A couple of points

Many elements of R4 Today's post 8.30 item on Afghanistan stood out for this listener. 

First, the adoption by the BBC's Professor of Journalism Amol Rajan of the tired cliche "Give us a sense.." (© Huw Edwards) in the opening question. 

Then the appearance of the World's Greatest Living Foreign Correspondent, John Simpson, with the shock news that aid agencies have more or less abandoned Afghanistan (reported by Jeremy Bowen on 20th September, and again by the BBC on 25th October, with Mark Beasley from the World Food Programme). 

John was audibly moved towards the end of the sequence, provoking a valedictory from Professor Rajan. "We're proud of you". It was good, he said, to have John in Kabul once "the news caravan had moved on".  He perhaps has forgotten that Mr Simpson tried to get into Afghanistan as the Taliban took control, but was turned back at the border. And that the BBC has a presence in Afghanistan, led at the moment, by Secunder Kermani, currently reporting from the south of the country.