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#322 Hostage policy, time poverty and squirrels

The Week Unwrapped - with Olly Mann

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The New Presidential Policy Directive to Improve How We Work to Bring Home American Hostages

The Foreign Affairs Committee published a report on Tuesday calling on the UK government to do at least what Barack Obama said he was going to do in that clip. The committee calls state level hostage taking, in which it's a government rather than a terrorist group that's holding a foreign citizen. It is sadly topical again this week after three Britons were arrested by the Taliban and they are still in detention in Afghanistan.

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