a very special record. hello and welcome. it s now monday in afghanistan, and a year since the taliban swept back into the afghan capital kabul, marking their takeover of the country and sparking scenes like these at the airport thousands trying to leave in fear of what could lie ahead. one year on, life for women and girls in particular is very different with harsh rules including restrictions on education and employment. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet, who was in kabul during the taliban takeover, has returned and sent this special report. cal t0 prayer. call to prayer. it s a man s world. afghanistan is a conservative country, but the rules are now set by the ultraconservative taliban. spaces which had opened up for women have now been slammed shut. we met three generations of women whose lives speak loudly about their world. many are afraid. they don t want to be identified. this woman used to be a senior official in the finance ministry. last year
since the first march. good evening. there are warnings of further disruption for air travellers this summer with more flights expected to be cancelled in the coming days, including at heathrow, britain s busiest airport. airlines look set to change their schedules as the busy school holiday period begins british airways said it would help provide certainty to customers. our business reporter, noor nanji, has more. after big queues at airports this summer, warnings of more disruption, with a new wave of flight cancellations expected to be announced next week. we are now right in the midst of the peak summer travel season but we re still experiencing the problems of lack of manpower, not only for airlines but across airports, ground handlers and even, in some cases border control staff, so the mix of high volumes and lack of people is causing tremendous dislocation at many airports. british airways services from heathrow are likely to bear the brunt of any cancellations. add
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we start here in the uk where the bank of england is poised for the biggest rise in the cost of borrowing for 27 years to rein in the soaring cost of living. economists expect the central bank to raise its main interest rate by half a percentage point something it hasn t done in one go since 1995. that would take it to 1.75% the most expensive borrowing costs the uk has seen for almost a decade and a half with further steep rises expected. it comes as a leading think tank has warned inflation could hit 15% before it starts to ease next year. george buckley is chief uk & euro area economist at the investment bank nomura. i assume you are with the majority and you think is half a percent rise today is a given? i a percent rise today is a civen? ~ , a percent rise today is a civen? ~ , ., a percent rise today is a . iven? ~ , ., ., given? i think it is going to happen. given? i think it is going to happen.
The uns Special Adviser on the prevention of genocide told the bbc that the Rapid Support forces were targeting communities based on their ethnicity. Tens of thousands of people have protested outside taiwans parliament over plans to give the assembly new powers. Opposition legislators want greater oversight of the government but the demonstrators believe the changes have not been properly debated. The American Film Maker Morgan Spurlock has died of complications from cancer, at the age of 53. He was best known for his documentary super size me where he lived on a diet of mcdonalds food for an entire month to test the Health Impact on his body. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war the Uns Highest Court has ruled that israel Must Immediately halt its Military Offensive in rafah. South africa had asked the International Court ofjustice to issue the order as an emergency measure. It argued israels actions in rafah amount to a genocidal operation and threatened the survival of t