ah, hearing their dreams ready to journey intended snorts august 14th on d. w. ah ah, this is dw news coming to line from berlin key. it denies responsibility for an explosion at a russian air base and crimea. ukraine says it didn't strike the base but claims the blast destroyed. at least 9 russian warplanes and on the mainland ukrainian fighters pushed towards cas home. our correspondence met them in the front line

trenches. also coming out almost a year on from the taliban take over in afghanistan, we meet the director of a mother and baby clinic in cobble. one of the few women in afghanistan who still has a job. ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. ukraine says 9 russian war planes were destroyed and explosions at an air base in the annex crimea region. earlier this week, russia has used the saki base near noble feller isca to strike southern ukraine. moscow says, definitions of stored ammunition set off the blasts, not an attack. ukraine is not claimed responsibility for any attack, but has hinted at its involvement. meanwhile, on the mainland, ukraine has stuffed up a tax on russian supply lines and the strategically important chassis on region. as

it seeks to conduct a counter offensive to retake areas of the south dw mathias bowling. i went to the frontline to meet ukrainian fighters preparing for trench warfare. but in your business there are a weeds at the bottom of the trenches. that's how long the frontline has been here . you have thought for satan that says battlefield name. this has many months of living in and under. this is where they sleep, eat and wait for something to happen. the cranes national poet tara shanker, which has over them. when they shell us, we all come down here to people have to stay outside to monitor the situation. the others hide in here. it's mostly been an artillery being shell shelling back waiting for the next round. 2 sides target each other from

a distance trying to damage a position enough to then storm. not just a part of the front is in danger of hank attack, but believe me, if they come, we will meet them adequately with those the shot. right now is the ukrainians were attacking they launched a counter offensive weeks ago and have taken a few dozen settlements and the advance is low jordan recipient. we liberate the settlement that we can work when we do. we don't move into the village, but we make sure the russians are gone. we don't go in, in order not to risk our soldiers live. that is important. when the command thinks that we have enough weapons and how soldiers will happily move for you, sir. other super period because we travel to another position scorched. we can't get information on how many modern western weapons they

have at this section at the front. we are constantly told it is not enough and move on more boldly. because a break from the shelling lunch in the trenches when the soldiers have been living here too for many months at the moment the mood is even relaxed. here in the trenches, there is a break in the fighting. but there is the expectation that the russians might step up. they're selling again. soldiers, no reason strikes. artillery dumps has the high model of a rocket launchers, disruptive russians, things from both dr. lee to less shelling from their side for a certain period of time. but the russians also adjust their logistics. they learn the lessons from al highmark and far ranging artillery. what's native, unfortunately, the war is not just a permanent turn in our favor. it's

a process and it keeps changing it. so here in the trenches at the glass on front, it's about patients moving forward carefully and keeping focused on we'll take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. a run up boat may be needed in kenya to decide who will be that country's next president. early election results show a tight race between the 2 main contenders. better and opposition leader riley adeena and the deputy president william ruta, appear closely matched. the result is not expected until later in the week. north korean leader kim jong on was seriously ill with coven 19 that's according to his influential sister, kim jo, john. this comes as the country declares what it calls a shining victory over the virus. it's blamed the outbreak on propaganda leaflets and balloons sent over the border by south korea. a wildfire broke out on saturday

continues to rip through a national park in portugal central highlands. more than a 1000 firefighters have been sent in to battle the blaze which has destroyed thousands of vectors of forest almost a year after the taliban returned to power in afghanistan, the lives of women have been severely restricted there. they must cover themselves, head to toe and public, cannot travel without a male guardian and are nearly all bored from working. but not completely dw sandra . pete has been met one of the few women in afghanistan who still has a job. she's a doctor in the capital kabul. bah, what in the us in the meat dr. mal ally facie, she's the rare exception in afghanistan. why the taliban forced most working women from that jobs doctor for you see, got a promotion. she's now director of the country's biggest maternity clinic and cobble female and neonatal health is one area where the fundamentalist rulers

understand they need women from on a more the of one stone. as miss erica, this is linked to the culture and tradition of afghanistan. when a woman is pregnant, she should go to a female doctor i had on mckenna because a female doctor can better examine and treat her than a male that i heard was a lot of me than a good one, a mother. you can now that rick over melanie, dr. i see some of them actually. she was the other. 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. antinini out on me as not that a communique. i guess the team performs up to 40 syrian sections each day. roha versus daphne ma'am, by name, how does he get it? oh, does your them a lot of people, i jobless when i meet them and when families cannot afford for expecting mothers to eat, good logic, nutritious food? will they face a lot of problems on lamba rob themselves?

up de jonathan, one m. many babies here are born prematurely. more than 20 new borns have died in each of the past 4 months. the 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development failed to create the last in editions needed to reduce infant mortality. to my i bought that i'm 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 though a lot susie with her after her hospital shift doctor for easy works and 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 a so, so i will only feel happy when my country is at peace and secure. that is what i'm

yet, and when all the troubles that our people are facing are resolved dilemma. and they are com no that that's when i will be able to relax. missouri show this as a 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 off gone has done. emma, them yet once on any i got. i'm an african and i got my education from the blot of this nation's people, including 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 what i care about hookah 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

. m as called, 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. not only mayo doctors were there but not a single female. and i want to help the women of my country in geneva. there is, i think, is one hooker. where the marvel 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? oh, can i get done with the famous one again? michelle tony. sh for more in this, i'm joy now by hon and know him and she's a member of the european parliament from germany's green party. thanks for being with us, dr. norman. you travel to afghanistan, an april, the 1st m e p to do so, since the telephone take over, you met with women from all walks of life there. how would you describe the plight of afghan women now? good morning, terry. and thank you for having me in the show today and for raising awareness of

this topic. once again, here's the main motivation for me to travel to grande. so was to meet with women and to send a clear statement that our troops i have left, but that doesn't mean that we do not no longer care about their plight. what was most stressing for me was just see how frustrated, how depressed, and how much am i a to most of these women where it, because already back in april it was while the unclear what the future would be, we already have the been on growth education which means that there may be no future female doctors, but which also means that the daughters of the doctors, for example, can longer go to school. but it also meant for all these educated women who fought for 20 years. i mean, to find their place in the stuff gone society they don't know. can they still go back to work tomorrow? they don't know, would they be harris on the way to work because there he job is not one in the right or the wrong way. whatever one topic things,

and you could really feel these clo got depression and anxiety on all of them. now many of the rights and freedoms of african women and not just women, but women in particular, all those rights that they had, one in the past decade were undone when the taliban returned to power. what prospects do you see for improving conditions for african women under the current regime? the interesting thing is that the initial statement of the tale upon after they took power was ok. women will not have a place in politics, but they can continue to work. they can continue to go to school. we want to have them as part of i've gone future. since then we saw an incredible, very incredible backtrack on all women's rights were now only dark female doctors. she, my teachers can work basically that's it. but it is also clear that within the tale by movement, there are different groups. so there are even tommy ones who higher school teachers

to homeschooled their own daughters because they think the decision to ban girls who scored is fundamentally wrong. and then there are the very be called line as who are in the forehand at the moment. and one way ahead has to be for us to see how we can better engage and strengthen the more moderate parts of the 20 bond. and kind of nuts them towards opening the political discussion back again for people from other ethnic groups. but it was just from other genders because that honey bun, they are just about 3 to 4 percent of the pushed whitney group. so they do by no means represent of gotten is done and they will not be capable to govern the country as a whole is the way they do that right now. a canister, as you well know, is facing a humanitarian crisis on a staggering scale. what are you and your european colleagues doing to help up kind of stand overcome that crisis and improve the welfare of its people? the 1st thing and that has also been clear last year is we do not want any,

i've gone by from starvation. so we ran humanitarian aid over it for the winter, for the last winter. we're going to have to see to what degree we would be able to do that again for the next enter, the willingness is there. but as general financial resources in the money sharing sector, australia and, and the food prices that is building ahead is not making things more easier. so for you, monetary made, there is a big willingness to continue also to keep hospitals running. the other question is, in terms of the future, would you mean what were tradition caught up monday for bringing basically people back to making their own living? and that is very difficult with a tiny boundaries that disregards everything that we consider fundamental basis for bringing the country back on track. dr. norman, thank you very much for speaking with us. i was 100 norman member of the p and parliament. you're welcome. you're watching dw news from berlin, coming up next. we've got our women's magazine,

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