Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
As the Taliban takes control of Afghanistan this week, we ask what the future holds for the country. The central bank governor, Ajmal Ahmady, who fled earlier this week, tells us about the days and weeks leading up to the takeover. Dr Weeda Mehran from the University of Exeter outlines how the country arrived at this point, and what the future could hold. She argues that unless the Taliban gains legitimacy internationally it will struggle to govern effectively or grow the economy. Plus, a new Alzheimer's drug has been approved by the FDA in the US, but lawmakers are looking at how and why it was approved so quickly. Apple’s decision to scan users’ phones for images of child abuse has privacy campaigners worried - and we’ll hear from the businesses busy preparing for Christmas 2021. Business Weekly is produced by Clare Williamson and presented by Lucy Burton. (Image: Afghans gather outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to flee the country, Image credit: European Pressphoto Agency)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this edition of Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. |
| 0:09.8 | Coming up later on the show, we'll be taking an in-depth look at Apple's decision |
| 0:14.2 | to allow their phones to be scanned for images of child abuse. |
| 0:18.6 | Privacy campaigners are dismayed, but advocates for children's safety say |
| 0:22.8 | it's an important step in protecting children online. We'll also hear why a hastily approved |
| 0:29.3 | new Alzheimer's drug has come under intense scrutiny, even though some patients believe it's |
| 0:34.8 | helped slow their decline. But of course, we'll begin the show this week |
| 0:39.0 | by looking at events in Afghanistan. As US troops prepared to withdraw after nearly 20 years, |
| 0:46.8 | fighters from the Taliban, the hardline Islamic movement they'd fought to suppress gained ground quickly. |
| 0:53.1 | They took region after region, largely unopposed, until |
| 0:57.0 | finally they walked into the presidential palace in the capital Kabul. There's been chaos at |
| 1:03.2 | Kabul airport, as people try and get out whilst they can. There are reports of Taliban fighters |
| 1:10.4 | blocking the streets, making it much harder for others to leave. |
| 1:15.2 | These girls on the runway at Kabul International Airport were singing an emotional and famous Afghanistan song. |
| 1:22.1 | I became homeless. |
| 1:23.3 | I'm a shone-by-shan-ish-y-gan-he-man. One man who managed to getch of my heart of the country, one man who managed to get a flight out of the country, Aizmahl Amadi, the governor of the central bank. |
| 1:49.2 | He told my colleague Victoria Craig about that journey and the days leading up to it. |
| 1:54.5 | Over just the course of three days proceeded to the fall of Kabul, |
| 1:58.5 | I had continued my work on both Saturday and the morning of |
| 2:03.1 | Sunday until I arrived in the airport. And between my arrival in the afternoon at the airport, |
| 2:09.4 | the city fell by that evening. At that point, there were still commercial aircraft on the tarmac at |
| 2:14.4 | Kabul Airport, but chaotic scenes, which would come to symbolize this crisis, |
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