Afghanistan: 'We're on the very edge' - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

Three months after US forces pulled out of Kabul, millions of people in Afghanistan are facing starvation.

Today's Amol Rajan speaks to John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor who is in Bamiyan in Afghanistan and describes the current situation. Our correspondent Secunder Kermani reports from the remote town of Zaranj.

Amol also spoke to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is now the CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He then spoke to Fawzia Koofi, Former Vice President of the Parliament in Afghanistan and President of the political party ‘Movement for Change in Afghanistan', as well as Richard Trenchard, the Afghan Representative for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

(Image: John Simpson, Credit: BBC)

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