RT News - August 23 2021 (12:00 MSK)
Kabul airport stays shut for another 24 hours after it was closed all day on Sunday to try and clear the huge backlog of people desperate to leave. Thousands of would-be evacuees are heading for the only way out of that Taliban-controlled country. Some of the Afghans who worked for coalition forces did manage to flee but their relatives remain in the country 'living in fear for their lives'. We spoke to one translator on terms of 'complete anonymity' because risks remain high. We continue a series of reports on 'trans-identified men' being placed in female prisons. This time we hear from an activist who raised the alarm on harrowing incidents of sexual assault in women's prisons in Canada.