Evening Edition: Humanitarian Crisis Building In Afghanistan

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The U.N.'s World Food Programme has said that twenty four million people in Afghanistan, nearly sixty percent of the country, with an estimated over three million children suffer from malnutrition. To compound the situation is the coming winter, the lack of economic activity and declining social services such as electricity and health care. FOX's Alex Hogan speaks to Dominik Stillhart, Director of Operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross, about his recent trip to Afghanistan and the current fears there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.7	I'm Steve Doosey and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:20.1	Wednesday, December 1st, 2021, I'm Alex Hogan.
0:27.0	Months after the withdrawal of U.S. troops, life in Afghanistan is completely different, and there are desperate pleas from
0:34.3	humanitarian workers begging other countries to step up.
0:38.3	People have started dying and they will die much more rapidly and in greater numbers in the coming weeks and
0:46.1	months unless urgent action is being taken now, right now.
0:51.9	This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.
0:58.7	It's been about three months in Afghanistan of life under the Taliban.
1:03.6	The instability has displaced 700,000 people.
1:06.6	Most of them are women and kids.
1:08.8	And a growing number of citizens are applying for passports
1:11.4	to leave their home country.
1:13.2	Since the end of the summer, the country has seen a completely new government, degradation of women's
1:18.3	rights and what that means for individual families, as well as the economy as a whole because women account for 20% of the
1:26.2	country's workforce. The United Nations Development Program says that the
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