our world, yalda hakim travels to afghanistan to investigate the disappearence of policewoman, alia aziziets activists and protestors, asking the taliban why they are not doing more. alia azizi a policewoman in herat, has completely disappeared. she's gone missing. what do you know about that case? this is afghanistan, one year into taliban rule. i've come here to investigate the disappearance of a woman. under the last government, alia azizi was a successful career woman. as a high ranking prison officer, hard won freedoms are being rolled back following the taliban's victory. women have been forced out of the workplace since the taliban since the taliban returned to power, the inmates she had been guarding are now running the prison. alia left work, assuming her career was over, but to her surprise, she was called back to herjob. then a month later, she disappeared. i want to find out what happened to her and what the taliban authorities are doing about it. herfamily hasn't heard from her for eight months. i visited their home in herat, western afghanistan. until the return of the talib

our world — yalda hakim travels to afghanistan to investigate the disappearence of policewoman, alia

in the months following the taliban takeover, my colleague yalda hakim visited paedeatric wards at ahat she saw. everywhere you look in this war there is a mother dying and this seems to be all they have now. every babyis seems to be all they have now. every baby is in a critical state and we don't know if they will make it. we talked about the issues facing women and girls. let's turn now to the rights of women and girls. last year, the taliban pledged: "we are going to allow women "to work and study. "women are going to be very active, but within the framework of islam." but since then, women and girls have been banned from secondary and higher education. we've also seen restrictions placed on women's clothing, as well as laws forbidding access to public areas without a male guardian present. human rights watch has been looking into this. here's heather barr from its women's rights division. we have to recognise that this is an unprecedented situation except to the extent that it's similar to what happened from 1996—2001, when the taliban were last in power. and we have to ask, wha

that was yalda hakim speaking to general frank mckenzie.ion beat montenegro's danka kovinic in straight sets. you may remember williams caused a stir recently when she announced plans to retire from tennis. but now she's keeping everyone guessing about when exactly that might be. the 40—year—old told reporters she would keep her retirement plans �*vague' for now, saying... let's take a look at serena williams�* achievements over her career, which has spanned more than two decades. she was just 17 when she won the us open in 1999. she holds 23 grand slam titles, that's only one less than the female world record. fourteen womens doubles, two mixed doubles slams and four olympic gold medals. steph myles is a tennis journalist whojoins us from flushing meadows. steph, you attended serena's opening round victory yesterday — what was the atmosphere like? it was pretty electric which is often the case for the us open anyway. but then when you add the headliner and the fact that it was thousands more outside watching on the big screens, it was real

he's been speaking to the bbc�*s yalda hakim.nevitable. we made a series of decisions that brought us to that point, the most significant of which was to actually go to zero, effectively, in afghanistan. and that was actually the fundamental decision that brought us to that point in august. would you say it was a massive intelligence failure? no, i wouldn't. i think we had predicted all along that if we withdrew all our forces from afghanistan and nato left with us, that the fall of the government of afghanistan was inevitable, that that would happen. if there was a failure, it was only a failure when that would occur. but we've been very clear that we saw that as an inevitable outcome of withdrawing our support, not only our forces on the ground, but also the ministerial support, if you will, the logistic support that helped the afghan supply chain work and provide their forces in the field with equipment to maintain their aeroplanes. we cut that off and reduced it to an over—the—horizon support relationship. and that led to wha