“I feel like I’m nothing”

“I feel like I’m nothing”

With the Taliban forcing women out of public life, we hear the heart-breaking story of a former female NGO worker in Afghanistan who was pushed out of her job.

We also hear the latest from Ukraine following the Russian missile attack on Dnipro which killed fourteen. And how can Britain and the rest of the world help the Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai, who recently had his two-year detention extended by five years. We’ll be speaking to Jimmy Lai’s son, Sebastien Lai, and Caoilfhionn Gallagher, who's heading the international team of lawyers supporting Lai’s case.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss this and more in the studio in London are Gwen Hines, CEO of the British charity, Save the Children and George Parker, Political Editor at the Financial Times newspaper.

(Photo: Afghan women watch the speech of Taliban's minister for higher education, Nida Muhammad Nadeem, on a mobile phone in Kabul, Afghanistan, 22 December 2022. Credit: EPA)