now, shiraz, you're in peshawar, some 50 kilometers from the border, i believe. that last friday, two afghans were actually reportedly killed by pakistani security forces at the token border crossing, after trying to enter illegally. what's the situation like on the border now? >> thank you very much for having me on your show. as you said, pakistan has the longest border, which is known as the durian line. it was drawn in the 19th century, 1893. there are numerous points, where this border can be crossed. pakistan has been fencing this border for the last several years, but there are four formal crossings. two of those are major crossings. one is where i am near, peshawar, about 50 kilometers from here, and the other in south pakistan, near the iranian border, open for trade, because afghanistan is a landlocked country, and it depends on, you know, commodities and other stuff, which is coming through karachi for the pakistani port. so the border is open for trade, but not for refugees. but until recently, even until yesterday, afghan refugees were able to cross

john simpson, bbc news, peshawar.fghanistan online including an article looking at the taliban's new rules on female students which include universities being segregated by gender, and a new islamic dress code will be introduced. just go to the bbc news website. still to come a bit later in the programme: we'll be hearing from a doctor who returned back to his home in singapore after 16—years working in afghanistan. but first. an agreement that gives time for diplomacy, that's the assessment on the un's nuclear watchdog, after they struck a deal with the new government in tehran. international inspectors will be allowed to service cameras that gather data at some key locations. the iranian refusal to allow them access had brought efforts to revive the international nuclear agreement to the brink of rupture. the move eases tensions —— but the thorny issue of the country's nuclear programme is yet to be defused. after his lighting visit to the iranian capital, the head of the iaea — rafael grossi — acknowledged that he'

in peshawar, on pakistan's north—west frontier, afghanistan feels very close.fghan refugees. in the 1990s, the taliban had their origins in the afghan refugee camps here, and pakistan has always been accused of setting up the taliban and helping them take power in afghanistan — something pakistan denies. but when the taliban were thrown out in 2001, pakistan's influence in afghanistan fizzled out for 20 years. in our interview, imran khan clearly didn't want to seem to be too close to the taliban, but he was careful not to be too critical of them either, over the question of the rights of afghan women, for instance. the women are very strong. i feel, give them time. they will assert their rights. how much time? years? a year, two years, three years. three years? but at the moment, john, it's just too early to say anything, because it has barely been a month. after 20 years of civil war, they have come back into power. the taliban — the word just means islamic students — originally owed their existence as a movement to religious schools in pakistan like this one

john simpson, bbc news, peshawar.hanistan online including an article looking at the taliban's new rules on female students which include universities being segregated by gender, and a new islamic dress code will be introduced. just go to the bbc news website. still to come a bit later in the programme: we'll be speaking to a doctor who returned back to his home in singapore after 16—years working in afghanistan — we'll hear his take on the situation there. but first, an agreement that gives time for diplomacy, that's the assessment on the un's nuclear watchdog, after they struck a deal with the new government in tehran. international inspectors will be allowed to service cameras that gather data at some key locations. the iranian refusal to allow them access had brought efforts to revive the international nuclear agreement to the brink of rupture. the move eases tensions, but the thorny issue of the country's nuclear programme is yet to be defused. after his lighting visit to the iranian capital, the head of the iaea

john simpson, bbc news, peshawar.table show with a difference — the uglier the better forfamers and their hideous harvests. 30 hours after the earthquake that devastated mexico city, rescue teams still have no idea just how many people have died. well, there's people alive and there's people not alive. we canjust help and give them whatever we've got. a state funeral has been held for princess grace of monacol at the church where she married prince rainier 26 years ago. - it looked as though they had come to fight a war, but their mission is to bring peace to east timor, and no where on earth needs it more badly. the government's case is being forcefully presented by the justice minister. he's campaigned vigorously for abolition having once witnessed one his clients being executed. elizabeth seton spent much of her time in this grotto, and every year, hundreds of pilgrimages are made here. now that she has become a saint, it is expected that this area will be inundated with tourists. the mayor and local businessman re

john simpson, bbc news, peshawar.rules on female students which include universities being segregated by gender, and a new islamic dress code will be introduced. just go to the bbc news website. in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, the us saw a sharp rise in hate crimes. those targeted included anyone considered to be arab muslims. the innocent victims included balbir singh sodhi an american—sikh who ran the family gas station in mesa, arizona. his murder, four days after 9/11, was the first racially—motivated hate crime in the backlash to the attacks. balbir�*s brother, and for the first time, his son and the gunman spoke to jatinder dhillon. shrai popat is the video producer. you may find some parts upsetting. losing a brother, i think i lost so much love, because, to me, he treated me like a younger brother, and he treated me like a son and baby, and he treated me like a friend. i miss him and we always talk about him — every day. there's something, there is conversation going on, then his name is come up. we we

in peshawar, on pakistan�*s north—west frontier, afghanistan feels very close.taliban had their origins in the afghan refugee camps here, and pakistan has always been accused of setting up the taliban and helping them take power in afghanistan — something pakistan denies. but when the taliban were thrown out in 2001, pakistan�*s influence in afghanistan fizzled out for 20 years. in our interview, imran khan clearly didn�*t want to seem to be too close to the taliban, but he was careful not to be too critical of them either, over the question of the rights of afghan women, for instance. the women are very strong. i feel, give them time. they will assert their rights. how much time? years? a year, two years, three years. three years? but at the moment, john, it�*s just too early to say anything, because it has barely been a month. after 20 years of civil war, they have come back into power. the taliban —— the word just means islamic students — originally owed their existence as a movement to religious schools in pakistan like this one, the zuberia in peshawar, whe

in peshawar, on pakistan's north west frontier, afghanistan feels very close. origins in the afghan refugee camps here and pakistan has always been accused of setting up the taliban and helping them take power in afghanistan. something pakistan denies. but when the taliban were thrown out in 2001, pakistan's influence in afghanistan fizzled out for 20 years. in our interview, imran khan clearly didn't want to seem to be too close to the taliban but he was careful not to be too critical of them either, over the question of the rights of afghan women, for instance. the women are very strong. i feel, give them time. they will assert their rights. how much time? years? a year, two years, three years. three years? but at the moment, john, it's just too early to say anything. because it has barely been a month. after 20 years of civil war, they have come back into power. the taliban — the word just means islamic students — originally owed their existence as a movement to religious schools in pakistan like this one, the zuberia in peshawar, where they were recruited a

john simpson, bbc news, peshawar.rn out of control in southern spain. thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes as the authorities try to fight the flames. it's believed around 6000 hectares of land have been affected in a region popular with holiday—makers. tim allman reports. with little warning, with little time to prepare, people flee the towns and villages of andalusia. this gymnasium now a makeshift shelter. local residents told to move as the flames got ever closer. translation: it was very quick. they rushed us out. i came with my clothes on and left everything there, even the animals. i thought it was never going to happen, but there was such a big cloud over the village. it was scary. translation: this is inhuman. nothing like this has ever been seen. the flames of the fire as they ran through the mountains, it was amazing. for days now, the fires have raged. thick clouds of smoke visible amidst that hills and mountains near malaga. —— the hills and mountains near malaga. this blaze, said to

john simpson, bbc news, peshawar.ughes at the bbc sport centre. thanks, mishal. good evening. lewis hamilton says he's lucky to be alive, after a spectacular collision with his title rival max verstappen at the italian grand prix. verstappen has been blamed for the crash, and will start the next race with a grid penalty, but he still leads hamilton by five points in the drivers�* standings. jo currie reports. this season has been defined by lewis hamilton and max verstappen�*s rivalry. the collision between the two at silverstone injuly saw verstappen taken to hospital and hamilton accused of putting his life in danger. with neither willing to give an inch at monza, it happened again. that's what you get when you don't leave the space. the world champion was left with a sore neck from contact with the dutchman's tyre. without the protective halo above his head, the outcome doesn't bear thinking about. verstappen out of his car quickly, in no mood to check in on his rival before hamilton also emerged. another monumenta

peshawar in pakistan became a centre for the numerous competing mujahideen groups and their internationalrters. weapons were pouring in, and the distribution was controlled by the pakistan intelligence service, the isi. the isi gave out bullet per bullet to their favourites. and who were their favourites? but the most similar islamist and hardline islamists. this was a way for the pakistani army to really exert its influence inside afghanistan, because what they hoped was eventually was that the islamists would win and the soviets would leave, and pakistan would have its proxy inside kabul. the mujahideen, with better weapons and knowledge of the terrain, were not an easy force to defeat. the afghan government and the soviets controlled the main cities and communication routes. the vast tracks of the country were beyond their control. for four years after the soviet invasion, the war raged on. during this time, much of the afghan army deserted or defected to the mujahideen, but neither side was winning. ismail khan was a mujahideen commander in the north—west of afghanistan. in 1985, pres

our world affairs editor john simpson is in peshawar.of america's "war on terror". it's hard to say that it isn't a complete failure, laura. after all, the purpose of it was to combat the effects of what 0sama bin laden did in launching the 9/11 attacks on america. and those attacks were intended to prove to the world that america was vulnerable and that it wasn't as strong as everybody had assumed. and that is, in fact, what happened. the way in which the first response of president george w bush... he didn't invade afghanistan, and many people in the world seemed to think what he did was to assist with airpower the afghan northern alliance troops to come in and capture kabul from the taliban and drive them out. that was welcomed right around the world, but then his officials decided, as we know, that they had to demonstrate that america was just as strong as ever. they picked on saddam hussein of iraq. iraq was invaded in 2003. that was deeply unpopular worldwide, and soon it became clear that the american forces weren't really as stro

i know you recently took a trip to peshawar. >> yes, indeed. we're hearing a lot. number one thing here is if the taliban wanted to project a more moderate we're not going to let any extremists in on our soil. so, they keep saying that, they said it again today, that there is no al qaeda operating here and we're not going to allow it. it's hard to say if al qaeda is there or not it's a big country, there's great remote areas. and there is a lot of sympathizers for al qaeda. you know, the same could be said here in pakistan as well. isis-k is another story as well. it started off as sort of a sort of an offshoot, if you like, of the taliban by a couple of permutations. and it is anti pakistan right now, but it is also not the same camp as the taliban either. and it's seen as both a threat to the taliban as well as al- qaeda in a certain way. they're all sort of jostling for power right now. so the big thing is for the, the taliban is it has to put down isis-k because that really is its main challenger right now in afghanistan. >> sreenivasan: jackie, there's been a

pakistan's capital is i'm a bad where he's been in talk to the government a some a been jervey who's in peshawar. impact is done as more on the farm and is making there is a lot of emphasis on pocket son's facilitation. that's something that was discussed between dominic rob and foreign minister with grocery. they also discussed about how the u. k. can help boxed on to cope with this crisis as you heard the before. and this and making the case for progress on we've, we've been speaking to him in the last few weeks. and he told me as well that fox son has been hosting a number of refugees. millions of them rather in pakistan without recognition from the international community. dominic rob today assuring him that there has been to be somewhere around $40000000.00 of additional funding for a gun to some neighbors to help a facilitate the guns and others coming to these countries. there were also a lot of other issues that were discussed in this meeting focused on in the united kingdom by dr relations. this is the issue of a foreign action task force about the finances for terrorist funding and all

there has been a long—standing one in peshawar in pakistan, but recently the negotiators who were intes and other countries were in qatar and there were other power centres in afghanistan itself. so some of the things that appear to be playing out in the country right now, whether it's fighting in the north, whether it's the treatment of women, whether there will be opportunities for people, children to go to school or university is to reopen, these are all things that these different factions of the tellebang have to come together and adopt some kind of common vision or common platform. if not we are going to see this very fragmented and diffuse situation that appears to be playing out on the ground right out —— tal abyad. fin to be playing out on the ground right out -- tal abyad.- right out -- tal abyad. on top ofthat right out -- tal abyad. on top of that the _ right out -- tal abyad. on top of that the tellebang - right out -- tal abyad. on top of that the tellebang is - right out -- tal abyad. on top of that the tellebang is saying j of that the tellebang is saying it might have

some of been job aid. joining us live there from peshawar. the taliban spokesman says china has promised to keep its embassy in afghanistan open and to increase aid. the chinese government says it wants to play a role in the reconstruction of afghanistan, but it hasn't given many details. katrina, you has more from beijing. latan is foreign ministry has posted a statement on its website confirming that the phone call took place in that statement. it was quite brief. it affirmed the friendship between the 2 countries and at wish the people of afghanistan well and going forward and rebuilding their country. but it was quite scans on details. this message by the taliban could be its way of putting a little bit of pressure on aging, perhaps to keep its promises. aging has said that it will play a role in the economic reconstruction of the country, but it's been quite vague as to how it intends to do that. but no doubt the aging doesn't tend to play a role here because it does have some existing investments enough cornerstone that it probably want

——john simpson, bbc news, peshawar. nations world food programme says a plane carrying humanitarian workers and medicines has landed in kabulfor the first time since the taliban captured the afghan capital nearly a month ago. the un estimates that half a million people have been displaced in recent months. the world food programmes, country director for afghanistan— mary—ellen mcgroarty — told me more aid is needed. absolutely — today was a great breakthrough to be able to resume our humanitarian air service into kabul, bringing in humanitarian workers. we were also able to fly into kandahar and out to mazar, as well, and also brought medical supplies into mazar. and we've got another flight coming in tomorrow, so, yeah, it's absolutely fantastic. how is life in kabul now for those who are most in need? how difficult is it for people to get by, day—by—day? yeah, we've seen really terribly a sharp decline in the situation since the 15th of august. you know, the economic freefall has come on top of already a very severe d

the country does have a reduced interest, over the city of peshawar where we are out right now. they are just feet away, processing individuals. at risk of the taliban in control. in a press conference yesterday between the pakistani foreign minster and qatar's foreign minister, not to connect aided to afghanistan. it is to >> john: are there afghans looking to get out or are there other foreign nationals trying to get across the border there as well. >> where the city is very close to where the border is, it's the largest city from the border, and that the people that are coming across this board are all people that have paperwork and are approved to come across by the pakistani government. there are reports that pakistan is actually detaining people and sending it back into afghanistan if they are caught coming into the country without the proper paperwork. they have a 1.4 million afghan refugees already in the country says they simply cannot handle much more. >> john: at those people come through the famous khyber pass. we will keep watching it. >> sandra: meanwhile, reaction

molly hunter is there in peshawar with the latest. >> reporter: the plane has landed.last u.s. troops left. deep into the mountains, through towns leading to the notorious rocky khyber pass. trucks lining up waiting to cross into afghanistan. the border itself is a dusty line in the road. the new taliban flag flying high on both sides. i want to give you a sense of diplomacy at play. pakistani military on this side. two steps further, those are taliban border guards. they are the ones who give all of those people waiting back there permission to come across to safety. >> reporter: a new taliban border guard says now that they're in charge it's running smoothly. how many people are crossing every day? the only people the taliban let's through have all the right paperwork he says, valid visas or in need of medication. pakistan is not letting most cross. people are waiting who can't get over? >> no documents. >> reporter: okay, okay. pakistani military is having us move back. the new soldiers are young, carrying military-grade weapons. once through the checkpoint, safety

. >> nbc news' mollie hunter is in peshawar, afghanistan, miles from the afghan border.d morning to you. how is pakistan handling this new influx of refugees? >> reporter: hey, guys, good morning, that's right. there are certainly a lot of people crowding on the afghan side of the border. we went to the border. they are strict who they are letting in. they have two big fears, one they will get an influx of refugees, they are hosting 4 million from the last conflict. the second is extremists world wide and here at home, i sat down with political analyst, take a quick listen. . >> with the popular imagination, the idea of the taliban being able to take on the u.s. and winning is the single biggest booth to extremist propaganda and recruitment in history. i think the first taliban takeover, they beat other afghans, the societies weren't there. >> then they took down -- >> this says they took down upgle sam. there is a tendency for other reasons, within elite pakistanis who see the weigh that the u.s. has talked to them for the last 20 years, there is this sense of come up a