the energy minister says their plan won't work. the son of author sir salman rushdie says his injuries are life changing — but that his feisty & defiant sense of humour remains intact — after he was stabbed at an event in new york state. egyptian health officials say at least 41 people have died and forty injured in a fire at a coptic church in north—west cairo. warnings in the uk over the use of disposable barbecues — as tinder dry conditions continue after a weekend of wildfires in parts of england. now on bbc news... our world — yalda hakim travels to afghanistan to investigate the disappearence of policewoman, alia azizi. she meets activists and protestors, asking the taliban why they are not doing more.

alia azizi, a policewoman in herat, has completely disappeared. she's gone missing. what do you know about that case?

this is afghanistan, one year into taliban rule. i've come here to investigate the disappearance of a woman. under the last government, alia azizi was a successful career woman. as a high ranking prison officer. hard won freedoms are being rolled back following the taliban's victory. women have been forced out of the workplace since the taliban returned to power, the inmates she had been guarding are now running the prison. alia left work, assuming her career was over, but to her surprise, she was called back to herjob. then a month later, she disappeared. i want to find out what happened to her and what the taliban authorities are doing about it. herfamily hasn't heard

from her for eight months. i visited their home in herat, western afghanistan.

until the return of the taliban, alia had been the family's main breadwinner.

alia's eldest son also worked at the prison, but was not called back by the taliban.

the family reported alia missing in october, the taliban said they would investigate, but no information has come to light in eight months.

seeing a little boy separated from his mother was absolutely gut wrenching to watch and for him to describe how he can't go to bed at night because he wants his mum, it's really, really difficult to see.

the fact that alia can be missing for eight months without a single bit of information as to where she has gone, sends a very worrying message to other women living and working under the taliban in afghanistan. one year ago, i spoke with taliban leader suhail shaheen in doha just before the takeover. he assured me that they would protect the rights of women and that the new regime would be different from what we saw in the 905. there was in the past some mistakes that we have learned from to stop education of women and girls. that is not our goal. of course, education is their right and it is much needed. and when they receive education, of course it is, they have a right to work. how has that promise turned out?

that evening, i met a group of women who used to hold positions of power in the former government. but since losing theirjobs, they've shifted their attention to investigating various cases of missing women like alia azizi.

it was becoming clear that disappearing women was not uncommon in today's afghanistan. as the activist said, there are reports of many more cases happening around the country. it's impossible to find a credible statistic on the number of women forcibly disappeared in afghanistan, mainly because the taliban have continued to deny such cases. when the taliban came to power, they assured the women of afghanistan that their rights would be protected under their rule. i travelled to herat central prison, the last place alia was seen, and where she has worked for the past seven years to see if they were willing to offer any information.

the guards made it very clear that i was not going to be allowed into the female section, but i managed to ask some questions of the prison director. the international community is really worried about a woman who used to run that prison and was told by the taliban to come back to work. and she happily went back to work. but for the past eight months, she's been missing. what do you know about that case?

when an employee goes missing, do think it's the responsibility of the authorities to track down? some are pointing the finger of blame at the taliban for her disappearance. the new prison warden said the case had nothing to do with them because alia went missing after leaving the prison grounds. somebody approached me who wanted

to remain anonymous saying that alia had been adopted by a criminal group who wanted to release in exchange for ransom. i wanted to speak to her son to see what he made of this theory. he had little choice but to rely on the taliban leaders to investigate and find his mother.

to find out more back in kabul, i arranged a meeting at the ministry of interior, which is responsible enforcing which is responsible the law and fighting crime within enforcing the law and fighting crime within afghanistan. for the last nine months, or two alia has completely disappeared, she has gone missing. can you tell me what you know about this case?

we went to herat and we went to the prison where she worked. and the authorities there confirmed that she actually came to work at the prison for well over a month. so you are saying that the taliban authorities in herat, they're wrong?

the taliban prison authorities that we went to see told me that they saw her at work for well over a month. why would they tell us something different to what they've told you?

whether you agree the taliban are responsible or not, you are the authorities here. it is it not your responsibility to fact find?

it has become clear that there isn't much of an investigation going on, and they may have sent a few people to herat, but nothing much more was done about it. i felt it was important to take this issue higher up the chain of command in the taliban. during an interview over the phone, i asked the group's designated ambassador to the un, suhail shaheen. i asked him whether he felt that the investigation into alia's disappearance had been properly conducted. i think she was a working at a prison, right? yes, that's right. she was working at the prison and we spoke to the taliban commanders who are now running the prison. they said that she came

to work for about a month and they saw her every day coming to work. but then she suddenly disappeared. when i spoke to the spokesperson for the interior ministry in kabul, they said that she herself has made herself disappear only a couple of days after the taliban took control. who is lying to us? because those in herat are saying one thing and kabul is saying another. yes. so let me check with the interior ministry, because first of all, i should know about this. the story was, they told me was that we have nothing to do with that. there is a general amnesty and she was working and maybe the members of daesh, isis has kidnapped her because at that time, this kidnapping by daesh was prevalent. even if daesh has taken this person or it's a criminal gang, how worrying is it for you, though, that this would happen under your watch? yes. just a moment. it is our obligation to carry out investigation. yes, we will.

we have done this and will do this. and i will reach out with the authorities. what is the result of their investigation? he has come up with yet another theory about what's happened to alia azizi. so we heard from those in the prison in herat that it could be criminal gangs. the spokesperson for the minister of interior says she's chosen to go underground because she has some information about the taliban. and now another theory that it could potentially be isis or daesh, and i'm not sure that he's telling us this with with any kind of real understanding of the case, but just casually giving us another theory. it seems like they would rather people stop asking questions about her than actually investigate and find out what's happened to alia azizi.

this is afghanistan one year into taliban rule. a year ago, women's lives were radically transformed overnight. they've been driven out of work into their homes, afraid to even step onto the street alone. women like alia disappear, and the authorities don't seem to be the least bit concerned. if the taliban want us to believe that this time their rule will be different, they'll need to provide actions to meet their words.

let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather for the week ahead. all change weather—wise to start next week, the weather warning for extreme heat expires and temperatures will eventually drop back down to the seasonal average. there will be thunderstorms around, welcoming for many, but this could lead to some surface water flooding as the ground is so hard and dry of late. that area of high pressure that has been keeping us hot and dry is moving eastwards, allowing low pressure to show its hand in the south which will help to spark off the thunderstorms, particularly where we see in the sunshine, also some more organised bands of rain. for most of us, try a monday morning, cloudy, rather humid, watch

out for those thunderstorms, could p0p up out for those thunderstorms, could pop up just about anywhere through the afternoon but fairly hit or miss, many of us try in the heat still hangs on. temperatures in the high 20s, would be 30 celsius per song. 0vernight on monday, into tuesday, warm and muggy, uncomfortable for sleeping, plenty of rain around and some areas of cloud. this is how the start of the day on tuesday, star on a warm note. temperatures no lower than the mid—teens. tuesday, low pressure is with us, it will be here approximately, areas of rain likely to change, details on this subject of quite a lot of change, heavy persistent rain probably for much of scotland on tuesday, moving into northern england and the four south—west of england, the band of thundery rain gradually moving southwards and eastwards. the temperature contrast here on tuesday, the heat hangs on touristy south and east, maybe 27 celsius across east anglia, a lot cooler across east anglia, a lot cooler across the north and west. this is

where that brand of thundery rain is likely to be on wednesday, in volt further south and east. some wet weather here, localised weather warnings in place, thunderstorms, mostly across southern england, east anglia, down to south wales and the forces were two west and temperatures for all have returned to where they should be. as we head through the rest of the working week, we see this atlantic air move through, back to westerlies, they will try push on this well. weather fronts towards the north—west of scotland into the western isles, outbreaks of rain throughout the day on thursday, western wales and northern ireland, cloudy here, it raises a further south and east, the warmer it is likely to be. temperatures could be higher. likely to stay dry as well. may not be completely dry, is where the front trying to move through, of was wetter the further north in which,

with low pressure towards the voice on it's friday again, more likely to be dry towards eastern areas. temperatures now back to the average, looking at the low 20s in england and wales, how teens and much of scotland and northern ireland, temperatures returned to near normal, and on friday, expecting the weather fronts to push through, high pressure not too far away, just enter worth the south and west. if we look at europe, cheat is easing there are two next week. it could build back again. this area of high pressure could drag it away once more, so we may not have seen the last of the heap for the summer cheshire. —— the last of the heat for the summerjust yet.

a year on from the taliban taking over afghanistan again, a special report on its women and girls. denied employment, education. sold into marriage in childhood. we chart three female lives that tell a wider story. if i'd finished school, i would have started university but i can't go to university because i've not graduated from school. and we'll be live in southern afghanistan to look at the impact of deep economic crisis. also tonight: salman rushdie�*s family he has life—changing injuries after the attack on him in america, but has been able to say a few words. as charities warn of a national emergency over energy bills,