Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton.

Today, with serious congestion at the world's busiest ports and a lack of truck drivers,

the global supply chain is at a crossroads.

On the show, we'll discuss whether government should work together to ease the issue

or leave it to big businesses to sort out themselves.

We'll also hear from Berlin, where voters have said yes to a radical plan that makes housing more affordable.

The rising cost of living in the world's biggest cities is something we've talked about a lot on the show.

So could this plan to take properties away

from large-scale landlords be a model that's copied elsewhere? But we begin the program in Afghanistan,

where the already fragile economy is in freefall. Prices are rising and many people haven't been

paid for months. Under the previous government, the bizarre situation was good, and people used to buy vegetables

a lot. But now there are not many customers. Sometimes my cart remains full of unsold

vegetables, and they go bad. Since the arrival of the Taliban, I think all our colleagues

have been unemployed and our salaries

haven't yet been paid by the government. So my request to the government is to pay us our salaries

first, because people are living in poverty. With poverty comes hunger and there are real

concerns that the country faces an acute humanitarian disaster.

Jan Egeland is the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

He's just got back from visiting Afghanistan.

I sat down in the camps around Kabul, and they are representative of how millions and millions of

vulnerable Africans now live. I spoke to the women

there and of course they were also concerned about girls education and women's right to work.

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