U.S. sanctions add to Afghans' pain, poverty during freezing winter

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U.S. sanctions add to Afghans' pain, poverty during freezing winter

STORY: U.S. sanctions add to Afghans' pain, poverty during freezing winter DATELINE: Feb. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:34 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of central Afghanistan's Bamyan Province in winter 2. various of cave-turned shelter 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): ZARIF, Local resident 4. various of cave-turned shelter 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): ZARIF, Local resident 6. various of cave-turned shelter 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (Dari): NADIR HUSSAIN, Local resident 8. various of central Afghanistan 9. SOUNDBITE 4 (Pashto): MAWLAWI SHAKIR TAHIR, Director of Bamyan provincial Natural Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZOU XUEMIAN, Xinhua correspondent "I am now in central Afghanistan's Bamyan province. The temperature here has reached minus 25 degrees centigrade now. According to Afghan Ministry of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs, the chilly weather has already claimed hundreds of lives in this war-torn country. Since the first week of January, the temperatu

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