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Yalda Hakim

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Lead World News Presenter Sky News. Fmr Correspondent & Host BBC World News' Impact with Yalda Hakim. https://t.co/8Gp67pMtzW #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

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Kenyan police say at least 40 people have died after a dam collapsed in the west of the country.

Ahmed Idris tells @skyyaldahakim that African countries including Kenya and Tanzania are 'bearing the brunt' of extreme weather

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'No medical products are without side effects' the chief executive of Afrigen Biologics Professor Petro Terblanche tells Yalda Hakim.

Pharmaceutical companies need to show that 'the safety of human health is put above monetary value' to retain trust.

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📢 Coming up on The World with Yalda Hakim...

🌍 Professor Petro Terblanche, Chief Executive of Afrigen Biologics
🌍 Dr. Ahmed Idris, Secretary General, Kenya Red Cross Society

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An Israeli airstrike has killed six people in Rafah, including four children, health authorities said

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“At this point it’s escalated from just rhetoric to actual assault on campus”.

Jewish student at Columbia University Lishi Baker talks to me about his experience over the last few days but adds “most have that same aim” of ending the conflict in Gaza.

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“Although there has been consistent escalation and political organisation, the universities are taking more of a silencing approach”.

I ask UCL Action for Palestine spokesperson Amma Ghaffar why UK campuses aren’t seeing the same escalation as the US.

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“One rocket too deep into Israel, one attack that Israel carries out in Lebanon” that goes too far could lead to “all out war” between both sides.

Former editor of The Jerusalem Post and security expert Yaakov Katz speaks to me on the escalation between Israel and Hezbollah…

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“No self respecting free society could allow a totalitarian dictatorship to decide what makes the news and what doesn’t”.

Former Deputy National Security adviser Matt Pottinger speaks to me on the new US TikTok ban.

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TikTok has said they will fight the US ban.

TikToker BANKS tells Yalda Hakim 'none of the users want this ban to go ahead'.

Sky's Arthi Nachiappan adds that 'there is a disconnect when it comes politicians and TikTok users'

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Sky's Martha Kelner is live from the University of Southern California as a fresh wave of pro-Palestinian protests have 'spread from the East to the West coast of America'.

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📢 Coming up on The World with Yalda Hakim...

🌍 Expert in Vietnamese Migration, Tamsin Barber
🌍 One of the first to be arrested at Columbia University during pro-Palestinian protests, Marie Adele Grosso

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“Many are still left behind”. Former interpreter for the British in Afghanistan M Rafi Hottak tells me of his colleagues still there.

He says that the “majority” of them are “still waiting” for visas, including those who served alongside the British.

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'If you work with the UK, you are called a rebellion, not Muslim.'

Sadaf Durzad speaks to Yalda Hakim as she calls on the government to not send Afghan interpreters, who worked with the British Army, to Rwanda if the bill passes.

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📺 Watch The World with Yalda Hakim live here... 👇

🌍 Joined by Afghan interpreter who settled in the UK under the resettlement scheme, Sadaf Durzad twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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📢 Coming up on The World with Yalda Hakim...

🌍 Afghan interpreter who settled in the UK under the resettlement scheme, Sadaf Durzad

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'That is going to be a new bloody chapter.'

The Americans are starting to 'accept Israel going into Rafah', where most displaced Palestinians are sheltering, says Sky's Dominic Waghorn.

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'They didn't anticipate this massive reaction they had from the Iranians.'

Sky's Dominic Waghorn says the Israelis are 'very good at... gathering intelligence', but 'they seem to have got rather bad at... interpreting that intelligence'.

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Join Yalda Hakim live from Jerusalem for a special edition of The World programme tonight, following the retaliatory attack by Israel on Iran.

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Join Yalda Hakim live from Jerusalem for a special edition of The World programme tonight, following the retaliatory attack by Israel on Iran.

⏰ Tonight at 5pm and 9pm
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‘Do you think this now draws a line on these events?’ - Yalda Hakim

‘Certainly [Israel] getting involved in a fight with Iran didn’t advance their objectives in Gaza’ - former commander of US Central Command Joseph Votel

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