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The UN Secretary General has urged the world to inject money directly to Afghanistan. Leaders of the G20 nations are meeting virtually on Tuesday to discuss a worsening economic situation in the country, and Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, explains the work his organisation is doing there. And Mohib Iqbal, who worked for the World Bank in Afghanistan until earlier this year tells us what the G20 nations could do to get money where it's needed. Also in the programme, the International Monetary Fund has released its latest World Economic Outlook, and the 麻豆约拍's Michelle Fleury talks us through what it reveals. Plus, a recent referendum in Berlin approved a plan to allow the city to seize properties owned by large-scale private landlords, in a bid to make the German capital a more affordable place to live. Joanna Kusiak helped organise the referendum, and says an influx of financial companies in Berlin's property sector has exacerbated an affordability problem. Heimstaden is a Swedish company which owns 20,000 apartments in Berlin, and its chief investment officer Christian Fladeland makes the case for allowing more home construction instead of allowing property to be seized. And Professor Edward Glaeser of Harvard University, who specialises in the economics of urban spaces, argues that if the referendum result is turned into law, it will disincentivise developers from building new property.

Today's edition is presented by Rob Young, and produced by Nisha Patel and Susan Karanja.

(Picture: Afghan protesters seek release of central bank funds. Picture credit: Getty Images.)