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Taliban ban women from NGO work
UN says latest Taliban move violates fundamental rights.
The United Nations says it is profoundly concerned that women will be banned from working for non-governmental organisations in Afghanistan. An urgent meeting of the organisation's Humanitarian Country Team is due to take place today.
Also in the programme: We look at how Russia's war in Ukraine could develop in the next year; and we hear from Hollywood director, Ron Howard.
(Picture: Afghan women in Kabul, Afghanistan. Credit: EPA/STRINGER)
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