Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

This is not Islam. I'm educated, I am working and there is nothing in my religion that

stops me doing that.

Working to reverse the Taliban's crackdown on women's rights. I speak with two of the

United Nations most senior officials just back from Afghanistan.

Then, I struggled a lot with the sense that I was somehow broken or damaged and that I belonged

at the margins and that I would never have the basic

satisfactions of life. The power of love and respect for those on the margins of

society with the author Andrew Solomon whose best-selling book, Far From the Tree, is now a film.

And a cousin remembers the tragic death

and legacy of the civil rights martyr Emmett Till. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane, I'm on poor in London.

Afghanistan was facing a humanitarian crisis

even before winter set in, but now the country is enduring

its coldest weather in 15 years.

Freezing temperatures have killed well over a hundred people.

And as always, the crisis is hitting women and children the hardest,

particularly after the Taliban prohibited women from working for aid organizations,

effectively denying them critical assistance.

So in the past weeks, multiple delegations

from the United Nations and other aid groups have traveled to Kabul to

press for women's basic rights to work and to learn. I've been speaking with two of

the United Nations most senior officials who've just returned from a tough assignment trying to get the Taliban

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