with, you know, this channel, we are not afraid to happen delicate tub because population is growing. and young people clearly have the solution for future loans with 77 percent every weekend on d. w with this is d w. news asia coming up today, a top aid envoy want afghanistan will fall apart if the taliban continues to raise women. norway's young aguilar went to college all to try to persuade the countries militant rule is 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 say. plus homes 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 jared raid. thank you for your company today. a top aid organization has gone to afghanistan this week to plead with the taliban to end their massive 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 bands targeting education work and sport are raising women from public life. and she always say the conditions and making their work all but impossible. young

eagles land 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 ban on n g 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 that 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 minute parent 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 are counter 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 taco warning 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 or slow in the slumber bought an income 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 modern 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 did these bands mean though, for people in afghanistan, for women as long as they are in effect? well, it basically means that, you know, women cannot be educated above primary school, which means that the future of female doctors and nurses and then janessa, et cetera ease teaches is, is not there. and of course, that is why it is it has to be changed because the rulers of that tradition of the country long before that taliban is that men cannot give direct assistance, direct care to women outside of the families. so then is a need for educated women, there isn't need talk. female 8 work is because mains 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 hi, 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 boys or diplomats 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 the 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 you hear time into 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's a very simple answer to that. they are in charge of $40000000.00 people. and so if your boy caught engagement with the defacto authorities,

you punish 40000000 innocent civilians. and as i say again, it's the same for $40000000.00 women children civilians that the nato countries, including germany, spent hundreds of billions of euro's 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 people too much longer. we didn't go for the door. we state, but we are log that 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 joshi march. now in the indian himalayas families are being displaced after hundreds of homes and buildings began to develop huge crack cracks

and sink. now he is how bad it's gotten. many structures are unsafe and unlivable. not only are people losing their homes, but also their businesses shop owners and people who sell goods in georgia much market place 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 the 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 joshi. 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 will place it is the collective collective were and because of my people fan, your, the failure is mean the local municipality was supposed to have stopped 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, then we can ensure that we can make a limitation. that beyond this, we sort of go and the 30 partnered is that many structure. we just really use the just beyond the getting get by city water under the progress and then it becomes a i'm in the common mistakes. and then from 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 them. okay. so your 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 the construction of

electricity projects. and what do you have to say to that? well, i would say that the normal development is one thing that you, more than people have been the one being because otherwise, of 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 blame it. you don't have to make it really foster you had making any structure. you have to leave it low. the slope is considering ecology inclusive, kind of developing, concerning the phrase, either the phrase ness of the mo, the one is supposed to be rainy. i've been base because we are not on the mountain in the work that are china. there are euro, 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 other areas to this in the human himalayas. not just josie mart. the i would like to place you hand that the money as is still billing. then milly meter at the rate of 10 minutes. but here, but at the same time this we are have of that buff leave us. and wherever we have the reverse, the 2 will be constantly and we will be losing the po. and whenever we add the cutting at the po that had been thinking before many places and noticed. but you see this is ultimately the nature they are. i mean of behavior of the nature which ultimately we have to suffer with. and whenever we are getting into the development, we have the conferences with us dr. neil precast, joe, she found her of the himalayan environmental studies and conservation organization

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