly based on f books from afghan one . we spoke with a 2 woman across afghanistan and we also have a spoke with a woman, right, organizations and women activists and 100 percent of them do 40 i that they are a household financial situation. i had it oriented and they did not have enough to eat. 97 percent of women reported that they had that they have restriction on their

freedom and 91 percent of women reported that they need greater psycho social supports in 4 months. they have not left a whole hour when we talk to a to women, right? well, the nice ations and they said that they want solution for economic crisis and they want their rights. but there is one, an overarching message emerged from this research that international community has an important role as to play by exercising its power. i include a woman and a future decision making. you know, i want to bring him a voice of an african woman here that she's a former mayor of her right. she says this video comment about what is like there. now this is alicia. during the past 20 years, women in afghanistan have had access to education and training which allowed them

to work and contribute at a high level. being able to work at a high level gives women the ability to feel that as human beings, they are living to their full capacity and contributing to their country. this attitude shifted and back slighted with the regime change and we as women are no longer able to work as freely or reach her potential as people. however, our request and desire from the current regime is to take positive strides in regards to women and their ability to work and in terms of their training and education. i want to go from one former mayor to another sir, if you had to flee the country, but chose recently to go back and visit your back out of afghanistan again. can you tell us what was a like to go back in and what were your experiences? i thank you judge actually going back forth leaving because we and i go for me was ab p r. and it was more about

how i came on when information on the wow with talking to the plan group. wal mad charles, when i made up it was up. it was amazing. we a big change in the can. the moment i came out of airport, i was like i, i was just trying to find the same possible or maybe the c panel which i listed both by which, which i felt i couldn't exactly find that the, the most important topic is the medicare and crisis the way that my big mouth was man, just finding and so back we in kabul city for just one bread is, is it's hard breaking, looking to big amount, 12 gold and wall man which are go with saying there is kill barberic

for like they do know what the future for them was really kind of a big, big, big shock for me personally, but as, as in past 6 months. well i, i have been working on the topic closely with the warm and the can. so i knew that all that it's a big shot and it will be that way, which i thought all would be. but way to the can we tried going to far from from where like the past when he was, there was like no kind of assistance our services are we the ground to the pupil and that i pupil of that village. i thought they were still living a 100 years ago. i lived 400 years in a life which is like 4 different than so many recent parts. that's

not what the taliban promised, though the taliban promise to defend women's rights under the law. and now this week is a big test of that right persona. when we're talking with the secondary schools open, we want to see if the girls are going to go back to school and not just in the cities, but as rico saying, you know, out in the country in the more rural areas. what should we expect to see a secondary schools open passed on in the secondary schools that we are talking about. so you know, they're not opening in warmer engine. they're only opening into and not going to do which was opened by the way back to when the taliban came into our micro and said now and the whole southern region that i'm talking to. none of them have a package with the school. 18 schools and right now are not told to open tomorrow for the good. there will be close for the girls that because the city i'm talking about and some back because there was war because the people were controlling the

lady. yes, the good lady just never got to go to school today when they cleaned the water for . why are the eagle goes to not able to go to school and where the goods in the city not going to school? saying like, you know, giving ultimatum to the international community and then telling them that we are doing good on back part is pulling the international community and the people, any anyone who's watching them that the schools are open in the northern region even in december. and they closed down just for the winter vacation, and the same thing is happening now. it's just opening not only does not have any opening in the southern egan and the whole like international committee thinking that is going to open for southern region 2 are any other words? honestly, i think not. taliban are still on not, not on the same page. when it comes to growth, right, when it comes to girls, dedication, and what you women, that i need to finding under the shadow luck,

the fact that women are still missing the fact that to good schools. young, great, today is one of those days that i'm losing my faith in humanity as i talk. and because no matter how much optimistic picture one can offer on the sun, no matter how many hundreds of grades i can put in school, it just breaks my had that a whole region of cool. good. i won't be able to go to school tomorrow just because a few men came into power and don't think it's appropriate for the region to go. i asked, what are they based on the research we have contacted the high like the top recommendation from woman is that the international community should hold the county about the government

for the commitments they made to start school till the end of march and have investment on teacher education storage, speaking of the international community and recommend mandation to the national community. i want to go to the human rights watch here. this is heather bar, and here's what you had to say. to tell a man have been denying millions of girls access to secondary school for over 7 months now. so it's excellent news that they've said they'll reopen the schools this week, but it's no time to cheer and move on. it's urgently important that the international community do 3 things. first, verify that these schools actually are opened. second, look at a broader set of issues related to access to education, including are the teachers being paid or to tell them harassing teachers and students. and is the curriculum being changed and harmful ways? and then 3rd, donors have to recognize that you can't separate education from other types of women's rights violations. so for example,

taliban are banning women from most forms of employment. and girls are going to be much less motivated to study if they're not going to be able to have the career that they're preparing for. and just to add on this, you know, when heather, think all that stuff you have to understand and including thought, 8 i when you create an industry that in all humility and industry and there is no alternative, good conduct denied the fact that the whole international community when they would come up on a new one, we in the employment left for them. that's the 1st thing that is no money there because there are no organizations left enough on the phone to set a 3rd back. that's the 1st thing that we need to understand as a common person and upon a son that most of the jobs were humanity and to see be the thinking thing is why haven't taliban cleaning bad? good schools will open and they are still not opening in the readers that i just told you about what is the same tend to school for boys. what is the distance i

need to understand and also like because the choices just like heather said, i did, i could hear choices for boys bit. that's why they are motivated to go to school. but what about good, good and women were supposed to work the only way that a one women morrow will be workspaces after everything that happened would be in the school in a public working space. like, you know, it's hard to think and that that's the only job left and i've gone to some for women, especially in somebody. it's not even in a whole lot on the form. but hoping that lag on the tour i just to i don't the question i will and he the ball i actually when we are talking openings to the gold brown the it's not and be are both the i think we have a connection issue right now with your audio, let's hold on just 2nd. see if we can get that fixed because i want to hear what

you have to say. in the meantime. story i meant though, this question to you. this is from charles preston. he's in our youtube live chat right now. and he's asked, what should western governments due to pressure the taliban to hold them more accountable story? yes. so based on the research that came from women and women right organizations, because they do not have the power deliveries and do the sources like they don't have anything but what international community has they have everything like they can hold them accountable for the commitments that they meet and this is my response, like they have everything and they can, i get involved and they can get in negotiation and get in dialogue with the defect to governments and then

hold them accountable for your audio. you sorta can, can you tell us what you're saying? there again yeah, actually i was saying that if we're talking about opening for and we need to talk about how many more schools we have around the can lee and how much of them are well functioning, the, the way that we need it for woman and it can't be especially for go to the catholic like example in the same village with i have b to ed. you they go. there was just one primary school which was l. u. then having an open ear, we are an employee like in a house with what why, but the ground was having some carpets and they were already bill. so like when you're talking about it, you, patient forgot that we don't need,

we have to just i said, we don't have that properly limited services to all me. and i'm goals of being the case it around the can we? but i'm the same time when we are talking about that question is paid there is like 2 different sides of the can we like the one where the call where the side. so that's also having a problem right now. and the more important thing is, so we have so many places that we don't have that primary school rad. whoa, good if i, here's the thing. if taliban can take money from customs and spin back if they can take money and under har dot com, right? if they can take all that tax money and they're okay with that, if they're okay with taking the money from the bulk ada and also all the,

not the media when it comes to the border agents there with all those custom money, right. they're taking all that money, they're human rights watch the theme report. if you study it is safe, back, 3500 of one. you've been given to our teachers and the rest is taken by the taliban . why? because the state tax money, which i mean you, we both know that the payment that is given to our teachers that's already tax, right? the question does all the tax if they're already taking so much taxes, how come they are not ok with opening food. that's the 1st thing. the 2nd thing is, the government was correct. there was no schools, man, i agree with you on that end. but then at the same time, when are we going to stop the war on our own kid who is going to who is willing to be accountable to these kids or changes, or depending on that education. and the one solution that we do have in place, which i just had a thought i done was that what needs to be done,

okay. didn't want to go when school, how about we better them? because i think it was the us. it was international community that actually lift the sanctions off, travel for all of the lead partner, but what able to travel all across the world, right? so they can tell us really how come woman cannot tell us. that's the 1st thing. how come, grace cannot go to school really? why can't we do much sanction? how is the international community so blind with all this and everyone so ok, with that way. speaking of the international community, i'd like to bring in a piece of video. this is from michelle bachelor. she's the high commissioner for human rights at the u. n. and she recently visited afghanistan. here's what she had to say. i am listening to women share the experiences and those sisters. and sticking to the fact that it is about the urgent critical need to make prowess progress towards the realization of women and girls from the mental team of rights . and to bring to an end, the many serious human rights violations which women and girls of being subject to girls should be able to go to school and university and be empowered to contribute

robustly, to the future of the country. women should be peaceably represented in the police force in courts of law, in government, and in the private sector. in these, in every fear of civic and public life and human rights watch on their website has an article called 4 ways to support girls access to education in afghanistan. and the for tips are fund education without funding discrimination based on i think you touched on that support communities as a fight for girls, right? to education stand by afghans under threat for defending the right to education and monitor all aspects of access to education. all right, very for, we're going to say actually, when we are talking about exactly what apartments are in the community, we need to do right now as when we are talking about abundant in some group bought 30 millions of people. that's also something that i will not just like

because i am, if i am making 30000000 up a pupil living and that can be for that thousands of people that i want to or maybe in the community if you want to buy them that then it's not normal i'm, it's not for your money. but when we are really talking about seeking something concrete on the ground, we need to just say so accountable as question. actually, it's not just the money by showing up from the board or from the class. so it's the money that millions of dollars have been donated by international community by us who are funds the bar at the government right now. and like whoever is willing, because right now they have millions of dollars, but to so we don't have like there were, there are so much more colleagues from apartment that i know they didn't receive. there is not only teacher, but even one who have been walking. there are so many warm line and main in the

apartment so that they have been walking like 4 months within the government. carla bonded to department as well, but reach out cation isn't an economic barrier. as much as an ideological barrier and you missed them, right? is actually, it was not, it's nothing about the idea would you call. it's not about the additional something, it's whatever we have is like to pull up on the spot. that's why we have the educational problem. one that was you'll see that the taliban was good them. so bake, read that for that. and the 2nd the how, how we use millions of dollars and on and be put in where the money for that and the best way. and we put in like really use it in the right way. right? but my point, my point is josh, like there are millions of dollars going into up on the sun. i agree with on this

and i totally agree with women for women. and what he has said right now that there is education or the employment being because being reduced, i'm not actually pointing out at the economic situation right now. i'm talking about the discrimination that you can just been quite that school for boys are opened up on this time, but when it comes to policies right tomorrow, we'll see that that's why i've few schools still clothed in the southern region apartments on our the eastern region what is that? we need to understand that, and that's the 1st way to unpack this. and the 2nd thing is, if you don't answer the question, why are the schools closes the southern part of the eastern part of afghanistan? because the taliban are not on the same day because the taliban are not the same uniform government that lead liked the way to believe and they are not. they are not uniform. i wouldn't like to call them government and that's what they do. but

then at the same time, their policies toward women, i'm not the policy i from bad. how come they are? what putting all the women at home from the way forces? how are they ok with putting all those economic pool, anti onto women and then be no wife or legit, then we can have the we're ok we're giving that leg that the meeting that even i'm posing these christians. yes. because this program still remembers that there are good what it was supposed to be good tomorrow, then 99 percent of the international media coming. he doesn't even kick that the good article to be related. now not that need to be in years right now. i got about a minute left here story. i want to return to the women for women report at the end . it has recommendations and this one is the international community must hold the de facto government, accountable to their commitment to re open secondary classrooms, to girls and women beyond class 6, which is age 11 to 12 this week. how,

how should the international community hold the government? they're accountable for this. it's based on what he says from woman, and they are sure be it. they know that they don't have the power. but international community has the power to add to a case on behalf of dad. right. and that's why they and they want international community to advocate and get engaged. and i have a defacto government to our story. mine think they're connected. i've got an end at there, but i am going to say this about the international communities that al jazeera english is going to be watching those goals. see if they open afghanistan or not. so i want to think my guess 1st on a story ends aretha. we,

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