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Hello and welcome to News Hour Live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kezby.
And we begin the program today in Afghanistan,
because it's just over three years
since the Taliban retook control of the country as the last US security forces left.
This year, having been the largest donor to Afghanistan, the US has cut all aid to the country,
saying it has evidence that millions of dollars had ended up in Taliban hands.
The centre of aid reaching Afghanistan had been coming from the United States,
but the sudden end to that aid has had a seismic impact on local people, particularly women.
Our South Asia correspondent Yogi Talamei and her team managed to gain rare access to the north-eastern Afghan province of Badekshan,
and she gathered first-hand evidence of the impact on maternal mortality in particular and sent this report.
Badakhshane is one of Afghanistan's most picturesque provinces.
It's got beautiful big brown mountains.
We're on our way to a district where we know that a clinic that had midwives and other services for malnourished children shut down following the US aid cuts.
We're literally driving through a riverbed.
And that tells you that if clinics in those remote places close down,