The Fall of Kabul: One Year On
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
What’s happened to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover?
Adam is joined by the BBC’s Lyse Doucet and Yalda Hakim to look back at the days and months that followed the fall of Kabul, and what challenges face the country going forward.
Labour leader Keir Starmer has said his party would freeze the energy price cap at its current level until March, to help with the cost of living. Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, gives his assessment of the proposals.
Today’s episode was produced by Tim Walklate with Alix Pickles and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, some of you have been particularly touched by the Environment Agency Boss' reference |
| 0:10.4 | to peeing in the shower. |
| 0:11.6 | There is an answer, and the answer is it is okay to pee in the shower. |
| 0:15.4 | I would personally recommend that you pee in the toilet because that's what it's |
| 0:18.7 | there for, and actually better to, you know, just not flush the toilet as often, because |
| 0:23.6 | the toilet is what- |
| 0:24.6 | Like newscaster Mary, who emails from beer-registercentorset saying, I heard you asking the gentlemen |
| 0:29.6 | to the Environment Agency about peeing in the shower. |
| 0:32.1 | Then Mary goes on to say, did you know that there was a Brazilian TV advert in 2009 urging |
| 0:37.3 | Brazilians to do that very thing? |
| 0:39.7 | Well, we've decided to delve into this, and we're delving into it, with the BBC's |
| 0:45.0 | Hagerio Vassamon from the Brazilian Service. |
| 0:48.3 | Hello, Hagerio. |
| 0:49.3 | Hi, hello. |
| 0:50.3 | Also, I love that your surname means Waterman in German, which is amazing. |
| 0:56.4 | Adds to the whole- the whole- the whole water vibe. |
| 0:58.7 | So this video, I'm about to watch it, just sort of explain it to me where it's from. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, this is a video from a 2009 campaign. |
| 1:07.9 | It was done by an environmental NGO in Brazil. |
| 1:11.5 | It was meant to send this message that people were wasting water when they were flushing |
| 1:16.0 | their toilets, so they should- when they're not possible, do a wee in the shower to save |
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