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World Service,01 Sep 2021,49 mins

Biden defends Afghan exit

Newsday

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Joe Biden defends the airlift from Kabul as an "extraordinary success" and said it should have been done earlier. Is he right that America is safer now it was than 20 years ago? We find out about one of the only ways out of Afghanistan, the border with Pakistan, with our correspondent who's been there. And how will German people remember Angela Merkel who will soon bid farewell to politics after 16 years as Chancellor.

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