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The International Monetary Fund says Afghanistan no longer has access to its resources. We examine how any new Taliban-led government will be able to raise money it needs, given the country's official financial holdings in the United States have also been frozen. Graeme Smith worked in Afghanistan for a decade, and is a consultant researcher at the UK think tank, the Overseas Development Institute. And we consider Afghanistan's future economic relations with major trading parter Pakistan, with Adil Shahzeb, who is host of a primetime TV programme on the Dawn News channel in Islamabad. Also in the programme, car maker Toyota says it is going to have to drastically cut production owing to a shortage of semiconductors and a recent rise in coronavirus cases in Japan. David Leggett is an automotive analyst at GlobalData, and tells us how long production issues are likely to continue. Plus, the 大象传媒's Ivana Davidovic investigates the controversy around the recent approval of Biogen's Aduhelm treatment for Alzheimer's disease by the US Food and Drug Administration, which is now under investigation by a federal watchdog.

(Picture: Afghans queue outside a bank to withdraw funds. Picture credit: Getty Images.)