one afghan womanjournalist zakia brought for them.s in america, she says for the first time in afghan history as female athlete who escaped the taliban has won a bronze medal two nights at the paralympic games. she says this metal is not bronze, it is cold for us, for afghan women. it is total ioy us, for afghan women. it is total joy for women. i spoke to women inside the country. they are waking up inside the country. they are waking up to the news because it happened last night. one young woman have said they are fake to show their joy- said they are fake to show their joy. where did the teams train? they train everywhere. they are in paris mostly. we have people training everywhere. afghans have gone the world since 2021 thank you for bringing us that. well, it's day two of the paralympic games in paris. team gb got off to a great start on the first day of competition with medals in a number of different events. they are currently sitting second in the medal table behind china. well, one of the sports keenly watched is the rowing,

and zakia khudadadi wants to make history for the refugee team, she wants to be the first medal winnerforch national team and so could well get some home support from the crowd so in total there are 22 golds in contention today up for grabs, it will be a really exciting start to these games. in these games. the first of those today. and in the velodrome, kadeena cox from great britain defends her title in the time trial. in past games, kadeena has competed in cycling and athletics. injury has prevented kadeena cox from running this time so she will be keen to go for gold. team sports under way, wheelchair rugby so popular here because it is so exciting, full contact, bit brutal at times as well and great britain are the defending champions in this but they say the competition has got a lot tougher since tokyo so lots of other nations in the mix there including the home nation, france, the us and canada as well. and zakia khudadadi wants to make history for the refugee team, she wants to be the first medal winnerfor the refugee team here. stunning images of the natural world have been shar

and a taekwondo bronze went to zakia, earning the first ever paralympics medal for the refugee team,ch represents more than 120 million displaced people worldwide. still to come on the "news hour", criminal charges against the founder of the messaging app telegram raise questions about free speech. nebraska's highest court weighs whether some felons can vote this november. and a guitar virtuoso from the sahara gets political after a coup in his home country. >> this is the pbs news hour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: israel and hamas have agreed to pause fighting in gaza to allow hundreds of thousands of children to receive polio vaccinations. those pauses will occur in specific locations, for 8 to 9 hours a day over three days, beginning on sunday. the world health organization aims to vaccinate 640,000 children under the age of 10. meanwhile in the west bank, at least 16 people have been killed in what the israeli military calls counter-terrorism raids that began wednesday, in the citi

pulled out meanwhile, the first afghan woman to compete internationally since the taliban takeover, zakiahudadadi made history again this week she won bronze in taekwondo, becoming the first member of the refugee paralympic big team to win a medal. >> that's all we have time for this week. >> don't forget, you can find all our shows online as podcasts at cnn.com/podcast and on all other major that forms, i'm christiana amanpour in london. thank you for watching and see you again next week

pulled out meanwhile, the first afghan woman to compete internationally since the taliban takeover, zakia khudadadi made history again this week she won bronze in taekwondo, becoming the first member of the refugee paralympic big team to win a medal. >> that's all we have time for this week. >> don't forget, you can find all our shows online as podcasts at cnn.com/podcast and on all other major that forms, i'm christiana amanpour in london. thank you for watching and see you again next week hi there, thanks for joining me. >> i'm alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, and we begin with breaking news. we are learning that seven us troops were injured in a raid that killed 15 members of the islamic extremist group, i.s.i.s. that raid happening on thursday in iraq two of the seven were evacuated from the area for further medical treatment u.s. central command says that the operation was targeting i.s.i.s. leaders in order to disrupt the group's ability to plan for their attacks. cnn's chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh is joining me now. live from l

i think zakia is very firm on this.im vote, and i'm still standing against it. my i'm still standing against it. my principles are true that we should present and represent the muslim community in a rightful manner. not to be blackmailed, not to be harassed into this. we should stand firm and deal with the legislation, as we should do in terms of our court system, our legislation system that is very clear. and unless we have clear definitions about it, we should not move forward. >> all right. can i just say a massive thank you for coming on the show tonight? it's been really insightful stuff. so thank you. take care. all right. it's time to meet the former labour mp. now a government spokesman said we will take into account a range of views and outline any updates on the government's position in relation to this in due course. so watch this space, don't we? coming up, find out why this group of completely random men were wrongly branded as far right racists at the weekend ? right racists at the weekend? for next, i bri