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Can the Taliban fix Afghanistan’s economic crisis? | Start Here

2,963,314 views Aug 15, 2022 #AJStartHere#aljazeeraenglish#talibanAfghanistan’s economy has been in turmoil since the Taliban took power a year ago. How did it get so bad? And can the Taliban turn things around? Sandra Gathmann takes #AJStartHere on the road to Afghanistan to explain what’s going on. 📣 Check out Sandra’s other episode from Afghanistan, where…

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Who are the Taliban? | Start Here

5,385,582 views May 30, 2021 AFGHANISTANWho are the Taliban? The Taliban have been fighting the Afghan government and its allies for decades. Now the US is pulling its soldiers out of Afghanistan and the Taliban seem stronger than ever. Who are the Taliban really? And how is it that they have so much power? Subscribe…

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In Search of Al Qaeda (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

957,574 views Premiered Aug 24, 2021 #Documentary​ In December 2001, as American forces blasted mountain hideouts in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, hundreds of Al Qaeda soldiers fled seemingly disappearing into thin air. In this 2002 documentary, FRONTLINE investigates what happened to the fighters who survived. This journalism is made possible by viewers like…

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America’s Longest War: What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (2021)

1,645,075 views Nov 19, 2023 #CNN#News After nearly 20 years in Afghanistan, the US military, at President Biden’s direction, withdrew troops from the country, bringing an end to America’s longest war. In this CNN documentary, top US commanders from the war wrestle with mistakes and regrets to discover what went wrong. #CNN#News

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North Korea’s most powerful woman | DW Documentary

7,405,305 views Nov 26, 2023 #dwdocumentary#documentary She’s probably the most powerful woman in North Korea: Kim Yo Jong, the dictator’s younger sister. She’s viewed as an emotionless and shrewd strategist for her brother, the North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un. But just who is the “Red Princess”? Kim Jong Un’s rise began in 2011 when…

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Antarctica SHUT DOWN By The US After Drone Captures What No One Was Supposed To See

1,059,638 views Feb 9, 2024 Antartica SHUT DOWN By The US After Drone Captures What No One Was Supposed To See “THE U.S DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS!” Deleted Footage Leaked From The US Navy Locked in away ice, Antarctica guards mysteries that might just rewrite the story of our past and shake up…

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Inside the Taliban’s war on drugs – BBC News

2,426,140 views Jun 6, 2023 #BBCNews#Afghanistan Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have been more successful in cracking down on opium than anyone ever has, a BBC investigation has found. The BBC has travelled to major poppy growing areas and had exclusive access to remote provinces where our journalists have seen that farmers have either not grown opium…

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How We Bought Our Abandoned House in Japan | Process, Costs, Risks, Finance, How to Find One

3,656,491 views Jul 6, 2019 #abandonedhouse#akiya#japanproperty In this video I go into more (or too much?) detail about how we found and purchased our akiya/abandoned house in Japan. It’s a traditional Japanese house style – a “minka” or “kominka”. In spite of there being a large number of vacant houses (akiya) in Japan, very few…

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Countries That Will Pay You to Live There

3,395,195 views Jun 18, 2023 #acrosstheglobe#travel#freeliving Top 10 Countries That Will Pay You to Live There Life can feel expensive these days. Between the cost of living and the cost of housing, sometimes you may feel like you can barely afford to pay your regular expenses, let alone save. But can you imagine the opposite…

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20 Japanese School Rules You Won’t Believe Actually Exist

1,293,022 views Aug 27, 2023 Top 20 Japanese School Rules You Won’t Believe Actually Exist. We all come from different backgrounds with different cultures. And with every culture comes different traditions and rules. When it comes to schools, there are some rules we expect to be the same or normal. But you can’t say the…

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How Japan’s Maglev Train Works

2,091,107 views Aug 19, 2023 Sign up to Brilliant using my link and get a 30 day free trial AND 20% off your an annual subscription: https://brilliant.org/realengineering Watch this video ad free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realengineer…

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The repercussion of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima | History Calls | FULL DOCUMENTARY

2,742,137 views Jun 29, 2023 HIROSHIMA In the summer of 1945, the nightmare is ending for thousands of soldiers. In Japan, the situation is desperate. The Empire of the Rising Sun no longer has the means to continue the war. It can’t stem the American advance. Its centres of industry have been systematically destroyed by…

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Why Is Japan So Rich?

1,176,310 views May 1, 2023 Why is Japan so Rich? How did the Land of the Rising Sun become one of the wealthiest countries in the world? This video will start from Japan’s isolation to the Meiji Restoration all the way to the Asian Financial Crisis in the 1990s. Join Patreon:   / historyscope   Credits – Research:…