Yalda Hakim

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Lead World News Presenter at Sky News. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

Remember how the whole world mobilised against South Africa's Apartheid? Does the world care that the Taliban has completely erased women from public life? Afghan-born Australian journalist Yalda Hakim was Nick Bryant's's guest yesterday morning: #Afghanistan www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Four years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan: Yalda Hakim - ABC listen

Just over four years ago the Taliban seized control of Kabul in a matter of days and established a de facto government, after decades of Western military intervention to stop exactly that.  Despite p...

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To mark International Women’s Day which is this Saturday, I will be joined on the show by three Afghan female cricketers in exile in Australia. They are calling for the ICC to let them play as a recognised refugee team. Do join us tonight to hear my conversation with them.

With President Zelenskyy with a small group of journalists at Stansted before he left for Ukraine. He seemed energised and spoke only in Ukraine. A different mood from what we saw on Friday.

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Could Ukraine be the Trump administration’s Afghanistan? I think yes - it very much could be as negotiations get underway. Richard and I spoke about that on this week’s The World podcast, available wherever you get your pods now.