boulevard a, what is renamed of his vision? what's the status of human rights and social justice in what's called the world's largest democracy? we receive your headed, this is the pulpit tour unleash a non violent pass and read. imagine that these teachings for relevance to gandhi's legacy starts january 28th on dw. this is dw news asia coming up today, a top 8 envoy won't, afghanistan will fall apart. if the taliban continues to raise women, norway's yon a gallon went to kabul to try to persuade the country's militant rule as to change their position, especially on aid. so how did they respond? he tells d w. he was surprised by what the taliban had to cite plus holmes full of cracks

and too dangerous to leave in a holy city high up in the indian himalayas is thinking we ask an environmentalist . who's to blame? ah, i'm jarrett ray, thank you for your company today. a top aid organization has gone to afghanistan this week to plead with the taliban to, and they massey of rollback of women's rights and freedoms. the latest band prevents n g r is from employing female staff, hiring only men who are not allowed to directly care for women means aid organizations can't help vulnerable groups like widowers or single mothers. other bans targeting education work and sport are arising women from public life. and cios say the conditions of making day work old but impossible. young higg olandt is

secretary general of the norwegian refugee council. he joins us to day from cobble . mr. eagle, unwelcome, you've been in afghanistan this week to try and convince the taliban to overturn their band on n d. r is employing female staff. how have those talks been going? well, i've been intensive. i've met with the numerous taliban leaders several minutes. this. several religious scholars and prominent figures in the taliban here in, in kabul. and surprisingly, they said that they agree with me that there should be, it should be possible for us is your monitoring organizations to work with our female colleagues. i explained to them that we had to stop completely all our humanitarian work in the midst of winter with enormous needs. we have

1500 humanitarian workers, 470 of those of female we have 700000 people. all of that is now paralyzed because of this ban, and they agree with that. they even agree with that. the ban on female education is counterproductive, but then they're referred to this coming as in effect a decrease from the supreme leader. and then they also agreed that they need to work to overturn that rather to have a new degree so that we can restart work. i don't know when we get, we'll be given a permission. i hope soon. mr. england, you're saying that the taliban is saying that there are various bands account to productive earlier this week you said that you felt misled by the taliban government when they impose this ban on enjoy female stuff. can you really believe anything that they tell you now?

yeah, because there is a, there is a big tug o war and there, there is so much disagreement on these things inside the taliban. they don't hide it very much in the open. and now the, the more extreme site of the taliban has the upper hand. those we spoke to in doha, in aust, slow in the slumber bought. and in cub boone, when i was here after that takeover, i was here only a month after that take over last year or rather at one and a half years ago. all of those were read the, the people who were having a more mod, done view on, on the relationship between the sexes. and we need to push now. so that, that ends up with the positive view taken over that sense would provide what does

that, what are these bands mean though. ready for people in afghanistan for women as long as they are in effect. well it, it basically means that, you know, women can not be educated above primary school, which means that the future of female doctors and nurses, and engineers, et cetera ease teaches is, is not there. and of course, that is why it is it has to be changed because the rules of the tradition of the country long before the taliban is that men cannot give direct assistance, direct care to women outside of the family. so than is in need for educated women, there isn't need talk. female 8 work is because mays are made, college cannot give 8 to windows to single mothers with children, which is a large part of the people we serve. we cannot work with

a band of human work just and the nation of afghanistan would disintegrate. without education for women. organizations like yourself, as you say, cannot work without, with the ban on female work is in place. what if anything, can the international community do in response to this? is there any kind of leverage that can be used against the taliban to to get them to change? yeah. by, by engaging i've done now a lot of interviews in askan, local, press that, that, that broadcast and pushed to win darby and in all sorts of local languages. and that is seen by the taliban rank and high. i've spoken to is a slum country representatives who agree with us and who would want to help us. i am not seeing much weston and voice or departments that were on over this

city and all over this country until nato went for the door in july 1 and a half years ago. it really has to be engagement because it's the same $40000000.00 civilians, women, and children. mostly that was left behind when nato countries left. the taliban now are in charge. they understand that they have to avoid catastrophe in this country . and that is our leverage. and mister england, there are questions, points being raised that here time and time and again, that is it right to talk to the taliban at all because of doing so, it could legitimize them. what do you have to say to that? well, it is very simple answer to that they are in charge of 40000000 people. and so if you boy caught engagement with the defacto authorities,

you punish 40000000 innocent civilians. and i, as i say again, it's the same. a $40000000.00 women children civilians that the nato countries, including germany, spent hundreds of billions of euros and dollars on we need to engage it would be a betrayal of the women of afghanistan if we didn't, didn't engage and i must confess, we were many times too much a loaner, we didn't go for the door. we state, but we a lot of was young edgarland, secretary general of the norwegian refugee council speaking to us today from cobble . mr. sugarland, thank you very much for your time. ah, we'll go to the city of jo, she might now in the indian himalayas families are being displaced after hundreds

of homes and buildings began to develop huge crack cracks and sink. now here's how bad it's gotten. many structures are unsafe and hum livable. not only are people losing their homes, but also their businesses, shop owners and people who sell goods in georgia much marketplace have been protesting. their livelihoods are under threat. they are blaming the disaster on the building of roads and tunnels for power projects. where can we take our children now? where was the government? when all this damage was happening? we should also be considered and listen to. where do we go now? what earlier we spoke with environmental activist, doctor neal pro cash john, she we asked who he thinks is to blame for what's happened in the city and how such disasters could be avoided in the future?

well, i would place it is a collective collect and because of my people value or the failure is me, the local municipality was supposed to have is the might be stored is truck just number one. number 2 is that, you know, we do not have a bidding capacity as kind of a study them again, so that we can make a limitation. that beyond this, we sort of go and the part of the parties that many structure we just really use, which are beyond the getting get by city water under the progress. and then it becomes that i'm in the common mistakes and that of an example for all of us, a people. and it is open to what i that what should be the plan for the future whenever we have supplements and any i've been using up on demo 8. so you're blaming local bureaucracy. residents have been blaming the building of roads and tunnels. india's largest power producer says it isn't to blame for this happening

in construction of electricity projects. and what do you have to say to that? well, i will see that, you know, development is one thing that you moved in. people have been the one being because otherwise we have always been deprived of the development. the only thing is that the process of development as a very important we want to development the process, the way it was being done was to be blame. if you don't have to make it really foster you had making in the structure, you have to leave it low. the slope is considering ecology inclusive, kind of a developing concerning the phrase. i love the phrase ness of the mo, the one is supposed to be ready and base because we are not on the mountain in the work that are china usual. but the only thing is that it was not inclusive ecology group. see, kind of a development that i placed as the mistake that we have grossly done. you're talking about the lack of inclusive development combined with the fragility,

i guess of, of the landscape of where this is happening. how vulnerable are the areas to this in the human himalaya is not just josie mont. the i would like to place you head that the mileage is still billing. then we'll meet her at the rate of 10 minutes to bother you. but at the same time, since we are have of that buff leave us and where to where we are at the reverse, that will be constantly, that we will be losing the po. and whenever we had the cutting at the door, there had been sinking before many places unnoticed. but you see this is ultimately the nature. they are a behavior of the nature which ultimately we have to suffer with. and when we are a good even of a deal up and we have the conferences with us, dr. neil perkash joe, she found her of the himalayan environmental studies and conservation organization

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