UN hopes to raise humanitarian funds for the Afghan people

Ahead of a UN donor's conference on Afghanistan on Monday, a former finance minister tells us what are the country’s most pressing needs and how can the world help.

Also, a historian’s take on the Taleban running Afghanistan.

And the curator of a new Vermeer exhibition in Germany will tell us all about the mystery of a restored painting of the Dutch master which already has stolen the show.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Myriam Francois, Franco-British journalist and film maker; and Ian Black, Visiting Senior Fellow, Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics.

(Image: United Nations briefing on Afghanistan. Credit: Mandatory Credit: CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock)