Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

When Epic, which makes the game Fortnite, took on Apple in court, it was pitched as,

well, an epic battle, challenging Apple's stranglehold on the money that Appmakers earn.

A verdict is now in and the tech giant appears to have won, but not entirely.

And if regulators do their regulating only one-sixth of the time, do the regulated keep within

the regulations for only one-sixth of the time?

A close look at some air pollution data suggests that the answer is disappointingly yes.

But first, it's now been a month since the Taliban took over Afghanistan's capital Kabul

and with it the country as a whole.

Now they're struggling to run it.

Zabi Hula Mujahid, the Taliban's deputy information and culture minister, has admitted they

didn't expect to gain power so quickly.

And they did international aid stopped, aid that propped up most of the government's budget.

So poverty is soaring and at a conference convened by the United Nations its boss Antonio Gutierrez

warned that many Afghans could find themselves without food as winter sets in.

After decades of war suffering and insecurity, they face perhaps their most perilous hour.

Now is the time for the international community to stand with them.

And let us be clear, this conference is not simply about what we will give to the people

of Afghanistan.

It is about what we owe.

Donors have so far pledged more than a billion dollars, but that won't go very far in helping

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