to find out they want to kill me and they try many times facing with change your life with to know what is happening. their guardian just truth starts me 3rd on d. w with this is the deputy news asia coming up today. the thought of bon soft bomb on coffee cultivation in promised on officially the group has banged it to put in practice is allowing it as you can see from our announcement, we said that for the moment we will not be taking action against the farmers who planted opium this year, if we do, for many farmers will suffer great problems, we speak to farmers who explain what these problems are and how they highlight the

state of the country under thought, yvonne gordon and the social stigma of being a single mother in china. women tell us of discrimination at the hands of the government of being an unmarried parent ah irish manager, welcome to the dublin news. asia ledger could join us. the taliban recently banned to public cultivation and have gone to sun, but in reality isn't in forcing it. in fact, as you will see, a senior thought about official told us as much so why the ban? the reasons are complex but center around one indisputable reality. a lack of options. opium cultivation for many of guns, including sometimes the poly bomb, is the only way to earn enough money in a shattered economy. the brown mass oozing out of this pompey plant is

extremely valuable. and right now its harvest time in afghanistan. farmers are collecting the raw material necessary for opium, morphine and heroine production. but in early april the taliban forbade poppy cultivation butter choose i would if this plant is bombed from cultivation bershana, we will be forced to steal. i like it doesn't make any sense to harvest of the crops, like mays, all pomegranates. they don't do yielding of profit to live off and that's why the man are going to do any machine. we visited these farmers just as this year's crop was being harvested for 28 years. mohammed tanya's family has been cultivating opium. the extremely dry climate in south afghanistan is ideal for the plants. tied our credit, but we started planting opium because we don't have enough water. all the necessary equipment for the crops show that the people are poor and opium is profitable. the

this farmer tells us he has 25 family members to care for. he has many children, he also grows grapes, but that's not enough to make ends meet. these bags contain his valuable product, and this is the market where the raw opium will be sold and it's the place where local drug lords meet. they smuggle the opium to pakistan or iran from there, it is refined to heroin and shipped around the world, including to europe. the dealers are not happy with the ban on opium cultivation. di war doc, we told the tale bond, they how to do something 1st. first that if they went over to stop selling, opium was actually one moment by the still number. in early april the taliban announced they were immediately banning the cultivation of opium. but the deputy minister for taliban drug policy tells us this law is not being enforced. those who would refer as you can see from our announcement, we said that for the moment we will not be taking action against pharmacy planted

opium this year. i will if we do this with him, many farmers will suffer great problems. lismore will grant bill wish to luckily in 2020 afghan has 10. was the world's largest opium producer, responsible for 85 percent of global production according to the he, when the taliban taxed the cultivation and trade of the crump. earning millions of u. s. dollars and helping finance their war. something they have never officially admitted. as i sunny explains to us why the taliban are trying to ban opium production, his institute collects data and research is drug cultivation in afghanistan. the objective is certainly to get the approval 1st of the international community. hopefully move closer and closer to the recognition of the regime, which is very important for them because it would been allow many other revenues to fluid. oh,

so for the taliban minister confirmed this in the interview. he said the world has to help us. we asked them to take notice and stand by our side. didn't hurt more gentlemen are from his time. bill is corresponded ali lithography, who was reported from afghanistan for many years. i li, the thoroughly bon have banned opium cultivation officially. but as we see in our report, they don't appear to be actively enforcing the ban wise that you think i mean this is the thing with this is the same issue that there are public cab that you know, enforcing the ban is extremely difficult because on the one hand, if you went forth, what you're going to be doing is taking the likelihood of farmers who have really very few other option to make money. you know, like, during the 20 years of the occupation, the former are public, all came up with these different schemes of you know, poppy alternatives,

like pomegranates or aloe vera, or any apples, any, any sort of things that they thought would somehow or sat from that they thought would make more money, and in reality, they could never support any of those market to make sure that, for instance, those alternative crop would either be sold in sufficient amount in the domestic market or would be exported properly around the region. so to enforce it is extremely, extremely difficult, and at the same time, you have to remember that, you know, the top to bottom in the past was involved in the drug trade them. so they made millions of dollars a year off of it, usually within, by helping with the transportation of it. the former public to was very complacent and very much involved. you know, from the ministry of interior to m. p. 's allied with the government to strong men, alive with the government ministers and the government. they also had hand in this, you know,

drug trade. so it's not so easy then why buying it officially? why is the thought of on resort to this measure? because it's a nice, you know, it's a nice p r. it's a nice to create, you know, we did was allegedly, the former public to. but the truth is they're falling victim to the same truck because they're battling it, as you said in words, but unable to enforce it. and more importantly, not able to come up with real sustainable alternative sources of income at a time when the economy is absolutely suffering even more than it was during the public. so people are desperate for any way to make money. and obviously, you know, popping make some money. it doesn't make as much money as the trafficking of it does, which is usually handled by regional mach box. so, i mean in the army and mafias, but you know, it's some sort of a reliable income for people talk to us about those people. i mean,

you've traveled quite extensively through have gone on. what of the farmers to do, for instance, i mean, is opium cultivation really the only bible option for most of them in a lot of places, you know it, it grows really easy. it grows fairly easily. you know, and it's something that, you know, there will always be a market for, you know, you know, you know, that you can always sell it. and on the other hand, you have instances where, especially this is a big issue where, you know, certain strong men lived within the area and they would essentially force you to do it whether you wanted to or not. and basically you, if you weren't complying, but really, you know, i remember a few years ago, the u. s. embassy. have this meeting to talk about. it's actually admitted to failing and try more. and i was on and when someone brought up the issue of alternative crops, they made a really good point. they said you can never compete with an elicit product. you

know, the price of the product is always going to be more valuable than any legal substance . because of the nature of trying to get it. and so farmers know this and you know, it's something that they've been doing for so long and it's something that they know there is a market for. and as i said, if no government is able to come up with a true clear, sustainable, tentative, this is just going to continue to be a problem more than a honda were leave with her for today though. ali that the phoenix danville. thank you so much for joining us on that. thank you. ah to china next. where if you are a single mother, your chances of receiving state benefits are dramatically reduced access to maternity leave and medical help for instance is harder to come bye. a lot of it has more to do with social stigmas around being a single mother than any official laws. she is 2 years old and

a beloved child of you. but boarding her out of wedlock wasn't well accepted. you couldn't even claim maternity benefits. she is entitled to by law. i'm no longer gwendolen recovering. at that time i knew some one who had successfully received the benefit into an online application. georgia, sasha, yo yo yo. but when the rest of his tried all, i thought we were all rejected. your mail will pick up. oh good. and what was the reason you need to provide your marriage certificate? marriage, mothers, for instance. and shank, i have almost 5 months of maternity leave, but single mothers don't till i get up with with our shrew, melbourne, thatcher, georgia. i thought i own the law doesn't actually specify it's a legal and non human dunham le. even though the enforcement agency will say to i go sure you're welcome. i said the law is written one way or that would have had, but it's interpreted another way. i have her, she does not have the yeah. oh it, i sure many single mothers across china face the stigma from the system and from

their families as well. i all of course i faced a lot of resistance, especially from my mother who said i was crazy. she thought that this is unacceptable for traditional chinese families, but it was too much hard work as more people feel discriminated against more us speaking up, a new report estimate that there are 19000000 single mothers in china. ah, twice in your door from imo, i think the reason for the increasing number of single mothers is firstly due to a change in ideals for her better, more and more unmarried women perhaps feel that getting pregnant before marriage is not a shameful thing by been pushing and believe that even without getting married and they're able to give birth, cannot wear and to raise a child that may always letting life as, as you are any occasion, has the acadia either this month and beijing to lawmakers called for better laws to

support single models but even they say that it's impossible to change it. finally, music lovers in japan have been treated to a special performance by ukrainian opera. singer ok, so now step on yoke. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, stephanie. because performing a series of charity concerts in tokyo to raise money for awful land, which has been invaded by russia. she was joined on stage by japanese, tana masa, who me, afy, kava ah

. soprano strip. i'm, you has lived in japan for 2 decades and won many awards. she said as one is raising money, she wanted to honor the memory of all those killed in the conflict. and that's our show for today because of course, most orders from the region on our website, the dover dot com, forward slash asia are back tomorrow. at the same time we'll see you then bye. ah ah, what secrets lie behind these wall discover new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage 360. get key at now. t w's crime fighters are back africa most

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ukranian workers had home to help em. chelsea delaney welcome to the show. a measure of inflation for german businesses rose at the fastest pace ever recorded and data going back to 1949. producer prices serge, nearly 31 percent in march compared to the previous year. according to the german federal statistics office, that's largely due to energy prices which have surged amid the war and ukraine. natural gas prices jumped nearly 145 percent will cost for a broad range of products from wood to vegetable oil also world sharply. the data suggest businesses will have to raise prices further for consumers and the months ahead. now, as well as driving price increases, the war is also disrupting the flow of migrant workers throughout europe. take the polish construction industry which has long relied on ukrainian workers. many of those workers have now returned to their homeland to help the war effort. early in