some of my sources just because they don't with me facing that gun can change your life. people need to know what is happening with guardians of truth may 3rd on t w. with visit the dublin years, asia coming up today. the thought of bonds, soft bond on coffee cultivation in obvious bond 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 green problems, we speak to farmers who explain what these problems are and how they highlight the

state of the country under thought bond boone 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 unbounded parent. ah, i british manager, welcome to d, w and news. a shark ledger could join us. the taliban recently banned to public cultivation and of gast on, 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 tale 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, but to choose i will if this plant is bound from cultivation, my friend that 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 profits to live off, and that's why the man of the jani 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 thought of 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 ra 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 water, we told the taliban they had to do something for us 1st. if they want us to stop selling opium was actually one moment, but i still am. but 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. proposal. woodard ball, 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. if we do that, the many farmers will suffer great problems. listener will get on dirt which clog in 2020 afghanistan 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 us dollars and helping finance there war something they have never officially admitted. a giant, sony explains to us why the taliban are trying to band 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 ask them to take notice and stand by our side or in the heart of more journeymen are from his time goal is corresponded. i knew that the fi who's reported from afghanistan for many years. i li, the thought 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 that this is the same issue that there are public had that you know, enforcing the ban is extremely difficult because on the one hand, if you enforce it, what you're going to be doing is taking the likelihood of farmers who have really very few other options to make money. you know, like, during the 20 years of the occupation, the former public always 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 amounts 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 taller bond in the past was involved in the drug trade themselves. they made millions of dollars a year off of it, usually within, by helping with the transportation of it. the former public too was very complacent and very much involved. you know, from the ministry of interior to m. p. 's allied, 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 violent officially? why is the taliban resort to this measure? because it's a nice, you know, it's a nice p r. it's a nice bugs to create. you know, we did what allegedly got the former republican too. 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, poppy 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 are the farmers to do, for instance, i mean, is opium cultivation really? the only viable 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 for me or public 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, if you were complying, but really, you know, i remember a few years ago, do you have this meeting to talk about 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 comp with true clear, sustainable furniture, this is just going to continue to be a problem and i will leave it there for today though that the feed is done. well, thank you so much for joining us on that. thank you 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 by. a lot of it has more to do with social stigmas around being a single mother than any official laws. she is to wheels old and

a beloved child of you. but bolding her out of wedlock wasn't well accepted. you couldn't even claim maternity benefits. she is entitled to by law. now her longer when you look over it. at that time, i knew some one who had successfully received the benefit through an online application to herself shall yo yo yo. but when the rest of his troy tal, i thought we were all rejected your mail. we'll pick out. oh good. and what was the reason you need to provide your marriage certificate? not mad at mothers, for instance in shank, i have almost 5 months of madonna to leave. but single mothers don't till i get up with with our shrew, melbourne thatcher, georgia i thought i on the law doesn't actually specify it's a legal, non human danilo. even though the enforcement agency will say to it, i go sure you're welcome. i said the law is written one way. right. and that would have had but it's interpreted another way. i suppose you don't have the yeah. i don't know it. usher. 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 estimates that there are 19000000 single mothers in china. ah course 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 doctor, 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, your new location has. yeah, okay, yeah. 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 or 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 office land, which has been invaded by russia. she was joined on stage by japanese pena masa who me ocoee cava.

ah soprano step on 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 to more of the same time. we'll see you then bye. ah, sometimes don't rush out at you out t v highlights for shipping books every week. now cannot i? hello guys. this is the 77 percent that platform for africa. you to defeat issues and share ideas. ah, you know, or this channel. we are not

a great to happen delicate tough because population is growing fast. and young people clearly have the finishes, the future belongs to you. a 77 percent every weekend on d. w a, a key inflation gauge. that's another record high in germany. german businesses faced, skyrocketing cost as rushes war and ukraine since prices for energy, and many other commodities to new highs. and as the cost of russia's war continues to pile up in ukraine, you leaders are discussing efforts to finance the reconstruction of the country. and we take you to poland, where construction businesses are struggling with labor shortages of their ukrainian workers,

head 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