thank you both, ali jalali, and torek farhadi. thank you. >> woodruff: and we've been hearing the plight of women and girls in afghanistan. it is now among the most important, and concerning, focuses now that the taliban have taken over. now, with the help of author gayle tzemach lemmon, stephanie sy tells us the story of a woman who persevered under the taliban; flourished over the last 20 years; and escaped the taliban's return just 48 hours ago. >> sy: on the streets of kabul, there is defiance amid despair. a few afghan women in front of the presidential palace, demanding that the taliban protect their rights. elsewhere in the capitol there are few, if any women on the streets. the u.n. says 80% of the 250,000 people internally displaced in afghanistan since may have been women and children. the lucky ones, if you can call them that, have left the country, including entrepreneur kamila sidiqi. newshour contributor gayle tzemach lemmon wrote a book about her, “the dressmaker of khair khana,” nearly a decade ago. >> what comes n

and torek farhadi was an advisor to the governor of the central bank of afghanistan, and a senior economicdvisor to former afghan president hamid karzai. he is now an independent analyst. i want to start off with something jane ferguson reported. the taliban is clearly fighting on the field of public relations, using buzzwords, thgs like inclusive. torek, what do you think this means, and is it having an effect? torek:, the messaging is right -- look, the messaging is right. the afghan people are tired of war. and we arrived in some ways at the best of all solutions available. if we had put all the options next to each other, we arrived at the best one. for the couple of past years the u.s. has tried to create an environment for negotiations. here, what happened is the former regime collapsed. the taliban have come in, they have occupied kabul, they have established peace. not a bullet has been fired in kabul. and now, theya r -- they are even ready to talk to each other and others in order to establish a government. they have not been in a hurry to establish their own government. it looks