nick payton walsh, cnn, kabul. >> joining me now to talk about women's rights in afghanistan is gayle, the author of the best-selling novel, the dressmaker of khair khana. a business helped save a family during the taliban's rise to power. thanks for talking with us. we've just seen the horrifying story, those details of the life of a young woman forced to marry her rapist and bear him three children after a global outcry going to a pardon. this is the life of one woman in afghanistan. talk to us about what life is like for the average woman in that country. >> well, i think you've seen a huge amount of change since 2001. you have more than 3 million girls in school from almost none during the taliban period. you have women running businesses, as governors, as civil society activists, as politicians. on the other hand, you have other traditions that are incredibly difficult to break. i think the good news is that you have this whole generation of activists, civil society leaders, human rights conversations going on, that you never would have had before, about these kinds of stories, s

our own nick payton walsh went along on one of those flights.e capital city and its people. >> bringing help shouldn't be this hard. the runway nearly all that's intact here after three weeks of bombing. they have landed in a scene of devastation here. this really the only way in to the yemeni capital, and it's being used for these vital supplies. this is a country where so many of whom do not have food or water and whose injured are badly in need of medicine. this from unicef frankly a drop in the ocean of help that's needed. and this is where it has to get. little zahra, whose parents say she wouldn't stop crying since the bombing began. the only hospital they could be brought, where medicine is scarce. this is a large factory complex where the bombs fell repeatedly in early april. one thing a bombing campaign can't avoid is to anger those it hits. these are ordinary yemenis still, regardless of their sympathies. 37 people were killed here he says burned to death. this is a crime. what are the storage facilities going to do for them? all this

our senior international correspondent nick payton walsh reports. >> look closely at these men itching for a fight and you can make out a new seismic tremor the size, the weapon. but not this. the flag of the islamic state. isis. these men are afghans and wanted to shower our cam ma men air allegiance to isis an act that could get them killed by. we established contact he says with isis through a friend. he called us saying isis had come to afghanistan, let's join them. rejoined and pledge allegiance. our camera man wasn't allowed to film the phones they say they used to talk to iraq and syria. they say they're religious students who watched propaganda and at night go into villages to recruit. we don't recruit ordinary people, he says. we only recruit people with a military background in the government or the tall la ban. at the moment we have no leader but talks are going on to choose one for us in afghanistan. isis is only just beginning here but their timing is good. the tall la ban is fractured or thinking of talking peace ap and the the young and angry are thinking it's appealing.

nick payton walsh has a closer look. >> this is how it ends here.copter evacuation from an embassy roof. instead, black hawks bouncing around multi-million dollar bases far from the front lines and a race to ready the afghans to go it alone before the u.s. leaves late next year. the supply center for police is meant to supply uniforms and even ammunition to the whole east. but it's far from main roads with bad cell phone coverage. doors don't have handles. afghans here tell us the water and electricity have problems. ask who will maintain it. finished four months ago, it so far hasn't slide anyone. the cost $21 million. >> about 50 afghans living here now. about 400,000 u.s. dollars taxpayer money. it's going to be difficult to get this done under the clock you're working under. >> it's a challenge, make no doubt. it is going to be a challenge to get all the maintenance, supplies resupply requisitions. i'm optimistic though. much of this didn't even exist in november. >> america's longest war is ending and it has left afghanistan changed. some of th

nick payton walsh, cnn, sanaa. >> thanks to nick for that report. that's it for me. the news continues next on cnn. >>> all right. here we go. top of the hour i'm brooke baldwin. let's talk about this breaking news. this is absolutely odd. this is out of washington, d.c. these are live pictures of this manned aircraft that has landed on the west front of the capitol building. we're getting new details here as far as maybe who was flying it why this could be there, what the heck happened. athena jones, i've got you joining me on the phone. also i have cnn's senior media correspondent with some of the who. first, the what. athena let me bring you in first. as it looks like potentially maybe one of those bomb disposal robots from capitol police or some other law enforcement jurisdiction sort of checking this thing out first and foremost. tell me what you know. >> hi brooke. i can tell you we were standing outside of the senate foreign relations committee meeting. this is where the iraqi prime minister is meeting with senators. this is over half an hour ago. we saw commo