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this is the taliban in afghanistan. we explain how and why some women are able to work despite the odds. ah, i melissa chant, thanks for joining us. china continues to ease its covert control measures announcing on wednesday that people who test positive can isolate at home. previously they were taken sometimes against their will to crowded warehouse like facilities that passed more like prisons than medical care. rapid tests to enter many public areas have also been dropped. all of this is welcome news to citizens who have endured long periods of control over their daily lives. joining us as journalists fabi and crush mirror in bay jing fabia. just 24 hours ago we were discussing the uneven rollback on kobe restrictions across china. will this new

government announcement bring more clarity? yeah, definitely. so i mean, until recently there was really a very uneven picture acquaintances in shanghai taught me that you know, they still suffer from a rigid 0 covert measures. and in other areas, it was already quite open and relaxed. and now we have really a very even a nation wide new policy, and those changes are now formalized, and they're quite remarkable as so if you are infected but only have mild symptoms, you can stay at home. there won't be any more of a city wide loc downs. also, the city wide mass testing has basically stopped. that gives us a lot of predictability in our everyday life. i think that's really a huge a change and of course brings a lot of clarity to our life, him. and on a mental and emotional level, it must be a big relief to everyone, including yourself that folks won't get dragged into one of those terrible looking

warehouses. they've housed, call the positive people. right? yeah, definitely. so the biggest side effect, in my opinion, um, as you recall it, was it yet the unpredictability and also the sense that you lose control of your everyday life. because no matter how much you, for example, protect yourself from not getting infected, it's just enough that one of your neighbors test positive and then you cannot leave the house any more. that was the case until of today's announcement. or, for example, that you in fact get infected and then you get direct to a current in facility and that you don't know how long you will have to stay there . and this really was mentally, very, very challenging. and now basically, it's really formalized, we have now a legal framework that says yes, those things will not happen any more. and yet for me, that's definitely a clear relief and i'm sure also for many other people as well. but of course, there's also a sense of where we don't know how this living with virus will work and where it

will lead us am. so of course there's some new fear, but i think the new fear will disappear over time. and the really unpredictable she of 0 cove it definitely is over know now one of the concerns from officials has been a spike of covey cases as they ease up on restrictions. and i wonder, are we seeing that in to what extent can we start believing those numbers that the officials released to be trusted? yeah, that's an interesting question. so if you look at the official numbers in this issue, a stick nation of cases are both here and a beijing and also a nationwide and i don't think that can be trusted or personally, for example, i never knew anyone also from acquaintances of acquaintances who am in fact, got infected in china. now that has changed a lot and many of the people that i know they have colleagues who are now right now, testing positive, but they have no family members what the neighbors were testing positive. but many of them actually didn't report the infection to the authority,

say basically use the self test, the integer tests now. so there's a huge number of infections that are not reflected in the official numbers. of course, the numbers will go up and it's only a matter of time and time. but i don't really expect like a rapid, rapid rise very soon, because those steps that we're seeing is, i'm an open opening up, but not a radical opening up for being customer. thank you so much. ah, afghanistan's economy is in bad shape. the return of the taliban last year and their treatment of women alienated the international committee, including global businesses. the african chamber of commerce and industries. latest trade exhibition is in effort to when foreign buyers and investors, despite the countries new political leaders. some women participated in the fair underscoring the confusing policies over what women can and cannot do their

this is the brand new afghanistan international expo center and cobble as a weeklong exhibition designed to boost the country's crippling economy. some 600 exhibitors have set up stools to showcase and sell him myriad of products from soaps and apples to gemstones and steel. even a carpet featuring the late queen elizabeth is on sale. baba among the happy customers of talib special forces, belonging to the directorate of intelligence. or more for you, i bought a shawl to keep myself warm as the winter is settling in. we're happy to see the products of afghanistan. look out to see that our country has made such progress that it now has its own production in many areas. so it's a matter of great pride off a little also seen attending women browsing the aisles with a smile on their face an selling west, but there he jobs, fitted loosely. ruby had excessive cuz she got on. i'm extremely happy to see such

happy faces of women here and to see an exhibition being set up in such a situation. anyway, i'm so happy that i can't describe my feel, emmy some back away from the international expos center. life looks very different for afghan women. no longer able to go to school or study. these girls are picking saffron flowers in a field inherit province. with their hopes to pursue and education dashed. many find this kind of work more appealing than the alternative. being married off at a young age and spending their days confined to their husbands home. since the taliban take over afghan women have largely been erased from public life recreational activities up in band. they can't even go to the park anymore. once in a while, a small protest pops up like here on the eve of international women's day. but

those are rare and brief and sometimes shut down violently. pictures of angry women, neither fit with the taliban station of society, nor the image that trying to portray to the international community. that they have a respectable government and viable trading partner. joining us is journalist allie latifah. ali good to see you again. so on the one hand, we have news of the taliban banning women from even entering parks or gyms. and on the other, there are scenes of afghan female entrepreneurs doing their thing. it pays a confusing picture for outsider. so can you tell us more the truth is that it's confusing for people inside the country as well, right? because this is exactly the question. you know, you can be a female entrepreneur or you can be a woman, work upright it is and you cry maybe. okay,

run by you coordinator interior, the mentor in education to manage your public health. but then essentially any other government you're not allowed to work in. and as you said, you're not necessarily allowed, you're not allowed to go to your park, you're not allowed to go into a her, mom, you're not allowed to go go to a gym. so all of these things, it's even more confusing for people on the inside because the question is, why is it that some things are loud and others aren't? and what is the separation between them? like for instance, if you're talking about government ministry, a woman working in the ministry interior who's working as a police officer or is a security check at the airport or outside of ministry of some other place is actually putting for life on the line. so why is that any less dangerous or difficult than a woman who would want to go back to work and say, administered, foreign affairs or the ministry of finance? why are we are artificial lines being drawn and why aren't they all always

necessarily implementing, you know, and if they're not going to be fully implemented than while even there. right, so it sounds as if some women are able to carve out a bit more freedom than others and i wonder if this difference is based on social economic privilege or in urban rural divide or something like that. to an extent. yes, of course, because you know, if you have an education, if you have access to say a private office where you work in or a private company and you know, you can speak, you know, multiple languages. then you're clearly already add an advantage. and if you, you know, you're, if you're going to leave your house, for instance, if you can't leave your house, no matter what you decide to put on. whether you put on the app style block, mac cob, bluetooth b o, or it just go out the way it or when you know, and just had got a colorful heights garden,

loose fitting clothes that. and that was right. either you're picking up your children from food or you're going to work, or you're going shopping or, you know, just browsing the market, whatever that mean, that's still entail some level of financial activity, right? that still entails some level of going out into society. so, you know, people who can like, for instance, in the case of women, women who contest these limits are the ones who have reasons to step out of the house, you know, who have opportunities to step out of your house. so yes, there definitely is a bit of that device. it's not necessarily say that you have to be extremely wealthy or, you know. busy the, the daughter or bill are largely buckner, or wiping of a governor or a minister. it just means that you have to have enough of a reason to even go out of your house. the 1st decide what you want away when you lottery. so long term it seems as if the taliban wants their cake and eat and to

eat a 2. they do not want girls in school, but they hope women will be a part of the workforce. because honestly, that's the only way for afghanistan to pull out of its bad economic situation. a can you talk about that? we'll look at girls to be in school, go 1st and 6th grade, and magically without having gone through the talk. but oh oh, you know, i want them to continue to be entrepreneurs and doctors do all of which require ation, which require it's very hard to expire require. so it's weird florida. i you said this contradictory thing, right? because on the one hand and no, no, no, no, no, no women have their place in society and in lyn circumscribed kids into the barriers. but then on the other hand, they're like, well actually, you know, they can take part in these things. are you forget that everything is a building block grateful you? few aren't a female doctor. she has to,

to get her college. she has to study from 6 the 12th grade, and that's not going to magically happen. and 32 to 34 provinces unless you change your laws. right. so i think more than anything it shows the disarray. ah, that they, they themselves don't necessarily what they're doing. ali latifah, thank you so much for joining us. taliban policies on women may be confusing, but one thing is clear. this is a more conservative afghanistan. wednesday also marks the 1st public execution. the taliban has carried out since it's take over last year story. we will be following . i'm alyssa chan. thanks for watching. every grain counts for years, tanzania has been suffering from droughts and crop failure. grain imports from ukraine have stopped catastrophe for the people who are starving aid

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