been told to go back home. taliban have been trying - to stop women in the afghan capital kabul from protesting against the restriction - of women's rights. rights groups have criticised an all male gathering of more that 4500 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. staying at home without an education or future. it makes me feel ridiculous. it's like nothing matters anymore. most of the girls in my class have had suicidal thoughts. we are all suffering from depression and anxiety.

we have no hope. my daughter took her own life on the first day of the new school term in march this year. she had believed that schools would eventually reopen for girls. for the sake of my sisters but when that didn't happen, she couldn't cope and took her own life. 0ur life has been destroyed.

you will be teaching a girl in afghanistan a bit of education. a bit of maths. a bit of information. 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 pressure mentally, what if... in your personal life? yes. 0k. for that moment, just cut out my real life. i have worked as a journalist for years, and i have written stories of victims of war. which is a totally different.

this is a positive, happy project. if you are happy to give it a go. that's great. 0k. going for a take in three two, one, action. i have two sisters back in afghanistan. they cannot go to school and university. not only them. each girl in afghanistan. i know what they are going through. how do you feel that went? i feel 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 it was slightly fast, then maybe it was just slightly fast. 0k? 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 universities and schools were shut for girls now we get roughly seven to 10 new calls everyday. i was not in a good place myself. i didn't leave home for 90 days when my friends were arrested. each time i leave home, i am afraid. if i say i'm not, that's not true. i don't tell anyone what i do. only my mother knows. i started going to home schools. as a psychosocial counsellor,

i teach girls how to be the best version of themselves, even at worst times. 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 is 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 our 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. it's been a long time. it still feels like today. this was the day taliban came to kabul. i was literally shocked. i filmed this outside my window. one week after taliban came to kabul, suddenly over midnight, everybody was sleeping. my family and i was sleeping. i got a call from the uk government, they told me to leave to the 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. i left to the airport. there was gun shotting sounds. just being a journalist, i tried to record things on my way to the airport. people, they were just literally sleeping on the 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 home because everybody was pushing each other to be able to enter the airport. i don't know if i was lucky or not, i don't believe leaving my country, leaving my family behind, was luck. but i had to. when i haven't seen any picture of the new flat i am moving to, i really hope that i can make it a home, because it has been months that i am living in hotels.

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. cause it's been months that i'm living in hotels.

on the 15 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. these girls don't have anywhere to go to socialise. so they say here is where they can have at least some 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 and cleaning again. still the day is too long, they spend 6—7 hours a dayjust 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's better now, she comes to my classes, writes stories.

for me, it's like i've won the nobel prize. hello. okay, there are 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. one more thing. because we already know who is doing which episode, the episode that you are doing you'll say okay, this was for me this week. next week you'll have aalia and we'll have much more exciting stuff for you. so they get to know you guys as people that they recognise. we can say, next week we'll be learning english and maths and also hearing about the women's suffrage movement. and the explanation of stories.

'cause we want them to come back. yeah.

salaam. tomorrow. i never imagined this word 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.

0k. i think so.

dari take one, wait. dari take two. it's so fast. dari take five. nailed it.

yeah? well done everyone, good stuff. it's exciting, it's really exciting. i 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 was for them. it's also nice that we have been invited to uk schools to talk about dars programme in person. alright, hello everybody. so i'll let sahar tell you a bit about afghanistan, 'cause that's where sahar's from. i don't know if you guys know anything about afghanistan or anyone else 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 the 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. that's why working with this project, it's so exciting. what happens if girls are able to be taught at home? it's not enough, even our programme, it cannot fill the empty space of school. but, we try to, you know, keep their hopes and dreams alive by this show. it's been more than 2.5 years since the taliban took over, sadly schools are still closed. 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. have a good day. it was so nice to meet you. and things are slowly getting better for me as well. i've found a permanent place and moved in. we are like a family. we support each other during hard times. the other day they surprised me with a cake. their kindness leaves me speechless. and i feel powerful with them. i hope for the day that we can live as free and equal humans under these guys.

hello there. despite a few sharp showers in the far north of scotland, thursday was a perfect late summer's day. in fact, quite a rarity for august because we had sunshine topping and tailing the country. yes, it was glorious at times. now, it's likely that we're going to keep that quiet theme for the next few days,

despite a little bit of early morning mist and fog around exposed west coasts, an the whole, there'll be a lot of sunshine to start the day on friday. cloud will develop as we go through the afternoon, but nevertheless the temperatures will start to pick up quite nicely. we're looking at 15—19 degrees in scotland, maybe highs of 2a degrees across southeast england — that's 75 fahrenheit. high pressure stays with us into the start of the weekend. it is starting to pull its way north and east, and that will allow more of an easterly flow and this weak weather front could trigger a few sharp showers. so a little more cloud across southern england and a brisk easterly wind making it feel a little fresher on exposed coast. so west will be best for sunshine and despite that brisk westerly wind — which will be noticeable — in some shelter, it will still feel quite pleasant. so for western scotland we could see highs possibly of 22 degrees, that's going to be a similar value to the london area, with the cloud and the risk

of a few isolated showers. on to sunday — our area of high pressure continues to move towards norway, and that's going to allow the wind direction to change once again, this time more to a south—easterly. so that will tap into some very warm air across the near continent, so it will feel increasingly hot and humid and much of eastern england seeing more sunshine and more warmth on sunday. there will be some cloud furtherwest, but later on in the day that humidity could trigger a few sharp, thundery downpours into the southeast. temperatures, though, likely to peak at 26 celsius. so if you've got plans for sunday evening across southern england, keep abreast of the forecast, the subject potential for change. and then as we go into next week, it looks likely that low pressure will start to centre itself to the far north and west. a lot of uncertainty for the detail, but it does look likely that this settled story that we've been singing for the last couple of days will change to something a little bit more unsettled.

live from washington. this is bbc news. us vice president kamala harris says she'll appoint a republican to her cabinet if elected president, speaking to cnn in herfirst interview as democratic nominee. israel and hamas agree to pause fighting in gaza to allow the vaccination of 640,000 children against polio. the children against polio. virus stop this progress, he the virus stop this progress, he stopped sitting, stop walking, stop calling and stopped moving.

and: we're learning more about the ukrainian f—i6 fighter jet that crashed while repelling a major russian attack, killing its pilot. you are very welcome. we begin with a key moment for us democratic presidential nominee vice president kamala harris: her first tv interview since she replaced joe biden in the race for the white house. she was interviewed by cnn's dana bash in the battleground state of georgia, alongside her running mate, tim walz. vice president harris has faced criticism from republicans for not giving a solo interview — and for not doing any interview sooner. and in the pre—recorded interview, ms harris said she would name a republican to her cabinet if she is elected. you had a lot of republican speakers at the convention, will you appoint a republican to your cabinet?— will you appoint a republican to your cabinet? yes, i would.

anyone? _ to your cabinet? yes, i would. anyone? one _ to your cabinet? yes, i would. anyone? one in _ to your cabinet? yes, i would. anyone? one in particular, . to your cabinet? yes, i would. anyone? one in particular, i.