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Deadly Kabul Attack

Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.

Afghan officials say a suicide vehicle bomb attack in Kabul has killed at least eighty people and injured more than three-hundred-and-fifty others, in the diplomatic quarter of the city. The huge explosion damaged several embassies. A BBC driver, Mohammed Nazir, is amongst the dead.

Also in the programme: we look at a new book giving remarkable amount of new detail about what happened to Osama Bin Laden after 9/11 and how Iran's Revolutionary Guards gave Al Qaeda leaders sanctuary; and our Russia correspondent reports on a a demolition project in Moscow that has brought home-owners onto the streets.

(Photo: Afghan security forces personnel are seen at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul. Credit: Getty Images)

50 minutes

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Wed 31 May 201713:06GMT

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  • Wed 31 May 201713:06GMT

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