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World Service,20 Aug 2021,49 mins

The desperate scramble to leave Afghanistan

Newsday

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The US says it's intensified its evacuation efforts from Afghanistan flying thousands more people out of Kabul... We'll go there live. We also ask if Russia is planning to have a role in Afghanistan more than thirty years after Soviet troops withdrew from the country. We're also in New Zealand - bringing you an update of the covid situation there after the country imposed a strict lock down when a single person tested positive for the Delta variant. And a story from Sweden where a legal error sees millions of dollars returned to convicted drug dealers.

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