CNN Correspondent Clarissa Ward And Producer Have Angry Confrontation With Taliban Fighters

university professor tasked with ensuring Afghan girls continue to go to school has demanded ­international aid is used to negotiate with the Taliban. Former prime minister ­ Gordon Brown last week called for £5.7billion of support for ­education in the ­country to be overseen by Edinburgh ­University’s Liz Grant.

Naman Ramachandran Women filmmakers from Afghanistan made a powerful and emotional plea for international intellectual support at a panel at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.Fighting back tears, Sahraa Karimi, who wrote a hard-hitting open letter about the impact of her country being taken over again by the Taliban, did not mince her words about the current situation in the country.

wrote in its story on the man suspended from the helicopter that it was “not immediately clear exactly how he is attached or if he is alive.”In fact, he was alive. The video was posted from a now-suspended account, but another video of the same flight shows the man waving.

In the video, the host of “Pardaz” said that the Islamic Emirate — the name by which the Taliban refers to itself by — wants the public to “cooperate with it and should not be afraid.” BBC reporter Kian Sharifi says that the host then interviewed one of the Taliban fighters in the studio, though he was unable to translate the interview. The programme is called Pardaz.

debunked claim that the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: CNN is unveiling a slate of new limited series podcasts for this fall, including one focusing on California’s 2003 recall and another hosted by Clarissa Ward, who recently was reporting on the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

With the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, Emmy Award-winning director Greg Barker and producer Tresha Mabile from Showtime’s upcoming doc Detainee 001 discussed the lessons they learned from John Walker Lindh’s story. The documentary will premiere on Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Fox News Media said today that it successfully evacuated three Afghan nationals who have worked alongside its correspondents as fixers and assistants throughout coverage over the years.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTaliban fighters looking to exact revenge against journalists affiliated with Western media on Thursday shot dead the relative of an Afghan journalist for German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) who had left the country.

K.J. Yossman Stuart Ramsay has covered 18 separate wars and numerous natural disasters during his 30 years as a reporter but even he admits the scenes unfolding around him this week in Afghanistan have been unique.“The circumstances and the desperation and the sadness is the same in every scenario but this is slightly different,” the Sky News chief reporter tells Variety in an exclusive interview.

Ward has continued to report from on the ground in Kabul, Afghanistan this week following the Taliban’s takeover, and according to the correspondent, violence is increasing. During an on-air report Wednesday, Ward said member of her own team was nearly pistol whipped by Taliban fighters.Watch below, via CNN.