sayet is happy about his victory even though he thinks should have won but it is a good chef said she has such a lovely personality and she comes from such a dangerous region what about chicago courage alone should have earned her the victory. even so never before had a woman made it this far in this show to la-la a young woman singing and in public for many a blatant provocation. and security as the show's producer knows all too well last truck in a kabul dish he lives in danger to last year the taliban attacked his station killing seven stop at least twenty people were also also has to expect the worst if i say right now no there's no rest for i would be lying because. going back to jalalabad going sinking in if you go to the city after all of you

don't see much money. and so being a singer performing on a stage performing on a big stage like star is is not out of danger. this might be the most secure campus on earth the students are literally walled in not just once but three times that's the number of barriers in closing the american university of afghanistan there are also numerous security checks the university is filled not just with students but also security personnel there largely from india not afghanistan to be sure that no taliban member has infiltrated the squad after one terrorist attack the university was closed for more than six months the college president is adamant something like that will never happen again. we of course have to increase our security massively but we did that and we were very worried that

many students would come back in fact many students came back many more morse new students came and over the last three or four weeks this university has become a bright beacon of hope for all of afghanistan. almost eight hundred students are enrolled here and many of them can still remember the attack which claimed the lives of sixteen people. or you. when you talk of and we were in the second floor of the building which was attacked and then the attackers eventually made their way up to the class that we were hiding so we had to actually skip through the window because obviously the hallways and. were for the. patrol actually by the bad weather but for the bad men. so we are just going through that when you don't want going as the violent extremists as the high proportion of female students at the university almost fifty percent. it left me so hard for for months because i lost some of my great friends india tech but every came

back because we wanted to tell the insurgents that no matter how many times you attack or how much you want to scare us we're going to come back because it's occasion is the only path that will fight them that well break them and make them weaker the mood on campus is favorable to the west although not everyone here is a fan of the incumbent u.s. president. i like president i like no i don't like him i don't like president trump but because i don't really know what his strategy towards afghanistan is i don't know what what that means but i have heard his comments about women grabbing woman and liked or talking about women in a disrespectful manner that's something that i don't think is right for a president or a person in n.p. . after class some students stay on campus those who live and don't but most of

them have to leave the protection of the security perimeter and go back to the city hoping that they'll be able to return a lawyer and well the following day. many of the really exciting places in a couple right now in the way the country's most important off museum the national gallery is located right on the main road but it's been closed for renovation for some time now the museum's back yard however is home to a fascinating development age used to be filled with rubbish now it is the garden of peace and hope an event venue especially for young artists in the usaf. for the for the soldiers what. we are looking for the young generation or for you the young people who are talented they have a career to vittie or they are scared they have to skills in the arts and we find it to those who are and remote area where the forest area and then i find them and

bring them here and i. invite some expert in art and i take exhibition the next exhibitions about to begin a new at the young curator is receiving support from three artists they're going over final preparations for the exhibition of as at a one on one this but the situation of women in kabul has massively improved in recent times in the past they weren't even allowed to go to work they couldn't leave the house but that's becoming more normal now i'm optimistic. that with the room here i found again my goal is to become really good in the next five years and win an international award taking pictures is my passion and i want to make the most of it. you know they're there. for the artists arrive almost one hundred in total they all want to experience the opening of the

exhibition at noon they have to wait because the deputy minister of culture has heard that we're here so she wants to give a speech. anyone can get. davis . then finally everyone's allowed into the garden and admired the works on display they're not for sale today but the artists are content with the recognition that gets and the feeling of having an impact like the painter of this picture. i want to express the pain of all afghans meticulously that is the women who have been suffering for so long from oppression of course i'm criticized for this not least by the less well educated so they are ask why i'm doing this and why i'm criticizing our country they don't realize that by doing this i'm raising understanding for our country around the world are a mess as it was as i was saying. there's no abstract modern art to the paintings

are either purely decorative or they're striking in an easily accessible way. the garden is funded by donations from other countries it has a budget to offer around one hundred euros a month through. the garden of peace and hope is private. and i'm responsible for discarding my responsibility is that what i have. to do i do and for their gathering i don't know if from government and he said it's two years and the door off this gallery is closed and i don't know why it's not going to be open but here i'm responsible that i have to take exhibition i take it's a vision every month a short while later the visitors are gone and the garden is empty again ready for the next exhibition.

those who might couple from its quiet relaxing side had just out of the city to the biggest natural attraction in the region laycock although it's a manmade reservoir that doesn't bother the thousands of daily visitors. they can hire a boat for just a few cents or enjoy the various attractions on la. there's also a range of small restaurants with new ones opening all the time this one is still under construction its name translates as clean fast food. the owner. spent almost twenty years in germany in a place near frankfurt his wife and children still live there but ten years ago he chose to return to afghanistan. willingly suave in those than

when i was in germany you know whether it really bothered me and when it's coming that goes sudden when i return to afghanistan i felt better in death of a rigid yesterday i have a lot of light and oxygen at work every day thanks to the gun it would make for the show's oldest of. he's not scared.