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a cliffhanger. presidential election with almost all votes counted. now deputy president william router has taken a narrow lead and natural gas prices search for consumers in germany. that's half of the german gas market operator analysis, a levy to help struggling importers cope with the reduce brushing supply. ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. today, march 1 year since the taliban regained control of cobble, the capture of the gaff, gang capital ended 20 years of u. s. military intervention almost overnight. exactly. a year ago, thousands of people fled to cobbles airport as the taliban closed in trying to board any plane that would take them today,

about marking the day was televised prayers and speeches to deal with. but since the return to power, former surgeons have presided over an economy in freeform in his own, i received my liberty. this has fueled one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters. as dw sandra peters, mom found out, i should warn you that the 1st image is in this report or disturbing. ah, this is chassis at b, b. o. and she was born just before the taliban returned to power chassis as trip between 2 curses that challenged the best efforts of doctors hearing, cobbling, trying to help her. oh, you see a 1000000 jamita why she is suffering from both severe pneumonia and severe malnutrition. her pneumonia has actually caused her malnutrition, not slightly maloof to that model, that essentially what of nursing that i think 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 phoned, 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. 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. landed out, i've got a project manager of 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 the air. 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 giving 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 lanterns 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 by 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 a vision vision bill yak, thought that like 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 it, but our stomachs are never full because of all of my name. me money, monet, theater, 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 it of uh huh. that additional cut them katrina i guess also i started this project out of a strong sense of be do autism because our people are jobless. the corner of the international community has stopped their assistant for us. we are forced to fight for our people. i'm for aligned to my but what that a my, them all the thought that

a hockey mama but m a water. zack wanted afghans and not only victims of mess of 8 cutbacks, but also of the sanctions against their fundamentalists, rulers billions of dollars of national assets. how to brought 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 their resume. this career status is costing afghans dearly. that report thereby, di there is some of the papers mounting cobble i asked her earlier if there are any proof there is any prospect for improving the situation in afghanistan? 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 blessed 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 mount attrition wards and are hardly enough beds for every one. and we are looking at cobble, you're 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 voices of descent on saturday morning when a group of about 40 women assembled and 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. but you've been covering up yellowstone for many years on what strikes you most about the country today. what i really find hard to come to terms with is that on the one side there is with our devout 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 battles erupting just like that because frontiers were so unclear. and now you can walk the street steering cobbled there. i tell you bon checkpoints every, a few 100 meters and so, and you really 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. so remember, one teacher who really tried almost on my shoulders saying she finds it so hard to tell her, are students that that cannot come back to school, and without schooling, there is no future for them in this country. chandler, thank you very much. shar correspondent sandra peters. mom in couple sandlin

mentioned there, the taliban have severely strict to the rights of women and girls. tens of thousands of girls have been forced in their education after middle school. while most women have been barred from working, despite the regimes initial assurances regarding humans, right, women's rights protests by women have been put down often with the use of excessive force. earlier i spoke to d. w's was law house, right. nosy, me, who has authored a book on the continuing resistance about 10 women. i asked her how they are responding to the telephone. now african women have responded in different ways. sandra 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. 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 in education. we know that many taliban members who have their families outside of of ghana, son in pakistan and cut out 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 letters 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 the 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 was a dean or the communist. 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 to, 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 right. nosy, me is the looks of all that set. some other stories making headlines around the world today. male mars military hunter has sentenced former leader on so she to 6

more years in prison on corruption charges. she had already been sentenced to 11 years on similar charges. and since or else thing in february of last year, analysts say the charges are an attempt to legitimize the military's seizure of power. china says is carried out more military drills around taiwan in response to renew visit by a group of us lawmakers to the self governing island. a congressional delegation arrived in taipei and met taiwanese legislators just 2 weeks after a similar trip by house speaker nancy pelosi angered beijing to run has denied any involvement in an assault on author, solomon rusty wrens. foreign ministry distance itself from the new york stabbing attack. but blame rusty and his supporters for insulting islam. the author is the target of a decades old patois, issued by a ran late leader. ayatollah khomeini in kenya is

inching closer to finding out who its next president will be 6 days after the elections. the vote 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 router ahead of his main rival, riley with ingo d w spiel. exploring his standing by forests in nairobi. felix, where things stand. now, how close are we to getting a final result? i. i can comfortably see and confidently see that. we already have, i resolved. that is just the edge to be analysed. but all indications sure that the president will be william router because he has just driven in together with his

deputy at a low dean. god is nowhere to be seen within that ball myself. kenya, a, a lot of security has been a security for both william router and the deputy have been bullied that. so it's just a matter of that. no, it's meant. but william router has just made his way to the ball myself, kenya, and aiden. i and inertia in a very short time. we shall be getting that announcement by the chair, pass on for the independent electoral and boundaries commission. and she's a hello. i'm just to trying to catch helix are you still with us, felix marina? yes, i am. yes, great. okay, yeah, go ahead and you were just explaining about the result being on the verge being a nelson, it appears that we have a what appears to have a winners that right it. yes we do. we do appear to have a we know because william brutal has just that driven into the compound he has,

his security has been more than doubled. so all indications are sure that he could be announced in the next few minutes. entertainment is still ongoing. and if you can see the tent behind me, that's there holding place where william router and his deputy have just i come in to. they are resting. they are waiting for them to be called inside their detox. but the final announcement will be made and varies. and the certificate will be issued, but are from how everything else is at a bull myself. can now the results are, i know a finalize, and it's just a matter of just a few minutes before kenyon gets to welcome their new president's pest the vote counting process been transparent for felix. has it been above board this whole counting process? well, they'll have a missions, both from the european union, the africa union,

that east african community give the election a clean bill that was conducted in a peaceful manner. they have a, they have been here the bomb us of kenya, observing how their whole process has been ongoing. nobody has raised our question about their vote counting and they're telling so far. and so we will be waiting to see the final report from the observer missions, but their preliminary reports showed that this election has so far been free and fair. now there's been violence and can you following past elections, felix or kenyans expected to accept the result of this vote well on whether i can unseal accept the results or not. that remains, i guess of wait and see bats. and i think the general field within the country right now is that people need to get back to their walk. it's already been almost 2 weeks for people haven't been going to for walk. people have just been waiting at

home anxiously and just people wanted to know who the president elect is and go back to their ad jobs and whatever they do to and i leaving. so i don't think from where i stand, that i can as will actually go into again, the civil societies that religiously does have been preaching peace and asking kenyans to conduct themselves if commerce, to accept whatever you thought that comes out of the national telling center. so we'll wait and see how kenyans react to this, but as we speak right now, the country is cool. calm and collected. of course these excitement about who becomes the next president, but we wait to see how kenyans will react. and we shall be here to tell you what kenneth on the streets of nairobi think and then tie, kenya. felix, thank you very much for now. that was d. w. as felix marina there in iraq. ukraine's president vladimir 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 passports, you countries are divided over the proposal. you member lithuania, also borders russia, t w's, constantine egg, asked lithuanian foreign minister, gabriella, his lunch bags. what he thinks of the proposal. the thing has made this decision quite quite early. and also, not only just because of the political reasons, but also because of the practical reasons. the thing is that when the war started, ellison, a felt huge influx of people who are seeking for shelter running away from prosecution bead from from bellis, which i mean, so it's a long time ago. i mean, i just went to you. yes. 20. 20 almost 2 years now,

and also from, from russia, from us come so and knowing that counselor capacities limited means that people can issue only so many business. so basically you have to answer yourself a very simple question. could you issue a visa? first is it's 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 or visit ations to people who would go for recreation. and the only reason that i should is the human attention cause business. so for us, this is not a new debate, and obviously we support that. it would be a european decision. because as you know, when shannon works 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 a new 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, feel free to travel and enjoy all the amenities of the free world, basically which their government is fighting against is a couple of stories making headlines here in germany. the countries gas market operators announced a levy on natural gas prices starting from october. first, the $2.00 cent per kilowatt hour levy means an average family of 4 could pay around

$500.00 euros more per year. levy is meant to help gas importers cope with soaring prices, caused by cuts and russian suppliers. and shipping companies in germany are preparing for the worst as water levels on the river rhine drop to critical levels. authorities born many vessels will be unable to navigate the key shipping route. if levels drop much further, a drought across europe has left many rivers running dry. germany and poland have set up a joint task force to deal with a burgeoning ecological disaster that's affecting a major river bordering both countries. they want to find out what's caused the mysterious death of thousands of fish in the river odor upstream on the polish side of the border. the dial f as spark concerned about the water impact on the river and wildlife downstream mac that inevitably skies on the lookout. the

conservationist is searching for dead fish in the waters of this nature park and northwestern. poland. so far she hasn't spotted any, but she is very worried about how much of a god we know nothing about this chemical. it harms the fish, but also all the fall, 9 the river and we fear that it will penetrate into the earth. loaded the whole area is assistant of water canals. this chemical can flow into the marshland through this water. not only aquatic organisms lived there, but also mammals and many birds. fornia thought the wave of that fish is getting closer. 20 kilometers from here. fire fighters are pulling dead fish out of the water. there's still only a few here, but a bit further up stream. it looked like this the previous day. it's still unclear what caused the mass deaths. german and polish water samples have shown high levels of salts. the polish government suspects that chemical waste was dumped into the river. critics say the polish side has reacted too slowly. too high ranking

officials have since been dismissed by poland prime minister over to get with my ministers from germany and poland to have meant to try to agree on a joint approach. he's got you with with other people. i love you fully doors who hold political responsibility must provide clarity on this environmental disaster to minimize the damage to identify the perpetrators. young. i hope this meeting today has made a real contribution in that direction by a task and i stood, shall know the results of the water samples will be shared and discuss together go . oh my gosh martin. she shared the meeting. we agreed on faster decision making and an appropriate course of action for the hours and days ahead. mishma, on the german side of the rivers estuary the situation is relaxed. the disaster is not yet visible here, but things could change soon. softener and by and munich of continued there,

a strong start to the bonus legacies and with a to nail whenever bob's or 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 as the season. they welcome back form, a coach, nico covert who's now in charge of all spoke. and the visitors started in promising fashion. patrick them are almost forcing an own goal from boyens alphonso davies. the host true 1st blood though jamal marcial or missing 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, a comfortable wind turbine after a goal of 2nd period,

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