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Afghanistan: A Country at Breaking Point

John Simpson goes back to Afghanistan to explore the shocking unravelling of a country he has been reporting on for more than 40 years.

It鈥檚 being described as the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. After decades of war, eight million people are now facing starvation in Afghanistan. A million children could die. Reporter John Simpson goes back to explore the shocking unravelling of a country he鈥檚 been reporting on for more than forty years. The Taliban takeover and sanctions imposed by the west have contributed to economic collapse. There鈥檚 food in the markets, but families are being driven to edge because they simply don鈥檛 have the money to buy it.

23 minutes

Last on

Sun 13 Feb 2022 21:30GMT

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Reporter John Simpson
Producer Maurice May
Executive Producer Andrew Head
Editor Karen Wightman

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