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labour government in nine years. experts warn record—breaking heatwaves in india and pakistan — are a hundred times more likely because of climate change. live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news. its newsday. its 6am in singapore, and 2.30am in afghanistan — where the number of restrictions imposed on women under taliban rule is growing. the ministry for preventing vice and promoting virtue has been behind a raft of new, hard—line laws, and among them — ordering...

International legitimacy, thats going to take a lot, but legitimacy inside the country for the first time in 40 years, no matter what you think of the taliban, and their human rights issues. it is one group that is controlling afghanistan. for the first time in 40 years. so everything rests on what they do now. and i have to say, we have been very free to report. obviously i got a big interview with a major top government official. so clearly theyre going to let me report. we got all the papers....

Education, if on march 23 girls went back to school, now we would be talking about the quality of education. we but have been asking for more discussion, but because the bar is pushed so low and we dont expect anything, we are in a position to not ask questions, no accountability from the taliban, and i think that strategy from the taliban side as well. you talked about girls _ taliban side as well. you talked about girls education. - taliban side as well. you talked about girls education. so - ...

Afghanistan. they recognize that the quickest way to get u.s. military personnel out of the country who had come into sort of get afghans and u.s. diplomats out of the country was really to help facilitate that process. where it goes forward from here is a different place entirely. the taliban said that they still want to have u.s. diplomatic presence inside afghanistan, they recognized need for that going forward, but fundamentally the taliban dont want any involvement of the u.s. government. y...

Can we have any confidence that the doha negotiators speak for the taliban, what their intentions are going forward, or do we simply not know? >>, you know, i think its -- its evolving and i dont want to say i trust in the assessments ive had. this is a region i lived in from 2013 to 2015, a lot of the individuals that have been involved in many different aspects of the process, people i know, not on the taliban side, so i think theres an open question on the taliban, theres an open question on ...

Mistake? ~ ~ ., ., mistake? well, the afghan government was not art mistake? well, the afghan government was not part of — mistake? well, the afghan government was not part of it _ mistake? well, the afghan government was not part of it because _ mistake? well, the afghan government was not part of it because the _ was not part of it because the taliban utterly rejected the idea of negotiating with the afghan government until after it had negotiated with the us and achieved its number one obje...

An awful lot of work done. this was going to be just a first step in what will be a probably a lengthy and complex negotiation. so im for negotiated settlement. im skeptical that the taliban will deliver, as many are, and i think one thing that i want to stress is that women so far have not been included at all in even the negotiating room. of course, they wouldnt be present on the taliban side but for us to push that as the afghan government and taliban are brought together is very important an...

Taliban side last year we had this you know three days of troops and you could see taliban marching into cities and people welcoming them so that was three days of not fighting off not dying and this is raiding what people are longing for about the price might be high we might see a spike in violence before were going to get anywhere son of peterson our correspondent who specializes in afghanistan thank you for your assessment let me down be updated with some other stories making news around the...

The question is how much do you put the taliban in that process and how much can you trust them to move forward in this process? >> part of the deal is assurance from the taliban they will never give safe haven to terrorists again. the question is, nick, can that be trusted? >> right now ive been told the taliban is giving safe haven to what were described to me as al qaeda sleeper cells, that they are being monitored, theyre given food, they are not fighting. if there is a deal and the taliban ...