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Blinken in Kabul evacuation request

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls on the Taliban to allow US charter flights to leave Afghanistan. He's speaking in Germany where he met with Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls on the Taliban to allow US charter flights to leave Afghanistan. He's speaking in Germany where he met with the Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. The trial of Elizabeth Holmes is under way. She stands accused of fraud and lying to investors about the capabilities of a blood testing device sold by her company Theranos, which was once valued at $9bn - the ±«Óãtv's James Clayton is at the trial in California. Vivienne Nunis is in Kenya looking at a project to rejuvenate a centuries old port, there's updates on the German elections and the tale of a Chinese woman who went missing for four years, only to turn up when her husband wrote a book about her disappearance. Throughout the programme we're joined by Erin Delmore a political reporter in Berlin and Cathering Yeung, Investment Director at Fidelity International in Hong Kong.

(Image:US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas/Credit: Reuters)

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