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Growing evidence is emerging of record levels of malnutrition affecting children in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The Public Health Ministry has told the BBC seven hundred children died in the past six months at just one hospital in Jalalabad. The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been to the hospital and we carry her distressing report.
Also in the programme: Airstrikes at military facilities in Syria have killed sixteen people - the government in Damascus blames Israel; and the double amputee who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro just two years after her injury.
(Photo: Baby Umrah, pictured with her mother Nasreen, died two days later. Credit: BBC Imogen Anderson)
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Growing evidence is emerging of record levels of malnutrition affecting children in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The Public Health Ministry has told the BBC seven hundred children died in the past six months at just one hospital in Jalalabad. The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been to the hospital and we carry her distressing report.
Also in the programme: Airstrikes at military facilities in Syria have killed sixteen people - the government in Damascus blames Israel; and the double amputee who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro just two years after her injury.
(Photo: Baby Umrah, pictured with her mother Nasreen, died two days later. Credit: BBC Imogen Anderson)

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