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Weekend: Afghan intelligence officers fear Taliban reprisals

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Afghan intelligence officers fear Taliban reprisals

16/10/2021 GMT

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Intelligence officers trained by Britain say they've been left behind in Afghanistan

Intelligence officers trained by Britain say they've been left behind in Afghanistan.

Afghan special intelligence unit officers trained by the UK say they have been abandoned and are at risk of being killed by the Taliban.

Plus, why one woman refuses to accept the Taliban's attempts to stop girls getting a secondary school education?

And NASA launches a mission to Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System.

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other issues are Tom Rivers, a foreign correspondent for ABC News Radio in London, and Shrabani Basu, Indian journalist, author, and historian.

(Image: Members of the British armed forces disembarking at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, following their return from Afghanistan. Credit: PA Wire)

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