Amanpour: Abdullah Abdullah, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Kathleen Belew

Despite Taliban gains on the ground, leading Afghan official Abdullah Abdullah explains to Bianna Golodryga, standing in for Christiane Amanpour, that the ousting of the democratically elected government in Kabul will not happen. Then Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of U.N. Women, talks about the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on women and the need to prioritize them in the covid-19 recovery. And our Michel Martin speaks to award-winning historian and author Kathleen Belew about the growing threat of domestic terrorism in the U.S. and the Biden administration’s plans to combat it.

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