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cut off from the work force, a look at the struggle to survive and their determination to regain their last rights. ah. i british manager, welcome to d, w. news asia, glad you could join us since their return to power last august, the taliban have focused on policing the life of of gone stands women. they are required to be covered from head to toe and public. can't travel without made guardian. and most of them are bored from work, but not all did a blue sandra fetus, one met a doctor in kabul, one of the very few working berman left in the country. oh, what i'm guessing the meat duck tamela lie facing? she's a rare exception in afghanistan. why the taliban forced most working women from their jobs doctor for you see got a promotion. she's now

a director of the country's biggest maternity clinic and cobbled female and neonatal health. is one area where the fundamentalist rulers understand they need women from on a more than one stone as america, this is linked to the culture and tradition of afghanistan. when women is pregnant, she should go to a female doctor, had only gonna because a female doctor can better examine and treat her than a male doctor was a little me than a get on a mother you can as arabic, ever mil doctor. i see some of them get your we can go if you want her ward rounds are busy. the hospital deals with up to 2500 birth a month. many, many of the women have difficult deliveries due to man attrition and anemia. as nazareth can indicate, the team performs up to 40 syrian sections each day for her better. remember name, how does he get it? does your them a lot of people, i job less on amazon, and when families cannot afford for expecting as to eat good,

a lot nutritious food level, they face alada problems. i'm lamba rob themselves up jonathan ellen m many babies here a born prematurely. more than 20 new borns have died in each of the past 4 months. the 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development fate to create the lasting conditions needed to reduce infant mortality. from my book that i am a doctor, i have not left the country for the past 26 years and in all this time i've gunnison was never stable and never peaceful with our lot. susie. with that after her hospital shift, dr. foisy works in the private clinics, she runs with her husband. here many patients are under family pressure to have children, but can't conceive or have miscarried. it can be difficult for women to carry a pregnancy to term when constantly stressed and life in afghanistan is stressful, especially for women. muslim on it is also,

i will only feel happy when my country is at peace and secure. that gets you out of i'm yet. and when all the troubles that are people are facing are resolved dilemma and they are com. when will that, that's when i will be able to relax in missouri. show this as an automatic when she gets home after a long working day, darkness awaits her. the electricity's off a daily experience for many families and cobbled as she sits down for tea with her youngest daughter. we ask her why she doesn't leave of gone is done. there was a mark. them. yeah. once on any, i got. i'm an afghan. uh huh. and i got my education from the blot of this nation's people, including me, my mac, i want to shove, my people had called on long if all of us decide to leave now who will rebuild this country? because like you about hooker marva is waiting to take the university entry exam to

study medicine. she's clear on why she wants to follow in her mother's footsteps e m. as home. never heard that again, cause our society needs female doctors in every single province. after the recent earthquake, there were no female doctors in the field to help the injured women with not only mayo doctors were there, but not a single female. and i want to help the women of my country in jamaica, the hispanic is on hold. common where the mar of our with follow her mother's career with the up to the taliban. they wait. he sighed. how many women doctors they want and where to find a token and it doesn't have an affair, is montague, michelle hill and jeremy now for more from a bowl is dr. ned was so much if i drew a gynecologist and president of the afghanistan society of obstetricians and gynecologists, but to show father thank you for speaking to us. now you work as a gynecologist and see pregnant mothers every day. are they doing better or worse under the balaban and know at the health situation of

most of the woman, especially especially pregnant women are deteriorating because of that economy. situation of them are getting bad and bad and worse the day by day and people a woman like the became more children as well. and so and under the taliban they cannot come to the doctors they they cannot do their cares. they are not able to afford the fee of the doctor and to buy their medicine to do the investigations. so more of the pregnant, warmer women are and then mig and their health condition is not good. and there is also a shortage of doctors, isn't there? i mean, people like you are there, you know, it's not at the moment as yes,

absolutely. the number of doctors, especially gynecologists, are decrease because most of the doctors, famous doctors and experts and left on a sunday went abroad out of the country. so there are shortage off guy. nicole, they're just an obstetrician as well. and what is that done for you and your colleagues? have that increased your workload? what is it like for you working as a doctor under the taliban? and because the number of the doctors are decreasing as to the number of patients, a lot of the patients are more and more efficiently and the public hospitals but, but also and the private hospitals, the public hospital i cannot give as service as the should. so so they have to do good to the private clinics. the number of the lord of the

patients are increasing and increasing because of the decreasing number of doctors. you talk about the decreasing numbers of doctors at the same time to the taliban have forbidden women from receiving higher education. are you worried that that might mean father shortage down the line of women? doctors? yes, there is a very big danger in the future that if the or not go to the schools and they do not get medical education in the future, maybe after, after some years we will have a very dangerous shortage of the doctors. know women like you are very read and i've done this on because women like us to being allowed to work and being able to face the public and serve them. but many other women have stopped working. they are

not allowed to work anymore. is this ban on women working, helping or harming the country? for sure, for sure. i have, i have patients as such, lawyers, engineers, the women who are working and the government, they are jobless and they do, they cannot or money. they are my patients. they come to me, they cry a lot that they lost their job. they cannot support their, their family, their, their cuts saw a for sure. it's as a done ger of, of the, of the every day for, for a country. because women women are a good, good based off of the family, off of the community of a she. so the woman woman do not work. what will happen to that country?

you interact with the thought about quite a bit, i presume during your walk you must be talking to them. do you tell them that maybe they should lift the band on working women? yes, they promised that they, they wouldn't make a system for that. a woman to work and they will make a system for continue. we're continuing that guards education, but as done so we haven't. we haven't seen any, any progress yet, dave, dave promised, but this, there is no, no, we don't see any any progress. hopefully the progress makes itself known in some time. dr. nod bizarre, marcia father, thank you so much for talking to us today. welcome. the taliban has broken its own promises. meaning many women have been forced to leave their working lives behind korea's ruined education, worthless. many on are struggling to survive and put food on the table for their

families. the mentors from a past life coolest and safari is looking at work certificates of her time as a police officer in kabul. your that is, my job was so valuable to me. i loved my job, but when the taliban came, they did not allow us to go to work st. go back to your houses, and we, how many protests we asked them to allow us to go to work by promising to wear the job. but they pointed their guns at us and told us to get lost. i learned from the hanging coolest on was one of more than 20000 women police officers who was sacked by the taliban last year. now she works as a cleaner to make ends meet. half an hour, so i get, i usually work from 8 am till 4 pm. it's a really boring job, but i have no choice and no other income. yes, we die if i don't work. and again, my goodness and company not working is not an option for goodness down after losing

her husband to cancer 2 years ago. she is the so the bread winner for a household of 5. but she struggled to feed her children and grandchildren. her job cleaning houses, pays a fraction of what she used to earn as a policewoman. but despite having their livelihoods taken away, women in afghanistan haven't been silenced by the taliban. mooney, some bodies in her fellow activists have taken their protest to the street. i will raise our voices against every injustice until our last spread. we will stand against the tyranny imposed by the taliban on the people of afghanistan, and especially on the women of afghanistan. one with that, monet saw his a master's degree in international relations and worked for the finance ministry like julius down. she lost her job after the taliban seized power, and now she has dedicated herself to fighting their repressive regime at least once

a week. she meets up with other women to plan the next protest or to work on promoting their cause on social media. it's not without risk, but it's a risk west taking the herself and for women like goodness done and thousands more like them. well pretty well. oh, yeah, and to throw this week there, looking at the situation in afghanistan, one yes, and the thought about take over. we have reports and analysis from the country, but that's it. for today, we'll see you back here at the same time to morrow. the by the church and the war, they fled their country and are stranded in berlin for many ukrainians. christian communities are the 1st part of con. it's where they find help contact

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