02/26/2023: Kherson Under Fire and The Girls of Sola
60 Minutes
CBS News
4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Holly Williams is in Kherson, the first major Ukrainian city and only regional capital captured by the Russian Army. Residents of Kherson endured a brutal occupation until the Ukrainian army forced the Russians to retreat. After U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the country fell to the Taliban, Afghan girls have been barred from school beyond 6th grade. Lesley Stahl travels to meet a group of Afghan girls who are continuing their education in an unlikely place, the African nation of Rwanda. The girls are students of a school called SOLA, led by a remarkable Afghan woman whose commitment to educating girls began under the first Taliban regime, when she attended a secret school disguised as a boy.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, add free on Wondry Plus. |
| 0:16.0 | When we drove alongside the river, we didn't let the speedometer dip below 70mph. |
| 0:23.0 | On one bank is the city. On the other, Russian tanks are artillery and snipers. |
| 0:30.0 | A fast-moving target is hard to hit. |
| 0:34.0 | It's very dangerous in Harrison now. Why are you still here? |
| 0:38.0 | If you were this old, where would you go? |
| 0:46.0 | What has happened to the women of Afghanistan since the American military left Kabul? |
| 0:53.0 | To find out, we went, of course, to Rwanda. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, Rwanda. |
| 0:59.0 | How are you all doing? |
| 1:01.0 | This is the story of a brave Afghan woman who helped evacuate more than 200 Afghan girls and educators to safety in Africa, |
| 1:11.0 | where they're studying in hopes of one day returning to their homeland. |
| 1:15.0 | You think that you'll become leaders? |
| 1:18.0 | Yes, I want to be a surgeon. |
| 1:21.0 | I want to help poor people in Afghanistan. I want to be a politician woman. |
| 1:26.0 | And finally, from Zara. |
| 1:29.0 | I want to be a spy. |
| 1:31.0 | A spy? |
| 1:32.0 | Yes. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm Leslie Stahl. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm Sharon Alfonci. |
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