UN aid appeal for Afghanistan
The UN has launched its largest single country aid appeal ever to Afghanistan
The UN has issued an urgent call for aid for Afghanistan where one million children are at risk from severe malnourishment. We hear from a program officer for Women for Women International in Nangahar province about the increasingly desperate situation in the country.
We鈥檒l look at how Novak Djokovic鈥檚 visa dispute in Australia has galvanised anti-vaccination activists although the player has never explicitly supported them. Our misinformation reporter will be telling us about the posts by the groups she is monitoring online.
A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. We'll have two experts answering your questions on the procedure.
We鈥檒l bring together two doctors who have been working in maternity wards throughout the pandemic to discuss what it has been like on the wards, where women are often alone and sometimes critically ill prior to giving birth.
(Photo: Afghan families receive food aid distributed by the German government in Kabul, Afghanistan, 06 December 2021.Credit: STRINGER/EPA)
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