back at the base dust coats the chairs where wedding guests would normally sit. as the siege of kandahar continues, life here is in limbo, with no end in sight. clarissa ward, cnn, kandahar. thanks to clarissa for that report. in the meantime this week s cnn hero was saved by a heart transplant 12 years ago. now ava kauffman has turned her good luck for others to get their second chance at life. this is your new home for now. oh, wow. this is beautiful. it s a very scary feeling not to know that you re going to have a roof over your head to recover, or that you re going to go broke. i understand that feeling, and my life changed on a dime. i went from living this big life to not knowing how i was going to survive. the bed is going to go there, plus the black dresser here. we have two homes now. it s not just a place to live. it s a place to recover.
night, she says. and the fear was in my heart. in the short time we are there, more families arrive. street vendor says they fled the village after an air strike hit. three dead bodies were rotting outside our home, for days, but it was too dangerous to get them, he says. the taliban is attacking, on one side. the government is attacking the other side. in the middle, we are just losing. back at the base, dust coats the chairs where wedding guests would normally sit. as the siege of kandahar continues, life here is in limbo with no end in sight. clarissa ward, cnn, kandahar. u.s. military has concluded that last week s deadly-drone attack on an israel-linked tanker ship was carried out by iran. the foreign ministers of the g7 nations issued a joint statement, on friday, saying all-available evidence clearly points to iran.
street vendor mahmed ismail says they fled the village of of malejad after an airstrike hit. three dead bodies were rotting outside our home for days but it was too dangerous to get them, he says. the talent is attacking on one side. the government is attacking the other side. in the middle we are just losing. back at the base dust coats the chairs where wedding guests would normally sit. as the siege of kandahar continues, life here is in limbo with no end in sight. clarissa, the taliban has marched through a large section of the country. what do we know about how much additional territory the taliban is claiming? reporter: well, today there was another grim milestone, jim. they took zaranj which is the provincial capital in nimraz. this is the first provincial capital that the taliban has
home for days but it was too dangerous to get them. the taliban is attacking on one side, the government is attacking the other side. in the middle we are just losing. back at the base, dust coats the chairs where wedding guests would normally sit as the siege of kandahar continues, life here is in limbo with no end in sight. just to give you a sense of the scale of the optic in violence, boris and christi, we spoke to the icrc, the international red cross. they told us the hospital they assist in kandahar in the first six months of this year has seen more than 2300 weapon-wounded patients. that s more than do you believe the amount from the first six months of last year. painting a picture of a very, very grim scene, indeed. we did hear also from the new u.n. envoy to afghanistan. she warned of a potential catastrophe and i quote so
but still, it gets closer and closer. last night i didn t sleep all night, she says. and the fear was in my heart. in the short time we are there more families arrive. street vendor mahmed ismail says they fled the village of malejad after an airstrike hit. three dead bodies were rotting outside our home for days but it was too dangerous to get them, he says. the talent is attacking on one side. the government is attacking the other side. in the middle we are just losing. back at the base dust coats the chairs where wedding guests would normally sit. as the siege of kandahar continues, life here is in limbo with no end in sight. clarissa, the taliban has marched through a large section of the country. what do we know about how much additional territory the taliban is claiming?