the highest capital cities in the world these local youths are making the most of winter in the hindu kush mountain range that surrounds the city snowboarding and. snowboarding is the new face of afghanistan we established the afghan snowboarding federation to show this new face to the world. that they can see that in a country where there is fighting and ethnic problems it's still not all about the war. and the youth is involved as well as both boys and girls like george allen are in the 990 s. from these very hills taliban fighters rained down artillery and rockets on kabul now they're one of the few places in the country where ahmed and his friends can snowboard in safety another is the central province of bamiyan famous around the world as the site of one of the greatest cultural crimes in recent memory the deliberate destruction in 2001 of the ancient buddhist statues that wants looked out over the valley from this cliff face the taliban isn't just a presence in memory the group still controls around half of the country monica the taliban come back it's impossible to snowboard because

the hindu kush himalayan region has the highest concentration of snow and glaciers after the arctic and antarctica its melt water feeds asia's river systems but the same fresh water can also in danger of people as in this case in pakistan. it's a documented fact that the world's glaciers are shrinking but in the curriculum mountain range a number of them up bucking that trend for now this is just the glacier in northern pakistan it's increasing in length and width and it's moving downhill carrying with it hundreds of tons of ice and debris that are pushing down into the valley. the one year the glacier move forward 8 to 10 kilometers. then look at moving smoothly until there were 4 months when it was really surging forward at about 5 to 7 meters a day people were the. scientists don't agree on what exactly is causing some glaciers in the karakoram to surge and they call it a material logical anomaly but what's clear is that shift is advancing at 10 times the normal rate and it's threatening the safety of people living in the valley. not just because of its advancing ice sheet and the th

to eliminate pakistan as much as possible is just fanning the flames in southern asia around the hindu kush region professor of egypt thank you well while julian it's on to fight for freedom in london with the leaks continues to challenge nato narratives of chemical weapons use in syria but as nato nation media looks the other way providing to promote the narratives of syrian rebels president assad supporters are claiming you victories against what they say a u.k. u.s. backed al-qaeda in that country joining me now is iran. in school a professor mom and miranda who's been traveling on one of the most important highways in the middle east from damascus via it live to aleppo thank you so much for coming on the show you've been driving up one of the most important highways what is it like because nature nation media is only full of stories about russia and syrian air strikes killing women and children in hospitals and schools 0 mass what sane person is going to believe that the white helmets that are based and have nothing to do with their. front with al qaeda with it. shaam they can only be t

equally critical area of ice sometimes referred to as the 3rd pole that contains the glaciers of the hindu kush himalayan region and they supply the wife flood of asia the melt water feeds the continent's 10 largest river systems and supports more than a 1000000000 people in the process but those glaciers are also posing a threat to communities our next report brings you the story of an unusual glacier that's endangering lives in pakistan. it's a documented fact that the world's glaciers are shrinking but in the care of a mountain range a number of them up bucking that trend for now this is just the glacier in northern pakistan it's increasing in length and width and it's moving downhill carrying with it hundreds of tons of ice and debris that are pushing down into the valley. about one year the glacier move forward 8 to 10 kilometers. then moving smoothly until there were 4 months when it was really surging forward at about 5 to 7 meters a day. the. scientists don't agree on what exactly is causing some places in the car according to surgeon they call it a material logical anomaly but what's c