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Talking to the Taliban
Foreign Correspondent David Pratt speaks to a senior Taliban leader in Afghanistan about the group's aims and ambitions.
The Taliban were forced out after 9/11 and are waiting in the wings, desperate for an opportunity reimpose their hardline version of Islam. In 2018, four thousand Afghans died, nearly a thousand of them children. British and American troops remain on Afghan soil, trying to keep the peace.
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