ah ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. it's been a year since the taliban returned to power in afghanistan of turbulent time, seen women's rights crushed in a humanitarian crisis deep. and we'll speak to our correspondent in couple also coming up, kenyans pray for peace as they await the results of a cliffhanger. presidential election,

almost all boats counted now deputy president william router has taken a narrow lead and natural gas prices served for consumers in germany. that's after the german gas market operator announces a levy to help struggling importers cope with the reduced russian supply. plus in the buddhist league, apply and beat bulk spoke after more magic from jamal luciana goals and highlights from the game later in the shop. ah, hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us today, mark's one year since the taliban regained control of kabul. as the last american, a nato forces left afghanistan 12 months ago, thousands of people tried to get out of the capital while the taliban closed in. some made it to the airports,

trying to board any plan that would take them telephone take over, came after months of territorial games that caught the afghan government and its western allies off guard. since then, taliban, the presided over an economy in free fall. this has fueled one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters. as d w st. petersburg found out, i should warn you that the 1st images in this report are disturbing. ah, this is chassis b, b. o. and she was born just before the taliban returned to power. shes, he has strep between 2 curses that challenged the best efforts of doctors hearing cobbler trying to help her. you see a, melanie alyssa, why she is suffering from both severe pneumonia and severe malnutrition. her pneumonia has actually caused her malnutrition lunch,

lacy multi model that essentially of nursing that as like as i for them. the prognosis of children like her with severe malnutrition is not very good as their growth development and intelligence may be affected. list of those on the home that was a problem. shes yes, mother did not one to be found, but she told us she has 8 children and is pregnant with her 9th. there is never enough food at home, she set and no money for medicine. oh, half of afghanistan's people are experiencing acute foot insecurity. that's 20000000 people who are so hungry, their lives are at risk. as we drive to cobble it, facts and figures become faces. this is one of the wet food program centers in the east of the city flooded. i got a project manager of a local 8 organization is in charge here. the worst part of the job choosing who

should get supplies. it is exactly very difficult for as how to choose the right person over there. many of them they are hungry, many of them they are in need. many of them, even they are running after, as when we are doing the verification in selection. but sir, we cannot do all we can not provide food for all those he picks get 50 k g of wheat, just over 6 k g of lentils, and 5 liters of cooking i. there are also packets of peanut butter, paste for children, and special nutrition for pregnant women. it's supposed to feed a family for 3 months. it hardly ever does. o. s. the sky starts to darken over cobble. if we visit a bakery in the north. people with money buy fresh bread for dinner. sometimes they buy extra for the desperate women who sit outside hoping for charity. many of them

are widows. many have walked for more than an hour to get here. we act on as mammy, they are forced to beg. why else would we sit here all day again as as that of the invasion vill yak, thought the thigh. i take the bread home and i eat it with my children. got them but it's not enough to fill our stomachs. i divide the bread and pieces and give it to my children so that none of them dies make but our stomachs are never full because of all of my name. me money. my name is thea, to make money bakery own i am your dell, half marty has registered around 1000 women for the bread donations only though is with a car to get a loaf. it's his way to try to help, but also to keep the situation under control. i in of, of what that additional got them kitchen egg associate. i started this project out of a strong sense will be due autism because our people are jobless. the corner of the international community has stopped their assistant for us. i don't,

we are forced to fight for our people. i'm for aligned to my but what that a my, them all of that a hockey mama, but m a water. zack wanted afghans and not only victims of massive 8 cutbacks, but also of the sanctions against their fundamentalists, rulers, billions of dollars of national assets held abroad. a frozen st markets continue, but the wider economy is collapsing and the taliban have no experience of serving millions of desperate people in crisis. not a single country has recognized there is in this career status is costing ask and steely a report from d w's sandra petersburg in afghanistan, i asked her earlier about the prospects for improvement under taliban rule. well, the situation is really dire and there is no real indication as of now that things will improve right now. the word food program is feeding half the population.

20000000 people. that is, and more and more people get jobs less because the economy is crumbling as collapsing, people are forced out of jobs. shops have to close down and with shops closing down . of course, people get sent home without money and the prices of living here are increasing for people and there are less and less people who can really afford good quality food. and so what you see here on the streets is an increasing number of beggars. and at the hospitals you see an increasing number of children who have to be admitted to the man attrition wards. and there are hardly enough beds for every one. and we are looking at cobbler here at the capital where 8 is to reaching. just imagine how desperate the situation is and the remote countryside and how to reach areas. the tell above have been in power for a year now. do afghans willingly accept them as their legitimate government sandra?

well, they don't really have a choice. this is a taliban off. this is a government of the taliban for the taliban. and we were witness of a demonstration of voice is off descent on saturday morning when a group of about 40 women assembled in the road that runs past the ministry of education and authorities here allowed them to march for approximately 500 meters. but then some taliban fighters started firing life shots to disperse this very small crowd. a very brave women. and what is happening here that people just stay indoors, try to voice. they are concerned more on social media or behind wards because they are really afraid of these new rulers out there who know how to ruin with a gun, but don't really know how to serve a people in crisis that you've been covering up yellowstone for many years on what strikes you most about the country to day

what i really find hard to come to terms with is that on the one side there is without a doubt increased security. i myself am the last couple of years i was here. i couldn't walk the streets out of fear of suicide attacks or better erupt in just like that because frontiers were so unclear. and now you can walk the street steering cob with their i tell you bon check points every, a few 100 meters and so, and you re do get checked, you have to show your papers. but the sense of security doesn't really transform to a better life for people. that economic crisis is all encompassing and fear in insecurity really have a firm hold of people. and a lot of women that we spoke to, especially women, really want to leave the country. i can still try, i can still remember one teacher who really tried almost on my shoulders saying she finds it so hard to tell her as students that they cannot come back to school. and without schooling there is no future for them in this country. certainly thank you

very much, shar correspondence, xandra, pate rosemont in cobble since returning to power, the taliban have severely restricted the rights of women and girls. tens of thousands of girls have been effectively shut out of secondary schools. while most women have been barred from working, despite the regimes, initial assurances regarding women's rights protests by women have been put down often with the use of excessive force which only me now for more is d, w. y slot has brought no z me who has altered a book on the continuing resistance of afghan women. good the see you was the how are women in afghanistan responding to these restrictions that the taliban have placed upon them? hi terry. well, afghan women have responded in different way. sondra just reported on one way. that is, that where the protests, so on saturday we have seen protest after

a long time after months, basically, because they were impossible in the past months the taliban have been trying to shut down all kinds of protest. that's why many women are now being active under ground, trying to keep their activities, trying to form and resist underground. so what they sometimes do is that they are sitting in houses, taking pictures of themselves, holding up signs, trying to find other ways and right, trying to be creative and in resisting the taliban regime. well, the restrictions on women's education have been condemned, widely condemned by the international community. many afghans themselves are really unhappy with them. is there any indication that the taliban might relax those restrictions? i don't see any indication that they might do this in the near future, but we do know that the taliban themselves are divided on this issue. so there are

groups within the taliban who actually support women or girls going to school and women getting an education. we know that many taliban members who have their families outside of kennesaw in pakistan and cut their daughters. they are going to school, which is also important to stress. so the taliban are not only divided on this issue, but other issues as well. we will have to wait and see how this plays out. i myself, i personally don't think that the taliban will be able to to keep their power because they are. so divide it. what do you think was lot is important for the international community to keep in mind today regarding afghanistan. i think what's really important is to look back and at what happened during the past 20 years, 20 years ago when the u. s. and invaded afghanistan, they, their goal was to, to destroy al qaeda to,

to topple the taliban government back then. and then they said, we will, we will stay in afghanistan. you will build a nation and we will bring democracy and we will, strength and women's rights. and today we can see that none of that actually happened. i think it's very important that we keep this in mind that we keep in mind the failures that have been happened during those past 20 years. but also we should keep in mind that african women has always been upon of, and they have been used for political interests. be the taliban government now be at the western because international community, the past 20 years before them, a j, dean or the communists. every single political group has used african women for their benefit, and i think it's time that african women speak for themselves even i shouldn't be able, that shouldn't be speaking for them because i am not living under taliban rule. this. the african women themselves who we should give a platform was

a thank you very much for your insights in your analysis. did always was lot has rough, nosy, me is a look at some more stories making headlines around the world today. male mars military hunter has sentenced former leader on zones would she to 6 more years in prison on corruption charges. she had already been sentenced to 11 years on similar charges. sensor ousting in february last year. analysts say the charges are an attempt to legitimize military's seizure. power to run has denied any involvement with an assault on author some on roofs. these rusty, iran's foreign ministry distance itself from the new york stabbing attack, but blamed ruthie and his supporters for insulting islam. the author is the target of a decades old fatwas issued by iran's late liter, ayatollah khomeini. china says it has carried out more

military drills around taiwan in response to a new visit by a group of us lawmakers through the self governing island. a congressional delegation arrived in taipei and met tie when time, when he's legislators just 2 weeks ago, just 2 weeks after a similar trip by hel speaker, nancy pelosi angry asian kenya is inching closer to finding out who it's next. president will be 6 days after elections, the boat has been largely peaceful, in contrast to the post election balance of 2007, in which more than a 1000 people died. officials have now counted votes from almost all constituencies . the electoral commission has provisionally put william root ho had of his main rival rival dingum. i spoke earlier to d w's, felix marina, in nairobi. i asked him how close we are to getting

a final result at good afternoon. we are very, very close because these are heavy contingent or for least outside here. families of their presidential candidates have already been invited to the national, telling center just outside the national, telling center these a lot of people crowds are gathering to celebrate their on their president though they're willing presidential candidate. and there are the independent electoral boundaries. commission has already reset or chince. they're set up by the national telling center. that means in the next or in the, in the, in a very short while, we shall be knowing who is the president elect. because again, the political parties member are elected members of the various other seats are all gathered at the bull myself, kenya in the excitement is up, their entertainment is currently going. so in the next, just a few minutes, we should be knowing who the president east, but i can tell you, for sure,

we will be knowing by this afternoon, maybe in the next 30 minutes, maybe in the next one hour. but the independent electoral boundaries commission is just about to pronounce itself on the winning candidates following their august 9th election. so a result is close or has the vote counting process felix been transparent? has it been above board so far? they'll be salvas from the various observer, michelle, as they will appear new on the africa union on the east africa coin munity. all of them gave their election a clean bill. but that was there a preliminary report. and they said that immediately after the announcement has been made that they will make a final report. but so far it has been transparent. kenyon, why able to access their results on a public portal from day one. and so nothing has been chines, at least whatever is on the public eye, not being has been changed to us. not unless something has happened behind the

scenes that we don't know off yet. so fights been transpired, and we hope that even after the president elect is announced, then there would be a little or no no much agreement about who they decisive when i is because everything has been laid bare. felix, thank you very much for now. i'm sure we'll be talking a later today. our correspondent fib exploring there in nairobi. ukraine's president, florida me. zalinski has again called for european countries to introduce a band on visas for russian tourists. his appeal has been echoed by estonia and finland, 2 european countries that share borders with russia. they want all states and the european union to stop issuing tourist visas to holders of russian passport. you countries are divided over the proposal. what you remember lithuania also, borders? russia t w's constantine a got asked lithuanian, foreign minister,

gabriella lance bagus. what he thinks of the proposal. if he has made this decision quite, quite early. and also not only just because of the political reasons, but also because of the practical. this was the thing is that when the war started in, the siena felt a huge influx of people who were seeking for shelter, running away from prosecution bead from from bellows, which i mean, so it's a long time ago. i mean, i just went to 2020, almost 2 years now and also from, from russia, from us go. so, and knowing that console capacity is limited, me that people can issue only so many pieces. so basically you have to answer yourself a very simple question. who do issue of either 1st, is it a, a family of, of a, you know, n g o or a member who might be persecuted, whose father or mother is being persecuted or some tourist, you know,

who wishes to spend a few lovely days by lithonian seashore so the answer is obvious. so we've, we've basically stopped our visitations to people who would go for recreation. and the only reasons that are issued is the military and cause visas. so for us, this is not in your debate, and obviously we support that. it would be a european decision because as you know, washington was like that, that basically is a porous borders. it means that people entering one, finland, dishes, a visa to someone than the someone make somebody exact. and we've seen those cases as well. people who are not supposed to be independent, they are suddenly finding themselves in, in the senior, all in other countries. so that happens. so we would totally support the european decision. and then yes, obviously there is a political side of the question, more question. and when we understand that the people were forced to flee ukraine, some of them are remaining,

they're fighting for their lives. fighting therefore for their homes. while the country who is at war is still free to the people from the country, still free to travel and enjoy all the amenities of the free world, basically which their government is fighting against germany's gas market operator has announced a levy all natural gas prices to come into effect on october. first of this year, the $2.04 per kilowatt hour. levy means an average family of 4 could see additional net costs of around $480.00 euros annually. the levy is aimed at helping gas importers hit by extra costs due to reduced russian supply. they're being forced to buy more expensive gas from suppliers outside russia. more the store enjoy now by political correspond, any foot hammerstein, and they tell us more about this gas levy house. it's supposed to help germany deal

with its energy crisis. yes. so the german government, the german cabinet and had already earlier this month agreed to impose this levy because as you said it, you know, it wants to help out the gas importers who are now having to cope with soaring prices. because, you know, we have to remember the context because of russia's worn ukraine and russia subs can move to cut gas applies to germany and other european countries. and, you know, this is revealed a situation. well, 1st of all, revealed how highly dependent germany is on russian gas. but it's also letters, situations where we're importers of gas have to deal with really high additional costs. and because they're having to look for alternative sources outside of russia and, and now with a levy, they can cheer some of those additional costs. am up to 90 percent of those additional costs with the end consumers. so households and industrial consumers and, and m, yes. this is, am supposed to come into effect on october 1st,

but consumers will probably not see it on their bills till about november december because of regulations protecting consumers from price increases like consumers in many countries. people in germany, of course, are worried about their gas bills. does the levy amount to a capital any on price increases in germany or will gas bills continue to rise? well, that is very good question. obviously, a lot of people are asking myself this and, and this leads to, you know, the 1st sticking like real big point of critique that low income households will suffer from this the most. and, and let's remember, they're already being, you know, confronted with skyrocketing cost of living, high inflation. and, and so this is obviously has german officials worried. and this is why the government has already announced a new energy that they're working on the new package off of relief measures,

especially for low and middle income households. briefly any joint gas customers, natural gas customers, likely to react all this. yeah, that is also a really big question because german official half half warned you know, that if the winter and, you know, sees really high prices, really high bills, rising inflation that this could trigger social unrest asked about this last week in his summer press conference, electric chance the whole actually said that he doesn't think so. he also sort of assured people that they could rely on the german welfare state to support them. and so he really wanted to hammer home the message that the government has as angie chris's under control. but it will depend on the policy measures that will be decided on in the next, in the coming weeks. let me thank you very much for that, or correspondent leon, a fun. how much time there is a look at some more stories in the news today. shipping companies in germany are

preparing for the worst has water levels on the river rhine dropped to critical levels. authorities, warren, many vessels will be unable to navigate the key shipping route. if levels dropped much further, a drought across europe has left many rivers, running dry. australian prime minister anthony albanese, has accused his predecessor scott morrison of an unprecedented centralization of power during the covered 19 pandemic. they had to die okay. disease, promising to open an investigation into revelations that morrison's secretly appointed himself to multiple ministerial posts. morrison has not responded to the allegations by and munich have continued their strong start to the bonus league a season with a to nil when a verbal spark. the defending champs are top of the table and it's becoming clear they have a teen star on their hands. here's a look at the match by and fans were in fine voice for their 1st home game of the

season. they welcome back form. a coach nico vet is now in charge of both spoke and the business started in promising fashion. patrick them are almost forcing an own goal from biden's, alphonse, or davies. the host drew 1st blood though jamal marcial, a knitting a brilliant individual effort in the 33rd minutes. the germany international showing great perseverance and skill for his 3rd goal of the campaign. 10 minutes later on the stroke of half time, it was to nil. joshua kimmy shooting from range. thomas miller, with the decisive touch the comfortable wind turbine after a goal is 2nd period. they couldn't have asked for a better start to the season storm. under the tough story we're following for you this hour. the come about are marking the 1st anniversary of their return to power

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