watching dw news coming up next and d, w news, asia talked norwegian aid envoy, young ang among has been in afghanistan to try to convince the taliban through change there. and he women, batten's. he tells d w. he was surprised by what the militant group had to say. plus holmes full of cracks and too dangerous to live. we visited a holy city high up in the indian himalayas. it's sinking. jared re, it will be here with all that in more. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching with every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some time with i'm in your northernmost count to

play with 3 times along, but still very much alive. dw channel, you'll guy to the specialist with recognizes where exactly it was fun. i've learned a lot our culture history, all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit with this is d, w, use asia coming up today. a top 8 envoy won't. afghanistan will fall apart. if the taliban continues to raise women, no ways john a gallon went to kabul 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 holmes full of cracks

and too dangerous to leave in a holy city high up in the indian him a layers 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 in cios, say the conditions and making their work all but impossible. young edgarland is

secretary general of the norwegian refugee council. he joined us today from cobble . mr. eagle, unwelcome, you've been in afghanistan this week to try and convince the taliban to overturn their band on n g. r is employing female staff. how have those talks been going? will have been intensive. i met with numerous taliban leaders, several ministers, several religious scholars and prominent figures in the taliban, here in, in kabul. and surprisingly, they say that they agree with me that the should be it should be possible for us as germantown 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, that they even agree with that the ban on female education is counterproductive. but then that referred to this coming as an edict at the creed from these should creaking leader. and then they also agree 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. edgarland, 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 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 our 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 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 are these bands mean though, 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 about 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 met is cannot give direct assistance, direct care to women outside of the family. so then is a need for educated women, there isn't need for female 8 work is because mains are made, college cannot give 8 to with those 2 single mothers with children, which is

a large part of the people we serve. we cannot work with a band of humor, we're 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 african 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 western and voice or deployments that were on over this

city and all over this country until nato. it 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 you hear 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'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 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 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 months 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 the damage was happening? we should also be considered and listen to where do we go now? or earlier, we spoke with environmental activist dr. neil 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 would place it is

a collective collect and because of multiple failure, the failure is means 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 that began in so that we can make a limitation. that beyond this, we sort of go at the thought 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 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, and he had been using up on the mom. 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 the construction of electricity projects. and what do you have to say to that? but i would say that the normal development is one thing that you, more than 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 is 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 any structure. activated law based slope is considering ecology inclusive kind of development. considering the phrase, i love, the phrase ness of the mounting. one is supposed to be really, i've been base because we are not on the mountain in the words 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 are the areas to this in the human himalayas, not just josie mont. the i would like to place you hand that the money as is still billing. then we'll meet 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, that will be constantly and we will be losing the po. and whenever we add the cutting at the po that had been sinking, reported 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, when we are a develop and we have the country and guns as with us. and dr. neil precast, jo, she found her of the himalayan environmental studies and conservation organization

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