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Inside a TV news station determined to report facts in the Taliban's Afghanistan

Once a mortal threat, the Taliban have let Afghanistan's leading news channel stand. But every day is a struggle for the journalists who still work there.
A man works on the evening broadcast from TOLOnews, Afghanistan's first 24/7 new channel.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Inside a cramped and windowless room at the headquarters of Afghanistan's leading news channel, a group of young editors race against a six o'clock deadline.

One fiddles with the audio for a story on the year-long closure of girls' secondary schools. Another tinkers with the images of Taliban officials at an international conference. They are stories that will be featured in that evening's broadcast from TOLOnews.

When the Taliban returned to power last by a Taliban suicide bomber.

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