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Yalda Hakim fled Afghanistan as a baby. Now the 30-year-old journalist, who grew up in Australia, reports from the world’s conflict zones as reporter and TV presenter for BBC World News.
Watch a video of Mrs Hakim covering the Australian elections below:
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