[ti:Taliban Fires Guns to Break Up Women’s Protest in Kabul] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]VOA spoke to people in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday [00:04.80]who said they saw Taliban security forces fire guns in the air [00:10.72]to break up a women's protest. [00:13.56]Afghan women marched through the streets [00:16.84]to protest new restrictions put out by the Taliban on Sunday. [00:22.20]The restrictions limit how far women can travel [00:26.04]without a close, male, family member. [00:29.08]The new rules said women cannot go [00:32.92]more than 72 kilometers from home by themselves. [00:37.36]In addition, taxi drivers are not permitted to give rides to women [00:43.00]who are not wearing a hijab, or headscarf. [00:47.28]Sadiq Akif Mahajer is the spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry [00:54.04]for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. [00:58.32]He said the new rules are within the limits [01:02.60]of what is allowed under Sharia, or Islamic, law. [01:07.72]The rules also now prevent taxi drivers [01:12.20]from playing music in their cars. [01:15.08]It also asks them to grow facial hair and take time out to pray each day. [01:22.76]On Tuesday, women walked together to the ministry, [01:26.96]holding signs that read: "we are tired of discrimination" [01:31.72]and "we are the voice of hungry people." [01:36.16]Protesters demanded work, food and education [01:40.40]and asked: "Why have you closed schools?" [01:45.24]One protester, Hoda Khamush told VOA [01:50.32]that the security forces fired shots in the air [01:54.40]as the women got closer to the ministry building and some tried to enter. [02:00.52]During the previous Afghan government, [02:03.76]the building was the home of the Women's Affairs Ministry. [02:07.92]Khamush said the shots injured some protesters, [02:12.68]but VOA could not verify her claim. [02:16.80]Taliban officials did not comment on the incident Tuesday. [02:22.24]Television channels, however, did show video from the protest. [02:28.12]Since the Taliban took back Afghanistan after the United States military [02:33.64]announced it would leave the country earlier this year, [02:37.04]boys have been permitted to go to school. [02:40.72]Girls are still waiting for permission. [02:44.28]Most women are waiting for permission to return to work. [02:49.32]When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August, [02:53.04]the group said it would not bring back the same restrictions [02:57.84]it had imposed during its earlier rule, which lasted from 1996-2001. [03:05.88]The new restrictions came after the Taliban told television broadcasters [03:11.48]to stop showing fictional television programs [03:15.12]such as soap operas with women actors. [03:19.28]The Taliban also requires female television broadcasters to wear hijabs. [03:26.36]U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris told the American broadcaster CBS [03:32.48]that she is concerned that the Taliban is not treating women and girls well. [03:37.88]In a conversation shown Sunday, she called it "a big issue" [03:43.20]in any future diplomatic discussions with the group. [03:47.92]The U.S., other western governments, and some banks [03:53.08]are holding back billions of dollars in financial aid to Afghanistan. [03:57.64]The Taliban says the U.S. should release over $9 billion of its wealth [04:04.40]and remove financial restrictions [04:07.36]because the new government is representative of the Afghan people. [04:13.68]The country is currently suffering. [04:16.00]The United Nations estimates 23 million people do not have enough food [04:22.64]due to years of war, bad weather, and poverty. [04:27.32]I'm Dan Friedell. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM