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World Service,12 Oct 2021,49 mins
UN Secretary-General: Afghanistan economy risks total collapse
NewsdayAvailable for over a year
Antonio Guterres says sending aid now is the only way to avert collapse. So how bad have things got since the Taliban takeover? We hear the extraordinary story of the US judge who illegally sent children to prison for crimes such as watching a playground fight in school and not intervening. And how an abandoned super-tanker in the Red Sea threatens environmental disaster should it release it's cargo of oil.
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