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Southern California coastline beautiful
people it's Thursday so happy Friday Eve
I'm Coy wire this is CNN 10. we journey
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story soon to come we start today though
by recalling two summers ago in the
nation of Afghanistan where the Taliban
a radical islamist group that had
previously ruled Afghanistan in the
1990s took back power this happened
after the United States controversially
completed its withdrawal of troops in
the region the Taliban initially
presented itself as a more moderate
version than that which ruled previously
however after their takeover life became
very difficult especially for women and
girls living in the country and they
lost rights that were previously
guaranteed to them the Taliban rule has
been characterized as repressive and
brutal after they Rose to power they
closed schools banned women from
attending University took away their
ability to work in most areas banned
them from public places like parks and
gyms and even restricted travel plus
dwindling foreign aid to the country
means that millions of Afghans are
battling drought hunger and illness
today we'll join CNN International
correspondent Anna Corin and hear from
an Afghan woman twenty-year-old Zara who
says she can no longer ride her bike go
to school or go outside without covering
her face
in the corner of her room on a piece of
string hanging by paper clips are the
Treasured Memories of twenty-year-old
Zara there are my favorite people that I
have them in my life photos drawings
mementos a secret world of a life once
lived that this Afghan University
student now Grieves for when I stand in
front of the mirror when I look at
myself I just see a dear friend Zara
from two years ago
on the 15th of August 2021 Zara's life
as she knew it was shattered the Taliban
swept to power after the U.S withdrawal
from Afghanistan following its 20-year
War
handing back control to the same group
of Islamic extremists who ruled in the
1990s while the Taliban promised to be
more moderate and honor women's rights
within Islamic law the past two years
have brought only a hard-line stance
towards women
the closure of Secondary School for
Girls the forced implementation of the
burka the restriction on travel without
a male chaperone the Banning of women
from universities and working at ngos
including the United Nations
and just last month the telephone closed
all beauty salons that employed roughly
60 000 women many of them the sole
Breadwinners of their homes
women's Freedom doesn't exist
there is no such a thing as woman's
Freedom anymore
women's rights activist mabuba Suraj who
stayed in Kabul while more than a
million Afghans fled says the Taliban
government is erasing women from society
even the rights that we had in Islam
even the rights that we had in Sharia we
are losing all of that so if it is not
Annihilation what is it then
fazara an aspiring designer it's very
clear what the Taliban demands of her
just to stay at home get married you
have to give uh births to children
that's it and this is your life this is
what women made for
well the International Community
repudiates the taliban's treatment of
women and girls the Taliban is refusing
to listen saying it will not be
pressured
Afghanistan was freed from occupation
Afghans were able to regain their
country Freedom government and will the
only way to solve the problem is
understanding and dialogue pressure and
force are not logical but human rights
activists fear International
condemnation is waning and that the
Taliban desperate for international
recognition is gradually being
normalized
10 second trivia Ulan boutur is the
capital of what country Thailand Somalia
Mongolia or Bangladesh
the main industrial center of ulambatore
is the capital and largest city in the
nation of Mongolia
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we're headed to the Central Asian
country now with CNN International
Business correspondent Richard Quest
we'll learn more about the famous Silk
Road and we'll dive deep down below the
surface to see how the natural resources
in this sparsely populated country
impact the economy today we'll also
learn about the geopolitics of this
country and the unique demographics that
make this place special and we'll
consider how the Region's history may
shape its future
planes Without End towering Dunes of the
desert once I see the Mongolian step
firsthand I understand why they call
this the land of the Eternal Blue Sky
this is the most sparsely populated
sovereign country in the world
ones home to one of the largest empires
in the history of humanity
at its height the moral Empire stretched
from the Pacific Ocean to the Persian
Gulf there's a giant statue of chingus
Khan that looks over the main Square now
the Empire that he put together Not only
was it one of the largest ever it was
also done in record time it took him 25
years to put together an Empire the size
of which it took the Romans 400 years to
do
the trading route known as the Silk Road
started around this time and it
continues to influence the global
economy today
mongolia's immense mineral wealth an
underground Bounty of copper and gold
it's luring in foreign investors nearly
a mile underground at Rio's mine in the
Gobi Desert
and in some ways it's quite difficult to
connect this basic mining operation with
the energy transition Until you realize
this is what it's all about this is the
original ore it has copper gold and
silver within it but it is the copper
that today is the most valuable
commodity because it is the copper that
everybody wants
geopolitics proves a delicate tightrope
with a small democracy it's sandwiched
between Russia and China and it's also
trying to entice investment from Western
allies
and last year a corruption Scandal over
coal exports led to mass protests across
the capital
Ulan batur
inflation the bogeyman of economies
globally is more than 10 percent and yet
Underneath It All there are resources of
minerals and Humanity that promise such
a great future the old and the new
Mongolia truly is a place of opportunity
not only because of the resources
underground the metals the oars and the
like but also because of the human
capital that is here two-thirds of the
population are under 30. so with the
right policies on education investment
and future Direction and provided they
manage to convince them not to leave the
country but to stay here and invest in
Mongolia
it's all there for the future
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and for today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 an honorific ability to the
tatabase truck driver from Omaha
Nebraska Tim Dean has a squeaky clean
driving record celebrating a huge
milestone he reached 5 million
accident-free miles at his company
Werner Enterprises he was greeted by a
celebration of honks and cheers from
people who all gathered to celebrate the
miles that went into this Milestone he
is only the second person ever to
accomplish such a milestone and now on
to my favorite part of the day I want to
give a special shout out to Chaparral
Middle School in Diamond Bar California
we see you today's word of the day was
honorific abilituda natatabus from Atlee
to the reach it's said to be the longest
word ever used in Shakespeare's Works
derived from a medieval Latin word it
can be translated as the state of being
able to achieve honors well done I'm Coy
wire and we are CNN 10.
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