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09/05/2021 GMT

Afghan School Attack

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A militant attack in Kabul leaves at least 50 dead

A militant attack in Kabul leaves at least 50 dead.

The number of people now known to have been killed in a militant attack on a girls' school in Afghanistan has risen to at least fifty. There were multiple blasts as children were leaving the school in the capital, Kabul. We get the latest from there. 

Also on the programme: India's struggle with the second wave of Covid infections continues and has now hit the city of Bangalore; and we hear about a second night of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. 

Joining Celia Hatton on Weekend is Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist, writer and filmmaker from Paris and Carne Ross a former British diplomat and the founder of Independent Diplomat, a diplomatic advisory group.

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