We begin this hour with a Special Report from afghanistan. A country where millions of children are malnourished and white in one hospital 700 children have died in just the last six months. It is a humanitarian crisis that deepens every day with much of the Country Living in Extreme Poverty after years of war, causing economic collapse. The United Nations says more than three in children under the age of five are malnourished, with the delivery of aid becoming much harder since the taliban took control in 2021. The bbc s Correspondent And Producer Imogen Anderson have been in the country for the last two weeks, chronicling the disaster, and a warning there report shows images of children in distress. This is what an average Morning Looks like at the hospital. Hundreds from every corner, every passage, as Extreme Poverty pushes more children into disease each day. Zahra, 30 months old, one of 3 Million malnourished children in the country. A disease that is ravaging afghanistans younge
and the requirement to self isolate if you come into contact with someone with covid. however i do feel like we are constantly having these hopes dangled in front of us, then they are . i think of the great quote from john cleese, i can deal with the despair, it s the hope i can t bear. i think a lot of people will be thinking, please don t promise that we can go to a certain country, then two weeks later, do ewald fast. that s happened with portugaljust happened with portugal just recently. happened with portugaljust recently. i really think if the government is going to make this commitment, it must stick by it. unfortunately we have a catalogue of errors over the past few months which don t give optimism. why have the borders remained open so long after experts warned people coming from india were bringing a new variant into the country which has
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