we have already now a more difficult situation. if you take away ourjobs and if you take away even the basic needs that we have, where should we end up? more and more children are ending up like this, like ismutala and asif, working 14 hours a day to feed their families. together, they earn about a pound a day. just enough to put bread on their table. their father used to be a driver with a foreign company. it shut down when the taliban took over. war injured him, too. translation: my baby has no cradle. - i sold it to buy some flour. if there's no other way, i would be forced to sell my children to survive. agonising choices.
foreign troops are gone, but donors are turning away, too. the un appeal is only a quarterfunded. one message that afghan people really give us so forcefully and strongly is please don't abandon us. we have already now a more difficult situation. if you take away ourjobs and if you take away even the basic needs that we have, where should we end up? more and more children are ending up like this, like ismutala and asif working 14 hours a day to feed their families. together, they earn about a pound a day. just enough to put bread on their table. their father used to be a driver with a foreign company. it shut down when the taliban took over. war injured him, too. translation: my baby has no cradle.
hours a day to feed their families. together, they earn about a pound a day. just enough to put bread on their table. their father used to be a driver with a foreign company. it shut down when the taliban took over. war injured him, too. translation: my baby has no cradle. i sold it to buy some flour. if there's no other way, i would be forced to sell my children to survive. agonizing choices. that's life in afghanistan now. lyse doucet, bbc news. stefan wolff is professor of international security at the university of birmingham. thank you so much forjoining us.
like ismutala and asif working 14 hours a day to feed their families. together, they earn about a pound a day. just enough to put bread on their table. their father used to be a driver with a foreign company. it shut down when the taliban took over. war injured him, too. translation: my baby has no cradle. i sold it to buy some flour. if there's no other way, i would be forced to sell my children to survive. agonizing choices. that's life in afghanistan now. lyse doucet, bbc news. lysejoins me now. what are the chances of things getting betterfor the what are the chances of things getting better for the people what are the chances of things getting betterfor the people two years on? $5 getting better for the people two ears on? �* , , getting better for the people two
their father used to be a driver with a foreign company. it shut down when the taliban took over. war injured him, too. translation: my baby has no cradle. i sold it to buy some flour. if there's no other way, i would be forced to sell my children to survive. agonising choices. that's life in afghanistan now. a dire situation, lyse, but where is the hope? a dire situation, lyse, but where is the hoe? �* . ., a dire situation, lyse, but where is the hoe? �* . . �* , , ., , the hope? afghan and british history has been so — the hope? afghan and british history has been so entwined _ the hope? afghan and british history has been so entwined over _ the hope? afghan and british history has been so entwined over centuriesj has been so entwined over centuries that it's not for us to say that country has gone dark. there is always light if you look for it. where will you find it? when you go to afghanistan, many senior taliban tell us they don't like these extreme edicts and they would like them to be changed. and look at the stories we hear about the women and girls who are fighting back. they are notjust losing theirjobs and losing their education, they are losing their education, they are losing their education, they are losing theirfuture, and