Girls' education ban leaves few options for Afghan women

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A spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan has refused to answer a BBC question on when or whether girls and women will be allowed to go back to school. The Taliban government banned education for girls over the age of 12 and women shortly after it seized power five years ago. We hear a report by our correspondent who has been to Afghanistan, and we speak to two women who have left the country. President Trump has insisted any deal with Iran must be meaningful. He's linked it to a wider, regional peace, encompassing Israel. We have the latest on the talks. The annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Hajj, has begun in Saudi Arabia, against the background of a region deeply shaken by the Iran war. We get more information from our global affairs reporter. The head of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said the Ebola outbreak in and around the Democratic Republic of the Congo is outpacing urgent efforts to scale up a response. We hear from a community health worker in Sierra Leone and a woman who survived the outbreak in Liberia about a decade ago. Greece's Kristian Gkolomeev was the only athlete to beat a world record at the controversial Enhanced Games in Las Vegas. Our reporter explains. Presenter: Rahul Tandon. (Photo: Afghan children attend a class at the 'Mansoor Rasa Mohammad' private school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 23 April 2026. Credit: Photo by SAMIULLAH POPAL/EPA)