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🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Three years ago the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. BBC Afghan journalists Shekiba Habib and Shoaib Sharifi were living and following the events as they unfolded and continue to do so.
Produced by Caroline Ferguson and Alice Gioia.
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.0 | This is |
0:05.0 | You're |
0:08.0 | You're actually |
0:09.0 | the fifth floor. |
0:10.0 | The fifth floor de noosos fifth floor in Newseus. |
0:14.0 | We see me as well. |
0:15.0 | To me have this fifth floor |
0:17.0 | fornak and me this obit. |
0:21.0 | This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world. |
0:29.0 | I'm your host, Parenak Amid. On the morning of August 15th, 2021, people in Kabul received some shocking news. |
0:44.0 | The Taliban is in control of Afghanistan. |
0:47.0 | The country's president has fled. |
0:49.0 | As the Taliban moves in, the West moves out. American helicopters busy over Kabul all day today. |
0:58.0 | Well listen, I mean listen, listen, look at the tracer, fire in the air, the guns are going off. |
1:06.0 | Women are already being killed and shot for breaching rules that have been imposed on what they can wear and on where they can move without a male escort. |
1:16.3 | Three years on, what is life like for people in Afghanistan and what happened to those who left? |
1:23.0 | On this episode of the fifth floor, I'm joined by BBC Afghan journalist Sheciba Habib and |
1:28.0 | Shroib Shariq Shariqharih Sharihi, who are here in the studio with me. |
1:31.0 | Welcome, both of you. Hi yeah. Hello. So let's start with you |
1:35.6 | Shoy. Take us back to that day 2021. What was your experience like and where were you when Taliban returned to power? |
1:46.0 | Well I was in Kabul it was just yet a normal exciting summer day. |
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