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World Service,16 Aug 2021,49 mins

Afghanistan: President flees as government collapses

Newsday

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The Taliban take over Kabul twenty years after they were forced out by western forces. We'll hear from a women's rights activist in Kabul who has no intention of fleeing, and from a US negotiator who says it is up to the Afghans to sort out their future. In Haiti rescuers continue to search for survivors after a massive earthquake, as the death toll climbs to more than a thousand. And Australia enters its harshest Covid lockdown yet, enforced by the police.

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