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New US Policy on Afghanistan

President Trump's administrations policy on Afghanistan

President Trump is due to set out his administrations policy on Afghanistan. James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Washington DC, tells us his expectations.
The controversy swirling around Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has intensified. Anti-corruption campaigners have criticised police who they say tried to prevent their demonstrations over the weekend. We hear more from our Middle East correspondent.
Generation iGen or GenZ - that is, born after 1995, have never known anything but a world with cellphones, Google and Amazon. That lifelong immersion in cyberculture has produced some interesting and some unpleasant effects. Dr Jean Twenge is Professor of Psychology at San Diego University tells us more about her new book.
Fergus Nicoll is joined by Shalini Mahtani, co-founder and Chair of the Zubin Foundation and Professor Richard Wolff of the University of Massachusetts - founder of the group Democracy at Work.
PHOTO: A US soldier rests during a night mission in Kunar province in 2009, Reuters

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