Health and Safety, Taliban style

Pascale Harter introduces stories of daily and exceptional risk - or the lack of it - from journalists and writers around the world.

Auliya Atrafi works for the BBC Pashto service but hasn't been back to his home province of Helmand in southern Afghanistan for some time - especially as the Taliban now control the area. After some tense negotiations, he was allowed in to see how a militant group best known for fighting is adjusting to the demands of everyday governance - and get a sense of how local people feel about Taliban administration.

Gideon Long joins anti-government protesters - and then pro-Maduro counter-protesters - on the streets of Caracas to see for himself how violence is spreading through the political sphere in Venezuela, as this year's death toll mounts.

James Jeffrey examines why so many Eritreans are leaving their homeland - and how it is that so many of them are now ending up as refugees in neighbouring Ethiopia, a country often cast as Eritrea's mortal national enemy.

And Christine Finn joins the hipsters, royalty, budget-conscious and eco-sensitive consumers shopping at a new Danish supermarket chain that doesn't just aim to reduce wasteful packaging, but to cut out food waste altogether - by selling "imperfect" produce that's still safe to eat.

Photo: Two young members of the Taliban in the town of Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan, in May 2017. (c) BBC