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BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at the best of the week’s technology news, including: Gamers under 18 in China are being told they can play for only very limited hours Vauxhall says the global shortage of computer chips will continue to be a problem’ for the auto industry for the rest of the year Agility…

The BBC’s Yogita Limaye witnesses first-hand the extreme poverty engulfing millions in Afghanistan.

Beheshta Arghand, an anchor for Tolo News, made headlines when she interviewed the Taliban just days after they took control of Afghanistan. Two weeks later, she has fled the country amid fears for her life. Arghand spoke to the BBC’s Christian Fraser about the fears she has for her country’s future.

The presence of Nato in Afghanistan in the past 20 years produced mixed results, a former president of Afghanistan has said. The reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, helping with education and other areas was very welcome, and produced good results for the country, Hamid Karzai told BBC World News. But the military plans to fight…

World leaders are set to meet at the COP26 conference in Glasgow in three weeks’ time, to try to agree on action to tackle climate change. Prince Charles has been campaigning on climate issues for decades and, ahead of the conference, he met with the BBC’s Justin Rowlatt to discuss what needs to be done,…

Covid may have put much of the world into lockdown but conflict, persecution and human rights violations has led to a record number of refugees, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. According the UNHCR’s 2020 Global Trends report, some two thirds of the world’s refugees came from just five countries; Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South…