2024-09-09
30 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 9 September.
These are our main stories.
Growing evidence emerges of record levels of malnutrition affecting children in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
Huge crowds turn out in Timor Leicester to welcome Pope Francis at the start of a three day visit.
Also in this podcast, we look ahead to the televised debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented hunger crisis and the country's children are the biggest casualties.
3.2 million children under the age of five are malnourished.
Cuts in the Taliban's policies, specifically those restricting the activities of women, have resulted in a significant drop in funding to public healthcare and community nutrition programs.
The BBC has found that the direct impact is a rapid rise in child mortality.
From Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, our South Asia correspondent, Yogurt Alamai, sent this report, which contains some distressing content.
I'm in the main regional hospital in Jalalabad, which is the capital of Nangarhar province in the east of Afghanistan.
I'm seeing in front of me just a sea of people who are coming in, bringing in their sick children.
And what we've been told is that every day, on an average, about 600 children come here who need to be treated in a hospital.
But there are only 120 beds.
Even the facilities that are operating those are being supported at the moment by international aid organisations.
But in the past couple of years, we've seen dramatic aid cuts.