the women and girls of afghanistan or from on the situation of going to so we can now speak to mary clark, vice president of global programs at women for women international. maurice, based in washington dc, enjoying says via skype. very, thanks for giving us your time 1st. can you give us a sense of what you're hearing, how women's lives being immediately affected either directly or indirectly by the taliban take over? sure. you know, i was really struck just a moment ago about talking about the self censorship. and it reminded me immediately of something that one of our senior staff said here is a woman whose fears she has been organizing for women's rights. she has been leading our empowerment programming throughout the country. and she, she went outside on the streets the other day. and she realized in his job that she was probably save her number. and another woman who is at a fierce advocate for women to attend to university and leads are activist and advocacy networks. and she was hearing the taliban coming door to door and her pride diploma diploma. that was the 1st to graduate fr

well we can speak now to marie clarke, who's vice president of the global programme for women for womenman trying to escape and get to the airport but because she was unaccompanied she was sent back. what is the future for women in kabul and afghanistan? it is something where a lot of the women we work with in afghanistan throughout the country and especially our afghan staff are asking and we have also experienced that there can be a real distance between the rhetoric of the taliban saying they're going to continue to support women's rights and access to education and to work and the reality on the ground although the taliban has shown they are not a homogenous voice so in the same problems but different districts we have had radically different experiences of interfacing with the taliban that the woman that you just covered in one district when the taliban raised their flag they issued a letter on their letterhead that explained the new rules. 0ne issued a letter on their letterhead that explained the new rules. one of which was that a woman cannot leave her home without her maor meli

smithsonian did one just five years ago on the hundred most significant americans, and mary weather lewis and william clark again made that this and they were also put together. and sacagawea, who accompanied the expedition, also meet. it so this young teenage shoshone woman was considered one of the 100 most significant americans. so there is an impression across the united states that there was an o'clock expedition was significant and that the people that went along are important for our country's history. today we are going to just gusty expedition in three main facets. we are going to look at as the classes in historical context, the event itself, and the significance of the expedition. i wanted to start out with this quote from john thomas jefferson. this was in a letter he wrote to george rogers clark, who was the older brother of william clark. this was written in 1780. so it's just a few years but course before -- it's just a few years after the independence, declaration of independence, and a few years before the constitution is ratified. and he says, we shall inform to the american union a barri

and mary is saying that is make a break for the action that needed to be taken against climate change. no bad, devastating same. thank you so much for your comprehensive report there. nick clark, our environment editor, and thank you to our team with the update on the landmark us report or out of time . now whether he is jeff with more on other parts of the world facing fires. hello, there is the risk free. could see more wildfires the rep through northern africa and iberia and the dates the com. let me explain why. first i take you to northwestern africa. look at this tunis, 48 degrees on tuesday. the all time temperature ever recorded in tune, it was 47.4. so this could be record breaking stuff next to iberia. this is a few days out now. so here we are on saturday look, lives been 36 cordova 47. i point out cordova because much like tune is high temperature ever recorded 46.9. so once again, we could set a new record there on to the weather of tuesday as promise. we'll get him to some sunny spells across the british isles, including for london, but still disturbed weather across the low countries, scandinavia, and a pretty good run of rain in and around. war sat. next, an u