the international community has not yet recognised the taliban. it's reluctant to engage directly with it and give them direct foreign grants, but those foreign grants previously made up for around 75% of afghanistan's public expenditure. so, in addition to that, afghanistan's foreign reserves held in america, around 9 billion of them, they are now frozen and those are questions that are still being grappled with and it does not seen yet is if anyone has an answer to how to solve them. in the meantime, of course, the people in afghanistan, the suffering continues for them. let's turn to climate change now. with just one week to go until world leaders gather for an all—important summit in glasgow, several pieces of news show how big the challenge they're facing is. that is to reverse course and reduce emissions enough to prevent the worst of global warming. all the promises so far on climate leave the world headed for a rise of 2.7 degrees, says the united nations, way above a globally...